Amartya Tashi Mitra
Buschbeck Lab PhD candidate | University of Cincinnati | Studying how weird eyes evolve & develop in arthropods 🐛🪲 | Artist | UCL MRes BEC Alumn | NHM London | St Xavier’s Bombay
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- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraIn this post on the Node, Pedro Martinez comments on what a gene regulatory network is and what it is not. thenode.biologists.com/what-a-gene-...
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraImagine wearing a #jellyfish as a helmet!?! Well, that’s exactly what this juvenile jack is doing! Mostly immune to its sting, the jack has taken the jellyfish prisoner. Shot using #scuba, out over the deep abyss, drifting at night. #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #scubadiving #gug
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- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraI got to use some really special specimens for this one. Only 10 specimens of greasefish exist! And the poor Christmas Island shrew is now extinct but this one was collected when there were so many, and they were so noisy, they kept people awake at night!
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraA cell biology professor of mine used to use this picture as an allegory of science: when we look at the pic, we're not seeing the camels, we're seeing the shadow of the camels. We do the same when we do an immuno, a western, or we measure the transcriptome.
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraWikipedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem go.nature.com/4pXIv2d
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraBirds have a thick retina devoid of blood vessels - so how do they ensure sufficient oxygen availability? They don't - neurons rely on glycolysis, metabolizing glucose released from the pecten. Insane new study that includes comparative data on lizards and crocs.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Blister beetles are just so darn cool www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraModel organisms promise insights into the human brain only if they’re representative. This new paper argues that convenience-driven choices weaken extrapolation in neuroscience, and highlights growing calls for comparative, evolution-informed approaches. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraThe Flat Clown Beetle (Hololepta plana) looks like it comes pre-flattened, a 'wafer thin mint' of a bug. "Clown" comes from the flattened floppy legs that resemble clown shoes. They're adapted to a life living in the space between bark & tree trunk, eating the larvae of other insects.
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraThis is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraCharley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraOur new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraCricket embryo for #FluorescenceFriday ! (macroH2A in magenta, neurons in yellow and F-Actin in cyan)
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraLove this from @stephenbheard.bsky.social on how to prioritize learning and useful discussion over tearing apart papers, and look forward to using some of these question prompts in future lab meetings: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/h...
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraOur first issue of Vol 153 (2026) is complete! On the cover: 3D image of the apical Drosophila pupal eye with depth-coding applied, showing a dome-like ommatidia. See the Research Article by Bhattarai ( @abhibhattarai.bsky.social) et al. from @ruthjohnsonlab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/dev....
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi Mitrachinmo provides insights into the evolution of insect metamorphosis This Research Highlight showcases work by Hana Nagata and Yuichiro Suzuki from @wellesley.edu. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraBill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraMeet the springtails: little-known fantastic beasts that live everywhere on Earth theconversation.com/meet-the-spr... Ping @frankashwood.bsky.social
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- LLMs and generative AI are tools and not replacements for professionals
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraBIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraThe world feels rough right now So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery. 🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraI am recruiting postbacs for my parakeet sociality and cognition project, ideally to start in Feb/Mar this year. Help spreading the word would be appreciated! More information and application link available here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...
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- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraFinally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraSO EXCITED to be finally talking about some funky preliminary results on the eyes of this funky harvestman at #SICB2026 on Tuesday! Here are a few sneak peak pics :D
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- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraThe most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too! #🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
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- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraNot another one of those “I shined a UV light on some random thing and it glows so it must be for a reason” story.
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- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraDid you know #physiology research made GLP-1 drugs possible? Decades before they were household names, scientists studying gut-brain signaling—and even Gila-monster venom—unlocked how the body regulates energy and appetite. 🧪 #FightForPhysiology #SciComm fightforphysiology.org
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi Mitra0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄 image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraDo you love quantifying animal behavior as much as we do? We have just the tool for you! Presenting #OCTRON - a pipeline that helps you create rich annotation data and enables training of custom segmentation models. Have a look, particularly if you work with non-model / invertebrate organisms!
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- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraWe are searching for an enthusiastic scientist to join our team and establish annual killifish as a model system for early developmental biology and biophysics! @embl.org @embldbunit.bsky.social Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hei... Please re-post 🙏
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraDay 20 of #InsectAdvent Nearly there, eyes on the prize of Christmas Day. Talking of eyes, some of the best eyed creatures are stalk-eyed flies including Plagoiocephalus latifrons (image @bertonemyia.bsky.social) we saw in Costa Rica @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraMultidisciplinary training, over time, produces the highest impact people www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi Mitra14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
- Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
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- Reposted by Amartya Tashi MitraOur latest paper is out, and it's on one my favourite spiders, Evarcha culicivora! Mate choice as a third context in which a mosquito-specialist jumping spider attends to red-coloured cues #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
- Reposted by Amartya Tashi Mitra(1/n) What if you never had to make your bed? What if your laundry could fold itself? Folding is everywhere around us - but did you know that folding flat sheets are at the ❤️ of diversity of shapes in the animal world - since 500 million years ago. Our latest work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudC...
