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.

My Saturday morning coffee I must be the most trustworthy scientist ever, since I say fuck very frequently 🤣

Less than 24 hours to go! If you contribute $25 or more you’ll get a screening link, which will likely be the only way to see the film for a year while we submit to festivals! seedandspark.com/fund/long-away

Fund trans art! Less than 24 hours left in the campaign!

Being retired does have its advantages tho it is a bit unnerving.

Mainstream science is not always objective, neutral, or singularly truthful, Ambika Kamath & Melina Packer write in Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ambikamath.bsky.social @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

FYI: will work in EU/UK for cheap!

Honored to begin as Director @neurobio-upr.bsky.social , UPR Med Sciences. After disasters, pandemic & cuts, we’re rebuilding—expanding into computational neuroscience & ramping up conferences/courses. We’ll seek partners & donors; reach out to join us! Stay tuned for more.

I can be there in 24 hours. Just let me know what level of rain/snow gear I’ll need.

C'mon man, fucking scumbag(s) www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

Today is already a LOT, so I'm going to share a fun little anecdote about my joy working on the last season of Star Trek: Lower Decks and what it is like when the science advising relationship works GREAT. It will be mostly spoiler-free but feel free to ask questions! (1/9)

Happy Birthday day!! Hope it’s a great one!

Fresh off the press, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément

The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging. www.nature.com/articles/nbt...

they gon’ make Italians people of color again

I’m not one to post these kind of things, but holy fuck, I’m going to miss this class. Absolute wonderful people.

As a short man I've always been pissed off that I have to get trousers shortened. I can't buy off the peg. But I worked with a 6'9" man who is too tall to travel by tube or bus without hunching and just can't fly economy. Turns out being short isn't so painful after all.

Earth and the Moon. As seen from Mercury orbit.