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Interested in polarity and mechanics during epithelial morphogenesis? Considering joining us! Students to be hired initially as Research Associates. Postdocs encouraged to obtain fellowship, and we help/train you to do that. Apply to tinyurl.com/y6x489t5. Deadline Dec 15.

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November 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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alert to all H1B holders, please share: Trump just banned H-1B employees from reentering US unless employer pays $100,000 "fee". Proclamation applies to both new H-1B entrants and current H-1B employees who are abroad. set to take effect tmrw sun sept 21. please return if you can. i am so sorry. 😢
September 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Clever mug :-)
August 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Dear president@harvard.edu, dear gaudet@mcb.harvard.edu,
to learn more about the importance of #Drosophila and crucial role of @flybase.bsky.social, and how it gave rise to at least 9 Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine, please see this link:
droso4schools.wordpress.com/why-fly/
August 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u
August 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Our first #Hydra paper. @anaisbailles.bsky.social all the way, with crucial theory contributions from Carl Modes and @zechnerlab.bsky.social Hydra maintenance by Heino Andreas and HCR by Giulia Serafini. Teamwork. Many thanks to the generous Hydra research community.
Very happy that the first article from my postdoc work in the Tomancak lab is now published @PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... We studied the self-organization of actin in aggregates made from Hydra cells. Thread below (1/9)
August 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Astérix et Ozempix
May 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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This was the last @hhmi.org conference Lilly and Yuh-Nung Jan attended as investigators. They're becoming HHMI emeritus but still run a thriving NIH-funded lab. From cloning the first potassium ion channel (Shaker) to decoding neuronal development, the Jans have made a huge impact.
April 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I bought a Tesla because it was fast like a rocket ship. But now every time I drive it, I feel like a rolling billboard for a man dismantling our government and hurting people. So Tesla, you’re fired!

New ride coming soon.
March 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Trump & Musk führen einen administrativen Staatsstreich durch, brechen ein Gesetz nach dem anderen - die USA sind mitten in einer Verfassungskrise. Mein Text für @volksverpetzer.de ist jetzt online. Dank an @mjsdc.bsky.social für die juristischen Einordnungen! www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/tr...
Trump & Musk: Staatsstreich in den USA & keiner kriegt es hier mit?
Musk und Trump führen in den USA gerade einen administrativen Staatsstreich durch. Deutsche Medien berichten größtenteils, als laufe alles wie immer.
www.volksverpetzer.de
February 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Our story about flies on carousels is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! After formally engaging the fantastic @clarahowcroft.bsky.social and integrating helpful reviewer feedback, we present a more concise story with detailed behavioural quantification and cooler videos! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter
ALT: a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter
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February 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Aus der thüringischen Böttcher AG, einem führenden Büroartikelhändler mit einem Jahresumsatz von 760 Mill €, hat die AfD 1 Million Euro Wahlkampfunterstützung erhalten (www.spiegel.de/politik/jena...). Ich habe sofort reagiert!
January 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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We are excited to announce the opening of registrations for the upcoming #EDRC2025 conference (25th-28th September 2025) in Alicante to showcase the latest advances in #Drosophila biology and technology edrc2025alicante.com
EDRC 2025 Alicante
edrc2025alicante.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Our paper on Velvet Ant venom is out at @currentbiology.bsky.social “Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom” sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Velvet ants are among the most painful of all stinging insects. What makes them so painful? We used fruit fly larvae to find out 🧐 1/5
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom
Evolutionary arms races can lead to extremely specific and effective defense mechanisms, including venoms that deter predators by targeting nociceptiv…
sciencedirect.com
January 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Muscles growth by sarcomere divisions - how your muscles add new sarcomeres during developmental growth: they divide! Cool collaboration @friedrich-group.bsky.social @raunser-lab.bsky.social @Dirk Görlich @univ-amu.fr @cnrs.bsky.social sciencecast.org/casts/aspy9l... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 19, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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We are thrilled to announce that IRL JEDI meetings will restart in 2025.
You can already register at flyjedi.sciencesconf.org where you'll find a preliminary program.
Looking forward to meeting you and restart this network of fly people!
Junior European Drosophila Investigator 10th meeting - Sciencesconf.org
flyjedi.sciencesconf.org
December 20, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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the Lai lab got a holiday gift ... so excited to share Seungjae Lee's work on surprising regulation of miRNA pathway at Science!! he did it all, from molecular genetics to biochemistry to genomics. and amazing collab with Makiko Yasuda lab brought it into mice. 1/3

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 20, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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Excited to share our latest findings, now published @NatureNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We found unmyelinated axons exhibit pearls-on-a-string morphology's due to their membrane mechanical properties.

Threads will follow!
December 2, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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Portuguese Fly Meeting 7-8 November 2024, Batalha, Portugal. This is organized by Drosophilists working in Portugal but open to researchers from anywhere. Everyone, including Master students, is welcome to apply for oral or poster presentation.
More info at: iridescent-gnu-ftqk0k.mystrikingly.com
September 11, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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We are looking for a molecular biologist to join the lab! We are looking for someone interested in collaborating on genes-circuits-behavior projects, with steady hands and killer pipetting skills. www.kaunlab.com/post/we-are-...
We are hiring!
We are looking for a molecular biologist to join our team! This position will have four major duties: 1) performing and assisting lab members on molecular biology experiments, 2) performing DNA extrac...
www.kaunlab.com
May 3, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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Join us for the next @DGZ_info Focus Workshop on #celladhesion and #extracellularmatrix, Tuesday April 30 at noon in Zoom, organized by Carsten Grashoff and @WickstromLab. Speakers: Srishti Rangarajan
@uni_muenster, @IngoThievessen, @amaia_cipitria, @JNuchel
April 22, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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Postdoc position available in my lab! We study sensory coding and memory in the Drosophila mushroom body. More about us at www.aclinlab.org Deadline 25 March. Please spread the word! bit.ly/LinPostdoc2024
Research Associate at University of Sheffield
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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March 15, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750).

To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.
February 22, 2024 at 2:45 PM