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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The World Cup, a tournament I have been obsessed with since I was old enough to know what football is, starts in three days, and I genuinely find myself completely uninterested. The vibes for this tournament are so rancid.

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Pedro Vale @pfvale.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This pre-printed article discusses insect oviposition as a tractable, mechanistically grounded model for behavioural immunity, linking individual egg-laying decisions to population level disease dynamics. 🪰🦠 doi.org/10.32942/X2W...

A drawing of fruit flies eating and laying eggs in a mix of clean and pathogen-contaminated substrates.

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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Interested in #virulence? Not sure what it is - or how to explain it? Just curious? 🧐🦠🧬🦋 @kayla-king.bsky.social and I just wrote a Primer for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the ecology and evolution of virulence! Check it below and share :) #MicroSky #EvoSky #pathogens

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Ecology and evolution of virulence

Silva and King discuss the concept of virulence and the ecological and evolutionary factors that shape it.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

New research finds that sleeping fruit fly brains respond to sensory stimuli just like vertebrates, pointing to evolutionarily conserved neural signatures of sleep. By @siddhantpusdekar.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/sleep/drosop...

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Drosophila, like vertebrates, filter sensory information during sleep

Predictive sensory processing in sleeping Drosophila echoes vertebrate research, establishing an evolutionarily conserved neural signature of sleep.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Did you know? 🧪 "The Interactive Fly" is a wonderful website hosted by @socdevbio.bsky.social where you can learn about their development, the history of gene discovery/name, and it is full of super useful resources for the #DevBio community 🪰https://www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/aimain/1aahome.htm

A screencapture of the page dedicated to the transcription factor isl1/tailup. There is information about the flybase ID, function, classification, keywords, and a very long wall of text under BIOLOGICAL OVERVIEW. Fly people rock tbh

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The final piece in a 27-year fly immunity puzzle. Yao describes "Paillotin" (Pai), the name given to #Drosophila "IM18." With this paper, all 24 Immune-induced Molecules (IMs) from Uttenweiler-Joseph et al. (1998) have been named & characterized. 🎊 Pai is an HDP conserved across fly 🪰 species 1/n

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Functional Characterization of Paillotin: An Immune Peptide Regulated by the Imd Pathway with Pathogen-Specific Roles in Drosophila Immunity

Insects, such as Drosophila melanogaster, rely on innate immune defenses to combat microbial threats. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) play an important role in limiting pathogen entry and colonization. ...

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Jewelna: noguchi.ug.edu.gh/fellows/dr-j... #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Jewelna Akorli is a Principal Investigator and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellow at the University of Ghana. Her work centers on mosquito-associated endosymbionts and variations in vector competence in natural mosquito populations.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This #InternationalWomensDay I want to tell the story of Lilian Vaughan Morgan. I learned of Lilian this past year - what a badass. Lilian was a leading scientist when women weren't welcome in the lab, nor even the department. But she contributed immensely to the genetics of sex determination 1/n

A photo of a young Lilian Vaughan Morgan, sitting with a book on her lab staring into the distance.

A photo of an older Lilian Vaughan Morgan, sitting at a lab bench with a microscope and dozens of glass milk bottles bunged with cotton. Lilian is in the middle of applying ether to anaesthetize a bottle of flies.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Workshop on ecological & evolutionary immunology/insect immunity. 15-19th Sept 2025 - Werbellinsee, Germany, organised by Sophie Armitage and Jens Rolff. Abstract deadline start of March www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/en/biologie/...

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

To US colleagues who have lost or are in imminent danger of losing their jobs: please DM whether we can accommodate your research.

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Priscilla Akyaw @abenaakyaw.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I am very happy to see this first part of my PhD work go online now! 💃🏾 We explored alternative strategies to elicit #diseasetolerance in #Drosophila melanogaster in response to oral #infection with a natural bacterial #pathogen, #Pseudomonas entomophila. (Thread)

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

'The problem is compounded by the matter of communication. Science is nuanced. New evidence often complicates established research findings, experts disagree over what lessons to draw from the evidence, and news outlets favor eye-catching studies over rigorous methodology.'

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The dangers of keeping epidemiology the “hidden science”

Caitlin Rivers wants to tell the story of epidemiology and the public health heroes who keep the world safe and healthy.

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Experimental evolution of a pathogen confronted with innate immune memory increases variation in virulence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Pedro Vale @pfvale.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"What makes a super-spreader? Unravelling the genetics of host infectiousness" Funded #PhD position in my lab exploring the drivers of host heterogeneity in pathogen transmission. Get in touch if interested. Deadline 17 Jan 2025. #HostPathogen #DiseaseEcology www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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EastBio: What makes a super-spreader? Unravelling the genetics of host infectiousness. at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - EastBio: What makes a super-spreader? Unravelling the genetics of host infectiousness. at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Joel Marthelot @joelmarthelot.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Fresh off the press, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément

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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging. www.nature.com/articles/nbt...

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Priscilla Akyaw @abenaakyaw.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Remind me again, why are there no emojis for the fruity? 😟 #drosophila #modelorganism #Nobelprize

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Tia N. Donaldson, PhD @tiandonaldson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Dear grad students, Don’t go into the lab tomorrow. Put the thesis away. That data analysis can wait too. Spend time with your loved ones/take a day of rest. The science will be there when you get back. Sincerely, A retired grad student

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Jens Rister @rister.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

🧪Party on the left, business on the right! 😎 Graduate student Heena Khurana found this interesting mutant: #Science #Drosophila #scicomm #Flyeyes

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

ICYMI: we wrote a book. It's a free PDF, but you can also get a physical copy just in time for the holidays. Probably. I dunno. We don't actually get money from it. This was a labour of love by Hannah & Bruno. Also I helped. Stocking stuffer idea: USB loaded with The #Drosophila Immunity Handbook 🪰

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Priscilla Akyaw @abenaakyaw.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Glad to finally be here! Happy to interact with the #Science community especially pertaining to #Drosophila #immunity, #infection and #evolution 🤓👉🏾👈🏾

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