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Shefali
@iamshef.bsky.social
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PhD candidate | AHA Predoc Fellow | Grad student rep at Flyboard | Studying metabolism and development in the Tennessen Lab at IU Bloomington | She is into dancing and Drosophila 💃🏽🎶🎙️👩🏽‍🔬🔬
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · Jul 21
#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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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 17h
This book has never been more timely. Thanks to @sonali-m-19.bsky.social for writing it and for sending me a copy.
Photo of book “Thriving as an International Scientist” written by Sonali Majumdar
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 14h
Hahaaa yup we tried 😅
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 15h
Reached this stage ✅
#milestone #phdlife
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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 1d
nice hack i've done twice this year...drop by CSHL for a day (Neurofly), listen bunch of talks and chat up posters, see ~20 people (inc 2 collaborators IRL for 1st time, and our former star grad student Piero Sanfilippo), share updates on #FlyBase with community and urge donations, and back home! 🪰
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 1d
Because it's not a working day tomorrow !
#Fallbreak
a little girl wearing sunglasses and a blue dress is dancing in a hallway .
ALT: a little girl wearing sunglasses and a blue dress is dancing in a hallway .
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 1d
It's officially wear jacket in the morning and carry it in the afternoon season!
#midwest
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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 1d
Searches and tools are currently down for FlyBase.org. Our developers are working on getting us back up.
FlyBase Homepage
FlyBase: a database for drosophila genetics and molecular biology
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 2d
Everyone go out and look at the moon 🌝
It is beautiful 😍
#moon #night
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 3d
Waking up to #fall weather 🍁🍂
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 3d
Marine iguanas have lower metabolic rates during El Niño

This article, by Shahar Dubiner and colleagues, is Journal of Experimental Biology's Editor's choice for the month.

Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

#MarineIguana #Iguana #MarineLife #Research #Animals #SeaLife
A marine iguana on a rock, in front of blue and white waves.
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fly paper broadcast @fly-broadcast.bsky.social · 3d
A short photoperiod alters brain metabolism and cold resistance in Drosophila melanogaster
#Drosophila
A short photoperiod alters brain metabolism and cold resistance in Drosophila melanogaster #Drosophila
PubMed link
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 3d
Feel so validated !
☕☺️ ✅
#phdlife #coffee #community
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Science Magazine @science.org · 9d
Here's a reminder on #InternationalCoffeeDay: It's OK to take a (coffee) break. ☕

"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb
People arm in arm while drinking coffee and holding papers, with text: Why scientists should take more coffee breaks.
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 3d
When prism decides to update itself in the middle of my analysis 🤷🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🙄
#phdlife
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 3d
In a surprising turn of events, I now have a graduate student 🤗

I want to do this right. So I’m soliciting advice from the wise & experienced 😅 - what are your best tips for being a good advisor/PI/graduate student mentor? ✨
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 3d
Amazing paper on how metabolites act as signaling factors which impact growth and development by ways which are not limited to merely changes in flux, energy production and biogenesis.
#Drosophila #metabolism #ecdysone #Ampk #interorgancommunication
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 6d
💫NEW: @telemanlab.bsky.social & co demonstrate that #AMPK can be activated by signaling metabolite, #adenosine, under non-stress conditions during #Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.
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Remote control of AMPK via extracellular adenosine controls tissue growth - Nature Cell Biology
Zhang et al. demonstrate that AMPK can be activated by signalling metabolite, adenosine, under non-stress conditions during Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 11d
A study in #G3journal examines the interplay between ecdysone signaling and O-GlcNAcylation in #Drosophila intestinal stem cell proliferation and gut homeostasis in aging, thereby linking age-related, abnormal stem cell proliferation to metabolic diseases. buff.ly/cBkR5tY
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 4d
📅 Oct 29, 1 p.m. EDT
Postdoc Opportunities Abroad
Hear from early career researchers building successful careers outside the U.S.—and get tips for planning your own path. @ethanewe.bsky.social

You’ll need to create a GSA account, but both events are free—register now: buff.ly/DUzRI4Y

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 4d
🚨 Two upcoming GSA panels highlight international research opportunities for early career scientists!

📅 Oct 20, 11 a.m. EDT
Grants and Funding in Europe
Learn how to secure funding abroad with insights from the @erc.europa.eu + The Research Bid.

@limor-zwi-dantsis.bsky.social

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SEBD @sebioldev.bsky.social · 4d
We are very pleased to announce our joint meeting with the German @gfeev.bsky.social and the Dutch Developmental Biology Societies, which will take place in Potsdam from the 10-13th of March 2026. Registration is now open! www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...
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Richard Benton @bentonlab.bsky.social · 5d
Having personally sworn for years that insects don’t use GPCRs for odour detection, Suguru Takagi (@sugurutakagi.bsky.social) discovers that, in fact, they sometimes do …

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A GPCR signaling pathway in insect odor detection
Odor detection differs fundamentally in vertebrates, which use G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), and insects, which employ ion channels. Here, we report the first evidence for a GPCR defining tunin...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 4d
This year’s #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering how the immune system distinguishes friend from foe. https://scim.ag/3Wt5rdi
Medicine Nobel goes to three researchers who identified immune system’s security guards
Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered regulatory T cells that prevent autoimmune disease
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 5d
Maa sending me pictures of my namesake flowers this morning (India time morning) !
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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 5d
When Jennifer Matthews first saw corals while learning to scuba dive, she was mesmerized by their neon yellows, pinks and blues.

🪸 “They were so beautiful,” she recalled.

Read more about Matthews’ journey from that moment of wonder to a career studying #coral resilience: ow.ly/vqhZ50X6OHA.
‘Cities under the sea’
Nanotechnology offers a way to restore and re-create coral reef biodiversity.
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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · 5d
Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....
Male CNS Connectome
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 ...
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 6d
Into the world of greens before the fall kicks in !
#blueheron #birds #bees #butterfly #browncounty #photography
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