If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

Biologically accurate.

A thorough article with lots of data on who more often perpetrates, and who is more often a victim of, hate crime violence.

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

13/There is a tonne of robust data to back the effectiveness of COVID vaccines. I don't think any other vaccines have been more studied in my lifetime. It took me about an hour of pubmed searches to put this thread together. So no, a lack of data is not the reason why CDC is being dismantled.

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

If you are a researcher whose lab uses FlyBase, consider a tax-deductible personal contribution. A lot of $100 contributions would help bridge the gap until we can set up a user fee system, and even $10 donations send the folks there the message we're behind them. Please share

Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns? To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠 #preprint thread ⬇️1/8

FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

I can’t believe it. I’m on my flight to #ESEB2025 in Barcelona on #AirCanada about to depart. All other AC flights have been cancelled but mine is a go. 🤯

So hey. I'm reading through some of the public comments, and there aren't that many, tbh.. And some of them are in *support* of repealing regulations/making everyone choke on their big-truck air. Your voice *definitely* matters here.

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

This is devastating. In addition to the obvious harm to the FlyBase staff, SO many of us rely on this resource!

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

Matching Cybertrucks

One of my great great+ grandmothers during the colonial period gave birth to 14 children. Those were the ones who lived long enough to be baptized and recorded. Of those, 5 made it to 12. 3 made it to 20. 2 married and had children.

Don’t take criticism to heart from someone you wouldn’t go to for advice.

Sheila Colla was a brilliant scientist and a powerful advocate for both nature and disadvantaged people. A profound loss.

I'm recruiting a US PhD student to come to Canada to work on the genetic and neural basis of female mating behaviour. Fellowship of ~$40k per year. Contact me if interested in submitting an application. Details of eligibility here! grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

I ordered a cheese platter that said it came with “condiments” and I assumed fancy jams or something but this is what it came with instead. Wtf

It’s time for a major shift toward thinking about preserving knowledge in hard copy for the Canticle For Leibowitz -scale long term, before this guy turns all our accounts digital information into self-reinforcing White Genocide propaganda. Buy books, is what I’m saying.

I’m not sure how many others are in this position, but I’m sad that I’m missing #Evol2025 because it’s not safe for many folks to travel to the US right now, and also not desirable to spend money there.

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Free park passes for all 4th graders and their families!

We don’t always know what questions will change the world. But public science has a way of answering them anyway. Federal science funding isn’t just lines in a budget. It’s a vote for progress, for possibility. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

If the plane is a gift to the US Government then it stays with the government. If it’s a gift to Trump that he keeps then it’s a bribe. Those are the only two options folks.

Without basic science, there is nothing to translate.

✅ ACTION ITEM ✅ The National Science Foundation is under attack. Trump’s budget is moving to dismantle one of the great engines of U.S. innovation, education, and discovery. The fight to save NSF is on—and now there’s a new home base to join the front lines (🧵 1/3): www.savensf.com

A great thread describing what PTSD feels like. Useful info for anyone who wants to know how to help someone (today or in the future) experiencing PTSD.

Democrats have been so successful in building a working government people take it for granted, which pretty much explains how they could vote for Trump but not believe he would do what he said he would do

Job opening here at Western, which is a great place to work!

Fantasy vs reality. Everything costs more now in the US.

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is great stuff for a genetics class!

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

Early bird discounted registration for Evolution ends TOMORROW (Tuesday, April 15).

US folks wanting to go to grad school in Canada: special re-opening of grad apps at UBC for you: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts.  @msnbc.com

It is the single largest two-day stock market loss in history. Trump has now caused $10 trillion in wealth destruction, with half of that happening in the last 48 hours. Trump is golfing.

I would totally buy this.

It’s still not amazing, but we’ve succeeded in averting the wort-case climate scenario, and that’s encouraging. See below thread for receipts.

The incompetence is astounding. But of course nobody will be fired because none of them are leading an NIH grant trying to cure cancer.

If you want to read something to give you hope….

Bravo, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology! Thank you to the members who crafted this important statement. @drglitterbear.bsky.social sbn.org/news/news/wh...

Canfly2025 registration is open! #Drosophila #Dros25 Curly logo event.fourwaves.com/canfly2025/p...

As in all things in life, an absolutist stance is hard to implement, for a diversity of reasons. But (1) Submitting first to society-owned journals, and (2) Broadening the tier of impact within which you prioritize society-owned journals for your submissions can make a huge difference.