PUT DOWN THE AI AND READ A FUCKING BOOK, Episode 4 🥹 I present to you: **Bitch, You Need Whimsy!!!!!; or, Read The Edge of Space-Time, But If You Won't, At Least Read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" earrings and paintings by Crystal Galindo who has a new earring drop tomorrow 📚💙

Science is not just data, its community! my last activity as Drosophila Board President was to write a theme song for our fly field. it was soooo awesome to rock it with @tarafinegan.bsky.social and ~1000 fly fanciers at #Dros26! 🪰 h/t @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social vid www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tht-...

AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions 📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass... 🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk

Sometimes failed experiments reveal gaps in how we are thinking about a problem, and digging into why an experiment didn't work can lead to discovery. This new preprint by Anne Sustar, in collaboration with Dion Dickman's lab, is one of those gratifying instances.🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Canadian Science Publishing is #hiring a Sales Operations & Customer Support Specialist to support subscribers and authors with journals, products, and services. Learn more and apply before Mar. 26: https://ow.ly/hc2p50YpU4C#hiring #SalesOperations #CustomerSupport #JobOpening

The 2026 Drosophila Community Service Award was presented earlier this month at #DROS26. This year's recipients were the REDFly Database Team and the FlyBase Developer Team, for their roles in the development of online repositories for the dissemination of Drosophila data.

This is why we love #CalciumSignaling Look how mechanical damage triggers long range Ca2+ waves in this plant !! By @annalisabellandi.bsky.social, who is now around here ;) Full www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org #microscopy #cell #mechanobiology 🧪🔬

I finally had some time to improve my poster about staging Drosophila embryos in collaboration with @stramerlab.bsky.social and we would like to share this with the community! You can find it here or at a higher resolution on my portfolio: www.behance.net/gallery/2458... #DrosophilaEmbryogenesis

Scientists, artists, and educators now have free access to more than 2000 high-resolution 3D ant models covering most ant genera, created from micro-CT scans. Read more about the revolutionary Antscan project in a new @natmethods.nature.com study @economo.bsky.social www.oist.jp/news-center/...

#Dros26 Day 2 What antibodies do you wish we had? Comment below your antibody wishlist! 📸 Drosophila egg chamber labeled with DSHB anti-hts in yellow 🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/hts-RC

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!

If you're at #Dros26 and are interested in how cells change shape & move during morphogenesis & how different classic cadherins influence different cell behaviors, check out the talk by @saraheclark.bsky.social in Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Organelles, & Trafficking II Sat 9:15 🧪

Pleased to finally share this fun collab that began at #Ento23 @cedricaumont.bsky.social presented & I had seen NCBI annotated some cockroach genomes as "contaminated." Turns out NCBI & I were wrong (much more fun). Horizontal transfer of an #AntimicrobialPeptide across insects bit.ly/DrsHGT 1/🧵

Léa Marpeaux, Claire Baudouin, Gregory Emery @emery-lab.bsky.social and colleagues @umontreal.ca identify an apical supracellular actin network in epithelial cells that acts as a long-range force transmission device. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

reason #753 why the FLY community is THE BEST! #FlyCROSS is the initiative of grad student Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social to match early stage fly researchers with experienced scientists aligned to their interests and goals. nearly 200 mentors and mentees signed up this year! see you all at #Dros26 🪰💪

So the war that does not have congressional approval, already has Canadian approval? Are we just going to knock over liquor stores with Trump next?

Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh! Here’s the actual research: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Where do I start?! 1/4

Highly recommend all Nova Scotians read this article by @timbousquet.bsky.social @halifaxexaminer.ca for a clear-eyed analysis of what’s happening here. Link in next post.

Looking forward to the Brain Repair Centre at Dalhousie University Research Day this Friday Feb 27. Special guests are Dr. Stephanie Borgland @borglandlab.bsky.social and Dr. Pete Chipman. #Neuroscience 🧪 @brchfx.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE: Monday, March 2 (2026) at 7:30 PM (Atlantic Time) How Humans Unintentionally Affect Wildlife Evolution This lecture can be accessed via Zoom at our website: nsis1862.ca/public-lectu... or in-person at Dalhousie University Killam Library room 2622.

Join us for a day of talks, posters, and discussions, featuring a morning joint lecture with Nobel Laureates Eric F. Wieschaus and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard! Date: Monday, May 4th, 2026 Location: University of Copenhagen, Mærsk Tower sites.google.com/view/emergin... Free to participate

Check out our new publication @dev-journal.bsky.social! If you thought that cell divisions challenge tissue boundaries ... you got half of the story! Using in vivo quantitative microscopy and math. modelling we show that divisions fluidize tissues and facilitate boundary refinement. 🧪 #drosophila

REMINDER: The deadline to apply for Fly School is 28 Feb. Visit dipterists.org/fly_school.h... for info & application. Photo by @bertonemyia.bsky.social

Our latest preprint list is up on FocalPlane. This list is focussed on new tools and techniques in imaging. Let us know if you have any recommendations for us to add. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/20/m...

