Lena Riabinina

🚨 Postdoc openings!
We’re looking for postdocs excited about sleep, synapses & cellular neurophysiology (fly or mouse).

Yes, we also have mouse projects!

See details: www.flysleeplab.com/positions

Please drop me a line is you are interested to work in my lab and are eligible for the CSC funding!

The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees

New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?

Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.

iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Very happy to see our first paper on Black Soldier Flies out!

A chemically defined oviposition attractant and repellent of black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens)
doi.org/10.1163/2352...

This was a Master project of amazing Nyasha Thomas, who set up the BSF work in the lab.

A poster for a play: "The Vanishing Act: A new cabaret about Earth's disappearing insects". On the right is a black and white ant in a top hat with one leg extended. Radiating from the finger are children's drawings of insect- bees, butterflies, beetles and so on.

In March we put on an insect cabaret show I developed with Cap-A-Pie Theatre about insects and the threats they face. We've now uploaded the songs and everyone can now see how brilliant the actors and song-writer were. Thread of songs below 👇🧪 #Insects #cabaret #theatre #scicomm #songs

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

thank you Laura!

Massive congratulations to Matthew Quinn for passing his PhD viva today!! And many thanks to the examiners @ebablab.bsky.social and Sean Twiss. Matt is the first student to graduate from the lab - very exciting! 👨‍🎓🎓📖🦟🦟

I'm thrilled to announce that I've started a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at @insectneurolab.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social this week, working with @lenariab.bsky.social on behavioural and physiological adaptations in mosquito pupae. In summary, I'll be working on 🦟🚱🦟👁️👃➡️💧?

Please spread the word - 2 new PhD positions, one fully funded and one self-funded, with us at Durham and @clarahowcroft.bsky.social at Northumbria Uni! We are looking for people with interdisciplinary experience (biology, computer vision, engineering) and interest to work across disciplines.

Doctoral Researcher (PhD student), Chemical Ecology The University of Eastern Finland is inviting applications for a Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) position in Chemical Ecology at the Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, on Kuopio ca

Folks looking for a PhD position to study chemical ecology, have a look at this excellent opportunity at the University of Eastern Finland. Application deadline 6 Feb. Position starting in March 2025.
uef.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

@NatGeo just published an article about mound-building Formica wood ants, featuring a series of spectacular photographs by Ingo Arndt:
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Here is Ingo’s winning wood ant photo from @NHM_WPY last year:

We have competitively funded PhD projects on bees, mosquitoes,robotics and computer vision. Would suit candidates with interdisciplinary expertise. Please email us with your CV and Motivation letter by the 22nd of January.

Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership

Looking for a keen PhD student to investigate how experience shapes the brain, and/or mechanisms of central nervous system regeneration, plasticity and degeneration. Apply here: select "Biosciences", then my projects. Fully funded.
Deadline 12 January.

www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/act...

sponsor found, thank you everyone!

Today we received an email from Durham Uni, signed as below ("Gold Command"). I wish to believe this person's account was hacked, but something tells me it wasn't. Do other Universities also come up with this bizzarreness?

Could anyone please "sponsor" me for the SfN membership? I'd need to know your name and membership ID, please. Thank you!

In the spirit of this post - I've got a book out in India about why overconfidence persists and what it's doing to the world. You might be interested in giving it a read.

I've got my first book event today (eep!) - come along if you're in Bangalore. Authors- any advice on what to expect?

A map made in ...Excel. This is the first one for me! @drosostalis.bsky.social I think you are personally responsible for this one 🤣

Science is hard and the progress is slow and often hard to register. So it's nice to have some fast and easy progress elsewhere :P Happy New Year everyone!

How do overconfidence and politics interact? Read here for a short version of the chapter from my book on overconfidence:

scroll.in/article/1077...

#BeyondDoubt #Overconfidence
Book available in India: amazon.in/Beyond-Doubt...

UK students - still time to apply for this project! Please send me your enquiries by the 31st December. 🐝🧠

We're hiring! Please share!

Exciting opportunities for #PhD students, #postdocs, and #research assistants to join our team in exploring how the brain prioritizes actions in conflict.

#Neuroscience #Drosophila

Interested? Reach out! rezavallab.org

We are searching for an Assoc. Professor in Plant Ecology! Join us at the Plant Ecology and Evolution program
@UU_University
in beautiful Sweden. We are looking for a highly motivated and friendly colleague with complementary expertise to us. Apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

@drosostalis.bsky.social

🌟We are looking for a new member of our image analysis team at the Imaging Core Facility of the Biozentrum in Basel 🌟
Are you passionate about science and technology? Are you interested in bioimaging? Please check the job ad below
#JobOpportunity #ImageAnalysis #DeepLearning
@biozentrum.bsky.social

Interesting that the issues faced by ecologists at universities in the UK are very similar to Aotearoa NZ #theniche @britishecolsoc.bsky.social

as seen elsewhere... Visual Neuro Course in Woods Hole!!

These stats may create an impression that all native speakers understand papers well, write well and give good presentations. In my experience, none of this is true, and more often than not native speakers don't write well at all, and it's probably too late for them to learn, as it takes time.

2 new interdisciplinary PhD projects on Insects, Robots and Computer Vision! Please re-post and email us with your CVs, Cover/Motivation letters and enquiries by the *22nd of January 2025* 🐝🦟🤖💻