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gallseeker.bsky.social
David L. Stern
@gallseeker.bsky.social
Biologist

A little obsessed by aphid galls

Run a little lab @hhmijanelia.bsky.social

Moving to @stowersinstitute.bsky.social Feb 1, 2026

Provide unsolicited advice to improve your science (or any) talk at howtogiveatalk.com
In case anyone was wondering what the hell I've been doing at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social the past 14 years.
July 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Potatoes. No politics. No science. Just potatoes.

Though, harvesting potatoes always reminds me of my paternal grandparents, who emigrated from Poland over 100 years ago. I wonder, at these times, what they might have thought of their grandson digging potatoes out of the earth with his bare hands.
July 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
My outie stumbled across...
May 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The Guardian is going to put The Onion out of business
December 22, 2024 at 1:11 AM
This is what I spent my day doing. I hope your day was at least half this much fun.
December 17, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Want to perform HIGH EFFICIENCY Homology Directed Repair in Drosophila spp? Try Atalanta plasmids. About 10X higher efficiency than other methods!
Tag or delete genes, invert chromosome regions, make scarless site-specific modifications. All with easy cloning.
This paper is proudly bioRxiv only!
December 7, 2024 at 1:10 AM