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Swathi Arur @swathiarur.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic!!! Look forward to reading the final version of this story!! Very exciting finding!

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 5d

There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us.
#FlyBase #Drosophila

FlyBase Update – October 2025
The termination of the NIH/NHGRI FlyBase grant has placed the long-term sustainability of FlyBase at risk. However, thanks to the generous support of several key individuals and institutions, we are pleased to announce that FlyBase will remain operational through the coming year. We extend our deepest gratitude to Yukiko Yamashita, Cassandra Extavour, Hugo Bellen, Thom Kaufman, the Genetics Society of America / Drosophila Board, the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center, an anonymous donor and the Wellcome Trust. We are especially thankful for a generous gift from Seemay Chou, Jed McCaleb, and The Navigation Fund. We also greatly appreciate the continued support from the broader Drosophila community – your donations and service fees have been vital in helping us stay afloat. Special thanks also go to Jessica Manning for her tireless administrative work at Harvard, to Ruth Lehmann, Hugo Bellen, and Paul Sternberg for advice and efforts, and to the Board of the European Drosophila Society for all their efforts. Sadly, we must also share that several long-standing FlyBase team members have recently moved on. We are immensely grateful to Susan Russo-Gelbart, Lynn Crosby, Gil dos Santos, Kris Broll, Victoria Jenkins, and TyAnna Lovato for their many years of dedicated service and contributions to FlyBase. Looking ahead, ensuring FlyBase’s sustainability beyond the next year – and successfully integrating with the Alliance – will require new funding sources. We kindly ask for your continued support:
• European labs: Please consider contributing to the Cambridge, U.K. FlyBase group
• U.S. and other non-European labs: Please consider contributing to the U.S. FlyBase groups
• Both U.K. and U.S. FlyBase are working diligently to establish an invoicing system. We appreciate your continued patience.
For more information on how to support us, please visit: Contribute to FlyBase wiki page https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 6d

Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme.

Apply by 05 November 2025

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

PhD students

Our PhD programme attracts the brightest scientific minds and is an opportunity for talented people to embark on their career in biomedical research.

www.crick.ac.uk

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Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social · 8d

Great opportunity and submissions are a little down so nominate your outstanding recent graduate, worm peeps!

Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 8d

Worm peeps: nominate a newly minted PhD for the Sydney Brenner Thesis Award! #celegans

Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Deadline extended! Apply by Oct 3 for the 2025 Sydney Brenner Thesis Award—honoring outstanding theses in nematode biology (defended Oct 1, 2024–Sept 30, 2025).
Send in your nomination today! 🔗:

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Swathi Arur @swathiarur.bsky.social · 8d

The link does not seem to be working… unless it’s my browser?

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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 9d

PLEASE NOMINATE YOURSELF FOR ACADEMIC AWARDS.

And ask friends to nominate you. And apply again next year if you don't get it.

I've been on a handful of committees that can give people things. A frequent complaint is that we can't give great people recognition if we don't "see" them in the pool.

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 9d

When I was a younger faculty, I kept wavering on whether I should apply for the Rising Star every year. And then when I finally worked up the courage to apply, I was no longer eligible. Lesson here is that you should not miss your shot and just apply! Don’t pray for someone to secretly nominate you!

Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 9d

This designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions. #AcademicSky

Nominate a colleague to be an APS Rising Star by October 1!
www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 12d

Very excited to announce that our department is now accepting applications for a tenure track faculty position in Cell Biology: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/...

Come join our wonderful department!

Assistant Professor Cell Biology

Current University of Arkansas System employees, including student employees and graduate assistants, need to log in to Workday via MyApps.Microsoft.com, then access Find Jobs from the Workday search ...

uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com

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Swathi Arur @swathiarur.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations @needhibhalla.bsky.social !!!

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Yogesh Goyal @goyallab.bsky.social · 20d

**POSTDOC POSITION** My lab (www.goyallab.org) at Northwestern and CZ Biohub Chicago looking for a postdoctoc in quantitative biology. We work on a range of topics, including single-cell cancer plasticity, modeling single-cell perturbations, theory, and stem-embryo models. contact via email. Pls RT

Goyal Lab

www.goyallab.org

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Cell & Systems Biology (CSB) @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social · 19d

The Department of Cell & Systems Biology at University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the field of Animal Morphogenesis.
#CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #mechanobiology #TissueMorphogenesis
#SystemsBiology

jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Assistant Professor - Animal Morphogenesis

jobs.utoronto.ca

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 Just over one week left! Apply for GSA’s Peer Review Training Program by Sept 30.

