Amanda Moehring

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Oh I’m not suggesting that he’s personally a mediocre dude! Just that the always-you-can-do-it voice can be! 😆

He can be your “inner mediocre white dude voice”, the one that has absolute confidence all the time! Everyone needs one of those.

I think we should go all out with Pseudododo

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

Fly skeleton from dollarama.

Biologically accurate.

A thorough article with lots of data on who more often perpetrates, and who is more often a victim of, hate crime violence.

Ha, no worries! Brain glitches happen!

Ants are from the order Hymenoptera, not Diptera

It’s a haplodiploid system. Females are diploid and males are haploid.

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

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...

13/There is a tonne of robust data to back the effectiveness of COVID vaccines. I don't think any other vaccines have been more studied in my lifetime. It took me about an hour of pubmed searches to put this thread together. So no, a lack of data is not the reason why CDC is being dismantled.

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

If you are a researcher whose lab uses FlyBase, consider a tax-deductible personal contribution. A lot of $100 contributions would help bridge the gap until we can set up a user fee system, and even $10 donations send the folks there the message we're behind them. Please share

ALT text: A UMAP representation of a single cell RNAseq dataset from the Drosophila ventral nerve cord as well as images of the Drosophila nerve cord connectome and different stages of fly development.

Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns?
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
#preprint thread ⬇️1/8

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I can’t believe it. I’m on my flight to #ESEB2025 in Barcelona on #AirCanada about to depart. All other AC flights have been cancelled but mine is a go. 🤯

So hey. I'm reading through some of the public comments, and there aren't that many, tbh.. And some of them are in *support* of repealing regulations/making everyone choke on their big-truck air. Your voice *definitely* matters here.

Harvard University lays off fly database team The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

This is devastating. In addition to the obvious harm to the FlyBase staff, SO many of us rely on this resource!

I’m not an ecologist (disclaimer) but could you put the organism in a bag or permeable plastic type sack with tiny holes large enough for bacteria and water to enter /leave but small enough to prevent any tissues leaving?

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

This book was funny … because it’s true. A great read.

An image of a boxy angled silver dumpster (left) next to another dumpster (right).

Matching Cybertrucks

Oh!! I wasn’t invested enough to look up more info on it. That’s actually even funnier.

He posted an ‘apology’ letter that ends with blaming Coldplay for violating his privacy … in a public arena.

One of my great great+ grandmothers during the colonial period gave birth to 14 children. Those were the ones who lived long enough to be baptized and recorded. Of those, 5 made it to 12. 3 made it to 20. 2 married and had children.

Don’t take criticism to heart from someone you wouldn’t go to for advice.

Sheila Colla was a brilliant scientist and a powerful advocate for both nature and disadvantaged people. A profound loss.