flymuscles
Assistant professor @Dalhousie University in Canada. We study # muscle function in #Drosophila. I bike to work.
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- Reposted by flymusclesOur #preprint list is up on FocalPlane. This list focusses on the latest tools in bioimage analysis. Let us know if you have any recommendations to add to our list. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/06/m...
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- Reposted by flymusclesA paper in Nature describes a collection of soft‑bodied fossils discovered in a quarry in China, dating to around 512 million years ago. The Huayuan biota contains 153 animal species from 16 major groups, of which 59% are previously undiscovered species. go.nature.com/49KUOdw #Paleosky 🧪
- Reposted by flymusclesIsadonna Tengganu and Ke Hu develop transfection and ExM protocols for Chromera velia, enabling direct comparisons with its parasitic apicomplexan relative, Toxoplasma gondi. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
- the real story is they lied so they could terrorize Latin American immigrants.
- Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- Reposted by flymusclesThe Dragonhunter (Hagenius brevistylus), one of North America's largest dragonflies, specializes in hunting other dragonflies. a.co/d/gAgXe4q?ta... 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #medart #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #dragonflies #odos
- Reposted by flymusclesMemorializing the contributions of Dr Paul Kulesa to neural crest cell biology & imaging, a generous colleague & mentor, devoted husband and father. @devdynamics.bsky.social @anatomyorg.bsky.social
- Reposted by flymuscles🧨 Check out this peeps🧨 I am very happy with the outcome of this thought baby! @neurogut.bsky.social @michaelrera.bsky.social and Mael Lemoine (yes, a philosopher) twisted our brains over preparing this conceptual review! We give you the "Enterarchon" Enjoy it! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by flymusclesDynamic actin waves in a zebrafish embryo. Credit to @aaandmoore.bsky.social & Dvir Gur. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
- Reposted by flymusclesI can't overrecommend this incredible paper about water skaters (genus Halobates). No one knows how they evolved. No one knows what they eat. They are superhydrophobic, which means water LITERALLY CANNOT WET THEM. Perhaps we should call them anti-water skaters? 🌊🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Reposted by flymusclesThe number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.
- Reposted by flymusclesMake your gene knockouts more efficient with multiplexed Cas12a sgRNAs. Our new paper is out now, with tools available from @addgene.bsky.social , www.plasmids.eu and @vdrc-flies.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CRISPR #geneediting #Drosophila 🧪🧬✂️🔬🪰 Summary 🧵 below.
- Reposted by flymusclesIf you aren't familiar with what DARVO is, get familiar with it. "Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender." The govt is relying on DARVO as a tactic on a national scale, and it is also increasingly a conservative tactic to attack outspoken critics of their ideas, theories, & renderings of history.
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- Reposted by flymusclesI cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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- Reposted by flymusclesJane Richardson was born #OTD in 1941 + Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures) + MacArthur Fellow, 1985 + Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991 + President, Biophysical Society, 2012 #WomenInSTEM
- Reposted by flymusclesOur CytoTape work is published today in Nature @nature.com! CytoTape is a genetically encoded, flexible, intracellular protein tape recorder for spatiotemporally scalable and multiplexed recording of cellular activities continuously across weeks in vitro and in vivo. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Panic is over, the clones will be available at the transgeome site once the website is updated. The flyfos project is such a useful resource that I 😱about not having access to it anymore.
- #Drosophil. Does anyone know who hosts the flyfos GFP tagged library now? We need some constructs but I cant find where they are. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
- #Drosophil. Does anyone know who hosts the flyfos GFP tagged library now? We need some constructs but I cant find where they are. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
- Why are some Drosophila flies paralyzed at cold temperatures, and others aren't? 👇
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- Reposted by flymusclesLatest from the lab. MS previously preprinted (see below) and finally published in print @dev-journal.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... Review process via @reviewcommons.org and @dev-journal.bsky.social 1/3
- Reposted by flymusclesUnder a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Data suggests separations are now happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop. (Published Nov. 2025)
- Reposted by flymusclesAs 2025 comes to a close, my university (Dalhousie U in Halifax, Canada) is recruiting faculty, including outstanding early career researchers, and Canada Research Chairs. Applications are due January 19 2026 (was just notified today!). Please repost.
- Reposted by flymusclesTalin didn’t evolve for integrins... integrins evolved for talin 🤯 pN force coupling via talin is ancient, conserved from amoebae to humans; signaling came later. Read this amazing paper here 👇🏽 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by flymusclesAn energy-based model of protein conformational space can be used to predict structure from sequence, sample from the conformational landscape, rank structures, and predict mutation effects. @sokrypton.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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- Reposted by flymusclesExciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park! “Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” — www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)
- Reposted by flymusclesFrom January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.
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- thanks, @coastalseaside.bsky.social for the delicious w[1118] #Drosophila cookie!
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- Reposted by flymusclesReliable Identification of Homodimers Using AlphaFold biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by flymusclesDaniel Smith, Sanford Bernstein and colleagues @sdsuresearch.bsky.social uncover the distinct impacts of human co-chaperone UNC45 paralogs on Drosophila muscle development and function. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
- Reposted by flymusclesJust gonna put this here for now www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... bsky.app/profile/jlst...
- Reposted by flymusclesThrilled to share our new paper! With @tomtom-auer.bsky.social team, we asked how #evolution reshapes what animals #eat to match their ecological niches. Using pan-neuronal Ca2+ imaging, we show that the changes are in how the brain processes #taste. Link @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by flymusclesAn open webinar on our reproducibility project 'WHAT 400 DROSOPHILA PAPERS Teach Us about Doing Better Science' on December 9th 2PM EEST time (1PM Swiss time). Registration below
- Reposted by flymusclesLatest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬 To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain). 🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy
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- Reposted by flymusclesThe law of the jungle. Interactions of cells in a collective lead to global rotation. In 80% of the case HUVEC cells turn clockwise. How many cells does it take for this to happen?
- Reposted by flymusclesDear #Neuroscience researchers, I am Guest Editing an issue in @devdynamics.bsky.social on NEURAL MIGRATION. Due date: March 31, 2026. Great opportunity to showcase your findings on neural migration. #DevBio Please reskeet 🙏 anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1097...
- Reposted by flymusclesFinally, the first public release of #BigVolumeBrowser, so after teasers, you can try it yourself. For details, please check the announcement post (1/2) forum.image.sc/t/bigvolumeb...
- Reposted by flymusclesHot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by flymusclesOMG--read this thread. Remarkable clever use of a trick to visualize plasmid competition that reveals key insights into evolution!!!! 🧪
- Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by flymusclesHow the Avalanche of Academic Papers Threatens Scientific Research, by Vince Bielski 'Editor-in-Chief Anna Stilz at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social led a revolt that culminated in the mass resignation of the journal’s entire editorial staff and board.' www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/202...
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- Reposted by flymusclesCheck out this tick I collected ;-) And by collected, I mean pulled off my pant leg after a walk in the woods
- Reposted by flymuscles📢Check out our latest #preprint list on FocalPlane This list focusses on the latest research on bioimage analysis and data management. Let us know if there are any preprints that we should add to our list and send us recommendation for the next one! focalplane.biologists.com/2025/11/14/m...