Drosophila folks! We just shared a new protocol for surgical preparation that enables long-term imaging in adult flies. It’s low-cost, simple, and highly repeatable. For demonstration, we show a 10-day voltage imaging and a 1-week population calcium imaging results. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The #fly community aims to achieve a comprehensive genomic study of the Drosophilidae family. @pankajd.bsky.social @bernardkim.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social @darrenobbard.bsky.social present a comparative gene annotation for 301 #Drosophilidae species @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4c3pyrI

You need to hear the goal call in Inuktitut.

Wilfrid Laurier Contract Faculty may be on strike as soon as this Mon, Feb 23. They teach ~40% of undergraduate courses at Laurier, yet account for less than 6% of the university's operating budget. Support their efforts and join this letter writing campaign: actionnetwork.org/letters/4dea...

Are you a Drosophila researcher & member of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social (at any level of training)? Please vote in the Flyboard elections (we have an amazing slate of candidates) before Feb 20, 2026. Please check your email or go to this website to vote: genetics-gsa.org/2026-fly-boa... Pl repost.

Our take on a really interesting new study by the Franz lab at UCL, a version of epithelial polarity where you would not expect it! Read our Spotlight and the original paper!

Transit advocates decry Halifax mayor's autocentric plan to address traffic congestion by providing more space for cars "If transit is to work it must be freed from having to compete with cars for existing road space. That means bus lanes or other forms of separated rights of way" – February 1974

This graph basically shows that the MSCA are, as of now, useless unless the EU governance does something about it 🧪

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're highlighting how evidence-based hiring can make STEM fairer. At Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador, anonymized applications helped offers to women jump from 20% to 80%. Read more 👩‍🔬▶️ https://ow.ly/SGlU50YcsAK #IDWGIS

Celebrating International Day of Women & #GirlsInScience we're proud to spotlight researchers shaping the future of #InsectScience. When #EveryVoiceInScience is heard, science grows stronger, more innovative, and better equipped to change the world 🌍🔽 buff.ly/IHaML1h #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

I run my lab in my home for about 20yrs now. You absolutely can and kits from Carolina dot com, Edvotek, MiniPCR, etc can help reduce overhead. Amazon and ebay for labware. Sequencing via plasmidsaurus is cheap now and can do zero prep so just need clean sample of bug

12 years in the making - we are finally scaling up our “universal diagnostics” platform. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbeg... Read about the global program here: news.stanford.edu/stories/2026... If you are passionate about bringing cutting edge tools to work for “everyone” - reach out and engage.

Drosophila Transglutaminase preserves the integrity of muscle attachments with and without mechanical strain #Drosophila

And the new NCI Director moves to piss away his scientific credibility. First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer. 1/2

#Halifax regional council meets today starting at 10am. There are also budget committee meetings tomorrow, Thursday, and possibly Friday. It's a busy week! I may pop down to City Hall later but here's a piece I wrote yesterday about what's on the agenda. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

Let's learn about the coquí frog 🐸 (Eleutherodactylus coqui), native to Puerto Rico where it is a beloved national symbol. I want to focus on their call: two tones described as co- and -quí. (SOUND ON) Take a listen 👂 & see if you spot the pattern. Then I'll tell you something amazing about it.

How many examples to we need--its time to rise up the same way as the nation did after three murders by the ICE thugs--release all children and their parents NOW

Our #preprint list is up on FocalPlane. This list focusses on the latest tools in bioimage analysis. Let us know if you have any recommendations to add to our list. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/06/m...

Only recently started watching an ICE report map (rather than just happening upon posts) and, like, I knew it was bad but I didn't realize how bad. If you're in the US and don't think there are abductions happening near you, you're just not correct.

A paper in Nature describes a collection of soft‑bodied fossils discovered in a quarry in China, dating to around 512 million years ago. The Huayuan biota contains 153 animal species from 16 major groups, of which 59% are previously undiscovered species. go.nature.com/49KUOdw #Paleosky 🧪

Isadonna Tengganu and Ke Hu develop transfection and ExM protocols for Chromera velia, enabling direct comparisons with its parasitic apicomplexan relative, Toxoplasma gondi. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

the real story is they lied so they could terrorize Latin American immigrants.

The Dragonhunter (Hagenius brevistylus), one of North America's largest dragonflies, specializes in hunting other dragonflies. a.co/d/gAgXe4q?ta... 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #medart #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #dragonflies #odos

Memorializing the contributions of Dr Paul Kulesa to neural crest cell biology & imaging, a generous colleague & mentor, devoted husband and father. @devdynamics.bsky.social @anatomyorg.bsky.social

🧨 Check out this peeps🧨 I am very happy with the outcome of this thought baby! @neurogut.bsky.social @michaelrera.bsky.social and Mael Lemoine (yes, a philosopher) twisted our brains over preparing this conceptual review! We give you the "Enterarchon" Enjoy it! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dynamic actin waves in a zebrafish embryo. Credit to @aaandmoore.bsky.social & Dvir Gur. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