Dr Caragh Whitehead

I would like to partner with meteorologists that fit with my vibe to give a national weather forecast on my platform every week. Is this doable? Do you all have any recommendations?

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Hello Bluesky! We're excited to be here!

The 2025 Festival will take place from 31 May to 13 June under the theme of 'Making Waves'.

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Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice.

Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.

They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.

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With the increased prices and the changes to the coffee cards, I now very rarely treat myself to a hot chocolate whereas before I visited daily.

Hello BlueSky! We are Psychout, the student run-magazine from the Psychology Department at the University of York. Please follow us as we need new friends after migrating from Twitter 🙂 See our back issues here: www.york.ac.uk/psychology/n...

🧵Spotted on a Midday Walk on an Isolated Beach in Aotearoa New Zealand:

In the distance, two grey-haired people get off their bikes, shuck their clothes by a driftwood log and scamper into the surf naked, their laughter ringing over the water. Gulls calling overhead. (1)*

A doll wearing a dress and pink boots with buns in her hair

Do you own a very lovely dolly?
Were you in the library last week?
Has your lovely dolly been much quieter than usual these last few days?

If you can answer YES to all three questions then we might have your dolly and she really wants to go home!

Collect from the main desk.

Currently, retaining as an accountant/bookkeeper while working full time as a research technician. Harder and harder to find Technician roles/worry about current instability in Universities.

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.

Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

Scientists -- I'm looking to talk to researchers about how all this uncertainty around paused grant reviews and a potentially massive freeze on federal funding is affecting you and your research plans. DM, email or reach out on signal.

LCAB PhD studentships - Currently recruiting Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950

Please circulate this great opportunity to do a PhD at Kew Gardens and the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at York! The student will look at the history of marginalised individuals who made knowledge about fungi in the early 20th century.

I feel for all American scientists. It must be such a worrying time.

If you went to college/university
1. what was your career goal?
2. your initial major?
3. Did you change majors, and to what?
4. what do you do now?

1. Forensics
2. Psychology with Biology
3. Genetics (Human)
4. Research Technician in Plant Science.

As soon as I saw this photo I knew it was Betty. She is great. The cafe at that library also makes an amazing tuna melt toastie.

Cover reveal! 🥳 Here’s the SIXTH book in our highly-illustrated series, launching next March,

‘Adventuremice: Mice, Camera, Action!’

Co-authored by Philip Reeve and me, designer: Katie Bennett at Kreative Cupboard, publisher: @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social 🐭

@philipreeve.bsky.social
#Adventuremice

If international people are keen to come to the UK then York would love to host them for a Newton Fellowship:
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We have brilliant centres for structural biology, chemical biology, parasitology, haematology, atmospheric science, and much more

Today's mystery object. Does anyone know what these are? We've picked up quite a few from the north coast of Cornwall in recent days. About 1½" deep and 1¼" in diameter.

First plants sown of 2025. It was great to be back in the glasshouse after being stuck in front of a computer the past week.

Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.

“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪
#AcademicSky 👩🏽‍🔬

What are some handcrafts you know and how did you learn?
1) knitting - my gran.
2) embroidery - my gran.
3) weaving - my mom.
5) tapestry - my mom
4) candelwicking - school.
4) sewing - my mom/school
5) cross stitch - school.
6) crocheting - self taught.

Still a hill I will die on: unpaid internships are classist, and whilst you might *think* you are "helping students gain experience" all you are doing is widening the gap between those that can afford to and those that cannot.

I hope there is a special place in hell for people who make their employees redundant just before Christmas. It's been about a month of rumours but my husband (and co-workers) heard today that they don't need to return on Monday. #merrychristmas

We are looking for a Lab Technician to join our team and become a member of a dynamic biomedical research lab at Dartmouth College, conducting experiments to address topics concerning meiotic and mitotic cell cycle regulation.
Job posting here: lnkd.in/eWWVANtQ

A small, gangly plant grows in a pot of soil. Its base is covered in pairs and rosettes of slender, dark green leaves. Its thin, wiry stems are topped with delicate white flowers, each with five petals, some of which are bent down like the feathers of a shuttlecock. Photo from: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1118386109

~32,000 yrs ago a ground squirrel in Siberia stashed some fruit in a burrow, which was later buried & frozen. In the 2000s scientists unearthed the fruit & cultivated its tissue

It grew into this: a Pleistocene ancestor of the narrow-leafed campion (Silene stenophylla)

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My 10yo son was too. He even filmed himself as it started and then sent it to us 🤣 He is so grown up at time but still such a little boy.

A white poppy flower against the background of a blue sky.

A group of white poppy flowers illuminated by glasshouse lights.

A great way to spend an afternoon in winter is to visit the glasshouse to act like a bumblebee and do some pollinating 🐝

You can do, thank you.

This was the hardest habit to break. It is only recently that I'm able to let go books that I'm not enjoying. I find it easier to do if it is an ebook.

Post you from a different era
1996, school prom, Cape Town.

Great to see a starter pack for the University of York. Unfortunately, not any Biology staff on it yet.