Todd Oakley

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Evolutionary biologist at UCSB interested in the origins and diversification of complex features. Vision. Bioluminescence. I get to islands.
The sky in Albuquerque last night was amazing

Exciting news! ✨ My TEDx talk is finally online! Join me in the mesmerizing world of firefly communication and synchronization!

Hope you enjoy watching it: https://lnkd.in/gS3cQRPH ❤️

Huge thanks to the talented photographers Radim Photo, Pete Mauney, and Mac Stone for graciously allowing me to showcase their stunning footage 💛 💚 💙

#tedx #fireflies #communication #synchronization #complexity

How fireflies communicate | Orit Peleg | TEDxCU

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New preprint! Some functions of convergently evolved bioluminescent systems are very predictable, others not at all. The range of genetic solutions may tell us why. @chipotlau @sluglife28 et al https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.12.536614v1

I wish I was this cool
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RT @c0nc0rdance
Let's talk about the fish with flashlight eyes.

Anomalops katoptron, the Splitfin flashlightfish, has pouches under each eye filled with bioluminescent bacteria. It has a built in reflector & shutter to direct the light or conceal it at will.

For years, we didn't know why.
https://twitter.com/c0nc0rdance/status/1637104699655569408

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Anyone finishing a PhD between 01 June 2022 and 30 July 2023 in fields such as biochem, chem, math, engineering, physics that might be interested to pivot toward Evolutionary Biology - get in touch - I would love be a mentor for this postdoctoral program

http://schmidtsciencefellows.org/selection/

Selection - Schmidt Science Fellows

Schmidt Science Fellows
Dissecting the genetic regulation of eye development through eyeless and twin of eyeless in Drosophila melanogaster at Oxford Brookes University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Dissecting the genetic regulation of eye development through eyeless and twin of eyeless in Drosophila melanogaster at Oxford Brookes University, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.FindAPhD.com
@photocyte fun idea! I keep getting ads for remarkable ( I think is the name), but I haven’t used it
Does anyone know if there is an e-ink display that I could glue to the front of a -80˚C, that could then display a Google spreadsheet describing the freezer contents? (editing on the display not required -looking for a read only map of the freezer contents that could be updated separately)
Marine animal evolutionary developmental biology-Advances through technology development - PubMed

Evolutionary developmental biology, the interdisciplinary effort of illuminating the conserved similarities and differences during animal development across all phylogenetic clades, has gained renewed interest in the past decades. As technology (immunohistochemistry, next-generation sequencing, adva …

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Abstract submission is now open for ICIV 2023 at Bäckaskog Castle, Sweden on 27 Jul - 3 Aug.

Submit your abstract before 28 Feb!

https://iciv.se/abstract

International Conference on Invertebrate Vision 2023