Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦

The nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of the bellicose bumblebee (Bombus bellicosus, Hymenoptera: Apidae), a threatened pollinator in a changing South American landscape We present the first genome of a Brazilian bumblebee species, the bellicose bumblebee (Bombus bellicosus). This is an endemic species in southern South America facing local extinction due to habitat…

Saving the bellicose #bumblebee! 🐝 Brazil’s endemic Bombus bellicosus faces habitat loss & #ClimateChange. Sequencing its #genome shows it’s genetically diverse enough to survive, thanks in part to #CitizenScientists who helped locate populations.
🔗 doi.org/10.1139/gen-...

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Northern lights are bright in Edmonton tonight.

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I baked 💩 cupcakes for our lab meeting today.

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Calling #CanFly2025 attendees! Genome is now accepting manuscripts for the CanFly Collection, featuring cutting-edge Drosophila research across genetics, development, and neuroscience.

Submit by June 30, 2026▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI

#DrosophilaResearch

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This #CanFly collection highlights research presented at the 2025 Canadian Drosophila Research Conference. Submit your work and be part of this showcase of innovation in Drosophila science.

Details ▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI

#DrosophilaResearch #CanFly2025

#ASD diagnosis could get a precision upgrade! 🧬 Long-read sequencing reveals complex structural variants missed by short-read methods, helping to clarify #genetic contributions to #autism #PrecisionMedicine buff.ly/nm5kd7q

Kirkaldy's Testing Works Kirkaldy’s Testing and Experimenting Works is an extraordinary survivor in the heart of transforming London. What’s more, it has played a unique part in that transformation – the place where one man’s...

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Seen walking in London tonight. Inspired to change the name of my lab?

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Can’t wait to join the Riboclub 2025 Annual Meeting! See you there to talk RNA and share ideas! @rnacanada.bsky.social #BiologyConference #RNABiology

Lipid droplets: Open questions and conceptual advances around a unique organelle. New review from Mike Henne (@hennelab.bsky.social), Emma Reynolds, and William: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Biochemistry #CellMetabolism #LipidDroplets

I just realized you can use Chat GPT to rewrite emails into any style you wish.

Well. That's definitely not the way I heard it 🤣

JCB has rounded up a good collection of papers outlining best practices regarding reproducability in Cell Biology experiments, especially microscopy. Worth a read, and passing along to your trainees.

FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

Donated! Without Flybase our reserach would be impossible.

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#Cytogenomics: Exploring #Chromosome Structure and Function is still open for submissions in @genomejournal.bsky.social!

Find the full list of topics here ▶️ buff.ly/9ACNj1m

#CallForPapers #Genomics

Trump says Canada backing Palestinian statehood jeopardizes U.S. trade deal he was gonna break anyway WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S.President Donald Trump has announced that Canada’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood will “make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them, which I had no inten...

Trump says Canada backing Palestinian statehood jeopardizes U.S. trade deal he was gonna break anyway

Edmonton

Official posting coming soon, but here's a heads-up:

#Postdoc Opportunity for individuals with an interest in advancing the understanding of pancreatic islet hormones in health and #diabetes. Diverse backgrounds, skill sets and experiences are welcome!

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🐝 #CanFly2023 Throwback!
Explore top-tier Canadian #Drosophila research in our #CanFly2023 collection—genetics, neuro, evo, development & more! 🧬🧠
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🗨️ Came to #CanFly2025?
Submit to the new collection—NO #OA FEES! 📝
#ModelOrganisms

It means you have transitioned from one type of Ass Prof to different type of Ass Prof. Congratulations!

Advice to new PIs.
Running an academic laboratory,
- is like running a small business,
- wrapped inside a large dysfunctional mega-corporation (university)
- that is owned by the government.
The ultimate organizaitonal Matryoska.

Bluesky is dying Bluesky was invented to create a nicer space than Twitter. The problem is that too few people have joined and most are smug and boring.

Bluesky is dying?!
Really?

Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...

Simmonds lab and Dept. of #CellBiology @ualberta.bsky.social alumni Matt Anderson-Baron reaches a new milestone with their #YEG biotech - Future Fields Closes Oversubscribed $8M Series A to Turn Flies Into Bioreactors share.google/RJvHTcdh4ugS...

Lighting the Way | 2024-2025 Annual Report Research not only saves lives, it ignites hope. While true transformation requires both patience and vision, each breakthrough brings us closer to our goal.

One of the major partners supporting our world-class reserachers in the Department fo Cell Biology
@ualberta.bsky.social
is the Women's Children's Health Reserach Institute
@wchriuofa.bsky.social
See how in their 2024-2025 annual report. #WCHRIAR2025
ar.wchri.org

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Publish your next breakthrough in Genome with no fees. Corresponding authors with @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social can submit unlimited OA manuscripts and benefit from unlimited read access. Discover how 🍁▶️ buff.ly/oUyzd2x

🧬🔄 #genomics #chromatin #nucleosome #regulatorynetwork #generegulation #epigenome

🍎🪰 Only ONE WEEK until #CanFly2025! The fruit fly frenzy is almost upon us — can’t wait to connect with the amazing Drosophila research community. Wings up, let’s fly! ✈️🧬 #Drosophila #FruitFlyScience
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FlyBase needs your help!

Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org

The final session of today's #CellBiology symposium honouring Rick Rachubinski, highlighting his trainees over the years. Here is Andrea Bodnar presenting their work on sea urchins and aging. @ualberta.bsky.social