Alyssa Slicko
@alyssaslicko.bsky.social
📍Boston, Massachusetts
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There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us.
#FlyBase #Drosophila
We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us.
#FlyBase #Drosophila
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us.
#FlyBase #Drosophila
We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us.
#FlyBase #Drosophila
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My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
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August 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
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FlyBase needs our help! There is now a system for non-European direct donations. Hopefully an option to invoice labs comes soon, but in the mean time do what you can to save this precious resource!
August 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
FlyBase needs our help! There is now a system for non-European direct donations. Hopefully an option to invoice labs comes soon, but in the mean time do what you can to save this precious resource!
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I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.
August 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.
Things you might see in Kendall Square: a giant image of a drosophila testis traveling a mile down the street
July 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Things you might see in Kendall Square: a giant image of a drosophila testis traveling a mile down the street
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Towards more sustainable research: reducing the environmental impact when working with #Drosophila. Challiner, Saurya., Patel, Raff, Fostier, Prokop, A. (2025) @genetics-gsa.bsky.social, in press -- doi.org/10.1093/gene... - Always happy to discuss and hear your ideas and views!
June 13, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Towards more sustainable research: reducing the environmental impact when working with #Drosophila. Challiner, Saurya., Patel, Raff, Fostier, Prokop, A. (2025) @genetics-gsa.bsky.social, in press -- doi.org/10.1093/gene... - Always happy to discuss and hear your ideas and views!
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I suppose it’s possible that some (very few) people watched Star Wars and Return of the Jedi and ended up rooting for the masked storm troopers and Emperor Palpatine and his acolytes.
And they were all selected for employment into ICE.
And they were all selected for employment into ICE.
June 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I suppose it’s possible that some (very few) people watched Star Wars and Return of the Jedi and ended up rooting for the masked storm troopers and Emperor Palpatine and his acolytes.
And they were all selected for employment into ICE.
And they were all selected for employment into ICE.
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The fallacy posed by the MAHAers is that if you eat healthy you are not going to be afflicted by diseases such as cancer. This is not just statistically stupid but it’s also cruel. Imagine telling the parent of a young child with cancer that you should have eaten more veggies. 1/
June 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The fallacy posed by the MAHAers is that if you eat healthy you are not going to be afflicted by diseases such as cancer. This is not just statistically stupid but it’s also cruel. Imagine telling the parent of a young child with cancer that you should have eaten more veggies. 1/
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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The Senate will review the 2026 NIH budget request on June 10 at 10 a.m. EDT. GSA urges stakeholders to stay informed and engaged.
🔗 Watch live:
🔗 Watch live:
A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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June 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Senate will review the 2026 NIH budget request on June 10 at 10 a.m. EDT. GSA urges stakeholders to stay informed and engaged.
🔗 Watch live:
🔗 Watch live:
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We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
June 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.
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URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
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Congratulations to postdocs Melissa Pamula and Amelie Raz, who have both been named 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows @remlehmann.bsky.social @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Congratulations to postdocs Melissa Pamula and Amelie Raz, who have both been named 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows @remlehmann.bsky.social @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social
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If a foreign government conspired to decimate US science and technology in a manner akin to what Project 2025 architects purport to do, we would go to war.
Just because they are under a cloak of self declared patriotism does not mean that they are not effectively acting as enemies of the state.
Just because they are under a cloak of self declared patriotism does not mean that they are not effectively acting as enemies of the state.
May 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If a foreign government conspired to decimate US science and technology in a manner akin to what Project 2025 architects purport to do, we would go to war.
Just because they are under a cloak of self declared patriotism does not mean that they are not effectively acting as enemies of the state.
Just because they are under a cloak of self declared patriotism does not mean that they are not effectively acting as enemies of the state.
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A friend in my old lab mailed our fantasy football loser trophy to my lab instead of my home. I then had to explain to the confused student who opened the package why I'm bad at fantasy football (its because I'm too much of a Bears homer).
