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Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio · 19/09/2026

They just announced passport controls on the TGV between Paris and Frankfurt. WTF happened to Schengen?!? #eu #schengen

Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio · 09/09/2026

Congratulations to Ibo, Inês, Rory, @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and everyone else for making it into German newspapers 😀. Fly brains rule! 🧠🪰

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Researchers showed people how to lucid-dream (they were conscious and able to control the dream) and then made them transform into wolves. It worked and "about a third of the volunteers achieved the wolf transformation": www.psypost.org/lucid-dreame... Lucid Dreamers are fucking werewolves!

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NSU-Watch @nsuwatch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Wir gedenken: Vor 21 Jahren, am 15. Juni 2005, wurde Theodoros Boulgarides in seinem zwei Wochen zuvor eröffneten Schlüsseldienst in #München vom #NSU ermordet. Er wurde 41 Jahre alt. #KeinSchlussstrich 20.6., 15 Uhr: Solidaritätsfestival der Familie: public-history-muenchen.de/veranstaltun...

Sharepic: Ein Bild von Theodoros Boulgarides auf schwarzem Hintergrund. Weiße Schrift: Theodoros Boulgarides. Am 15. Juni 2005 vom NSU in München ermordet.

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Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio · 10/06/2026

Loved writing this with @katrinvogt.bsky.social, for all the German speakers and those that wish to practice their German reading skills :D Check out the whole @modolfor.bsky.social collection!

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A big "THANK YOU" to the sponsors who significantly contributed to making this year's JEDI meeting a success: the EDS: @fly-eds.bsky.social , the EMBO society: @embo.org and The Company of Biologists: @biologists.bsky.social!

A picture with "Thank you" to the sponsors of the #Drosophila JEDI meeting 2026!

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The amazing JEDI crowd 2026! Hurray for an inspiring #Drosophila meeting at a gorgeous location. Thank you to everyone who attended!

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Clara Howcroft Ferreira @clarahowcroft.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

@dahaniel.muench.bio one of the co-organisers of the @fly-jedi.bsky.social 2026 meeting using a gorgeous and scrumptious-looking picnic scene to explain his lab's research question.

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The first few talks of this year's conference have been amazing! Here is a picture of @katrin-domsch.bsky.social rocking the stage talking about #Drosophila muscle development!

Katrin Domsch at this year's JEDI conference

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Today our keynote speaker Eugenia Chiappe from @champalimaudf.bsky.social gave an inspiring talk. The JEDI's enjoyed interacting with a first generation JEDI, who attended these #Drosophila meetings when she first started her lab. Thank you, Eugenia!

Eugenia Chiappe speaking at the JEDI meeting

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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...

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Pousada de Palmela

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Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio · 22/04/2026

Gentle reminder that there is only about 1 week left to register for the upcoming JEDI meeting in beautiful Portugal in June! If you identify as Junior European Drosophila Investigator you shouldn't miss this! fly-jedi.org/meetings/202...

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators | JEDI Meeting 2026 | Palmela, Portugal

JEDI Meeting 2026 in Portugal 🇵🇹 - June 1–3, 2026

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Dennis Pauls @dennispauls.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Our work is out now in PNAS. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Immense respect for handling this situation with this level of integrity. Mistakes happen. Science is a process.

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Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio · 26/03/2026

First paper out from the @zsantoslab.bsky.social Congratulations everyone, can't wait to dive into it!

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Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio · 23/03/2026

Gentle reminder that registrations are open for the upcoming JEDI meeting in June in beautiful Portugal. Don 't miss it!

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Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio · 20/02/2026

Registration is open for the JEDI meeting 2026 in Palmela, Portugal in June. Spread the word on join us for a fantastic meeting! fly-jedi.org/meetings/202... #drosophila #portugal #flyresearch #pimeeting

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators | JEDI Meeting 2026 | Palmela, Portugal

JEDI Meeting 2026 in Portugal 🇵🇹 - June 1–3, 2026

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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

5 Landesverbände gesichert rechtsextrem, 4 Landesverbände Verdachtsfälle. Ehemalige Jugenorganisatiom gesichert rechtsextrem. Bundespartei gesichert rechtsextrem. Es ist noch zu früh, um sich ein Urteil zu bilden.

