Big congratulations to #MPQC Deputy Director Dr. Nathalie Bock (Dr Nathalie Bock) for securing one of the Translational Research Institute’s (TRI) (@TRI_info) 2024 Translation Fellowships to progress the fundamental research being conducted in cancer #ECM #research ! #womeninSTEM …

A very happy Saturday spent finding lots of lovely middle Jurassic microvertebrates. This place couldn’t possibly be any more beautiful!

.SochaLab member Jeff did a great job in this video, his first appearance on the news here. We were asked to weigh in on local snakes and what to do if bitten, and Jeff stepped up.

This wild thing is the polychaete worm Chaetopterus variopedatus, which lives in an opaque burrow, but nevertheless emits blue light (the red is from an LED). The species name is because its parapodia (feet) are specialized for different functions as you go down the body.

The 2nd chapter of my PhD just got published (OA✅) in Paleobiology w/ P. Bishop, H. Tsai and my former supervisors Professor John R. Hutchinson & Alexandra Houssaye!
We show there was only one way to become a giant bipedal dinosaur by studying a lot of theropod femora!🦖
doi.org/10.1017/pab.20…

CityUHK won the Research Project of the Year: STEM at Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Asia 2024, the only university in Hong Kong to win this prestigious award this year. go.cityu.hk/wmot09

Happy #DNA Day ! 🧬 This is one of my favourite pieces I made for Scientific American about genome sizes across select species. Was really fun to make this!

#science #DNA #genome #infographic #sciart #genomics #genetics #genes

This is a side-view of the hyperiid amphipod Phronima that highlights its impressive claws and the fact that it has two pairs of eyes. It also shows its pigmentation, which is interesting because the animal goes between clear and quite brown for reasons I don't understand.

Had a lot of fun playing with iBGS' Leica Microsystems SP8 #confocal #microscope ! Spent a few hours imaging #pollen to get familiar with the system. I love the 3D rendering!

#microscopy BioArt #SciArt #plantscience #botany

Fully-funded PhD opportunity! Do you find fossil amphibians fascinating? Please read on!

Please, RT and share with potentially interested vertebrate morphologists and paleontologists. Thanks!

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin together with Dr Florian Witzmann of Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Last week I got to present at IEEE #Robosoft2024 on all things elephants! It was awesome to see how many SICB DCB-DVM folks were there sharing their work and connecting with robotics folks! Got to see EMBiRLab Christina Harvey nick gravish to name a few!

I've said it a bunch of times. You know where specimens go after being collected by research expeditions? MUSEUMS. The South Australian Museum is no different. Long term specimen records and new species reside in those collections. Undescribed #biodiversity in Australian waters!

Happy #TrinityMonday and happy #EarthDay everyone!
We’re absolutely delighted to announce that Prof. Nick Payne Nicholas Payne and Prof. Matt Saunders Matt Saunders have both been elected Fellows of Trinity College Dublin. 🎉

INHERENT NATURE. Art exhibit, PMQ, Hong Kong. May 8-June 7, 2024.

Come join us! 🐢🦈🦑🐞🦥🦋🐘🦏🌲🌸

#WildlifeConservation #WildlifeTrade #HongKongBiodiversity CityU Hong Kong CityU JCC Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum The University of Hong Kong HKU School of Biological Sciences PMQ HK 元創方 Chloe Hatten Nicole Kit Dr. Viktoriia Kamska

On the way to the first ever UK Plant Biomechanics Day slcu.cam.ac.uk/uk-plant-biome… at the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) Sainsbury's Laboratory in Cambridge. Can't wait to meet all you planty mechanicsy people - so excited!!! 😃🌱🌬️🍃🌿⚙️🌴🧬🌾🥀🤗

Losing entire orders? Pathetic 🌿

If you are an early career scientist, don't miss the associated #GRS on #Biomineralization chaired by Daniel Stein and me. The program includes a fascinating keynote on #magnetotactic bacteria by Prof. Arash Komeili and a mind-opening mentoring session on #disruptive science.

This is Homo sapiens, specifically my former graduate student Jamie Fergus, on what we call a 'blue-water dive'. This is scuba diving in the open ocean, typically over a hundred miles from land and over bottoms that may be 10,000 feet below. Visibility can be well over 100 feet.

📢 #JobAlert ! 🎶🐤
#postdoc position to work on #birds ong at Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris.

If you like #bioacoustics , #birds and #modelling , please apply!

Deadline on May 12th 2024🚩

More info here: sites.google.com/site/paulinepr…

Can this ghost #shark embryo look any more like an actual ghost?! We have wonderful undergraduate researchers in the lab; this amazing image was taken by Campbell Al-Khafaji - showing a stage 29 Australian Ghost Shark (Callorhinchus milii; chimaera) embryo head - watching you! 👻🦈🔥