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We have rediscovered the fireplace. It's finally cool enough to turn it on.

Our Drosophila museomic study, with Marcus Stensmyr, (@MarcusStensmyr) is now online!
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/
Got mainly high quality genomes without grinding anything up, including from >200 year old flies representing the oldest known specimens of Dmel, and reflecting its early days in northern Europe. Saw evidence for local genetic differentiation followed by homogenization. Learned new things about known selection genes like CHKov. Found new targets of strong recent selection like Ahcy.

Interested in AMR and microbial genomics, Kate Baker in Cambridge Genetics is looking for an MRC-funded postdoctoral scientist. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43349/

The hard part of teaching is when you have a student that has a glimmering of passion but has reasons for not being able to

I can't wait to share some of the components with the #Drosophila community at the #CSHL meeting today. When my poster was accepted, I wanted to bring some parts. On second thought, that turned out to be a full setup of our #virtualReality for #fruitfly - and more.

If you are here, drop by my "poster" 226 in the Nicholls Biondi Hall at 2pm.

Congrats to my colleagues Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman on the Nobel Prize!

My favorite part of this news is knowing that more people (including kids) will get to hear and be inspired by the story behind the science and scientists (especially Kariko).

penntoday.upenn.edu/news/katal

BioRxiv has joined forces with Company of Biologists to expand our presence on Mastodon.

Mastodon accounts now available for every subject category connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/

How do you know if a comedian farts?

It smells a little funny

Here's a great job opportunity for somebody. The U Penn department of biology is hiring a tenure track assistant professor position in the broad area of #ecology

apply.interfolio.com/133155

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