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James Fleming

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Postdoc: Oslo Natural History Museum. Inverts, Outreach, Palaeo and Phylo. Sometimes also a tRPG author. he/him. En/De/Ga/日本語/No OK (in decreasing proficiency)!

Oslo, Norway

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James Fleming

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2 years

Welcome to the base of our tree! Ecdysozoa are a group of invertebrate animals! They're named after "Ecdysis", which means they moult as they grow. As you can see, they're plenty diverse - some are very recognisable, some less so. They're actually the majority of named animals!

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James Fleming

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2 months

One of my MSc students sent me a photo they took of my talk at Norwegian Biodiversity Genomics 2024... and I think it might be a new favourite!

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@WryCritic Oh! The International Tardigrade Symposium is in Kraków this year, and they made a Wawel Dragon tardigrade for the logo! It's very cute

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@emekdemir I agree with you, though as a PhD student, I've gotten somewhat used to the exchange: "I'm with the Molecular Palaeobiology lab at Bristol University." <blank stare> "... It's <PI>'s lab" "Aaaaah, gotcha."

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@ellle_em Me before reading: Oooh, I wonder how many people have like, Regency-era Romances, or American classic. Might be a fun library of comfort reads to check out! Me after: Oh my I think I need a sit down.

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The evolution of desiccation resistance in tardigrades was a huge part of my life for 2 years - I am elated my work w/ @gaou_ka & @BristolPalaeo was picked as a highlight by @GenomeBiolEvol ! Casey has done a great job expressing why it is so exciting, too!

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Highlight: Tardigrades and the Science of Extreme Survival

Tardigrades may be nature's ultimate survivors. While these tiny, nearly translucent animals are easily overlooked, they represent a diverse group that has

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2 months

For reference, this is discussing my new, user-friendly phylogenetic artifact identification software, BOSTIn! Preprint will come *nebulously soon* (probably in a few months), alongside a GUI, but I am still on the hunt for pre-Alpha usability testers!

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2 years

The tardigrades are renowned for their resilience, able to survive UV, pressures, desiccation and high and low temperatures. But did you know that, in that protective tun state, they get to do nothing and only revive when the stress passes, sometimes decades later? Sign me up!

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@aitaikimochi Obsessed with the 90s boy band energy they are giving off (Highlander in the black jacket and the bucket hat because he does the obligatory rap verse in the breakdown ofc)

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@UnseenJapanSite "敵に塩を送る" - sending salt to the enemy - meaning "play fair" was a phrase I picked up early on. It refers to an old Sengoku-era story when Uesugi Kenshin shipped salt to Takeda Shingen despite the war.

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@The_McJones I'd never thought of crocodiles! To me, it is a loudspeaker with the little one shouting "YOU ARE THE BIGGEST NUMBER" ... This has the side effect that when I try to work out which one to use I mouth "you are the biggest number" which sometimes results in stares in the office,

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In the UK, the common name of tardigrades has changed over time from 'Moss Piglet' to 'Water Bear'. This adoption of the German common name is believed to have drastically decreased the danger of being near 30-50 of them at any given time.

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@makapatag It's just... sad. 大人しく does mean "quiet down", but etymologically it uses the kanji for adult - it's in the context of "stop behaving like a child" The localisation retains the poetry! Language and tl is so fun - I don't understand why folks don't revel in having fun with it!

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@OneShotRPG @DungeonCommandr My favourite patron to turn up in a game I've run was an Archfey who was the half-sister of the PC (their mutual father being a famous former bard). The Warlock was trying to live up to her father's memory, the Patron trying to obtain a connection to a father figure she never had

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James Fleming

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2 years

It's my brother! All the way from Norway (and as a member of Forskerforbundet, the Norwegian Universities and Research Trade Union) I wanted to share a bit about why this ballot is so important: not just in the UK, but globally. 1/7

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“This fight is our fight. You’re standing up for our members and every working person when you say no to precarity and low pay.” Massive thanks to @EquityUK General Secretary @paulwfleming for this message of support ✊ #ucuRISING

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6 years

First first author paper out! Really proud of this - we used new fossil and molecular data to time gene duplications to infer the visual ecology of species on the lineage towards arthropods, including Anomalocaris and Hallucigenia! #phdchat #Paleontology

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1 year

Oh! New in Zoologica Scripta today! I went through every tardigrade eDNA 18S in Genbank and tried to get a family ID using only public access data & tools. Then I present a simple, repeatable method for anyone to do the same for their taxa of interest!

