mastodon 4.7.3Postdoc in the Grissom lab. Interested in plasticity, decisionmaking, energy balance and neurodivergence. Mice rule. All opinions my own. MeFite.
Watching a documentary about the whole GameStop stock market crash thing. The documentary just took a minute to explain 00s forum culture as if it is a) a Reddit-specific innovation, b) the hottest new thing disrupting Facebook style social media, and c) the inventor of this cute little concept called pseudonymity.
I think I just aged twenty years in two minutes. Y'all, Reddit is more than fifteen years old. It's. I can't even with this.
Getting really jazzed for #SICB2023 as I'm working on my talk. I have no idea if anyone else is working with #PoseEstimation in a more eco-evo space, but I'm really excited by its potential for high throughput behavior analysis in a totally species-agnostic context. If anyone else playing with this technique is going to SICB this year, please hit me up so we can have lunch or chat!
@jby@ecoevo.social right yeah exactly--I'm way less mad at the student than I am at the advisor. What the heck is the point of this seminar supposed to be if no one ever gets a chance to learn better? How badly are these students getting failed?
@jby@ecoevo.social his advisor was in the room and eventually went "okay but so and so is here to practice his candidacy proposal?"
No actual like, discussion of what I'm saying or anything, just "this isn't helpful and the point of this presentation is to prepare for his presentation." did not have heart to say that look, my committee would have failed you for making that mistake in the thesis proposal
at one point he had the gall to tell me that it was important to study this bc it's a real world problem
Ondi Crino at #SICB2023:what are the mechanisms by which development perturbations wind up impacting adult phenotype? Well, things like growth, body condition, cognitive performance, etc are all expensive, so: consider the humble powerhouse of the cell?
Lots of pathways through which development perturbations might affect variation in mitochondria fxn. These can be short term (mitochondria prodxn, regulation of gene factors, or hormonal signaling) or even longer term epigenetic modifications.
#SICB2023: Shayne Halter finds that torpor allows hummingbirds to save energy and reduce body mass loss, ESPECIALLY for smaller birds. Smaller birds are more likely to go into torpor. Torpor frequency vanished as birds got larger within a species.
#SICB2023: Kaylene Yamada discusses strengths and weaknesses of studying behavior in lab and field. Useful examples of phenotypes that are not visible in the lab, but immediately become apparent in natural or seminatural environments! Focus: Peromyscus. Love this kind of work!
Holy crap she took SO MANY msrs of condition, metabolism and energy balance from mice in three populations in her enclosures. What a data set!
#SICB2023: from @MollySimonis (Twitter), big brown bats are an interesting case study for torpidity research because they are prone to long term (>10 yrs!) infections with invasive pathogenic fungus Pd. Pre-Pd msrs with continuous ambient temperatures already in the lit.
After Pd infection, metabolic savings with torpidity vary considerably with ambient temperatures. If minimal temperature the bats can tolerate has shifted to be warmer, that puts them right in the middle of Pd sweet spot! 😬😬😬
Jennifer Uehling ( @juehlz on Twitter) at #SICB2023: Do glucocorticoids predict movement? Movements are really important to the ways in which animals exert control over an often unpredictable environment.
Awww yeah it's a grocery store metaphor! Some people are very organized; some people tend to circle around through a grocery store when foraging; there's also people like me who get overwhelmed and move along a roughly similar pattern visit to visit but at wildly different speeds....
crossblogging pause while I locate and consume breakfast