The @fly-eds.bsky.social is having its general assembly this saturday at 13:30 at #EDRC2025 , please join us to discuss our society and to find out more about @flybase.bsky.social and the current funding crisis

There are only 8 days left to register to @edrc2025.bsky.social and we would like to thank all our sponsorss! We start acknowledging the support received from @biologists.bsky.social to #EDRC2025 Thank you!

Registration is officially open for the 2026 EMBO Drosophila Meeting in Crete 🪰☀️. This flagship meeting brings together researchers from around the world to share discoveries, foster collaborations, and celebrate the power of Drosophila in advancing biology. Consider applying!

EMBO meeting on "Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila" 21 – 27 June 2026
Registration is now open!
Deadline next November 3rd!
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Actin up: Mrtfa regulates actomyosin and apical constriction This Research Highlight showcases the work from Keiji Itoh, Olga Ossipova, Sergei Y. Sokol:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion.

The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains.

Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone.

www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

The end of US leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

All in one little table.

A tremendous gift to China, courtesy of the GOP.

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Science is under attack. The NIH, the NSF, and our research universities.

So today, I have a message for America's scientists:

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www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the...

@hypothesisfund.bsky.social
@kacarlab.bsky.social

“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”

—Mahatma Gandhi

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏

youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...

Congratulations to the next Chair of the Dept. of Molecular Biology: Elizabeth (Liz) R. Gavis, the Damon B. Pfeiffer Professor in the Life Sciences and Assoc. Faculty in the Program in Quantitative and Computational Biology. Her term begins on July 1, 2025. molbio.princeton.edu/news/2025/ga...

Congrats Yukiko!

Drosophila folks at the @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Fly meeting please take some time to thank the amazing organizers who put in a lot of hard work:
genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...

Special thanks to GSA folks especially the tireless Suzy Brown (who appears to run entirely on diet Mountain Dew)

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇

Sign up & spread the word to trainees about the 🪱C. elegans🪱 mentor match program!
They're also setting up peer-mentoring groups at ALL stages (even faculty!). Peer mentors have helped me keep my sanity & resolve in the tough times, and cheered me on in the good times. 🙌 Sign up to find your own!

TORC1-driven translation of Nucleoporin 44A promotes chromatin remodeling and germ cell-to-maternal transition in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643309v1

New preprint from our lab!

We are in a biotech space race, cutting off basic science via slashing NIH and NSF funding robs the US of our competitive advantage: early innovation.

THIS IS AWESOME - shame on universites and even foundations (looking at you
@hhmi.bsky.social) for your cowardly anticipatory obedience!!!! www.huffpost.com/entry/us-tru...

““This crisis — and I’m not exaggerating by calling it a crisis — has already consumed one funding cycle…But if this block to publishing in the register continues on much longer, it’s going to swallow two funding cycles, and that will put many labs out of business.” @labonnelab.bsky.social

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