Very happy to share my postdoc work (on preprint), where we try to understand a long-standing transcription-silencing paradox, and uncovered a hidden RNA decay arm of nuclear piRNA pathway, see detailed threads quoted from @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social

Intrigued by a long-standing conundrum in small RNA biology—how nuclear Argonaute proteins silence transposons when they *need* target transcription for their own recruitment—we studied the piRNA pathway. And found a hidden RNA-decay axis from Piwi to the RNA exosome.

RNA decay via the nuclear exosome is essential for piwi-mediated transposon silencing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694471v1

The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge is seeking a talented Postdoctoral Research Associate to work in the group of Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira (www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-gro...) ➡️For Further details see the link www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

Aaand... my first cover!! RpS6 phosphorylation (magenta) in a Udd (ribosome biogenesis factor) mutant ovary 🔬

So excited to finally be able to share my first paper and the culmination of my PhD work with @felipekteixeira.bsky.social 🪰🔬 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge invites expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships to establish an independent research group. ➡️For further details see the link below www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/group-l...

Update on the future of FlyBase: On 2/1/2029 FlyBase funding will come from the Alliance grant. By then, www.alliancegenome.org will access all FlyBase data. NIH has had a long term plan for a common MOD web site. We are formulating a comprehensive plan to transition FlyBase data to the Alliance.

The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.

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Sadly, our colleague and friend Scott Hawley passed away this morning. He was an irreplaceable presence and force for good in the meiosis an Drosophila communities and will be sorely missed.

The School of Biological Sciences in Cambridge is recruiting an Associate Professor or G11 Professor in Evolutionary Genomics www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/. The post builds on our successful cross-department research theme in Functional and Evolutionary Genomics (www.bio.cam.ac.uk/research/fun...).

The Department of Genetics has opportunities to support early career researchers looking to apply for independent fellowships. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49356/