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Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio · 16/01/2026

A great disturbance in the Force… ⚡️ The next JEDI meeting is landing in Portugal this June. Don't let this opportunity drift away into a galaxy far, far away, clear your schedules for June 1st–3rd. 🇵🇹 Registration link coming soon. Prepare your mind! 🧠✨

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Johannes Felsenberg @felsenberg.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Congrats to all the grant recipients! Extra happy for Burak and Dennis from my lab. And in this context: we’re hiring—open postdoc positions in the lab. Feel free to reach out if you’re interested.

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Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio · 01/12/2025

Tune in to the GASTRONAUTS Bite Size Summit tomorrow to hear @gili-ezranevo.bsky.social talk about dietary amino acids, appetite and the gut microbiome of flies! Register here: bit.ly/3LCXZdE

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Our paper on the counterintuitive effects of activating dopamine "reward" neurons is out now! Props to all the trainees, especially Fio Lozada-Perdomo and Yuzhen Chen who did most of the work. Yuzhen is applying for PhD programs now and you'd be lucky to get her! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Dual roles of Drosophila reward-encoding dopamine neurons in regulating innate and learned behaviors

Neuroscience; Behavioral neuroscience

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Elif Oezmen @elifoezmen.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Auch das Präsidium der Justus-Liebig-Universität zeigt heute Flagge! #Giessen

Foto zeigt das Hauptgebäude der JLU Gießen, zwei grosse Regenbogenfahnen wurden gehisst

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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 27/11/2025

Es gibt Updates zu #Gießen: Das Verwaltungsgericht hat zwei "Verlegungen" von Versammlungen kassiert, diese dürfen nun doch in der Nähe des Treffens der AfD-Jugend stattfinden. Hier der aktuelle Stand zu den laufenden Verfahren: netzpolitik.org/2025/demover...

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Demoverbotszone Gießen: DGB legt Beschwerde gegen Beschluss des Verwaltungsgerichts ein

In der juristischen Auseinandersetzung um eine faktische

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Samuel J. Walker @walkersamuelj.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Beyond delighted to finally share the main results of my years as a postdoc in the Lowell lab. This was a labour of love, with contributions from many fantastic colleagues, particularly my coauthor @lowensteined.bsky.social

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Enrico Bertolini @enriberti.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

My main postdoc work is now out :) In the group of @tomtom-auer.bsky.social with Justine Pascual, @bruzz-1.bsky.social , Noemi Sgammeglia , with crucial collaboration with @dahaniel.muench.bio and @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU) @jlugiessen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Süßes oder Saures? Bei #Fruchtfliegen ist die #Evolution von Ernährungsvorlieben im #Gehirn verwurzelt und nicht in den peripheren Geschmackssensoren – Studie mit Beteiligung der #JLUGiessen in @nature.com veröffentlicht www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Ein Exemplar der Fruchtfliege Drosophila sechellia sitzt auf einer Noni-Frucht und frisst

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Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio · 27/11/2025

New work from the lab 🧠🪰🎉 Using pan neuronal volumetric brain imaging in three Drosophila species, we show that niche adaptations arise from central sensory processing, not peripheral tuning. Great collab led by @enriberti.bsky.social @tomtom-auer.bsky.social 🤝 Out now in @nature.com rdcu.be/eRWuD

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Evolution of taste processing shifts dietary preference

Nature - Calcium imaging of taste neurons and the ventral brain provides insight into evolutionary divergence of food choice in Drosophila species, supporting a role of sensorimotor processing in...

