This captures the brutal arrogance, narcissistic self-elevation and complete disregard for human beings spot on! Is this what we want in the UK?

This Tuesday I will give my favourite lecture of the year on our Advanced #DevBiol course: The toolbox lecture - The Molecular Biology of the Cell in 1 hour. Each year this slide triggers me to think and refine the rationale - a fun task!

This is a special message to King Coal and his fossil fuel executive sponsors. The fossil fuel industry knew 114 years ago, what we all know today. These executives are all accomplices in the deliberate destruction of the world headed by King Coal.

Now on the GREAT SCIENCE SHARE: Reaching thousands of primary schools across the UK and far beyond talking about the importance of the fruit fly #Drosophila youtu.be/7Q1cOtzMcqk?...

Cartoon by Richard Kirkman

This all reminds of the highly obscure and ridiculously constructed ideology of the Nazis, doesn't it? It just drifts away from any common sense!

Neither Starmer nor Farage should be in power because they lack the leadership qualities and vision that the UK so urgently needs: to unite the nation and convince us not to give up but take the long-term view and work hard for a better future.

It is important for reviewers to see the value of work and argue with good reasoning. Sometimes there is great value, but the presentation just does not work, or important aspects have been overlooked. We all need to review constructively and reject only if we have fair and substantiated arguments.

Until someone has the guts to leak the unredacted materials we will never know what he really did and what Putin may hold on him. Knowing the truth likely has the potential to be a game changer for the good of our planet in many ways.

British values

There is a certain trend regarding facists and satire

Me at Age 12: I drew a frog with three different shades of green!!! Michelangelo at Age 12:

Given Epstein's substantial links to Russia, this is indeed a likely scenario

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm.

If Musk does not like it, isn't it confirmation you do the right thing? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

There I fixed it

A study using fruit flies as a model can explain aspects of neurodegenerative diseases that have baffled scientists for decades. @poppi62.bsky.social's research focuses on axons - which allow brains to control behaviour and movement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Measles has one of the highest basic reproduction numbers (R₀) of any disease (12 to 18), meaning one infected person can spread it to 12 to 18 others in a fully susceptible population, making it extremely contagious. Need 95% vaccination status to achieve herd immunity. Get vaccinated!!

Can anybody tell us, what this all will mean for research at universities? There are two pillars of scientific innovation in our society: industry and universities. Each should be allowed to play at their strengths to have maximal gain. We lose this perspective! www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

"These findings suggest a circular relationship which we called the "dependency cycle of axon homeostasis", proposing that axon maintenance requires a microtubule- and motor protein-based machinery of transport which, itself, is dependent on this transport."

Worth listening to until the end www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL4L...

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People want to join the EU. Nobody wants to join China. No neighbor of the US says, "We want to join the US".

'In other words, Europe can only hope to stop Trump’s abuse of US power if it acts with unity and strength, and joins forces with like-minded countries such as Canada, but also Japan, Australia, Brazil and India, to build new trade pacts and rules.'

Morning.

With ICE has his personal paramilitary arm on a budget higher than military expenditure of any other country except China, does Trump keep his promise that America will never have to vote again? In the UK, we already know what kind of people will constitute Farage's troops to this end!

Loss & gain of motor protein function cause microtubule bundle damage in 🪰 axons: @currentbiology.bsky.social Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... @poppi62.bsky.social

Transport motor loss and hyperactivation cause axonal microtubule bundle damage mediated by inferred ROS dyshomeostasis upon motor loss, and through ROS-independent mechanisms, likely through increased mechanical load, upon motor hyperactivation www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r...

Great work by the Klaembt lab - as expected!!!!!!

We are happy to announce that registration for #DrosoSpain2026 is now open! Please register and submit your abstracts until the 20th of February at: drosospain.umh.es Looking forward to seeing you all in Alicante soon!

Spot on, isn't it? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The world feels rough right now So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery. 🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta

Wonderful to see former group members excel! Congratulations @exdrososcientia.bsky.social! Solis, O., Shaw-McGrath, T., Wade, A. R., Hahn, I. (2025) Steady-state visually evoked potentials as readouts for abnormal GSK3β activity in Drosophila. bioRxiv, 2025.10.24.684304 -- doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Wow! That's to be said! The Ezra Klein Show | The Contradictions of Gavin Newsom, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/dir-4tiai...

Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes? That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.

Join the 4th Asia Pacific #Drosophila Neurobiology Conference in China: lhs.suat-sz.edu.cn/info/1031/13... @fly-eds.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social

I’m giving a talk at the Cytoskeleton of Neurons & Glia seminar on Dec 11 (11am EST / 4pm UK)! I’ll chat about polarity in bulb DA neurons and what it means for release + self-inhibition. Disclaimer: I’ve aged a bit since that pic, but spirit’s the same 😉 ncytoskeleton.wixsite.com/webinars/eve...

When America Has Your Back . Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher

What a remarkable, piercing, and perfect assessment of these malignant moronic monsters.

Very interesting! Would be interesting to look also at more distant food sources, such as potato, and ask why melanogaster over others can accept them; or compare house mice to more specialist rodents! Just think of how food generalism helped humans to spread across the globe!

Please, stay informed about Ukraine's dreadful situation, being sold by Trump to Russia whilst EU and UK politicians sleepwalk into increased hybrid warfare & massive future expenditure. Follow: Ukraine The Latest: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03... Battleground: www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...