Nice work from Shawn Liu's lab @columbiauniversity.bsky.social ! In vivo DNA methylation editing www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey scientists: USDA staff have been told to Google-vet foreign coauthors for “subversive or criminal activity” and report flagged names to officials 🤠 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

We are thrilled to share our new pre-print: “System-wide extraction of cis-regulatory rules from sequence-to-function models in human neural development”. S2F-deeplearning models can accurately encode enhancers, yet decoding these models into human-interpretable rules remains a major challenge.

Have you ever heard that women have more chances than men of getting grants or positions in academia? Of course you have, and here are my personal views on this. With the shocking revelation that no, it is NOT TRUE ! (1/n)

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

@flybase.bsky.social continues to serve #drosophila research community

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

📣First preprint of the lab📣 Did that really happen?😅 Enteric neurons, aka somatic postmitotic cells, must hold on to their sex identity tight, to deliver a tuned response to signals from the ovary that instruct the animal to engage sex-matched behavioural programmes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Adding to the slew of recent articles about Claude Code. Not behind, but at the forefront: On feeling overwhelmed by AI progress, and why that means you're exactly where you need to be. doi.org/10.59350/gdj...

First of all, it’s a huge disgrace he was elected in the first place. Second of all, drawing comparisons to Newton? This is all very embarrassing.

(usa) une étudiante de Columbia détenue par ICE depuis 9 mois PS: aucune université fr., aucun département, aucune association pro n'a appelé à l'arrêt de l'envoi des étudiant-es fr. aux USA et au boycott des colloques aux USA... PS2: n'allez pas aux USA

This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!” But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling. If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

We’re hiring! @jcellsci.bsky.social is looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves #cellbiology and wants to stay connected with the field. A great chance to work for an organisation that believes in helping the community! Details below👇

Dear #Drosophila researchers, the year starts with good news! The date and venue for our next meeting is confirmed: June 1st to 3rd at the beautiful Historic Hotel Castle De Palmela in Portugal! Mark the dates, registration will open soon!

#ICE Trigger Warning

Postdoc opportunity by @UniversidadAnd call, 3-year contract plus stabilization. If you are interested in working in chromatin 3D structure and gene regulation in zebrafish during development and disease at @ibis_sevilla, drop me an email: [email protected] www.juntadeandalucia.es/organismos/u...

Working on scheduling a future scientific meeting and recommended that we not hold the meeting inside the United States of America because of potential risks to attendees from 1) detainment/immigration 2) depending upon the state, healthcare access 3) privacy concerns. I never thought we'd be here.

#Collagen IV intercellular concentrations mediate cell–cell #adhesion in the #Drosophila #adipose tissue. New study from Almasoud, Franz et al. @ucl-cdb.bsky.social finds that the adipose tissue has apical-basal cell #polarity, which regulates this adhesion. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Happy New Year 2026! This year, Hadi Boukhatmi, Régis Giet and I are delighted to be organising the 36th French Droso Meeting in Brittany, from 5 to 8 October. A great line-up of speakers Mark the date in your diaries ! The meeting website containing all the details will be opening very soon.

Hyun Gwan Park et al. show that #Drosophila Abi, a regulator of #actin cytoskeletal dynamics, controls blood cell homeostasis by activating #Notch signaling through #clathrin-mediated receptor #endocytosis. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

We are hiring! Looking for curious and motivated new colleagues to join my lab at the Karolinska Institute @ki.se. If you are interested in studying cell identity and pancreas biology using human organoids, (spatial)omics genome and bioengineering please reach out! #hiring #sciencejob #STEMJobs

If Trump’s concern was drugs, he’d not have pardoned Honduras’s corrupt leader; if terrorism, he’d have gone after Iran; if world order, Russia; if preserving US power, China. If democracy, human rights or humanitarian motive, dozens of other worthy cases. What’s left is oil. And Epstein.

The "Szilard Point." When we talk about The strain and the drain on scientific publishing, it's this. Researchers working just to stay afloat, and not on what we actually want them to do: research, discover, innovate. Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

1 January 1926 | A Polish Jew, Leon Weintraub, was born in Łódź. In #Auschwitz from August 1944. He was transferred to Groß-Rosen, Flossenbürg & Natzweiler-Struthof. He was liberated on 23 April 1945 near Donaueschingen. He became a doctor. Today he turns 100. Happy birthday!

