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Can you write U.S. patent applications? (Have you ever written one?) Or do you only tackle the things listed in your post?

Great question. Yes, we generally delete user data after about a year.

How do you find clients? Do you take any project or do you have specific parameters? The education of all levels is so sad to see. It's been gutted and being shaped in ways that do not offer growth for the coming generations.

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I used you guys a few years ago lol. Graduated since but I was wondering do you guys actively have a process of deleting user data after a period of time so as to make sure your customers can’t ever be identified/leaked? Or something along those lines?

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On Writing by Stephen King is a pretty accessible classic with some feel-good and encouraging advice. It's aimed at fiction writers, but there are important lessons there.

On Writing Well by William Zinsser can be really helpful if you're trying to improve at academic or college writing.

If you're a grad student as I once was, "Write Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day" by Joan Bolker has an annoying title, but it was helpful.

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Hope this helps!

Do you have any book recommendations. Specifically books that improved your writing?

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So what result you've got in your research?explain me in simple language (if you like)

Hi! It ultimately hugely depends on what you're looking for at a uni and in a course. Bath is a campus university which is really great for socialising and meeting new people. Bath is a beautiful city to live in as well, it's small so easy to get to know, but lots of great bars, food places, walks etc! I can't speak for individual courses as I didn't do my masters here, but I would strongly encourage you visit the university if you can to truly get a feel for if it's right for you!

Hi, thanks so much for your interest!

So far I've only found that young female (adult) flies prefer to drink more of the alcohol or the yeast that producing the alcohol over other yeasts. I am moving onto studying the physiological benefits of this in the next few months to better understand why they prefer it, but some preliminary results from our lab suggest that it might help them survive longer and produce more eggs.

If you were interested in the behaviour of larvae, there is also evidence that larvae prefer ethanol-rich environments! This hasn't been tested in the context of this yeast, but is a future study I'm considering to understand when these preferences develop.

I first became interested in this research whilst doing an internship at the University of Oxford looking at sex-specific differences in consumption of protein and carbohydrate in fruit flies! I'm very interested in the behavioural choices animals make, and how these influence their evolution and interact with their health. This intricate relationship between behaviour, nutrition, microbes and evolution was fascinating to me, with so many areas unexplored so I could really take it where I wanted. I'm currently working on the behavioural genetics side, where I'm looking for genes that might play a part in the nutritional choices made!

Would you recommend the University of Bath for masters for an international student?

Hi thank you for sharing your research. Does drinking alcohol produce by yeast affect the health of the young fruit flies? And where did your interest in this research start?

Hi! That's super cool and such a helpful way to manage insect pests without the wider detriment typically associated with insecticides! And glad it worked!

Thank you so much for your interest in my research findings! Unfortunately I haven't yet published any work from my PhD but hope to in the next year. If you're interested in keeping up with my work, please do follow me on Twitter here where I will talk about my work in a more digestible format, as well as share links to any published work or work similar to mine!

Do let me know if you have any other questions!

Hi, thanks so much for your interest!

So flies can get 'drunk' from drinking alcohol, in the sense that they are typically sleepier or move more slowly, but typically they stop before it has too detrimental of an effect on their behaviour, most likely for the predator issue but also to allow them to continue egg laying, finding a mate etc. There are a few studies showing that if flies are exposed to a high concentration of alcohol over a period of time, they can become more tolerant to it - similarly to humans!

Alcohol and similar ethanol products are readily available in the wild. Metschnikowia pulcherrima yeasts typically live on rotting fruit and produce chemicals like ethanol and 2-phenylethanol as a result. This is what we think attracts flies to lay their eggs there, possibly for its self-medication properties! Despite our lab fly populations being kept captive for decades, and therefore not experiencing wild yeasts like M. pulcherrima, they are still showing a preference for this species and the alcohol products above other yeast species. This suggests it is a beneficial trait to remain in the flies throughout the generations, and suggests a more significant purpose! So that's what I'm trying to understand with my research!

Any other questions let me know!

Hi! Thanks so much for your interest in my work!

I haven't yet published any of my work, but hopefully within the next year. Then, the next best place to learn the most about my research would be my thesis in a couple years! If you were interested in when I publish my work or in similar information, you could follow me on Twitter here where I plan to discuss my research more regularly in a more digestible format.

I'm also keen on public engagement and outreach, so hope to take these experiments to various science festivals (primarily in South West England) but also looking into outreach methods that reach further afield!

Let me know if you have any other questions!

I worked on an eradication response last year where we released sterile ff to mate with the local population to break the life cycle. And it worked!

I’d love to hear/read some of your research findings. Where can I find out more?

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Hi Ellie, your research sounds really interesting. Do the fruit flies get drunk from drinking alcohol? And do you know if this happens in the wild? It feels like it would make them easy pickings for any predators.

I don’t even know where to begin, so Hi! I didn’t know any of this was a thing with fruit flies. It’s fascinating. Where am I learn more about your research? Thanks!

Making a Diagnose over the internet on Reddit is shady af. You have to be diagnosed more thoroughly. „I have anxiety and depression“ is not enough.

Its genuinely scary to watch AI write content.

I found "Taking Cara Babies" to be a helpful tool. Our little one (7mo) has great routines and took to sleep training well but only sleeps 8-9 hours max at night. She's been getting up at 4am lately.

There's nothing definitive that has "fixed" this sleep quirk, it's just how our baby is. I found Cara's blog/posts and even her course gave us some good tools, and encouraged us to try sleep training when our little one was getting up every hour on the hour through the night.

Perhaps she can help reclaim some of your lost peace and consecutive sleep!

Good luck and congratulations.