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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · 1d

This is very sad news… an outstanding scientist and experimentalist, a superb writer and mentor. He will be greatly missed…

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Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College

Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · 7d

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Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Sep 7

Transcription first, gardening second!

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Sep 7

Gosh, isn’t that like phalloides the source of alpha-amanitin? Keep all your RNApol IIs away and protected!

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Aug 21

Amazing! Look forward to reading the piece. Many congratulations to all authors!

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Aug 21

Great, thank you very much!

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is excellent. Are you planning to discuss and produce a set guidelines to guide the field and policy, like in the famous (and crucial) Asilomar meeting on Recombinant DNA in the 70s? If so, will the meeting produce a report on the discussion? Many thanks for sharing!

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Jul 24

The links to apply for each position are copied below:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS842/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS846/p...

Thank you very much!

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Sussex

Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Fellow role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Jul 24

Here is the flyer

Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Jul 24

We are looking for 2 postdocs to join my lab at Sussex University in Brighton, UK (South of London, on the sea). One position is for a molecular/cell biologist, the other, for a neurobiologist/behavioural person. Drosophila experience desirable. Flyer w/more info below. Please repost. Thank you!

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Jul 17

Ah, thank you for clarifying!

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Jul 17

Many thanks! We are currently looking for 2x postdocs to join my lab in Brighton, UK. We are very keen on scientific curiosity, independence, rigor and passion. Happy to support fellowship applications too. Please could you add me to the list as a PI? Thank you ever so much

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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.

Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · Jun 3

My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Apr 25

Many congratulations Max!

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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · Apr 24

It's publication day of my first book: The Tree of Life. The tree of life is a time machine that can take us back 4 billion years to meet our most distant ancestor. It is the magic that lets us tell the origin stories, beginning with this ancient relative, of everything from mushrooms to man.

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Apr 23

Thanks Tom!

Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Apr 23

Many thanks also to Jonathan Menzies and Victoria A. Lipscomb for their contributions to this exciting story 🙏🏼

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Apr 23

Many thanks to the talented larval optogeneticist postdoc Will Roseby @wroseby.bsky.social for his excellent work leading this project!

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Apr 23

Delighted to share a new preprint from the lab exploring the links between morphology and behaviour: using a novel method we map the sensory inputs that trigger an evolutionarily conserved adaptive postural behaviour (self-righting) in the Drosophila larva 👉🏼 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nirmalya Kajuri @kajunut.bsky.social · Apr 7

Guys I made a breakthrough

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Mar 7

All the very best to our colleagues at @standupforscience.bsky.social today! We are all with you: science is international

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Mar 6

👆🏼important perspective from
Tom Maniatis on the current funding situation of the NIH, to be published in Cell next week

Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Mar 6

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Safeguarding the future of biomedical science in the United States

NIH’s abrupt decision to cap indirect cost reimbursement at 15% threatens the critical infrastructure supporting groundbreaking biomedical research in…

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Sri Kosuri @srikosuri.bsky.social · Feb 8

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Feb 8

Trump administration to cut billions in research funding to NIH www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump administration to cut billions in medical research funding

National Institutes of Health said the $4bn loss will affect ‘indirect’ funding of buildings, equipment and staff

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