Gain hands-on experience, learn what editors look for, & build skills to boost your research career.

🔗 buff.ly/MHmDxEF

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 20d

T-minus 14 days for registration opening for the Annual #Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago next March.

Looking forward to seeing all our meeting support staff from @genetics-gsa.bsky.social . Ditto for our valued curators @flybase.bsky.social .

#genetics

genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...

Homepage - 67th Annual Drosophila Research Conference

Visit our website to learn more.

genetics-gsa.org

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Prevedel Lab @prevedel-lab.bsky.social · 26d

@embl.org Heidelberg is looking for a new Head of Scientific Instrumentation! This is an exciting opportunity at the interface between scientific research and technology development, overseeing our mechanical and electronic workshops!
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

Head of Scientific Instrumentation Workshops

EMBL is a world leader in scientific research and at the forefront in the development of cutting-edge technologies. It operates across six sites in Heidelberg (headquarters), Barcelona, Cambridge, Gre...

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 26d

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!

Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

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Swathi Arur @swathiarur.bsky.social · 28d

Congratulations!!!!!

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 29d

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

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Swathi Arur @swathiarur.bsky.social · 29d

Wonderful news! Congratulations on the score, and the funding.

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 29d

Issue 16 is complete!

On the cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei and F-actin. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.

thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...

Cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei (DAPI, blue) and F-actin (Phalloidin, orange), imaged by spinning disc confocal microscopy and processed using ImageJ. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.

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Guillaume Thibault @gthibault.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 JOB ALERT!

Ready to lead your own lab? NTU Singapore's Nanyang Assistant Professorship offers a 100% paid salary & a S$2.75M start-up. We're visiting the US this Sept to recruit top talent. Meet us in NYC, Boston & more! #FacultyJobs #TenureTrack

Register 👇 www.cognitoforms.com/Ntu18/NTUSin...

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Anna Obenauf @obenaufa.bsky.social · Sep 4

Exciting FULL PROFESSORSHIP at the Vienna BioCenter - Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Mechanisms: www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/news/open-po... Come be our colleague!

Full Professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease

The Max Perutz Labs - one of Europe’s leading institutes for basic research in the life sciences - invite applications for a Full Professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease. We are seeking outst...

www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · Sep 4

In this 2006 article, Alison North reviews some of the most common practical pitfalls during #microscopy image acquisition, & how they can affect the interpretation of experimental data rupress.org/jcb/article/...

📕 In #Reproducibility & Best Practices in Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · Sep 3

I can't say enough about how amazing the #peerreview program truly is. If you're an #earlycareer researcher - this is an incredible opportunity.
#genetics

Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 Apply now for GSA’s Peer Review Training Program! Work with a mentor to review manuscripts, give constructive feedback & gain insider knowledge of publishing. 🗓 Deadline: Sept 30, 2025 🔗 buff.ly/o9mNLim

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · Sep 3

📅Are you a passionate science communicator with research experience in #devbio or #stemcell biology? Only a couple more days to apply for the Community Manager position at the Node.

Deadline: 05 September

bit.ly/4m7Fn28

Could you be the Node's next Community Manager? - the Node

The Company of Biologists is recruiting a new Community Manager for the Node - a community site hosted by Development for developmental and stem cell biologists.

thenode.biologists.com

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

Today we celebrate 1945 GSA President & Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock. Continue her legacy—nominate for the 2026 GSA Awards by Oct 1, 2025.

🔗 buff.ly/bIdKqcw

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Sep 2

I know there is A LOT going on but just a heads up: TOMORROW, 9/3, is the last day to apply for a talk (or early poster) at #CellBio2025 in December!

There will be a #Meiosis4Eva: The Cell Biology of Reproduction
minisymposium on 12/7 at 10am. Please apply if you are interested in giving a talk! 🧪

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