Fahmida K Nitu

Zoologist | Teaching Zoology in Rural Bangladesh | #CheveningScholar @ImperialCollege | #MarSocSci

[Rafeeque @rafeequemavoor]

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!

These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.

Save and share the post!

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

PubMed has been down since yesterday.

It's the largest database of biomedical literature in the world with 37M citations.

If this is a result of Trump's NIH funding freeze, it's extremely bad news for scientific community not just in the US but across the world.

[Sharks International 2026 @SharksInt2026]

🦈 Open Call for Proposals!

📅 Submission deadline: March 15, 2025
📩 Reviewed by our scientific panel—responses by April 2025

🔗 Click this link to access the submission form: https://t.co/YX3oYcwW03

📸 (2-4) Daniel Fernando

#SI2026

[Sharks International 2026 @SharksInt2026]

OPEN CALL for Sharks International 2026 proposals for keynote speakers, themed sessions and panels, workshops, and side events 📢 🦈
Please submit proposals via: https://t.co/55BQ2dsene
Deadline: 15th March 2025

[Fahmida K Nitu @NituFahmida]

@BrendanGodley @ExeterGSES @UniExeCEC @UniofExeterESI Any PhD opportunities for international students?

[Sharks International 2026 @SharksInt2026]

Mark your calendars and save the date - we have exciting news! 🗓️ 🦈

The 5th Sharks International conference is set to take place from 4th to 8th May 2026 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Share this news far and wide and follow us for more updates!

#sharksinternational2026 #SriLanka

[Josh Twining @JoshuapTwining]

PhD project: How interactions between predators, parasites, and the environment influence the population dynamics of a cyclical endemic vole.

https://t.co/byopWTqog4

[Jens Svenning @JCSvenning]

The evidence for Homo sapiens playing the dominant role in the global #megafauna #extinctions constitutes one of the clearest, well-supported patterns in #ecology -see our 2024 review https://t.co/eruXrjtIVx🦣🏹🐘🥩🐎🌿#mammals #paleobiology #archeology #ecosystem #defaunation

[Nicholas Dulvy @NickDulvy]

New study finds overfishing has halved shark and ray populations since 1970 #GlobalSharkTrends based on our new paper, email if you need a copy: https://t.co/Sa8x4AXOqP
https://t.co/4busq6CrFC

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

📣 Open for applications

This two-year initiative program seeks to draw talented international early career researchers to conduct their research in the UK and provide opportunities for career development.

Apply by 7 February 2025
https://t.co/iStk6RcXKP

[Animal behavior opps animalopps.bsky.social @AnimalOpps]

🚨Eight (8!!) funded PhD opportunities in animal behavior and welfare at Harper Adams University🚨
Deadline: January 2025
Start date: October 2025
Thread (1/5)

[Fahmida K Nitu @NituFahmida]

I once contributed to the Visual Guidebook to Release Sawfish, a resource designed to support artisanal and trawl fishing communities in the #BayofBengal. https://t.co/yCTIUVyDod
https://t.co/DGg4YzSv4o

[Fahmida K Nitu @NituFahmida]

@ZoeJacobs27 @NOCnews any hybrid opportunity for international learners?

[Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy]

Here are some thoughts on teaching #statistics to non-statistical students, specifically those in #applied #ecology degrees. Thanks to @willpkay and @TiagoALOMarques for an enjoyable (and not last) collaboration.
request pdf here 👉https://t.co/7oDAM68DJG

[Florian Hartig @florianhartig]

DHARMa v0.4.7 #rstats package for #glmm residual diagnostics now available on #CRAN. Among other things, this version includes a new residual test for #phylogenetic correlation, as well as support for the #phylolm package. Moreover, to make DHARMa more accessible for color-blind

[Bryce Stewart @BD_Stew]

Thought provoking plenary @IMCC2024 by Angelo Villagomez. The vast majority of the world's highly protected #MPAs (by area) are in overseas territories i.e. are the legacy of colonialism #IMCC7

[Dr. Arial Shogren @DrArialShogren]

We are still looking for a PhD & MS student to work on inverts in Iceland! Please reach out to Dr. Benstead or Dr. Huryn to apply! 🧊

[LostSharkGuy @lostsharksguy]

New Species Alert!!! Introducing the Shovelbill Shark, Sphyrna alleni, named after Microsoft co-founder & Philanthropist Paul Allen. The new species occurs in coastal waters of the Caribbean & SW Atlantic. #searching4lostsharks #lostsharkguy #lostsharks #theroadlesstraveled

[Faheem Ullah @Faheem_uh]

PhD Students - 8 tools to help you in your literature review.

Every PhD student needs to conduct a literature review.

A solid literature review takes at least 2-3 months. Using tools, you can reduce this time by 50%.

𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬

1. @LitmapsApp

- Helps you find relevant papers from just a single paper
- Helps you to categorize the papers
- Works with your reference managers (Zotero, etc.)
- Visualize the relationship between papers.
- Share papers via reference manager.
- Get alerts about new papers to add to your literature review.

Link: https://t.co/djhByzyg7M

2. @ConnectedPapers

- Figure out the forward and backward links to a research paper.
- Quantitatively shows the relevance index of papers.
- Visualize the relations between the papers in your literature review.

Link: https://t.co/6EWn5B0Lc2

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰

3. @R_Discovery

- Notifies you as soon as a relevant paper is published.
- Audio stream paper for you to listen to instead of reading.
- Translate papers automatically to your native language.
- Offers automatic integration with Zotero and Mendeley.

Link: https://t.co/1WiEBSyShJ

4. @Scite

- Shows you the most relevant papers to a seed paper.
- Determines for you whether other papers agree/disagree to a paper.
- Helps you understand the holistic work done by a lab/organization.
- Notifies you about latest papers published in your research area.

Link: https://t.co/anbwtUpw6w

𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠

5. @teampaperpal

- Specifically designed for assisting in scientific writing
- Rephrase confusing sentences
- Offers real-time suggestions for smooth writing
- Simple and very easy to use

Link: https://t.co/QesC1s57yz

6. 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲

- Ensures your writing is polished
- Clean up tangled and hard-to-read sentences.

𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰

𝟕. @zotero

- Offers automatic citation capture from web pages, PDFS, and other sources.
- Organize and categorize references effortlessly

𝟖. @mendeley_com

- Integrates very easily with MS word
- Enables you to collaborate and share references with research teams.

[Shikha Dhiman @dhiman_lab]

We have fully funded opening for PhD researcher. Join us for cutting-edge research on artificial cells and organelles. #PhD #phdoffer #phdpositions More info below. RT appreciated!
I encourage female students to apply. #womeninSTEM