Join us as the new Community Manager to run @the_node.
A great opportunity for someone with a love of developmental and/or stem cell biology, science communication and engaging with researchers.
Apply by 19 May 2025.
https://www.biologists.com/about-us/work-for-us/
#Jobs #Biologists #Community #Manager #Science #Communication #ScienceCommunication #ScienceMastodon
@christineburns
As a biologist who has researched and published in reproductive physiology I am constantly flipping between amused and ranting at the radio every time there is a report and the phrase 'biological woman' is used. Everybody seems to think that it is some kind of solution.
Neither in the Equity Act 2010 nor the recent judgement is 'biological woman' defined. There is a good reason for that. #Biologists know that biology is complicated.
The 1966 ladies downhill skiing champion was born a woman and is now known as Erik and is a fully functional man capable of fathering children.
Possibly this is not your main issue, but if they can't acknowledge and get right the basic facts of biology in law then there is no hope of getting anything else right.
This article has a nice overview of biology and sex and why XX chromosomes doesn't necessarily mean an individual is a woman.
https://daily-twerk.com/science/uk-supreme-court-judgement-sex-farce/
🔬⚡🦠 #Biologists have observed the proteins that generate #cellular energy with unprecedented resolution directly within the cell. The SNSF-funded study was conducted by Florent Waltz and his colleagues from the University of Basel and featured on the front page of #Science.
➡️ https://www.snf.ch/en/jwCVwbv7K7SGwdZM/news/zooming-in-on-the-structure-of-cellular-energy-plants
Is the #World Ready? - #2025 #SolarStorm : Medium
#MIT #Biologists #Discover a new type of control over #RNA #Splicing : MIT
#Physicists capture a strange #Fractal ‘#Butterfly’ for the first time : New Sci
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
“A growing number of #philosophers, #physicists & #biologists say that, instead of continually admitting new creatures into the category of intelligence, the new findings are evidence that there is something wrong with the way we understand #intelligence itself.”
https://www.noemamag.com/a-radical-new-proposal-for-how-mind-emerges-from-matter/
#GreenSocialist #GreenParty #Socialism #Marxism #Peace #Ecology #SocialJustice #Democracy #Education #DualPower #Election #Vote #Politics #Organize #Reading #Discussion #Learning #Workers #Labor #Union
As #insect populations decrease worldwide in what some have called an “insect apocalypse,” #biologists are desperate to determine how the six-legged creatures are responding to a warming world and to predict the long-term winners and losers.
#Zoology #Environmental #Conservation #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/02/zoo02012501.html
I almost regret I signed up for the #IOP conf in #Harrogate (some 130km from your event) on the same week… Programme is more suited for my research, but @Co_Biologists
has this scheme :
"We are delighted to announce #Sustainable Travel Incentives for those travelling to our #Biologists @ 100 #conference. Sustainable #rail incentives up to £150 will be available for #internationalTrain journeys"
(not a money question… although my CNRS funding is currently inaccessible)
Still 3 days to submit Poster/Flash Talk abstracts for @RSCBMCS Conformation Design in #DrugDiscovery conference on 3rd March! https://rscbmcs.org/events/conformationaldesign25/ #chemistry #medicinalchemistry #NMR #computationalchemistry #biologists
To celebrate our 100-year anniversary, we are highlighting 100 biologists with an extraordinary link to the Company, each of them having made an important contribution in their own right. Join our celebration using #100biologists.
The first of our 100 extraordinary #biologists is the founder of The Company of Biologists, George Parker Bidder III. Learn more about him and the Company’s history in an Editorial from four of our Directors: https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/14/1/BIO061842/364924/The-Company-of-Biologists-celebrating-100-years
#Biologists100
38 prominent #biologists issue a strong #warning about the #future #development of #artificial #life : if a #single so-called #mirror #cell escaped #containment -- either accidentally released from a #lab ,or set free as a #biological #weapon -- it could probably evade most of the #barriers that keep ordinary #organisms in check, thus potentially destroy #life on #earth ,including #humans .
#biology #chemistry #research #biosafety #ecology #humanity #animals #plants
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/science/mirror-life-microbes-research.html
ICB’s Resources for #writers
"...when training students to be #scientists ...we rarely talk about the equally important topic of #writing about science"
Kathleen Grogan
https://integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/icbs-resources-for-writers/
#science #scicomm #academia #PhD #authors #scientists #biologists #ecology #conservation
I know #biologists call them "arms" "hands" "legs" and "feet" regardless of what mammal they're talking about but us regular folks tend to just call them legs as in our "four legged friends".
That said, some legs are more leggy than others. #dogs for example tend to use all four limbs very much for walking. #cats look to me like, apart from opposable thumbs, they really have little "hands" and they use their forelimbs as much for climbing and grabbing as they do for walking.
No?
This marine biologist discovered a unique blue whale population in Sri Lanka: Asha de Vos is also dedicated to educating her compatriots about the ocean
"This marine biologist discovered a unique blue whale population in Sri Lanka
Asha de Vos is also dedicated to educating her compatriots about the ocean
De Vos, then a master’s student, recalls being “super excited.” What she witnessed went against prevailing dogma: Her textbooks and professors had taught that blue whales, like other large whales, embark on long-distance migrations between colder feeding areas and warmer breeding and calving areas. But seeing whales pooping in tropical waters meant the behemoths must be feasting locally."
#srilanka #marinebiologists #marinebiology #whales #biologists
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/asha-de-vos-sri-lanka-blue-whales
#Art in #Bio ICB blog
The #symbiotic relationship between art and #science: a conversation with Julia Pollack
"There's a lot that makes the art richer when it works with science."
by (@)neumannkevin10
Meet #MetMiner! This user-friendly, full-functionality pipeline allows wet-lab #biologists to easily handle large-scale #plant #metabolomics datasets, offering robust #data interaction capabilities and efficient data mining.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13774
@wileyplantsci
#JIPB #PlantSci #botany
The Current Challenge.
Summer flows in the #KoksilahRiver have been exceptionally low in recent years at times when demand for water is the greatest. This threatens the survival of resident and anadromous #salmonid species and the #AquaticEcosystem.
In August 2019, Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development #FLNRORD #biologists determined that the #WaterFlow levels were too low to support adequate #habitat conditions. A Ministerial Order to cease using water was issued to specific water users (both surface and groundwater licensees and unlicensed groundwater users) to protect fish populations. The Order was issued on August 16th, 2019 and repealed on September 18th, 2019 when #RiverFlows increased.
Over the last number of years, FLNRORD staff, #CowichanTribes, community members, organizations and consultants have undertaken several initiatives to better understand and encourage voluntary reductions in #WaterUse. While these initiatives have improved awareness and our collective understanding of the complex #hydrology of the system, the factors affecting the flow rates are still unclear.
There is a need to better understand the relationship between water users, watershed residents and the watershed.
#BackroadAdventures #VancouverIsland #water #river #Shawnigan #DayAdventure #DayTrip #PacificNorthwest #ProtectWatersheds #nature #VanIsle #Cascadia #PNW #NaturesPower #WaterIsLife #ProtectWatersheds #ProtectNature #Hydro #RiversOfBC #RiversOfVancouverIsland #Indigenous #FirstNations #Historical #Cowichan
IOB
Now in issue - part of our grouping on Integrative Biology of Organismal Development
Variation and Variability in #Skeletal #Ossification of the Gray Short-tailed #Opossum, Monodelphis domestica
by Morris, Colbert, Rowe
