Human induced climate change is an existential threat to humans living on the planet. It is also making it harder year in year to find good winter climbing conditions in Scotland. Luckily two weeks ago there was a spell of very cold weather - I climbed in Glen Coe: grade IV Raeburn route.
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I am very excited to share with you our publication building Deep3DSIM microscope using adaptive optic. It allows imaging into an intact fly brain >130 microns with high quality 3DSIM as well as remote focusing without moving the objective or specimen.
Obituary in the Guardian
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Obituary in Development
Development (2024) 151, dev204429.
doi: 10.1242/dev.204429
Dear friends and scientific colleagues,
(especially those of you who knew David Ish-Horowicz).
Feel free to share the attached PDF widely (all the speakers are happy for the talks to be shared).
Many thanks
Best regards
Ilan
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*URGENT* please support NIH research and the NIH employees who are standing up for science at the risk of losing their jobs! Sign *TODAY* in support of the Bethesda Declaration. The senate appropriations committee is reviewing the NIH budget Tuesday at 10 am. SHARE widely! 🧪
A typical part of the playbook for a dictator on the rise, coupled with bringing out troops to suppress democratic protests against their xenophobic policies.
Genius. Just as topical now as when made - I think when Thatcher was first elected as prime minister in the uk in 1980 or so.
Still just as topical!
#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!
Through its programmes and schemes, scientific #publications, #policy and #innovation, EMBO continues to promote excellence in the #LifeSciences at national, European and global level.
This week, we focus on: #Denmark
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🧪 #research #opportunities #funding
Another way to donate to save flybase from disappearing:
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The Trump administration's chaotic changes to diversity-based funding have left trainees in limbo. My colleagues and I at @thetransmitter.bsky.social spoke to ten neuroscience trainees about what the uncertainty means for them, their research and their futures: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/a-gu...
The wold scientific base is in serious crisis. Including Flybase, the heart and soul of the Drosophila community. Read below. If you work on flies or are a fan or want to help. Please consider donation. As termination of Harvard NIH means flybase will stop after the end of July 2025.
Walking through the Glasgow botanical guardians I found d countless magical patterns on the leaves
You maybe interested in this film I made in a very remote part of Tibet while I was doing my PhD in Developmental Biology, shown on BBC2 in 1988.
A pilgrimage to Mount Kailas - the centre of the universe to Tibetan Buddhism.
youtu.be/ls4doaxVBkg
Thanks a lot
We are pleased to report publication of the Drosophila circadian clock connectome in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Check out the final version for additional analyses not present in the preprint. @unrcabnr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A tour de force review of the connections between between the nervous and immune systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Jeff Lee et al paper from my lab is out now
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I am very grateful to Jeff, Nile's and Tamsin for all the hard work on this tour de force paper.
Jeff deserves more credit than me for masterminding it and the outstanding data analysis: 2 RBPs over 3 developmental times.
I wonder if anyone has built a continuously variable fluorescent light source using delta optical filters and dichroic mirrors with galvo mirrors and/or piezo movers?
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Interesting analysis free of political bias or opinion. However a popularist with disregard of the law and truth backed by oligarch tech billionaires with no morals may “achieve” much more than is easily predicted by rational expert analysis.
Went to Glen Coe to climb dorsal arête on stone coire nan lochen.
(Triangular cliff in photo). But snow conditions were very poor so went walking instead.
Important to support the societies that manage publications at the face of the onslaught from the commercial rivals.
Moa, which are known to have eaten brightly colored fruit, would also have snacked on colorful truffles, such as this purple Gallacea scleroderma. Noah siegel
I am obsessed with these fungi. LOOK AT HOW WEIRD AND WONDERFUL THEY ARE. I imagine that's what moa thought, too... that story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🍄
Using this method, we determined that the eruption at Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai released ~61 Mt, slightly higher in magnitude than the yield of the Tsar Bomba. The paper is open access (link.springer.com/article/10.1...). #PhysOrg wrote a nice article about our work 🧪⚛️[5/n] phys.org/news/2022-08...
Went winter climbing last Sunday in magnificent conditions in the Cairngorms. Arrived a bit late so the popular climbs were in log jam. Had to do a shorter “off piste” sideline to the right to avoid the crowds
View of Central London from Ken Wood, across Hampstead Heath two days before Xmas eve.
