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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 11h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · 4d

Oh I’m not suggesting that he’s personally a mediocre dude! Just that the always-you-can-do-it voice can be! 😆

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · 4d

He can be your “inner mediocre white dude voice”, the one that has absolute confidence all the time! Everyone needs one of those.

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · 19d

I think we should go all out with Pseudododo

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · 22d

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · 24d

Biologically accurate.

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · 27d

A thorough article with lots of data on who more often perpetrates, and who is more often a victim of, hate crime violence.

Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 27d

In spite of how you feel about Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump or politics in general, what does the data say about the rise in hate crimes & political violence?

We checked.

Are Leftists Coming For You? Here's What the Data Says About Political Violence

Who's responsible for the rise in hate, division and political violence? The data is clear.

dlvr.it

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ha, no worries! Brain glitches happen!

Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ants are from the order Hymenoptera, not Diptera

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s a haplodiploid system. Females are diploid and males are haploid.

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · Sep 3

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD

Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!

This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

www.nature.com

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Sep 1

13/There is a tonne of robust data to back the effectiveness of COVID vaccines. I don't think any other vaccines have been more studied in my lifetime. It took me about an hour of pubmed searches to put this thread together. So no, a lack of data is not the reason why CDC is being dismantled.

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 29

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 29

I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you are a researcher whose lab uses FlyBase, consider a tax-deductible personal contribution. A lot of $100 contributions would help bridge the gap until we can set up a user fee system, and even $10 donations send the folks there the message we're behind them. Please share

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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns?
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
#preprint thread ⬇️1/8

ALT text: A UMAP representation of a single cell RNAseq dataset from the Drosophila ventral nerve cord as well as images of the Drosophila nerve cord connectome and different stages of fly development.

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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

wiki.flybase.org

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · Aug 15

I can’t believe it. I’m on my flight to #ESEB2025 in Barcelona on #AirCanada about to depart. All other AC flights have been cancelled but mine is a go. 🤯

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Jodi Meadows @jodimeadows.bsky.social · Aug 15

So hey. I'm reading through some of the public comments, and there aren't that many, tbh.. And some of them are in *support* of repealing regulations/making everyone choke on their big-truck air. Your voice *definitely* matters here.

Jodi Meadows @jodimeadows.bsky.social · Aug 15

US folks: Did you know the EPA (currently run by someone more concerned with businesses than the environment) has a public-comment period right now?

This is our opportunity to tell them why we think they should not repeal the 2009 Endangerment Finding.

www.epa.gov/regulations-...

Proposed Rule: Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards | US EPA

The proposed rule on the reconsideration of the greenhouse gas endangerment finding and motor vehicle rule

www.epa.gov

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 13

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

Harvard University lays off fly database team

The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is devastating. In addition to the obvious harm to the FlyBase staff, SO many of us rely on this resource!

Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.bsky.social · Aug 11

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · Aug 1

I’m not an ecologist (disclaimer) but could you put the organism in a bag or permeable plastic type sack with tiny holes large enough for bacteria and water to enter /leave but small enough to prevent any tissues leaving?

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Marc Johnson (he/him) @evoecolab.bsky.social · Jul 30

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

www.utm.utoronto.ca

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · Jul 27

This book was funny … because it’s true. A great read.

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · Jul 22

Matching Cybertrucks

An image of a boxy angled silver dumpster (left) next to another dumpster (right).

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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · Jul 18

Oh!! I wasn’t invested enough to look up more info on it. That’s actually even funnier.