Michael Country 🇨🇦

JSPS fellow at RIKEN in 🇯🇵. I research retinal metabolism, and the neural mechanisms of hibernation.
RIKENの科学者です。冬眠と網膜の研究をしています。
Views & bad jokes are my own.

[Michael Country 🇨🇦 @BiologyCountry]

Big news! @elainebeaulieu2 and I interviewed VP Research & Collections at the Canadian @MuseumofNature! VP Dr. Jeff Saarela walks us through the museum's research facilities, its enormous archive of species, and how to access hidden specimens. Listen here: https://t.co/Jf1QJ6Lt5P

[Elaine Beaulieu @elainebeaulieu2]

Do science museums do research? YES! It's incredible, sizeable and energetically explained by Jeff Saarela, the VP of Collections and Research at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

@MuseumofNature @BiologyCountry @uOttawaScience

Check it out here: https://t.co/B9uHr1UCq9

[Michael Country 🇨🇦 @BiologyCountry]

This month @elainebeaulieu2 and I are posting a conversation with Dr. Marty Martin from the @Big_Biology podcast - undoubtedly the best biology podcast out there! If you haven't subscribed to Big Biology already, please check it out!

https://t.co/mggxJTvgDl

[Michael Country 🇨🇦 @BiologyCountry]

@cosimaporteus @SJC_fishy @Fishguy_FHL @Drsharkbrain @mcleamj @PREAUX_FISH @fish @ictiolab @ichthyprof @ich @GrayFishLab Sorry - missed this tweet due to a break from Twitter. What a great question! I found several papers by Drs. Christine Dambly-Chaudière and Alain Ghysen on the topic, but it seems complicated and I can't find their lab website or Twitter handles.

[Journal of Experimental Biology @J_Exp_Biol]

. @BiologyCountry reports on Galli & co's recent @CompBiochPhys paper showing that airbreathing blackfish supress the mitochondria in their brains during winter to protect them from the damaging effects of reactive oxygen species caused by the lack of O2

https://t.co/OZqQNnFvHH

[Michael Country 🇨🇦 @BiologyCountry]

Hey everyone, the Japanese word for fumehood is pronounced humefood (ヒュームフード、hyuumufuudo)

[Michael Country 🇨🇦 @BiologyCountry]

@Caroline_Bartma @RoddyOConnor Hibernating bats, probably, eh? Hibernation quadruples lifespans of some mammalian species!

[Michael Country 🇨🇦 @BiologyCountry]

Solid science here

[Journal of Experimental Biology @J_Exp_Biol]

Erin Leonard, Fiona Weaver and Colin Nurse show that killifish neuroepithelial gill cells can sense the lactate burn https://t.co/wLBsiHFM5B
Read the full research at https://t.co/KyLylu5G0T

[Dr. Brittney Borowiec @this_is_brit]

I haven't got the bandwidth to put something together on my own in ~1 week, but if anyone is looking for help with a Public Engagement or Talent Development (scicomm workshops?) event...

[Michael Country 🇨🇦 @BiologyCountry]

This <600 word paper is my favourite yet. I can't do it justice in a tweet, but please check it out - it's free, and it's only a few paragraphs, but it's such a fascinating story!

[Journal of Experimental Biology @J_Exp_Biol]

. @BiologyCountry reports on Manuel Soler & co’s Zool. Res. Paper, in which they propose that mother blackbirds induce asynchronous egg hatching because the presence of a younger nestling stimulates fathers to increase their feeding efforts
https://t.co/4qNdgGGtvd

[Journal of Experimental Biology @J_Exp_Biol]

. @BiologyCountry reports on Manuel Soler & co’s Zool. Res. Paper, in which they propose that mother blackbirds induce asynchronous egg hatching because the presence of a younger nestling stimulates fathers to increase their feeding efforts
https://t.co/4qNdgGGtvd

[Fredrik Jutfelt @jutfelt.bsky.social @FredrikJutfelt]

Does the brain limit thermal tolerance? What about oxygen?

In this excellent Outside JEB, Giulia Rossi @giuliasrossi explains the findings of our recent paper.

@AnnaHAndreassen
@FlorenceKermen
@J_Exp_Biol

https://t.co/ra4UlcdeuQ

[Michael Country 🇨🇦 @BiologyCountry]

@Dogen N2 is tough man. Like five minutes in, someone near me cursed loudly and closed the test booklet, haha.

[Michael Country 🇨🇦 @BiologyCountry]

@ThevJayMahan My last name is actually Country. When I first published, Google's robots assumed my name was fake or maybe a field for a word like Canada, so Google Scholar listed one of my articles as having no author.

[Michael Country 🇨🇦 @BiologyCountry]

I'm on Mastodon now! Please follow me at @[email protected] !

[Elaine Beaulieu @elainebeaulieu2]

"It's been a bleak desert of therapeutic breakthroughs" @EricFMorand. Listen to Prof Morand discuss our new understanding of Lupus disease mechanism and the hopeful future for patients.

@LupusResearch @uOttawaScience @SCSMonash

Check it out here: https://t.co/8TLh0ZOtL4

[Michael Country 🇨🇦 @BiologyCountry]

@MHendr1cks This hit home. Honestly, I think bureaucracy is the biggest obstacle in the way of scientific progress.

[William Halliday @wdhalliday]

Many great applicants already. Get your application in ASAP if you want to be considered for this position.

[Brent J Sinclair @brentjsinclair]

I have two applied Entomology positions available!
1) PhD position in evolutionary physiology of insect gas exchange (previously advertised - deadline 7 Nov)
2) Postdoc in applied thermal biology (tight deadline - 21 Nov, ask me Y over ☕️ sometime)
https://t.co/daHXShMRNk

[Michael Country 🇨🇦 @BiologyCountry]

Man, I love squirrels more and more each year.

[Journal of Experimental Biology @J_Exp_Biol]

.@LiamTigert, Patricia Wright & Andy Turko @amphibiousfish propose that positive feedback may explain how amphibious behaviour repeatedly evolved in fishes that occupy hypoxic aquatic habitats https://t.co/yXql4cNfsp
Read the full research at https://t.co/P1CWS2OcL3

[Rajendhran Rajakumar @Rajee_Rajakumar]

Want to hear some awesome stuff about #Ants and the beautiful hyperdiverse genus #Pheidole? Check out my podcast interview with the awesome @Big_Biology coming out tomorrow! @uOttawaScience 🐜