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Ethan Greenblatt @vancityflyguy.bsky.social · Jul 17

hi Jill 👋 hope you're doing great and enjoying the company of
some friendly fruit flies in your neck of the woods!

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Jul 16

This isn't a coincidence, IMO. The fly community is generally super rigorous - because there are so many tools and techniques available, people expect you to really nail things in order to get published (and keep getting funded)

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · Jul 16

Model organism communities are fantastic. Good work, "Drosophilists"! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible

Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority of findings look verifiable.

www.nature.com

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Science in Boston @scienceinboston.com · Jul 9

Certain alleles, called meiotic drivers, cheat the rules of inheritance to increase the chance of transmission.

The Yamashita lab at the @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social investigated genetic information transmission and found a meiotic driver that operates differently: bit.ly/4nzcFcp

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Ethan Greenblatt @vancityflyguy.bsky.social · Jun 15

The other side of the sign said “Kings are for Hosers” but then I realized that is a more controversial take here

Ethan Greenblatt @vancityflyguy.bsky.social · Jun 14

Making my voice heard at the #nokings protest in Vancouver!

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Ethan Greenblatt @vancityflyguy.bsky.social · Jun 1

Super sad and stressful situation. Wishing you all the best Jason so you can continue your important work!

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Sheila Teves @sheilateves.bsky.social · May 22

So excited to see this work out in
@narjournal.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Congratulations to Hazel Cui on outstanding work!

Keep an eye out for part 2 of this project 😎

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Amanda Burnham @amandaburnham.bsky.social · Apr 19

The Sondheim Finalists’ Exhibition at @thewaltersartmuseum is open as of TODAY! I am so thrilled to share this new work and hope you will see it!

“…and Find Out.” (detail), watercolor, ink, and acrylic on paper, 22 x 30 x 1”, 2025

Small detail of a dimensional collage with disembodied hands and water droplets in blue, yellow, green, and black

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Apr 15

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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Florencia Pratto @florpratto.bsky.social · Apr 8

Check this out if you ever wondered what intercellular bridges might be doing during meiosis! Happy to have played a small role! Congrats!!! @thejainlab.bsky.social

Devanshi Jain @thejainlab.bsky.social · Apr 8

For my first science post here, I’m proud to advertise our latest work exploring why germ cell connectivity is really important for meiosis 🐁

Done with some awesome colleagues @florpratto.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Intercellular bridges are essential for transposon repression and meiosis in the male germline - Nature Communications

A conserved feature of metazoan meiosis is that it occurs in a syncytium. Here, the authors show that intercellular bridges that connect germ cells in a syncytium are critical for ensuring proper meio...

www.nature.com

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Ethan Greenblatt @vancityflyguy.bsky.social · Mar 14

Come be my colleague at UBC! A great place to work w/amazing students, a beautiful campus, and…maybe one or two other perks 🇨🇦

Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · Mar 13

We are hiring our next Department Head. If interested, you will be joining a great team of committed researchers and teachers. 👇

www.med.ubc.ca/careers/admi...

Head, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences - UBC Faculty of Medicine

Ranked among the world’s top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine. Across Bri...

www.med.ubc.ca

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Mar 7

Quick tip: If your paper was published today, consider sharing it on social media tomorrow instead. Today, everyone's focus is on Standing Up for Science and making some good trouble!

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Mar 1

Heartbreaking chats this week with students thinking of giving up on their dreams of getting a PhD. They worry about getting in PhD programs and careers post PhD. My suggestions: don’t be hasty, think broadly incl EU & Canada, & careers beyond traditional academia. What’re you telling your students?

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Feb 20

The MassBio brief says they represent 1700 biotech / pharma companies in MA.

They cite a recent study showing that "funding from NIH contributed to 354 of 356 drugs approved from 2010-2019." (!!!)

And they argue the policy will have irreparable harm on drug development.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Feb 19

Math is hard

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André K. Isaacs @drdre4000.bsky.social · Feb 5

Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

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Ethan Greenblatt @vancityflyguy.bsky.social · Feb 4

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Richard Zussman @richardzussman.bsky.social · Feb 2

Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli

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Ethan Greenblatt @vancityflyguy.bsky.social · Jan 25

In a a pretty dark time, for somebody who grew up in the Washington DC area this article was like a bright ray of sunshine!! 😂

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Abby Dernburg @adernburg.bsky.social · Jan 22

MAYosis is coming... register and submit abstracts here.
meiosis.cornell.edu/mayosis2025/...

MAYosis 2025

meiosis.cornell.edu

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Amitav Bhattacharjee 🦋 @amitav63.bsky.social · Jan 20

NASA's James Webb Telescope discovers alcohol cloud in deep space!

To drink all of that, every person on earth would have to drink 300,000 pints each day for one billion years.

www.wionews.com/web-stories/...

#NASA #JamesWebb #alcohol #space #spaceeploration

NASA's James Webb Telescope discovers alcohol cloud in deep space

Science: NASA's James Webb Telescope reveals an alcohol cloud in the depths of space, marking a significant step in exploring cosmic phenomena and interstellar chemistry.

www.wionews.com

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HunterLab.bsky.social @hunterlab.bsky.social · Jan 15

📢The 2025 MAYosis webinar series will be held on consecutive Wednesdays, May 7-28, at 4 pm CET (7 am PST; 12 am JST) meiosis.cornell.edu/mayoss2025/ Apply to give a talk (deadline is March 8, trainees and junior faculty only): tinyurl.com/47k3cjpn Registration is free: tinyurl.com/39rs53yv

MAYosis 2025

meiosis.cornell.edu

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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · Jan 14

Our latest work using TIRFM to uncover mechanisms that stabilize the centromeric nucleosome:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Stable centromere association of the yeast histone variant Cse4 requires its essential N-terminal domain | The EMBO Journal

imageimageCentromeres contain a histone H3 variant that is essential for kinetochore assembly. This work reports that the extended N-terminus of the budding yeast centromeric histone, Cse4, stabilizes...

www.embopress.org

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Dec 23

Congrats to all the newly elected members of the GSA Board of Directors, including TAGC24 veteran @barrlab.bsky.social

genestogenomes.org/new-members-...

New members of the GSA Board of Directors: 2025–2027

We are pleased to announce the election of six new leaders to the GSA Board of Directors: 2025 Vice President/2026 President Cassandra Extavour Timken Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology an...

genestogenomes.org

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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · Dec 7

If you want to learn about how a tiny worm led to major insights in developmental biology and human disease check out the Nobel lectures from Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ9N...

2024 Nobel Prize lectures in physiology or medicine | Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

www.youtube.com

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