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Jess Jones
@jonesjes.bsky.social
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neuroscience phd candidate at uw | bugs 🪰🔬🇵🇸

personal site:
jesmjones.github.io
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jonesjes.bsky.social
My thesis work is out! 🪰

We often link pain to mammals—sometimes exclusively humans—but what about flies?

Thanks to @tuthill.bsky.social for supporting a funky, fun project, and to @NIH & @hhmi.org for funding over the past half decade!
tuthill.bsky.social John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 15d
Do flies feel pain?

Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social.

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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kevinmawright.bsky.social
Welp, antifa did it. They finally burned Portland to the ground. Nothing but smoke left.
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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ceschretter.bsky.social
Excited to announce our new pre-print (www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...)!

This collaborative work (co-led by Adriane Otopalik and Gerry Rubin) examines how neuronal circuits regulate social behaviors, like courtship🫶 and aggression🥊, across sexes. #neuroscience #Drosophila #WomenInSTEM 🧪1/
October 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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andrewbahle.bsky.social
What a time to be alive
October 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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hokuba.bsky.social
The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!
Agrawal lab logo. A fly in the UBC colors, with dots framing its body.
October 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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altspaceforce.altgov.info
Systemic protections and guardrails are essential to a functioning society. Nature understands this even if oligarchs don't.
May 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH
West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH
The Trump administration's cuts to NIOSH have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S.
www.cbsnews.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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wrenandbee.bsky.social
Puss Moth on Wisteria.

A marvel of our Naturehood. 🌟

#TeamMoth #NatureWithin
May 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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science.org
In Science, researchers detail a nanoscale-resolution reconstruction of a millimeter-scale fragment of human cerebral cortex, giving an unprecedented view into the structural organization of brain tissue at the supracellular, cellular, and subcellular levels. scim.ag/3FvpAKy #BrainAwarenessWeek
A single neuron (white) shown with 5,600 of the axons (blue) that connect to it. The synapses that make these connections are shown in green. The cell body (central core) of the neuron is about 14 micrometers across.
March 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
jonesjes.bsky.social
I’m absolutely going to do this because I still have a bone to pick with a LOT of you.
adrianaguatame.bsky.social Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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docbecca.bsky.social
Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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seemaychou.bsky.social
Zoogle! Our new tool from @arcadiascience for picking research organisms. Even if you’re not a scientist, you should care that we spend >$50B/yr on clinical trials based on organismal models (>90% failure rate). Read more about Zoogle here: arcadiascience.com/blog/zoogle
February 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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annikabarber.bsky.social
I deeply enjoyed getting to talk about Gila monster venom in a lecture about incretins and GLP-1 receptor agonists! 👹
mcuban.bsky.social Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Feb 9
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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science.org
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US
HHMI kills program aimed at boosting inclusivity in STEM education
“Inclusive excellence” program had committed $60 million to 104 institutions
scim.ag
February 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
jonesjes.bsky.social
gosh it’s so much nicer here…
February 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM