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Extended family members visited my parents and said some mean things about how raising an only daughter to be "too educated" is not a good idea. Jesus Christ we are living in the 21st fucking century 🤷🏽‍♀️

FlyBase: Development and metamorphosis into the Alliance. Marygold SJ, Attrill H, Dos Santos G, Gramates LS, McLachlan A, Millburn G, Tabone CJ, Zaru R; FlyBase Consortium. Genetics. 2026 Oct 26:iyag247. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyag247. PMID: 42932930

Metabolism is traditionally studied at the individual cell level, yet its role during development is very much under-appreciated. @mongeralab.bsky.social, @matyasbl.bsky.social and Olivier Pourquié lab discuss this interesting interplay between metabolism and morphogenesis: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

"I am committed to not letting my history define me. But I also don’t want my colleagues to assume no scientist could have a past like mine." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4i3uAXO

When your way to work is stunning 🤩 Happy #fall season you all 🥹🍂 #iubloomington

Second pre-print from the lab! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are plant roots really made up of concentric layers of homogeneous, differentiating cell types? In our new study, out now in @nature.com, we show a more complex picture: two distinct cell states within root lineages, shaped in part by the environment. 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👇 one of my favourite brain regions Functional architecture of the human insula | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hello #fall season 🎃🍂 #iubloomington

#FluorescenceFriday An image taken by Alex Neaverson @alexneaverson.bsky.social (Placzek lab) showing three chicken embryos at 18h, 30h, and 38h incubation, marking progressive A/P specification of the nervous system: SIX3 (forebrain; magenta); KROX20 (hindbrain; green); HOXB8 (spinal cord; red).

Super interesting paper exploring the molecular basis of left-right asymmetry in of enantiostyly in butterfly lilies! The style bend and rotate before flowering to avoid the anther (and prevent self-pollination). Controlled by a hemizygous locus supergene! 🤩 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Society for Developmental Biology is hosting a session "Developmental Biology is for All" at @sacnas.bsky.social on Saturday, October 31 at 1:15 pm. Join Ida Chow, @jesusgm.bsky.social, @ceriweber.bsky.social, and D’Juan Farmer at #SACNAS2026. Visit Ida Chow at Booth 744.

Come join us! Applications are open for the PhD program in Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology at Indiana University Bloomington. Deadline: December 1, 2026. Details and how to apply: biology.indiana.edu/graduate/gen... @iubiology.bsky.social

📢 EASTBIO funded #PhD opportunity in our lab at #Edinburgh! Interested in #LiveImaging and capturing fascinating tissue dynamics in vivo through movies like this one? Get in touch to discuss further! Deadline: 16 Nov 2026 Please do share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #Drosophila #CellBio #DevBio

The Company of Biologists is a not-for-profit publisher that exists to support biologists and inspire biology. This video tells you more about our aims and activities. youtu.be/lVH6zgfl-zM

Not me liking pujo reels from everywhere on my Instagram and not doing anything productive for the entire evening 🤷🏽‍♀️💃🏽🙈

Fly neuro PIs (old-hand or soon-to-be)! Registration for the Crete Workshop on Neural Circuits & Behavior of Drosophila is now open: sites.google.com/view/crete-f... Deadline: Nov 30th.

Please join us in welcoming 14 new editors to #G3Journal and @jrossibarra.bsky.social to #GENETICS as a Primers editor! We’re thrilled to have these brilliant minds and talented researchers join our editorial teams. 🔗https://buff.ly/SI38PZt Meet them below! ⬇️ 1/2🧵

Happy for the image of distinction in this year's Nikon Small World Competition, and congrats to all the winners!

We are hiring! The Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science at NYU are seeking applicants with an outstanding record of research in human neuroscience for an open tenure-track assistant professor position. Potential applicants can apply here by 11/15: apply.interfolio.com/195772

From MBoC: What helps cells stay connected as they move together to shape tissues? A Drosophila study identified 22 genes involved in testis morphogenesis and uncovered new roles for Par-1 and RN-tre in cell migration and tissue organization. https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E26-05-0234

Interested in speciation and from the UK? Apply for this PhD studentship to study speciation in snapdragons at UCL, supervised by Sean Stankowski and co-supervised by me! 👉 lnkd.in/eUBZBR-e Fieldwork in Spain, visits to Austria and much fun and flexibility to design your own projects guaranteed.

Why why why is there not a single portal for uploading PhD student application references. Why can this not be coordinated across schools.

Shubho bijoya to all who celebrate 🎈 🥁🎺🪇🔔🐚🏠 #pujo

honored to receive the community engagement award this year 😊 we made an onboarding handbook for *ALL* postdocs at Cornell, and we organize monthly professional development workshops for postdocs across departments - truly a team effort!! news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

You wake up early to put in citations in the paper but then the number captchas, traffic lights and cars you have to select to prove that you're human is insane.