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The wealth of shared resources: Improving molecular taxonomy using eDNA and public databases

Public databases such as the NCBI's GenBank have been used as repositories for genomic studies for more than 30 years. In this time, our understanding of the natural world, and especially the...

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James Fleming

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4 years

On SJ topics, I normally retweet without comment because I don't have anything worthwhile to contribute. Recently though, there has been a discussion about the white working class and academia. From a WWC background, I want to talk about why I don't want WWC advocacy. [Thread]1/6

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James Fleming

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@xhormonesx Can do - and I can do you one better! It's themed around a new phylo-analysis metric I published last year: nRCFV is useful, but I'll admit also quite difficult to understand! The whole talk is also available on my GitHub, in case you want the context!

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James Fleming

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5 years

For #PhD students struggling with all the new stuff - it gets easier. This dataset just doesn't look right on alignment. Three years ago, this would have stumped me cold. Now I know the tools, when to use them, and I think I've sussed it in three days. It gets better.

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@mmamas1973 Well, they are all totally unqualified to run a country and for some unknown reason seem to think they have been doing a fine job, so I wouldn't trust them to develop any sensible judgement on this one...

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James Fleming

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@JennyENicholson This is also true of palaeontology. I love that your kid likes dinosaurs and honestly probably knows far more about that than me. I assure you they are less excited than me about extinct insects and cephalopods

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James Fleming

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@InverteFest I'm working on a postdoc about how and why some tardigrades came to the land from the sea (and why some of them made the very sound decision to go back). Lots of computational analysis, but lots of very cute marine tardigrades too! (Photo from Schulz and Schmidt-Rhaesa)

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James Fleming

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5 months

So excited to see this come out! @PascualAnaya lead an incredibly comprehensive and detailed study. My part in the whole thing was relatively small, but it was an absolute blast to be involved, and it's a brilliant paper

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Hagfish genome elucidates vertebrate whole-genome duplication events and their evolutionary...

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysis of a newly sequenced genome of the inshore hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri, together with genomes of lampreys and jawed vertebrates, provides insights into...

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James Fleming

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This might have been the best one yet! Thanks #SMBE2023 . Some of that was seeing so many old friends and colleagues after *half a decade*, but so much of it was down to an incredible venue, great symposia and a huge amount of hard work from the organisers at @SMBEmeetings

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@GaijinMommy Wow. You can't spend that now, it's too rare! It'd never leave my wallet, haha

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2 months

@Itatim05 Haha! Don't worry - this slide is a joke about how difficult phylogenetics is if a user is not familiar with the mathematical principles (the full talk is about how we can make tools that educate researchers about phylogenetics). You can find it here:

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GitHub - JFFleming/BOSTIn: BOSTIn is a new, user-friendly phylogenetic artifact identification...

BOSTIn is a new, user-friendly phylogenetic artifact identification package. - JFFleming/BOSTIn

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James Fleming

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2 years

Almost never tweet actual pictures of myself, but my new hair is the shortest since I was about 14, so it feels very NEW

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James Fleming

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1 year

@RaraSensei It feels like a very Monolingual complaint. Like... anyone who has ever ordered a Coffee in Japan will realise that if you hit that English F with your lip you become unintelligible. Now I am imagining resolutely pronouncing Oslo Oz-Lo when speaking Norwegian too.

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James Fleming

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@Danjuro And here was me expecting a half hour video on Hanko and fax machines but it is the darn cake vending machine again. Always getting let down by these clickbait titles!

