ایران من، دریای خون #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranRevolution2026 #IranMassacre

Forbes: Kill Switch’—Iran Shuts Down Starlink Internet For First Time “We have never seen anything like this before. Iran’s digital blackout has now reached a stage where, through the deployment of military jamming systems, access to Starlink internet is also being targeted.

People of Iran are rising up against a dictator regime. It has been 4 days of absolute internet and communication blackout. The free world needs to know. The free world needs to respond. #DigitalBlackoutIran

PhD student @rdridenbaugh.bsky.social is traveling solo to present his amazing work at #PAG33. Be sure to check out poster P027 on Jan 12th!!

@rebeizlab.bsky.social presents a detailed 3D atlas of transcription factors expressed in developing genital structures in #Drosophila. This new resource in #GENETICS suggests that the same transcription factors may control development in female and male genitalia. buff.ly/ICLiC2F

A high-resolution atlas of the brain predicts lineage and birth order underlying neuronal identity: Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Follow-up paper on sex, online in the New year

Killer whales and humans share a trait that is otherwise rare in nature: a long female menopause. Read 'Sexually antagonistic selection, X-chromosome relatedness and the #evolution of menopause in killer whales': doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #BiologyLetters #ecology Image: Christopher Michel

Marques et al. (2025) In-situ glial cell-surface proteomics identifies pro-longevity factors in Drosophila. eLife14:RP109422https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.109422.1

New paper out from our lab today in Biology Letters! This work, led by our former lab tech @avigayillev.bsky.social and lab alum Isabella Martinez, used hemiclonal analysis to show that longer matings with previously mated females are advantageous to males! doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Molecular evolution of octopamine receptors in Drosophila #Drosophila

A beautiful paper on the role of Piezos in uterine biology. I have known first author Yunxiao Zhang since 2012. Yunxiao is rare talent (and a wonderfully kind human being) now on the job market!

Sparse learning for scalable phylogenetic network inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.16.688704v1

Female membrane proteins regulate postmating ovulation in Drosophila melanogaster by ovulin-dependent and -independent pathways #Drosophila

Thank you on this labor day!!

On my way to participate in #behaviour2025 in Kolkata this week 😁 Looking forward to meeting friends and connecting with new peeps 😁 Also, do attend my talk on the last day if you are interested in ejaculates and behaviour 😁 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Asymmetric development and function of paired sperm-storage organs in Drosophila melanogaster #Drosophila

FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

Investigation of the molecular-genetic basis for courtship differences between Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila simulans and their hybrids #Drosophila

The Oviposition Inhibitory Neuron is a potential hub of multi-circuit integration in the Drosophila brain #Drosophila

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

If you are an SMBE member and received the election email (it may have gone to your junk folder), I would be honored if you would consider voting for me for councilor. You may also choose to vote for other scientists, and I encourage you to participate in the election. Thank you!

New preprint from lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Sexual dimorphism arises not through wholesale transcriptional reprogramming, but via selective sex-specific survival of neurons defined by birth order and shared developmental programs.

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...

I’m very glad to share our recent publication @pnas.org , led by UnJin Lee from our lab at @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social : pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... In this work, he 1) developed a method to efficiently compare single-cell RNA-seq data from rapidly evolving tissues across multiple species, and

While it is a dark time for US science, I'm grateful to be able to celebrate some recent lab successes! A brief thread... 🧵 First, the final version of our article on the katherine johnson (kj) gene came out in GENETICS @genetics-gsa.bsky.social in March! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Join SSE, @asn-amnat.bsky.social & @systbiol.bsky.social in a Week of Action for NSF! Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Our Media Tool can help you get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF