iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Fuck nazis and fuck the AfD. No pasarán

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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🧪Rogue AI agents hacked a company. The real news: Some agents "assumed leadership roles within the group, assigning jobs & research projects to smaller teams of agents & supervising their progress. At some point, the agents began calling themselves a collective, & began tackling harder tasks."

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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)

The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Excited to share our new paper, now published in Nature Cell Biology! 🎉 We asked a fundamental question in cell biology: How do cells maintain polarity while migrating? Especially how do cancer cells navigate confined spaces? www.nature.com/articles/s41556-026-01981-1

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CD44 restricts EGFR mobility to polarize cytoskeletal signalling modules driving bleb-based migration - Nature Cell Biology

Jha et al. show that the transmembrane protein CD44 restricts EGFR mobility to maintain an EGFR–PI3K–Rac gradient during bleb-based cell migration.

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jared toettcher @toettch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

New Toettchlab paper alert! Harrison Oatman just published his beautiful work combining software design for "smart" microscopy+optogenetics and some really beautiful work understanding EGFR-driven collective cell migration. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

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David Green @greenbaron.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Really excited to finally show off our work on the specification of neuroblasts. While it has been a long-standing model for lateral inhibition, we show that Notch does not select the NB, but instead reinforces fate decisions. www.cell.com/current-biol... @currentbiology.bsky.social

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Positional cues, not Notch, direct neuroblast selection during early neurogenesis in the Drosophila embryo

Using quantitative live imaging, Green et al. show that proneural gene expression is biased by positional cues and that Notch is activated only after neuroblast selection in the Drosophila embryo. Thi...

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This was a great honor! Thanks so much to my trainees @rothenberglab.bsky.social for the nomination and the @uiowabiology.bsky.social for the award.

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Super-useful, we can now reference this in grant applications …

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our undergrad super-star @rafaelperezvicente.bsky.social, recently showed that there are no sexual dimorphisms in the cell behaviours driving heart tube formation in Drosophila: www.micropublication.org/journals/bio... Thanks @micropub7n.bsky.social and Shaad Ahmad for fair and helpful reviews.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Thank you Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing @dev-journal.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with @utoronto.ca Read Rodrigo’s paper: tinyurl.com/2peknzn6 Is your institution participating too? bit.ly/3O7BxGi

“The opportunity to publish our article fee-free for Open Access under the Read & Publish agreement with the University of Toronto was the cherry on the cake. Not only is Development one of my favourite journals, with a fair and streamlined review process, but publishing fee free gives our work much wider visibility and provides an opportunity to get much more feedback. In the current funding environment, agreements such as the one between The Company of Biologists and the University of Toronto are key to be able to stretch research dollars while broadly disseminating research outputs.”

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

One down.....✅

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🪰 #Dros26 has come and gone—and what a week it was. From a guitar-fueled opening to buzzing poster sessions, researchers shared advances in fly biology, behavior, and beyond. Thanks to all who joined us for another incredible year! Read a recap by @gnemeth.bsky.social on G2G: buff.ly/x31gZFt

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It's going to be simple in November: how should we spending our money?: day care for kids to killing school kids in another nation

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

With key contributions from @ray-hawkins.bsky.social. Generously funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, @innovation.ca, @trogersresearch.bsky.social, and @utoronto.ca. Thanks @bme-uoft.bsky.social for letting me go on sabbatical 😆

User interfaces of JuNkIE (https://bitbucket.org/rfg_lab/junkie/) and CLImax (https://bitbucket.org/rfg_lab/climax/), multidimensional image explorers for Jupyter notebooks and the terminal, respectively.

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Interested in visualizing multidimensional images in @jupyter.org notebooks or the terminal? Check out our two new image explorers, JuNkIE (bitbucket.org/rfg_lab/junkie) and CLImax (bitbucket.org/rfg_lab/climax), and the associated @micropub7n.bsky.social. micropublication.org/journals/bio...

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JuNkIE-CLImax: exploring multidimensional images in notebooks and the terminal | microPublication

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Congrats on the candidacy and happy birthdays!

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Science professors and educators all have a role in combating this eugenics resurgence www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

...and on the subject of debts... I am always grateful for the tireless efforts of Suzy Brown and the entire @genetics-gsa.bsky.social staff, who make our #Drosophila annual meetings, including #dros26, run so smoothly. Hip-hip... hooray! Hip-hip... hooray! Hip-hip... hooray!