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James Fleming

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8 months

ooooh, another accept! That's Fleming et al (or just Fleming) 2023 (e), and paper 6 this year overall. Most productive year yet

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James Fleming

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6 years

The flight is sorted! I'll begin my first postdoc in November, as a #JSPS fellow, working on #tardigrades in Japan! Trying to get better at the Twitter, so expect regular updates about moving so far away! Many thanks to @royalsociety and @gaou_ak for this opportunity! #phdlife

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New Paper! I started this about 5 months in to my PhD in 2015. I first submitted this manuscript in summer 2017. It is now published! But I'd never have gotten there without a lot of help and support from great folk. @BristolPalaeo SO! SUMMARY THREAD 1/8

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3 years

@Trey_Explainer *hides the joke pitch document he made for this years ago* OK so I'm not saying the roadmap didn't get to Troy until Phase 4 but.... (we have to do the Argo first - Golden Fleece is the best opening crossover movie)

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Oh! Beaten to the punch! Yes! I have a new manuscript at GBE on the evolution of Tardigrade Extremotolerance! The biggest part of my @jsps_sns Postdoc, based on the simple thesis: "You don't need to resist desiccation if you live in water, which is wet."

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The Evolution of Temperature and Desiccation-Related Protein Families in Tardigrada Reveals a...

Abstract. Tardigrada is an ecdysozoan lineage famed for its resilience. Tardigrades can tolerate high doses of radiation, low-oxygen environments, desiccat

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7 months

Congrats @JamesfvFleming !!

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James Fleming

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6 years

Finally finished thesis corrections and other paperwork, excited to start catch up on my fun reading stack! #phdlife

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1 year

New paper! My first review, written w/ @Valero_Gracia and @fez_nhm , is a practical guide to problem solving in phylogenetic analysis. Hopefully the perfect first destination for someone new to the field. For veterans, maybe you'll find a new tool or two!

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Identifying and addressing methodological incongruence in phylogenomics: A review

Evolutionary Applications is an open access evolutionary biology journal, covering questions of health, social and economic significance.

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2 years

Inspired by Armin's suggestion earlier today, and this radical new paper here: Let's introduce the phylogenetic tree of the coolest folks on earth, the Ecdysozoa, in TWITTER THREAD FORMAT (We'll be using Richie's publication as a framework for this thread)

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Random thought but it’s technically possible to create a phylogenetic tree using twitters thread option

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James Fleming

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2 months

So... I am aware that follwing a photo of mild academic shitposting I now have 120% more followers on this site than last night. I'm going to apologise in advance - this account is solid 33% divisions of academia, anime/tabletop rpg memes and venting about current events.

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3 years

Before and After. After 1/3 of my life with the same style The Hair Has Gone!

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2 years

I think... that the interview today went well? I'm really excited about the post, so fingers crossed! I was honest, and enthusiastic, and that's really all you can do.

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@_sh1opan I have powerful "cult face" I think. I used to mark down every time it happened - over two years someone triee to get me to join a cult on average once every 6 weeks (though that one day in Niigata when I got approached by 4 separate cults in like 4 hours was *an experience*)

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James Fleming

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Alright! Official announcement! Most folks know, but from the 1st July, I will be back in Japan! This time, I will be working at JAMSTEC (海洋気候), exploring the biodiversity of small animals in the deep sea. I'm excited for a new role and some new challenges on a new adventure!

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James Fleming

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4 years

Another postdoc rejection today (making that a comfortable 5 so far this year), and applying for 4 more posts this weekend! Failure is important to share, for realism's sake. The academic job market can be pretty tough, but hopefully I'll get something~

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James Fleming

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4 years

Food? Check. Kettle boiled? Check. Clothes unpacked? Check. Alright everyone! Let's do restarting life all over again!

