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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · Aug 15

As someone who ended up using non-model systems after doing his PhD with Drosophila, you don't realise just how amazing FlyBase or WormBase are until you try to genetics without them.

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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flymuscles @flymuscles.bsky.social · Aug 27

I read the preprint. It's very beautiful work from Hadi Boukhatmi's group. They test how if at all #Drosophila can repair their #muscles.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Immune–tracheal intercellular signalling coordinates the muscle injury response in Drosophila

Effective tissue adaptation to damage requires precise coordination among diverse cell types. In skeletal muscle, injury-responsive cells play a pivotal role in repair, yet the molecular and cellular ...

www.biorxiv.org

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brunolemaitre.bsky.social @brunolemaitre.bsky.social · Aug 27

Currently reading Brave Genomes by Silvia Bulgherisi — a wonderful book on recent advances in genomics, environmental change, and the influence of microbes. Highly recommend!

shop.elsevier.com/books/brave-...

www.amazon.de/Brave-Genome...

Brave Genomes

The role of environmentally triggered genetic and epigenetic changes in microbial adaptation and evolution is still not broadly appreciated. Brave Gen

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brunolemaitre.bsky.social @brunolemaitre.bsky.social · Jul 16

Comment on our @Reproducibility project in @Drosophila immunity. It is a normal that findings—however exciting and important at the time—may later prove to be more complex than initially believed. Re-evaluations is essential to the self-correcting nature of science. www.science.org/content/arti...

Majority of fruit fly immunity studies can be replicated, huge analysis finds

Verification of 50 years of data bolsters immunology research, but identifies “suspicious” papers that don’t hold up

www.science.org

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James Albert @gymnotus.bsky.social · Jul 15

the strain on academic publishing could be substantially alleviated if funding agencies stipulated... work they support must be published in non-profit journals.

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jul 15

Hanson believes the problem is not open access & APCs per se, but for-profit publishers that seek to publish as many papers as possible... the strain on academic publishing could be substantially alleviated if funding agencies stipulated... work they support must be published in non-profit journals.

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

www.theguardian.com

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jul 10

Specifically on the #metascience side, congrats to @josephlemaitre.bsky.social and @brunolemaitre.bsky.social on this consequential piece. 🎉

By dissecting factors associated with #reproducibility within a single field, there are broad lessons for #ScientificPublishing and broader #science.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jul 10

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field?

That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience

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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · Jul 2

Congratulations to @fly-eds.bsky.social board member Gábor Juhász @juhg.hu and to Oren Schuldiner @schuldinerorenlab.bsky.social for their election to EMBO membership!
#Drosophila

EMBO @embo.org · Jul 1

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪

Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO

Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

www.embo.org

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · Jun 26

#FlyCROSS is a mentor-mentee matching program for the fly community. They're looking for mentors from all career paths (academia, industry, policy etc.) who have experience with #Drosophila research and are eager to support the next generation of fly scientists.

Apply to become a mentor by 14 July:

FlyCROSS 2025–26: Mentor-mentee matching program - the Node

Call for Mentors from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026), following a successful

thenode.biologists.com

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Jun 17

Michael Ashburner FRS was an influential figure in the fields of Drosophila genomics and early sequencing database initiatives such as @ebi.embl.org.

Read about their contributions across genetics and bioinformatics in the new biographical memoir: buff.ly/f01zNat

@geneticscam.bsky.social‬

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · Jun 3

Oh man, you guys. This is so important. Drosophila have led to so much in terms of what we understand about how genes work.

Lucas Waltzer @lucaswaltzer.bsky.social · Jun 3

#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request 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 donate!

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

Drosophila Genetic Database

The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · May 15

Big #Drosophila news!🪰

The AMP mutant lines from Hanson et al. (elifesciences.org/articles/443...) & the many isogenic immunity strains generated by @lmvteixeira.bsky.social & @brunolemaitre.bsky.social's group are now in @vdrc-flies.bsky.social!

Find the 40 DrosDel Immunity Panel strains at ⬇️

shop.vbc.ac.at

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brunolemaitre.bsky.social @brunolemaitre.bsky.social · May 28

We are happy to annouce that we have deposited at @VDRC
(ViennaDrosophila Resource Center) a list of isogenized @Drosophila immunity mutants affecting all major immune modules and effectors. We hope these strains will be useful to the community.
epfl.ch/labs/lemaitr...

