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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone go out and look at the moon 🌝
It is beautiful 😍
#moon #night

Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 22h

Waking up to #fall weather 🍁🍂

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 22h

Marine iguanas have lower metabolic rates during El Niño

This article, by Shahar Dubiner and colleagues, is Journal of Experimental Biology's Editor's choice for the month.

Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

#MarineIguana #Iguana #MarineLife #Research #Animals #SeaLife

A marine iguana on a rock, in front of blue and white waves.

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fly paper broadcast @fly-broadcast.bsky.social · 1d

A short photoperiod alters brain metabolism and cold resistance in Drosophila melanogaster
#Drosophila

A short photoperiod alters brain metabolism and cold resistance in Drosophila melanogaster #Drosophila

PubMed link

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 1d

Feel so validated !
☕☺️ ✅
#phdlife #coffee #community

Science Magazine @science.org · 7d

Here's a reminder on #InternationalCoffeeDay: It's OK to take a (coffee) break. ☕

"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb

People arm in arm while drinking coffee and holding papers, with text: Why scientists should take more coffee breaks.

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 1d

When prism decides to update itself in the middle of my analysis 🤷🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🙄
#phdlife

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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 1d

In a surprising turn of events, I now have a graduate student 🤗

I want to do this right. So I’m soliciting advice from the wise & experienced 😅 - what are your best tips for being a good advisor/PI/graduate student mentor? ✨

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing paper on how metabolites act as signaling factors which impact growth and development by ways which are not limited to merely changes in flux, energy production and biogenesis.
#Drosophila #metabolism #ecdysone #Ampk #interorgancommunication

Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 4d

💫NEW: @telemanlab.bsky.social & co demonstrate that #AMPK can be activated by signaling metabolite, #adenosine, under non-stress conditions during #Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.
bit.ly/4gX6njF

Remote control of AMPK via extracellular adenosine controls tissue growth - Nature Cell Biology

Zhang et al. demonstrate that AMPK can be activated by signalling metabolite, adenosine, under non-stress conditions during Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.

bit.ly

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 9d

A study in #G3journal examines the interplay between ecdysone signaling and O-GlcNAcylation in #Drosophila intestinal stem cell proliferation and gut homeostasis in aging, thereby linking age-related, abnormal stem cell proliferation to metabolic diseases. buff.ly/cBkR5tY

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 2d

📅 Oct 29, 1 p.m. EDT
Postdoc Opportunities Abroad
Hear from early career researchers building successful careers outside the U.S.—and get tips for planning your own path. @ethanewe.bsky.social

You’ll need to create a GSA account, but both events are free—register now: buff.ly/DUzRI4Y

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Two upcoming GSA panels highlight international research opportunities for early career scientists!

📅 Oct 20, 11 a.m. EDT
Grants and Funding in Europe
Learn how to secure funding abroad with insights from the @erc.europa.eu + The Research Bid.

@limor-zwi-dantsis.bsky.social

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SEBD @sebioldev.bsky.social · 2d

We are very pleased to announce our joint meeting with the German @gfeev.bsky.social and the Dutch Developmental Biology Societies, which will take place in Potsdam from the 10-13th of March 2026. Registration is now open! www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...

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Richard Benton @bentonlab.bsky.social · 3d

Having personally sworn for years that insects don’t use GPCRs for odour detection, Suguru Takagi (@sugurutakagi.bsky.social) discovers that, in fact, they sometimes do …

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A GPCR signaling pathway in insect odor detection

Odor detection differs fundamentally in vertebrates, which use G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), and insects, which employ ion channels. Here, we report the first evidence for a GPCR defining tunin...

www.biorxiv.org

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Science Magazine @science.org · 2d

This year’s #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering how the immune system distinguishes friend from foe. https://scim.ag/3Wt5rdi

Medicine Nobel goes to three researchers who identified immune system’s security guards

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered regulatory T cells that prevent autoimmune disease

scim.ag

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 3d

Maa sending me pictures of my namesake flowers this morning (India time morning) !

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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 3d

When Jennifer Matthews first saw corals while learning to scuba dive, she was mesmerized by their neon yellows, pinks and blues.

🪸 “They were so beautiful,” she recalled.

Read more about Matthews’ journey from that moment of wonder to a career studying #coral resilience: ow.ly/vqhZ50X6OHA.

‘Cities under the sea’

Nanotechnology offers a way to restore and re-create coral reef biodiversity.

ow.ly

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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · 3d

Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....

Male CNS Connectome

A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system —a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...

www.janelia.org

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 4d

Into the world of greens before the fall kicks in !
#blueheron #birds #bees #butterfly #browncounty #photography

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 4d

Totally agreeee on that 🙌🏽

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 4d

#Bollywood movie night !
Amar Akbar Anthony 🍿🎬📺
#manmohandesai

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 4d

Friend gave me a John O’Donohue book recently. It’s quite good.

“To Come Home To Yourself”

To Come Home To Yourself

May all that is unforgiven in you
Be released.

May your fears yield
Their deepest tranquilities.

May all that is unlived in you
Blossom into a future
Graced with love.

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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 4d

💫NEW: @telemanlab.bsky.social & co demonstrate that #AMPK can be activated by signaling metabolite, #adenosine, under non-stress conditions during #Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.
bit.ly/4gX6njF

Remote control of AMPK via extracellular adenosine controls tissue growth - Nature Cell Biology

Zhang et al. demonstrate that AMPK can be activated by signalling metabolite, adenosine, under non-stress conditions during Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.

bit.ly

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 4d

This 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 4d

There are so many opportunities for scientists to participate in innovations in scientific communication and publishing. Taking advantage of these opportunities and experimenting with new ways to communicate data and analysis with other scientists should absolutely be a priority

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 9d

As we age, the delicate equilibrium of our billions of neurons can teeter — sometimes with serious cognitive consequences. But new research into neuronal regulators is helping us better understand how to re-level things once the scale has been tipped.
www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brai...

How the Brain Balances Excitation and Inhibition | Quanta Magazine

A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of cells are blurrier than researchers once thought.

www.quantamagazine.org

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Country diary: Ragged butterflies, comatose bees – these are the last of the summer sights | Phil Gates

Blanchland, Northumberland: Today’s perfect autumn day captures the dying embers of a memorable summer

www.theguardian.com

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