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Preparations for the next JEDI meeting are underway! The upcoming Junior European #Drosophila Investigator / #NewPI meeting is planned for Portugal in June. Final dates and additional details will be announced soon - stay tuned for updates!

AI-generated image of a lightsaber-wielding figure conquering Portugal.

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Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio · 28/10/2025

New paper with @gili-ezranevo.bsky.social & Silvia Henriques from @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social's lab out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Appetite, driven by amino acid need 🥚🍖 reshapes olfactory receptor expression so flies 🪰 seek bacteria 🦠 and fermented cues 🥫 to restore nutritional balance ⚖️.

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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint: “Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10

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Philipp Brand @pbrand.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint We discovered that the fruit fly #drosophila erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion. Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit shorturl.at/gGYm7

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Dear JEDIs, as we are self-organizing using the #EDRC as a nucleator we decided it is time for a JEDI database to boost our network! If you identify as a JEDI, please contact us here or send a mail to katja.rust@uni-marburg.de to be added to our database. #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

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Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio · 24/08/2025

Amazing opportunity, join the Manzini Lab and become part of the Institute of Animal Physiology in Giessen!

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Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Preprint Alert! Walking mostly feels natural and easy to us - but the neuronal control of walking is actually incredibly complex. We leveraged the fruit fly as a genetically tractable animal model with a compact nervous system to ask how the brain controls walking direction: tinyurl.com/flywalk. 🧵..

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a baby wearing a black space racer shirt

ALT: a baby wearing a black space racer shirt

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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

We're hiring! Two exciting opportunities in our Lab @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come work with us on decision-making and neural circuits in Drosophila. Please share! Senior Research Technician + Postdoctoral Research Fellow Deadline: 10 July More info here: www.rezavallab.org

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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Keine Regenbogenflagge auf dem Bundestag? Dann halt direkt auf der Tribüne! Liebe Grüße an Julia Klöckner 🙃🏳️‍🌈

Man sieht ein Bild aus dem Bundestag. Die Grüne Fraktion ist gekleidet wie ein Regenbogen.

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Paolo Panza @paolopanza.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I have started my tenure-track Professorship for Lung #Organoids at⁣⁣ @jlugiessen.bsky.social — and 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 #𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 !⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Join us as a #PhD student to work on fascinating 3D #lung models, #stemcells, and disease mechanisms! 🫁🔬⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Please repost &⁣⁣ Apply here! tinyurl.com/lungorganoids

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PhD student (m/f/d) in the field of organoids, stem cell research and lung development and disease

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Molly Gale (Gale-Hammell Lab) @mollygale.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Christa Rhiner presenting the mechanisms involved in brain injury response in flies 😲

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tomtom-auer.bsky.social @tomtom-auer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We are #hiring! Interested in comparative neuroscience? Check details here (www.unifr.ch/bio/en/depar...). We look for a motivated #PhD student or #PostDoc to combine genetics, physiology, neural circuit tracing, and behaviour to study taste processing evolution in #Drosophila. Please repost.

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Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio · 04/06/2025

Best treatment of homesickness? Meeting Portuguese friends at French castles for Drosophila science meetings! @carvalhosantosz.bsky.social @clarahowcroft.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social 🏰🪰🇫🇷 #flyjedi #science #meetings #drosophila

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

@nkonst4.bsky.social introducing the round table with Prof. Almut Kelber @giorgio.gilest.ro @richardsever.bsky.social and @marialep.bsky.social on the following subjects

A picture of Nikos presenting our panel discussion

Topic 1: Preprints, Peer Review, and the Publishing Ecosystem

Do funders and hiring committees take preprints seriously?

Is publishing in high-impact journals still essential for early-career success?

Should peer review remain central, or is it time for new models?

What is the future of journals?

Topic 2: The Funding Landscape for Young Investigators

Do funders prioritize innovation or track record?

Are small, early-career labs truly competitive in collaborative or interdisciplinary grants?

Are funding agencies adapting to open science?

Is there an implicit bias against Drosophila or model organisms?

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