Our next departmental seminar is by Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social) from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social who will discuss isopod genomics and evolution. All welcome!

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Arms up if you love octopuses! 🐙🙋 #WorldOctopusDay⁠ ⁠ Deep-sea organisms use a variety of ways to swim. Most cephalopods, like this gliding Benthoctopus sp., have the ability to move by jet propulsion. This one was observed pulsing its arms and jetting gracefully through the water.

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Great list. You and I largely agree on all of this. I’d phrase two of the points in a different way, based on who drives them: a. The Musk/Thiel tech billionaire world is telling themselves AI will take over so who cares about science. (Andreessen supports giving NSF a ‘death sentence’)

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Cool science, amazing supervisors who have your best interests at heart, one of the best places in the world for evolutionary biology, and Sweden offers amazing conditions to do a PhD in a country that respects all humans! Jump at this opportunity!

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Time for this classic again.

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