New paper from the Rosin lab in collaboration with the Hawley lab 🎉 Spearheaded by postdoc Leif Benner. We use imaging and RNA-seq to better understand apyrene meiosis.
Programmed meiotic errors facilitate dichotomous sperm production in the silkworm, Bombyx mori.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Awesome work and so glad to see it out! Congrats to everyone 👏🏻
Thank you, Leo 😊
What a day it was! There are many past versions of me who did not believe that I could make it this far. Proud of myself for overcoming hurdle after hurdle after hurdle. Thank you to everyone who supported me on my way!
This #MicroscopyMonday shows the synaptonemal complex, which is a multi-protein structure that forms in early #meiosis between the maternal and paternal copy of each #chromosome. Here, we see two such structures in the fruit fly. @sillysciencelady.bsky.social (Hawley Lab & Gibson Lab)
My second PhD project is now out as a preprint! Our observations of the synaptonemal complex in wild-type Nematostella suggested an incredible degree of conservation. Then, our mutants told a story of dramatic functional divergence. We were bamboozled on a regular basis with this one! 🧪 #meiosis4eva
A flyer from the Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research advertising the upcoming thesis defense seminar of Stefanie Williams. The title provided is: “A complex story: Probing the evolution of chromosome synapsis proteins in Nematostella vectensis and Drosophila melanogaster. It will take place on Thursday, February 5th of 2026 at 11:00 AM Kansas City local time. The thesis advisors listed are Matt Gibson and Scott Hawley
I’m so excited (and nervous!!) to be defending my PhD thesis on February 5th! If anyone is interested in virtually attending my thesis seminar, let me know and I’ll send you the zoom link. My seminar will focus on the Nematostella part of my thesis research. #meiosis4eva
Having been a PhD student of Scott’s is one of my greatest honors. I consider myself very lucky to have learned from him and that I found a research topic that I absolutely love, even on the most miserable days. 🧬
A bittersweet acceptance: Between a manuscript and grief
Stefanie Williams @sillysciencelady.bsky.social shares the story behind her paper on the synaptonemal complex, including a tribute to her supervisor Scott Hawley, who passed away while Stefanie was completing the research.
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
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Just realized my comment didn’t really make sense because Scott also loved diet Coke, I guess my brain hadn’t started up yet when I initially replied 😂😂😂
Thank you!
Thank you! Oh, he absolutely would have! I would say I had one yesterday but I do prefer diet Coke to Coke anyways, so that’s nothing out of the ordinary for me either 😂
My Behind the paper story on @the-node.bsky.social gives a digestible overview of our key findings but it is also my personal story of working on this paper and seeing it get accepted after Scott passed away thenode.biologists.com/a-bitterswee...
Very exciting news: My first first-author paper is now out (open access!) in Chromosoma! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Damn now I want goth plates
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With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵
Tenure-track faculty search of the UCSF Biochemistry & Biophysics Department is open for applications!
We are looking for creative, innovative scientists asking fundamental questions in any area of biology.
Join our vibrant, collaborative, and supportive community!
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Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!
Congrats, Amruta!
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TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns!
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
🧪 After the workshop on 7/7, the FDA and NIH are asking for public comments on implementing novel methodologies and other strategies to reduce the use of animal testing by 7/14:
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
Oh no I didn’t! Gotta check it out, thanks! Haha I take it I wasn’t able to provide any new names though which is sad. I’ll have to ask my wife, she has a lot more time for reading than me
Reposting this as the same issue continues at #IZFC2025: lots of red/green LUTs in talks.
Especially the #zebrafish crowd, with imaging as a key technique in our field, should be able to do better. And know how to.
#WeTheColorBlind #2025IZFC @izfs.bsky.social
Tamsyn Muir would be quite something different (unless you already read her books of course haha), I also really liked Malka Older’s “The mimicking of known successes” plus sequel
Would love to hear any thoughts!