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Drosophila Species Stock Exchange

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Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!

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🌟 Final month to nominate projects for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards! Know a project promoting Open Science in ecology & evolution, such as workshops, tools, repositories, outreach & more? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual. sortee.org/awards/

bug is out of the rug, I got commissioned by @theguardian.com to #SciArt illustrate this year's goobies for #InvertebrateOfTheYear there are some really good ones stay tuned! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: the top 10 invertebrates of the year

At last! It’s time for our invertebrate of the year competition as voted for by you. Today, the common woodlouse – come back on Tuesday to find out who else made the top 10

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Petra Korlević@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 6d ago

something exciting coming your way on Monday #BugSky

Genetic background diversifies mutational paths but converges on membrane depolarization for bleomycin resistance in yeast https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.28.741370v1

"Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Allele-Specific Expression" by Guan-Zheng Luo & colleagues "Emerging evidence reveals that the ‘allelic code’ is indeed propagated throughout the RNA life cycle..." FREE till Sept 18th at authors.elsevier.com/a/1nWtOcQbJI...

My great technician is leaving the lab, and I'm trying to replace her. Are you or someone you know interested in evolutionary genomics research that combines animals experiments (with flies!) and molecular biology? Come work with me! Application info at the link evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

⚒️ 🪰 New tool for #Drosophila researchers In #GENETICS, Ajay et al. introduce a web-based analysis tool, VIDEO, that enables visualization of conserved transcription factor-binding motifs within proximal enhancers of genes and active chromatin. 🔗 buff.ly/bnkpUsM

The battle of the sexes - many species show sexual dimorphism in body and organ size. 🪰 New work in #GENETICS uncovers distinct strategies, including cell size, cell number, or a combination of both, that scale organs allometrically in #Drosophila females. 🔗

Cell type specific allometry controls sex-differences in Drosophila organ size

Animals differ in body and organ size between sexes, but are these differences driven primarily by changes in cell number, cell size, or both? Using comput

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Finney DJ 1995. Frank Yates [obituary]. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 41: 554-573

Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

Historical Perspective: Sridhar et al. use the backstories of famous scientific papers in Ecology and Evolution to uncover the background roles of natural history that are written out of papers. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Splicing of a core circadian clock gene regulates seasonal adaptations by a winter gating mechanism #Drosophila

My lab at the University of Wisconsin - Madison is searching for a postdoc! Multiple project directions are possible based on applicant interests. We have a really nice group of population / evolutionary genetics labs in Madison, and it's also a great place to live. www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/8) The roads most traveled: genetic convergence in plant repeated evolution nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Actually this is making me rethink my commitment to the Oxford comma because that would be a hell of a movie

Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · 3w ago

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

It’s not that this hard first year is some kind of hazing ritual. It’s just the inherent stress of moving and a new job, compounded by a sudden uptick in multitasking and exercising budgeting and personnel management skills and teaching skills that aren’t as central to grad and postdoc time.

I often give similar advice to my former postdocs / students as they begin faculty jobs: the first year or two are really really hard. It gets much better and is worth it. The successful senior faculty had shitty first years too.

Science Magazine@science.org · 3w ago

"You feel stretched to the point of breaking. The waves of emotions are rolling over you. I am here, your future self, to tell you that you are enough. You don’t break. You put one foot in front of the other, and you not only make it through, but you have fun." https://scim.ag/3SWodeP

Oregon State University's Department of Integrative Biology is currently hiring up to three tenure-track faculty members, with an emphasis on organismal biology. Note: Previous links are no longer active due to a change in our hiring system. oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...

Assistant Professor

Department: Special Instructions to Applicants: To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 10/1/26. Applications will continue to be accepted after the full consideration date, unt...

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🪰 A new #machinelearning method helps discover and genotype transposable element insertions and deletions from #Drosophila long-read genome assemblies. Learn more about this user-friendly tool developed by @adaigle.bsky.social in #GENETICS 🔗 buff.ly/7f3RUlM

prolongota be like: do you even lift bro.

I know a lot of Drosophila flies. Outside the Hawaiian clade, D. prolongata is by far the coolest.

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...

Apparent stabilizing selection explains micro- and macroevolution of Drosophila wings #Drosophila

My first paper is up on bioRxiv! We asked a simple question: why are fruit flies smaller when they grow up in a crowded vial? #Development #Plasticity #Drosophila

bioRxiv Developmental Biology@biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 4w ago

Room to breathe: Nutrition and developmental oxygen modulate the crowding effect on size in Drosophila melanogaster https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.02.736161v1

Most flies appear to follow the same aerodynamic blueprint. Mosquitoes are the exception, beating their wings up to 1,000 times a second and flying about three times less efficiently than similar-sized fruit flies. doi.org/hb926b

Physical laws explain why most flies evolved similar flight, with mosquitoes as outliers

A new study in PLOS Biology of 133 species of flies, mosquitoes and their relatives shows that most species fly in surprisingly similar ways.

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I have officially become the guy who cites Felsenstein (1985) at people in peer reviews but in my defense, I was provoked

I am recruiting a PhD student to study the causes and consequences of gut microbiome variation in wild caribou using shotgun metagenomics, with a start date in 2027. This opportunity is currently limited to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Feel free to email me for details if interrested!

Interesting, the wing marks and leg hairs are strikingly similar to the picture wing group of Hawaiian Drosophila. It would be interesting to look at switches from genitalia-specific mating systems to courtship-specific across the group.

💬 In the latest Evolution Exchange, SSE President Dr. Gina Baucom talks with @journal-evo.bsky.social Editor in Chief Dr. Jason Wolf about his role, the success of the journal, and the benefits of publishing in society journals. www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...