Interesting resource for those starting with #Drosophila research (set of videos by Bruno Lemaitre) youtu.be/aUewlFU-6rw?...
+15k signatures now in just over one day.
Britons now favour rejoining the EU with a strong majority (+21).
At 100k, it became "considered for debate in parliament." This is worth sharing. Tell parliament in clear terms what they're debating, and for who.
While BioNtech & Moderna become household names because of their Covid vaccines, those emerged from different projects: finding ways to treat the most challenging cancers. They hypothesized that we could vaccinate patients against their own tumors, & evidence is mounting that they were right! 1/n 🧪
I am. ery happy to join the JEDI meeting in Portugal for the first time as #newPI. Come join us!
I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.
Why do males and females differ in infection outcomes?
In our study just published in #GENETICS @genetics-gsa.bsky.social using #Drosophila melanogaster, we show that #sexdifferences in nutritional #immunity - specifically iron sequestration—shape resistance to #infection by Providencia.
Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's sweeping order lifted restrictions at more than 75 federal lands, including beloved national parks and seashores.
This is definitely something that should be discussed before implementation. Read and provide feedback. What we need is more funding, not more restrictions. A particularly bad move for Starting, and specially, Consolidator stage.
In this (very niche) post, I explain how I FOIA'd NIH to demonstrate that NCBI staff did not alter the metadata of a coronavirus sequence dataset.
Come the emails, stay for the pangolins?
(also works the other way round (-:) #covidorigin
Official petition for the UK to rejoin the EU, open to UK citizens and residents:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Takes literally 1 minute, very quick. With changing political climate, worth making your UK voice heard if this is your view. Petition closes June 8th 2026.
Flo Débarre
petition.parliament.uk
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
Abstract. Host sexual dimorphism in the outcome of infections is a ubiquitous phenomenon across taxa. However, the immunological differences between males
What should Europe do when demand for #ERC funding keeps rising?
Restrict access or invest in excellence?
Please read our open letter calling for reconsideration of the ERC 2027 resubmission restrictions & for constructive alternatives that preserve openness
Consider to share & sign - see below 🧪
What should Europe do when demand for its most successful frontier research programme keeps rising?
Restrict access, or invest in the excellence it has created?
A new open letter, spearheaded by Sara...
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Extended registration deadline for our conference (June 1st - 3rd in Palmela, Portugal) to May 15th!
Join if you are a Junior #Drosophila PI or senior #postdoc about to transition to independence.
Spread the word!
🎬Venue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P1n...
🔗Registration: fly-jedi.org/meetings/202...
This is the story of a coincidence: some lab leakers managed to make sequence data of pangolin viruses public again the same day that Jesse Bloom was submitting a preprint highlighting their absence. ...
