Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!

#Dros26 community — we’d love to see you at our workshop this Friday! [1/8] Organizers: @ritamgraze.bsky.social @marbeitman.bsky.social @lydiagrmai.bsky.social @gavinrrice.bsky.social @brhopkins92.bsky.social Artyom Kopp

feeling existentially tired these days, but went to work today with a little extra pep in my step because i get to see some of my favorite scientists at #Dros26 this week! excited for the science + reunions 🥳

If you are submitting an NIH grant in February, you will be required to use SciENcv to prepare you biosketch. IT IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE. Set aside *at least* 4 hours just to transfer an existing an biosketch into SciENcv.

“The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez.” MOSAIC checked many of the boxes of the administration — but that didn't matter. It was terminated, and left grantees scrambling Next installment of American Science, Shattered: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

Reminder to please reach out if you are interested!

today!!

Save the date: our faculty job market series continues this Wed, Nov12 at 3pm ET / 12p PT! Topic: on-site interviews + seminars Come hear our junior faculty share our thoughts/advice! There will also be time for Q&A. Registration link in flyer - see you soon!

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

We built a targeted protein degradation–based system to mimic reproductive age-related aneuploidy in young eggs - revealing how chromosome errors associated with female infertility arise with age. 🧬✨ With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB. Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

I can’t add much to all the beautiful reflections I’ve read about @weinberz.witchlab.org . But one of her many impacts is that she modeled how fierce advocacy and research excellence can exist in one person, neither at the others expense. I hope we can carry her legacy forward on both counts 🤍

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

greetings friends! crowd-sourcing for a group discussion…to my fellow academics, can you reply/DM with answers to the following (either/both)? - how is genAI (GPT, claude) helping your research/other aspects of your work? - how are you seeing genAI misused in research/work? please share/repost!

greetings friends! crowd-sourcing for a group discussion…to my fellow academics, can you reply/DM with answers to the following (either/both)? - how is genAI (GPT, claude) helping your research/other aspects of your work? - how are you seeing genAI misused in research/work? please share/repost!

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!

Our faculty job market series continues today on the topic of zoom interviews! Come hear Tyler, Heather, and Duc share their thoughts/advice today at 3pm ET / 12p PT. There will also be time for Q&A. Registration link in flyer - hope to see you there!

I’m excited to share our new preprint! We built a single-nucleus multiomic (snRNA-seq+snATAC-seq) atlas of leptin receptor-expressing hypothalamic neurons (LepRᴴʸᵖᵒ) and identified conserved cis-regulatory elements overlapping human obesity-linked variants and eQTLs🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The 2025-2026 season of the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar kicks off Friday, September 12 at 3 pm Eastern Time with @sarahcolijn.bsky.social‬ of Washington Univ in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social‬ of the Univ of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS #SDBPostdocSeminar

Our faculty job market series continues today on the topic of CVs, cover letters, and LORs. Come hear myself, @brisapalikuqilab.bsky.social & @jayeperview.bsky.social share our thoughts/advice today at 3pm ET / 12p PT. There will also be time for Q&A. Registration link in flyer - see you soon!

new review alert❗️ thought your neighborhood stress response pathway (ISR) only dealt in stress adaptation? well, maybe so. but many cells are apparently quite “stressed out” - even healthy ones. see quoted thread by my phenom co-author @shyama13.bsky.social for a summary! ⬇️

Calling all future faculty! Great news: we are bringing back our EquiSciTrack series with a fantastic lineup of generous new PIs. As before, we’ll be discussing all the major points of the application process. See flyer below for registration link/QR. We hope to see you there!

⚖️🍿 Alright, let’s do it. Live-tweeting oral arguments on a motion for preliminary injunction in APHA v NIH. Hearing starts at 11a EDT today This is scheduled to be an argument about whether the Court should reinstate terminated NIH grants on topics like DEI, trans health, HIV prevention. But...

They are resegregating academic science

Beyond thrilled - I’ve been awarded an NSF CAREER grant! I get to continue making scientific discoveries, training the next generation of researchers, & sharing knowledge about the scientific enterprise with the general public. This support is much needed, personally & professionally…let’s GOOO!!!

The Zwick lab has landed in the Regenerative Medicine Institute @NYU! I’m incredibly excited to build a team to study how epithelial organs are patterned and remodeled throughout life, with a major focus on the remarkable changes that occur in the maternal body during pregnancy..1/5

two more days to submit for consideration in this workshop! looking forward to hearing about all your amazing science :)

Eligible? Don’t hesitate to apply for this fantabulous peer mentoring program! We can’t wait to meet you!

Tigist Tamir PhD has joined the department as a TT Assistant Professor. Her research focuses on Cell signaling mediated regulation of metabolism & oxidative stress response in obesity and cancer. Her lab is accepting applications for RA,postdoc positions & rotation students. @phosphotig.bsky.social

#Mentoring is empowering our mentees with a broader network so they can experience different perspectives as they progress in their own journey.

If you are an #EarlyCareerResearcher (grad student, postdoc, pre-tenure faculty) using #Drosophila, consider the new mentoring initiative #FlyCROSS. Complete the survey (link and QR code in the reposts) by Jan 5 to get matched up with a mentor.

Closing out the year with a new pre-print! Here, we show that the stress response factor Atf4 is more abundant in female vs male fat (likely directly Doublesex-regulated). This dimorphism renders females more resilient to starvation-induced death. Lots of follow-up work to come!

Calling all fly biologists: submit your research for consideration in the “Everything you ever wanted to know about sex” workshop at #Dros25! We hope to highlight diverse science, researchers, and career stages. Email submission to [email protected] by Wed, Jan 15.

a great inaugural bluesky post - a starter pack filled with some of my favorite scientists!