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Geoff Power @geoffpower.bsky.social · 2d

📢 latest from the PowerLab🚨

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Step by step guide on Construction of Constant-Load (Isotonic) and Constant-Velocity (Isokinetic) Torque-Velocity-Power Profiles In vivo for the Rat Plantar Flexors

Video to follow!

Construction of Constant-Load (Isotonic) and Constant-Velocity (Isokinetic) Torque-Velocity-Power Profiles In vivo for the Rat Plantar Flexors

University of Guelph. Here, we present a novel protocol to non-invasively measure the torque-angular velocity-power relationship in vivo in rat plantar flexors using transcutaneous muscle stimulation...

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 3d

🪰 A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system—a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the millions of connections between them.
🔗 https://hhmi.news/4o3EJnk

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 7d

My entry for today’s #FluorescenceFriday: a pupal #Drosophila testis with muscles expressing
🔵 lifeact &
🔴 RFP-nls

Honored & grateful to receive an honorable mention at @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World 🌍🔬✨

🔗 www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

#NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceArt

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Pedro Santamaria @p-santamaria.bsky.social · 8d

What it meant to be human ? Not the "Transcendency" - we don't transcend - !

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Jane Goodall, Who Forever Changed How We See Animals, Dies at 91

The famed primatologist's research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8d

There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢

Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has died

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 9d

Issue 17 is complete!

On the cover: Image of three Hydra specimens. A wild-type Hydra (centre) and two transformants showing switch of foot (pink) to tentacle (yellow) (right) and tentacles to feet (left).

See Research Article by Ferenc et al.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 18d

Most of us: there’s no way we can get any stupider

Narrator: they were incorrect

CNN @cnn.com · 21d

JUST IN: Vaccine advisers to the CDC have voted to recommended against using the combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for children under 4. https://cnn.it/3K73pNn

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flymuscles @flymuscles.bsky.social · 19d

very promising👇

bioRxiv Physiology @biorxiv-physio.bsky.social · 19d

Mechanical Loading Induces the Longitudinal Growth of Muscle Fibers via an mTORC1-Independent Mechanism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.676647v1

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Elizabeth Rideout @ejrideout.bsky.social · 19d

Very proud of Celena Cherian in the lab, who contributed data to www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Briefly, Celena showed female fat body cells have higher ribosomal protein expression and more protein synthesis than males. This difference persists even after cell size is accounted for!

Cell type specific allometry controls sex-differences in Drosophila body size

Species and sex-specific differences in organ size are fundamental features of animal biology, yet the mechanisms that drive these differences remain debated. Adult female Drosophila are larger than m...

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Cell & Systems Biology (CSB) @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social · 20d

The Department of Cell & Systems Biology at University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the field of Animal Morphogenesis.
#CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #mechanobiology #TissueMorphogenesis
#SystemsBiology

jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Assistant Professor - Animal Morphogenesis

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Angelo Iulianella @aineurolab.bsky.social · 20d

PM Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social, your 15% proposed cuts to Tri-council funding will run counter to your election promise to accelerate Canadian innovation. Canadian scientists are among the lowest funded of the top 10 world economies. More funding of discovery science is a priority.

M. Natasha Rajah 🇨🇦 @mnrajah.bsky.social · 20d

While Canada plans for another round of CERC hirings (which costs millions); support to retain international talent & support 🇨🇦 researchers may be cut!

Sign this letter to request @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social to stop the proposed cuts to
research & innovation!

CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 21d

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science.

Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024.

Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 20d

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper?

You got it:
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Canadian Science Publishing @cdnsciencepub.com · 20d

@facetsjournal.bsky.social publishes across the sciences, integrating social sciences and diverse ways of knowing. We’re recruiting a new Co-Editor-in-Chief to guide its next phase.

Apply today ▶️ buff.ly/VqyMsd0

#InterdisciplinaryResearch #AcademicJobs #EditorInChief

Blurred crowd of people walking near green trees and glass buildings with a call for Co-Editor-in-Chief applications by FACETS.

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Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 28d

Scientists crafted glow-in-the-dark #succulents that recharge in sunlight. Injected with light-emitting phosphor, the plants can shine as bright as a small night light. cell.com/matter/fullt...

@cp-matter.bsky.social
#SCAU Shuting Liu & colleagues

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flymuscles @flymuscles.bsky.social · 21d

I found an insect outside, and I thought it had nice red spots. Turns out they were parasitic mites. 🤮

flymuscles @flymuscles.bsky.social · 21d

Myofibrils have a second-harmonic-generation microscopy gradient. 👍

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flymuscles @flymuscles.bsky.social · 21d

One nice thing about working with muscles and myofibrils is that biophysicists love them, and so we collaborate with them. Here, Danielle Tokarz's group at @smuhalifax.bsky.social used polarization second-harmonic generation microscopy in single fibrils opg.optica.org/boe/fulltext...

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flymuscles @flymuscles.bsky.social · 21d

The lockout at Dal is over, and so is the summer weather.

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flymuscles @flymuscles.bsky.social · 24d

congratulations!

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Esther Verheyen 🇨🇦 @estherverheyen.bsky.social · 27d

Another new paper from our lab!

bioRxiv Cancer Bio @biorxiv-cancer.bsky.social · 27d

A Novel Drosophila Model of Cancer Cachexia Reveals Conserved Jak/Stat Dependent Glucagon-like Akh Activation as a Driver of Metabolic Reprogramming and Systemic Wasting https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.10.675448v1

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Gizem Özdil @gzmozd.bsky.social · 27d

🪰 How do dozens of tiny fly muscles cooperate to move a leg?

We’re excited to share the first 3D, data-driven musculoskeletal model of Drosophila legs based on Hill-type muscles, running in OpenSim and MuJoCo simulation environments.

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06426

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 28d

In 2019, Anna Jost & @jencwaters.bsky.social reviewed best practices for validating quantitative #microscopy methods & discuss strategies to avoid unconscious bias in imaging experiments rupress.org/jcb/article/...

📕 In #Reproducibility & Best Practices in Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

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Perrimon Lab @perrimonlab.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research

Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research | News | The Harvard Crimson

FlyBase lost a multimillion dollar grant when the Trump administration cut off Harvard’s federal funding in May. Now the repository is laying off staff — and researchers worldwide are worried.

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Ivan Radin @radinbio.bsky.social · Sep 8

This might be one of the simplest images I captured, but very fascinating nonetheless, as it shows how tight the cytoplasm in a plant cell is. The cytosol and all other organelles are squished between the plasma membrane (magenta) and the central vacuole (its membrane is green)
#MicroscopyMonday

The image shows one straight magenta line and, close to it, another wavy green line.

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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ant reproduction is getting weirder and weirder. Here’s the latest: queens of a Mediterranean harvester ant mate with males from a different species and then lay eggs that clonally inherit those males’ genome. I.e., they lay eggs that develop into a different species. 🤯

Nature @nature.com · Sep 5

The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle

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Ant queens produce sons of two distinct species

The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle about a missing population of another ant species.

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