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Jocelyn McDonald

@jocmcdonald.bsky.social
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Cell and Developmental Biologist at Kansas State University. Interested in how cells move in development and disease.

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Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center @bdsc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
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FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
#Drosophila community in the US and non- EU countries, please donate to help us support #Flybase. People behind the scenes have put in incredible effort over the past few months - as someone who has seen some of it first hand at #IUBloomington, they deserve all the praise. Please share and donate !
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.
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Shyama Nandakumar @shyama13.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Hello fellow scientists, I'm thrilled to share with you a state of the art review that @lydiagrmai.bsky.social , the bsky-less Deepika Vasudevan and I have been working on for >1 year! Keep reading...! febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Integrated stress response (ISR), an evolutionarily conserved eukaryotic stress-adaptive program in eukaryotes, has also been implicated in homeostatic functions. This review covers a broad body of l....
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The mentee survey collects in-depth information about the type of mentorship being sought and the FlyCROSS committee will prioritize the need of the mentee. At the end of the survey, the mentee will be able to indicate their preferred mentors - making this "one of a kind" mentoring opportunity.
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We have a really large pool of mentors from across the world who specialize in numerous scientific areas, have experience in overcoming personal/professional challenges, and are open to mentoring for science and beyond. This is an incredible opportunity to be mentored by #drosophila experts.
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
#FlyCROSS mentee surveys are open for #earlycareer #Drosophila scientists. If you're a #gradstudent #postdoc or pretenure faculty or equivalent - fill up the survey by Sept 1 to participate & be matched by #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs. @flybase.bsky.social
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
My starter pack for biology-related societies! I am aware that I am not a society but I just can't remove myself from my own starter pack 😄 Please comment if I should add you! #BioStarterPacks #Biology #Science go.bsky.app/VnnkjQf
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🪱C. elegans folks: If you can afford to keep this resource available for our fly colleagues, please help 🧪
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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
SUSTAINABILITY & #DROSOPHILA - If you keep flies & have tried to re-use containers but then given up on it, please could you let us know & tell us the reasons? We urgently need statements for a publication about sustainability in fly labs. Please, contact Andreas.Prokop@manchester.ac.uk
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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Hello Fly Folks. quick note FlyBase is under duress due to termination NIH$ to Harvard and intl collabs. The hardworking folks @flybase.bsky.social are doing their darndest to ensure access to current data. For US, there will soon be a new site to donate. Please spread the word, ideas and support 🪰💪
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Hey #Drosophila folks ! #FlyCROSS is back and #Mentor surveys are open NOW ! If you're a faculty/postdoc/ equivalent in any scientific career & have #Drosophila research experience - we'd be delighted to have you as mentors to empower early career scientists in the #Dros community !
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Summer 2025 Survey For Mentors : FlyCROSS Mentor Mentee Matching Program
We appreciate you taking the time and volunteering to be a mentor! Add dmelcross@gmail.com to your email address book or safe sender list, so that you can receive our emails. To be a participating me...
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The Flyboard and the FlyCROSS committee including @armstrongflylab.bsky.social @frankmac.bsky.social @jocmcdonald.bsky.social @shyama13.bsky.social Jonathan Andrews, Laurel Raftery and me are looking forward to your participation in the program!
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️ NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page. It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad. ❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards. The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... 1/8... 🧵
3. UPDATED: What types of awards are being terminated? 

Awards that are not aligned with program goals or agency priorities have been terminated, including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), environmental justice, and misinformation/disinformation.
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Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan @goncaerdemci.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I'm excited to join @pritiagarwal.bsky.social and @tarafinegan.bsky.social as a co-organizer for the International Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series. The series will resume in September 2025, and call for speakers is now open! More info is on our new website: sites.google.com/view/devmech...
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.
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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
FREE Help with Bioimage Analysis!
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/04/2025
Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
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Amanda Heidt @scattercushion.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🧪Hello! are you a scientist who started your PhD in 2020 and are now wrapping up? I want to know how your life is and how you're feeling about your prospects in 2025 for a story in @nature.com. DM me or find me on Signal at aheidt.16. Tell yo friends! (Also seeking international sources.)
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Latest in #G3journal: @jocmcdonald.bsky.social and the team used an unbiased screening approach to identify new candidate regulators of Rap1, a small GTPase crucial for embryogenesis and cancer cell migration, in #Drosophila collective border cell migration. 🪰 Read more: buff.ly/xD3FKjx
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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
With a new round of terminations, I wanted to reshare this. I'm a reporter with @cenmag.bsky.social looking to hear from researchers impacted. Contact info ⬇️
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Only 29 slots left out of 200--register now!
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/04/2025
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.


We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks. 


We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA


WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.


These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).


THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!
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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If you're an NSF grantee who receives notice of cancellation per today's announcement, please get in touch here or via Signal mzahneis.09.
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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency
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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Here's is my experience from the financial crisis of 2008 (and Covid). Even though the whole way we are doing and funding science has changed significantly, people's shortcuts for determining whether or not you are "succeeding" will take longer to recalibrate. /1
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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Send us your brightest, your masterminds, your shitposters, those who care and those who wrestle the written word to create magic 🧪 (Many perks come with the position; DM for more info)
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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
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George Aranjuez @gfaranjuez.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Does anyone know of GAL4s that drive expression in the oviduct? #drosophila @armstrongflylab.bsky.social @lesleynweaver.bsky.social @jocmcdonald.bsky.social
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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
FlyCROSS - getting a shout out today at #Dros25 !!! A year ago I proposed this program and it's been an amazing journey so far !! Thank you to all the mentors who volunteered and to the committee!! Hope all matched mentors/mentees are having a fantastic mentoring time !! #Drosophila #community
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This week, I wrote about what stripping $400 million in research grants & contracts “as a first round of action” against Columbia means for every other university. Plus warm thanks to #StandUpForScience, more on NIH funding & a list of (good!) lawsuit updates buttondown.com/liminalcreat... (1/7)
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Week 7
Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
ATTENTION: TALENT AVAILABLE It appears that termination of SROs from institute review branches at NIH is underway (or worse). There are also program officers and SROs who have been terminated over the past month. IF YOU HAVE POSITIONS FOR SKILLED SCIENTIST-ADMINISTRATORS, PLEASE POST INFO HERE
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a red neon sign that says help wanted on a black background .
ALT: a red neon sign that says help wanted on a black background .
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Are you a scientist or student heading to a @standupforscience.bsky.social ‬rally this Friday? We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.
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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
There’s a google doc trying to keep track of funding/grad school admission/hiring freezes & status please share 🧪 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)
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Alissa Armstrong @armstrongflylab.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A “bright” spot in this week - a confocal image of the adult fat body in #Drosophila taken by @isaiahwill.bsky.social 🤩 #FluorescenceFriday
Confocal microscopy image of a patch of fat tissue labeled with a GFP reporter showing expression in nuclei of fat cells
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The Stand Up For Science website has been updated. Find your local protest site! March 7! Get out there! standupforscience2025.org
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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
March 7, 2025. Washington DC and Nationwide. Because Science is for everyone.
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Anna Allen @akallen10.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Next NSF / BIO / IOS virtual office hour on April 18th from 1-2pm ET! Don’t miss it! IOS Virtual Office Hour on writing a “1-pager” and talking to a Program Director. iosblog.nsfbio.com/2024/04/03/d...
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@bilderlab @bilderlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
We are hiring a research technician for June here in Berkeley.  Great for a post-bac interested in genetics, development or cancer biology.  bilderlab.berkeley.edu Will update w/ official posting but feel free to reach out now, esp. candidates w/ model organism experience #drosophila. Please RT.
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Please check out our recent perspective paper, “Pluripotency of a founding field: rebranding developmental biology.” Huge thanks to the 50 scientists who came to California to discuss the future of #DevBio and contributed to the paper, and thanks to NSF for $! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Pluripotency of a founding field: rebranding developmental biology
ABSTRACT. The field of developmental biology has declined in prominence in recent decades, with off-shoots from the field becoming more fashionable and highly funded. This has created inequity in disc...
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Great meeting with a great Chair. Highly recommended. I love the GRS addition, which allows trainees to network and feel ready to go when the GRC starts!!
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Anna Allen @akallen10.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
NSF just announced a revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 24-1) has been issued. The new PAPPG is effective for proposals submitted or due on or after May 20, 2024. There's a link to a Summary of Changes here too. new.nsf.gov/policies/pap...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
"To fully harness the potential of basic science in laying the groundwork for curing diseases, it must receive robust funding...it is equally vital to balance [NIH funding to address healthcare needs] with a commitment to maximizing the chance for basic science discovery" 🧪
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Basic science is not just a foundation - Nature Cell Biology
Intellectual freedom for scientists, unconstrained by commercial interests and direct application, fuels unexpected discoveries. Curiosity-driven, basic science has yielded a deeper understanding of h...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
perspectives on mentoring:
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Mentoring the next generation of cell biologists - Nature Cell Biology
As Nature Cell Biology turns 25 years old, we asked cell biologists across the globe to share their thoughts on what a productive mentor–mentee relationship looks like and their views on training th...
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Anna Allen @akallen10.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Just a reminder that the National Science Foundation does fund basic science (aka- foundational) research. The NSF's mission is to promote the progress of science by investing in research to expand knowledge in science, engineering & education.
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Michelle Arbeitman @marbeitman.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
Please repost: The FlyBoard is excited to announce the call for Nominations for the Drosophila Community Service Award. Please submit your nomination by 01/12/2024 by email to: drosophilaserviceaward@gmail.com. 🧵1/3
Picture of Drosophila melanogaster surrounded by the words "Outstanding Community Service".
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Deadline for applying to the Embryology Course at the MBL in Woods Hole, MA is near! 6 weeks of a unique hands-on experience. Substantial aid available. Due date: January 10. Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Flyer describing the topics and techniques at the Embryology course
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
From Julie Brill in the other place: Fellow Drosophilists, it’s that time again!! What time is it? It’s time for you to submit your best images and videos published in 2023 for the 2024 Drosophila Image Awards!!! drosophila-images.org
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Drosophila Image Award |
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
bioRxiv goes big on Bluesky: accounts for all subject categories now available (Please Reskeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...
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