hiiii everyone! my department @zoology.ubc.ca is hiring an assistant professor in cell and developmental biology! deadline is october 1! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32408 // please share!!!!!

I love biology--after decades of study, we're still learning new and surprising things about one of the best studied reproductive systems, that of the female fruit fly pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42489076/

I'm incredibly proud of my lab's work defining the mechanism by which fragile X messenger ribonucleoprotein (FMRP) supports translation of long neurodevelopmental mRNAs - a discovery we first made in fruit fly eggs later shown to be conserved in the mammalian brain  www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

FMRP prevents Me31B/DDX6-associated repression of long neurodevelopmental mRNAs

Long, dosage-sensitive mRNAs encoding neurodevelopmental regulators are selectively dependent on fragile X messenger ribonucleoprotein (FMRP) for efficient translation across animal systems, but the m...

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Powerful speeches this morning from @michaeldgreen.phd and many others at today's #nokings edition of #nihvigils. Shoutout to @27unihted.bsky.social, @nihvigils.bsky.social, and all the great organizers who made the event possible.

This isn't a coincidence, IMO. The fly community is generally super rigorous - because there are so many tools and techniques available, people expect you to really nail things in order to get published (and keep getting funded)

W. Brent Derry@wbderry.bsky.social · last yr.

Model organism communities are fantastic. Good work, "Drosophilists"! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Certain alleles, called meiotic drivers, cheat the rules of inheritance to increase the chance of transmission. The Yamashita lab at the @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social investigated genetic information transmission and found a meiotic driver that operates differently: bit.ly/4nzcFcp

Making my voice heard at the #nokings protest in Vancouver!

So excited to see this work out in @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/... Congratulations to Hazel Cui on outstanding work! Keep an eye out for part 2 of this project 😎

Sheila Teves@sheilateves.bsky.social · 2y ago

Latest research from the Teves lab is now out on Biorxiv! "Functional divergence of TBP homologs through distinct DNA binding dynamics" biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here, we examine how conservation is balanced with diversification throughout evolution, using TBP as a case study.

The Sondheim Finalists’ Exhibition at @thewaltersartmuseum is open as of TODAY! I am so thrilled to share this new work and hope you will see it! “…and Find Out.” (detail), watercolor, ink, and acrylic on paper, 22 x 30 x 1”, 2025

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Check this out if you ever wondered what intercellular bridges might be doing during meiosis! Happy to have played a small role! Congrats!!! @thejainlab.bsky.social

Devanshi Jain@thejainlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

For my first science post here, I’m proud to advertise our latest work exploring why germ cell connectivity is really important for meiosis 🐁 Done with some awesome colleagues @florpratto.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come be my colleague at UBC! A great place to work w/amazing students, a beautiful campus, and…maybe one or two other perks 🇨🇦

Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬@drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are hiring our next Department Head. If interested, you will be joining a great team of committed researchers and teachers. 👇 www.med.ubc.ca/careers/admi...

Quick tip: If your paper was published today, consider sharing it on social media tomorrow instead. Today, everyone's focus is on Standing Up for Science and making some good trouble!

Heartbreaking chats this week with students thinking of giving up on their dreams of getting a PhD. They worry about getting in PhD programs and careers post PhD. My suggestions: don’t be hasty, think broadly incl EU & Canada, & careers beyond traditional academia. What’re you telling your students?

The MassBio brief says they represent 1700 biotech / pharma companies in MA. They cite a recent study showing that "funding from NIH contributed to 354 of 356 drugs approved from 2010-2019." (!!!) And they argue the policy will have irreparable harm on drug development.

Math is hard

Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli

MAYosis is coming... register and submit abstracts here. meiosis.cornell.edu/mayosis2025/...