May 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A friend in my old lab mailed our fantasy football loser trophy to my lab instead of my home. I then had to explain to the confused student who opened the package why I'm bad at fantasy football (its because I'm too much of a Bears homer).
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We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines.
Learn more about these exceptional scientists:
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows
Learn more about these exceptional scientists:
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows
May 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines.
Learn more about these exceptional scientists:
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows
Learn more about these exceptional scientists:
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows
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We're suing the Trump administration over its politically-motivated termination of research grants that has already harmed scientists and our communities.
Political ideology shouldn't dictate public health.
Political ideology shouldn't dictate public health.
‘Devastated’ and ‘Hopeless.’ Researchers Speak Out on Funding Cuts | ACLU
www.aclu.org
May 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We're suing the Trump administration over its politically-motivated termination of research grants that has already harmed scientists and our communities.
Political ideology shouldn't dictate public health.
Political ideology shouldn't dictate public health.
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All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
May 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
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Other universities must not stay quiet. This will come to our doorstep soon. We are all in this struggle for survival. We need to rally and support each other. 3/3
May 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Other universities must not stay quiet. This will come to our doorstep soon. We are all in this struggle for survival. We need to rally and support each other. 3/3
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My sympathy and support for all the international students and postdocs at Harvard. I can only imagine how scary this must feel. Stay strong. And if there's anything I can do to help those in compbio, please reach out. All of us need to rally to help them out. 1/
May 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My sympathy and support for all the international students and postdocs at Harvard. I can only imagine how scary this must feel. Stay strong. And if there's anything I can do to help those in compbio, please reach out. All of us need to rally to help them out. 1/
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Certain genes are “selfish," cheating the rules of inheritance to increase their chances of being transmitted. Researchers in the Yamashita lab have uncovered a unique "self-limiting" mechanism keeping the selfish gene Stellate in check: wi.mit.edu/news/selfish...
May 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Certain genes are “selfish," cheating the rules of inheritance to increase their chances of being transmitted. Researchers in the Yamashita lab have uncovered a unique "self-limiting" mechanism keeping the selfish gene Stellate in check: wi.mit.edu/news/selfish...
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Building scientific progress takes decades; dismantling it can happen overnight. If this proposed budget passes, the future of US science looks bleak.
#ScienceFunding #USPol #ScienceMatters #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
#ScienceFunding #USPol #ScienceMatters #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science
Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.
www.nature.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Building scientific progress takes decades; dismantling it can happen overnight. If this proposed budget passes, the future of US science looks bleak.
#ScienceFunding #USPol #ScienceMatters #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
#ScienceFunding #USPol #ScienceMatters #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
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The Dept of Human Genetics at the Univeristy of Utah is hosting a Rising Stars in Genetics & Genomics postdoc symposium. We are looking to feature postdocs doing cool science! Please self nominate or nominate an excellent postdoc! #ASHGtrainees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The Dept of Human Genetics at the Univeristy of Utah is hosting a Rising Stars in Genetics & Genomics postdoc symposium. We are looking to feature postdocs doing cool science! Please self nominate or nominate an excellent postdoc! #ASHGtrainees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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The Dept of Human Genetics at the Univeristy of Utah is hosting a Rising Stars in Genetics & Genomics postdoc symposium. We are looking to feature postdocs doing cool science! Please self nominate or nominate an excellent postdoc! #ASHGtrainees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The Dept of Human Genetics at the Univeristy of Utah is hosting a Rising Stars in Genetics & Genomics postdoc symposium. We are looking to feature postdocs doing cool science! Please self nominate or nominate an excellent postdoc! #ASHGtrainees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Whitehead Institute Member Yukiko Yamashita, who studies how genetic information is passed from parents to offspring, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Full story on our website: wi.mit.edu/news/yukiko-...
April 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Whitehead Institute Member Yukiko Yamashita, who studies how genetic information is passed from parents to offspring, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Full story on our website: wi.mit.edu/news/yukiko-...