🌟Im happy to share that this winter I'll be starting my lab at the Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University! Excited to join the Department of Medical and Translational Biology as a Wallenberg Fellow and looking forward to new collaborations and cool transposon research 🤩 🧬

I'm thrilled to announce that I’m opening my own research team in the Department of Genome Biology at I2BC @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social ! #ATIP-Avenir Very excited to start this new adventure! www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/equipe-intra...

To learn more about #DrosEU visit droseu.net and join us!! DrosEU has been funded by a @eseb.bsky.social Special Topic Network (7/7)

We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)

Hello everyone! We decided to automate our sign-up process for the JEDI network. Please register using this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1IdO... Thanks to everyone who reached out! We are looking forward to building our community with you. Share and repost!!! #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

Hi! We are looking for a PhD to work on the cross talk between transposable elements, insects and intracellular bacteria on the bioinformatics side. The PhD would be supervised by @mariefablet.bsky.social and myself along with @nicolasparisot.bsky.social Deadline December 2025! Please share! #tesky

📢 Lancement de la campagne ATIP-Avenir 2026 @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social et @inserm.fr ouvre la campagne ATIP-Avenir 2026, destinée à soutenir des projets de recherche innovants portés par de jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs. 📅 Toutes les informations : buff.ly/5DH6mpd

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@fly-jedi.bsky.social please note that @droseu.bsky.social is now on Bluesky

Extremely excited to share that I’m joining Columbia University @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! We will explore how the mobile genome works—how transposons shape us, our DNA and how they can be harnessed to build useful technologies. #NewPI #RNAsky #TEsky thawanilab.org

Join junior group leaders using #Drosophila to understand development, #CellBiology, #evolution and more at the EMBO Workshop on Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila, 21–27 June 2026 in Kolymbari, Greece. Deadline: 3 November meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro... #EMBOevents #GeneSky 🧪

This is terrible news. Clearly, a solution MUST be found! Flybase is ESSENTIAL!!

Our new paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using 3D reconstructions and volume measurements in Drosophila wing primordia, we show that growth can be uncoupled from cell proliferation and uncover a new time window for growth arrest. With @leopoldlab.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

DNA methylation at #retrotransposons protects the #germline by preventing NRF1-mediated #activation. -> www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Now online! Composite transposons with bivalent histone marks function as RNA-dependent enhancers in cell fate regulation

🦟 Bioinformatics Research Scientist position open in my lab in Nice (FR) to study Aedes mosquito retrotransposons & their interactions with arboviruses collab w/ @salehlabparis.bsky.social & @lambrechtslab.bsky.social Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/359830 Please boost! #ArboRetro #Bioinformatics

All proceeds from my #sciart Etsy shop will now be donated to @flybase.bsky.social . Due to fed cuts, this beloved resource that I use daily has lost it's funding, and I'm helping in my small way. Now's a good time stock up on #STEM & #drosophila gifts & swag! www.etsy.com/shop/Picosti...

Exciting Research Professorship Position in Stem Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Leuven. Amazing research ecosystem, great colleagues, high quality of life, tenure track. For those interested in joining us, please see below: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Any recommendations for a #Drosophila transgenesis facility in Europe?

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Happy to announce a new preprint from my lab looking in to the establishment of polycomb domains in early fly development and contributions from pioneer factors Zelda and GAGA-factor.

A little late to share, but still thrilled 🤗! What started as two independent stories, one in Clermont-Ferrand (@igred.fr) and one in Cambridge (Hannon’s group @cruk-mi.bsky.social ), turned into a joint adventure to decode how Rhino picks its favorite piRNA clusters. When forces unite… 👇👇👇

Calling all meeting organizers… @biologists.bsky.social now have a calculator to estimate your event’s carbon footprint and to test various reduction scenarios. thenode.biologists.com/event-carbon...

The deadline is approaching for this fantastic course! Apply now! Free to attend!

