The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
🚨Job claxon🚨
4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies.
Come join us, we are nice. 🧪
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Oh my. This is spectacular.
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A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
Yesterday I ran an event on what I call “casual convening” at the #Cambridge #ResearchCulture festival. The gist is that we need more moments to connect on substantial topics in low-stakes contexts. With everything so transactional and metric-driven, we need to build informal moments of exchange.
Great article on the kinds of people that will thrive in an academic career. It is a funny skillset, but when you look around you see all of these selections at play
If you have a BBSRC Early Independence Fellowship outline in, check your inbox. Please give professional services teams a few days to design demand management processes as we're finding out the same time as you. The outlines per institute data provided is super interesting; 15 awards available 👀👀👀👀
Stephen Montgomery
Multinucleate cells challenge deeply-held assumptions about complexity, ecological success and evolution. Postdoc extraordinaire and gifted writer @mrosjac.bsky.social tackles this subject with aplomb - tell us what you think!
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@currentbiology.bsky.social
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New RoRI Working Paper: Why generic indicators for research culture don't work
The study examines the feasibility of defining & tracking indicators for research culture & environment, exploring the structural data gaps and feedback mismatches in current systems: rori.figshare.com/articles/pre...
Multinucleate cells — single cells containing multiple nuclei in a shared cytoplasm — are found across the eukaryotic tree of life. Having evolved ind…
I just came back from some wonderful fieldwork in Madagascar and was lucky enough to have done some in South Africa in Feb. Both times I come back with so much joy! Is it the working with nice people? Being out in nature? Away from the computer? The getting to do science in the flesh? So refreshing.
