A small but very meaningful milestone for me 🪰📘 I contributed a chapter to the 2nd edition of Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science www.sciencedirect.com/referencewor...

Now proper out: doi.org/10.1093/gene...

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...

From @yalesom.bsky.social. Yale has sunk in my estimation, maybe it's following the spirit of our times since Jan 20th. This is like phrenology.

The discovery of a digestion-slowing hormone in the Gila monster's venom paved the way for Ozempic. When a Gila monster named Pebbles needed medicine in return, a pharmaceutical chemist pivoted to help save the species. nyti.ms/4i5w40U

Researchers have developed a deep learning protein language model, ESM3, that enables programmable protein design. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/3Qo3HPw

The rise of dark proteins

Let’s stop treating "leaving academia" as negative. Scientists train for academia, industry, or what suits them. Industry isn’t an alternative; it’s a choice. In fields like engineering, most PhDs go to industry, and no one calls it "leaving academia." We should train scientists for diverse paths.

I love this article partly because it details how this little fly has been vital for all sorts of research, including for human health. But I really love the part about where fruit flies originated and how they’ve conquered the world. 🍓🍒🍷🪰 🧪 🪲 🪳 phys.org/news/2025-01...

How are #phospholipids transferred within #mitochondria? A study in #Drosophila shows that SLMO transfers phosphatidylserine (PS) from the outer to the inner mitochondrial membrane, where it is converted into PE, so contributing to mitochondrial form & function 🧪 #PLOSBiology plos.io/4iHc9qg

A simple MiMIC-based approach for tagging endogenous genes to visualise live transcription in Drosophila Read this Techniques and Resources Article by Lauren Forbes Beadle, Catherine Sutcliffe and Hilary Ashe @official-uom.bsky.social: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204294

The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging. www.nature.com/articles/nbt...

The European Drosophila Society is delighted to join Bluesky! Follow us for the latest European fly news. #EDRC2025 #Drosophila #Drosofeed

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.

Thanks to a new technique, scientists can now see where RNAs are inside a brain without slicing into it. That and more of the best from Science and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

The dark side of fluorescent protein tagging: the impact of protein tags on biomolecular condensation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How the #brain talks to the #gut and vice versa! 🧪🧠💩 Check out the great primer on gut-brain communication and #interoception by @amberalhadeff.bsky.social and Nilay Yapici 👇👇👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

We are happy to report that our journals and community sites now have Bluesky accounts. Follow them at: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

often overlooked in EDI strategies and key to perceptions of excellence. Language coaching not the only solution (takes extra time too): need to normalise non-native accents/accept different ways of expressing oneself

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Excited to see my project carried out in the Léopold lab at Institut Curie (Paris) published in Developmental Cell. Check it out if you are curious about how amino acids are strategically stored and then used efficiently during development www.cell.com/developmenta...