Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.
The fight continues with the challengers evenly balanced. A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.
The fight continues with the fly on the right seeming to gain an upper hand and pushing the fly on the left backwards. The fly on the right is putting all his might into the battle, back legs in the air. A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.
The fly on the right emerges victorious with the fly on the left exiting toward the back of the scene. A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.
We noticed these fruit flies are behaving like tiny big horn sheep of fly world so we went back today to see if I could get some photos of the action. Here you have it, a play in 4 acts! Make me wonder if they evolved the elongated eyes for this purpose.
Zygothrica sp.
Intag Refugio, Ecuador
Drosophila border cells are beautiful to watch… but far from easy to image. Kudos to the brave and skilled @vitoryang.bsky.social, who took on the challenge of establishing border cell migration imaging in the lab! His movies are astonishing, and now our first-ever study on #cell #migration is out!
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) live in a world of ice & snow, so it makes sense that they have *behavioral* adaptations to crossing thin ice, possibly learned from other polar bears.
As climate change causes summer ice to vanish from the Arctic, there are NEW behavioral changes in this species.
This looks extremely interesting conceptually.
Image from google maps that shows the marked crosswalk where a 16-year-old male was struck by the driver of a taxi yesterday. This stretch of Wyse Road is a protected bike lane & the green "elephant's feet" markings are designed to alert drivers that cyclists may be crossing.
A 16-year old male on an ebike was sent to ER yesterday. Struck by a taxi driver in a marked crossing. One of many people experiencing road violence that @hfxgov.bsky.social deems acceptable to keep traffic flowing. We want to know about your experiences too - more on Monday April 13 #VisionZero
Happy #fluorescencefriday (and start of vacation!) to all those who are celebrating
Lifeact-labeled epidermal stem cells closing a wound after in vivo adult zebrafish skin injury
🪰 #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
These "discover something" journals from Springer Nature are here to steal your research money, as those from MDPI and Frontiers (and many others). ⚒️ 🧪
Learn more here: the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
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party time! congratulations
green worm with overlapping scales
Leipidonotus squamatus- stunning scaleworm shot by Alexander Semenov! #worldpolychaeteday!
If you know a graduating undergraduate looking for the chance to spend 1-2 years in a lab before graduate school, we're hiring! Our lab explores morphogenesis, defining how the cell adhesion & cytoskeletal machinery work together to allow cells to change shape & move tarheels.live/peiferlab/ 1/n RT
I2BC is recruiting group leaders in several disciplines.
Don’t miss the chance to launch your team at Paris-Saclay.
Information : www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/wp-content/u...
Applications and enquiries : call2026@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr
Deadline: April 22, 2026
beautiful GFP hemocytes(?) inside a #drosophila leg and the trachea autofluorescence
Have you ever seen a #ctenophore poop? 🪼💩 While it was widely accepted that comb jellies expel waste from both ends, Mnemiopsis shattered dogma with the presence of a through-gut. Intrigued? Read the original research: www.cell.com/current-biol.... Credit video to William Browne. #CtenophoreFunFacts
feliz cumpPIaños
Go have a look and share! I might be biased but our videos are really cool, I could stare at them for hours! 😍 Here's one of my favorites: look how the tracheal trunks twist and stretch along with the epidermal movements! (3/4)
Yay! Our paper is now out @emboreports.org! I posted about it a while back (tinyurl.com/yc7td3px) but the work really improved thanks to the wonderful feedback from three anonymous reviewers 🙏 (1/4)
Wow, congratulations. Those movies are perronsisimas!
Open Call for Associate Editor of our official journal Cells and Development @cellsdev.bsky.social.
Our current group of Associate Editors:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Isoflurane causes muscle contraction in Drosophila melanogaster despite inducing hyperpolarized state
#Drosophila
Drak is a potential binding partner of Drosophila Filamin
#Drosophila
PUT DOWN THE AI AND READ A FUCKING BOOK, Episode 4 🥹
I present to you:
**Bitch, You Need Whimsy!!!!!; or, Read The Edge of Space-Time, But If You Won't, At Least Read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
earrings and paintings by Crystal Galindo who has a new earring drop tomorrow 📚💙
Science is not just data, its community! my last activity as Drosophila Board President was to write a theme song for our fly field. it was soooo awesome to rock it with @tarafinegan.bsky.social and ~1000 fly fanciers at #Dros26! 🪰
h/t @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social vid
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tht-...
what! this is absolutely awesome.
AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions
📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass...
🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk
Sometimes failed experiments reveal gaps in how we are thinking about a problem, and digging into why an experiment didn't work can lead to discovery. This new preprint by Anne Sustar, in collaboration with Dion Dickman's lab, is one of those gratifying instances.🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Close-up of a green leaf background with text announcing a Sales Operations & Customer Support Specialist job opening at Canadian Science Publishing.
Canadian Science Publishing is #hiring a Sales Operations & Customer Support Specialist to support subscribers and authors with journals, products, and services.
Learn more and apply before Mar. 26: https://ow.ly/hc2p50YpU4C
#SalesOperations #CustomerSupport #JobOpening
The committee for the 2026 Drosophila Community Service Award for outstanding community service included Michelle Arbeitman (Co-chair), Cale Whitworth (Co-chair), Elizabeth Chen, Lydia Grmai, Amy Kiger, and Steven Marygold.
The Community Service Award recipients for 2026 were the REDFly Database Team and the FlyBase Developer team, for their roles in development of online repositories for the dissemination and analysis of Drosophila data.
The 2026 Drosophila Community Service Award was presented earlier this month at #DROS26.
This year's recipients were the REDFly Database Team and the FlyBase Developer Team, for their roles in the development of online repositories for the dissemination of Drosophila data.
