Excited for the #EDRC #EDRC2025 in Alicante. But first, some cats from the Castillo de San Fernando

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...

Wanna guess what happens if you do the adjustment? The association disappears. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Acetaminophen does not cause autism.

Food inflation is notably absent in today’s political debate in Britain, which is dominated by immigration. But many voters still say their top concern is the cost of living

A large (2.5M+) sibling control analysis that found "no evidence of increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability associated with acetaminophen use" seems to be the kind of data that requires serious consideration before declaring mission accomplished. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Promising direction to recognise the reward of immigration at a time when so much toxic rhetoric is spewed in the opposite direction in #UKPoli. The question is can the Labour government actually do... something? For once? Forget their snafus. Let's see a positive policy established & celebrated.

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science. Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024. Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

Dear JEDIs, the #EDRC meeting is coming soon! Who is joining? Looking forward to meeting everyone next week!

Any feedback from any followers on how this Feed works? Anything people want to see? Anything people feel they are missing that should be in the feed? Hashtag recommendations appreciated.

US Science These scientists left the US in Trump’s first term: their tips on taking the leap www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wegen den Einschnitten der US-Regierung fürchten sich Wissenschaftler, dass die Flybase, eine zentrale wissenschaftliche Datenbank für die Forschung an der Fruchtfliege Drosophila melanogaster, verloren gehen könnte. Mein Text dazu in der heutigen F.A.Z.

Looking for a PhD? I am advertising two industry sponsored PhD projects. One on black soldier fly genetics with #betabugs and another on searching insect biodiversity for novel enzymes #Syngenta. Get in touch if you are interested!! bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/available-ic...

Canadian man reading date never knows which is day and which is month unless day is above 12

Excellent thread on what is going on at academic journals, from the perspective of an editor. Clearly highlights the strain (direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) caused by quantitative incentives, and that publishers cannot be allies in solving the mess -- they are part of the problem & profit from it.

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

For context, I am writing up results for a paper on special issues and practices.

UK academics, be aware that what's happening to universities in the US is coming to us in a few years, in the (unfortunately quite likely) event that Reform wins. Labour needs to get it's act together and give people a reason to vote for them.

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hey #AcademicSky, have you guest edited a special issue for any Frontiers journals? I'm curious what sort of proposal form is given to guest editors. The initial proposal page is sparse, so I imagine more "meat" comes later. If you have, please email/DM me! #ResearchIntegrity

'When an authoritarian sets out to dismantle a democracy, they rarely begin with tanks in the streets. They start with the institutions that shape how a nation understands itself — its universities, its research labs, its spaces for free inquiry.'

Vincent summarizes a recent New York Times guest essay by seven former CDC directors, entitled “We ran the CDC: Kennedy is endangering every Americans health.”

I'm super excited to have joined @ubcmath.bsky.social and @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social !! Please get in touch if you might be interested in graduate studies or postdoctoral research opportunities!

Publishers like #MDPI, #Frontiers, #Hindawi drive much of paper's growth through "special issues" with faster review times, raising concerns about quality. Mark A. Hanson & Ko propose 5 metrics to analyse this ⚡ including impact inflation, which highlights citation gaming: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

As is often the case with proposals for AI-assisted peer review, many of the tasks listed here aren't really the responsibility of peer reviewers but publishers, while things like AI-generated summaries seem completely pointless. It's all a grift.

I'd actually argue AI actively hinders our ability to filter out rubbish by just adding even more drivel on top of the drivel we have to read already. #PeerReview

arxiv.org/abs/2508.20863 The destruction of peer review. We need experts to be trusted, and editors to be involved in the process. The act of peer review is meaningless if editors don't assess the work themselves. Any paper sneaking prompts in is likely drivel, no AI needed to learn that. 😮‍💨

Report: Entire world refreshing newsfeed for no particular reason

Very honored to receive the Royal Society Research Culture Award - this represents the work of a great team who've worked non-stop since we launched bioRxiv in 2013 royalsociety.org/news/2025/08... www.cshl.edu/inglis-and-s...

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...

If you like transcription regulation and its mechanisms, this WIP list is for you. I'm sure I've forgotten lots of people, so don't hesitate to let me know so I can add you to the list. go.bsky.app/8vTgeXB

Very nice resources for arguing that studying flies is a good investment

I mentioned to a couple of people that I had a surprise waiting to be shared when Moderna got approval for its updated COVID-19 vaccine. It’s approved, and the big news??? Completely produced domestically!!!!! 🥳🤩 Approved as usual for all aged 6mo+!

It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!

Fly folk: The Amazing and essential @flybase.bsky.social is in existential need due to Trump termination of the grant that supports this vital resource. Please donate to help keep Flybase alive. I just did. Info here on how to make a tax deductible donation: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

New paper: Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered With @deadneanderthals.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social, @mortenoxe.bsky.social, @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, and me www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Postdoc opportunity in disease ecology at @uniexecec.bsky.social with the excellent @btschirren.bsky.social and @andyyoung.bsky.social in evergreen Cornwall UK.

Hey #AcademicSky, advice for a #NewPI? How do you introduce a project to a new MSc student? PhD student? Postdoc? You've spent months, years developing an idea and getting funding for it. How much information, and what kind, do you present first? How do you make sure the project becomes theirs?

Come be my colleague! We have three open positions at the Assistant/Associate Professor level for candidates in all areas of the biological sciences. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Preprints are not blog posts... Evidence consistently shows them to be comparable to peer reviewed lit (in bioscience at least but also data for some other fields). MIT may have pushed this to media, who likely didn't do good enough due diligence. This is a prestige problem, not a preprint one.

We have finally navigated the endless red tape and gotten the donation site to support the US FlyBase groups up and running. bsky.app/profile/flyb...

If you run a fly lab and have not yet contributed to save FlyBase, please look at our wiki page for the latest information!

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

UK taxpayers who donate to @flybase.bsky.social privately can use Gift Aid if they donate through the University of Cambridge philanthropy site (link below). This increases the value of your donation at no cost to yourself.

Drosophila research without FlyBase would be untenable. Time for all labs who can afford it to step up.

Folks going to #ESEB2025 : To help people connect on Bluesky, I've started making starter packs. Here is a first one with the names that were available when I started. Ping me if you want to be included in the next one!

i was told a US donor site to support FlyBase will be live shortly, which we should all broadcast to everyone we can. however, there is a delay (red tape) to be able to provide invoices to bill grants, but its in process. 🪰

The campaign against science by the Trump administration through grant slashing has reached FlyBase. There is an effort to crowd-fund this vital database: