Making the muscles of a fly leg is complicated, flies do it in spatial and temporal steps. Very nice work: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nova Scotia trying to enter the heat wave conversation

My contribution to the ongoing "1%" science discourse is this picture you can send to your favourite preprint author(s) after reading their papers to tell them you liked their work! #SciArt #PawReview

Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil

They've appointed a new CEO of Nova Scotia Health, but the real news is this: news.novascotia.ca/en/2026/06/3...

This Special Feature from #ProcB showcases research from scientists, countries and regions underrepresented in the scientific literature, while addressing inequities in publishing and "helicopter science". Discover the collection: buff.ly/RjnbPC7 | #Ecology #GlobalSouth

i think i found a deer tick. 😱

I have been thinking since yesterday about why I find the 1% thing so, so disturbing. It's a visceral reaction of 'just no', which goes beyond the general yuck towards the enshittification of/via AI. I have finally put my finger on it: it is the feeling you get when

how the Drosophila prolongata fly got its giant front legs. Beautiful work 👇

"One Palestinian child has been killed on average every day since the start of the cease-fire" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/w...

Bots are already changing history... What would happen if these "intelligent" machines removed these and similar papers from records and public access (or other more serviceable to politically motivated actors)? The world is getting beyond ridiculous and terribly dangerous for future generations.

Fruit fly embryo development is wild! 1 nucleus clones into 6,000+ copies in just 2 hours. Perfectly synchronized. With built-in bumper system. And absolutely mesmerizing. I visualized the science behind it in a microscopy story 🔬👇 youtu.be/xyV9BhIVRjM #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy #Drosophila

During my lifetime, these butterflies have dropped by half. 🫣

Nice piece about the problems associated with the appearance of the qed 1% 🤮 list.

The first molecular evidence of Homo naledi from at least 20 individuals shows that none are male. I've taken a deep dive into how the paleoproteomics works, what it says about naledi relationships, and why this result is less surprising than it sounds. www.johnhawks.net/p/the-first-...

This is a terrible disaster. Magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Venezuela, minutes after another M7.2. More than half a million people exposed to “severe or violent” shaking, and best estimates suggesting tens of thousands may have been killed earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Tonight we have a guest lecture by Netta Dorchin - a world expert in Gall midges The biggest family in dark taxa, and by quite a margin..within Hymenoptera, it’s the Platygastrids, which are parasites of Gall midges…. #BIOCOREFlies26 #insectweek @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

i'm glad many are calling the 1% ranking out

From cells to amino acids: 1000ExM pushes expansion microscopy even further 🔬 #microscopy @fadelvalle.bsky.social covers an impactful #preprint from the labs of @bergerlab.bsky.social, @alishaib.bsky.social, Silvio Rizzoli & @eboyden3.bsky.social #preLight⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...

Why are folks so obsessed with rankings? Life is not a competition.

The top frame is from 2015, when French meteorologists did a “forecast” from a #climate heated August 2050 - a warning on what could possibly happen in 35 years time. Bottom frame: well, it’s happened in barely a decade, only it’s already *much* worse than predicted. It’s a runaway train.

6-0 for real.

The glaciers and ice sheets that cover 10% of Earth’s surface are not lifeless. Glaciers host over 150 species of animal, 73 of which only live in glacier habitats. In a warming world, many denizens of the ice are under threat. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/2y1V50Zef0a

A short, informal intro to Drosophila genetics (with a French accent 🇫🇷): key concepts & techniques for new lab members. www.epfl.ch/labs/lemaitr...

Thrilled to share our latest paper describing systemic metabolic alterations in a fly tumour model. Great work of PhD grad Dr. Kewei Yu and undergrad and post-bacc researcher Gurpreet Moroak. @dmmjournal.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

Emoticons: E9.5 mouse embryo sections through otocyst, hindbrain and pharyngeal endoderm resemble eyes, nose, and smile of an emoticon. 📸 Image credit: Ankita Thawani (Baylor College of Medicine) #FluorescenceFriday #Embryology #DevelopmentalBiology #Microscopy #ScienceArt✨ 🧬

a preprint describing the fast and fair system from Biology Open @biologists.bsky.social . Turns out if reviewers get paid they review papers fast and don't ghost the editors' emails. @cdnsciencepub.com you may want to look at it. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18

Connectomes are accelerating, from the ~300 neurons of C. elegans 40 years ago to the fly brain last year (FAFB, bbc.com/news/articles/c0lw0nxw71po). The BANC is the next big step, a full CNS, brain and nerve cord together, a powerful hypothesis-generation engine. 2/18

Horseshoe crab eyes are wild lookin.

Meet the Folddisco Marv, designed by Hyunbin Kim, who also developed Folddisco.

Folddisco is now published @natbiotech.nature.com. It’s a fast motif search for similar 3D DISCOntinuous residues like catalytic sites or zinc fingers across the entire protein universe. 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💾 folddisco.foldseek.com​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🌐 https://search.foldseek.com/folddisco

Some very cool simulations, look at those little guys climb that ladder! #MolecularNodes

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—

1/ Our new crystal structure is now available in the PDB (9SR0). It is the structure of the widely used A50I vinculin mutant bound to talin. Which is slightly awkward, because A50I is supposed to be a talin-binding-null mutant. rcsb.org/structure/9SR0

DySTrack is officially published!: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... If anyone is keen on using it feel free to reach out as we are more than happy to help and demo if need be!

First PhD pub out! www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Using #FruitFly, we found a conserved protein that helps #females balance survival and #reproduction. Without it, females continue investing in reproduction despite #nutrient scarcity. #metabolism #SexDifferences @usask.ca WCVM, CIHR, NSERC.

There are over 10,000 known species of amphipods, a type of crustacean found from ocean beaches to the deepest depths on planet Earth, the Challenger Deep. Terrifying & beautiful, all at once. (📷: Alan Jamieson)

Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins. forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...

This sounds like SF but expansion microscopy sceptics have been wrong before, so let’s see. #stuffthatmatters

Turns out when we allow our provinces to destroy universities, it has an impact. www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/eco...

big fan of the dgrp

The melanized (mel) locus of Drosophila melanogaster is a mutation in CG17065, an N-acetylglucosamine-6-phosphate deacetylase #micropublication #biology #data #caltechlibrary #Drosophila #Undergraduat https://micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-002178

clever little bugs

We told you it wouldn’t be a long wait. 👀 Even more predicted protein structures have been added to the #AlphaFold Database. This time, the database has expanded to include heterodimers – protein complexes made up of two different proteins. alphafold.ebi.ac.uk

they opened a can of worms here.

Cellular water-potential sensing through biomolecular condensation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”