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Adri Jeckel
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🐸🐛🧪🧬☠️ Postdoc @ UC Berkeley
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Huge crowd at stand up for science rally at UC Berkeley today #SUFS 🧪🌎🌿
March 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2025 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Sign up for your free registration code today! https://buff.ly/4hK08PZ @evolmtg.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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We are still recruiting Brazilian experts in species ID at Pivotal. It's remote flexible work so a really handy side gig.

If you can identify Brazilian plants or mammals from photos, of frogs, bats or birds from audio, please apply! 🧪

www.researchgate.net/job/1018369_...
REMOTE ROLE FOR ECOLOGISTS, NATURALISTS, AND TAXONOMIC EXPERTS at Pivotal Future in London, UNITED KINGDOM
Jan 2, 2025 | Ecologists, Naturalists, and Taxonomic Experts ‍ Can you identify birds, bats or frogs from acoustic data? Or can you identify plants,... | EXPIRES IN 4 DAYS
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January 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
F.D.A. Approves Weight-Loss Drug to Treat Sleep Apnea
Zepbound is the first prescription drug approved specifically to treat the common condition.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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Excited to share the major work of my dissertation, out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We use Drosophila genetics to dissect the evolution of phage-derived toxins that were horizontally transferred to insects and now function as potent anti-parasitoid defenses (1/n): tinyurl.com/2k9ypyxr
Experimental horizontal transfer of phage-derived genes to Drosophila confers innate immunity to parasitoids
Metazoan parasites have played a major role in shaping innate immunity in animals. Insect hosts and parasitoid wasps are excellent models for illumina…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 20, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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Funded #PhD opportunity to join the #frogvision team! Open to all nationalities, application deadline 20 Jan 🐸👀🧬
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/div...
Diversity and evolution of burrowing frog visual systems | TREES DLA
The evolution of burrowing ecologies has occurred in almost every major vertebrate group and often coincides with eye reduction and inactivation of vision-related genes. Anuran amphibians (frogs and t...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
December 20, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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Re-posting this. The deadline is next week, Dec 19! Come join our dept as an assistant prof! Model organism researchers strongly encouraged to apply!! @moleculargenetics.bsky.social
Please share broadly! We (Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto) are looking for a new faculty member! Deadline Dec 19. Those working on model organisms and using genomics, computational and systems approaches are strongly encouraged to apply! Reach out w/ Qs!

jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Assistant Professor - Molecular Biology and Genetics
Assistant Professor - Molecular Biology and Genetics
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December 10, 2024 at 5:36 PM