Registration is open for the 2027 @embo.org Workshop on Cell Polarity and Membrane Dynamics, co-organized with @alexludwig.bsky.social and @dianapinheiro.bsky.social. Join us in May 2027 in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, near Barcelona! meetings.embo.org/event/27-cel... #EMBOCellPolarity

🚨 Our department is hiring! Looking to fill an endowed position in genetics/genomics to join us in beautiful Oregon. Search is at the Associate/Full Professor level. See below for details and share with your colleagues!

The Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience at Rutgers is recruiting an immunologist to join us as a tenure-track Assistant Professor (due Dec 15, 2026). Come be our colleague! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/282...

Don't miss our session "Lessons learned: choosing mentors at different career stages" at #SACNAS2026! 📅 Sat, Oct 31 ⏰ 10:30 AM PDT 📍 Room 104 C, Level 2 Hear from a great lineup of speakers as we dive into mentorship strategies for every career stage. See you there! 🙌 @sacnas.bsky.social

We are all set for #halloween ! @iubiology.bsky.social #phdlife 🍂🎃👽

📢 TALK ALERT: Montreal peeps! I will be giving a talk in Montreal at Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont Centre de Recherche on Oct. 23 (12 to 1 pm) on on our work identifying ancient functions of two tumour suppressors: promyelocytic leukemia (PML) protein and pre-mRNA processing factor 4 kinase (PRP4K).

Attention folks attending a GRC: Here is another Phishing scam. BEWARE!

Lipid requirements for brain development and function: what we can learn from Drosophila melanogaster #Drosophila

How does embryonic patterning remain robust when temperature changes the pace of development? In medaka, morphogen gradients rescale with developmental speed, despite morphogen diffusion remaining unchanged. Simulations point to a reaction-dominated mechanism. 👉 doi.org/10.64898/202...

How does an embryo build itself? Join experimentalists and theorists as they discuss the principles of biological forms, from molecular mechanisms to whole organisms #EESDevelopment

i am currently there at the #Purdue marker. If you're in West Lafayette, come see my talk for the Biology dept tomorrow Monday, 11:30!

🧠🪰 Excited to share our paper in @elife.bsky.social detailing the synaptic connectome of the neurosecretory network in Drosophila. We mapped the hormone-releasing neurosecretory cells (NSCs) in the fly brain and their connectivity. 🧵https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.102684

The final version of our paper on Drosophila brain endocrine cells is out now in eLife. elifesciences.org/articles/102... Check out the thread from the first author @tmckim.bsky.social here for more details: bsky.app/profile/tmck...

Mentoring opportunity for early career #Drosophila researchers at FlyCROSS: if you are a graduate, technician, postdoc or pre-tenure researchers sign up to be a mentee here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Pujo greetings everyone ! May we all continue to grow, learn, reflect and enrich ! It's that time of the year when I miss home the most - even being so far away from home, I can almost smell pujo. 🥁🎺🪇🔔🐚🏠 #pujo

The human gut microbiome primes fever after vaccination | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Something's don't have pros and cons 🤷🏽‍♀️ #Thediplomat

@joethorntonlab.bsky.social and I are thrilled to co-organize the 2027 Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution GRC, June 13–18, in beautiful Portland, Maine! See our ⭐stellar⭐ lineup of speakers ⬇️ spanning evolutionary biochemistry, cell biology, development, behavior... www.grc.org/molecular-me... 1/n

Delighted to host Mariana Wolfner, doyenne of reproductive biology, for seminar @mskcancercenter.bsky.social. wanted to share her Perspective on Dave Hogness in @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. Supplement includes her unpublished thesis on ecdysone inducible genes! 🪰🧬 academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

And it's time for #TheDiplomat new season 🍿🎬

Come work with me! TT Professor opening at Purdue University; Quantitative Neuroscience! I’d love to recruit someone working on high throughput image data. It's a great place to be, Purdue is a top-30 US university (12th among public universities): careers.purdue.edu/job/Assistan...

This is how to support science! I’ve always been a bit jealous of folks who casually mention “so we got the allele from Bloomington” I wonder how many discoveries from almost 5 million shipments. Congrats!

4 decades of stocks sent out by the @bdsc.bsky.social, nearly 5M vials!! countless crosses, experiments and knowledge generated from those flies. fun fact, like having a low area code is a cachet (eg 212), low digit BUN (Bloomington user number) IDs are a status symbol for some. my old lab was #40.🪰

Interested in aging research? We're hiring a Research Technician to help manage our fly lab at Tufts HNRCA in Boston. Responsibilities include managing fly stocks, supervising undergraduates, and supporting studies of behavior, genetics, and healthy aging. Apply here: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/23747?l...