“as the…administration has rescinded its support for scientific research, restricted vaccine access, dismissed expert advisers, attacked doctors & scientists, & worked to curtail health-insurance coverage, researchers & health-care workers have had a surge of interest in running for office.”🧪🛟

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

Correlated Gene Copy Number Changes in a Seminal Fluid Protein Network in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684572v1

The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!

Surprisingly, mouse sperm can locate and swim through the tiny opening in #zebrafish eggs known as the micropyle, suggesting that some mechanisms guiding sperm toward eggs may be shared across distant species.

Please RT! 🚨 4-year PhD position in my lab (Oct 2026 start) 🚨 Molecular and genomic insights to sexually antagonistic genes Application deadline: Dec 2, 2025 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mol...

Awesome opportunity with a great new PI!

Model organisms, in particular non-mammalian model organisms, such as yeast, Caenorhabditis elegans, #Drosophila and zebrafish, have long stood at the centre of biological discovery www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s a great afternoon for stock-flipping! 🔱⚾️

Congrats to lab alum Brendan Kelly '19 on his co-first author publication from his MS work at Ohio State! journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Normally people don’t stress much about the odds of giving up six runs in a single inning, but I’m a Mariners fan and that’s its own kind of generational trauma.

On October 7th, learn how to communicate genetics topics to classrooms and informal settings with with @robomalley.bsky.social from @pged.bsky.social! This is for teachers and all other kinds of educators. RSVP for free here: givebutter.com/8TVNiA

Here at UW Genome Sciences, PhD students take a summer course at the end of 1st year to write NSF GRFP proposals. They finished refining proposals on Wednesday, the first day of Autumn quarter, marking the start of their 2nd year. With NSF's announcement, the entire cohort is suddenly ineligible.

New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget. Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide. Report: osf.io/e8rnc a 🧵

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

New out in Molecular Ecology! In which we show that small males try harder when it comes to seminal fluid proteins. w/ @ju-morimoto.bsky.social @iremsepil.bsky.social @becks-seascience.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to share that our new NSF RUI grant was funded! 🎉🪰 We'll be looking into Drosophila fertilization proteins and studying how orphan genes function in non-model fly species. We're hiring for a 3-year lab manager/staff scientist position: app.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oGzWxf... Shares/RTs appreciated!

Female fruit flies possess two visually identical sperm storage organs that differ in origin, sperm storage, and release rates, highlighting functional asymmetry in paired biological structures. doi.org/g93t23

Excited to share that our new NSF RUI grant was funded! 🎉🪰 We'll be looking into Drosophila fertilization proteins and studying how orphan genes function in non-model fly species. We're hiring for a 3-year lab manager/staff scientist position: app.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oGzWxf... Shares/RTs appreciated!

MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects! @stfx-university.bsky.social

The scent of silence! Cool research in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social to brighten up your day🌹. The mystery of why some roses are fragrant and others aren't has an answer. It's called SCREP: a rose-specific gene that evolved from non-coding DNA 16.8 million years ago 👇

This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...

A predicted structural interactome reveals binding interference from intrinsically disordered regions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670535v1

Also important this week: A trustworthy guide to childhood vaccine schedules, from actual pediatricians (many of whom saw these diseases before they could be vaccinated against). * pin it & share it * Ps: no, pediatricians are not pharma shills, don’t @ me www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...

A must-read, must-share piece - clearly deconstructing the shoddy science of the Geiers (who are inexplicably in charge of studies at HHS). Consider this an early warning for what lies ahead. 🛟🩺🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Been hearing folks don’t realize NIH is more than its internal labs. That cutting NIH is ok because Dana Farber will still do cancer research. Joslin will cover diabetes, etc. But these centers get most of their funding from NIH. Stop NIH, and the whole system fails, across the entire US.

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...

In 2005, a small team of researchers asked: What if undergrads didn’t just learn genomics, but contributed to real discoveries? That question launched the Genomics Education Partnership (GEP). #GenomicsEducation #UndergradResearch #GEPCUREs

Undergrads learning real genomics? Yes—through the Pathways Project. The GEP provides: • A gene annotation walkthrough • A full YouTube video series • All prerequisite curriculum materials —all free and open-access. Explore here: thegep.org/projects/pat... #Genomics #STEMed #GEPtools

Protein sequence evolution underlies interspecies incompatibility of a cell fate determinant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668269v1

Gene model for the ortholog of Glyp in Drosophila ananassae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665411v1

We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies... Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc

🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!! My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students! We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!

Our latest paper is out: rdcu.be/ev6Ym — one of my favorite projects. It began about 8 years ago when Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel asked me: what transcription factors regulate new genes? I had no idea then. Now we have some answers.

Rockefeller's @lizhao.bsky.social has spent nearly a decade cataloguing evolutionarily young genes. Now, complementary studies in @pnas.org and @natecoevo.nature.com are the first to demonstrate how these new genes are regulated and expressed.

Guay, S. Y., Patel, P. H., Thomalla, J. M., McDermott, K. L., O'Toole, J. M., Arnold, S. E., Obrycki, S. J., Wolfner, M. F., Findlay, G. D. (2024). A newly evolved gene is essential for efficient sperm entry into eggs in #Drosophila melanogaster. bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Genome Sciences is looking for a Director of Departmental Computing. This is a rare opportunity for someone interested in leading our excellent IT team, building and maintaining computational infrastructure, and working closely with our faculty and labs uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidat...

Kasimatis et al. identify a new nematode seminal fluid protein which is released from a novel sperm subcellular organelle. This protein is not involved in sexual conflict but provides a small fitness benefit to females doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @katjakasimatis.bsky.social @asherdcutter.bsky.social

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Help us hit $2025 by June 25! The Genomics Education Partnership gives students real research opportunities in genomics. Every gift supports hands-on learning and inclusion in STEM. 📢 Donate & boost: secure.givelively.org/donate/genom... #STEMEducation #Genomics #FundScience

Proud of this lab alum for this essential advocacy (among other reasons)!

This #microscopymonday image is of a #Drosophila male reproductive system: paired coiled testes, seminal vesicles & accessory glands, and a single ejaculatory duct. Each coiled testis is about 1.5mm. Image captured by MDI Bio Lab Sr. Scientist Travis Carney. #standwithscience #researchmatters 🧪 🤝

NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Since the 1940s, the engine driving U.S. economic and military competitiveness has been federal support of research universities. Now Trump is sabotaging a research and development pipeline that is the envy of the world. wapo.st/3FDsQEg

These parents clamored to enroll their children in the Covid vaccine trials. But they say it'll be tough — and unethical — to enroll children in placebo trials again. And they feel betrayed that their sacrifices are now going ignored. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

#Celegans peel-1/zeel-1 is one of the best-characterized animal #toxin-antidote systems, but how does it work? @lewsiferase.bsky.social &co show that PEEL-1 co-opts the PMPL-1 to exert toxicity by creating a novel #IonChannel that leads to cell swelling @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3HfH8LN

It is certainly reasonable to question exactly how helpful covid boosters are for younger people, but the new FDA policy goes beyond that... hsph.harvard.edu/news/new-cov...