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.

Very sad news… Antonio Garcia-Bellido was a scientific giant and one of the founders of developmental genetics R.I.P. elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

An interesting perspective on the evolutionary origins of synaptic communication

🦎THREAD: We just published something wild in @asn-amnat.bsky.social - lizards missing entire limbs not only survive, but some appear to actually thrive in the wild?! Let me tell you about the "three-legged pirate" lizards 🏴‍☠️ [Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... ] (1/n)

Nice piece on John Gurdon written by Ron Laskey www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is very sad news… an outstanding scientist and experimentalist, a superb writer and mentor. He will be greatly missed… www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

We are looking for 2 postdocs to join my lab at Sussex University in Brighton, UK (South of London, on the sea). One position is for a molecular/cell biologist, the other, for a neurobiologist/behavioural person. Drosophila experience desirable. Flyer w/more info below. Please repost. Thank you!

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.

It's publication day of my first book: The Tree of Life. The tree of life is a time machine that can take us back 4 billion years to meet our most distant ancestor. It is the magic that lets us tell the origin stories, beginning with this ancient relative, of everything from mushrooms to man.

Delighted to share a new preprint from the lab exploring the links between morphology and behaviour: using a novel method we map the sensory inputs that trigger an evolutionarily conserved adaptive postural behaviour (self-righting) in the Drosophila larva 👉🏼 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Guys I made a breakthrough

All the very best to our colleagues at @standupforscience.bsky.social today! We are all with you: science is international

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

Trump administration to cut billions in research funding to NIH www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our lab is looking for 2 postdocs interested in the molecular basis of neural development and behaviour. Post 1: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ521/r... Post 2: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ529/r... The deadline is 17-FEB-2025 For informal enquiries email me at: [email protected] Please repost - Thank you!

This study by Fu, Xing, Rabadan and colleagues might represent a novel and promising application of AI to the prediction of cell-specific transcriptional patterns, a key unresolved problem in gene regulation. Take a look 👉🏼https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08391-z