Chris Laumer
Royal Society Uni. Research Fellow @ the NHM. Thinking about genomes and evolution in meiofauna/flatworms. Climate action, ecosocialism, gay stuff. 🏳️🌈💚🌍🔬🪱 (he/him). Refugee from X...
- Reposted by Chris LaumerWell... community post confirms it: ONT is getting rid of P2 Solo, their most cost-effective platform. By transitioning to P2i-only and "contact for quotes" purchase models, ONT is now in the realm of the sequencing companies that they initially claimed to be distancing themselves from.
- Reposted by Chris LaumerEvery time I see this book in the library, I imagine Darwin saying “draw me like one of your French girls”
- @jimmybernot.bsky.social do you know what this pinchy nauplius looking boy might be? It's serving parasite to me, somehow.
- A video of the same - apols, taken quickly on phone
- Reposted by Chris LaumerPlanned action! Protest planned at parliament square on Saturday at 1pm to protest supreme court ruling.
- Reposted by Chris LaumerPosting this for the umpteenth time.
- Gender is for the individual to decide, not the state. If somebody tells you who they are, and your response is to ignore/question/investigate that identity, I don't know what to say to you. Gender is a matter of etiquette, of common decency, of positive regard for others.
- Reposted by Chris Laumer🌍 4 year, fully funded PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Basel! 🌿 Explore flatworm speciation in the African Great Lakes! ✔️ Fieldwork in Zambia & Tanzania ✔️ Training in phylogenetics, molecular ecology, evolutionary biology & stable isotope analysis 📅 Deadline: May 31, 2025
- It's official - I'm organizing a field taxonomy workshop on freshwater and limno-terrestrial meiofauna! 27 August-11 Sept, in the Lake District. We have 13 experts covering all major taxa, advanced microscopy, DNA taxonomy, sci-com, publishing. RT! Send your best! www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
- What are people's thoughts on the new metazoa_odb12 as a BUSCO db?
- Taking the pulse of meiofauna research in 2025. My biggest take-home message as the head of one panel: evolutionary genomics is not (yet) anywhere near reaching its potential in this field, partly because of a lack of visibility/interdisciplinary education. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
- Reposted by Chris LaumerDo you have #Discord account? Did you know there is #microscopy server? Good mixture of microscopy and imaging folks with various backgrounds [1.3k members] is already in. Join us, everyone is welcomed. Repost is deeply appreciated ;] disboard.org/server/67276...
- Together with Richard Unsworth at Swansea (@zosterar.bsky.social), we've cooked up a PhD project via the CROCUS DLA. Come do cutting-edge molecular ecology of meiofaunal communities in seagrass meadows in various states of "health". Deadline 20 January, please RT. blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
- Reposted by Chris LaumerHappy that my first publication in 🦋 is about this. Our preprint on the origin of Bilateria is out. A nice story about the position of the Xenoacoelomorpha in the animal tree of life. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
- Reposted by Chris LaumerToday we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55
- Reposted by Chris LaumerA weird thing about an #ECR group leader in mid 2020s is that loads of grants are stuck at the same level for years, not accountin for the 20% inflation in the past few years. E.g. A max grant cap of £5000 in 2020 now only has £4000 worth of spending power in 2024. Ladder keeps getting pulled!
- Reposted by Chris LaumerWe have two open PhD positions in my group at @crg.eu. We are seeking candidates with a background in computational and/or molecular biology, and with a broad interest in evolutionary biology, gene regulation, and comparative genomics. 📅Apply before January 12 here: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
- Reposted by Chris Laumerlast couple days to apply (for free! from anywhere in the world!) to the Sanger 2025 PhD Programme — Deadline: 28th November 2024 (09:00 GMT) For more info, visit www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...
- Reposted by Chris LaumerI haven't posted about #FreshwaterMussels yet on @bsky.app so here's a summery video of a gorgeous #mussel #river in the #LakeDistrict and it's inhabitants #Cumbria #Biodiversity #NatureRecovery #SpeciesConservation #Restoration #Bivalve #Mollusc
- This is an incredible, chilling video essay from #notjustbikes which has totally changed how I think about self-driving cars. Something between documentary, journalism, polemic, and the coldly logical tradition of the best dystopian science fiction: youtu.be/040ejWnFkj0?...
- Reposted by Chris LaumerStockholm University is hiring three assistant professors in the broad field of Biodiversity. Positions would be SciLifeLab fellows with a generous starting package. #AssistProf #SciLifeLab #Biodiversity #AcademicJobs #Evolution #Genomics #StockholmUniversity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