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2 years

@writerofscratch "My Classmates mysteriously transformed into Barrels of Aging Whisky in Another World" is the name of my new light novel series

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5 years

@ProfRachelGaN Principal Investigators will investigate the principles That Principle Investigators principally ponder Postulation upon principles is principal to Principals For principal of Principals are Principals with principles. ... I'm sorry I couldn't help myself.

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4 years

Huzzah! So... my second first author paper is properly out now in GBE, having shifted from early access to the final version. We found an objective way to identify sequences that might be prone to causing phylo artifacts! @GenomeBiolEvol

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1 year

I AM HOSTING A SYMPOSIUM TOMORROW OH MY THAT HAPPENED FAST

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James Fleming

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3 years

A new work photo! And a new profile. Feels like starting properly now

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3 years

@HTTPaladin Honestly "Sharks of the Sun and Gun" sounds like an RPG about organised crime in sun-drenched, over-saturated 80s/90s Miami, all crisp white suits, shoulderpads and synths and I'm unusually hyped by this autofill prompt.

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James Fleming

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4 years

Waiting for my last backup to finish before I leave my lovely lab home here for the last time! Giving a presentation on Friday, but otherwise that's the end of my #JSPS Postdoc, courtesy of the @royalsociety ! I wanted to share some informal tips I had! 1/7

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2 years

@Trey_Explainer Just day in the life, workplace comedy with Rakshas and his overbearing, micromanaging bosses.

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5 years

@itatiVCS It's kinda baffling to me that when someone with a good PhD experience (like me) hears someone else's bad experience, their immediate thought is "that shouldn't be something we talk about", as opposed to "that sucks, how can we make it so everyone has the same good time I had?"

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2 years

Making Conference Poster today #ISMB2022

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7 months

@GailSimone OK so here's my pitch. A UK TV legend to play the uptight Percy Gravy (maybe a Sanjeev Bhaskhar or Tony Gardner?), on loan from the Met and out of place in the Southern US. It is a fish out of water odd couple where one side doesn't even get why Biscuits and Gravy is a gag.

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Arrived safely in Norway and slept for 12 hours straight! Then found myself going to the loo and reaching for the non-existant bidet button subconsciously. I will miss you Japanese toilet friend!

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@WryCritic For sure on that one. I know a great many things about phylogeny, but I know a lot of folks who never set foot in a uni who are a lot *actually smarter* than me. Think there's some sincere confusion in society between "knowing stuff" and "being intelligent"

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5 years

@ellle_em I once sat down next to a random man I'd never met before on a train from Bristol to Glasgow and it turned out he was my third cousin.

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James Fleming

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5 years

Possibly controversial: The feeling of tiny insect legs scuttling along the little hairs on your arm and the back of your hand is one of the most wholesome sensations in nature.

@DaniRabaiotti

Dr Dani Rabaiotti

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Quote this with your wholesome opinions about animals

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@OneShotRPG Immediate reaction: well, I can see that it could be important to have diverse public buildings that suit different kinds of people. The problem is that we struggle to fund ones that aren't libraries. After scrolling: Oh he just doesn't like free public spaces, yeah w/e.

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My most recent paper (on Tardigrade vision) is now properly out in @GenomeBiolEvol ! It's a really cool piece of work with @gaou_ak at Keio University and @BristolPalaeo , funded by a JSPS postdoc from the @royalsociety and JSPS! Cliff's Notes Follows! 1/9

New Tardigrade Opsins and Differential Expression Analyses Show Ontogenic Variation in Light...

Abstract. Opsins are light-sensitive proteins involved in many photoreceptive processes, including, but not limited to, vision and regulation of circadian

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@OneShotRPG Agreeing with the "miserable capitalism", it occurred to me that Stun seems pretty commonly used for capturing high priority targets. Maybe it's an unspoken agreement - mass deployment of stun means developing anti-stun tech, which puts the lives of the ruling class at risk.

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@DaniRabaiotti I wish I could say it was the first time I had seen it but it is like a typical bit of classism in academia, tbh. The tone policing exists to explicitly exclude folks with particular vernacular.

