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

Evolution’s eye game is wild, but mollusks take it to another level CRISPR in apple snails gives us a new model to dissect how nature rebuilds complex organs like the camera-type eyes we humans possess It turns out Evolution doesn’t just innovate, it rewinds, remixes, & regenerates rdcu.be/ezw0t

Thrilled - and so honored - to be among the most recent additions to this incredible group of scientists!

It's a demoralizing time to be a US scientist but that is part of their strategy. My friend Jeff Dangl just emailed our faculty reminding us that NSF and NIH grant review panels are still being held and staff there want us to keep submitting. Stay engaged and keep fighting! 1/n

Bruce Springsteen opened his tour in England with a forceful denunciation of President Trump. “In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.”

Alexis Madrigal on KQED interviewing Ed Yong. This was recorded more than a month ago, but w/ all the latest outrages coming from RFK Jr., it's worth reminding ourselves what happened under Trump 1.0. 1.2 million U.S. deaths, highest per capita of any rich country. www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

They are resegregating academic science

The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv

Here is a link to 60 Minutes NIH segment... www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...

A gorgeous (first of many!) paper out of the Brooks Lab (@tomorrowbot.bsky.social): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Neural tube closure! Wnt signaling! Cell proliferation! Quantitative microscopy! What’s not to love?

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com