Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.

Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc! If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email. Please RT 🙏

With apologies to @xkcd.com

🧪 I was going to say that I’m happy to share my latest, but I’d much rather be without the reasons to write it: The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/a... via @statnews.com

Okay but the Portland farmers market is a well known hotspot for the notorious Venezuelan gang Trendy Arugula

Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

Come see Mónica, who is on the job market! This is a really cool story using beatiful imaging to reveal unexpected properties of the presynaptic ER.

Next Thursday Sept 25 (4-6pm CET) we have our first #FocalPlaneFeatures together with our #membranetrafficking community! Thanks to all who submitted such exciting abstracts. The final program is out, featuring a keynote by Gillian Griffiths. Register here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...

Highly recommend for anyone considering a career as a journal editor! 🧪🧬🔬🥼 #sciencecareers #scientificediting #journaleditor #careersoutsidescademia

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT. RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to [email protected]. More info: www.shekharlab.org

Of course I signed this! Please join us.

It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!

We are hiring a lab technician! Join our group studying signaling networks in #Drosophila, with a possibility to carry out a research project. Please RT. Job posting: employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us... Veraksa lab website: www.faculty.umb.edu/alexey_verak...

Know an outstanding early career scientist in Drosophila neurogenetics? Nominate them for the Hugo Bellen & Catherine Tasnier Lecture! Winner gets $5K, conference travel, & a talk at #Dros26. Self-nominations welcome. Due Nov 6, 2025. buff.ly/5PqSXHw

Hi, are you an academic biology lab in the Boston area? I am a lab manager at a local biotech and I will be getting rid of a lot consumables in the near future (as will many of my colleagues, unfortunately). If you would be interested in free consumables, please reach out to me!

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

We're looking for a research assistant to work in our neuroscience lab at @princetonneuro.bsky.social @hhmi.org where we study learning and decision-making circuitry. Apply here: research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21001/r... Pls share w/ anyone who might be interested!

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Spamming you with this knowledge of a tariff waiver for scientific instrumentation which you can apply for retroactively! bsky.app/profile/sara...

#FlyCROSS mentee surveys are open for #earlycareer #Drosophila scientists. If you're a #gradstudent #postdoc or pretenure faculty or equivalent - fill up the survey by Sept 1 to participate & be matched by #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs. @flybase.bsky.social

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

A #NESM Save the Date for #MicroscopyMonday! We're happy to announce our in-person Fall Symposium will be held at Brandeis University @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social November 6th & 7th. We're looking for #poster and oral presentations and #abstract submission opens soon! www.nesmicroscopy.org

Post Sunday morning shows Bhattacharya email...

Our lab is looking to recruit a new postdoc to join our team. You can visit us at leritlab.org to learn more and submit applications here: faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/149999/... (or scan the QR in the ad below!) Review will commence in early August.

"Science is a process, not an output" would look mighty fine crocheted

Honored that our work with @rodallab.bsky.social and Jonathan Beats has found its final home @jcb.org. We identify a presynaptic actin core at the Drosophila NMJ—a long-lived, NMII-dependent structure that may help synapses withstand mechanical stress. 🧵 1/5

Finally out in Nature Chem Bio: SNAP-tag2 for faster and brighter protein labeling www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thank you Steffi and Veselin.

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Extracellular vesicles in the nervous system! With keynote @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social! So many great speakers and chairs, to name a few @rodallab.bsky.social @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social. Lots of slots for ECR talks. See you in Montreal! www.isev.org/2nd-isev-sym...

What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #StopTrump

Two tenure-track positions at Amherst College www.amherst.edu. apply.interfolio.com/168795 (molecular genetics and biochemistry) apply.interfolio.com/168794 (molecular/cellular neurobiology)

But this is happening to people around us: foreign professors, teachers, students, postdocs, neighbors. And sometimes much worse. Please don’t assume this can’t happen where you live. And if you witness it, say something. Silence is complicity.

Sharing this not because I need support (I’m fine), but because we all need to be aware of how bad things are getting, especially for people who are foreign, “look foreign,” and/or have an accent, even in very progressive, very blue places. 🧵

Let's give mega flowers to the NIH and NSF POs, and admins who are doing their best to keep "business-as-usual". They are the true heroes right now, and we are more than ever grateful for their support and any of the NOAs that manage to muscle through. We see you and we owe you! Thank you 🙏

Researchers from @biozentrum.unibas.ch developed a new method to phosphorylate endogenous Myosin in a light-inducible manner that achieves specificity and precise temporal control. Learn more about this #optogenetics and proteomics #Drosophila toolbox in #G3journal: buff.ly/jlINw2g

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

‘…Bhattacharya was “basically just trying to create an environment where lies can be treated the same as scientific truth and he and his cronies can like, jam through bullshit studies and then he can try to scream academic freedom.” Total shitshow www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

Proud to sign on this this open letter. Join me.... www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

No reason? Obliterating the systems and methods we use to determine truth in order to protect the wealth and power of those who depend on lies is certainly evil, immoral, and the antithesis of weal, but it is a reason.

This interview with the neuroscience legend Dr Eve Marder is absolutely worth your time.