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Will never get tired of Unionion

@mondomascots

Mondo Mascots

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Unionion the union onion, mascot for the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, is at the Tokyo Rainbow Pride festival today.

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@hormiga The first way I explained doing a PhD to my family was "It's like an apprenticeship, but at the university", and they immediately grasped the trainee/employee duality. It continues to baffle me that this is a matter of contention

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@mattcolville I ran into a similar issue with them, and altered their flavour to make Named. Like a cosmic white blood cell, the universe gets bored of waiting and hijacks a body to do what needs to be done for narrative to flow by supplying them with the skills they need, when they need it

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@makapatag Scarlet affects a speech pattern ending sentences in "わ" to convey how posh her character is - having her talk in elaborate layered metaphor is a great way to communicate that idea. All these languages are beautiful - the localisers have really given them unique chances to shine

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2 years

wrote a whole new piece of software tonight from scratch and I am very very pleased with myself. Running a calculation on a big dataset has shifted from hours to seconds

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@jomcinerney Might be completely apocryphal - I was told that it was a Germanification due to migration in the 1800s. Tuna in German being "Thunfisch" meant that "Tuna Fish" ended up as a common halfway parlance

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@writerofscratch Especially with JAL's domestic flight discounts. I can't see it being worth it for most casual travellers now, and it will really limit the range of many holidaymakers I suspect. Probably a lot of irritated folk in tourism in Hiroshima/Sendai right now I expect.

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@dame_danni @Thrawn589 @mattcolville I remember reading (unsure of the veracity) that the "British Villain" trope originated because Hollywood movies like Star Wars filmed in the UK to cut costs, and so cast American stars and local villains (as they got less screen time, and meant you counted as a union production)

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@lackingceremony Oh yeah that was difficult... There is reassurance that a lot of us compile a big enough book of rules. If anything, it can be an advantage sometimes - I've had moments where I've been paradoxically more aware of my social behaviour than neurotypical folks since it isn't innate.

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4 years

This is objectively pretty unimpressive overall, but I wanted to share progress a bit. Probably my last kanji test before I leave - two years ago I could read about 5 hiragana!

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@franzanth If cat/dog is the question with the power to end budding friendships, asking cteno/sponge is coldly staring into another man's eyes, zippo lighter in hand, prepared to burn all bridges between you.

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@OhsakaRin @2_kk00n Peepo Choo is by Black American mangaka Felipe Smith (first Western author in a Japanese manga!) and draws a lot from personal experience. Mentioned elsewhere, but also gets into J-subcultures that fetishise Hip Hop/Black US culture. Really insightful, strong CW for sex/violence.

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@DyingStylishly @ZacFinkenstein @gshowitt The year is 2070. Corona Boomers have ruined the new utopia. We have only ourselves and the sexy sexy plague to blame.

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James Fleming

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3 years

So I had a quick chat with @ScienceNews about my recently accepted manuscript on tardigrade opsins! Pretty fun stuff!

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Near-invincible tardigrades may see only in black and white

A genetic analysis suggests that water bears don’t have light-sensing proteins to detect ultraviolet light or color.

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1 year

Job applications submitted! Fingers crossed RIKEN likes them this time!

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James Fleming

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1 year

False start, but overall talk went well! Always excited to chat more about Scoutknife!

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James Fleming

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3 years

YAY! So, my new paper on tardigrade systematics (with @gaou_ak ) popped up online today! The question of the moment is: What's in a name - how do we determine what's an Order, and what's a Class, and are 18/28S branch lengths reliable indicators?

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James Fleming

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6 months

Oh darn beautiful new Lobopod just dropped. My favourite time of year

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Prehistorica (Christian M.)

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6 months

My paper, describing a new genus and species of lobopodian, has just been published. Mobulavermis adustus is a large relative of Kerygmachela and Utahnax. For those who can't access the paper, I will the findings summarize below. 1/9

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A small achievement, but a nice one all the same - my paper with @gaou_ak on tardigrade systematics last year got enough citations to be one of Zoologica Scripta's #TopCitedArticle of 2021-2022! Credit of course to @royalsociety & @jsps_sns for helping fund the project!

