There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase... We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us. #FlyBase #Drosophila

Some of you reached out after seeing this post and it has led to some promising leads! A re-up for this week in case someone with louse samples hasn't seen it yet! Many thanks and I'm happy to answer questions! 🧪

And, that's a wrap! The #PopGen and #Evolution session at #EDRC2025 just ended. Great talks from Divyansh Mittal from @bentonlab.bsky.social, Virginie Curtier-Orgogozo, Paco Majic @hhydrochaerus.bsky.social, and Alexandra Ozerova. A pleasure to co-chair the session with Thomas Flatt!

Thank you to all #EDRC2025 participants and a big applause to the organizing committee for this great #Drosophila meeting! See you all in Bonn for #EDRC2027

Dear JEDIs, as we are self-organizing using the #EDRC as a nucleator we decided it is time for a JEDI database to boost our network! If you identify as a JEDI, please contact us here or send a mail to [email protected] to be added to our database. #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

Mitchell, @sebkittelmann.bsky.social et al. study how an inversion polymorphism in D. melanogaster affects gene expression and chromatin accessibility. Results are consistent with a role for shifts of dominance in maintaining inversion polymorphism. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf209 #evobio #molbio

Long time no see...But we are back with a real firework 🎆. Join us tomorrow at noon for the first #Goenomix talk of the semester by Cassandra Extavour from Havard University. Talk: "One two three: developmental counting mechanisms in reproductive output and evolution". PM for Zoom details.

Are you interested in uncovering how the tiny C. elegans nervous system uses complex dopaminergic signalling to control behaviours? If so check out our new postdoc position, applications are now open: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

I am advertising for a #postdoc for a 3 year BBSRC-funded project exploring the role of macrophages in salivary gland development. The successful candidate will be based at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social. Closing date: 9th Oct. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Very happy to announce that my collaboration with Thomas Flatt and his fantastic ex-postdocs Esra and Envel has been published: doi.org/10.1093/molb... We show that a chomosomal inversion in flies controls the genome-wide expression profile in a context-dependent manner.

Calling #Drosophila #grad students #postdoc and #pretenure #faculty to participate in FlyCROSS and be matched by a #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs ! #genetics #dros25 #phdlife @flybase.bsky.social @bdsc.bsky.social

New preprint from our lab. Great work by @maaseremedios.bsky.social in collaboration with Ralf Janssen looking at gene regulation and expression after whole genome duplication by comparing a spider and harvestman: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Let's try this BlueSky ! A dedicated account to highlight the #womeninSTEM and to give them the visibility they deserve. Objective: 1,000 portraits of women scientists from all fields, all nationalities and all time periods.

My colleague Dani Nunes and I are advertising a PhD position at Oxford Brookes. If you're interested in the molecular basis of evolution, gene regulation, sc-seq, CRISPR, and (yes) genital morphology (in flies), check it out: tinyurl.com/2zutha8c #STEMjobs 🧪

We are advertising for a project looking at epigenetic inheritance in Drosophila at the Department of Biology, University of Oxford @oxfordbiology.bsky.social Please get in touch if you are interested! Only 1 month left to be considered for funding. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

PhD studentship in Penryn UK studying #Immune signalling evolution in a #genetic model #Drosophila system! Also cosupervising a 2nd studentship with Ko-Fan Chen (U. Leicester). Please reach out via email or lab website. This competitive opportunity is open to international students. #PhDchat

@mcgregorlab.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of writing a dispatch article discussing the latest work from @gavinrrice.bsky.social and @rebeizlab.bsky.social. You can find it over on this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are here! 🎉 Welcome to the BSDB bluesky, where we will promote developmental biology research and dissemination. #devbio #developmentalbiology

I thought we could use a Drosophila starter pack, please let me know if you’d like to be added. (I think there is also a more general insect list out there somewhere that i cant find rn..) go.bsky.app/JGggkH3

Postdoc positions available in the Röper lab at the University of Cambridge @PDN_Cambridge! Join us and help discover the role that supracellular actomyosin assemblies and cell adhesion play in sculpting organs in Drosophila! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48942/

Hey professors, I'm helping a lot of students write ✨personal statements✨ for PhD programs... what is the number one thing you look for in a personal statement? and what should students steer clear of when writing these? #neuroskyence #academia

Woo hoo! 1K new followers, welcome to 💙🦋! For science-minded folks, there are some very cool tricks 🚀… If you use any of these emojis: 👩‍🔬|👩🏻‍🔬|👩🏼‍🔬|👩🏽‍🔬|👩🏾‍🔬|👩🏿‍🔬 your post will index on a Women in STEM feed If you use 🧪 a Science feed If you use 🧠 a Neuroscience feed Go get it 🚀🧪🧠👩‍🔬💙🎊

Waves of new BlueSky arrivals in last few days! I’ve been tracking starter packs relevant to molecular/mechanistic/genetic/cellular…etc biology Hope it’s helpful but warning: now a v long thread! Probably the last time I can do this...

