#Drosophila community - look at this amazing lineup for #InDRC2025 Registration for #InDRC2025 is now open! Visit indrc2025.in to register and submit your abstract. #genetics #devbio @flybase.bsky.social

The FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

The next Alliance webinar is Thurs. Sept. 25, noon EDT, on the use of model organism data in rare disease diagnostics and disease-gene association discovery, presented by guest speaker Damian Smedley, Professor of Computational Genomics, Queen Mary Univ of London. Register here tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt

Thanks to journalist @felixschmidtner.bsky.social for bringing the plight of the key scientific database @flybase.bsky.social to a German/European audience www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research

Hey #Drosophila community: who has already some experience with these new procedures which may also affect normal mail? Please, be so kind to share your knowledge, tips & tricks! @bdsc.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social - urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

There are only 10 days left to register for EDRC 2025! More information at edrc2025alicante.com @edrc2025.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social @umh.es @drosospain.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social

Fly friends--join us at #Dros26

I donated $100 to this incredible resource in honor of Konopka and Benzer’s pioneering work in Drosophila in 1971 to identify the first circadian clock gene, PERIOD

Alliance release 8.2.0 is live! www.alliancegenome.org

Exciting news! Reactome is hosting an interactive workshop at #ASHG25 on Tuesday, October 14th. Advanced ticket purchase is required, so don't forget to sign up for our session "Pathway Analysis for All" when you register for the conference.

My lab cannot afford donating at the moment, so I donated privately. Even if you don’t work on flies we all owe so much to FlyBase. Consider donating, and importantly, let’s strive to make the more official funding bodies aware of how much is at stake.

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

I donated. It was fast and easy. I use FlyBase daily, for real. Donating supports people in our research community that do work critical for all of us. I hope all that can pitch in.

I've donated the May-July revenue from Picostitch Threads to @flybase.bsky.social . Thank you to everyone to patronized the shop! I'll continue donating the proceeds monthly until at least the end of the year, so keep stocking up on those fly pins!

Looking forward to attending the Indian Drosophila Research Conference (InDRC) at IISER Mohali this December!! We have a stellar line up of speakers....can't wait for all the exciting science and the networking interactions!! #drosophila #conference #meetings #science #research

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

Please please please, if you are able, consider supporting Flybase fiscally. They need our help! I donated this evening. They are in danger of closing and any amount will help. We cannot allow this critical pillar of science to collapse!

Fly folk: The Amazing and essential @flybase.bsky.social is in existential need due to Trump termination of the grant that supports this vital resource. Please donate to help keep Flybase alive. I just did. Info here on how to make a tax deductible donation: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

I watched the video and donated - it was super easy! Please donate if you’re able, and help spread the word so that we can keep this essential resource going.

⏰ Don’t forget! Applications for the DeLill Nasser Award are due September 18. Grad students & postdocs can apply for support to present research at national or international meetings.🔗 buff.ly/3byFIES Use these funds to attend #Dros26, #Fungal26, #PEQG26 or #Yeast26—there's something for everyone!

If you missed today's webinar, 'Ontologies and the Alliance', or if you'd like to share it or review the content, a recording is now posted to our YouTube channel youtu.be/dCg1K9CuSBI The Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar links to recordings of all our webinars.

We are excited to announce the release of the MaveDB Experiment Heatmaps and Alignment track for hg38. Each heatmap shows the results of many small substitutions that were tested within a gene to examine their functional consequences. Learn more at: http://bit.ly/4lCIlLq

Fly labs — Now is the time to show some solidarity and chip in support for this vital resource!

The Alliance webinar for August is this Thursday (Aug 21, noon EDT), on Ontologies and the Alliance, presented by Chris Mungall. You can preregister for the zoom link here forms.gle/GzMnmwK23SzP...; please preregister by midnight EDT Wednesday Aug 20.

