Alessio Datovo

Curator of Fishes @MZUSP.

[PNASNews @PNASNews]

Brazil’s soy boom comes with a grim cost: Significant increases in pediatric deaths from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, likely driven by contamination of the water supply by pesticides. In PNAS: https://t.co/7MNuc3Mdrg

[Evolutionary Morphology of Fishes @EvoMorFish]

New publication - A new genus and species of miniature catfish from the Amazon (Rhinotridens chromocaudatus) - https://t.co/rHo34zYFC9
Published @Neotropi by @AlessioDatovo @Leochoao @george_vita @paulopresti & M Pinna
#ichthyology #teamfish #fishscience #morphology #osteology

[USP - Universidade de São Paulo @usponline]

O Programa de Treinamento Científico do Museu de Zoologia da USP oferece uma oportunidade inédita para profissionais de Museus de História Natural!

Estudantes de graduação em Biologia de todas as regiões do país podem participar. Inscrições até 31/08 https://t.co/0LHeCVFmq7

[Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya_amano]

- For nonnative English speakers, scientific careers bring particular challenges -
See @Valeria_RamCas and myself interviewed by @ScienceMagazine Careers.
#languagebarriers
https://t.co/w49kOt6zIl

[Jiajia Liu @EcologyJiajia]

Our new paper https://t.co/na6xRPFG0w led by Jun Ma describes the static distribution patterns, as well as dynamic distribution patterns of forest fragments of the world.

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

No reward - no duties.  75% of respondents have reduced the hours spent on academic duties since 2020 (Nature polls).

Mostly due to burnout and unwillingness to work for free.

This included attending conferences, peer reviewing manuscripts and grant proposals, committees, mentoring and even teaching.

Why?

Because scientists are tired of not being able to do #science.

- Students are tired of being unappreciated and overloaded

- Faculties are tired of “community duties” that become overwhelming (conferences, committees, reviewing, outreach, etc)

And everyone is tired of small salaries, zero empathy and little credit.

The problem is greatly summarized by Isabel Müller (in the article):

“There’s so little acknowledgement that people have difficult, complicated lives outside of work.”

A year ago, Nature described how PhD students don’t want to be postdocs and faculties are leaving academia. Now, we see that those who stayed are trying to resist the system from the inside.

But the problem is - the system is too rigid, too traditional and too elitist.

So, as a community, we can change it only by raising our voices and expressing distaste with the status quo. I applaud Nature for writing about these issues so regularly. The academic world has too many interdependent parts which should be addressed concurrently.

This is why we should stay united and strong as a community.

Regarding the academic environment we all hope to have, I loved how Isabel Müller put it in the article:

- I hope it becomes the new normal to say: “My life matters. My work is an important part, but I decide what my life looks like, not my employer”.

#AcademicTwitter #education

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Pelé made Brazil's kit the most famous of any sports team in the world.

But why is it yellow, green, and blue?

It's a story that involves crushing defeat, the Holy Roman Empire, Napoleon's sister-in-law, and dragons...

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

🤩 Meet Palaeoneiros clackorum, a tiny Late Devonian fossil with big implications for how ray-finned fishes, which today make up half of living vertebrates, were affected by the End-Devonian Mass Extinction.
Reconstruction by @HBivittatus #FossilFriday

https://t.co/AhO9HncVAA

[Kleber Del Claro @kleber_delclaro]

Caro Colega Docente, como formadores de pessoal de nível superior convidamos o(a) colega a considerar assinar esse documento que será atualizado mediante o recebimento de novas assinaturas e posteriormente encaminhado ao novo Governo Lula.
https://t.co/f7VqQNrtsM

[nature @Nature]

What a new president in Brazil could mean for science https://t.co/EJyagQBcKF

[Kieran @hellbendermodel]

Hello everyone, time for another
✨️give-away✨️, this time a Coelacanth resin diorama!

To enter:
-Follow me
-🔁 this post

Drawn 18th August, GL!!

[Anurag Agrawal @anuragasclepias]

Cool new paper: Ultrasound production in moths is globally and phylogenetically widespread as a means of evading echolocating bat attack

https://t.co/ffgxs7yCCH

[Alessio Datovo @AlessioDatovo]

Iberia canceled a flight we bought and it is simply impossible to rebook it! We have been trying for 1 month through every possible channel (phone, website, app, whatsapp) and we can't do it. @Iberia @Iberia_en is a #$%🤬!

[Alessio Datovo @AlessioDatovo]

@Friedman_Lab Nice paper, congrats to the authors! Glad to see the evolution of the actinopterygian symplectic and interhyal finally revised. Data from soft tissues also support the proposed changes in the identification of these elements in Acipenseriformes 😉

[Luiza Caires - jornalista de ciências @luizacaires3]

“Como você se sentiria se fosse num museu, e alguém pegasse um quadro e rasgasse na sua frente? É assim que me sinto quando um peixinho é extinto, porque aquilo para mim é uma expressão quase que artística da morfologia, da genética, e é insubstituível...” 🧶👇

[SBEmeeting @SBEmeeting]

Registrations are now open!

#SBEmeeting2022 is 100% online and 100% free for all attendees!

See section “Registration” at our website: https://t.co/AtsG7CrMx2

#phylogenetics #biogeography #evolution #DiversityandInclusion

[Geoffrey Kabat @GeoKabat]

grim reporting from Brazil

Bolsonaro Said His ‘Specialty Is Killing.’ He’s Been True to His Word. https://t.co/Buf9QrmtYN

[dSmith-Paredes @dsmithparedes]

New paper alert!🎉🎊🥳

"Embryonic muscle splitting patterns reveal homologies of amniote forelimb muscles" @NatureEcoEvo

🐣🐊🐢🦎🐁🐨* embryology and comparative anatomy allow to understand arm muscle development, evolution and homologies

1/..

https://t.co/Bhr22rkcf9

[C David de Santana @Davidefishes]

Meet the newly discovered⚡️Tembeassu titanicus -> in allusion to its large size⚡️Electric fishes of this group co-occur in the Paraná River🌎where T. marauna and T. titanicus occupy different habitats @AgenciaFAPESP @NMNH #FreshwaterFishes #Biodiversity https://t.co/fwsyp9JoES

[John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel]

Welcome to the #FishVsBird edition of whose nesting colony is best. Move over birds, researchers have discovered a notothenioid icefish colony that is estimated to contain >60 million active nests!
https://t.co/83LqBPdqaE