My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good

As thrilled as I am to share this, it wouldn’t have been possible without other members of @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social lab particularly Sydney Yu (not on Bluesky), a brilliant former undergrad whose honors thesis kicked off this discovery.Super grateful to have had her on this journey! (6/6)

This suggests that fruit fly’s alula may be a reduced vannus, meaning Drosophila wings are just one-third of the ancestral insect wing. To understand how wings evolved into today’s wild diversity, we need to look beyond flies to other broad winged insects like butterflies, moths & more. (5/6)

Knockdown of mirror in fruit fly wings results in the loss of a proximal-posterior lobe called the “alula” – a membranous structure present exclusively in some #Diptera like fruit flies (doi.org/10.1242/dev....). (4/6)

"mirror" is not only expressed in this posterior region of the wing disc, but #CRISPR knockouts result in mosaics where the vannus is entirely lost or partially reduced accompanied by vein anomalies and the spread of color patterns! (3/6)

The posterior part of wings in broad winged insects like butterflies has a lobe like region called “vannus” which is bordered by the anal (2A) vein. Across butterfly families, the vannus is usually characterized by distinct silver scales and devoid of color patterns like the rest of the wing. (2/6)