flymuscles
@flymuscles.bsky.social
Associate professor @Dalhousie University in Canada. #muscle biology, #Drosophila genetics. and #bycicles https://flymuscles.wixsite.com/flymuscles
Interested in using #Drosophila genetics & advanced imaging combined with modeling to study inter-organ transport and epithelial dynamics? We’re hiring a #PhD student @uni-muenster.de, based at the Multiscale Imaging Center and @sfb1348.bsky.social Graduate School. Apply here tinyurl.com/ypx74a5d
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) has many extant relatives, but they're all bitter, with no red flesh. We know the Egyptians prized them because of depictions in at least 3 tombs. One tomb, at Deir el Bahari, near Luxor, contained a mummy in a re-used sarcophagus, wrapped in unknown leaves.
Always fun to read about how universities, like @dalhousie.bsky.social, are willing to spend millions to <checks notes> cut spending. (Of course the parasitic consultancy class always recommends cuts that end up breaking things so badly that management then hires more consultants to “fix” it, &c.)
The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 3w agoCanada’s universities are broke—and easy prey for consulting firms peddling austerity. @jameshasaface.bsky.social & Kyla Perry investigate the Nous Group, an Australian consulting firm that has earned a name for “restructuring” that cuts jobs, services, and faculties at Canadian schools.
Getting excited for #Dros27? Meet our keynote speaker, @perrimonlab.bsky.social! His pioneering work has transformed Drosophila genetics and advanced discoveries in development, physiology, and signal transduction. See the full lineup: buff.ly/FB1mYrf
BREAKING: More than 100 protesters showed up outside Acadia University in Wolfville Wednesday for what started as a peaceful rally during Premier Tim Houston's state of the province address inside, but ended with chaos and damage to a vehicle in which the premier was a passenger. more...
Alterations to longitudinal muscle morphology and mechanical function following immobilization and recovery in female ovariectomized and intact rats - Kirkup - Experimental Physiology - Wiley Online Library physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
Alterations to longitudinal muscle morphology and mechanical function following immobilization and recovery in female ovariectomized and intact rats
Serial sarcomere number (SSN) is reduced following immobilization of a muscle in a shortened position in male rodents thereby impairing muscle contractile function. However, in female rodents the eff....
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The loss of Antarctica’s doomsday glacier would transform our planet. Now scientists are revealing the secrets of this remotest of places, and asking the question: is its demise inevitable?
The race to understand how and when Thwaites glacier will collapse
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Know anyone who'd be interested in this #Sciencesky #MedSky? Please share! We're urgently seeking an Entomologist to support vector control strategies, including Wolbachia monitoring, in Central America. https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/proyectosinternacionales/jobs/6110260004?gh_src=ryb9gqft4us
Incredibly grateful to be chosen as one of Dalhousie OpenThinkers this year! Read my first of many blogs on one of my favourite topics flies ! 🪰
OpenThink@dalopenthink.bsky.social · last mo.In her first OpenThink post, @tiaramuld.bsky.social introduces Drosophila melanogaster, the tiny fruit fly with a huge role in science, and asks why scientists still use it: blogs.dal.ca/openthink/th...
Our undergrad super-star @rafaelperezvicente.bsky.social, recently showed that there are no sexual dimorphisms in the cell behaviours driving heart tube formation in Drosophila: www.micropublication.org/journals/bio... Thanks @micropub7n.bsky.social and Shaad Ahmad for fair and helpful reviews.
We just had the first @lasdb.bsky.social online seminars with presentations from the lab of @andresro40.bsky.social. Congrats for the great work and an awesome initiative! The seminars will be on the first Friday of every month, come and join!
Making the muscles of a fly leg is complicated, flies do it in spatial and temporal steps. Very nice work: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Spatiotemporal control of myoblast identity drives muscle diversity in the Drosophila leg
This study reveals how muscle diversity arises in flies, enabling the complex movements that drive animal behavior.
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My contribution to the ongoing "1%" science discourse is this picture you can send to your favourite preprint author(s) after reading their papers to tell them you liked their work! #SciArt #PawReview
Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil
They've appointed a new CEO of Nova Scotia Health, but the real news is this: news.novascotia.ca/en/2026/06/3...
This Special Feature from #ProcB showcases research from scientists, countries and regions underrepresented in the scientific literature, while addressing inequities in publishing and "helicopter science". Discover the collection: buff.ly/RjnbPC7 | #Ecology #GlobalSouth
I have been thinking since yesterday about why I find the 1% thing so, so disturbing. It's a visceral reaction of 'just no', which goes beyond the general yuck towards the enshittification of/via AI. I have finally put my finger on it: it is the feeling you get when
how the Drosophila prolongata fly got its giant front legs. Beautiful work 👇
Ian Dworkin@idworkin.bsky.social · last mo.I am excited to tell you about our new study led by Tyler Audet and in collaboration with Stefan Lüpold's group. Below you see two species. On the right is Drosophila melanogaster. On the left, Drosophila prolongata. Notice the highly exaggerated legs of the males in D.p! doi.org/10.1093/evol...
"One Palestinian child has been killed on average every day since the start of the cease-fire" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/w...
U.N. Report Says Israeli Killings of Gaza Children Post-Truce Amount to Genocide
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Bots are already changing history... What would happen if these "intelligent" machines removed these and similar papers from records and public access (or other more serviceable to politically motivated actors)? The world is getting beyond ridiculous and terribly dangerous for future generations.
Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · last mo.Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...
Fruit fly embryo development is wild! 1 nucleus clones into 6,000+ copies in just 2 hours. Perfectly synchronized. With built-in bumper system. And absolutely mesmerizing. I visualized the science behind it in a microscopy story 🔬👇 youtu.be/xyV9BhIVRjM #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy #Drosophila
During my lifetime, these butterflies have dropped by half. 🫣
Nice piece about the problems associated with the appearance of the qed 1% 🤮 list.
Rippling Ideas@ripplingideas.bsky.social · last mo.The qed 1% club controversy highlights a difficult road ahead for openRxiv as they embark on the next decade of trying to bring about a bigger preprint ecosystem. But it also raises questions about the motivations of some open science "advocates"
The first molecular evidence of Homo naledi from at least 20 individuals shows that none are male. I've taken a deep dive into how the paleoproteomics works, what it says about naledi relationships, and why this result is less surprising than it sounds. www.johnhawks.net/p/the-first-...
The first molecular data from Homo naledi
Protein data from the Rising Star cave system show the known sample of this species is entirely female.
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This is a terrible disaster. Magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Venezuela, minutes after another M7.2. More than half a million people exposed to “severe or violent” shaking, and best estimates suggesting tens of thousands may have been killed earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Reuters@reuters.com · last mo.Earthquakes shake Venezuela capital reut.rs/4w26lgK
Tonight we have a guest lecture by Netta Dorchin - a world expert in Gall midges The biggest family in dark taxa, and by quite a margin..within Hymenoptera, it’s the Platygastrids, which are parasites of Gall midges…. #BIOCOREFlies26 #insectweek @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
