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

Cheaper defense first, costly one later. This makes sense. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Virology lost one of his monuments, David Baltimore. To learn more about him and his contributions, I recommend (re)-listening to this great TWIV episode : www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-10...

if you have your team and grants, not forget to support @flybase.bsky.social www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb... meanwhile, we need to think longterm and protect this data, dl it, share it portal.datarescueproject.org/datasets/fly...

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This week, the capital of Evolution is Barcelona! Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025. Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n

Forecasting the effects of #epidemics is complicated by a population’s pathogen exposure history. @pfvale.bsky.social @chadisaadroy.bsky.social & Mike Boots argue for the use of experimental #DiseaseEcology to better understand the consequences of variations in #infection history 🧪 plos.io/4mdDVvW

We've tried to gather and unite the streptophyte algae community all around the world to join forces and develop tools and methods for these critters. Learn more about it on @currentbiology.bsky.social! With @jandevries.bsky.social, @dolfweijers.bsky.social, and (many) others! tinyurl.com/29n4zwen

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field? That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience A 🧵 1/n

Anyone pushing forward a « microbiome and beyond » WS proposal, that would be an awesome topic… 😉

Thrilled to receive @anrs-mie.bsky.social grant with @lambrechtslab.bsky.social & @retrogenomics.bsky.social! Making mosquitoes intolerant to arboviruses. Thanks @pasteur.fr, @inserm.fr & @cnrs.fr for support. Exciting times for #ARBORETRO project! Stay tunned.

Hi #Drosophila folk: I'm advertising a 2-year #Postdoc, funded by a BBSRC grant on the genetic and immune determinants and evolutionary constraints underlying extreme pathogen transmission phenotypes. Deadline 29 April, details in the link below, or feel free to email: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ231/p...

Amazing new tools for studying fly immunity!! Fantastic work

It's finally out!!!! Our review on long-reads transcriptomics was published in @natrevgenet.bsky.social!! You can have a look at the paper here rdcu.be/efugl! We hope you like it 😀

A friend sends me that picture and I'm very happy of my 14 years fighting to get this model accepted within the ageing research community. A serendipitous discovery I made that really changes everything !

A new way to conduct GWAS meta-analysis? Preprint shows Genomic Network Analysis can be used to identify conditionally independent associations between traits, controlling for shared genetic signals. Also enables multi-level biological analysis within the framework to probe underlying aetiology🧬🖥️

Scientists in China developed SCLIMS, a tool that links metabolism to oxidative stress at the single-cell level. They found that metabolic differences predict cell fate under stress and that key metabolites can extend lifespan in C. elegans. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To all the newskies, welcome! #HiSciSky As #firstgen PI at BCM in Houston, my lab studies how the #microbiome alters host physiology using genetics & genomics in #Celegans. Our lens is #BasicResearch, but aim to promote human health on earth and beyond. 🧪🖥️🧬 #AcademicSky #MicroSky 1/3

European Drosophila Board election call for nominations. Join the EDB to represent and support Drosophila research in Europe! Five representatives will be elected for different regions. Check our election page for details: europeandrosophilasociety.org/european-dro... #Drosophila, #EDRC2025

Please consider nominating deserving colleagues (including yourselves) who would be excellent candidates for five open positions on the Council, including Nominations for President-elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and 2 Councilors. Please share widely! @official-smbe.bsky.social

Genome sequencing & single-cell transcriptomics continue to produce findings that challenge the idea that #cancer is purely a genetic disease. This Essay delves into #omics data that questions the somatic mutation theory & presents alternative theories based on GRNs & tissue fields.🧪 plos.io/3DRtAEW

Thrilled to share 'BuzzWatch', my post-doc work with Felix Hol and @lambrechtslab.bsky.social ➡️Filming mosquitoes in a cage with a €15 camera but for 700h(1month) revealed fascinating insights into their behavior⌛🦟🎥⏳ preprint🔍 doi.org/10.1101/2025... DIY guide 🛠️ theomaire.github.io/buzzwatch 🧵⬇️

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

I am happy to announce with @hanli-pasteur.bsky.social that we'll organise a summer school titled "Senescence from Cell Cultures to Humans through Model Organisms" in Paris, Fr on June 23-24, 2025 Aimed at 2nd and 3rd year PhD student + postdocs Submit your provisional project tinyurl.com/2uhfzxbp

Hello everyone on Bluesky! 🧪 We are EMBO, the organization of more than 2,100 leading researchers that promotes excellence in #lifesciences in Europe and beyond. Read more: www.embo.org/about-embo/m...

