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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Fun news! I was named one of the inaugural #SciAmYoungAmericanScientists! Thank you to whoever nominated me - I’m excited for the research ahead in @thegardinerlab.bsky.social and working with my stellar students!

Black square with Scientific American written across the top in white capital letters. Underneath in a robin’s egg blue reads “Young American Scientists”. A squiggly white arrow separates this text and 2026 written in the same blue color.

Stylized illustrated photo (bust up) of Jaye Gardiner (me) - a Black woman with a silver lip ring wearing dark green glasses. The style of the illustration turned my curly hair into a cascade of triangles

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

i am so thrilled to present at @pennmedicine.bsky.social Juneteenth Seminar this coming monday! looking forward to networking with students and faculty in a couple of days.

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

In #GENETICS, @lydiagrmai.bsky.social et al show that dimorphic expression of Integrated Stress Response transcription factor, ATF4, drives sex-specific differences in #Drosophila fat tissue metabolism, revealing mechanisms that influence metabolic disease outcomes. 🪰 🔗 buff.ly/dEEgJjw

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Ben Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!

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Rita M Graze @ritamgraze.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

#Dros26 community — we’d love to see you at our workshop this Friday! [1/8] Organizers: @ritamgraze.bsky.social @marbeitman.bsky.social @lydiagrmai.bsky.social @gavinrrice.bsky.social @brhopkins92.bsky.social Artyom Kopp

Annual Drosophila Research Conference 2026
Friday, March 6
8 to 10 PM
Workshop - Superior, Level 2
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know ...

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

feeling existentially tired these days, but went to work today with a little extra pep in my step because i get to see some of my favorite scientists at #Dros26 this week! excited for the science + reunions 🥳

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Abraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

If you are submitting an NIH grant in February, you will be required to use SciENcv to prepare you biosketch. IT IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE. Set aside *at least* 4 hours just to transfer an existing an biosketch into SciENcv.

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

“The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez.” MOSAIC checked many of the boxes of the administration — but that didn't matter. It was terminated, and left grantees scrambling Next installment of American Science, Shattered: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

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NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs

Special Report: The NIH has shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs.

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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Reminder to please reach out if you are interested!

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Save the date: our faculty job market series continues this Wed, Nov12 at 3pm ET / 12p PT! Topic: on-site interviews + seminars Come hear our junior faculty share our thoughts/advice! There will also be time for Q&A. Registration link in flyer - see you soon!

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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.

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Binyam Mogessie ቢንያም ሞገሴ @binyammogessie.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

We built a targeted protein degradation–based system to mimic reproductive age-related aneuploidy in young eggs - revealing how chromosome errors associated with female infertility arise with age. 🧬✨ With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB. Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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A versatile cohesion manipulation system probes female reproductive age-related egg aneuploidy - Nature Aging

To study pathways that lead to aneuploidy during aging, the authors provide a system that enables cohesion protein depletion in mouse oocytes, mimicking effects that occur during aging. They uncover a...

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I can’t add much to all the beautiful reflections I’ve read about @weinberz.witchlab.org . But one of her many impacts is that she modeled how fierce advocacy and research excellence can exist in one person, neither at the others expense. I hope we can carry her legacy forward on both counts 🤍

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Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

greetings friends! crowd-sourcing for a group discussion…to my fellow academics, can you reply/DM with answers to the following (either/both)? - how is genAI (GPT, claude) helping your research/other aspects of your work? - how are you seeing genAI misused in research/work? please share/repost!

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Ben Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!

Ichetucknee Springs State Park, a short drive from Gainesville, FL

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Our faculty job market series continues today on the topic of zoom interviews! Come hear Tyler, Heather, and Duc share their thoughts/advice today at 3pm ET / 12p PT. There will also be time for Q&A. Registration link in flyer - hope to see you there!

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Frankie D Heyward @frankiedheyward.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I’m excited to share our new preprint! We built a single-nucleus multiomic (snRNA-seq+snATAC-seq) atlas of leptin receptor-expressing hypothalamic neurons (LepRᴴʸᵖᵒ) and identified conserved cis-regulatory elements overlapping human obesity-linked variants and eQTLs🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Single-nucleus transcriptional and chromatin accessibility profiling of mouse hypothalamic LepRb neurons reveals cell type-specific cis-regulatory elements linked to human obesity

Leptin receptor-expressing hypothalamic neurons (LepRHypo) are key regulators of energy balance, yet a comprehensive, cell type-resolved, chromatin accessibility map of these neurons is lacking. We pr...