We wrote a review on Transposable Elements (TEs) and almost all aspects of TE silencing and their roles in biological processes & disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share a new publication: an introduction to comparative oncology in @natrevcancer.nature.com‬. Thanks to the leaders in the field for welcoming me as an invertebrate researcher. rdcu.be/etKdN

#FlyCROSS is a mentor-mentee matching program for the fly community. They're looking for mentors from all career paths (academia, industry, policy etc.) who have experience with #Drosophila research and are eager to support the next generation of fly scientists. Apply to become a mentor by 14 July:

The Maria Leptin | EMBO Science Journalism Fellowships support life scientists pursuing a career in #ScienceJournalism and science journalists who wish to further their scientific education. Apply now: www.embo.org/funding/fell... #LifeSciences #funding 🧪

We are excited to officially welcome a new group leader at the MPI-IE in #Freiburg. 🎉 Dr Juliane Glaser 🥳 – she studies epigenetic mechanisms of embryonic development, with a focus on transposable elements. 👉 Interview: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/6043545/2025... Welcome, @julianeg.bsky.social!

Although we didn't make it to a cover, it was so wonderful to work with @mariadiazillus.bsky.social on designing an artwork inspired by our work. Thank you Maria! We love it and will be proudly showing it around. Rover ERV wandering around the chromatin rapped around the moons of the solar system:

It is a Great Honour to receive the 'Les Grandes Avancées en Biologie' award 🏅 from the @academiesciences.bsky.social and to share our work during this fabulous day celebrating Science. Thank you! @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social @frm-officiel.bsky.social

Was a great pleasure to co-organise with @drosostalis.bsky.social @nkonst4.bsky.social @ksiudeja.bsky.social @linneweberlab.bsky.social Let's try to further the build and amplify that network! (and many thanks to @giorgio.gilest.ro for the transmission)

Happy that our preprint from early this year, uncovering the regulation a somatically "hot" endogenous retroelement locus, has now found its home in @narjournal.bsky.social. "TEsky" doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

calling all fly folks, keep an eye out for new system coming soon, through which you can help support FlyBase in this time of dire need.

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We want to thank everyone who attended this year's #Drosophila JEDI meeting at Château du Feÿ! Three days of amazing talks, great ideas and chat at the camp fire. We are looking forward to meeting everyone again at the next meeting!

Mark your calendars for May 18-22, 2026- in Roscoff, Brittany, for the next iteration of the Developmental Biology Conference Jacques Monod!

Towards more sustainable research: reducing the environmental impact when working with #Drosophila. Challiner, Saurya., Patel, Raff, Fostier, Prokop, A. (2025) @genetics-gsa.bsky.social‬, in press -- doi.org/10.1093/gene... - Always happy to discuss and hear your ideas and views!

🧿 Excited about molecular biology & genetics 🧬🧬🧬? Wanna live in Paris? Join our team as a lab manager under the supervision of @kevinfidelin.bsky.social & myself! Personal development in professional environment is our mission. Inclusive space where proactive and playing collective people flourish 🧿

REFEREE 1: “I conclude with a simple, direct statement - this is the best paper I have read all year!” #TransparentPeerReview Co-evolving infectivity and expression patterns drive the diversification of endogenous retroviruses @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social et al www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

1/3 So pleased to have this latest installment of “the retrotransposon storm” submitted and on biorxiv. This work was driven by Shreevidya Korada, an amazing PhD student in Roger Sher’s lab, co-mentored by me. @mollygale.bsky.social was an awesome collaborator. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

an iconic schematic summarizing evolution of transposons and endogenous retroviruses, so cool from @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social lab congrats! 🪰

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Yes! It's been so nice to see this really creative project develop in the @bardinlab.bsky.social. Very happy to see it published now. Bravo!

Apparently we do not have a JEDI starter pack yet. @fly-jedi.bsky.social and everyone else: let me know which other Junior European #Drosophila Investigators are missing! go.bsky.app/PcTGEMc

Ending the evening talks with @ksiudeja.bsky.social presentation of mobile elements in the génome of somatic cells

Honorary (fly) JEDI today - inspiring group of young investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social flyjedi.sciencesconf.org

#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!

Lok at all that energy. Don't you want to become a JEDI?!