Regretfully (for the sake of the authors and journal staff), I have this morning declined an invitation to review for a @royalsociety.org journal because of the Society’s continued refusal to stand up for its values in dealing with Elon Musk FRS.

Extremely messed up, racist, and will destroy science as we know it. This would literally destroy the careers of most US-born researchers I know, in addition to all the foreign-born scientists. Every paper Ive been on has had coauthors from prohibited countries and I have learned so much from them.

Let's talk about the Burgess Shale, and the crazy animals it tells us about. It's a formation in Yoho Natl. Park (and others) in the Canadian Rockies near the town of Field, BC. It's made of mudstone (type of shale), deposited 508 MYA, in the middle Cambrian.

Congratulations to Richard Durbin on being awarded our Genetics Society Medal!

🔥🤱Excited to share our new review “From Mammary Glands to Nutrients: Genetic Insights into Milk Composition” We integrate GWAS, cross-species biology and biochemistry to reveal how maternal genetics shapes breastmilk and its essential role in mammalian life. tinyurl.com/bdevetkx

A great 40th anniversary event for the Anglo-Irish Agreement at @chuarchives.bsky.social. A unique panel of Irish & GB negotiators: Michael Lillis, Dick Spring, Sean Donlon, Charles Powell. Moving to see deep respect & lasting friendships between "opposing" teams; very thankful for the later peace.

Good. Let Trump bring it on if he wants more.

“Critically assessing the literature, we found it beset by conceptual & methodological flaws & limitations, undermining claims that the gut microbiome is causally involved in etiology/pathophysiology of autism” Crucial PSA from @wiringthebrain.bsky.social @statsepi.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social🧪

Go hiontach! Ach b'fhéidir giota beag níos mó gréine, le bhur dtoil!

How genetically encoded sensors have lit up neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sea urchins don’t immediately come across as having keen eyesight. But expression profiling reveals 15 unique photoreceptor types- and a lot more neuron types besides.

🔬 Experience Research Life at Cambridge! Applications are now open for the 2026 Experience Postgrad Life Sciences Programme. Gain hands-on lab experience with an 8-week summer placement, in partnership with @corpuscambridge.bsky.social! 🔗 www.exppg.lifesci.cam.ac.uk #SummerPlacement #Cambridge

NEW: The first big new malaria treatment in a generation is close, offering hope at a time of rising resistance to existing drugs and steep cuts to global health funding. www.ft.com/content/9070... Read more here about fears of a malaria resurgence due to slashed aid. www.ft.com/content/6d5e...

Potentially very good news ‘New, effective anti-malaria drug could help fight rising resistance’, says Novartis www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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v sad to hear Antonio García-Bellido's passing. his work on mitotic clones led to fundamental insights such as compartment boundaries, enabled post-embryonic analysis of lethals, and revealed autonomous vs non-autonomous effects of mutants. and founding father of Spanish DB and Drosophila schools.🪰

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BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special The new Private Eye is out now.

"Thank you for your attention to this matter".

This fills a definite gap - human post-mortem volume EM

"Relative to their GDP and population, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria and Ireland had the most persons hosted in their reception systems [over the past year]”.

Why don’t whales, elephants, or naked mole-rats get more cancer? 🐋🐘🐀 Evolution may already have cracked the code — and we’re learning from it. 🔗 “Animal instincts: Exploring nature’s oncologist” by @atjcagan.bsky.social → news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/10/27/a...

I am seeing a lot of people saying "everyone's ill, it's covid but no one is testing". Some thoughts: if we could distinguish the respiratory illnesses on cough & cold symptoms alone, we would not need PCR & bacterial culture; and actually, the data *from testing* says it's the common cold or flu.

www.theguardian.com/education/20... What could possibly go wrong?

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

The UK already has some of the harshest family migration rules—and now it’s reportedly looking at Denmark, ranked the worst in the world. How is this fighting the far right, it’s appeasing them. Our families deserve dignity, not scapegoating. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

The European Drosophila Society #flyEDS extends the condolences on the passing of Antonio García-Bellido, considered the founder of the Spanish school of #Drosophila genetics and an influential figure in developmental biology research worldwide. May he rest in peace.

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

Really sad to hear this. A real pioneer, during a difficult era in Spain.

Maybe a smaller cut than feared. But these things deserve more spending not less, especially when there are solutions.

Yes BBC, correct the edit. But paying even a penny to Trump for harm caused to him would be a travesty. If it comes to court, bring on all the other footage and witnesses of Jan 6th.

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly. A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here. U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.

Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England. And they're marked by St George's flags www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Awwww!

Lysosomal and mTORC1 signaling dysregulation underpin the pathology of spastic paraplegia type 80 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Spanish public television has published the first audiovisual map showing the 6,000 mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the subsequent Francoist dictatorship (1939-1975). A testimony of what happens when fascism wins -something unknown in most of Europe.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

Enjoy your retirement, a Uachtaráin. Two great legacies from Michael D's former life as Culture Minister are the Irish Film Board, and the Irish Language TV channel TG4.

Good. I hope so.

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“His wife has shared the wonderful news that Sam woke up briefly yesterday, and she was able to speak with him for a short time. This is a truly positive step forward, though there is still a long journey ahead in his recovery.” Excellent news. ~AA www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

How a microprotein, adipogenin, fine-tunes seipin conformation to regulate lipid movement from ER into lipid droplets and lipid storage capacity

I love to see the endoplasmic reticulum (ER, cyan) hitchhiking over microtubules (MTs, orange). Also the membrane dynamics are lovely. It's been a while, but here we are for a late #fluorescencefriday with some #microscopy #scicomm #scisky @cellcommlab.bsky.social focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬

A genomic perspective on the origins of different synaptic functions

Signed. I know it's ta ough time for language learning in the UK, but a university with ambitions like Nottingham is lacking in ambition if it lies its modern language courses.

The last time I heard a President getting booed like this was Ceausescu in 1989

87 years ago today, the Kristallnacht burned. 36 years ago today, the Berlin Wall fell. Whether from the darkness of 9.11.1938 or light of 9.11.1989, the lesson for 🇩🇪 in 2025 is clear: Fight for freedom. Stop fascists. #StandWithUkraine. Their fight for freedom & peace is ours.