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Ilan davis

@ilandavis.bsky.social
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He/him. Ilandavis.com 🧪 Professor Spatial Biomedicine, Uni Glasgow en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Davis Drosophila. RNA. Neuroscience. Advanced microscopy. Spatial biology technology development. Rockclimbing.

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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Human induced climate change is an existential threat to humans living on the planet. It is also making it harder year in year to find good winter climbing conditions in Scotland. Luckily two weeks ago there was a spell of very cold weather - I climbed in Glen Coe: grade IV Raeburn route.
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
elifesciences.org/articles/102... I am very excited to share with you our publication building Deep3DSIM microscope using adaptive optic. It allows imaging into an intact fly brain >130 microns with high quality 3DSIM as well as remote focusing without moving the objective or specimen.
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Deep3DSIM: Super-resolution imaging of thick tissue using 3D structured illumination with adaptive optics
Deep3DSIM enables super-resolution imaging >130 µm into complex tissues of fixed and live specimens in an upright configuration, allowing sample manipulation, as well as rapid refocusing without th...
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Dear friends and scientific colleagues, (especially those of you who knew David Ish-Horowicz). Feel free to share the attached PDF widely (all the speakers are happy for the talks to be shared). Many thanks Best regards Ilan www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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David Ish-Horowicz memorial symposium, Francis Crick Institute, London, 23 June 2025. - YouTube
A public symposium organised by friends, scientific colleages and David's wife Ros Diamond to cellebrate David Ish-Horowiccz's, FRS, scientific achievements,...
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
*URGENT* please support NIH research and the NIH employees who are standing up for science at the risk of losing their jobs! Sign *TODAY* in support of the Bethesda Declaration. The senate appropriations committee is reviewing the NIH budget Tuesday at 10 am. SHARE widely! 🧪
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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A typical part of the playbook for a dictator on the rise, coupled with bringing out troops to suppress democratic protests against their xenophobic policies.
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Genius. Just as topical now as when made - I think when Thatcher was first elected as prime minister in the uk in 1980 or so.
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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!
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EMBO @embo.org · 09/06/2025
Through its programmes and schemes, scientific #publications, #policy and #innovation, EMBO continues to promote excellence in the #LifeSciences at national, European and global level. This week, we focus on: #Denmark www.embo.org/the-embo-com... 🧪 #research #opportunities #funding
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Focus on Denmark - EMBO communities in EMBC Member States
Facts and figures, life scientists in Denmark, EMBO opportunities
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Another way to donate to save flybase from disappearing: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
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Calli McMurray @callimcflurry.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Trump administration's chaotic changes to diversity-based funding have left trainees in limbo. My colleagues and I at @thetransmitter.bsky.social spoke to ten neuroscience trainees about what the uncertainty means for them, their research and their futures: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/a-gu...
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‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux
Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The wold scientific base is in serious crisis. Including Flybase, the heart and soul of the Drosophila community. Read below. If you work on flies or are a fan or want to help. Please consider donation. As termination of Harvard NIH means flybase will stop after the end of July 2025.
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Scientists in a race to discover why the Universe exists. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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DUNE: new detectors race to discover why the Universe exists
Researchers in the US and Japan are racing to build new particle detectors that they hope will explain why the Universe exists.
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Walking through the Glasgow botanical guardians I found d countless magical patterns on the leaves
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
You maybe interested in this film I made in a very remote part of Tibet while I was doing my PhD in Developmental Biology, shown on BBC2 in 1988. A pilgrimage to Mount Kailas - the centre of the universe to Tibetan Buddhism. youtu.be/ls4doaxVBkg
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A pilgrimage to Mt Kailas, Tibet 1987. BBC2 14min 50sec
YouTube video by Ilan Davis Lab
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Meet Zandawala @zandawala.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
We are pleased to report publication of the Drosophila circadian clock connectome in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Check out the final version for additional analyses not present in the preprint. @unrcabnr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A tour de force review of the connections between between the nervous and immune systems www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Jeff Lee et al paper from my lab is out now www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... I am very grateful to Jeff, Nile's and Tamsin for all the hard work on this tour de force paper. Jeff deserves more credit than me for masterminding it and the outstanding data analysis: 2 RBPs over 3 developmental times.
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Imp/IGF2BP and Syp/SYNCRIP temporal RNA interactomes uncover combinatorial networks of regulators of Drosophila brain development
RNA binding protein combinations control neuronal identity through a network of temporal regulators.
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I wonder if anyone has built a continuously variable fluorescent light source using delta optical filters and dichroic mirrors with galvo mirrors and/or piezo movers? deltaopticalthinfilm.com/knowledge/te...
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Best Fluorescence Filters for Microscopy and Spectroscop
Explore top fluorescence filters for microscopy and spectrometry. Find the perfect excitation, emission, or dichroic filter for precision.
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Interesting analysis free of political bias or opinion. However a popularist with disregard of the law and truth backed by oligarch tech billionaires with no morals may “achieve” much more than is easily predicted by rational expert analysis.
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Went to Glen Coe to climb dorsal arête on stone coire nan lochen. (Triangular cliff in photo). But snow conditions were very poor so went walking instead.
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Important to support the societies that manage publications at the face of the onslaught from the commercial rivals.
