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🪰 #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

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

Special thanks to @iarganda.eurosky.social for a fair and helpful review!

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JuNkIE-CLImax: exploring multidimensional images in notebooks and the terminal #micropublication #biology #data #caltechlibrary #Drosophila #ImagingSoftware #ComputationalBiology #Software #Methodolog micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropu...

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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.

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 😆

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.
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Congrats on the candidacy and happy birthdays!

Science professors and educators all have a role in combating this eugenics resurgence
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@tarafinegan.bsky.social+me had a blast rocking #Dros26! maybe we do it again?🪰
@burgesslab.bsky.social @benoitbruneau.bsky.social @chrmosimann.bsky.social @docdellaire.bsky.social @daphsci.bsky.social @thelovelylab.bsky.social @mads100tist.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social

...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!

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.

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... 🪰

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.

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

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)

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!

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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Talk slide title with images of testis defects

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 🧪

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!

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 🪰

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). 🧪🪰

Thanks for organizing Tara!!!

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

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).

Congrats!!

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

And check out our tree!!! Such an awesome initiative ... thanks @dev-journal.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social !!

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

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....

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