Andreas Prokop
@poppi62.bsky.social
Using #Drosophila to decipher the cell biology of #neurons during development and #neurodegeneration - #scicomm initiative - https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/andreas.prokop
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I’m giving a talk at the Cytoskeleton of Neurons & Glia seminar on Dec 11 (11am EST / 4pm UK)! I’ll chat about polarity in bulb DA neurons and what it means for release + self-inhibition.
Disclaimer: I’ve aged a bit since that pic, but spirit’s the same 😉
ncytoskeleton.wixsite.com/webinars/eve...
Disclaimer: I’ve aged a bit since that pic, but spirit’s the same 😉
ncytoskeleton.wixsite.com/webinars/eve...
Ana Dorrego-rivas | Neuron Cytoskeleton
ncytoskeleton.wixsite.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I’m giving a talk at the Cytoskeleton of Neurons & Glia seminar on Dec 11 (11am EST / 4pm UK)! I’ll chat about polarity in bulb DA neurons and what it means for release + self-inhibition.
Disclaimer: I’ve aged a bit since that pic, but spirit’s the same 😉
ncytoskeleton.wixsite.com/webinars/eve...
Disclaimer: I’ve aged a bit since that pic, but spirit’s the same 😉
ncytoskeleton.wixsite.com/webinars/eve...
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When America Has Your Back
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Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher
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Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
When America Has Your Back
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Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher
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Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher
Reposted by Andreas Prokop
Reposted by Andreas Prokop
What a remarkable, piercing, and perfect assessment of these malignant moronic monsters.
November 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
What a remarkable, piercing, and perfect assessment of these malignant moronic monsters.
Very interesting! Would be interesting to look also at more distant food sources, such as potato, and ask why melanogaster over others can accept them; or compare house mice to more specialist rodents! Just think of how food generalism helped humans to spread across the globe!
To survive in new environments, animals must adapt how they eat. @nature.com study with researchers from CF shows that fruit fly diet evolution isn’t just about taste receptors, it’s driven by brain processing of taste 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social
@ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Very interesting! Would be interesting to look also at more distant food sources, such as potato, and ask why melanogaster over others can accept them; or compare house mice to more specialist rodents! Just think of how food generalism helped humans to spread across the globe!
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Please, stay informed about Ukraine's dreadful situation, being sold by Trump to Russia whilst EU and UK politicians sleepwalk into increased hybrid warfare & massive future expenditure. Follow:
Ukraine The Latest: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03...
Battleground: www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...
Ukraine The Latest: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03...
Battleground: www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Please, stay informed about Ukraine's dreadful situation, being sold by Trump to Russia whilst EU and UK politicians sleepwalk into increased hybrid warfare & massive future expenditure. Follow:
Ukraine The Latest: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03...
Battleground: www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...
Ukraine The Latest: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03...
Battleground: www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...
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Useful @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social analysis of Trump proposal on Russia, skewering it point-by-point in an easily digestible way:
www.arcdigital.media/p/trump-and-...
www.arcdigital.media/p/trump-and-...
Trump and Witkoff Try to Get Russia a Win
The joint U.S.-Russia proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, taken point-by-point
www.arcdigital.media
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Useful @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social analysis of Trump proposal on Russia, skewering it point-by-point in an easily digestible way:
www.arcdigital.media/p/trump-and-...
www.arcdigital.media/p/trump-and-...
Please, stay informed about Ukraine's dreadful situation, being sold by Trump to Russia whilst EU and UK politicians sleepwalk into increased hybrid warfare & massive future expenditure. Follow:
Ukraine The Latest: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03...
Battleground: www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...
Ukraine The Latest: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03...
Battleground: www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Please, stay informed about Ukraine's dreadful situation, being sold by Trump to Russia whilst EU and UK politicians sleepwalk into increased hybrid warfare & massive future expenditure. Follow:
Ukraine The Latest: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03...
Battleground: www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...
Ukraine The Latest: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03...
Battleground: www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...
Happy to put this up on our #Drosophila Art Gallery: droso4public.wordpress.com/fly-art/
🏅 Fourth Place – DevBio Art Contest 🎨
🪰 Pop Art Drosophila! by Jenn-Yah Yu A bold color block print of six female fruit flies in a 3×2 grid, same design, different color combos. A Warhol-inspired take where shifting palettes echo phenotypic variation. 💥🎨 #DevBioArt
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Happy to put this up on our #Drosophila Art Gallery: droso4public.wordpress.com/fly-art/
spot on!!!!