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Apr 17

Sad news. Benny Shilo, a pioneer in dev bio & Drosophila genetics, has died.

I'll remember the infectious enthusiasm and burning curiosity he brought to every conversation I had with him.

Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Apr 16

Our field has lost an amazing scientist, mentor, and old friend. Benny, along with Mike Hoffman, had a brilliant idea in the early 1980s. The first oncogenes were being cloned and they realized if we wanted to understand their roles in cancer, we needed to understand their normal function 1/n 🧪

Our colleague Prof. Benny (Ben Zion) Shilo passed away this morning
@WeizmannScience
. Benny worked at the forefront of world science in the study of molecular and developmental genetics. Among other things, he won the A.M.T. Prize in the field of genetics in 2013. He was also a great explainer of science, a kind teacher - and an artist photographer with a sharp eye and a sensitive soul. Benny, we will miss you very much. May his memory be blessed.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Apr 1

Some hashtags:

#immunity #Dros25 #Drosophila #antimicrobialpeptides #NFkB #inflammation #ImmunoSky #Infection #pathogen

And if you want to learn more about these modules and how you could incorporate them in your research, check our our free book: "The Drosophila Immunity Handbook"
bit.ly/3z429p5

The Drosophila Immunity Handbook cover, showing flies that are either glowing green or not. All flies are infected by a green-expressing bacteria, but only red-eyed flies glow green because those flies are missing immune genes needed for resistance to infection.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Apr 1

Excited to finally announce this work which has been in the pipeline for 5 years: Layers of Immunity.

Faustine et al. made a set of immune mutants covering 4 major immune modules in #Drosophila, deleting melanization (ROS), phagocytosis, and both Toll & Imd NF-kB responses. What did we find?

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Layers of immunity: Deconstructing the Drosophila effector response

The host innate immune response relies on the cooperation of multiple defense modules. In insects and other arthropods, which have only innate immune mechanisms, four main immune-specific modules cont...

www.biorxiv.org

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brunolemaitre.bsky.social @brunolemaitre.bsky.social · Mar 21

4/ Of course, homogamy in science has trade-offs too. Our study examines the costs & benefits of these relationships. Want to see the data? Check out our preprint here: ⬇️
osf.io/preprints/os...

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brunolemaitre.bsky.social @brunolemaitre.bsky.social · Mar 21

3/ This dynamic challenges traditional gender gaps in academia. More research time + a supportive partner in the same field = a formula for success?

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brunolemaitre.bsky.social @brunolemaitre.bsky.social · Mar 21

2/ Motherhood penalty? Less severe in homogamous couples. Our study suggests that when both partners are researchers, men tend to share more of the investigative workload, mitigating career slowdowns for women.

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brunolemaitre.bsky.social @brunolemaitre.bsky.social · Mar 21

1/ Women in homogamous relationships tend to advance further in science. As they climb the academic ladder, the proportion of homogamous women increases. Could collaboration at home & work be a key advantage? 🤔

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brunolemaitre.bsky.social @brunolemaitre.bsky.social · Mar 21

Does marrying a fellow scientist boost your career?
In academia, homogamous couples—where both partners are scientists—are common, especially among top achievers. But who benefits more? Let’s dive into our latest research!

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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · Feb 20

Recently completed your #PhD using #Drosophila in a European lab? Apply for the European Drosophila Society best thesis prize!
🏆🪰
Deadline: 28 Feb 2025.
Prize = €1000 & keynote presentation at the EDRC in Alicante @edrc2025.bsky.social!
Info here: europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd...

EDS best PhD thesis prize | European Drosophila SocietyHome

europeandrosophilasociety.org

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brunolemaitre.bsky.social @brunolemaitre.bsky.social · Feb 14

Salut Pedro, je te propose d'en discuter par telephone. Peux tu m'envoyer email à mon addresse epfl: [email protected]

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brunolemaitre.bsky.social @brunolemaitre.bsky.social · Feb 3

Salut Pedro, où est passé ta belle mosaique ?

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