Looking for a three year fellowship in Zoology, Biodiversity, Conservation, etc? We have a funded opportunity for you Science at Sheffield Ecology and Evolutionary Biology tinyurl.com/344y4m3v

New immigration rules are a threat to UK science: letter from me & Alex Lees. Additional increase in 2024 in the fee for Global Talent Visas to £5931 (!)(according to The Royal Society note) will be a further barrier to mobility
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Couple of weeks left for this, feel free to email with any questions:)

Lovely morning collecting fungus gnats with the lab @RBGE_Science thanks for having us! Elpida Skarlou Melany Henot Tamsin Woodman

Great new funding opportunity from the Royal society!

Come and join Bungo's lab in Edinburgh!

Thanks for highlighting our work!

In 1000s of insects males eliminate all the genetic material inherited from their dads when making sperm. How? Why? We review the little that we know here authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09… as part of a great special issue Judith Mank Harmit S. Malik

If you are interested feel free to get in touch!!

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Thanks so much for hosting me and for the incredible meeting!

Amazing find in east lothian, so rare to see one above ground with Jarrod Hadfield

Why do some fly females produce only one offspring sex? Some description of patterns across species, their unusual sex chromosomes and thoughts about why it evolved

Come and join our lab as a postdoc! The project focuses on the evolution and molecular mechanisms of unusual chromosome behaviour in fungus gnats, a clade of flies with arguably the most complex chromosome system of any organism. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… deadline 20/6 please RT

Today is Tuberous Sclerosis Awareness day nationaltoday.com/national-tuber…. Thanks to all the carers, teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers and scientists that have lightened the load. Tuberous Sclerosis Association

Laura Ross Wellcome Sanger Tree of Life Programme Wellcome Sanger Institute If you are on a lookout for a postdoc, this talk could be a good opportunity to get into fungus gnat genomics! twitter.com/lross_evoento/…

New preprint: human lice are not only a itchy nuisance but also have some very unusual genetics: males inherit and express genes from both parents, but eliminate their fathers DNA from their sperm! This insight is important for pesticide resistance evolution

Will be advertising a 2yr ERC-funded postdoc on sex chromosomes and DNA elimination Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh soon. Please RT and get in touch if interested. More information coming soon!

Black-winged fungus gnats are 'arguably one of the most bizarre and complex chromosome systems of any insect' --Laura Ross. Another amazing plenary at #TreeOfSex 2.0 kick-off workshop Wellcome Sanger Tree of Life Programme Wellcome Sanger Institute

So grateful to the The Royal Society for awarding me a 3yr extension to my Dorothy Hodgkins fellowship Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh. This scheme has allowed me to maintain an active research career, while caring for boy with significant learning disabilities and medical challenges. Couldn't be happier!