Worms love flies! Please consider donating to FlyBase. Model organisms unite! #celegans

flybase.org needs your help, please give what you can! #FlyBase #Drosophila #NIH #ResearchSupport #ScienceMatters #ResearchSky

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...

If you run a fly lab and have not yet contributed to save FlyBase, please look at our wiki page for the latest information!

As someone who ended up using non-model systems after doing his PhD with Drosophila, you don't realise just how amazing FlyBase or WormBase are until you try to genetics without them.

FlyBase needs our help! There is now a system for non-European direct donations. Hopefully an option to invoice labs comes soon, but in the mean time do what you can to save this precious resource!

#Drosophila community in the US and non- EU countries, please donate to help us support #Flybase. People behind the scenes have put in incredible effort over the past few months - as someone who has seen some of it first hand at #IUBloomington, they deserve all the praise. Please share and donate !

Flybase is free to use but not free to make. It takes large teams of people and millions of dollars a year to create the knowledgebas and tools for fly research. Please donate generously.

UK taxpayers who donate to @flybase.bsky.social privately can use Gift Aid if they donate through the University of Cambridge philanthropy site (link below). This increases the value of your donation at no cost to yourself.

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

The next Alliance webinar will be Thursday Aug 21, at noon EDT. The topic will be Ontologies and the Alliance, presented by Chris Mungall. You can register for the Zoom link here forms.gle/GzMnmwK23SzP... or via the link on the Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar

Public access to the first fly connectome that spans the whole CNS - BANC!: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord) We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🏆 Nominations are open for the 2026 GSA Awards! Honor excellence in genetics across all career stages—creativity, mentorship, education, and more. Self-nominations welcome! ⏰ Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 🧬 Nominate now: buff.ly/JNHMlEb

New GO data just out!! The July 2025 GO Release 2025-07-22 is now available. ➡️ current.geneontology.org ➡️ release.geneontology.org/2025-07-22 📓 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.16423886: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 39,906 GO terms 9,417,935 annotations 1,602,275 gene products 5,497 species

FlyBase.org release FB2025_03 is live! Go enjoy the refreshed data.

We are pleased to announce the full #EDRC2025 programme is now live! edrc2025alicante.com/wp-content/u...

#FlyCROSS mentee surveys are open for #earlycareer #Drosophila scientists. If you're a #gradstudent #postdoc or pretenure faculty or equivalent - fill up the survey by Sept 1 to participate & be matched by #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs. @flybase.bsky.social

Amazing and multitalented postdoc @ongkaty.bsky.social taking time out from writing her new paper with this generous initiative. #genetics, #CRISPR, #drosophila, hallmarks of #cancer and more. For a great cause; support @flybase.bsky.social!

Hey #Drosophila folks - its #fivedays to go to sign up as #FlyCROSS #mentor 👀 If you're faculty/postdoc/ equivalent in any scientific career & have #Drosophila research experience - fill up the mentor survey by July 14 to empower #earlycareer scientists in #Dros #community! @flybase.bsky.social

The Midwest Regional Society for Developmental Biologists meeting, Sept 19-21, 2025, will be at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio www.midwestsdbincincy.org Registration deadline 9/7/25; abstract deadlines 8/7/25 for talks, 8/22/25 for posters.

We have a new training page with updated tutorials covering our most popular tools. Each includes an annotated screenshot, guided walkthroughs, and an interactive click-through tutorial. See our news for more: bit.ly/genomeBrowser...

MassLive.com recently interviewed several Harvard FlyBase people and wrote this news article about the importance of FlyBase: tinyurl.com/4chpts9f

A post-meeting hub for North England Drosophilists — to share, connect, and collaborate beyond the room. Please share and add more people to this starter pack. go.bsky.app/KJXNZVg

Michael Ashburner FRS was an influential figure in the fields of Drosophila genomics and early sequencing database initiatives such as @ebi.embl.org. Read about their contributions across genetics and bioinformatics in the new biographical memoir: buff.ly/f01zNat @geneticscam.bsky.social‬