kofanchen

kofanchen, 17 days ago to Taiwan

Week one in the new administration in #Taiwan, things are getting a bit concerning. We have on one side opposition parties tried to expand the legislative power
https://mastodon.online/@newbloommag/112497354331258676

And separate China holds large scale military drills

https://mstdn.social/@davidonformosa/112494302145784580

China propaganda machine also putting pressure on Taiwanese entertainers working in China to conform

It's incredibly distracting and overwhelming situation...Taiwan gov should keep their vigilant eyes on all fronts

kofanchen, 18 days ago to random

Cool #diptera in the garden, anyone can ID this? #insect could it be Acidia cognata?
https://uknature.co.uk/flies/a.cognata-info

kofanchen, 23 days ago to Taiwan

#Taiwan presidential transfer. Time to say goodbye

kofanchen, 25 days ago to uk

Just to say I have not get any invitation whatsoever..I am actually one of these super scared ILR holder

#UK #visa #residency

"Fears of new Windrush as thousands of UK immigrants face ‘cliff edge’ visa change"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/digital-visa-switch-uk-immigrants-december-deadline

kofanchen, 1 month ago to random

This is the first week we feel a sense of summer and it reminds me this brilliant #Taiwanese Pop song by "Five hundred", there is nothing quite like this. It applied very elegant #Hokkien literacy to describe a sense of wandering manhood in youth https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EQI8oKA6X4o
Note: the included lyrics are trying it's best to transcribe Hokkien

kofanchen, 1 month ago to random

Lovely day trip to #Sussex coast

A man and child waking along the beach with wave washing against them

kofanchen, 1 month ago to random

Thoughts and feelings about #PhD exam and finale, discussion initiated by @neuralreckoning

https://neuromatch.social/@neuralreckoning/112334413549459114

kofanchen, 1 month ago to Sleeping

Nice to see this fantastic follow up from Stephane @dissel_lab1 clarifying the role of dFB in #Drosophila #sleep,

Via @flypapers
https://botsin.space/@flypapers/112267139072254390

kofanchen, 2 months ago to Bipolar

#PhD opportunity with James Hodge ( @DrFly ) and Alice French
Determining the #genetic and #circadian basis of #bipolar disorder at University of #Bristol on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/funded-phd-determining-the-genetic-and-circadian-basis-of-bipolar-disorder/?p171068

kofanchen, 2 months ago to climate

#climatecrisis #train
My PhD student was planning a conference trip to the Netherlands in June, I said "please check the Eurostar and if there is not too much price difference please use it instead of flights", they then checked with our finance team using dept credit card and told me yesterday " gosh Eurostar is half of price than flying! I just booked it!"....that is very pleasantly surprising for me, was there effort put in place to subsidise #EU train that I didnot know?

kofanchen, 2 months ago to random

Sigh...
"Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/29/britain-universities-freefall-saving-them-funding-international-students

kofanchen, 2 months ago to random

"It's kind of impressive, even to me, we've done something that measurably changes how fast the Earth rotates," Duncan Agnew, the author of the study, told NBC News.""
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68684244

kofanchen, 2 months ago to random

#silentsuday

kofanchen, 3 months ago to Birds

#birds not sure what this one wants from me....any Gongye Chang (公冶長) on Mastodon? #folklore
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongye_Chang

Starling calling on a pavement

kofanchen, 3 months ago to dragonball

😔🙏
Akira Toriyama, creator of #DragonBall manga series, dies aged 68
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/08/akira-toriyama-dragon-ball-creator-manga-series-dies-aged-68

kofanchen, 3 months ago to climate

Last night, I popped out for groceries, arrived at a traffic junction, got flashed by a sports car, all good, they drove off. But then seeing the whole street of parked cars, with me alone with shopping, suddenly a sense of overwhelming hypocrisy and anger hit:
until we change our behaviour, no way this #climate crisis will go away by having small groceries and food deliveries everywhere running 24 hours and every household having one or sometimes two cars, all in the names of convenience.

kofanchen, 3 months ago to random

Is this plateau over last few days marks the true global influx of mastodonian or just Spam influx from the Japan instances?🤦
https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/111951191343295184

kofanchen, 4 months ago to random

Happy New Year Eve
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4cb683802d94cc80ad062ca7946e654445559e96/0_0_4569_3046/master/4569.jpg?width=965&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e1a8e9b3ddcf88cf2821ab356a20fa7c

kofanchen, 4 months ago to random

Very useful thread for navigating paper authorship from @MCDuncanLab
https://mstdn.social/@MCDuncanLab/111874200481484601

kofanchen, 4 months ago to random

#lablife
A rare group picture after lab meeting, glad the lab is growing with PhD student Xinghua Li is settling in and new MSc student Farhiya Hasan starting

kofanchen, 4 months ago to random

Red sky at night shepherds' delight?

kofanchen, 4 months ago to random

I am glad to say I passed my #probation. it doesnt mean much in the current UK university climate. But at least my job is secure (for now). When I started the post in the mid of pandemic, I was rather pathemistic about this, thanks to our dept (Genetics and Genome Biology) seniors and @NeurogeneticsLeicester , I was helped all the way through from getting grants, teaching and setting up lab, recruiting lab members. #lablife #academicchatter
now it is time to do my year one #researchfish😱

kofanchen, 4 months ago to Bulgaria

Was not aware #NewGenomicTechniques debate at #EU, only to notice two opposing campaigns with some heavy weight geneticists backing one side or another

Apparent the vote for MEP is next Wednesday

Wondering thoughts on this on Mastodon?
#crispr #plant #agriculturebio #GMO
See each camps in the thread👇

kofanchen, 4 months ago to random

Had a very good day doing some fly pushing on the bench and the lab meeting went well discussing research ideas forward with PhD students. Days like this keep me going #lablife #drosophila

kofanchen, 5 months ago to random

"But border crackdowns have clearly failed to achieve these objectives or have even made problems worse because they were not based on an understanding of how migration really works. The main reason is that these policies ignored the most important root cause of migration: persistent labour demand"

Everything politicians tell you about immigration is wrong. This is how it actually works | Hein de Haas | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/29/politicians-immigration-wrong-cheap-labour