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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 1d

Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

www.cnbc.com

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Drosophila Spain @drosospain.bsky.social · 1d

We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 3d

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 4d

Folks whose jobs, postdocs or grad school fellowships or applications were cut short--drop them a line

Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 5d

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 13d

LMB PhD studentship available in the Baum lab to use informatics to infer cell structure from genomic data in collaboration with the brilliant Tom Williams. If you write to me and I don’t reply - try again - the spam filter is hungry…

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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · 16d

The #EDS has the pleasure to announce that, after #EDRC2027 in Bonn, we will have #EDRC2029 in Szeged! Don’t forget these hashtags!

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 23d

This work was done by an amazing team of PhD students, undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and wonderful colleagues at Hopkins, Yale (Rong Fan, Xiaoyu Qin, and Mei Zhong), UCSD (Lingyan Shi and Yajuan Li), the Max Planck Institute (David Zwicker), and U. Florida (Mark Atkinson and team).

Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 23d

We have developed a new workflow to map whole human organs at single-cell resolution, while integrating spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.

We applied this workflow to map precancerous lesions of the fallopian tubes.

More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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John Ngo @johntngo.bsky.social · 22d

🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com!

Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/

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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · Sep 10

Another exciting opportunity @dunnschool.bsky.social !

Come and be a colleague to a great group of scientists working on the fundamental mechanisms underlying disease, and how to transform health

Please help us find great applicants

The Dunn School, Oxford @dunnschool.bsky.social · Sep 10

We're hiring (again)!

We are looking for an associate professor in cell and molecular biology, with a particular focus on immunology (defined broadly)

If you have a great record and exciting plans, consider joining our thriving and welcoming department

www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · Sep 1

Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease?

Do you have a great record and an exciting vision?

Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships.

Deadline 30th September...pass it on!

www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

Group Leader Career Development Fellowships - Dunn School

Are you an early career researcher interested in the cell or molecular mechanisms underlying disease? Do you have an outstanding record and an innovative research plan?

www.path.ox.ac.uk

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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · Aug 28

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Please repost!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · Aug 27

Supracellular control and coordination of tissue morphogenesis, through supracellular actomyosin assemblies, that is what my lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social and I like to dig into at the moment! Fascinating and beautiful! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Aug 23

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

Dear Fly Community,

In May 2025, the NIH terminated all grant funding to Harvard University, including the NHGRI grant that supported FlyBase. This grant also funded FlyBase teams at Indiana University (IU) and the University of Cambridge (UK), and as a result, their subawards were also canceled.

The Cambridge team has secured support for one to two years through generous donations from the European fly community, emergency funding from the Wellcome Trust, and support from the University of Cambridge. At IU, funding has been secured for one year thanks to reserve funds from Thom Kaufman and a supplement from ORIP/NIH to the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (BDSC).

Unfortunately, the situation at Harvard is far more critical. Harvard University had supported FlyBase staff since May but recently denied a request for extended bridge funding. As a result, all eight employees (four full-time and four part-time) were abruptly laid off, with termination dates ranging from August to mid-October depending on their positions. In addition, our curator at the University of New Mexico will leave her position at the end of August. This decision came as a shock, and we are urgently pursuing all possible funding options.

To put the need into perspective: although FlyBase is free to use, it is not free to make. It takes large teams of people and millions of dollars a year to create FlyBase to support fly research (the last NHGRI grant supported us with more than 2 million USD per annum).

To help sustain FlyBase operations, we have been reaching out to you to ask for your support. We have set up a donation site in Cambridge, UK, to which European labs have and can continue to contribute, and a new donation site at IU to which labs in the US and the rest of the world can contribute. We urge researchers to work with their grant administrators to contribute to FlyBase via these sites if at all possible, as more of the money will go to FlyBase. However, we appreciate that some fu…

https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase

Our immediate goals are:

1. To maintain core curation activities and keep the FlyBase website online

2. To complete integration with the Alliance of Genome Resources (The Alliance).

Integration with the Alliance is essential for FlyBase’s long-term sustainability. For nearly a decade, NHGRI/NIH has supported the unification of Model Organism Databases (MODs) into the Alliance, which we aim to achieve by 2028. Therefore, securing bridge funding to sustain FlyBase over the next three years is crucial for successful integration and the long-term access to FlyBase data.

At present, our remaining funds will allow us to keep the FlyBase website online for approximately one more year. Beyond that, its future is uncertain unless new funding is secured. We will, of course, continue pursuing additional grant opportunities as they arise.

Given the uncertainty of future NIH or alternative funding sources, we are relying on the Fly community for support. Your contributions will directly help us retain the staff needed to complete this transition and to secure ongoing fly data curation into the Alliance beyond 2028.

We at FlyBase are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support from the community during this challenging time. Your encouragement has strengthened our resolve and underscores how vital this resource remains to Drosophila research worldwide.

Sincerely,
The FlyBase Team

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Aug 16

if you're a teacher who wants to bring science to life in the classroom, @skypeascientist.bsky.social brings scientists to your class. Sign up at: www.skypeascientist.com

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Aug 14

Last chance to apply for this tenure track position in Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! Come join us!

Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Jul 23

Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Aug 13

Download our database of POSTDOC fellowships for cancer research/oncology in the US.

We found 46 different fellowships. For each entry, we provide link, description, deadline, amount, eligibility criteria.

Good luck!

Here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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dshb-antibodies.bsky.social @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social · Aug 13

🔎 Spotted in @natcomms.nature.com!
Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology used 7 of DSHB's mAbs in a study on how younger gut cells can slow intestinal aging and extend lifespan in fruit flies.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 13

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...