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signor-molevol.bsky.social
Assistant professor at NDSU. I love all things Drosophila & TEs & Gene regulation. Mostly bioinformatics but you'll find me with a pipette.
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Everything is on fire but we have an awesome new lab logo from @nepeteaa.bsky.social who you should definitely have make one for your organization!

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Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

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Ummm what is a phylad

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I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

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Everyone in Congress is complicit

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What. The actual fuck.

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At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided. From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives. We need everyone in this fight. The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in? The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU

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Is passing on the exact protocol you've been carting around since your second year of grad school in the kopp lab sort of like a legacy

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The Internet became a trash machine like really quickly

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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

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Very bad www.science.org/content/arti...

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New rule if I'm trying to decipher your handwriting like I'm staring at a circos plot you don't get any credit

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Idea: take home exam where the Google AI summary is the wrong answer for every question

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Our university is part of an (APLU) lawsuit challenging the #NSF cut to the overhead reimbursement rate to 15%. No proposals are being submitted. "The hope is that a temporary restraining order (TRO) will be issued soon blocking the action and preventing the F&A cap from going into effect." #NDSU

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Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

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Is it normal for reviewers to be rude to the editor in their response or is that just extra special for me

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Comprehensive mapping of protein-protein interactions in the Drosophila piRNA pathway reveals how adaptive evolution contributes to rapid diversification of this genome-defense mechanism Peter Andersen @germline.bsky.social and collaborators www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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Microscope room is freezing for no reason. Dissecting is now an extreme sport

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Retroelement expansions underlie genome evolution in stingless bees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.12.648530v1

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Dissecting what are supposed to be wild type ovaries and they are weird and unstructured. Almost shaggy? Eggs sticking out everywhere.

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come visit fargo, they said, we can schedule in spring when the weather's nice, they said. (nevertheless, still looking forward to visit @signor-molevol.bsky.social NDSU !)

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Hey that's my alma mater 😀

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Polymorphic transposable elements contribute to variation in recombination landscapes (drosohila 🪰) www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #TEsky

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Looking for fruit flies at the San Diego city dump #dros25

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great job Binglong Zhang sharing his latest on miRNA/target function in nervous system. 1 more day #Dros25 to see posters, inc from Lai lab and collaborators: 🪰 🧬 292T George Boateng-Sarfo (m6A) 324T @signor-molevol.bsky.social (TEs) 596T Binglong Zhang (ELAV/Hu RBPs) 926T Becky Stewart (miRNAs)

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@gavinrrice.bsky.social always blowing my mind with his work on the evolution of novelty #dros25

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My graduate student George got to meet some science giants 😁 #dros25

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Such a great poster session at #dros25. Need to refuel before everything you want to know about sex

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Lab boating #Dros25

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looking forward to sharing my PhD work with Alexei Aravin @caltech.edu at #Dros25 tonight & meeting old and new friends throughout the fly meeting 😀

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The world is melting but the lab is headed to #Dros25 and I've got a purse full of fermenting bananas #goodtimes

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It's not a question of whether or not you will be targeted if you keep your head down, the question is when

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH

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Aaaaaaahhh!!!

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My last student evaluations included complaints that my vocal fry was too annoying to focus and I......am Dr. Signor, bitch

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Descriptive research is valuable and necessary. Repeat after me....

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Ma'am is anyone able to access era commons right now

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Sun dog palate cleanser. -20 in Fargo today

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We're excited to announce the 2025 Larry Sandler Award recipient, @peiwei-chen.bsky.social 🎉 This award recognizes students completing a PhD in Drosophila research. Dr. Chen will present the Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture on evolutionary innovation in genome defense at #Dros25 in March. 1/3🧵

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

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Sorry is anyone actually functioning right now

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“These are spreadsheet cruelties” is the chef’s kiss. Bravo! @brbarrett.bsky.social @wired.com @katie-drummond.bsky.social

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Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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