Dr Michelle @Drosmel@social.cleverlibre.org

For #CellMigration lovers
How do cells decide when facing a symmetric junction?
The membrane oscillates exploring both directions until one arm wins.
TLDR: this depends on the actin cytoskeleton & cancer cells decide faster than healthy cells
#scicomm @pj_saez
Full https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02335-6

Cruising for amazing #science activities that support #CriticalThinking? Don’t miss these great resources for all kinds of science fun. https://blog.tcea.org/science-activities-critical-thinking/ #tcea #tceajmg #teachers

For all you fans of the classic film.

Looking for a full-time lab technician. This is a career appointment with UC benefits! #neuroscience https://hr.jobs.ucla.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1705877260566

JOB POSTING: Teaching Excellence and Learning Outcomes Specialist at the University of New Hampshire https://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=178668050

I bet my girlfriend that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.

She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 13 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle so hard to comprehend large numbers.

Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.

The recording of Michael Ashburner's Memorial Symposium is now available on our YouTube channel. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC_SU7WhKuSFdpQ7it5HEiog

Guinessomics

""The present yeast used to make Guinness stout brewed in Dublin, Ireland, can be traced back to 1903, but its origins are unknown. To that end, we used Illumina and Nanopore sequencing to generate whole-genome sequencing data for a total of 22 S. cerevisiae yeast strains: 16 from the Guinness collection and 6 other historical Irish brewing."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05587-3

I'm hiring! Plural is looking for a senior engineer for a Typescript-focused web applications team. We make the legislative process more transparent in every U.S. state and emerging democracies in Africa. Fully remote!

https://pluralpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Senior-Fullstack-Web-Developer-Plural-2024.pdf

#FediHired #GetFediHired

drosophila.social just migrated to a new more powerful server - and upgraded to version 4.2.3 on its way there.

happy new year everyone!

Happy New Year to our followers! It's the beginning not only of the year, but also the month, which means the #Technical_Advances submitted in December are up
https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Papers_with_technical_advances#Dec_2023. As always, if you've published a new technique, resource, or reagent you'd like featured, make sure to flag it when you #FTYP.

@FlyBase Great resource! It's also relatively straightforward to convert red to magenta for the existing red/green images. In #FijiSc, you can do it with “Image > Color > Replace Red With Magenta” (see example below).

This could be an alternative for images whose licenses allow modification. I'm happy to help with the batch conversion if you need!

@flypapers
nice hsitorical context and review of BMP ffrom #drosophila perspective.
periodic reminder of the amazing #Flybook collection from #GSA

https://academic.oup.com/genetics/search-results?cqb=%5b%7B%22terms%22:%5b%7B%22filter%22:%22Keywords%22%2c%22input%22:%22FLYBOOK%22%7D%5d%7D%5d&qb=%7B%22Keywords1%22:%22FLYBOOK%22%7D&page=1&searchType=advanced&adv=true&sort=Date+%E2%80%93+Oldest+First

(probably behind paywall...sorry guys)

Happy Solstice, everyone!

#TheRealReasonForTheSeason

Come work with us! We are hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Insect Biodiversity and Conservation in Cornell Entomology! Applications are due Jan 26th. Apply here: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26806