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Alex Gould Lab @alexgouldlab.bsky.social · 5d

Passionate about doing a PhD on metabolism in neural stem cells and their niche? The call just opened for applications for a PhD position in our lab @crick.ac.uk in London. Please repost.
tinyurl.com/ysnkdrmw

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corderolab.bsky.social @corderolab.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to share our collaborative PhD project with Adam Dobson ([email protected]) on interorgan signalling in the ageing gut. Please contact Adam If you are a highly motivated student wanted to work on a super exciting Fly project.

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 6d

LMB PhD studentship available in the Baum lab to use informatics to infer cell structure from genomic data in collaboration with the brilliant Tom Williams. If you write to me and I don’t reply - try again - the spam filter is hungry…

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Niakan Lab @niakanlab.bsky.social · 8d

One of our favourite tabs is Resources: we're listing all of our datasets, codes, beginning to upload and make accessible raw imaging data and lab protocols. Please check it out, we hope this is useful!

niakanlab.com/resources/

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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you to all #EDRC2025 participants and a big applause to the organizing committee for this great #Drosophila meeting! See you all in Bonn for #EDRC2027

EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 10d

That’s a wrap! We are done with #EDRC2025 and we look forward to seeing everyone again in 2027 for #EDRC2027 in Bonn!

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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · 10d

The #EDS has the pleasure to announce that, after #EDRC2027 in Bonn, we will have #EDRC2029 in Szeged! Don’t forget these hashtags!

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Alex Gould Lab @alexgouldlab.bsky.social · 8d

🪰 Calling all Drosophilists interested in nutrition…HolFast, Sebastian Sorge’s new chemically defined diet works really well. We’ve given some free HolFast aliquots to @vdrc-flies.bsky.social Please contact them directly if you fancy trying it out. Hurry while stocks last!

VDRC (Vienna Drosophila Resource Center) @vdrc-flies.bsky.social · 8d

The HolFast holidic (chemically defined) diet for Drosophila, recently designed by @alexgouldlab.bsky.social, has wide applications in nutritional and metabolic studies of Drosophila development doi.org/10.1016/j.de.... Limited free samples distributed by the VDRC. See www.vdrc.at. #Drosophila

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 12d

Dear JEDIs,
as we are self-organizing using the #EDRC as a nucleator we decided it is time for a JEDI database to boost our network! If you identify as a JEDI, please contact us here or send a mail to [email protected] to be added to our database.
#Drosophila
@fly-eds.bsky.social

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 20d

#Drosophila community - look at this amazing lineup for #InDRC2025

Registration for #InDRC2025 is now open! Visit indrc2025.in to register and submit your abstract.

#genetics #devbio
@flybase.bsky.social

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 14d

Only a few hours left before our meeting starts! Are you travelling to #EDRC2025 now? Let us know by using the oficial #EDRC2025 hashtag!

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 22d

The FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Trump's Harvard cuts threaten a giant in biomedical research: A database about the tiny fruit fly

This spring, the Trump administration rescinded a grant that maintained FlyBase, a pillar of global basic research, as part of its broader $2.2 billion funding cuts at Harvard.

www.nbcnews.com

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Alex Gould Lab @alexgouldlab.bsky.social · Aug 14

Drosophila research without FlyBase would be untenable. Time for all labs who can afford it to step up.

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Aug 14

A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate.

www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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Daniel Drucker @danieljdrucker.bsky.social · Aug 14

Expanding metabolic roles for the GIPR in oligodendrocytes #weightloss www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor signaling in oligodendrocytes increases the weight-loss action of GLP-1R agonism

Hansford et al. show that GIPR, a target of new weight-loss drugs, is found in brain cells called oligodendrocytes. GIPR helps these drugs access the brain and boosts weight loss. Without GIPR in thes...

www.cell.com

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Richard Behringer @rrbehringer.bsky.social · Mar 26

12 examples of how developmental biology research led to fundamental discoveries for biomedical research. There are many more! Download ppt & jpg versions on @socdevbio.bsky.social website. Use & modify as needed. Poster formats are also posted to print & hang in your lab!

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Milena Schuhmacher @mschuhmacher.bsky.social · Aug 12

We are hiring!

If you are looking for a postdoc position and you are interested in signaling lipids and proteomics, come join us in beautiful Switzerland!

More information on www.epfl.ch/labs/gr-schu...

Open positions

GR-SCHUHMACHER

www.epfl.ch

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Alex Gould Lab @alexgouldlab.bsky.social · Aug 1

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How scientists can contribute to the social movements essential to protecting climate and nature - npj Climate Action

Scientists have much to contribute to the growing social movements pushing for urgent and transformative change to address the climate and biodiversity crises. Depending on their skills, interests and...

www.nature.com

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Amoyel lab @amoyellab.bsky.social · Jul 25

🆕🧪‼️
New lab preprint!
We study how germ cells (the cells that give rise to gametes, in this case sperm) are supported by somatic (non-germ) cells of the gonad. This matters for our understanding of reproduction - without germ cell development, animals are sterile.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Somatic cells compartmentalise their metabolism to sustain germ cell survival

To ensure success in reproduction, organisms dedicate substantial resources to supporting the germline. In testes, somatic gonadal cells form a barrier that isolates germ cells from circulating nutrie...

www.biorxiv.org

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Alex Gould Lab @alexgouldlab.bsky.social · Jul 1

Calling all meeting organizers… @biologists.bsky.social now have a calculator to estimate your event’s carbon footprint and to test various reduction scenarios.

thenode.biologists.com/event-carbon...

Event carbon calculator - the Node

I am excited to announce the release of our event carbon calculator, our latest resource to support the creation of sustainable events. Estimate your

thenode.biologists.com

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Alex Gould Lab @alexgouldlab.bsky.social · Jun 7

In defense of silly science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In defense of silly science

A biologist pushes back against attacks on curiosity-driven research

www.science.org

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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · Jun 4

#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!

FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Jun 3

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 3

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

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Alex Gould Lab @alexgouldlab.bsky.social · Jun 4

Calling all European #Drosophila labs. Time for all of us, that are able, to step up to support FlyBase during this funding crisis.

FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Jun 3

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 3

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · Apr 15

As we turn 15, we want to collect feedback from you, our community, to ensure the Node is still relevant and useful. If you’ve ever visited the Node to read, write and interact with the #DevBio & #StemCell community, thank you!

Please spare 5min to take our survey:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/7QHYQCW

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · May 23

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Alex Gould Lab @alexgouldlab.bsky.social · May 10

Calling all #Drosophilists Congrats to @adrienfranchet.bsky.social and Dominique Ferrandon.

eLife @elife.bsky.social · May 10

Hidden virus harboured by fruit flies may influence experimental accuracy.
buff.ly/TtHCYLQ

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Apr 10

And cite the model organism databases and other resources you use!

Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · Apr 10

If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

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