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James Fleming

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3 years

Preparing my first ever proper lectures today. Bit nerve-wracking, all told!

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James Fleming

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2 years

returned from the field happy but tired out! How tired, you ask? I just stared at a kettle for ten minutes wondering why it wasn't boiling. I had not plugged it in

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James Fleming

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4 years

@Swordsfall1 Exact opposite rn. Currently on session 3 of a one session plan because the PCs talk to everyone and spent real life hours socialising in the wagon. Makes me think I should prep less sometimes, but I know the moment I do they'll accelerate from 0-"Get Shit done" in 60 seconds

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James Fleming

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5 years

Going to piggyback a bit off something today! Like @TimCosmos and @rpancost , I too am from a state-educated working class background, and now I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Keio University in Japan. Unlike them, my photo game is weak, so this is from NYE! We're out there!

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James Fleming

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2 years

Really excited for the @royalsociety Anhydrobiosis meeting today! So excited, apparently, that I turned up an hour early because I forgot about the UK-Norway time difference. -better than the other way around-

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James Fleming

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4 years

On the wild hunt for a postdoc. If you have a position coming up in a lab that needs a phylogenetics person or an ecdysozoan person please get in touch! Got experience with molecules, fossils, modern morphology! Single sequence protein evo through to big multi-gene datasets too!

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James Fleming

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2 months

@sevragorgia The talk wasn't recorded, but I posted my slides up on my GitHub, and they are over here!

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GitHub - JFFleming/BOSTIn: BOSTIn is a new, user-friendly phylogenetic artifact identification...

BOSTIn is a new, user-friendly phylogenetic artifact identification package. - JFFleming/BOSTIn

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James Fleming

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2 years

A comfy -10 on the way to work today. I am officially S N U G

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James Fleming

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6 years

@HarmitMalik One thing about SMBE is that it is a really interdisciplinary conference, so I think it is key to make sure that where possible talks are engaging to everyone in attendance, across specialities. @SpeciationLab was a great example of this at #SMBE2018 , my favourite talk so far!

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James Fleming

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6 years

@SarahTaber_bww This has resolved a burning question in my head for ages (why Cheddar Cheese isn't a PDO). I had no idea that Cheddaring was a process as well as a place!

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James Fleming

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3 years

More of Norway explicitly and aggressively being hostile to foreigners using the pandemic as a feeble excuse. I don't normally ask this of folks, but I'd really appreciate it if you could read and get more eyes on this however you can. It's absurd and unacceptable

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FEZ - Frontiers in Evolutionary Zoology

3 years

Another twist to the neverending story of arbritary administrative decisions. This time on #karantenehotell . After Ana and Pedro finally got an exemption to work @NHMOslo_Science @UniOslo_NHM () their legal rights were violated once more. A thread 1/14

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James Fleming

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2 years

UK I am back! I am on a hunt for a pasty, which I have missed with all my heart and soul

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James Fleming

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4 years

Well... That's the application for my ticket to Oslo sent off! Excited for a new project, but sorry to be leaving - Tsuruoka is pretty great!

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James Fleming

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@DistantValhalla On the other hand, that To Heart VHS might convince him to abandon his life of petty crime, devote himself to building a maid robot, and then seek to win her heart

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James Fleming

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5 years

More seriously, sometimes I genuinely think my postdoc has taken me to one of the most beautiful places on earth. So, many thanks to @royalsociety and the JSPS postdoctoral fellowship! #jsps

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James Fleming

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10 months

Another day, another three acknowledgements that I am an illuminating and eminent scientist whose work would be welcome in... Journal of Soil Health and Crop Productivity, Clinics of Oncology and Annals of Medicinal Chemistry. What can I say, my work is interdisciplinary -.-

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