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Genome Journal @genomejournal.bsky.social · 2d

This #CanFly collection highlights research presented at the 2025 Canadian Drosophila Research Conference. Submit your work and be part of this showcase of innovation in Drosophila science.

Details ▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI

#DrosophilaResearch #CanFly2025

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Genome Journal @genomejournal.bsky.social · 10d

#ASD diagnosis could get a precision upgrade! 🧬 Long-read sequencing reveals complex structural variants missed by short-read methods, helping to clarify #genetic contributions to #autism #PrecisionMedicine buff.ly/nm5kd7q

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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · 10d

www.testingworks.org.uk

Kirkaldy's Testing Works

Kirkaldy’s Testing and Experimenting Works is an extraordinary survivor in the heart of transforming London. What’s more, it has played a unique part in that transformation – the place where one man’s...

www.testingworks.org.uk

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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · 10d

Seen walking in London tonight. Inspired to change the name of my lab?

A building sign saying Krikaldys testing and experiential works.

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Genome Journal @genomejournal.bsky.social · 17d

Can’t wait to join the Riboclub 2025 Annual Meeting! See you there to talk RNA and share ideas! @rnacanada.bsky.social #BiologyConference #RNABiology

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 21d

Lipid droplets: Open questions and conceptual advances around a unique organelle. New review from Mike Henne (@hennelab.bsky.social), Emma Reynolds, and William: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Biochemistry #CellMetabolism #LipidDroplets

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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

I just realized you can use Chat GPT to rewrite emails into any style you wish.

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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · Sep 5

Well. That's definitely not the way I heard it 🤣

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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · Sep 3

JCB has rounded up a good collection of papers outlining best practices regarding reproducability in Cell Biology experiments, especially microscopy. Worth a read, and passing along to your trainees.

Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · Sep 3

Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

#Reproducibility

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Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center @bdsc.bsky.social · Aug 15

FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki

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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · Aug 15

Donated! Without Flybase our reserach would be impossible.

FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Aug 15

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki

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Genome Journal @genomejournal.bsky.social · Aug 11

#Cytogenomics: Exploring #Chromosome Structure and Function is still open for submissions in @genomejournal.bsky.social!

Find the full list of topics here ▶️ buff.ly/9ACNj1m

#CallForPapers #Genomics

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · Jul 31

Trump says Canada backing Palestinian statehood jeopardizes U.S. trade deal he was gonna break anyway

WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S.President Donald Trump has announced that Canada’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood will “make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them, which I had no inten...

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Patrick MacDonald🇨🇦 @bcellorg.bsky.social · Jul 24

Official posting coming soon, but here's a heads-up:

#Postdoc Opportunity for individuals with an interest in advancing the understanding of pancreatic islet hormones in health and #diabetes. Diverse backgrounds, skill sets and experiences are welcome!

www.bcell.org

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Genome Journal @genomejournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

🐝 #CanFly2023 Throwback!
Explore top-tier Canadian #Drosophila research in our #CanFly2023 collection—genetics, neuro, evo, development & more! 🧬🧠
ow.ly/XUvC50WqbAx
🗨️ Came to #CanFly2025?
Submit to the new collection—NO #OA FEES! 📝
#ModelOrganisms

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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · Jul 2

It means you have transitioned from one type of Ass Prof to different type of Ass Prof. Congratulations!

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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · Jun 24

Advice to new PIs.
Running an academic laboratory,
- is like running a small business,
- wrapped inside a large dysfunctional mega-corporation (university)
- that is owned by the government.
The ultimate organizaitonal Matryoska.

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Edge O. Erin @edgeoerin.com · Jun 18

Bluesky is dying?!
Really?

Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...

Bluesky is dying

Bluesky was invented to create a nicer space than Twitter. The problem is that too few people have joined and most are smug and boring.

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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · Jun 17

Simmonds lab and Dept. of #CellBiology @ualberta.bsky.social alumni Matt Anderson-Baron reaches a new milestone with their #YEG biotech - Future Fields Closes Oversubscribed $8M Series A to Turn Flies Into Bioreactors share.google/RJvHTcdh4ugS...

Future Fields Closes Oversubscribed $8M Series A to Turn Flies Into Bioreactors

Company emerges as key player creating exotic and difficult-to-express proteins (DTEPs) as a biomanufacturing partner for protein AI companies and a vendor to the four trillion dollar syn-bio industry

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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · Jun 17

One of the major partners supporting our world-class reserachers in the Department fo Cell Biology
@ualberta.bsky.social
is the Women's Children's Health Reserach Institute
@wchriuofa.bsky.social
See how in their 2024-2025 annual report. #WCHRIAR2025
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Lighting the Way | 2024-2025 Annual Report

Research not only saves lives, it ignites hope. While true transformation requires both patience and vision, each breakthrough brings us closer to our goal.

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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · Jun 15

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Genome Journal @genomejournal.bsky.social · Jun 11

Publish your next breakthrough in Genome with no fees. Corresponding authors with @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social can submit unlimited OA manuscripts and benefit from unlimited read access. Discover how 🍁▶️ buff.ly/oUyzd2x

🧬🔄 #genomics #chromatin #nucleosome #regulatorynetwork #generegulation #epigenome

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Genome Journal @genomejournal.bsky.social · Jun 10

🍎🪰 Only ONE WEEK until #CanFly2025! The fruit fly frenzy is almost upon us — can’t wait to connect with the amazing Drosophila research community. Wings up, let’s fly! ✈️🧬 #Drosophila #FruitFlyScience
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Saccharomyces Genome Database @yeastgenome.bsky.social · Jun 9

FlyBase needs your help!

Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org

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