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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I am obsessed with these fungi. LOOK AT HOW WEIRD AND WONDERFUL THEY ARE. I imagine that's what moa thought, too... that story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🍄
Moa, which are known to have eaten brightly colored fruit, would also have snacked on colorful truffles, such as this purple Gallacea scleroderma. Noah siegel
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Dr. Jorge Diaz @jsdiaz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Using this method, we determined that the eruption at Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai released ~61 Mt, slightly higher in magnitude than the yield of the Tsar Bomba. The paper is open access (link.springer.com/article/10.1...). #PhysOrg wrote a nice article about our work 🧪⚛️[5/n] phys.org/news/2022-08...
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Tonga volcano eruption released more energy than the most powerful nuclear bomb
The eruption of the underwater volcano in Tonga that triggered a tsunami earlier this year (January 2022), released more energy than the Tsar Bomba—the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated—accord...
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Went winter climbing last Sunday in magnificent conditions in the Cairngorms. Arrived a bit late so the popular climbs were in log jam. Had to do a shorter “off piste” sideline to the right to avoid the crowds
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
View of Central London from Ken Wood, across Hampstead Heath two days before Xmas eve.
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Boxing Day tour of street art scene in Bristol uk.
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Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🌍🌎🧪🌎🌱🌾🌴🌳🌼🌻🌺🍄‍🟫🍄Lovely new plants and fungi from around the world. Found in biodiversity hot spots like Indonesia but also intensively recorded places like UK. Seen this year, maybe not again, as land use is changed. So sad. #BUC2025 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Toadstool with teeth and ghostly palm among plant and fungus finds of 2024
Scientists race to discover new species before destruction of natural world drives them to extinction
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Been on holiday in Italy. Is there any other language that uses hand gestures so extensively and comprehensively in parallel with spoken language? Inspiring to watch people in conversation on trains or in cafes. Interesting to know if AI image analysis can interpret Italian without sound.
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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Happy #FluorescenceFriday!
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Capri at sunset yesterday.
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
That is really cool. I guess (x,y,z) = (sin2t, sin3t,sin4t). ?
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Naturally ornate RNA-only complexes revealed by cryo-EM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Answer to my visual riddle below. Two different pictures out of the window of the airplane focusing on the glass or on the view.
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The trend is interesting
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Can you guess how these two pictures are related?
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I am delighted that our long standing close collaboration with AlfredoCastello lab has led to yet another very exciting publication in Mol Cell: thanks so much to Wael and Alfredo for taking the lead. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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Alphavirus infection triggers selective cytoplasmic translocation of nuclear RBPs with moonlighting antiviral roles
Kamel et al. apply complementary approaches to elucidate the composition of Sindbis virus ribonucleoproteins. They identified a subset of nuclear proteins that selectively translocate to the cytoplasm, interact with viral RNA, and suppress virus infection. Among them, U2 snRNP emerges as a ribonucleoprotein complex with moonlighting antiviral activity.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 06/12/2024
Ugh...🤦 "Mark McAfee, a California raw milk producer whose products have been recalled several times recently due to bird flu contamination (and cried "politics") said he has been approached by (RFK Jr’s) team to guide the upcoming admin. on raw milk policy." 🛟🧪 medsky sociology idsky
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Raw milk CEO whose products have been recalled may lead US raw milk policy
Mark McAfee, whose products have been repeatedly contaminated with bird flu, asked by RJK Jr to apply for job
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
How big does an asteroid have to be to make it to the ground?
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Darren Obbard @darrenobbard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics
Diverse species of Drosophilidae
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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Postdoc position available in the Röper lab at the University of Cambridge @PDN_Cambridge! Join us and discover the role that control of cytoskeletal dynamics, crosstalk and cell adhesion play in the formation of the nephron tube in human renal organoids! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48947/
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The statistics of global food industry are incredible: www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/... Revenue in the Food market amounts to US$9.09tn in 2024. Expected to grow annually by 6.48% (CAGR 2024-2029). The market's largest segment is the segment Meat with a market volume of US$1.46tn in 2024.
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Food - Worldwide | Statista Market Forecast
The Food market worldwide is projected to grow by 6.48% (2024-2029) resulting in a market volume of US$12.44tn in 2029.
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Alexandre Dumoulin @axonsalex.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Leave me alone it's #Fluorescencefriday !➡️ two axonal growth cones growing together until one got fed up of the other... #neuroscience #microscopy #liveimaging
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Alexandre Dumoulin @axonsalex.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
May commissural axons find their way in here 🙏 #Microscopy #LiveImaging #AxonGuidance #Neuroscience
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Alexandre Dumoulin @axonsalex.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Let's unleash the axonal growth cones for this #Fluorescencefriday ! #neuroscience #Liveimaging #microscopy #Axonguidance
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The problem with "open A.I. systems" is that they're not open. www.nature.com/articles/s41... "We reveal a map of open AI which shows that.... [it] is highly dependent on the resources of a few large corporate actors, who effectively control the AI industry and the research ecology beyond."
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Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature
A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...
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Manuel Thery @manuelthery.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Mix two motors of opposite polarity with microtubules and they will partition space ! Microtubules will get organized in polar and active barriers, sorting the two motors in separated domains, leading to the emergence of a new type of patterns. #morphogenesis doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (1/n)
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Amazing
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