NASA's James Webb Telescope discovers alcohol cloud in deep space! To drink all of that, every person on earth would have to drink 300,000 pints each day for one billion years. www.wionews.com/web-stories/... #NASA #JamesWebb #alcohol #space #spaceeploration

NASA's James Webb Telescope discovers alcohol cloud in deep space

Science: NASA's James Webb Telescope reveals an alcohol cloud in the depths of space, marking a significant step in exploring cosmic phenomena and interstellar chemistry.

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📢The 2025 MAYosis webinar series will be held on consecutive Wednesdays, May 7-28, at 4 pm CET (7 am PST; 12 am JST) meiosis.cornell.edu/mayoss2025/ Apply to give a talk (deadline is March 8, trainees and junior faculty only): tinyurl.com/47k3cjpn Registration is free: tinyurl.com/39rs53yv

Our latest work using TIRFM to uncover mechanisms that stabilize the centromeric nucleosome: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Stable centromere association of the yeast histone variant Cse4 requires its essential N-terminal domain | The EMBO Journal

imageimageCentromeres contain a histone H3 variant that is essential for kinetochore assembly. This work reports that the extended N-terminus of the budding yeast centromeric histone, Cse4, stabilizes...

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Congrats to all the newly elected members of the GSA Board of Directors, including TAGC24 veteran @barrlab.bsky.social genestogenomes.org/new-members-...

New members of the GSA Board of Directors: 2025–2027

We are pleased to announce the election of six new leaders to the GSA Board of Directors: 2025 Vice President/2026 President Cassandra Extavour Timken Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology an...

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If you want to learn about how a tiny worm led to major insights in developmental biology and human disease check out the Nobel lectures from Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ9N...

2024 Nobel Prize lectures in physiology or medicine | Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

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Lets start with something exciting! Applications are now open to join our fantastic department as a group leader fellow! Come start your independent group at (in our opinion) the best neuroscience department! reach out here or @macaskillaf.bsky.social for more info! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Ru-upping this thread from last year since the paper is now out! @chenshuliu.bsky.social identified a Piezo-dependent mechanism that enables C. elegans to sniff out “bad eggs” and target them for destruction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Chemically induced proximity reveals a Piezo-dependent meiotic checkpoint at the oocyte nuclear envelope

Sexual reproduction relies on robust quality control during meiosis. Assembly of the synaptonemal complex between homologous chromosomes (synapsis) regulates meiotic recombination and is crucial for a...

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Abby Dernburg@adernburg.bsky.social · 3y ago

I'm excited to introduce a new story from my lab in which we developed a new tool for inducible proximity and used it to determine the molecular basis of the "synapsis checkpoint," which @needhibhalla.bsky.social and I first described in 2005...

Hey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.

Hello Bsky folks - here is a paper that we published earlier this year - great collaboration with the Bellen lab, Hyung-lok Chung, @okanca.bsky.social and others. Have a look if you're interested in Cdk8/19, mitochondria, Parkinsonism and Drosophila!

The Interactive Fly@interactivefly.bsky.social · 2y ago

Liao, J. Z., Chung, H. L., Shih, C., Wong, K. K. L., ...., Sew, K., Bellen, H. J., Verheyen, E. M. (2024). Cdk8/CDK19 promotes mitochondrial fission through Drp1 phosphorylation and can phenotypically suppress pink1 deficiency in Drosophila. Nat Commun, 15(1):3326 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy Fly Day! November 18th is #Drosophila day. It commemorates the isolation of a white-eyed mutation, which is now used across the world. That mutation is white[1118], with the numbers standing for Nov 18th, the day it was isolated by Bob Levis. 🪰

Now that half of SciTwitter is here… Come be my colleague! The Dept of Cell Biology @EmoryUniversity is recruiting a developmental cell biologist. 🔬Do you study mechanisms of development using cell biological (and other) approaches? Join us!🔬 TY for RT! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/664684/t...

Tenure-track Faculty position in Cell and Developmental Biology - Atlanta, Georgia job with Emory University | 664684

This search is open to investigators conducting mechanistic studies of developmental cell biology using genetically tractable model organisms.

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