Interviewer: "Can you perform under pressure?"

Me: 'No, but I do a passable Bohemian Rhapsody'

Yesterday my salmonid genomics PhD student Paolo Moccetti passed his viva - congratulations! Thank you Jamie Stevens for externalling and Jon Bolland for being a fab co-supervisor. You can find Paolo's chapters in preprint/published here, and if he didn't already have a great job to go to, I would be recommending him for post docs :)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=jAmAZ-cAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

#fishsci #salmon #genomics #BrownTrout #EvolutionaryBiology
@EvoHull #PanoramaDTP #NERC

1) New paper out! Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue—do low-condition males that acquire matings by other means affect the rate of adaptation? Intuitively you'd think yes: some of these males will have poor condition because of maladaptive alleles or a high mutational load, so if the alternative tactic increase the input of their genes into the next generation that should be A Bad Thing

https://academic.oup.com/evlett/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evlett/qrae010/7630433?searchresult=1

Tonight while out on my walk, I came upon a small snake, belly up and silver in the moonlight.

At first, I did not realize it was a snake at all. It was glinting like the thick chain of a snapped necklace. I went to pick it up, and two seconds before I touched it, I realized what it was and pulled back to investigate more carefully with a little distance. It’s in perfect shape, so I’m not sure how it met its end, except that we had a heavy rain earlier today and it may have drowned. 1/

@davelunt 😂is that a challenge? Looks like 3mm, although I’m in new territory with images.

@anboa4 imperial Allen keys? I must be younger than I thought.

My crap superpower: I can look at any Allen bolt and tell you what size Allen key you need, no trial and error required.

Our mini workshop on the Buzz on Bees was well attended and fun. So many bright people asking smart questions. #EntSoc2023

I am very happy to share with you our latest publication:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 ✨𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬✨ 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐥-𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐬.

https://academic.oup.com/isd/article/7/5/3/7310975?login=false
#gall #wasp #insects #venom #spooky
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Who gets it will be determined by a fight to the death

PhD studentship at Uni of Bristol with Nathalie Stroeymeyt (and myself) titled "Viral spillover: the conditions influencing the success of viral host shifts from bees to ants". Last one on the list here https://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/courses/postgraduate/phdstudentships/ #PhD #PhdStudentship

You’ve heard of elf on a shelf. In tomorrow’s lecture I present:

If you are interested, here is an open letter to the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology (Michele Donelan) to push back on some of the 'anti-woke' rhetoric and positioning seen this week at the Conservative party conference, and to stand up for EDI in science. If you are interested in reading the letter and signing please go to https://hull.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/edi_in_science and share with your networks if appropriate.

#EDI #UKpolitics #science

Toad said, 'Frog, you are looking quite green.'

'But I always look green,' said Frog. 'I am a frog.'

🐝 Bee PhD alert! 🐝
🎓Funded PhD with me @UniofHull, Prof. Jeremy Niven and @bethbees @SussexUni: Computational modelling, insect energy budgets, resilience to habitat/climate change. Email in my bio for any Qs!
🗓️Closes 2 Oct, Jan 2024 start
🔗 https://www.hull.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research/phd/funded/computational-modelling-of-insect-energy-budgets-to-determine-the-impact-of-a-changing-environmental-conditions

🐝Bee #postdoc alert!🐝
3-year FT #PDRA at U Hull
with me, Beth Nicholls and Jeremy Niven (U Sussex), on bee #physiology, #ecology & #climate change.
ℹ️ See flyer👇
📧 Email in bio for Qs!
🗓️ Closes 8 Oct.
🔗https://jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=UOH-TA-0079

See also PhD position: https://ecoevo.social/@james_gilbert/111034137059856731

🐝Bee #postdoc alert!🐝
3-year FT #PDRA at U Hull
with me, Beth Nicholls and Jeremy Niven (U Sussex), on bee #physiology, #ecology & #climate change.
ℹ️ See flyer👇
📧 Email in bio for Qs!
🗓️ Closes 8 Oct.
🔗https://jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=UOH-TA-0079

See also PhD position: https://ecoevo.social/@james_gilbert/111034137059856731

New preprint! Comments welcome: Investigating role of non-helpers in group-living thrips. Some group members "help" repair nests, but others do not. What are the non-helpers doing? MS submitted to J Anim Ecol. https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.08.556834v1 #behaviour #ecology #social #evolution

🐝 Bee PhD alert! 🐝
🎓Funded PhD with me @UniofHull, Prof. Jeremy Niven and @bethbees @SussexUni: Computational modelling, insect energy budgets, resilience to habitat/climate change. Email in my bio for any Qs!
🗓️Closes 2 Oct, Jan 2024 start
🔗 https://www.hull.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research/phd/funded/computational-modelling-of-insect-energy-budgets-to-determine-the-impact-of-a-changing-environmental-conditions

🐝Bee Job Alert - 2 days left!🐝 We are looking for a part-time research technician to work on our @BBSRC project on #solitary #bee #physiology and #ecology under #climate change. Closing date 11 Sep. Details here: https://jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=UOH-TA-0077 Contact me with any Qs - email in bio!