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The 2025-2026 season of the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar kicks off Friday, September 12 at 3 pm Eastern Time with @sarahcolijn.bsky.social‬ of Washington Univ in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social‬ of the Univ of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS #SDBPostdocSeminar

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series
Friday, September 12, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time
Sarah Colijn (Washington University in St. Louis)
Novel roles for centriolar protein WDR90 in endothelial cells and cardiac tissue
Shyama Nandakumar (University of Pittsburgh)
Ring canals in the larval adipose of Drosophila buffer stress response

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Our faculty job market series continues today on the topic of CVs, cover letters, and LORs. Come hear myself, @brisapalikuqilab.bsky.social & @jayeperview.bsky.social share our thoughts/advice today at 3pm ET / 12p PT. There will also be time for Q&A. Registration link in flyer - see you soon!

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

new review alert❗️ thought your neighborhood stress response pathway (ISR) only dealt in stress adaptation? well, maybe so. but many cells are apparently quite “stressed out” - even healthy ones. see quoted thread by my phenom co-author @shyama13.bsky.social for a summary! ⬇️

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Calling all future faculty! Great news: we are bringing back our EquiSciTrack series with a fantastic lineup of generous new PIs. As before, we’ll be discussing all the major points of the application process. See flyer below for registration link/QR. We hope to see you there!

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

⚖️🍿 Alright, let’s do it. Live-tweeting oral arguments on a motion for preliminary injunction in APHA v NIH. Hearing starts at 11a EDT today This is scheduled to be an argument about whether the Court should reinstate terminated NIH grants on topics like DEI, trans health, HIV prevention. But...

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

They are resegregating academic science

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Alissa Armstrong @armstrongflylab.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Beyond thrilled - I’ve been awarded an NSF CAREER grant! I get to continue making scientific discoveries, training the next generation of researchers, & sharing knowledge about the scientific enterprise with the general public. This support is much needed, personally & professionally…let’s GOOO!!!

Screenshot of part of a notice of award for an NSF CAREER grant: Regulation of Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis by ovarian and adipose tissue amino acid sensing signaling pathways

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Rachel Zwick @rkzwick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Zwick lab has landed in the Regenerative Medicine Institute @NYU! I’m incredibly excited to build a team to study how epithelial organs are patterned and remodeled throughout life, with a major focus on the remarkable changes that occur in the maternal body during pregnancy..1/5

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

two more days to submit for consideration in this workshop! looking forward to hearing about all your amazing science :)

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Meike van der Heijden @meikeesther.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Eligible? Don’t hesitate to apply for this fantabulous peer mentoring program! We can’t wait to meet you!

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UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics department @unc-bcbp.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Tigist Tamir PhD has joined the department as a TT Assistant Professor. Her research focuses on Cell signaling mediated regulation of metabolism & oxidative stress response in obesity and cancer. Her lab is accepting applications for RA,postdoc positions & rotation students. @phosphotig.bsky.social

Tigist Tamir standing confidently smiling in a yellow blazer standing outside by a window with blue dots. She is a diverse scientist who joins UNC biochemistry and biophysics faculty in January 2025.

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Dr. Arnaldo Díaz @ajdiazphd.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

#Mentoring is empowering our mentees with a broader network so they can experience different perspectives as they progress in their own journey.

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Alissa Armstrong @armstrongflylab.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

If you are an #EarlyCareerResearcher (grad student, postdoc, pre-tenure faculty) using #Drosophila, consider the new mentoring initiative #FlyCROSS. Complete the survey (link and QR code in the reposts) by Jan 5 to get matched up with a mentor.

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Closing out the year with a new pre-print! Here, we show that the stress response factor Atf4 is more abundant in female vs male fat (likely directly Doublesex-regulated). This dimorphism renders females more resilient to starvation-induced death. Lots of follow-up work to come!

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Calling all fly biologists: submit your research for consideration in the “Everything you ever wanted to know about sex” workshop at #Dros25! We hope to highlight diverse science, researchers, and career stages. Email submission to rmgraze@auburn.edu by Wed, Jan 15.

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

a great inaugural bluesky post - a starter pack filled with some of my favorite scientists!

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