PhD @camzoology || Cichlid plasticity & evolution 👩🔬 || loves sea creatures, illustration, knitting, and 160bpm 🦑|| She/They
London, England
Joined August 2016
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Wrote my first blog post! if you like #cephalopods have a read @MResBEC
mresbec.wordpress.com/2019/1…
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You should see what British made explosives have done to babies and small children in Gaza.
I've just seen what Palestine Action have done to @Cambridge_Uni Old Schools. Grade I listed. Absolutely appalling vandalism.
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The heroes at Forensic Architecture have mapped Israel's every move in Gaza and found what's going on: "a deliberate effort to render the territory incapable of supporting life." Every state arming Israel is, simply and literally, an enemy of life.
NEW: ‘A Cartography of Genocide’. Since October 2023, we have collected and analysed data related to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Our findings indicate that Israel has systematically targeted all aspects of civilian life. tinyurl.com/bdcrnzka
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We have new lab members this week! Tropheops macrophthalmus! They will be joining @patrsduarte and @C__gw on a quest to uncover mechanisms underlying cranial neural crest divergence and phenotypic plasticity #cichlids @CamZoology
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We celebrated our 2nd lab retreat in Morston, Norfolk. Lots of productive discussions about science and the lab's future. Plenty of seal sightings, good food, and the weather almost held up!! #GreatBritishSummer! @C__gw @marconi_aleks @JoelElkin416 @AaronHicke62497 @patrsduarte
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When Starmer admitted he spoke to Israeli 🇮🇱 President Herzog before colluding with the Speaker to block the SNP Gaza 🇵🇸 ceasefire motion
Herzog signs bombs before they are dropped on Gaza children
Starmer has enabled genocide
Do not vote Labour today.
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Eighty seconds of pure pleasure as GB News brings Suella Braverman to Cambridge for a 'dialogue' on Gaza
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So much goodness in one paper only! Cichlid neural crest, comparative genomics, gene duplications, sox10s and craniofacial skeleton. All led by brilliant @marconi_aleks and @gregverne with an amazing team of collaborators. She is on the look out for postdocs...just saying...
Pre-print 🚨 neural crest development in #cichlids varies among closely-related species, including a functional divergence in sox10 paralogs - see the 🧵👇 for the roles of these genes have in generating iconic morphological diversity of Malawi cichlids doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.30.5…
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1/14 🚨🚨 New preprint! Very excited to share our new study on the evolution of sexual parasitism and the invasion of the deep sea by anglerfishes! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biology #evolution #teamfish
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It’s completely shattered my perception of human rights/international law. I knew there was still so much inequality in the world but I didn’t realise the extent to which human rights are conditional, that there is a massive asterisk about who is actually considered human
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Devastating to hear that Benjamin Zephaniah has passed. As a writer, activist and patron of PSC he always stood steadfast with the Palestinian people and fought against racism and for justice for all his life.
Rest in Power ✊🇵🇸
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Could it be that there’s a ubiquitous form of violence that is overwhelmingly committed against women and girls, the healing from which is inhibited by stigma, victim blaming, and widespread social indifference to or support for perpetrators? No; it’s that women have bad brains.
PTSD is twice as prevalent in women as in men and researchers are not sure why. Recent studies have however shed light on how estrogen and hormonal cycles can influence PTSD.
This article explores the connection between PTSD and the menopausal transition. buff.ly/3nxBasU
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🚨 The vote is happening THIS WEDNESDAY!
Contact your MPs and urge them to support the King's speech amendment calling for a ceasefire in Gaza!
76 percent of adults in the UK support a ceasefire in Gaza! MPs must listen to the public’s demands.
🔗 Automated email template at the end!
Guys I genuinely believe this is important. We need more governments to be pressuring Israel and that’s our only way of getting a ceasefire. The amount of love I have for every single one of you who has been posting nonstop, protesting since day 1, emailing their representatives and above all standing against genocide. We need you now! Send this to everyone you know in the UK, tag celebrities and big accounts! Let’s overwhelmed them with our demand for a ceasefire! Let’s together stop this genocide.
Also please let us know in the comments if you’ve done so! So we keep the engagement of this post and it can reach a wider audience.
palestinecampaign.eaction.on…
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We know there are differences between the left and right sides of the brain, known as brain asymmetry.
But it’s not yet clear how or why this comes about.
@stevewilsonfish and @ibianco3 from @ucl aim to find answers, with support from our Discovery Research Awards ⤵️
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Emergence of novel cephalopod gene regulation and expression through large-scale genome reorganization nature.com/articles/s41467-0… @NatureComms
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Beef 🥩 requires 20 times more land & emits 20 times more GHG emissions per gram of bean 🫘 plant protein
It causes of deforestation 🌳
It causes many health issues in a western diet
Time to switch flexitarian or vegetarian diet
Long answer below 👇
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In case you missed it: Women are less likely to be credited for their scientific contributions than men. It’s true across multiple fields & at all stages, with important repercussions for career progress. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine #MedTwitter
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Chromatin 🤝EvoDevo and explains how skates evolved their wings 🧚
I am so thrilled about the publication of our little skate paper, a big collaborative effort with @tetsuyanakamu @Dariloops @rdacemel @jjtenagu @DanRokhsar and the late @jlgomska ⬇️
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Handfish walk on their fins, which resemble hands and feet🤗🤗🤗 and they also guard their eggs😍😍😍
