Jocelyn McDonald
@jocmcdonald.bsky.social
Cell and Developmental Biologist at Kansas State University. Interested in how cells move in development and disease.
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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...
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
wiki.flybase.org
August 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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...
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#Drosophila community in the US and non- EU countries, please donate to help us support #Flybase. People behind the scenes have put in incredible effort over the past few months - as someone who has seen some of it first hand at #IUBloomington, they deserve all the praise. Please share and donate !
FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
wiki.flybase.org
August 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#Drosophila community in the US and non- EU countries, please donate to help us support #Flybase. People behind the scenes have put in incredible effort over the past few months - as someone who has seen some of it first hand at #IUBloomington, they deserve all the praise. Please share and donate !
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Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.
July 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.
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Hello fellow scientists, I'm thrilled to share with you a state of the art review that @lydiagrmai.bsky.social , the bsky-less Deepika Vasudevan and I have been working on for >1 year! Keep reading...!
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
FEBS Press
Integrated stress response (ISR), an evolutionarily conserved eukaryotic stress-adaptive program in eukaryotes, has also been implicated in homeostatic functions. This review covers a broad body of l....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Hello fellow scientists, I'm thrilled to share with you a state of the art review that @lydiagrmai.bsky.social , the bsky-less Deepika Vasudevan and I have been working on for >1 year! Keep reading...!
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The mentee survey collects in-depth information about the type of mentorship being sought and the FlyCROSS committee will prioritize the need of the mentee. At the end of the survey, the mentee will be able to indicate their preferred mentors - making this "one of a kind" mentoring opportunity.
July 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The mentee survey collects in-depth information about the type of mentorship being sought and the FlyCROSS committee will prioritize the need of the mentee. At the end of the survey, the mentee will be able to indicate their preferred mentors - making this "one of a kind" mentoring opportunity.
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We have a really large pool of mentors from across the world who specialize in numerous scientific areas, have experience in overcoming personal/professional challenges, and are open to mentoring for science and beyond. This is an incredible opportunity to be mentored by #drosophila experts.
July 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
We have a really large pool of mentors from across the world who specialize in numerous scientific areas, have experience in overcoming personal/professional challenges, and are open to mentoring for science and beyond. This is an incredible opportunity to be mentored by #drosophila experts.
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#FlyCROSS mentee surveys are open for #earlycareer #Drosophila scientists. If you're a #gradstudent #postdoc or pretenure faculty or equivalent - fill up the survey by Sept 1 to participate & be matched by #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs. @flybase.bsky.social
docs.google.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
#FlyCROSS mentee surveys are open for #earlycareer #Drosophila scientists. If you're a #gradstudent #postdoc or pretenure faculty or equivalent - fill up the survey by Sept 1 to participate & be matched by #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs. @flybase.bsky.social
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Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🐣✨ TUJ1 staining reveals the forming trigeminal ganglion in a chick embryo! Image taken by Rocio Márquez from @pstrobl.bsky.social lab, where they investigate how neural crest and placode cells communicate during the formation of this sensory structure 🔬🧪
#FluorescenceFriday
#FluorescenceFriday
July 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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My starter pack for biology-related societies!
I am aware that I am not a society but I just can't remove myself from my own starter pack 😄
Please comment if I should add you!
#BioStarterPacks #Biology #Science
go.bsky.app/VnnkjQf
I am aware that I am not a society but I just can't remove myself from my own starter pack 😄
Please comment if I should add you!
#BioStarterPacks #Biology #Science
go.bsky.app/VnnkjQf
June 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
My starter pack for biology-related societies!
I am aware that I am not a society but I just can't remove myself from my own starter pack 😄
Please comment if I should add you!
#BioStarterPacks #Biology #Science
go.bsky.app/VnnkjQf
I am aware that I am not a society but I just can't remove myself from my own starter pack 😄
Please comment if I should add you!
#BioStarterPacks #Biology #Science
go.bsky.app/VnnkjQf
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🪱C. elegans folks: If you can afford to keep this resource available for our fly colleagues, please help 🧪
The #Drosophila community can donate to the European side to save FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social at the following link:
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
June 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🪱C. elegans folks: If you can afford to keep this resource available for our fly colleagues, please help 🧪
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SUSTAINABILITY & #DROSOPHILA - If you keep flies & have tried to re-use containers but then given up on it, please could you let us know & tell us the reasons? We urgently need statements for a publication about sustainability in fly labs. Please, contact Andreas.Prokop@manchester.ac.uk
June 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
SUSTAINABILITY & #DROSOPHILA - If you keep flies & have tried to re-use containers but then given up on it, please could you let us know & tell us the reasons? We urgently need statements for a publication about sustainability in fly labs. Please, contact Andreas.Prokop@manchester.ac.uk
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Hello Fly Folks. quick note FlyBase is under duress due to termination NIH$ to Harvard and intl collabs. The hardworking folks @flybase.bsky.social are doing their darndest to ensure access to current data. For US, there will soon be a new site to donate. Please spread the word, ideas and support 🪰💪
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 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Hello Fly Folks. quick note FlyBase is under duress due to termination NIH$ to Harvard and intl collabs. The hardworking folks @flybase.bsky.social are doing their darndest to ensure access to current data. For US, there will soon be a new site to donate. Please spread the word, ideas and support 🪰💪
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Hey #Drosophila folks ! #FlyCROSS is back and #Mentor surveys are open NOW ! If you're a faculty/postdoc/ equivalent in any scientific career & have #Drosophila research experience - we'd be delighted to have you as mentors to empower early career scientists in the #Dros community !
