Ethan Greenblatt

hi Jill 👋 hope you're doing great and enjoying the company of
some friendly fruit flies in your neck of the woods!

This isn't a coincidence, IMO. The fly community is generally super rigorous - because there are so many tools and techniques available, people expect you to really nail things in order to get published (and keep getting funded)

Certain alleles, called meiotic drivers, cheat the rules of inheritance to increase the chance of transmission.

The Yamashita lab at the @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social investigated genetic information transmission and found a meiotic driver that operates differently: bit.ly/4nzcFcp

The other side of the sign said “Kings are for Hosers” but then I realized that is a more controversial take here

Making my voice heard at the #nokings protest in Vancouver!

Super sad and stressful situation. Wishing you all the best Jason so you can continue your important work!

So excited to see this work out in
@narjournal.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Congratulations to Hazel Cui on outstanding work!

Keep an eye out for part 2 of this project 😎

Small detail of a dimensional collage with disembodied hands and water droplets in blue, yellow, green, and black

The Sondheim Finalists’ Exhibition at @thewaltersartmuseum is open as of TODAY! I am so thrilled to share this new work and hope you will see it!

“…and Find Out.” (detail), watercolor, ink, and acrylic on paper, 22 x 30 x 1”, 2025

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Check this out if you ever wondered what intercellular bridges might be doing during meiosis! Happy to have played a small role! Congrats!!! @thejainlab.bsky.social

Come be my colleague at UBC! A great place to work w/amazing students, a beautiful campus, and…maybe one or two other perks 🇨🇦

Quick tip: If your paper was published today, consider sharing it on social media tomorrow instead. Today, everyone's focus is on Standing Up for Science and making some good trouble!

Heartbreaking chats this week with students thinking of giving up on their dreams of getting a PhD. They worry about getting in PhD programs and careers post PhD. My suggestions: don’t be hasty, think broadly incl EU & Canada, & careers beyond traditional academia. What’re you telling your students?

The MassBio brief says they represent 1700 biotech / pharma companies in MA.

They cite a recent study showing that "funding from NIH contributed to 354 of 356 drugs approved from 2010-2019." (!!!)

And they argue the policy will have irreparable harm on drug development.

Math is hard

Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

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Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli

In a a pretty dark time, for somebody who grew up in the Washington DC area this article was like a bright ray of sunshine!! 😂

MAYosis is coming... register and submit abstracts here.
meiosis.cornell.edu/mayosis2025/...

NASA's James Webb Telescope discovers alcohol cloud in deep space Science: NASA's James Webb Telescope reveals an alcohol cloud in the depths of space, marking a significant step in exploring cosmic phenomena and interstellar chemistry.

NASA's James Webb Telescope discovers alcohol cloud in deep space!

To drink all of that, every person on earth would have to drink 300,000 pints each day for one billion years.

www.wionews.com/web-stories/...

#NASA #JamesWebb #alcohol #space #spaceeploration

📢The 2025 MAYosis webinar series will be held on consecutive Wednesdays, May 7-28, at 4 pm CET (7 am PST; 12 am JST) meiosis.cornell.edu/mayoss2025/ Apply to give a talk (deadline is March 8, trainees and junior faculty only): tinyurl.com/47k3cjpn Registration is free: tinyurl.com/39rs53yv

Stable centromere association of the yeast histone variant Cse4 requires its essential N-terminal domain | The EMBO Journal imageimageCentromeres contain a histone H3 variant that is essential for kinetochore assembly. This work reports that the extended N-terminus of the budding yeast centromeric histone, Cse4, stabilizes...

Our latest work using TIRFM to uncover mechanisms that stabilize the centromeric nucleosome:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

New members of the GSA Board of Directors: 2025–2027 We are pleased to announce the election of six new leaders to the GSA Board of Directors: 2025 Vice President/2026 President Cassandra Extavour Timken Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology an...

Congrats to all the newly elected members of the GSA Board of Directors, including TAGC24 veteran @barrlab.bsky.social

genestogenomes.org/new-members-...

YouTube video by Nobel Prize 2024 Nobel Prize lectures in physiology or medicine | Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

If you want to learn about how a tiny worm led to major insights in developmental biology and human disease check out the Nobel lectures from Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ9N...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Lets start with something exciting! Applications are now open to join our fantastic department as a group leader fellow! Come start your independent group at (in our opinion) the best neuroscience department! reach out here or @macaskillaf.bsky.social for more info! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Audio Guide to the Imperfections of a Perfect Masterpiece - 99% Invisible To help celebrate its 60th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum teamed up with 99% Invisible to offer visitors a guided audio experience of the museum. Even if you’ve never been to the Guggenheim Museum...

I would love to try this guided tour sometime - amazing that he was 76 when he was hired for this project and that he designed this over the next 15 years! 99percentinvisible.org/episode/audi...

Ru-upping this thread from last year since the paper is now out! @chenshuliu.bsky.social identified a Piezo-dependent mechanism that enables C. elegans to sniff out “bad eggs” and target them for destruction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.

Hello Bsky folks - here is a paper that we published earlier this year - great collaboration with the Bellen lab, Hyung-lok Chung, @okanca.bsky.social and others. Have a look if you're interested in Cdk8/19, mitochondria, Parkinsonism and Drosophila!