Michael Brewer

Associate Professor of Biology studying evolution, systematics, and genomics.
He/Him

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[Michael Brewer @Prof_Brewer]

They latest paper from my lab was published today. It’s the work of my stellar former PhD student Jeff Cole.

Killer Knots: Molecular Evolution of Inhibitor Cystine Knot Toxins in Wandering Spiders (Araneae: Ctenidae)

https://t.co/vQDQJ4M1uw

[Lynn Swafford @lynnswaf]

Today is Alfred Russel Wallace's 200th birthday! He discovered the Wallace Line and evolution through natural selection: https://t.co/Dh2jF8zyws

[Eric Fournier @ejfourni]

I asked ChatGPT to write a 300-word Strategic Plan for a major research university. It took 10 seconds.

[Michael Brewer @Prof_Brewer]

Cool work from my @ECU_Biology colleagues.

[Entomological Society of America @EntsocAmerica]

Arthropod Photo of the Week: December 28, 2022
Green lynx spider
Peucetia viridans
Araneae: Oxyopidae
By Peter Kann
North Carolina, USA
#arthropodPOTW

[Ruben Dario Palacio, Ph.D. @rdpalacio]

There are hundreds of software tools available for research right now.

But in reality most of them are not worth your time.

Here are 8 tools that I've actually use, that can super-charge your research productivity.

A thread🧵

[Rasmus Nielsen @ras_nielsen]

There is no doubt that without additional funding we will have to shrink our labs and increase student/GSI ratios. It will be difficult. But at least our grad students won't be starving. Now starts the pressure on Sacramento.

[Jared 🗿🇵🇸 @b1g_damage]

so fucked that the best explanation of commodity fetishism i've ever seen was written by the guy who voiced the t rex in toy story

[Biology Open @BiologyOpen]

Alexandra Venuto @al_venuto & co @EricksonFishLab @BiologyUnb @ECU_Biology show that, even in social environments, fish with compromised lateral lines may experience a form of isolation🐟

https://t.co/5tS3inWxKV

[Maywa Montenegro @MaywaMontenegro]

Senate faculty across the UCs are pledging to withhold grades until the strike ends, to pause instructional labor, and to withdraw campus & university service in support of @uaw2865, @UAW5810, & @sruuaw demands for livable work conditions.

Sign here!!👇🏾
https://t.co/eImd4eZZRY

[Zootaxa updates @Zootaxa]

The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. VII. Petra sierwaldae, n. gen., n. sp., a minute millipede from Idaho, #USA (#Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae).
https://t.co/HXiRf2HDPf
#Taxonomy

[Benjamin Naumann @BenjaminNauman3]

I am happy to share our new preprint about copulation in millipedes. This study was an excellent bachelor thesis of Justus Brandt @ZoologyRostock. Justus investigated the functional morphology and selection forces that might have shaped gonopods of odontopygid Spirostreptida.

[Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @reject_resubmit]

Really excited to share my last PhD chapter, featuring awesome undergrad @larabreithaupt, and @3rdreviewer ! We developed two new approaches to phylogenetic comparative methods that correct for gene trees rather than a single species tree.

https://t.co/BIpeKYxp7A

[Sheila Colla, Ph.D @SaveWildBees]

This is the context for this specific point in time and in this country. We should all be doing so much better to protect vulnerable members of society. Academics should know better and lead by example. https://t.co/Vf5a14xzva

[Angela Jones @drjonessoc]

My request 4 reimbursement 4 all summer conference travel was denied. I went to two totaling thousands. Academic conferences resuming in person but budgets are still frozen and austerity still happening. Moving forward, I will miss folks but I will no longer pay to go to work 1/2

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.

[Tyler Roney (Bangkok) @TylerRoney]

A song for the day about fascism from Woodie Guthrie, actually composed to the tune of White House Blues about the assassination of William McKinley on 1901.

[mark belan | science illustrator + info designer @markabelan]

NEW PIECE: The Evolution of Eyes and Vision 🧿⏩ 👁️

#eye #infographic #sciart #scientificart #art #illustration #evolution #biology #science #eyeball #anatomy #evodevo #evo #optometry #optometrist #ophthalmology #scicomm #vizscicomm #infographics #scigraphics

[Lauren Esposito @ArachnologyNerd]

WE ARE HAVING A DRAG SHOW!!!! If you’re headed to the Entomology Meetings next week in Vancouver and want to give drag a try, get in touch with our fabulous host, the incredible @BeesAndBaking, ASAP.

[MrPhoto @mrphoto]

Important to repost this occasionally - a reminder that however much good work people put in to conserve bird populations, there are other ways to boost populations dramatically.

#birds #cats #population #wildlife #nature