Associate Professor at Imperial College London.
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Giorgio Gilestro
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Beautiful creative work and a great 🧵
Kudos to all involved in this nice work
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Applications are now open for the inaugural CAJAL Advanced Neuroscience Training Course on Neurobiology of Sleep 😴🧠!!!
📅 Dates: 19 November – 8 December 2026
⏳ Application Deadline: 3 July
🔗 Information and application: cajal-training.org/on-site/neur...
Immense respect for handling this situation with this level of integrity. Mistakes happen. Science is a process.
Very cool! Useful tool for #Drosophila folks. Would be great adopted by whole labs / institutions. Considering it's newness, add features? Tinkering & I don't yet see: 1) Retrospective dating / bulk stock flipping 2) Stock acquisition date 3) Column sort by chromosome 4) Reference usage citation
Thanks to @tonysouthall.bsky.social for suggesting the feature!
Submitted my first manuscript to a social sciences journal nearly 3 months ago and it’s still stuck at "Editor Assigned." 🫠
We STEM folks love to complain about turnaround times, but the humanists have unlocked a new level of patience. This is a different league!
📄: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28098/
Happy to announce I've launched a new service for the fly community: flyRoom, a web-based comprehensive stock manager for all your fly pushing needs. Organise all your stocks, maps all your genotypes, plan your crosses, print and scan your labels. Give it a try and let your colleagues know!
Harmit Singh Malik
Can anyone think of an example of government spend of this magnitude and speed (excluding covid)??
4 weeks from call announcement to submission (no advance warning) and within that only 2 weeks to flag your intention to submit.
£40M total - individual awards £9.4M
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Well some of us are. Many top neuro journals straight up desk reject model organism papers nowadays. And if you want to get fast, detailed and precise mechanistic answers - some of these are still the best systems.
Calling all #Drosophila #NewPI #researchers!
A few spots remain for the upcoming JEDI Conference - and you won’t want to miss this!
Every attendee gives a talk, making the exchange dynamic, personal, and highly interactive - all at a stunning venue that inspires collaboration and creativity.
We just launched flyRoom — modern web-based stock management for Drosophila labs. No more spreadsheets, no more messy labels, no more lost stocks. Free to start, built by researchers for researchers.
www.flyroom.net
We just launched flyRoom — modern web-based stock management for Drosophila labs. No more spreadsheets, no more messy labels, no more lost stocks. Free to start, built by researchers for researchers.
www.flyroom.net
The authors of a Nature paper outlining a mechanism for multisensory memories in Drosophila melongaster have retracted the work after they were unable to replicate a set of imaging experiments.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/r...
Modern stock management for Drosophila research labs. Track stocks, plan crosses, import from FlyBase, print labels, and collaborate across institutions.
Modern stock management for Drosophila research labs. Track stocks, plan crosses, import from FlyBase, print labels, and collaborate across institutions.
How can a single cell learn without a brain? We explore this in my paper with @wallaceucsf.bsky.social! We discovered that single cells may learn using molecules similar to those that animal brains use to learn, like CaMKII. Cells can also propagate memory states to their progeny!
An analysis of published papers on eight widely studied “model” organisms suggests work on them is fading, but not everyone is worried. https://scim.ag/3PaOvIs
Introducing the new Interactive Grid View in flyRoom.
See your fly stocks exactly as they sit in the tray, with color-coded flip status, hover for genotype details, drag-and-drop to reorganize. Customisable and super easy to use.
www.flyroom.net
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The Transmitter
Even though one set of experiments did not hold up, the authors stand by the original conclusions of the work and plan to resubmit it as a new paper.
