
Eleanor O'Brien
@eleanorkobrien
Gene-environment interactions. Evolution. Understanding variation in complex traits of plants, flies, mice, humans...
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26-08-2014 21:49:55
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Ageing in a social world; what can animals tell us? Dr Lauren Brent discusses her research into the interaction of ageing and sociality with a fascinating look at the lives of two charismatic social mammals University of Bristol Research Seminars goo.gl/wbsFgu


Before this study I genuinely thought that the gender pay gap in academia was down to an imbalance in seniority, but we found that even starting the same junior positions, women are paid slightly less... #careers #NewPI @MRC_LMCB Robertus de Bruin Prof Sara Mole nature.com/articles/d4158ā¦

PhD position on imprinting in hybrids with me, Jason Wolf Jason Wolf, and Adele Murrell Milner Centre for Evolution @BiosciencesBath findaphd.com/phds/project/eā¦




Thanks to the good people at the The Guardian for getting this up so quick. Will be switching my focus to elsewhere for a while. Itās a pandemic, that means itās not just happening in the U.K. theguardian.com/commentisfree/ā¦




Postdoc opportunity: Natural Environment Research Council funded position working with Rufus Johnstone Cambridge University and collaborators on mathematical and computational modelling of the evolution of social life histories. Closing date 9 May - please RT jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/29361/


Now this is action (pls RT): Proc B is doing a Special Feature āDespite COVID' to showcase research by academic mothers / care-givers whose research (evolutionary biology, broadly construed) has been affected by the pandemic deadline for proposal July 31 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/special-fā¦



Excited we are recruiting an Associate Prof in Conservation Science to join Oxford Biology. I'm Search Lead for this post (independent of the selection panel) so feel free to get in touch directly to discuss the role informally and confidentially. Retweets encouraged!

3yr NERC post-doc with me, Darren Obbard is bluesky and @b_longdon on the genetic variation of fitness in Drosophila. The position will develop and implement cutting-edge methods in quantitative and population genetics to analyse large-scale pooled sequencing data: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidatā¦


If you're looking for a #PhD in evolutionary #genetics, #ExperimentalEvolution and evolutionary modelling working with the amazing Dicty model system, there's a great one going in Bath with SUPERvisory team Jason Wolf, Chris Thompson (UCL) and myself.PlsRT findaphd.com/phds/project/eā¦

Very pleased to review our work on rainforest fruitflies and Brown Argus butterflies and range margin evolution for a special issue of Phil Trans Royal Society Publishing "Species ranges in the face of changing environments" with Eleanor O'Brien and Greg Walter royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsā¦


A cross-trait meta-analysis of several GWAS suggests that Alzheimerās disease shares a common genetic basis & underlying biological pathways with gastrointestinal tract disorders. Emmanuel Adewuyi, Prof. Simon Laws, Centre for Precision Health, Collaborative Genomics & Translation Group, Eleanor O'Brien nature.com/articles/s4200ā¦
