Andreas Prokop
@poppi62.bsky.social
Using #Drosophila to decipher the cell biology of #neurons during development and #neurodegeneration - #scicomm initiative - https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/andreas.prokop
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The European Drosophila Society #flyEDS extends the condolences on the passing of Antonio García-Bellido, considered the founder of the Spanish school of #Drosophila genetics and an influential figure in developmental biology research worldwide. May he rest in peace.
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The European Drosophila Society #flyEDS extends the condolences on the passing of Antonio García-Bellido, considered the founder of the Spanish school of #Drosophila genetics and an influential figure in developmental biology research worldwide. May he rest in peace.
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UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.
I will definitely give this one a go!
'When Mendel began his investigation, his first inclination was to try breeding mice of different colors. However, before his mice experiment really got going, Mendel was forced to switch the subject of his experiments to peas by a prudish bishop uncomfortable with animals having sex in the abbey.'
Origins of the Lab Mouse
How the mouse found its way from Victorian novelty to a biomedical mainstay.
www.asimov.press
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I will definitely give this one a go!
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🪰 folks! I spoke to the Transmitter about FlyBase. As noted at flybase.org, bridge $ ran out and many staff were laid off.
Good news is stopgap contributions will keep core FlyBase operations active. But community support remains essential. Please donate @FlyBase and share! 1/2
tinyurl.com/FlyBase
Good news is stopgap contributions will keep core FlyBase operations active. But community support remains essential. Please donate @FlyBase and share! 1/2
tinyurl.com/FlyBase
FlyBase secures funding for year, but future still uncertain
The FlyBase team’s fundraising efforts have proven successful in the short term, but restoration of its federal grant remains uncertain.
tinyurl.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🪰 folks! I spoke to the Transmitter about FlyBase. As noted at flybase.org, bridge $ ran out and many staff were laid off.
Good news is stopgap contributions will keep core FlyBase operations active. But community support remains essential. Please donate @FlyBase and share! 1/2
tinyurl.com/FlyBase
Good news is stopgap contributions will keep core FlyBase operations active. But community support remains essential. Please donate @FlyBase and share! 1/2
tinyurl.com/FlyBase
We had this game, but I just cannot find it anymore!!!
October 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We had this game, but I just cannot find it anymore!!!
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Speed reading "Science under Siege" - ahead of next week's recording of BBC Science in Action, where co-author @michaelemann.bsky.social joins a panel on the front line of the current assault on science, to answer what can be done.
An appropriate topic for the last edition of the 60yr old series.
An appropriate topic for the last edition of the 60yr old series.
October 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Speed reading "Science under Siege" - ahead of next week's recording of BBC Science in Action, where co-author @michaelemann.bsky.social joins a panel on the front line of the current assault on science, to answer what can be done.
An appropriate topic for the last edition of the 60yr old series.
An appropriate topic for the last edition of the 60yr old series.
Any idea what the data for BBSRC and MRC are?
What a waste of time for almost everyone who prepared and submitted an application. And the reviewers. Could have done something productive instead.
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Any idea what the data for BBSRC and MRC are?
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A bunch of doctors openly and transparently treated vaccine myocarditis as fate worse than death. 🧵
October 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A bunch of doctors openly and transparently treated vaccine myocarditis as fate worse than death. 🧵
That would fit well into our #Drosophila art galery. Just send a nice picture and the kind of blurb we add: droso4public.wordpress.com/fly-art/
October 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
That would fit well into our #Drosophila art galery. Just send a nice picture and the kind of blurb we add: droso4public.wordpress.com/fly-art/
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Who would have guessed
October 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Who would have guessed
If you want to stay informed about what's going on in Ukraine, the weekly "Battleground" podcast on Fridays is excellent (www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...), and the daily "Ukraine: The Latest" outstanding (www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03...)
October 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If you want to stay informed about what's going on in Ukraine, the weekly "Battleground" podcast on Fridays is excellent (www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...), and the daily "Ukraine: The Latest" outstanding (www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03...)
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3 OCTOBER 2025
Save this map for the books because this is HISTORIC
From 36C in SPAIN to snow in the Balkans
Unbelievable maximum temps <5C at low elevations;
One for all:Kraljevo,SERBIA 215m asl Min 0.4 Max 4.2
with few hours of snow.
Not even Centenarians had ever lived this
Save this map for the books because this is HISTORIC
From 36C in SPAIN to snow in the Balkans
Unbelievable maximum temps <5C at low elevations;
One for all:Kraljevo,SERBIA 215m asl Min 0.4 Max 4.2
with few hours of snow.
Not even Centenarians had ever lived this
October 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
3 OCTOBER 2025
Save this map for the books because this is HISTORIC
From 36C in SPAIN to snow in the Balkans
Unbelievable maximum temps <5C at low elevations;
One for all:Kraljevo,SERBIA 215m asl Min 0.4 Max 4.2
with few hours of snow.
Not even Centenarians had ever lived this
Save this map for the books because this is HISTORIC
From 36C in SPAIN to snow in the Balkans
Unbelievable maximum temps <5C at low elevations;
One for all:Kraljevo,SERBIA 215m asl Min 0.4 Max 4.2
with few hours of snow.
Not even Centenarians had ever lived this
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Does anybody know whether Alexa Fluo 405 works well in the DAPI channel?
www.thermofisher.com/uk/en/home/l...
www.thermofisher.com/uk/en/home/l...
www.thermofisher.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Does anybody know whether Alexa Fluo 405 works well in the DAPI channel?
www.thermofisher.com/uk/en/home/l...
www.thermofisher.com/uk/en/home/l...
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Wow! Now over 37,000 signatures! 🙏
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. It's time to hold them to account.
You can support the campaign to change the law here👇
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. It's time to hold them to account.
You can support the campaign to change the law here👇
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
October 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Wow! Now over 37,000 signatures! 🙏
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. It's time to hold them to account.
You can support the campaign to change the law here👇
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. It's time to hold them to account.
You can support the campaign to change the law here👇
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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Disinformation
September 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Disinformation
Long over!
September 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Long over!
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Einsteins theory has been proven.
September 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Einsteins theory has been proven.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
September 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
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The data itself is questionable, for example the recent Minneapolis school shooter, who wrote neo-Nazi slogans like "Hail Breivik" and "Brenton 4 Ever" on their weapons, is considered "Left".
September 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The data itself is questionable, for example the recent Minneapolis school shooter, who wrote neo-Nazi slogans like "Hail Breivik" and "Brenton 4 Ever" on their weapons, is considered "Left".
I see some similarity here with 'Bernd das Brot'
September 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I see some similarity here with 'Bernd das Brot'
Alarming
September 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Alarming