It’s calendar time at RGD! Send your high-res photos, original artwork, poems, or images of any RGD species to RGD.Community@mcw.edu to be featured in the 2027 RGD Calendar! DEADLINE: September 3rd 🐀See rgd.mcw.edu/wg/rgd2027ca... for more information!

Time to register for the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community! #CTC2026 📅 November 8 – 12 | 📍 Portland, ME Abstracts, travel awards and early bird registration are due August 14: tinyurl.com/bdzfndhh

Deadline Extended! The ZDMS SciArt Competition 2026 is now accepting submissions until September 1, 2026! Win up to $300 for your scientific illustration or short film. Submit your work: www.zdmsociety.org/sci-art-competition #SciArt #Zebrafish #SciComm #STEMArt #DiseaseModels

August already? Time for the July #Technical_Advances! wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase... Want your paper reporting a new resource, technique, or reagent featured in a future month? Flag it when you #FTYP.

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This unbearably hot July day brings the June #Technical_Advances wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase... As always, if you want your paper with a new resource, technique, or reagent included in an upcoming month, flag it when you #FTYP.

🔍 Check out SGD's redesigned search landing page! Improved autocomplete, quick category browsing, and highlights of newly added literature & recent annotations. 🔴 Click the big red "Explore SGD" button on the SGD homepage or just hit return in an empty search box 👉 www.yeastgenome.org/search

🔬 New at SGD: Functional Networks section on gene & complex pages! ✨ Shared Annotations networks show related genes 🧬 GO-CAM pathway models reveal causal relationships 📊 470 genes now have GO-CAM models Explore: www.yeastgenome.org/locus/MET2#f...

Thank you to everyone advocating for genetics research. The GSA Board of Directors submitted a public comment to OMB on the proposed "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance." Your voice remains essential. Read GSA’s comment here: buff.ly/QFuNpw2

NEW #IZFSWebinar, hosted by the #CZC: Harnessing Zebrafish Biology to Elucidate Tissue Regeneration and Disease Mechanisms. Join Gülsüm Kayman-Kürekçi & Deepika Dogra on 8/20 at 10 am ET! Learn more: www.izfs.org/education/webinars #zebrafish #tissueregeneration #diseasemechanisms

The Midwest regional meeting of The Society of Developmental Biology will be held at the Graduate Hotel hosted by Cincinnati Children's Hospital on September 25-27, 2026. Registration now open! www.midwestsdbincincy.org #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs #MWSDB26

The 1996 Development issue reporting the zebrafish screen (and the special issue commemorating it 25 years later) are now free to read, thanks @biologists.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

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In 2021, the journal Development published a special issue, “The Zebrafish Issue: 25 Years On.” Unfortunately, all the articles are behind a paywall. At the very least, special issues like this should be made open access. journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

We are offering a Release Notes preview for Alliance release 9.1.0. This release is NOT LIVE yet. We're making some changes to some API endpoints and downloadable file formats, and want users & developers to be aware of them ahead of time. Details here: www.alliancegenome.org/release-notes

2026-06-19 GO Release is out 📊 38,263 #GeneOntology terms 🔬 14,736,040 annotations 🦠 171 species 🔗 current.geneontology.org 🚨 File URLs changed, breaking automated downloads-update ASAP 📋 Help & release deets: @alliancegenome.bsky.social forums: community.alliancegenome.org/t/8689 #Bioinformatics

Bill Nye The Science Guy: This Changes Everything

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New FlyBase commentary: Using AI to get FlyBase data. I'm going to post some brief talking points, but please read the whole thing: flybase.org/commentaries...

RGD welcomes the Black Rat (Rattus rattus)! The new Black Rat portal links genome information with data resources, and to RGD tools suite for comparative analyses with RGD's other species. To explore go to: rgd.mcw.edu/wg/blackrat/ Photo courtesy of Kevin R. Grazier Ph.D.

