The University of Glasgow is looking for a new cohort of PhD students as part of our College Futures Programme! UK home students are invited to apply with a deadline of 12 January 2026 for PhD projects beginning in October 2026. www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

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2 post-doc positions open in the lab to do research on inter-organ signalling in regeneration and cancer in flies and mice.

A #sciku: Age crumbles defence, whether to armies or germs; but in diverse ways! New out from @jennyregan.bsky.social and team, showing how correlations between mortality and age-related susceptibility to infection depend on sex and genotype: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Drosophila #AgingResearch

All proceeds from my #sciart Etsy shop will now be donated to @flybase.bsky.social . Due to fed cuts, this beloved resource that I use daily has lost it's funding, and I'm helping in my small way. Now's a good time stock up on #STEM & #drosophila gifts & swag! www.etsy.com/shop/Picosti...

🎉Excited to share our latest paper, published in Nature Communications!🎉 "Enhancing autophagy by redox regulation extends lifespan in Drosophila" #redox #metabolism #ageing #Drosophila @natcomms.nature.com @mrc-lms.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Congratulations to @jackholcombe.bsky.social for his #EDS best PhD thesis award! Jack will give a plenary talk at #EDRC2025

Empty now, full of JEDIs a few hours ago!!! Amazing to see such a good spirit! Special thanks to @giorgio.gilest.ro for passing on the light!!

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

This is a really fun question to throw at your colleagues when you’re a biologist

I am very proud to present you the first paper from the main research line of my group at the @mpiage.bsky.social in collaboration with my current group @molepi.bsky.social @bds-lumc.bsky.social at the LUMC, which is now published in @geroscience.bsky.social! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

We are excited to be recruiting 3 post-doctoral researchers to study glial cell dysfunction in #agingresearch and #neurodegeneration, including one position using #Drosophila models! If you are interested, please read more below to get in touch or apply (links in thread).

Bonus: Meet Dr. Carter and hear about his science journal in this meet-the-author video: youtu.be/aDL4cCfr99g

Folks are being REAL quiet when diversity and DEI are being attacked literally every day, yet you want us to stick by you when your grant is being attacked. We see you and we are taking note.

the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”

Showcasing the latest applications of the Mesolens and demonstrating our $0.08 3D printed optical-quality lenses manufactured using low-cost consumer grade printers! #PhotonicsWest @spie.org

If you’re a federal govt employee targeted for leave or termination on the basis of your DEI work, please file an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint & retain legal counsel. I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times! Pls repost 🙏❤️

For #drosophila scientists, I've made a free #diagram resource of a variety of common physical markers, both coloured and lined. Hopefully going to make more, so feel free to share suggestions! Current collection: Bar, CyO, e, Hu, w, mini-w, Pin, v, wt, Sp, Ser, Sb, y. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

As this is away from my art-focussed Instagram, I feel like I can finally share some of my science work! Submitted this as part of an image competition last year (Scottish Microscopy Symposium), featuring 4 little fun fly heads! Neat, I think! #microscopy #drosophila

Thursday 9th Jan 2025, 4pm UK time: Join us to hear Prof Amita Sehgal and Dr Bumsik Cho from UPenn tell us about their work on brain mantenance, lipid regulation, and sleep using our favourite model organism: #Drosophila! Zoom link, future speakers list, and email sign-up at: bit.ly/NeuroFlies

Thursday 5th Dec, 4pm UK time: Join us to hear Dr María José Ferreiro (IIBCE institute in Montevideo, Uruguay) tell us about her work on new neuroprotective genes discovered using #neurodegeneration models in #Drosophila! Zoom link, future speakers list, and email sign-up at: bit.ly/NeuroFlies

We're hiring a postdoc! Please forward to people you know who are looking for positions. Interested in studying how metabolism is wired to support fertility? 🔬🪰 Come join us! Ad to go live next week, but informal enquiries encouraged.

#Phd on #Aging #Ageing available in my group. Focus is long-read sequencing and splicing after treatment with DR and mTOR suppression in flies. #drosophila www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

This Thanksgiving, I am hugely grateful for scientists who were pioneers in our field - particularly those who did not receive the credit they deserved in their own time. Inspiring examples published today: doi.org/10.1111/acel... #agingresearch #geroscience #biologyofaging #GeroSky #WomenInSTEM

In case anyone on BlueSky hasn't seen it, this may be the funniest scientific study ever published. Bringing it up now as the amazing @scotsfriction.bsky.social has just issued a "teaspoon amnesty" for our common room www.bmj.com/content/331/...

🙋🏽‍♀️ I frequently direct #Drosophila newcomers to this resource and use it myself when planning for community outreach. Will share ideas for updates if I think of anything, but highly doubt that I will…it’s already GREAT!

Aging starter pack! go.bsky.app/5UXXaDA

🧠 130 people now in this UK Dementia Starter Pack! 🧠 📈 (50 more than 2 days ago!) 📈 A great mix of Profs/PIs/Post-docs/PhDs/Technicians. Please re-post so it can reach a wider audience as I'm sure there are more of us out there ☺️🦋 go.bsky.app/S6FfsTp

Calling all biogerontologists, geroscientists, and everyone in between! Thanks @timwrhoads.bsky.social! bsky.app/starter-pack... ⏳🔬🧪🧬

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🧠Sharing this Starter Pack again as the list has now reached 80 people! A great mix of Profs/PIs/Post-docs/PhDs/Technicians. Please re-post so it can reach a wider audience as I'm sure there are more of us out there ☺️🦋 go.bsky.app/S6FfsTp

Wishing all the fly-pushers a wonderful #DrosophilaDay/#FlyDay as we celebrate the anniversary (11/18) of the #Drosophila white-eyes mutant line w1118!

It's one of my favourite days in the yearly science calendar! Today sees the alignment of: (a) LGBTQ+ STEM day - prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/ and (b) #Drosophila day, for the 'white eleven-eighteen' mutant identified on Nov 18th by Robert Levis - doi.org/10.1016/0092... Happy fly pride day! 🪰🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I am hiring! PhD studentship available through the SWbio DTP. The interested student will investigate the evolution of innate immune signalling in a model species group. Infection biology & #Drosophila genetics combined! #ImmunoSky #AcademicSky More info: mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...

Hello, World! Dipping my toe into what I hope are warmer and less shark-infested waters.