As usual this time of year, started drafting the list of gene regulation conferences for 2026, enjoy! generegulation.org/conferences-... Know of a relevant event that’s missing? Please reply below

This is getting passed around a lot because of the way it's worded but it's important to note that researchers have not shown any such thing - they have shown that mice with similar biomarkers can have those biomarkers reversed. No human testing has occurred and shown recovery of cognition & memory.

"Results from experiments with N = 4 or less are shown to be highly misleading (...). For a cut-off of 2-fold expression differences, we find an N of 6-7 mice is required to consistently decrease the false positive rate to below 50%, and the detection sensitivity to above 50%"

I have created a bot account. This bot will receive information about newly uploaded #Drosophila papers from pubmed and will automatically post every hour. If you find any bugs, please let me know! @fly-broadcast.bsky.social

0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄 image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social

If you want to map the spatial composition of a tissue or organ, 3D mapping is not an option. It is absolutely necessary. Due to its inherent undersampling, 2D omic mapping is almost always misleading. See details here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

CAD-C: An engineered nuclease enables repair-free in situ proximity ligation and nucleosome-resolution chromosome walks in human cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695891v1

🛠️ November's most-read Tools and Resources paper introduces MorphoNet 2.0 for assessment and segmentation curation of large-scale 3D time-lapse imaging datasets: buff.ly/pw1bJtp Learn more about publishing your tools or resources with us: buff.ly/CLW7irz

Fil RH #CNRS de la semaine #VeilleESR Dans la continuité du sujet précédent et comme nous sommes dans une période de prise de fonction, voici un fil sur les concours externes CNRS des ingénieurs et techniciens. Comment les concours externes IT évoluent au CNRS ? 1/12

This is a great and welcome acknowledgment that we need more publishing venues explicitly dedicated to limiting publication bias journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

1/ 2025 is coming to a close, and we’re taking a look back at a few of the things we’re proud of while we prepare for another year of our mission to reform research assessment. We'd also like to wish everyone happy holidays and a new year, and thank you for all your support 🎉

Morphogenesis & Organogenesis! Part 1 (full) in the comments 👇 Comment if you'd like to be added (regardless of age or career stage!) Please post your own biology-related starter packs using #BioStarterPacks 🧬🔬🪰🐟🐁🌱

Incredible 👏🏾 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Doing CRISPR - check out our PlatinumCRISPr upgrade thanks to @roliarnold.bsky.social and @ihaussmann.bsky.social platinum-crispr.bham.ac.uk

Our🥶COOLNESS paper to date is finally published! Ice cold and lithium dramatically delay forgetting (extend memory) in C. elegans. Why? read all about it! 👇 rdcu.be/eVhn2

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

Bernie Sanders calls out Netanyahu on his criticism of @albomp.bsky.social #auspol #bondi

The Company of Biologists Travelling Fellowships programme: a commitment to support the next generation of scientists Our Reviews Editor Saanjbati Adhikari surveys 35 years of @biologists.bsky.social's Travelling Fellowships programme for #biologists100: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

#ArtAdventCalendar Gel Electrophoresis in Green and Blue, watercolor, 2023 #sciart

A histone H2A and H2B point mutant library defines essential in vivo functions in Drosophila #Drosophila

Can one map the genome-wide binding (1) and its protein partners (2) simultaneously from the same sample? Yes, one can. with CUT&ID ✂️🪪 Spearheaded — singlehandedly — by @annanordin.bsky.social No need of transgenesis, cloning and overexpression. Check it out, it's fast and its works.

An article about @qedscience.bsky.social this time in @lemonde.fr 🍷 Would you prefer to get feedback on your paper in French? Lots of scientists in France are q.e.ding❤️https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/12/10/l-evaluation-des-articles-scientifiques-bouleversee-par-l-ia_6656706_1650684.html

The research org CNRS will end access to the Web of Science, shifting towards qualitative research assessment and open tools. It’s a strong move for #OpenScience, reducing reliance on proprietary metrics and supporting fairer, more transparent evaluation.

🌟 Applications are open for the Amgen Scholars Program 2026 at the Institut Pasteur! 🌟 In summer 2026, 10 European undergraduates will have the opportunity to join us for an immersive research internship Dates: July 6 – September 5, 2026 Application deadline: February 1, 2026 Learn more 👇