Lindsay Turnbull

UK HE shrinking This is a live page of all the redundancies and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country's future and the vandalism to it unconscio...

Here's the latest and constantly updating news on the fast-moving university crisis. Now up to 30 institutions shedding jobs after more than 10 extra have paused for now. About a third of the so-called 'system'. No doubt more every day or two. 👇 qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

I've got a postdoc position open in my lab. Do you work on moss, single cell transcriptomics or plant developmental genomics? Consider applying for this position - more here:
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06360

February 2024 was the warmest February on record in the ERA5 dataset, at around 1.79C above preindustrial records.

It beat the prior record set during the 2016 super-El Nino by 0.12C: pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

Inside an Oxford tutorial at the Museum of Natural History |

Me having fun with my students at the museum
www.ox.ac.uk/news/feature...

OUP blog on Scientific Writing as a research skill blog.oup.com/2024/02/scie... @queensoxbiology.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social

[Please repost] Don't miss this exciting EMBO | EMBL Symposium "Diversity of plants: from genomes to metabolism" April 9-12, 2024, in Heidelberg.
Registration closes soon!
www.embl.org/about/info/c...

A graphic from ase (associatiin for science education) of the covers of two of our books, The Cell “Highly commended” and The Gene “Winner” in their books of 2023 awards. Written by Ben Martynoga and illustrated by me.

Really chuffed about this. I’m so proud of these books, working with a brilliant team, Ben the writer, Helen the editor and Alison the designer. I hope this helps to bring them to a wider audience of 12+ children with a fascination for science.

We're looking for enthusiastic field assistants to work on a range of projects at beautiful Wytham Woods near Oxford this spring: some posts for ornithologists with ringing licences; some for more general ecology. Please share with anyone who might be interested:

Animation of a moving line graph time series of annual mean Antarctic sea ice extent for each year from 1979 to 2023. There are no statistically significant long-term trends. 2023 is the lowest on record in this time series.

🚨 I don't think this should surprise anyone - last year's average Antarctic sea ice extent was the lowest on record...

Data averaged from January to December using nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

Saw two sulphur-crested cockatoos in Nice! Apparently, there are a few individuals who have been living wild since at least 2012 when they last attempted to breed. Amazing birds.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Great news for Springer! Not only did they make an obscene profit from your publicly-funded science but now they’ve struck a deal with OpenAI to make that science available to large language models. Will any of that money be given back to science do you think?🤔
www.theguardian.com/media/2023/d...

An informative article about the career, contributions, and ongoing saga of award-winning ecologist, Priyanga Amarasekare!

Nice write-up from Andy Dobson and Ottar Bjornstad.

doi.org/10.1002/bes2...

Don’t forget to be unavailable every time Queen Mary’s needs an external examiner!
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Illustration of evolutionary changes in Plantago patagonica in response to approximately a decade of intense drought in northern Arizona. Descendant populations (red) evolved increased leaf biomass, decreased seed biomass, and increased root to shoot ratios compared to their ancestors (blue). Illustration by Moria Robinson (robinson-lab.com).

Resurrected seeds from #herbarium specimens reveal rapid #evolution of #drought resistance in a selfing annual

New #AJB research by Kyle Christie, Natalie Pierson, Liza Holeski & David Lowry

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #climatechange

A very complicated flow chart that always results in the suggestion that you buy a book unless you steadfastly refuse in which case it gets in a huff.

My GIFT-XPERT™ algorithm will help you with those tricky Christmas shopping decisions!

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants 2024 R. C. Lewontin Early Award, Deadline: February 23, 2024.

Applications now open for the 2024 R. C. Lewontin Early Awards, which provide up to $2500 in research funds for 1st and 2nd year PhD students.

Deadline: February 23

www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Open Day recordings of all the sessions are now up in how-to-apply area of our website www.environmental-research.ox.ac.uk. The DTP Office will be closed from 21 December to 8th January, so applicants needing advice are very likely to find the answer there.

Proud of my latest article with @tmkeesey.bsky.social in @botsocamerica.bsky.social #PlantSciBull on using Phylopic for #PlantScience tons of resources for figure creation including step-by-step videos issuu.com/botanicalsoc...

Pretty extraordinary that Al Jaber is now talking about oil as a low-carbon fuel, because extracted efficiently in the UAE with low leakage. Makes it sound even better than gas, which, as we all know, is a ‘transition fuel’. Really - what’s to worry about?

I’ve never seen them on my feeder. But I feed dried mealworms. Maybe they don’t like them?

That’s fascinating. Thanks!

Oh! Thanks Ben. I had no idea! That’s amazing.

Terrible picture, but there’s a pair of blackcaps at my house every day, stripping the tiny olives from my olive tree. They used to all head south for the winter, but significant numbers now overwinter in the UK.

every story about a breakthrough in women’s health is like, previously doctors thought the symptoms were caused by their abnormally small and hysterical brains but researchers have found there is a legitimate medical explanation that has been ignored for 70 years.

COP28 🎉

Line graph time series showing the global temperature anomalies for every September to November period from 1979 to 2023. There is interannual variability but a clear long-term increasing trend. 2023 is an outlier and the warmest on record in this time series. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline, and all data is from ERA5 reanalysis.

Wow, the last three months have really shattered the previous September to November temperature record for our planet...

Using data from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dat... 🧪⚒️

Man! I know how that feels!
Big thank you to all those who were kind enough to buy my book - and a special thanks to those who left a review. It’s such a boost!

Reminder. UK #Curlew need to produce 10,000 more fledged chicks each year, to stop declines:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/m...
NEW. Update on productivity in 2023 from Curlew Action:
youtube.com/watch?v=OMuY...
#waders #ornithology #birds #UKbirding

Translation: electric eels indulge in genetic manipulation…