Andrew Jackson

An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

What a cool use of fatty acids, stable isotopes and mixing models!

The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful

How is it’s still “normal precautions”?

Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’ Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.

“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

are they trying to build a company around a database and model to meet the daft age verification rules coming down the line? (which will be a failure)

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

🤣 ok. I’ll give you that

Someone is going to kill me:
Bees, all of them.
Salmon.
Orca.

You can also follow us here on Bluesky for additional info about each specimen with links to further videos and articles we couldn’t fully cover in the episode :)

Of course they created their own journal at MDPI to publish this.

Read the whole thread, but this is another reminder that MDPI sucks ass and you should not publish with them. 🧪

En 2014, Evelyne Dhéliat présentait un faux bulletin météo, celui de 2050.

En 2025, avec 25 ans d’avance, ce bulletin devient la réalité.

Generative AI - Signal to Noise - Digital Society The sudden deployment of large language models (LLMs) has been a seismic event for science, with professional scientists, including biologists, struggling to work out how to fit this new technology in...

New paper: in which we get grumpy with GenAI / LLMs polluting the human corpora of text rendering many cultural analyses void. Open access with @healyke.bsky.social @adamdkane.bsky.social @rcorreia.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s442... ping @edzitron.com might be of interest?

Universities are not about the accumulation of knowledge, hoarded like gold ducats in a locked vault.

Humanity’s collective knowledge is a living thing; it circulates through society like blood; it must constantly be transmitted and renewed.

That is what we do.

Generative AI - Signal to Noise - Digital Society The sudden deployment of large language models (LLMs) has been a seismic event for science, with professional scientists, including biologists, struggling to work out how to fit this new technology in...

In our latest commentary piece we highlight that AI has likely already poisoned the well of online data used in culturomic studies that aim to understand shifts in the cultural zeitgeist link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🌐 @yodacomplex.bsky.social

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

🙂APPLY NOW - We are seeking a Senior Collections Lead to manage our Collections Management, Care & Conservation teams. 🦋Closes Sun 22 June. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51272/
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social
@camzoology.bsky.social

"manuscript under review"

Bit of a super-specific journo request, but if anyone out there is studying banana weevils or pest management in fruit crops, let me know! 🧪

PhD Scholarship monitoring the patterns of Ireland’s bird migrations using a network of coastal sites centred around Irish Lights’ island stations at University College Dublin on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - PhD Scholarship monitoring the patterns of Ireland’s bird migrations using a network of coastal sites centred around Irish Lights’ island stations at University College Dublin, listed on...

Fully funded PhD available with me and @npwsireland.bsky.social looking at islands off Ireland as monitoring stations for migratory birds. You'll be based at SBES in University College Dublin. Deadline is 30th June. More details here tinyurl.com/2p9pe97j

Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...

Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#MicroSKy #Microbiology

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Lower gallery of the Museum of Zoology

📢WE'RE HIRING📢Could you be our new Senior Collections Lead? Would you enjoy working with one of the UK's most important natural history collections? Apply by 22 June to look after our amazing Collections Management, Care & Conservation team. @camunivmuseums.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51272/

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

Rhynchites caeruleus. These small, shiny beetles are currently easy to observe. They initially appear black to our eyes, but upon closer inspection, they remind me of liquid metal.

Supplemental Feeding as a Driver of Population Expansion and Morphological Change in Anna's Hummingbirds Bird beaks are highly adaptable, with the potential to undergo rapid morphological shifts in response to environmental change such as climatic variation or food availability. Anna's Hummingbirds (Cal...

🚨New paper alert!🚨
We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵
📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
#ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

And if you then apply this correction to the original data we now have a mathematical model (no statistical fitting) that makes sense of the data and means we can very accurately predict the critical temp for an animal based on observing just one heating experiment. Oooh would you look at that fit?

But if you start thinking about what the temperature is doing to the animal's metabolic rate over the duration of the heat ramping experiment, you can think about a metabolic rescaled duration and temperature tolerance. The red area under the curves for two such experiments is identical