How the nuthatch got its name.
Dr Juliet Dukes 🐁🐟🐀🐸🐔🐈🐙🦂🐑🐂🦟
Research Manager for @FRAMEcharity. Zoologist, geneticist, animal advocate.
Views partially formed & may change upon new info.
#Ethics #MS #MultipleSclerosis Ⓥ
Dr Juliet Dukes 🐁🐟🐀🐸🐔🐈🐙🦂🐑🐂🦟 boosted:
Published in 2016, this brilliant comic by artist Joe Dator somehow feels even more timely in 2023. #art
Do you #supervise #undergraduate or #Masters projects?
Interested in developing non-animal #research methods and #replacement of #animals in #animalresearch?
@FRAMEcharity offers small
#grants for:
📆 6–10 wks
💷 £350 per wk stipend
🔬 Up to £1000 consumables
#3Rs #NAMs #humanescience ⬇️⬇️⬇️
https://frame.org.uk/what-we-do/summer-studentship-programme/
Are you an #undergraduate or #Masters student? Interested in development of non-animal #research methods and #replacement of #animals in #animalresearch?
We offer small #grants for📆 6–10 weeks
💷 Stipend: £350 per week
🔬Consumables: Up to £1000 max
#3Rs #NAMs #humanescience ⬇️⬇️
https://frame.org.uk/what-we-do/summer-studentship-programme/
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Many researchers use CO2 as an anaesthetic for bumble bees, but now Anna Cressman and Etya Amsalem have discovered that the gas has side effects, affecting the insects' recovery and also impacts worker and queen bee fertility differently
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/1/jeb245431/286613
Dr Juliet Dukes 🐁🐟🐀🐸🐔🐈🐙🦂🐑🐂🦟 boosted:
Forget #BlueMonday and make today all about the beauty of INSECTS! Let’s spread some joy & share our snaps of #BlueBugs 🦋
Here’s one of my favourites: a Blue Ground beetle (Carabus intricatus) 💙
We're looking for a Fundraising and Volunteer Coordinator to join our small and supportive team! Want to work for a science-based organisation promoting and fund the #replacement of #animals in #medicalresearch?
We're a #virtualorganisation so this is fully #remoteworking for anyone who can legally work in the #UK.
Have a looksee: 👇
#fundraising #team #work #charityjobs #charityjob #science
https://frame.org.uk/latest/were-hiring-fundraising-volunteer-coordinator/
FDA no longer needs to require #animaltests before human drug trials
"In place of the 1938 stipulation that potential drugs be tested for safety and efficacy in animals, the law allows FDA to promote a drug or biologic—a larger molecule such as an antibody—to human trials after either animal or nonanimal tests."
#AnimalResearch #3Rs #HumaneScience
https://www.science.org/content/article/fda-no-longer-needs-require-animal-tests-human-drug-trials
Dr Juliet Dukes 🐁🐟🐀🐸🐔🐈🐙🦂🐑🐂🦟 boosted:
Simpler times.
Newspaper clipping, 1906.
Dr Juliet Dukes 🐁🐟🐀🐸🐔🐈🐙🦂🐑🐂🦟 boosted:
The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
Dr Juliet Dukes 🐁🐟🐀🐸🐔🐈🐙🦂🐑🐂🦟 boosted:
Your Christmas baubles have got nothing on these STUNNERS! 🪲✨
📷 Jewel beetles from the collection at National Museums Scotland (Sternocera spp.)
Dr Juliet Dukes 🐁🐟🐀🐸🐔🐈🐙🦂🐑🐂🦟 boosted:
I just want to spread some love for #beetles. Not sure this is the right place, but if you found me, hello! 🪲💚
Dr Juliet Dukes 🐁🐟🐀🐸🐔🐈🐙🦂🐑🐂🦟 boosted:
I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”
Dr Juliet Dukes 🐁🐟🐀🐸🐔🐈🐙🦂🐑🐂🦟 boosted:
This thread… Once the envy of the world, now defunded, dismantled, suffering the loss of so many incredible workers through Brexit. Now it’s claimed it’s a broken system that can only be fixed through privatisation. We have to make lying wrong again.
#SaveOurNHS #NursesStrike
If #Insects are indeed #sentient, what would that mean for #animalwelfare law, and how we treat them in #farming, at home, in #research? Should we extend extend #AnimalWelfare Act 2006, so insect farms minimising suffering and use #humaneslaughter?.
What about Animals in Scientific Procedures Act? Like protecting octopuses should we regulate insect research, apply #3Rs and #ethics?
Dr Juliet Dukes 🐁🐟🐀🐸🐔🐈🐙🦂🐑🐂🦟 boosted:
Come work with me.
We have an opening on the Global Center for Species Survival team for a #MarineConservation Coordinator
@jobsecoevo
@conservation
Click the link to find the job description and instructions for applying.
Dr Juliet Dukes 🐁🐟🐀🐸🐔🐈🐙🦂🐑🐂🦟 boosted:
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice got a fresh new collection of papers on citizen science and biomedical research. Here is the editorial "Diverse, Emergent, Disruptive: Perspectives on and Developments in Biomedical Citizen Science". The collection edited by Christi Guerrini , Joanna Kempner, Lisa Rasmussen, and Anna Wexler. https://theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/articles/10.5334/cstp.598/ special focus on ethics - check it out!
Dr Juliet Dukes 🐁🐟🐀🐸🐔🐈🐙🦂🐑🐂🦟 boosted:
A day of leave so headed up #BoxHill and #NorburyPark #mountainbiking
Dr Juliet Dukes 🐁🐟🐀🐸🐔🐈🐙🦂🐑🐂🦟 boosted:
Hi. I'm a #sociologist who studies (mainly) UK #NHS and #DigitalHealth. Wrote a little book on #QualitativeResearch methods in healthcare with my pal Nick Mays, and so I'm often found teaching research (including Oxford Qualitative Courses). I'm part of the #TwitterMigration and am looking forward to new friendships, serendipitous discovery and creative conversations.
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