The Rat Genome Database and the Data Science Institute at MCW are partnering to hire a Research Scientist. The NIH-funded position will involve ontology development and data curation. To learn more, see: tinyurl.com/587e8vkd

2026 Xenopus Researcher Survey - OPEN NOW - forms.gle/uDUkGCrhpXCc... Your feedback is highly valuable. Help us make Xenbase more helpful to your research! #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs

We are pleased to announce a major donation to support the work of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. Lawerence Washington, husband of former BDSC director Kathy Matthews, has established an endowment in her honor. bdsc.indiana.edu/news-events/...

Taylor is a very talented #SciArtist! We always enjoy seeing her fincredible illustrations of cool fish. Give her a follow, if keen! @taylorblack.bsky.social 👈 🧪

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Cyprinella lutrensis- the red shiner! During the spawning season, males develop keratinous bumps called nuptial tubercles on the head and body, along with bright red and metallic blue coloration. These fish are very adaptable and can be invasive when introduced. #fish #SciArt #fishart #illustration

🎉 Congratulations to GSA members on their election to @nasonline.org, one of the highest honors in science. We’re proud to celebrate their outstanding contributions. 🔗: buff.ly/C5yidrQ 🧵⬇️

Also in FlyBase release FB2026_02: We have added 5 new drivers the Frequently Used GAL4 And Other Binary System Drivers resource flybase.org/GAL4/freq_us..., for a total of 387 drivers (most with images). This resource includes all GAL4's curated to 20+ papers, & lexA's curated to 15+ papers.

FlyBase release FB2026_02 is live! As of this release we now have 2000 gene group reports🎉, including 1453 ‘classical’ gene group reports flybase.org/lists/FBgg, 399 protein complex reports flybase.org/lists/FBgg/c..., 96 metabolic pathway reports flybase.org/lists/FBgg/m... (continued)

Steven (@steven-flybase.bsky.social) is group manager, curator & nomenclature advisor at FlyBase (@flybase.bsky.social) Cambridge. He leads the FlyBase Gene Group resource, contributes to the Gene Ontology, & collaborates with Rhea, Reactome, RNACentral, UniProt, HGNC, & Alliance of Genome Resources

Pascal has been a PomBase (@pombase.bsky.social) curator for just over 2 years where he has taken on community curation review, developed a series of outreach seminars, “Just One Thing”, and was lead author of the recent PomBase resource update.

The International Society for #Biocuration (ISB) would like to congratulate the recipients of the 2026 Excellence in Biocuration Early and Advanced Career awards, Pascal Carme (Early) and Steven Marygold (Advanced)!

Building on a series of successful virtual meetings, members of GSA's Department Chairs Forum gathered at Asilomar for their first in-person meeting which provided a space for peer-level exchange on navigating a rapidly-shifting landscape and addressing challenges. ⬇️🧵

New preprint, where we present scFAIR, a consortium of single-cell data resources that has developed a unified metadata schema and common curation framework to improve the FAIRness of scRNA-seq data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

scFAIR Consortium: a decentralized hub for single-cell RNA-Seq data standardization and unification

The rapid accumulation of single-cell RNA-Seq (scRNA-seq) data across multiple repositories presents major challenges for data accessibility, integration, and reproducibility. While primary…

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☀️🌊 #Yeast26 attendees, don't miss our #SGD workshop TODAY at 3:30 PM in Merrill Hall! Your #YeastResearch is about to hit different! 🔥 Learn the SGD tools, @alliancegenome.bsky.social & #GeneOntology shortcuts from SGD curators that actually work - no more endless database scrolling! 🧬✨

Saved By The Bell: Like Yeast We Rise

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WormTagDB: a systematic survey of endogenously tagged proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans and roadmap toward the tagged proteome academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

WormTagDB: a systematic survey of endogenously tagged proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans and roadmap toward the tagged proteome

Endogenous protein tagging allows researchers to visualize protein localization and function in living C. elegans worms, but no comprehensive catalog of ta

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The International C. elegans meeting #worm27 is going to Kobe, Japan in 2027! genetics-gsa.org/celegans/ Organizers: Erik Andersen @erikandersen.bsky.social, Johns Hopkins University Kavita Babu @kavita-babu.bsky.social, IISc Bangalore Suhong Xu, Zhejiang University @genetics-gsa.bsky.social