The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

Model organisms, in particular non-mammalian model organisms, such as yeast, Caenorhabditis elegans, #Drosophila and zebrafish, have long stood at the centre of biological discovery www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“If we aren't free to pursue research and teaching based on wherever the knowledge leads us, we are not truly working in the service of the public.” — Rana Jaleel, associate professor at UC Davis & Chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure

Calling early career PIs. A great opportunity to start your lab at @crick.ac.uk in the heart of London.

Sign the petition to restore eligibility of 2nd year grad students to the NSF GRFP. They are being robbed of the opportunities to advance their innovative science. @chubicki.bsky.social

Job Alert! Please share widely. Tenure-track position in Plant Systematics in the Dept. of Ecology & Conservation Biology at Texas A&M @tamueccb.bsky.social. Job details here: apply.interfolio.com/171016 #plants #botany #herbaria #systematics #ecology #conservation #evolution

My book, An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design, is published! I’d really appreciate it if you could help spread the word, and I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback. I hope people will find it useful. It’s available on Amazon: tinyurl.com/mx2hewen

"Declining international student enrollment is a piece of the larger puzzle undermining the financial health of higher ed. [We see] programs shut down, campuses shut down, smaller public or private institutions closing & a curtailment of opportunities for students." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

This is pretty crazy, study models millions of indirect hurricane deaths potentially driving/contributing to the life expectancy disparity in the US: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Say hello to my little friend

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

Very important paper and resource. Bryophyte genomes expanded by one order of magnitude. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Matsunaga, @nkwhiteman.bsky.social et al. investigated odorant receptor evolution in drosophilids in response to plant toxins in herbivorous and generalist species. insect-plant interactions 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf164 #evobio #molbio #drosophila

Get the answers to some of life’s biggest questions with our curated selection of books for Science September!🔬 buff.ly/pCrm99i

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

Current students were not taught to write in cursive! Should I offer an informal class? Mine is almost illegible so maybe not, but it is fast. Those who can write in cursive are going to have an advantage in this brave new world of bluebooks and hourglasses: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium! This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution Please consider applying and help spread the word! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

We're hiring in my Division of Berkeley MCB. Come be my new colleague!

A Pine White Butterfly, caterpillars of which feed on pine and fir needles (same family as Cabbage White)…

Western Ponderosa

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution identifies a bacterial species as a cause of sea star wasting disease, which has been responsible for billions of sea star deaths since 2013 and widespread loss of kelp habitats. go.nature.com/46I4kx2 🌊 🧪

12 examples of how developmental biology research led to fundamental discoveries for biomedical research. There are many more! Download ppt & jpg versions on @socdevbio.bsky.social website. Use & modify as needed. Poster formats are also posted to print & hang in your lab!

Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

The *hardcover* version of Most Delicious Poison is currently 51% off at Amazon, ~$15 (but please buy from your local bookstore if you can): www.amazon.com/Most-Delicio...

Good news for NIH MIRA applicants. Grants.gov recently published the forecast notice for the reissuance of the EI/NI MIRA notice of funding opportunity. As indicated at the link, the estimated post date for the NOFO is Nov 3. www.grants.gov/search-resul...

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social undergrads, there is still space in this course on the cellular, genetic, and developmental basis of evolution taught by Professor Nicole King and me this Fall. Find out why, as Dobzhansky, said "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."

Calling all @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social undergrads! Professor Nicole King and I are teaching MCELLBI 143: “Evolution of Genomes, Cells, and Development” this Fall (Tu/Th 11am-12:30 with Fr 9-10am Discussion). On Fridays we discuss papers and tour places like the UC Paleontology Museum.

Advocacy is hard these days! @genetics-gsa.bsky.social is publishing stories highlighting the devastating impacts behind recent policies. What can you do? Amplify these stories & tell your own. As lawmakers head into discussions for the FY 2026 budget, your efforts are more important than ever.

I need you, and I can't stress this enough, to read this paper by Margaret Kidwell et al. on horizontal transfer of P elements from mites to flies and back...from *1991*: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We’re thrilled to announce IGI–Bakar Labs. This new building will allow the IGI to continue expanding our impact in health and agricultural applications of #CRISPR, and will be shared with the Bakar Labs incubator for growing biotech companies. Learn more: news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/17/c...

Comment on our @Reproducibility project in @Drosophila immunity. It is a normal that findings—however exciting and important at the time—may later prove to be more complex than initially believed. Re-evaluations is essential to the self-correcting nature of science. www.science.org/content/arti...

GSA Medal recipient @nkwhiteman.bsky.social describes his scientific journey into the world of herbivorous insects and their host plants and how with genetic and genome editing tools led to findings in herbivore resistance in plants. Read more: buff.ly/w1GFmwL 2/2🧵

Celebrating a Notice of Award for our genetics training grant (!) and my first barber 💈 cut since 2019…🤗

Infinite tropics

Pleased this paper led by Teru Matsunaga at University of Tokyo (former postdoc) and in collaboration with many colleagues is out @official-smbe.bsky.social Molecular Biology & Evolution: doi.org/10.1093/molb.... Palp-expressed Or42a is an isothiocyanate sensor and can drive aversion to ITCs…

Written by Noah K. Whiteman, author of the book "Most Delicious Poison." Read & subscribe here: press.asimov.com/articles/to...

Nephew!

Just left the Animal-Microbe Symbioses GRC feeling grateful for this research community and its big heart...at a time when academia/science are under attack in the U.S. and when actual wars are raging, and people dying, the vibe reminded how the"lingua franca" that is science bridges the divides.

UC Berkeley biology professor @nkwhiteman.bsky.social gives his take on Pride and thriving in academia. “I love Berkeley because I can be myself here, which allows me to do my science and mentor students and trainees and fulfill my potential,” he says. news.berkeley.edu/2025/06/16/t...

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Today, NSF added another 500 GRFP awardees, bringing this year’s total to 1500 www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

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NEW: A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration cannot force grant recipients to halt programs that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion or acknowledge the existence of transgender people in order to receive federal grant funding. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Six heroic UC Berkeley faculty are suing the Executive Branch for violating their constitutional rights to due process and other fundamental freedoms after their research funding was terminated (a class action bound to be joined by many more colleagues): www.lieffcabraser.com/2025/06/univ...

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Early-career researchers no longer want to train and work in the United States because of funding cuts and xenophobia. Th unforced errors our government is making will benefit China and Europe, at an immense cost to the population in the US.

“Political operatives have basically used their positions of power — political power, economic power — to demand that the institutions conform to their ideas. It’s an existential attack that higher ed is facing.” — Isaac Kamola, director, AAUP's Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom.

It was fun to write this for the awards issue of Genetics @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. Tragically, the personnel and funding cuts imposed by the US government on science are occluding the paths of many. Speak up and out! academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...