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Ben Jennings on Shabana Mahmood’s asylum measures – cartoon
The home secretary tells MPs that the asylum system is ‘out of control and unfair’ amid a Labour backlash over her proposals
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
spot on!!!!
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🧠 Are you passionate about EM, neurons, ageing, neurodegeneration? Then you might be interested in a funded 4-year BBSRC NWD PhD project using vCLEM techniquesat Liverpool with @ianprior.bsky.social, @natsansor.bsky.social and @aliemliv.bsky.social
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November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🧠 Are you passionate about EM, neurons, ageing, neurodegeneration? Then you might be interested in a funded 4-year BBSRC NWD PhD project using vCLEM techniquesat Liverpool with @ianprior.bsky.social, @natsansor.bsky.social and @aliemliv.bsky.social
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/fully-f...
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The European Drosophila Society #flyEDS extends the condolences on the passing of Antonio García-Bellido, considered the founder of the Spanish school of #Drosophila genetics and an influential figure in developmental biology research worldwide. May he rest in peace.
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The European Drosophila Society #flyEDS extends the condolences on the passing of Antonio García-Bellido, considered the founder of the Spanish school of #Drosophila genetics and an influential figure in developmental biology research worldwide. May he rest in peace.
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UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.
I will definitely give this one a go!
'When Mendel began his investigation, his first inclination was to try breeding mice of different colors. However, before his mice experiment really got going, Mendel was forced to switch the subject of his experiments to peas by a prudish bishop uncomfortable with animals having sex in the abbey.'
Origins of the Lab Mouse
How the mouse found its way from Victorian novelty to a biomedical mainstay.
www.asimov.press
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I will definitely give this one a go!
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🪰 folks! I spoke to the Transmitter about FlyBase. As noted at flybase.org, bridge $ ran out and many staff were laid off.
Good news is stopgap contributions will keep core FlyBase operations active. But community support remains essential. Please donate @FlyBase and share! 1/2
tinyurl.com/FlyBase
Good news is stopgap contributions will keep core FlyBase operations active. But community support remains essential. Please donate @FlyBase and share! 1/2
tinyurl.com/FlyBase
FlyBase secures funding for year, but future still uncertain
The FlyBase team’s fundraising efforts have proven successful in the short term, but restoration of its federal grant remains uncertain.
tinyurl.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🪰 folks! I spoke to the Transmitter about FlyBase. As noted at flybase.org, bridge $ ran out and many staff were laid off.
Good news is stopgap contributions will keep core FlyBase operations active. But community support remains essential. Please donate @FlyBase and share! 1/2
tinyurl.com/FlyBase
Good news is stopgap contributions will keep core FlyBase operations active. But community support remains essential. Please donate @FlyBase and share! 1/2
tinyurl.com/FlyBase
We had this game, but I just cannot find it anymore!!!
October 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We had this game, but I just cannot find it anymore!!!
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Speed reading "Science under Siege" - ahead of next week's recording of BBC Science in Action, where co-author @michaelemann.bsky.social joins a panel on the front line of the current assault on science, to answer what can be done.
An appropriate topic for the last edition of the 60yr old series.
An appropriate topic for the last edition of the 60yr old series.
October 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Speed reading "Science under Siege" - ahead of next week's recording of BBC Science in Action, where co-author @michaelemann.bsky.social joins a panel on the front line of the current assault on science, to answer what can be done.
An appropriate topic for the last edition of the 60yr old series.
An appropriate topic for the last edition of the 60yr old series.
Any idea what the data for BBSRC and MRC are?
What a waste of time for almost everyone who prepared and submitted an application. And the reviewers. Could have done something productive instead.
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Any idea what the data for BBSRC and MRC are?
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A bunch of doctors openly and transparently treated vaccine myocarditis as fate worse than death. 🧵
October 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A bunch of doctors openly and transparently treated vaccine myocarditis as fate worse than death. 🧵
That would fit well into our #Drosophila art galery. Just send a nice picture and the kind of blurb we add: droso4public.wordpress.com/fly-art/
October 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
That would fit well into our #Drosophila art galery. Just send a nice picture and the kind of blurb we add: droso4public.wordpress.com/fly-art/
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Who would have guessed
October 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Who would have guessed
If you want to stay informed about what's going on in Ukraine, the weekly "Battleground" podcast on Fridays is excellent (www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...), and the daily "Ukraine: The Latest" outstanding (www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03...)
October 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If you want to stay informed about what's going on in Ukraine, the weekly "Battleground" podcast on Fridays is excellent (www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...), and the daily "Ukraine: The Latest" outstanding (www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03...)