Here we go again!!! Thanks to @rubengonzalez.bsky.social a brilliant postdoc in the lab, I made my first baby steps into the aging field... Be kind and supportive 😀 I find the results totally exciting! and so much to do now! #ProudPI #LoveVirology

In my first Drosophila study at @salehlabparis.bsky.social, we found that: 1. Enteric viral infections accelerate aging. 2. Even if the infection is cleared, aging process remains triggered. 3. Accelerated aging correlates with reduced lifespan. 📑Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This Editorial by Brandon S. Gaut and Claudia A. M. Russo provides some nice insight into how #SocietyJournals work, and why it pays for Scientists to publish with #SocietyOwned Journals. 👇 A Message From the Editors-in-Chief academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... #PlantScience #SciencePublishing

What happens if you introduce 🦠vs 🦠🦠🦠 into a microbial community? Are larger microbial populations more likely to establish? Check out new work led by @goldmandoran.bsky.social that used experiments and theory to dive deep into this simple question. ⬇️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For #IWD2025, the men from @salehlabparis.bsky.social share #ForAllWomenAndGirls: We celebrate women’s strength, resilience, and achievements. Let’s honor those who fight every day, and stand united against discrimination and violence—equality is a right, and together we can build a fairer world.

Science, research & public health face unprecedented attacks in the U.S. We stand with our American colleagues & support the Stand Up for Science call. Join the global march tomorrow, incl. in Paris! 🧪✊ 📍 March 7, 13:30 – Place Jussieu 🔗 More info: standupforscience.fr #StandUpForScience

Nature journalists will be at #StandUpForScience protests across the US later today; and in France the actions have already begun. Events will take place in more than 30 French cities, says @standupforscifr.bsky.social

#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

Rapid evolution of bacterial mutualism in the plant rhizosphere www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lab mice (domesticated for >100y) have kept gut bacterial strains that codiversified w/ rodents for >25My. Here, authors show genetic drift occured in the lab, leading to loss of microb diversity+more deleterious mutations, impacting microbial fitness in lab vs wt mice www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hello new friends! I'm Cassandra, a vector biologist at Institut Pasteur and today is my official first day as a #newPI!!! My team will study virus-virus-host interactions using mosquitoes, specifically the influence of the mosquito virome on the transmission of arboviruses like dengue and Zika 🧵1/5

🎉microPublications EEB is looking for new editors! -Editorial load is extremely light (but we work quickly) -Awesome format and journal, serves the EEB community well IMO -We cover all of EEB so we're looking for breath/generalists/complimentary expertise -DM me if interested (or suggest someone)!

The meteoric increase of known viruses ofter requires reexamination of taxonomic relationships. ICTV's efforts for the reclassification of the family Flaviviridae was just dropped. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39868175/. @createneo.bsky.social @amersocvirology.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social

Outreach funding opportunity, sponsored by the Fly Board: Non-profit programs anywhere in the world that introduce middle school, high school, or college students to Drosophila research are eligible to apply! The number of students that this funding would impact and financial need will be considered

New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. Because diversity increases excellence! www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

This is really cool: Ethanol (an olfactory stimulus) can elicit opposite chemotaxis responses – attraction vs. aversion – depending on NaCl concentration. One neuron in C. elegans, ASER, orchestrates this bidirectional ethanol chemotaxis by integrating information from both stimuli.

These are challenging times for science, but I'm happy to share a bright moment: our work is on the cover of Cell today. We built a compendium of human gut microbiomes integrating 168K worldwide samples, revealing patterns of microbiome variation across the globe www.cell.com/cell/current...

and here's where you're all from so far. If you don't see your country, MAYBE IT'S TIME TO REGISTER!!!

Is susceptibility to different viruses phylogenetically correlated across host species? doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Ryan M Imrie, Megan A Wallace, and @blongdon.bsky.social.

Un honor que el periódico que llevo toda la vida leyendo se interese por la ciencia que hacemos. Gracias @sandrapenelas.bsky.social por plasmar tan bien mi trayectoria científica y mi eterno agradecimiento a todos los que me han permitido llegar hasta aquí.

Dear All, I believe that this thread will become one of my most important contributions to the fly field (I hope I will make other contributions)! Here, I introduce the Soy Milk Machine Fly Food Method, a.k.a., DeepCook!#Drosophila#NewPI

"Selection and transmission of microbes can modulate host traits independently of selection on the mammalian genome"

I'm incredibly honored by this opportunity to serve as President-Elect of @asm.org starting this summer. Looking forward to working with the Board, ASM leadership ,and staff to help advance the microbial sciences. I'm also glad to share my Vision statement, please join us! asm.org/Press-Releas...

Announcing the new bioRxiv dashboard widget - it's now easier to when articles have comments, peer reviews, community discussion, media coverage, videos, and automated analyses 1/2 connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/01...