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Just a reminder to please fill out this form if you’d be interest in an EVE / ERV meeting 📋🥳

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European Fly PIs: please respond to the email we sent out yesterday and help save FlyBase!

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www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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You HAVE to read this paper. It's wild!!!

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I'm thinking of organising a meeting on endogenous viral elements (RNA, DNA and retroviral) - if you'd potentially be interested, please fill out the form here - forms.gle/wrCiWMw4yXZe... - so I can gauge interest. Please RT or share with anyone maybe interested! 🧪🧬🖥️🦠 #virology #bioinformatics

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🧬 New study in Gen. Bio.! We tested how RNA input & PCR cycles affect duplication rates across 4 sequencers. ↘️ RNA = ↗️ duplicates = ↘️ diversity. Key for optimizing RNA-seq protocols! Thanks + congrats to @catharineaquino.bsky.social @nataliazajac.bsky.social + collaborators! 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdcuen59

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This is one of the best resources for #Drosophila researchers, you don't even need to study devbio to appreciate it! Whenever I google gene names it comes up with tons of useful info and references

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Back in the news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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How to estimate the additive genetic variance for fitness, without measuring fitness. Work from Manas Geeta Arun and Jarrod Hadfield: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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I’m very glad to share our recent publication @pnas.org , led by UnJin Lee from our lab at @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social : pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... In this work, he 1) developed a method to efficiently compare single-cell RNA-seq data from rapidly evolving tissues across multiple species, and

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Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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I had fun being interviewed for this story! And am so honored that our little corner of biology has been selected for this honor.

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#Pseudoscorpion riding a #Drosophila on #iNaturalist! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.

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Abstract submission is now open for #EDRC2025 ! Don’t forget to submit yours! edrc2025alicante.com/abstracts/

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A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651781v1

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Rachel Drysdale and I prepared a biographical memoir for Michael Ashburner, now published at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Excited to announce that my research group is launching a FREE tick testing program called Nebraska Tick Testing (NeTT). We accept any ticks, both inside and outside Nebraska. We will identify the tick, screen it for pathogens, and provide a report. For more information visit: go.unmc.edu/nett

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Using ~8M SARS-CoV-2 genomes, a new phylogenetic algorithm by @russcd.bsky.social detects 10 shifts in mutation patterns, some of them linked to changes in viral polymerase. This provides new perspectives on the evolution of mutational processes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb... #molbio #evobio #covid

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Really excited to finally start this project with @andreadwilson.bsky.social, using #Drosophila as a model for experimental epidemiology and evolution to explore the genetic determinants and evolutionary constraints on extreme pathogen transmission phenotypes.

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A complete and dynamic tree of birds - out today in PNAS! Teamwork with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and others at @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social and Open Tree of Life to put together current relationships across all birds. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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University of Edinburgh #UoE near the top of another league table! www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

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Emile Michels' first PhD paper published today. Amplification of Borrelia in ticks at pheasant-release sites – an intriguing example how non-native species can increase zoonotic disease risk through spillback. @uniexecec.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Preprint on hifiasm Nanopore-only assembly. Led by Haoyu Cheng: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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I know you like #Drosophila and I know you like #Genomes - but do you also like #Genes? Coding DNA annotation of 304 species of Drosophilidae! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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A new article published in #RESPhysEnt reports the effects of #SleepDeprivation on susceptibility to parasitic infection in #Drosophila nigrospiracula 🪰 Read the #OpenAccess article now🔽 doi.org/10.1111/phen.12489 @wybouw.bsky.social @tbuescher.bsky.social @tobybruce.bsky.social @wiley.com

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In case anyone wanted a simple solution for #EarlGrey with the whole of Dfam 3.9 preconfigured, the latest Docker container now has this (and somehow successfully uploaded to Docker hub...), Just make sure you have a spare terabyte or so 😅 hub.docker.com/repository/d... #TEsky

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Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released! (Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Apply to "Drosophila genetics and genomics": experienced experts will teach you hands-on in classical strategies and cutting-edge experimental techniques to enhance your use of this powerful model organism for research, whilst connecting to scientists in your field. www.embl.org/about/info/c...

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If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

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Hi #Drosophila folk: I'm advertising a 2-year #Postdoc, funded by a BBSRC grant on the genetic and immune determinants and evolutionary constraints underlying extreme pathogen transmission phenotypes. Deadline 29 April, details in the link below, or feel free to email: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ231/p...

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We are looking for a PhD student! If you are interested in Drosophilids, systematics, bioinformatics, fiddling with museum specimens of old/weird flies, and chemosensation, then maybe this is for you! Please rebutterfly(?)! Apply below. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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@evogytis.bsky.social - you should put this on your wall!

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I think @evogytis.bsky.social is still in mourning:

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🚨 Postdoc Opportunity in Quantitative & Population Genetics! We’re hiring a 2-year postdoc at CBGP (INRAE, Montpellier, France) to work on quantitative and population genetics applied to Drosophila biarmipes. 📍 More details: umr-cbgp.fr/rejoindre-le... #Postdoc #Genetics #Drosophila

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How is functional variation at large-effect loci maintained in natural populations? Thrilled to share our work showing how beneficial dominance reversal helps fruit flies maintain a resistance polymorphism as selection varies in their environment! A thread 🧵 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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The claim in this article from the @edinburghuni.bsky.social VC is untrue. To date, besides what has been shared with all staff, Joint Unions have been given 8 powerpoint slides, 2 were title slides. www.scotsman.com/education/un...

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FlyBase made a fly gene themed crossword puzzle for #Dros25. If you missed getting one (we have lots at the FlyBase booth), or you couldn’t be here, it’s also available online. puzzleme.amuselabs.com/pmm/crosswor...

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ERC doubling funding to lure researchers to the EU www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

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🤯 cryo-ET of copia viral-like particles lurking at the nuclear pore of intact Drosophila eggs! Amazing work by @svenklumpe.bsky.social & more cool findings in this collaborative paper illuminating the replication cycle of an iconic retrotransposon! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Love this!

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Excited to report that our collaborative paper laying out the key priorities for entomological research is now among the 10 most-cited publications in #RESInsectConsDiv for 2023. #TopCitedArticle Do have a read 👇 (and keep citing 😉) resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 1/2 🧵

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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

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More #Drosophila #Viruses from @rubengonzalez.bsky.social and @salehlabparis.bsky.social

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More on #Drosophila #Viruses from @salehlabparis.bsky.social !! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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