Preprints in Motion

This week we discuss all things ECR with Mayank Chugh & Gracielle Higino, two current postdocs who are leading the efforts in fighting for a better environment for ECRs in academia.

Gracielle is an ASAPbio fellow and program co-ordinator at BIOS2, a community of researchers who are exploring and applying modern-day computational and quantitative techniques to address the challenges of biodiversity sciences. You can find her on Twitter @GracielleHigino and online https://www.graciellehigino.com/. Learn more about BIOS2 - https://bios2.usherbrooke.ca/.

Mayank is the President of the Harvard Medical Postdoc Association (HMPA). He also leads a DEIB working group in the department of systems biology towards fair recruitment of postdocs and faculty. He is an advocate for mental health awareness, equity, and a plethora of much needed changes in the current academic system - many listeners will already be familiar with his various writings and contributions to articles written by journalists. Mayank is also a poet and can be found on Twitter @mayank_mchugh and online https://www.mayankchugh.org/.

Implicit bias test https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html or learn more https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/user/jaxt/blogposts/piblogpost021.html

This episode was produced by Jonny Coates and edited by Sónia Gomes Pereira.

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Episode 45 - Surviving freezing through leg amputation. But be careful about regeneration!

This week we discussed how flies survive in freezing temperatures with Anne Sustar, a Research Scientist / Lab Manager, Dominic Golding, a medical student, and John Tuthill (@casa_tuthill), Associate professor at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Read the full preprint -> Adult Drosophila legs do not regenerate after amputation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.25.513553v1

Article: Snow flies self-amputate freezing limbs to sustain behavior at sub-zero temperatures

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223012150?via%3Dihub

This episode was produced by Sonia Gomes Pereira and Johny Coates and edited by Sonia Gomes Pereira.

If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated.

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Find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela) & Sonia (@SniaGPereira1). Generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).

This week we celebrate the end of the year by chatting with our host Jonny Coates (@JACoates), Associate Director at ASAPBio. Join us for a conversation on the importance of all things preprints, science communication, open access, career development, and community building, plus his decision to leave academia and how this podcast started!

If you stay until the end, you might have a glimpse of how it is to record an episode with pets.

Jonny Coates (https://jacoates.co.uk/)

Preprints in Motion (https://preprintsinmotion.wordpress.com/)

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This episode was produced and edited by Camilla Valenzuela.

If you enjoyed this show, then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated.

For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; https://preprintsinmotion.wordpress.com/.

Find us on Twitter: Jonny (@JACoates) & Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela). Generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).

It's open access week 2023 and to celebrate we focus on preprint peer review with Review Commons. We talk to Sara Monaco (@monaco_reviewcommons; Managing Editor) and Thomas Lemberger (@tlemberger; Deputy Head of Scientific Publications at EMBO and Project Leader for Review Commons).

This episode was produced by Sónia Gomes Pereira and edited by Sónia Gomes Pereira.

If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated.

For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.com.

Find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela) & Sonia (@SniaGPereira1). Generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).

This week we discuss how to non-destructively extract and sequence DNA from historical mosquito and tsetse fly samples from the Natural History Museum’s collection. We discover a new method for doing just that with Dr Petra Korlevic (@petrathepostdoc), a Post-doctoral researcher at the EMBL-EBI (@emblebi)/Sanger Institute (@sangerinstitute), and Dr Erica McAlister (@flygirlNHM), Senior Curator of Diptera at the Natural History Museum (@NHM_London). Erica and Petra explain how this method can be used to open up museum collections to molecular researchers in order to answer questions around subjects such as the rise of insecticide resistance amongst these disease vector insects, and the diet, behaviour and ecology of key pollinator species during the rise of global warming or changes in farming practice. We talk about the benefits of preprinting, and how digitising museum collections and developing molecular methods such as this, is increasing the accessibility of data on the specimens within them to scientists around the world.

Read the full preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.28.450148v1.full

Other links

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/collections/entomology-collections.html

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/life-sciences/insects.html

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/digital-collections/digital-collections-programme.html

https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/insect-collections

This episode was produced by John D Howard & Emma Wilson and edited by John D Howard.

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Produced by JEmJ Productions (find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Emma @ELWilson92, John @JohnDHoward8) and generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).