Summer 2025 Survey For Mentors : FlyCROSS Mentor Mentee Matching Program
We appreciate you taking the time and volunteering to be a mentor! Add dmelcross@gmail.com to your email address book or safe sender list, so that you can receive our emails. To be a participating me...
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June 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Hey #Drosophila folks ! #FlyCROSS is back and #Mentor surveys are open NOW ! If you're a faculty/postdoc/ equivalent in any scientific career & have #Drosophila research experience - we'd be delighted to have you as mentors to empower early career scientists in the #Dros community !
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The Flyboard and the FlyCROSS committee including @armstrongflylab.bsky.social @frankmac.bsky.social @jocmcdonald.bsky.social @shyama13.bsky.social Jonathan Andrews, Laurel Raftery and me are looking forward to your participation in the program!
June 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The Flyboard and the FlyCROSS committee including @armstrongflylab.bsky.social @frankmac.bsky.social @jocmcdonald.bsky.social @shyama13.bsky.social Jonathan Andrews, Laurel Raftery and me are looking forward to your participation in the program!
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🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️
NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page.
It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad.
❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards.
The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
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NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page.
It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad.
❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards.
The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
1/8... 🧵
May 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️
NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page.
It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad.
❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards.
The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
1/8... 🧵
NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page.
It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad.
❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards.
The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
1/8... 🧵
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I'm excited to join @pritiagarwal.bsky.social and @tarafinegan.bsky.social as a co-organizer for the International Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series. The series will resume in September 2025, and call for speakers is now open! More info is on our new website: sites.google.com/view/devmech...
May 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I'm excited to join @pritiagarwal.bsky.social and @tarafinegan.bsky.social as a co-organizer for the International Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series. The series will resume in September 2025, and call for speakers is now open! More info is on our new website: sites.google.com/view/devmech...
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This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
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FREE Help with Bioimage Analysis!
Second round of hashtag#GloBIAS Free Help (previously Call4Help) is happening in May. You can register for the sessions on our webpage: www.globias.org/activities/g...
Registration deadline is 7. May 2025.
Registration deadline is 7. May 2025.
May 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
FREE Help with Bioimage Analysis!
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Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
April 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
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🧪Hello! are you a scientist who started your PhD in 2020 and are now wrapping up? I want to know how your life is and how you're feeling about your prospects in 2025 for a story in @nature.com. DM me or find me on Signal at aheidt.16. Tell yo friends!
(Also seeking international sources.)
(Also seeking international sources.)
May 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🧪Hello! are you a scientist who started your PhD in 2020 and are now wrapping up? I want to know how your life is and how you're feeling about your prospects in 2025 for a story in @nature.com. DM me or find me on Signal at aheidt.16. Tell yo friends!
(Also seeking international sources.)
(Also seeking international sources.)
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Latest in #G3journal: @jocmcdonald.bsky.social and the team used an unbiased screening approach to identify new candidate regulators of Rap1, a small GTPase crucial for embryogenesis and cancer cell migration, in #Drosophila collective border cell migration. 🪰
Read more: buff.ly/xD3FKjx
Read more: buff.ly/xD3FKjx
May 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Latest in #G3journal: @jocmcdonald.bsky.social and the team used an unbiased screening approach to identify new candidate regulators of Rap1, a small GTPase crucial for embryogenesis and cancer cell migration, in #Drosophila collective border cell migration. 🪰
Read more: buff.ly/xD3FKjx
Read more: buff.ly/xD3FKjx
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With a new round of terminations, I wanted to reshare this. I'm a reporter with @cenmag.bsky.social looking to hear from researchers impacted. Contact info ⬇️
If you're a researcher with an NSF grant that has been terminated or with a proposal now stuck in limbo, I'd like to hear from you.
My signal is kvasquez.12. Anonymity is always an option.
My signal is kvasquez.12. Anonymity is always an option.
NSF announced that it has begun terminating awards. It's unclear how many affected. Sources say it could be over 200
It's also re-reviewing proposals that had already been approved for funding
Here's a breakdown of what's happened this week: cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
#ChemSky #Science
It's also re-reviewing proposals that had already been approved for funding
Here's a breakdown of what's happened this week: cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
#ChemSky #Science
April 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
With a new round of terminations, I wanted to reshare this. I'm a reporter with @cenmag.bsky.social looking to hear from researchers impacted. Contact info ⬇️
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Only 29 slots left out of 200--register now!
Cell and developmental biologists: as you start looking at conferences in 2025, consider joining us at the 2025 Cell Contact & Adhesion GRC. We've assembled a strong and diverse program of speakers at the cutting-edge of science in our field 1/n Please repost
www.grc.org/cell-contact...
www.grc.org/cell-contact...
April 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Only 29 slots left out of 200--register now!
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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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If you're an NSF grantee who receives notice of cancellation per today's announcement, please get in touch here or via Signal mzahneis.09.
April 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
If you're an NSF grantee who receives notice of cancellation per today's announcement, please get in touch here or via Signal mzahneis.09.