The Drosophila Research Conference is a highlight of my scientific year. It's remarkable to see the full range of biology studied using my favorite animal. This year's site is lovely, sunny & warm. If you want a talk, the Abstract submission deadline is Nov 14, 2024. genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...

With some help from @raduzabet.bsky.social, I've created a starter pack of researchers working on #Epigenetics, Chromatin and Gene Regulation who are active on here: go.bsky.app/TKp9YAn I've likely missed many people so let me know if you want to be added. Similarly if you would like to be removed.

Putting together packs of transcription and Chromatin people - Nominate others to add! go.bsky.app/5zgpZfg

Reminder for newcomers that bioRxiv has Bluesky accounts in every subject category - great way to keep up (please re-skeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...

Here is a link to my developmental biology starter pack. Please add and follow. go.bsky.app/M5AgJhn

The argument 'we need to stay on Twitter to represent science' does not convince me, because you can't have a competition of ideas on a platform where one side controls the algorithm that determines who sees what.

Hi Oxford peeps, I've just created an Oxford University Institutions starter pack. Please alert me to any I've not identified yet and I'll add them. go.bsky.app/6FyQXqG #academicsky #oxon

Our new @CurrentBiology paper provides a rare glimpse into a morphological novelty in Drosophila eugracilis In it, @gavinrrice and colleagues, infer and reproduce the likely initial steps of a novelty's formation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

scRNAseq, ultraviolet iridescent butterflies, and evo-devo of sex specific traits... check out our new preprint by the incredible Ling Sheng Loh Single-nucleus transcriptomics of wing sexual dimorphism and scale cell specialization in sulphur butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

UK #CellBiology people BSCB Medals. Nominations, 1st Nov BSCB members can nominate! Details: - Hooke Medal (bscb.org/competitions...) - Women in Cell Biology Award (bscb.org/competitions...) - Post-Doc Research Medal (bscb.org/competitions...) - PhD Award- Raff Medal (bscb.org/competitions...) 🧪

London EvoDevo meeting (LED) Afternoon 8 Nov at QMUL thenode.biologists.com/82984-2/even...

new from our project with Patrizia d’Ettore and Jean-Christoph Sandoz’s labs, led by Simon Marty & Antoine Couto, with Neven Brard and Erika Dawson - comparing the olfactory pathway across ants, from sensillae to specialised antennal lobe structures 🐜 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are calling on Africa-based: 🌍 Researchers 🌍 Librarians and Supporting Staff 🌍 Administrators, Funding Bodies, and Policymakers Join the workshops that aims to gather views and input on preprint usage and adoption in Africa. Deadline: September 30!

Reminder klaxon Less than a month until the deadline for this opportunity to join @dunnschool.bsky.social We're a friendly community, dedicated to outstanding research into the fundamental mechanisms of human disease Pass it on...

New from the lab led by future superstars Elizabeth Hodge and Amaia Alcalde Anton -we report evidence that Heliconius butterflies have longer lasting visual memories but not olfactory memories, consistent with evidence of visual specialisation in the mushroom body 👀👃🏼🧠 www.biorxiv.org/lookup/conte...

Portuguese Fly Meeting 7-8 November 2024, Batalha, Portugal. This is organized by Drosophilists working in Portugal but open to researchers from anywhere. Everyone, including Master students, is welcome to apply for oral or poster presentation. More info at: iridescent-gnu-ftqk0k.mystrikingly.com

Over on mastodon, @teunbrand.bsky.social presented his new package {{gguidance}} to customize your legends and axis in #ggplot: fosstodon.org/@teunbrand/1... Now you can, for example, easily distinguish groups of discrete labels without facetting! #rstats

Can we observe how the injured leg of an animal is regenerated? We have figured out how to do this in the crustacean Parhyale. Over the course of a week, we can record the entire process of regeneration at cell-by-cell resolution. 1/3 vimeo.com/802413847

#drosophila 🪰 🧪

Opportunities for support in applying for a funded Masters at Oxford, for students affected by displacement based anywhere in the world... x.com/RLRH_Oxford/...

This was stressful A starter pack for cell biology-ish types It’s so incomplete that I am worried that it will irritate more than it helps (packs are limited to 50) But this isn’t Twitter/X so people will be kind, right? go.bsky.app/2z8z1nW

Have you been considering accessing FlyBase using a script? PLEASE READ 'Best practices for getting bulk data from FlyBase: alternatives to web-scraping' before you start: flybase.org/commentaries...

Calling all Scientists! Please think about signing this letter to get a reading in UK Parliament for the Climate and Nature Bill. Deadline 1st Sept. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🖊️ Help us learn how we can support the ASAPbio Community -- fill out the ASAPbio Community survey! We will use the results to evaluate and improve ASAPbio programs and activities for 2025 and beyond. (It takes less than 10 minutes!) https://buff.ly/3LTSCU6

Are you a US citizen living overseas? Request your ballot and vote!! www.fvap.gov

Feels like the right time to try again with @bsky.app For newcomers: I found Sky Follower Bridge very good for transferring followers from Twitter/X Not entirely simple(!) but it worked chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. Now featuring both faculty and postdoc positions. 🌍🧪 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...