My cuppa ❤️

Arrested for projecting images of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on Windsor Castle. There is a mounting authoritarian assault in this country. The attack on opposition to Israel’s genocide was only the beginning.

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

Luigi was right.

I get a Roald Dahl's Esio Trot reminder looking at those shells!!!

As always the amazing Judith Butler!!

Crick researchers have generated a computer simulation of the evolution of gene networks, which has helped them establish general principles about the evolution of body patterns over time. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

You just finished your PhD and you are looking for a postdoc to study stress-dependent modulation of learning. We are using the powerful fly model to understand the underlying circuits and mechanisms. You can apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

The biggest far-right demonstration in British history is a gruesome reminder of how much trouble we are in. Since the financial crash, the direction of travel for the far right across the West has only been in one direction - and that is up.

Let'a check that out!

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin. Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation. We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

The whole reaction to the Kirk affair by politicians and media outlets in Europe is a weird mix of just sucking up to Trump (for whatever reason) while also steadfastly continuing their commitment to normalising the far-right.

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Liking the sound of that @sarahgarf.bsky.social 🎉

Wise words from my friend Evgenia!

Congratulations Silvia @santoslab.bsky.social and co!!!

Γιατί έτσι μεγαλώσαμε, "Δεν είν' αργία, είν' απεργία".

Emmanuel Macron is no better than Trump. He is encouraging the police to violate our fundamental right to democratic free expression. Petty dictator.

I have a soft spot for this guy 😍 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Application is open! Come join us and our fantastic line-up of speakers next year in March in Bonn!

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Nature research paper: Amygdala–liver signalling orchestrates glycaemic responses to stress go.nature.com/4m2rH8t

It’s time for @democrats.org to step up and lead. Otherwise they are the Chamberlains of this moment. @schumer.senate.gov do not betray us. “This is not just how authoritarianism happens. This is authoritarianism happening.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Vergeet niet te kijken.

Ah nice! Let's check this out, as someone that has reconstructed quite a few sparsely labelled neurons within the fly brain, giving me a brain-body sore, I d love to see it being done better!

Orwellian nightmare

His family in Gaza are suffering because of our government. The least we can do is to help @dalloul03.bsky.social’s family. Please donate what you can 👇 www.gofundme.com/f/please-hel...

'Chemical dyes are often toxic for the environment and bad for human health, so the costume designers at the theatre are experimenting with using flowers including indigo, dahlias, hollyhocks, camomile and wild fennel to create the vivid colours used in their productions.'

Journaling day 01.

Postdoc and PI making yeast paste for the flies 🤣 @alemineo.bsky.social who did you teach better @neurogut.bsky.social or me?

We are recruiting an enthusiastic engineer to work on the core project of our lab: identifying Hox protein-RNA networks in Drosophila @igmm-montpel.bsky.social Interested in BioID, UV-RIP and muscle development? Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Please share! #jobOffer #RNA #hox #Drosophila

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

If you have a project idea (experiment or theory!) please apply to become an IBL partner: internationalbrainlab.com/ibl-core-apply +

The dystopian feeling of scrolling past Palestinians trying to fund their escape from genocide and Americans, the country funding their murder, trying to fund their healthcare.... No idea if publicly taught history will be written, unlike now, with deep empathy correctly aligned with reason, but I

Beautiful piece of work!!! @michalis-averof.bsky.social and co!!!!

Made these for fun — hope you get a chuckle at least & consider signing Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-... 💥🩷🌿‼️

So happy to have Dafni @drosostalis.bsky.social at @igflyon.bsky.social today, for an exciting fly physiology talk! “Mind the gut”!

everything, everywhere, all at once www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Well done @lcochella.bsky.social and co!!!!

How is this possible? This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother

Research detailing how nicotinic acetylcholine receptors—the main type of neurotransmitter receptor in the fly brain—change during development lays the groundwork for understanding the molecular composition, regulation & adaptability of these synapses➡️ https://hhmi.news/4mFMhMY

Very nice!!!

if you have your team and grants, not forget to support @flybase.bsky.social www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb... meanwhile, we need to think longterm and protect this data, dl it, share it portal.datarescueproject.org/datasets/fly...

Dictatorship and fascism rarely prevail overnight. It creeps up on you till you realise you are under its thumb. If you have ANY doubt that this process is unfolding now in the European Union, look into the way in which @hussedogru, a German citizen and journalist. diem25.org/how-the-eu-i...

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

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

Excited to share our latest work - expressing the bacterial sodium channel in fly Kenyon cells surprisingly *decreases* their excitability, thanks partly to decreased endogenous sodium channels. This prevents learning and decreases odor-evoked calcium influx doi.org/10.1113/JP28...