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tracey depellegrin @traceydepellegrin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

That’s a wrap on #dros26! To the amazing organizers, students, postdocs, Fly Board, and all the attendees - @genetics-gsa.bsky.social is grateful for you! Check out some of the Fly origami.

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

feeling a lot of positive energy from #Dros26, it is so needed in these times. especially after sharing more broadly about how arts and music intersect with science, i had great convos with lots of people about this. check out this incredible tattoo! bonus points if you know what molecule it is... 🪰

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Signing off as the #grad student rep for the Fly board ! And super excited to pass on the baton to Melissa Mychalczuk from the Wolfner Lab ! Can't wait to see all the amazing things she does for the #Drosophila community and #earlycareer trainees. #Dros26

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

@briod613.bsky.social will round things off on Saturday presenting on integrin heterodimer localization at poster 213.

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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Excited to share our work at #DROS26! I’ll be giving a talk today at 11 AM in the Patterning, Morphogenesis, and Organogenesis session. Also come check out posters from our lab: Elizabeth (F 2-4 pm), Debbie (S 1:30-3:30 pm)

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A lot of exciting things have been happing in the @rothenberglab.bsky.social so we have been keeping really busy. A few of us are at #Dros26 to share our science. Come by one of our posters to say hi!

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Peiwei Chen @peiwei-chen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

What happens if the germline goes on without (most of the) piRNAs for 45 generations? Come find out at my talk at the evolution session on Saturday at #dros26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social 🪰🔬🔎⁉️🤔

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If you're at #Dros26 and are interested in how cells change shape & move during morphogenesis & how different classic cadherins influence different cell behaviors, check out the talk by @saraheclark.bsky.social in Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Organelles, & Trafficking II Sat 9:15 🧪

Talk slide title with images of testis defects

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Michelle Chicas @michellechicas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

My first #DROS26 talk yesterday was so much more fun than I anticipated! I started the session terrified to present but left feeling inspired by everyone’s talks and questions I received about my project. So happy to find such a welcoming and supportive community here. Thanks for the opportunity!

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Michelle Chicas @michellechicas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I’ve had blue sky for a couple of years now, but it took #DROS26 to inspire me to debut my first post. If you see me around, say hi! I’d love to get to know more people in the community 🪰

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If you are at #Dros26 and want to see what our lab has been up to, check out @rafaelperezvicente.bsky.social’s poster on sexual dimorphism during heart development (611, Fri 2-4pm) and @qeenyra.bsky.social’s talk on the effects of confinement on cardiac progenitor migration (Cell bio, Sat 8am). 🧪🪰

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Tara M Finegan @tarafinegan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Fly 🪰 people are the best people! 🔬🥼🧬 having a blast in Chicago #Dros26 (but missing Dan who is serving as super dad at home) @mbustill.bsky.social @rodrigofg.bsky.social @krothphd.bsky.social

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I’d think that many people in the hypothetical state and University (including the hypothetical dept chair) should be thankful to the hypothetical biology professor (and that the hypothetical dept chair should have used a few expletives with the hypothetical administrator).

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

And check out our tree!!! Such an awesome initiative ... thanks @dev-journal.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social !! forest.biologists.com/landscape/?i...

Field maple like the one planted in Young People's Forest, at Mead, UK, to celebrate our publication in Development.

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

To learn more about the people behind the paper, we talked to the first author, Veronica Castle, and the co-corresponding authors @rodrigofg.bsky.social, Professor at the @utoronto.ca, and @goncaerdemci.bsky.social, Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez and Veronica Castle (left and centre) and Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan (right)

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Read the Research Article ‘Cell divisions both challenge and refine tissue boundaries in the Drosophila embryo’ here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Cell divisions test and shape boundaries in Drosophila embryos This Research Highlight showcases work from Veronica Castle, @rodrigofg.bsky.social and @goncaerdemci.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan @goncaerdemci.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

So excited our paper is out now!! It was a very fun project where we combined vertex models and in vivo experiments, and we showed cell divisions play a dual role for the Drosophila ME boundary by increasing tissue fluidity!

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