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alert to all H1B holders, please share: Trump just banned H-1B employees from reentering US unless employer pays $100,000 "fee". Proclamation applies to both new H-1B entrants and current H-1B employees who are abroad. set to take effect tmrw sun sept 21. please return if you can. i am so sorry. 😢

went to the top of my reading list!

Clever mug :-)

Dear president@harvard.edu, dear gaudet@mcb.harvard.edu,
to learn more about the importance of #Drosophila and crucial role of @flybase.bsky.social, and how it gave rise to at least 9 Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine, please see this link:
droso4schools.wordpress.com/why-fly/

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

Our first #Hydra paper. @anaisbailles.bsky.social all the way, with crucial theory contributions from Carl Modes and @zechnerlab.bsky.social Hydra maintenance by Heino Andreas and HCR by Giulia Serafini. Teamwork. Many thanks to the generous Hydra research community.

Same for the high res structure of a mouse. The first person would probably get away with, like, 8 Angstrom resolution. Later structures would require atomic resolution.

Spectraplakin cooperates with noncentrosomal microtubule regulators to orient dendritic microtubules in Drosophila The differential microtubule organization in axons and dendrites underlies neurite-specific transport and morphogenetic processes like developmental neurite pruning, but how it arises is incompletely ...

new preprint out (more soon): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Astérix et Ozempix

if the silk stockings are her only argument, you should be able to beat her by other means.

This was the last @hhmi.org conference Lilly and Yuh-Nung Jan attended as investigators. They're becoming HHMI emeritus but still run a thriving NIH-funded lab. From cloning the first potassium ion channel (Shaker) to decoding neuronal development, the Jans have made a huge impact.

it's actually the inverse: IF=1/tariff

I bought a Tesla because it was fast like a rocket ship. But now every time I drive it, I feel like a rolling billboard for a man dismantling our government and hurting people. So Tesla, you’re fired!

New ride coming soon.

schick mir mal nen link bitte :-)

Trump & Musk: Staatsstreich in den USA & keiner kriegt es hier mit? Musk und Trump führen in den USA gerade einen administrativen Staatsstreich durch. Deutsche Medien berichten größtenteils, als laufe alles wie immer.

Trump & Musk führen einen administrativen Staatsstreich durch, brechen ein Gesetz nach dem anderen - die USA sind mitten in einer Verfassungskrise. Mein Text für @volksverpetzer.de ist jetzt online. Dank an @mjsdc.bsky.social für die juristischen Einordnungen! www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/tr...

a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter ALT: a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter

Our story about flies on carousels is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! After formally engaging the fantastic @clarahowcroft.bsky.social and integrating helpful reviewer feedback, we present a more concise story with detailed behavioural quantification and cooler videos! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Aus der thüringischen Böttcher AG, einem führenden Büroartikelhändler mit einem Jahresumsatz von 760 Mill €, hat die AfD 1 Million Euro Wahlkampfunterstützung erhalten (www.spiegel.de/politik/jena...). Ich habe sofort reagiert!

We are excited to announce the opening of registrations for the upcoming #EDRC2025 conference (25th-28th September 2025) in Alicante to showcase the latest advances in #Drosophila biology and technology edrc2025alicante.com

Velvet ants have the Swiss Army knife of venoms A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

Nice story about our most recent work
! www.sciencenews.org/article/velv...

Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom Evolutionary arms races can lead to extremely specific and effective defense mechanisms, including venoms that deter predators by targeting nociceptiv…

Our paper on Velvet Ant venom is out at @currentbiology.bsky.social “Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom” sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Velvet ants are among the most painful of all stinging insects. What makes them so painful? We used fruit fly larvae to find out 🧐 1/5

Muscles growth by sarcomere divisions - how your muscles add new sarcomeres during developmental growth: they divide! Cool collaboration @friedrich-group.bsky.social @raunser-lab.bsky.social @Dirk Görlich @univ-amu.fr @cnrs.bsky.social sciencecast.org/casts/aspy9l... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are thrilled to announce that IRL JEDI meetings will restart in 2025.
You can already register at flyjedi.sciencesconf.org where you'll find a preliminary program.
Looking forward to meeting you and restart this network of fly people!

the Lai lab got a holiday gift ... so excited to share Seungjae Lee's work on surprising regulation of miRNA pathway at Science!! he did it all, from molecular genetics to biochemistry to genomics. and amazing collab with Makiko Yasuda lab brought it into mice. 1/3

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to share our latest findings, now published @NatureNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We found unmyelinated axons exhibit pearls-on-a-string morphology's due to their membrane mechanical properties.

Threads will follow!

Compound image with Drosophila immunofluorescence images and Portuguese tiles with flies

Portuguese Fly Meeting 7-8 November 2024, Batalha, Portugal. This is organized by Drosophilists working in Portugal but open to researchers from anywhere. Everyone, including Master students, is welcome to apply for oral or poster presentation.
More info at: iridescent-gnu-ftqk0k.mystrikingly.com

Agreed... the fancy labs may actually not be the best for doing a PhD

We are hiring! We are looking for a molecular biologist to join our team! This position will have four major duties: 1) performing and assisting lab members on molecular biology experiments, 2) performing DNA extrac...

We are looking for a molecular biologist to join the lab! We are looking for someone interested in collaborating on genes-circuits-behavior projects, with steady hands and killer pipetting skills. www.kaunlab.com/post/we-are-...

Join us for the next @DGZ_info Focus Workshop on #celladhesion and #extracellularmatrix, Tuesday April 30 at noon in Zoom, organized by Carsten Grashoff and @WickstromLab. Speakers: Srishti Rangarajan
@uni_muenster, @IngoThievessen, @amaia_cipitria, @JNuchel

Research Associate at University of Sheffield An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

Postdoc position available in my lab! We study sensory coding and memory in the Drosophila mushroom body. More about us at www.aclinlab.org Deadline 25 March. Please spread the word! bit.ly/LinPostdoc2024

I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750).

To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.