Dr David Martin

Postdoctoral Research Assistant - MCDB - UOD2016 Closing date: Thursday 6 November 2025, 23:59

Attention membrane traffickers! I'm recruiting a post-doc to my lab in Dundee. We're dissecting the functions of intrinsically disordered domains of COPII coat proteins. We think they control timing of coat assembly and morphology of carriers.

www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...

It's a nice walk up there too..

Listening to the Proms. Has anyone scored the prologue to JFK for pipes and drums? It would be an awesome lament.

Bizarre Dundonian fish tradition revived in time for New Year A workshop centred on reviving a Dundonian New Year tradition involving decorated fish has gone swimmingly, according to organisers. Singer Lynne Campbell

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dund... may have something to do with it.. A kipper is a smoked herring.

Tawny Owl making a lot of noise on Balgay Hill tonight

@dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social Can you get physical signage up when busses are rerouted. 30 people waiting at West Marketgait for busses that aren't coming.

Not many of those flies around. (Ain't no flies on us)

Like this one that flowered last month in Dundee

If only peace campaigners were prescribed orgs...

Great to see the corpse flower in bloom at Dundee botanics. Last chance tomorrow as it only blooms for a short time.

A tableau of Lego minifigures in a scene showing graduation at Dundee University

Congratulations to all our students graduating this year at @dundeeuni.bsky.social School of Life Sciences. Well done and well deserved awards. Looking forwards to celebrating tomorrow at the Caird Hall and on Campus

Successfully deployed

Today starts with a field trip. Quite literally I am going to a field to test the solar birdnet detector. Then on to exam board jollities and other fun stuff.

A bit of hacking and the mothbox is now live. Testing tonight in the garden

Didn't see that one coming...

Lots of common whitethroat at the James Hutton Living Field. I have an audio detector there that can be monitored at biodiversidee.vercel.app or at app.birdweather.com

Yoou cant go chasing the robot (CnutAI) but instead learn how to teach and assess what you want rather than using the formulae of the past which was a very different time. Yes, when I was a student some profs wouldn't mark anything other than a handwritten piece b/c of copy and paste.

Nonsense. The line is impossible to draw unless you go back to handwriting everything. If we are educating for the modern age then we need to be assessing person and process, not product. Using an AI is fine, if you critically assess the output and are able to appropriately attribute.

The problem is they see the product as being what is assessed, not the person. And so they will produce a suitable product.

SedgeWarbler2 Very vocal Sedge Warbler at Kinnordy Loch, Kirriemuir.

Here is a sedge warbler for you. Kinnordy Loch on the May bank holiday. flic.kr/p/2r2Y9wq

YouTube video by David Martin listen carefully for the cuckoo

And great to hear a Cuckoo at Backwater reservoir (just a recording on the phone) youtube.com/shorts/0TDY2...

SedgeWarbler2

Sedge warbler, Kinnordy flic.kr/p/2r2Y9wq Very pleased with this shot.
The warbler was less pleased and gave me a bit of a stare.. flic.kr/p/2r2Y9w5

Many thanks. It did have us looking for a passport!

Some photos

Might it be a juvenile cormorant?

@dundeebirding.bsky.social @lainy.bsky.social Any idea why there would be a bird that is a spitting image of a white fronted cormorant at Kinnordy Loch instead of inAustralia or Africa? I have some very bad pictures as it was well out of range.

Great viva talk today. Very humbled to be the starting point in the journey when he came to Dundee as an exchange student and picked the bioinformatics modules.

Office this morning.

Can't get out to go birdwatching? Try our virtual birdwatch which takes a feed from our network of automated bird detectors around Dundee. Turn the sound up! biodiversidee.vercel.app/birdwatch

Were the botanic gardens at Dundee or St Andrews too far out of your way? :(