Anyone want to help me find a job in South Wales: Swansea or Cardiff?? www.wvtf.org/2026-06-30/a...

Archaeaophiles! Last chance to sign up as a virtual attendee for MBoA2026. It’s cheap and you will have access to all the talks include our archaea@50 celebration with a special guest: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc...

Congrats Steven!!!!

Hey! That’s us! My Fall ‘25 lab class got this done (with an assist from Fall ‘18.) Sometimes you just have to wait for tools to appear to make it all clear.

Now in press: melanized micropublication.org/journals/bio...

Oh. TIL It's Oregon-R, not OregonR It's only taken me 30+ years, FFS. flybase.org/reports/FBsn...

Anyone going to the Cardiff, London, or Bristol gigs? (anyone want to gift me a show and plane ticket?) www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m... Super Furry Animals review – stirring reunion showcases immaculate songcraft

Nice cost vs distance image. South Wales seems just a little too expensive for the distance. www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

shop.superfurry.com New merch!! If only I hadn’t botched getting tickets for this summer’s tour. <sigh>

Paid 12-month internship: Communications Officer. We have an exciting opportunity for someone looking to take their first step into a science communication or publishing role. Based Cambridge, UK (& wfh). See the full role description for further details at biologists.com/wp-content/u...

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!

Heading to the Fly Meeting #DROS26 tomorrow. I just counted the abstract books & receipts & notes and this will be my 30th Fly Meeting & my 6th in Chicago. No, I don't want to eat at Carmine's fancy restaurant--but I could do the Italian beef sandwich.

A Mattel Electronics Intellivision circa 1980 that I found in my parent’s attic still works! Now I need to find it a good home.

Focus (Based On A True Story)

Fly Genetics question: Anyone have a reference they like for using CRISPR to make recombinants between to mutations that are absurdly close? (In this case absurdly close means adjacent, not that I'm being lazy)

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I won’t be able to stay up that late, so here’s a gif for the Steelers’ game:

A question for old-ish fly folk: Any idea if the webpage for the old DrosDel site that could design deletions still lives somewhere? The DrosDel url is defunct, and the link I found to DrosDel at Cambridge doesn’t work. I’d make a new Df or two, if I knew the best way to do it.

Behold: a genuinely useful flowchart #AcademicChatter

Aah Wales, never change ❤️

Yeah Sarah and Mohamed!! A super cool story!

Yeah, I need to be in London in May. And the Man Don't Give a Fuck!

Home sweet home, sort of.

OMGOMGOMGOMG IT’S HAPPENING!!!!

I landed in Wales!

Post a movie you LOVE with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.

Can newydd! ✨📣 Ffrydiwch Saf Ar Dy Sedd yma / Stream Saf Ar Dy Sedd below or watch the video by @petefowlerart.bsky.social below that. Dim Probs LP out Sept 12 gruff.lnk.to/SafArDySedd

Heading to the EDRC meeting in just two weeks! Will I see anyone from here there?

It's Sept 1, 2025: In ONE YEAR (Sept 1, 2026) I will begin the next academic phase: "Associate Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Biology" Yes, I'm retiring in one year.

It’s been quite a few years since I jumped a P-element out, but the whole thing is still crazy fun.

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youtu.be/N83FP0dmZes?... Me, talking about my research and how contemporary toxic masculinities are no different from those of the past.

Had to look it up: N: Loch Ness, Scotland E: Kruger National Park, South Africa S: Table Mountain National Park, South Africa W: Suzhou, China

Dungeon Crawler Carl is a fun ride, but the audiobook with Jeff Hayes is mind-blowing. That dude's skills are just nuts!

New paintbrush day!!! IYKYK Happy fly pushing everyone!

Doing the ‘yearly’ cleaning of my bench. Found this gel pic from 2011. I have no idea why/how it has been sitting on my bench for 4,969 days (yes I looked it up) It must be important, I better keep it.

Is General Relativity a Strange New World to you? Do you feel like you're left on the Lower Decks while spacetime is a realm just for a Prodigy? Well let's change that: Tonight Erin MacDonald: Science Advisor will be introducing us to spacetime and gravitation in Star Trek.

I think I’ve had enough of monochromatic puzzles. Too similar to a tedious F1 screen: “Is this it?” “No” “Is this it?” “No” “Is this it?” “No” (lather, rinse, repeat) Also I’m heading into (audio)book 7 Dungeon Crawler Carl in case you wondered.

Flipped my stocks to Cat Steven’s Greatest Hits. Very calming and cheaper than >100 pounds for a show in Hyde Park with Neil Young and Van Morrison.

<sigh> House committee leaders encourage Duke to end partnership with China’s Wuhan University

Goodbye for now, Castell-nedd. See you again soon.

One more set for now, but lots more to come today. I just have so much fun creating these, it's difficult to know when to stop. I know that some of them may not be to scale as well, but I'm still really happy with how they turned out. May the Force Be With You!

I try to incorporate the two elements the best that I can, placing characters in scenes that they seem to belong in. The one of Luke at Phantom Fright Nights is definitely one of my favorites, as is the Razor Crest (RIP) in the sinkhole.

Happy May the Fourth everyone. I'm a HUGE Star Wars fan, and every year I do a mashup of #Pittsburgh and Star Wars images. I'll be sharing some throughout the day, but these are a mix of some of my old and new favorites. #MayTheFourthBeWithYou

The local castle remains in Neath (Wales).

Is she getting money from this? Yes? Pass.

And some of us have saved searches on Indeed Jobs.