The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social has two open PhD positions, help us spread the word! 📣
We are looking for a PhD student in Lichen Biology, and one in Ecology & Evolution. Find more information and apply by 1 February below!
Coming to SMBE? Interested in plants and/or genomics? Come along to this symposium!
A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
If I have to log into the cluster, let me do it from here ⛰️🌴
If you've had spam, rice, and seaweed you can imagine. As I say in the alt text: it is a marriage of Japanese and American culinary sensibilities, and thus it seems a fitting street food for modern Hawai'i.
Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!
Common Myna. Called Manu 'Ai Pilau or Piha'ekelu in 'Ōlelo Hawai'i (the Hawaiian language). The former means "bird that eats rotten things", the second means "full of sound". Both seem appropriate.
Back in Honolulu, gearing up for fieldwork on Kaua'i and the Maui Nui islands. Doesn't look like hard work you say? Well... you may be right. Hopefully it is coming, with all the permits in place, next week!
Searching for Wikstroemia spp. in the mountains of Kauai, sampling for systematics, popgen, and the genetics of sex-determination 🌿