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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Aug 17

Obituary in the Guardian
www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

Obituary in Development
Development (2024) 151, dev204429.
doi: 10.1242/dev.204429

David Ish-Horowicz obituary

Other lives: Pioneer in the application of molecular biology to developmental genetics

www.theguardian.com

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Aug 17

Dear friends and scientific colleagues,
(especially those of you who knew David Ish-Horowicz).

Feel free to share the attached PDF widely (all the speakers are happy for the talks to be shared).

Many thanks
Best regards
Ilan

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

David Ish-Horowicz memorial symposium, Francis Crick Institute, London, 23 June 2025. - YouTube

A public symposium organised by friends, scientific colleages and David's wife Ros Diamond to cellebrate David Ish-Horowiccz's, FRS, scientific achievements,...

www.youtube.com

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · Jun 9

*URGENT* please support NIH research and the NIH employees who are standing up for science at the risk of losing their jobs! Sign *TODAY* in support of the Bethesda Declaration. The senate appropriations committee is reviewing the NIH budget Tuesday at 10 am. SHARE widely! 🧪

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff

Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

actionnetwork.org

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Jun 9

A typical part of the playbook for a dictator on the rise, coupled with bringing out troops to suppress democratic protests against their xenophobic policies.

Matt Wynia @mattwynia.bsky.social · Jun 6

~40% cuts to NIH research awards.
~35% cuts to training programs.
~27% cut to internal research.
~30% fewer grants awarded overall.
The Common Fund will be cut in half.
American science has never faced a threat like this.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n... via @statnews.com

NIH details how Trump budget would cut support for grants, training, and research centers

President Trump's 2026 budget proposes cutting NIH grants to universities, academic medical centers, and other institutions by 43%

www.statnews.com

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Jun 9

Genius. Just as topical now as when made - I think when Thatcher was first elected as prime minister in the uk in 1980 or so.

KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong @klab.bsky.social · Jun 7

Our health setup in these 'new' times

Best Bits of Series 1 Not the Nine O’clock News Part 1

YouTube video by Snagsmug Archives

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Jun 9

Still just as topical!

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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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EMBO @embo.org · Jun 9

Through its programmes and schemes, scientific #publications, #policy and #innovation, EMBO continues to promote excellence in the #LifeSciences at national, European and global level.

This week, we focus on: #Denmark

www.embo.org/the-embo-com...
🧪 #research #opportunities #funding

Focus on Denmark - EMBO communities in EMBC Member States

Facts and figures, life scientists in Denmark, EMBO opportunities

www.embo.org

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Jun 5

Another way to donate to save flybase from disappearing:

eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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 ...

eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com

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Calli McMurray @callimcflurry.bsky.social · Feb 14

The Trump administration's chaotic changes to diversity-based funding have left trainees in limbo. My colleagues and I at @thetransmitter.bsky.social spoke to ten neuroscience trainees about what the uncertainty means for them, their research and their futures: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/a-gu...

‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux

Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Jun 5

The wold scientific base is in serious crisis. Including Flybase, the heart and soul of the Drosophila community. Read below. If you work on flies or are a fan or want to help. Please consider donation. As termination of Harvard NIH means flybase will stop after the end of July 2025.

Calli McMurray @callimcflurry.bsky.social · Jun 4

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations

The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.

www.thetransmitter.org

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · May 13

Scientists in a race to discover why the Universe exists. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

DUNE: new detectors race to discover why the Universe exists

Researchers in the US and Japan are racing to build new particle detectors that they hope will explain why the Universe exists.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · May 8

Walking through the Glasgow botanical guardians I found d countless magical patterns on the leaves

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Feb 19

You maybe interested in this film I made in a very remote part of Tibet while I was doing my PhD in Developmental Biology, shown on BBC2 in 1988.

A pilgrimage to Mount Kailas - the centre of the universe to Tibetan Buddhism.

youtu.be/ls4doaxVBkg

A pilgrimage to Mt Kailas, Tibet 1987. BBC2 14min 50sec

YouTube video by Ilan Davis Lab

youtu.be

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Feb 14

Thanks a lot

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Meet Zandawala @zandawala.bsky.social · Jan 6

We are pleased to report publication of the Drosophila circadian clock connectome in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Check out the final version for additional analyses not present in the preprint. @unrcabnr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Feb 12

A tour de force review of the connections between between the nervous and immune systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Feb 12

Jeff Lee et al paper from my lab is out now
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am very grateful to Jeff, Nile's and Tamsin for all the hard work on this tour de force paper.
Jeff deserves more credit than me for masterminding it and the outstanding data analysis: 2 RBPs over 3 developmental times.

Imp/IGF2BP and Syp/SYNCRIP temporal RNA interactomes uncover combinatorial networks of regulators of Drosophila brain development

RNA binding protein combinations control neuronal identity through a network of temporal regulators.

www.science.org

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Feb 5

I wonder if anyone has built a continuously variable fluorescent light source using delta optical filters and dichroic mirrors with galvo mirrors and/or piezo movers?

deltaopticalthinfilm.com/knowledge/te...

Best Fluorescence Filters for Microscopy and Spectroscop

Explore top fluorescence filters for microscopy and spectrometry. Find the perfect excitation, emission, or dichroic filter for precision.

deltaopticalthinfilm.com

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Jan 31

Interesting analysis free of political bias or opinion. However a popularist with disregard of the law and truth backed by oligarch tech billionaires with no morals may “achieve” much more than is easily predicted by rational expert analysis.

Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Jan 31

www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 What Trump’s flurry of executive orders means for science

What Trump’s flurry of executive orders means for science

The new president has signed decrees designed to shift the US government’s stance on climate and public health.

www.nature.com

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Jan 28

Went to Glen Coe to climb dorsal arête on stone coire nan lochen.
(Triangular cliff in photo). But snow conditions were very poor so went walking instead.

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · Jan 16

Important to support the societies that manage publications at the face of the onslaught from the commercial rivals.

Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · Jan 15

The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years

"Founded by biologists to promote science, our core ethos remains to support the community by publishing top-notch science and by providing grants to sustain scientific societies and community activities." 🧪

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years

Summary: As we begin celebrating our 100-year anniversary, we reflect on our extraordinary story so far, consider the Company's current support for our communities and prepare for some inspiring activ...

journals.biologists.com

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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · Jan 15

I am obsessed with these fungi. LOOK AT HOW WEIRD AND WONDERFUL THEY ARE. I imagine that's what moa thought, too... that story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🍄

Moa, which are known to have eaten brightly colored fruit, would also have snacked on colorful truffles, such as this purple Gallacea scleroderma. Noah siegel

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