This Buff-tailed bumblebee queen is brushing pollen grains out of her hair and collecting it in her pollen baskets. Can you spot the bright yellow bulges on her hind legs?💛

What spring flowers are your local bumblebees tucking into?🌷

🔊Sound up for a slowed-down skylark song.

Ecstatic to present the last paper from my PhD work which is out in Current Biology.

authors.elsevier.com/c/1insg3QW8S6D…

We find that postembryonic eye growth in camera eyes of the Sunburst diving beetle (Thermonectus marmoratus) requires accurate osmotic environment. 1/13

Part of the problem of flapping is that it's inherently going to cause vibrations. Just look at that head and antenna wobble in the last shot!

Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold.

Read the results of Nature’s second global survey of postdoctoral researchers go.nature.com/3Qtd4hI

Look out for the hindwings being held out forward as a display

Had a great time at the 38th Plymouth Microelectrode Course! Met so many amazing, interesting people. Thank you to all the demonstrators for taking the time to teach us and for cheering us on at the rigs :) (peep the original squid axons stuck to the ceiling in the final pic)

We'll that's it, we've completed the 38th Cell Physiology Workshop. Cheerio to everyone MBA - Marine Biological Association, thanks for looking after us. 🙂

Watch this space for news of future workshops. 🦑🐌🔬⚡ #cpw2023

Steve Brickley carrying out dynamic clamp simulations of virtual ion channel effects on neuronal function, using the Cambridge Electronic Design Signal software & POWER 1401-3A interface. #cpw2023

How does voltage clamp really work?
Ask Vincenzo Marra 🙂
#cpw2023

Demo of multi-electrode array recording from a brain slice by Ed Li & Ed Mann. #cpw2023

Single electrode voltage clamp of ciona oocytes with Jon Robbins & team. #cpw2023

Please RT: 🐝Bee PhD alert! 🐝
🎓Funded PhD with me @UniofHull, Prof. Jeremy Niven and @bethbees University of Sussex: Computational modelling, insect energy budgets, resilience to habitat/climate change. Email in my bio for any Qs!
🗓️Closes 2 Oct, Jan 2024 start
🔗hull.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

New ideas on cognitive evolution
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

Müllerian mimicry vs. Batesian mimicry

Very excited to share our new preprint on visual processing in the octopus! Led by Judit Pungor judit, together with Mea (josc) 🐙 and Angelique Allen, we measured the functional organization of visual responses in the octopus brain. 🐙👁️
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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📢Funded PhD Alert📢
🐝We are recruiting a #PhD student to work on #bee #microbiomes as a predictor of colony health.
🦠Do contact either myself or GUTiLAB to find out more. Apply by 30th April 👇
tinyurl.com/2p82fw7c
#Honeybees #Microbiology #Genomics #Bioinformatics #PhD

As migrant xenophobia is on rise in England.

I migrated to England in 2007 to escape poverty. Lived on welfare, in poor region of Bolton. Now doing a Doctorate at prestigious uni & amplifying British science. Any refugee, migrant & folk on benefits, deserves this second chance.

There are two types of people. Those who delete the question mark and everything to the right of it in shared URLs and those who have no idea what I'm talking about.

📢 Life Perceives Symposium

🌳 Join us in exploring perceptions across the spectrum of life; animals, plants, fungi and cellular communities, with an amazing line-up of scientists and artists.

📆 January 20th, 2023

👉 Information and registration at lifeperceives.org

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Long legged fly and prey, zoom in pretty gruesome scene. Proboscis right up to the brain😬.

#flyfriday #insect #flies #macro