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Recently, JEB broadened its scope to include research that is non-hypothesis driven. In his new Perspective, @tubuleguy discusses why he thinks this is wonderful news as novel insights can sometimes come from idea-led experiments
journals.biologists.com/jeb/…
ALT A screenshot of the article titled 'Big data and experimental biology: the complementary roles of hypothesis-led and blue skies research' by Julian A. T. Dow
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📢 The Layton Lab @UTMBiology and @eebtoronto is recruiting new students for 2025! Please see the ad below and reach out to hear more about our work and research culture 🐚🧬🤿
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🐝✨ How do #insects like #bees, #ants, and #wasps decide who does what in their colonies? It’s in their #genes! @BPyenson @sanrehan cover how gene networks and epigenetic factors drive insect social organization. #InsectWorld #Genomics
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✨ New research from the Hermundstad & Jayaraman labs @HHMIJanelia suggests how two different learning systems in the fly brain work together with hardwired circuit architectures to enable rapid flexibility. (1/11)
➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.202…
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This market can and will support an NHL team. Youth hockey has never been stronger. Our footprint is stamped all over the NHL. We deserve better.
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I just uploaded a printable meshed lid for 50 ml Falcon tubes to keep #insects in an aerated container when collecting in the field!
Check it out @printablescom:
printables.com/model/828801
#entomology #collection #3dprint
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Think the phenotype-o-mat would be useful for your lab? Let us know! We’re considering hosting a workshop if that would be beneficial for the community. 👇
bit.ly/phenotype-o-mat
If you’re a fan of DIY lab equipment, you’ll love the phenotype-o-mat, a customizable DIY 96-well plate imager from @ArcadiaScience that you can now build for only $400 🧵 1/7
protocols.io/view/building-a…
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The Canes brought out the cooperalls and headbands for Whalers night 🔥
(🎥: @CanesOnBally)
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Support Canadian bumble bee researcher Dr. Sheila Colla through her cancer treatment:
gofundme.com/f/support-sheil…
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How should we normalize #singlecell #geneexpression counts from imaging-based #spatialtranscriptomics? We kept getting asked this so we wrote a paper about it!
#bioRxiv preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Led by @lylaatta w/ @kalen_clifton + @manjari_017 #AcademicTwitter
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🎉🧹 The #tidyomics ecosystem is official!
Into #omic data analysis? Spanning #Seurat @Bioconductor #SCE, #SE, #GRanges, #Citometry?
Now, just use #tidyverse !
Co-led with @mikelove and @TonyPapenfuss @WEHI_research #singlecell
The preprint biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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2 OPEN POSITIONS in our group @uni_mainz_eng : #PhD on consequences of genomic changes during the evolution of ant slavery and #Postdoc to uncover the evolution and molecular regulation of insect cognition. More info here -> blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evol…
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Exciting news! A draft schedule is now available for #BeeCon 2023, our annual conference for #bee researchers in Ontario and globally, to be held Oct 12-13 online and in-person Oct 13 at York U. Interested in attending? Learn more & register by Sept 29 at yorku.ca/bees/beecon-2023.
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🚨In LLMs token limits are still an issue…
We debut a new 🧠 inspired dual-memory system to interface with #LLMs that allows you to overcome token limits (& w/o vectorDB). We highlight its utility by analyzing 🎥 with cutting-edge #computervision & #ML
arxiv.org/abs/2307.04858
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We have extended the paper submission deadline for our #ICRA2023 workshop on Agri-food Robotics. You now have until "May 8th" to submit your short papers! Don't miss out on the opportunity to share your research with the community! Details: sites.google.com/view/ICRA23…
CfP: Agri-Food Robotics Workshop @ieee_ras_icra (#ICRA2023) 🍇🐄🥪 Submit your 2-page short papers by "May 1st" to present your latest work on #AI/#Robotics/#Automation for #Agrifood systems! A prize sponsored by @ieeeras' TC for Computer & Robot Vision: sites.google.com/view/icra23…
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ant people: I keep seeing papers saying that all ponerines have low queen-worker dimorphism. I guess this idea has remained popular because they've long been labeled "primitive", "basal", etc., but it and the labels are wrong, e.g., see Brachyponera lutea
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New paper: Historic DNA uncovers genetic effects of climate change and landscape alteration in two wild bee species 🐝 congrats to @sandarab for leading this work link.springer.com/article/10…