AMP thought of as one-off in Drosophila may have moved around a lot…much like genes encoding antiparasitoid proteins fand pore-forming toxins in insects (see karger.com/jin/article/...). Extremely cool. A challenge is that short peptides present a very hard problem—discerning convergence from HGT…
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‘At first, she couldn’t come off the oxygen long enough’: the film that gives Marianne Faithfull one final thrilling performance
Το σημερινό πρωτοσέλιδο της «Εφημερίδας των Συντακτών»
Πεντέμισι χρόνια μετά την έκδοση της πρωτόδικης απόφασης, που χαρακτήρισε εγκληματική οργάνωση τη Χρυσή Αυγή, το δευτεροβάθμιο δικαστήριο «σφράγισε» αυτή την καταδίκη.
ΦΑΡΜΑ ΤΩΝ ΖΩΩΝ – 3/3/2026: Κύπρος, Ιράν, Athens Alitheia forum, Δίκη Χ.Α. https://thepressproject.gr/farma-ton-zoon-3-3-2026-kypros-iran-athens-alitheia-forum-diki-ch-a/
If you have used the word “energy” for anything else…Only the punks seem to survive scrutiny these days.
Today is #rarediseaseday and in the @araujolabub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ibub-ub.bsky.social we’re using Drosophila melanogaster as a powerful model to study rare diseases.
Small flies, big insights! 🪰#RareDiseaseResearch #Drosophila #Science
Choanos are cool! The deep evolutionary origins of development and multicellularity can be found not in animals but in their sister group, which we consider being unicellular.
Very well put by @zoegrunewald.bsky.social writing for the New World about the (excellent!) Gorton and Denton by-election result.
“PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who had placed EYP directly under his supervision, called it a scandal, but no government officials have been charged in court and critics accuse the government of trying to cover up the truth. […] trial took place in a court for misdemeanours.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What accounts for the progression from healthy aging to Alzheimer's disease over an extended period of time?
The critical role of the immune system, particularly T cells and microglia.
A new, excellent review
www.cell.com/immunity/abs...
One of the most tangibly lifesaving efforts of @standupforscience.bsky.social to date was to send an on-the-ground investigator to Guinea Bissau to understand the context of the unethical &CDC funded Hep B infant vaccines study.
We presented to a packed room of horrified House and Senate folks.
Insect research has used Drosophila as a model organism for over a century. But today’s tools now open up a much wider spectrum of insects which deserve to be studied. See the recent commentary in @fly-journal.bsky.social by @peterkdearden.bsky.social, ‘Why just fly?’ doi.org/10.1080/1933...
Columbia capitulated to the Trump admin’s demands, turning the school into an arm of the surveillance state and destroying free speech/academic freedom. It sacrificed student safety for money and a political safe harbor. No wonder its students can be kidnapped at will www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...
Great @marcrileydj.bsky.social session
The Pop Group - 8th November 2016
@punkandnewwave.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social @itsonlyrockandroll.bsky.social @singingconductor.bsky.social @carolinebinnie.bsky.social @edhodgson.bsky.social @richwatson.bsky.social
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ShineGAL4 FLP-out clones
#Drosophila calling. Delighted to share our new collection of ShineGAL4 drivers for CNS, FB, muscles, enterocytes, oenocytes and MTs made by @vgirard.bsky.social, @sebsorge.bsky.social and colleagues @crick.ac.uk. All at Bloomington @bdsc.bsky.social
@dev-journal.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/4jpw9jd6
*I meant you’re the best! (But you already know this)
Were the best!
An excellent, measured account of where we’re at with AI by one of the pioneer researchers in the field.
I'm keeping this piece free to read for another day, in the hope it might persuade a few more people to sign up for my newsletter. If you like it you'll probably generally like the sort of writing I send to your inbox every week...
Time-calibrated phylogeny of the family Drosophilidae showing major species groups, surrounded by representative adult flies that highlight the remarkable morphological diversity of this model insect group. The composite image was created using Microsoft PowerPoint. Fly photographs were taken by Darren J. Obbard and are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License with permission.
The #fly community aims to achieve a comprehensive genomic study of the Drosophilidae family. @pankajd.bsky.social @bernardkim.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social @darrenobbard.bsky.social present a comparative gene annotation for 301 #Drosophilidae species @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4c3pyrI
Same thing with records.
How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?
Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
1/n
'The pictures depict the men walking into the firing range in Athens, their heads held high as they stare, seemingly unafraid, into the camera. Famously, they went to their deaths chanting partisan songs in a final act of resistance.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
“Epstein offered prestige without peer review, and attention without consequence. Too many people – even those who were not involved directly in exploitation – took the deal because it was easy to do and because it felt good.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A pilot in a submersible vehicle collecting sediments samples in 30 meters of water looking for Asgards (microbial relatives of eukaryotes)
One of the biggest questions in biology is how complex cells evolved about 2 billion years ago. Here's my new story on how scientists are solving the mystery of eukaryotes like us. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qMbo22
A chilling account of how right-wing “free speech” male academics and billionaires wined and dined together while passing on their reactionary ideas as high intellectualism-not to mention saying nothing about the abuse of children www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
