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

I just turned 38.

Calling #Drosophila #grad students #postdoc and #pretenure #faculty to participate in FlyCROSS and be matched by a #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs ! #genetics #dros25 #phdlife @flybase.bsky.social @bdsc.bsky.social

Nothing like a great research conference to get one’s mind off the current state of science funding in the USA. Thank you #Dros25 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social 🪰🧬

There is a 0.0% chance that this was written or approved by anyone at NIH with any experience. 2/n

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

The Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social is "advocating for science and for scientists. We seek to cultivate an inclusive, diverse research community that engages with the public...& serves as an authoritative source of information." Pls consider joining genetics-gsa.org/membership/

This is astoundingly incorrect. At conception, everyone is sex-less. Through early development, everyone is female-presenting. Cis XX men exist. Cis XY women exist. Intersex people exist. Trans people exist. This is a blatant attempt at justifying further attacks on body autonomy.

Great perspective. There needs to be a paradigm shift in how ‘mechanism’ is defined not only in #devbio but in other fields as well.

Neato Try it out: www.arealme.com/vocabulary-s...

People are totally unprepared for what is about to happen to American higher education

Gonna inform my research group that our focus has shifted from unlocking gene regulatory mechanisms of organogenesis to determining which crystals cure depression in fruit flies.

A sensational Tiger Moth found in the Ecuadorian cloud forest. The coloring of this moth reminds me of playing cards. (Amaxia sp.) Tandayapa, Ecuador

Developmental time course of migrating fruit fly muscle cells, taken with a laser confocal microscope over a span of 5 hours. Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

Happy 37th to me

Taints & Sinners

Never gonna get over how gorgeous this is. Art by Pablo Delcan. Out July 30, with Authority and Acceptance.

I should start doing this with my own papers. Can anyone recommend some fly-themed pieces? 🪰

First workout of 2024: Done. First caloric setback of 2024: Also done.

Wanna do an #artshare? Drop some original pieces. Any medium. No AI bullshit. Reskeet. Share. Follow artists. Make bluesky a beautiful place 🖤🎨🙏

*swoons*

Who are your four favorite superheroes? -Emma Frost -Psylocke -Phoenix -Wolverine Guess I just love my X-men 🤷🏽‍♂️

Please check in on your friends who are Machiavellian, boundlessly cruel, mass-murdering sociopaths tonight 💔

Got my Thanksgiving shirt ready. 🍴 🕳️

One of the students in my Intro to Biology class baked cookies depicting the steps of mitosis and meiosis (using sprinkles to highlight homologous recombination and independent assortment), and I have never had more hope in the next generation until now. Also, mei-dough-sis, amirite?

Two NASA space telescopes teamed up to scrutinize a distant galaxy and discovered something mind-boggling: a gargantuan black hole inside a galaxy that’s more than 13 billion years old. The discovery may help solve a cosmic mystery about supermassive black holes.

Post four of your favorite Pokémon and let people assume things about you

Scholastic Book Fairs is ending their segregated book program. We made ourselves heard.

Quotepost with a picture you’ve taken of water Tarzan Falls, Guam

Everything We Know About The Elder Scrolls VI

If I had to pick only one, it would have to be Selene.

[first day as professor] me: you're going to be introduced to some uncomfortable ideas in here and we'll tackle sensitive issues, but i expect everyone to be adults about it class: [general whispering] me: ok first topic: a pop tart - is it a calzone class: [general outrage]

If you’ve stumbled upon this, I haven’t decided what to use this page for so here’s me in a nutshell.