Laura Piovani

Climber & Biologist, dog-and-cat-person, NLMC social sec, works @ UCL

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

The coolest bad-ass wormies made it into Nature 🏹🪱. This is the tale of how genes evolved to give rise to one of the strangest creatures that writhe underwater. Thanks @Ferdix for brining it with him from Marseille to Okinawa to London.

[nature @Nature]

A genome sequence and single-cell atlas of a marine worm species point towards bursts of gene emergence, duplication and loss as the drivers of lineage-specific body traits

https://t.co/dUqA8yvR7g

[Anna Sophie Kümpel @kuempelanna]

1st year PhD student showing up at the 8 am panel with 25 expertly crafted slides, 57 backup slides, and print-outs prepared four weeks in advance

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Tenured professor giving the keynote with two slides of mood pictures clicked together in the hotel lobby 15 minutes earlier

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

@srishti_arya_17 😍😍😍

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

@srishti_arya_17 Gooorgeous!!!! Enjoyyyyy, I am very jealous but glad you're having a lovely time 💕

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

@TorstenBell Nice haircut!!!

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

@juliar_mateu Amazing Juliaaaa congratulations!!!!

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

@fcamus Congratulations!!!!

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

@SchistoSSR @NHM_London @NHM_Science At first I was like, wow that's a big Biomphalaria xD

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

@dexterity_no love your stickers but where's the Muller's larva?? It's the cutest!

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

@deMendoza_Alex 😂 the same!

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

@TelfordLab @StephaniaTsola @QM_SBBS @ProfKateJones It must be something in the room that inspires such rapture

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

@StephaniaTsola If you ever need to a picture for a fresco to go on an altar church I would use this @TelfordLab

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

@TorstenBell Great work!!! Very cool cover!

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

Level of swearing in TTPD is just on point.

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

Inflation is out of control... when it comes to the quantity of swearing on Taylor Swift albums https://t.co/dg0SOBXax1

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

@TorstenBell Absolutely love the level of swearing in TTPD.

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

Wanna work with the cutest worm ever?

[carol leonard @laughingcat2016]

Actual footage of the full eclipse in real time.

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

"Several said that they actively didn’t respond to emails, *or acted in an exaggerated disorganised manner*. This meant they were assigned fewer tasks, but were also less frequently asked, and thus got away without doing service."
https://t.co/Z7MsJdJCgG

[Laura Piovani @BillaDelonge]

Finally MORE wormy worms single cell by the greatest @helen_r0berts0n. Not JUST my bestie but also the best ♥️ Looking forward to celebrate with piles of pancakes!

[Helen @helen_r0berts0n]

A big thank you and congratulations to everyone involved 😊 so glad this is out in the world!