Valerio Tettamanti

Looming CSIRO job cuts come at 'critical moment' for climate change action Scientists are calling on the Australian government to push back on a plan to scrap hundreds of jobs at the nation's science agency, as they await the release of further details this week.

We all lose – and future generations will lose even harder – when governments cut investments in research & researchers. Or fail to increase them to the levels actually needed.

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SA’s algal bloom is heading toward the giant cuttlefish breeding site in Whyalla. Experts warn the bloom could wipe out an entire generation. Urgent action is needed to protect the eggs, including exploring temporary relocation to an aquaculture facility.

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A standardized nomenclature for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina Vertebrate photoreceptors have been studied for well over a century, but a fixed nomenclature for referring to orthologous cell types across species has been lacking. In this Consensus View, the autho...

A vertebrate #vision community effort to standardise the way we call image forming photoreceptors, with new marker genes to delineate the receptor types.
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PR0 = rod photoreceptor
PR1 = formerly lws receptor
PR2 …
PR3 …

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That angelfish pic is mesmerizing to look at tho

I raise you a baby octopus

First paper of my PhD is finally out in Molecular Ecology!
A mix of UV photography, transcriptomics and phylogenetic reconstructions to investigate development of UV vision and patterns in damselfishes.

doi.org/10.1111/mec....