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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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Citizen shot at point blank range

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Boosting this for good measure. To quote the CNN piece: "Homan accused Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of creating “a sanctuary for criminals,” adding that neither are exempt from potential arrest." This should alarm the hell out of all of us.

CALIFORNIA. Fucking California. My people. Stay strong.

This moves closer and closer to dead civilians on the streets.

ONE WEEK UNTIL NO KINGS DAY! At this time next Saturday, we will be taking to the streets across the country. While Trump wastes millions on a birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else to say NO KINGS. There are nearly 2,000 events planned. Join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

all this to arrest a couple guys working in the kitchen at carrabas

Federal agents in tactical gear armed with military-style rifles threw flash-bang grenades to disperse an angry crowd near downtown Los Angeles on Friday as they conducted an immigration raid on a clothing wholesaler. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

"Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems." Pure vandalism. This could never happen in a country with functioning checks and balances.

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!

Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

Ummm what is a phylad

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...

Everyone in Congress is complicit

What. The actual fuck.

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

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

The Internet became a trash machine like really quickly

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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....

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

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

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

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 !)

Hey that's my alma mater 😀

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Lab boating #Dros25

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

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

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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Aaaaaaahhh!!!

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