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Thanks Nikos, I'm doing ok.

Congrats Nikos!

Revised evolutionary relationships within Brachycera and the early origin of bicoid in flies Mulhair et al. uncover a functional bicoid in non-cyclorrhaphan flies, pushing the gene's origin back by ∼20 million years. Reassessing the Diptera phylogeny using the largest dataset to date permits ...

Latest 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

LSI PhD programme | Living Systems Institute | University of Exeter

We are recruiting PhD students!

Two days left to apply for the LSI studentships - deadline Nov 26
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and a few more for the SWBio studentships - deadline Dec 3
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Please repost or forward to prospective students that might be interested!

Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution Recent studies on the evolution of novel traits provide a window of opportunity to understand how existing gene-regulatory networks (GRN...

One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution' organised by James Hombría & Antónia Monteiro Deadline 5 Dec.
biologists.com/workshops/ju...

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In the most recent episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we talked with @arnausebe.bsky.social from the @crg.eu in Barcelona about his work on chromatin evolution. #podcast #chromatin #epigenetics

Listen here: www.activemotif.com/podcasts-arn...

I would not restrict to 'fly research', which may sound little important to the uninformed reader. FlyBase is the most elaborate, detailed and precise model organism data base we have and of use to many far beyond the Drosophila community - whilst being a role model setting helpful standards.

Siyah çarşaflı bir kadın kucağında bütün kemikleri ortaya çıkmış bir çocuğu tutuyor

✅Yerinden edilmiş Filistinli anne Samah Matar ve 24 Temmuz 2025'te açlık krizi nedeniyle sığındıkları bir okulda beyin felci hastası ve yetersiz beslenen oğlu Yusuf.
✅27 Mayıs'tan bu yana Gazze'de yiyecek almaya çalışan binden fazla Filistinli İsrail Ordusu tarafından öldürüldü

AlphaFold - A practical guide AlphaFold - A practical guide

Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good!

There are also little quizzes and interactives.
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

Synergistic DNA and RNA binding of the Hox transcription factor Ultrabithorax coordinates splicing and shapes in vivo homeotic functions Abstract. The dual interaction of many transcription factors (TFs) with both DNA and RNA is an underexplored issue that could fundamentally reshape our und

🎉 Thrilled to share our new paper in @narjournal.bsky.social!
We uncover how the Hox TF Ultrabithorax controls alternative splicing to shape muscle patterning and homeotic identity 🧬 @igmm-montpel.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Drosophila Genetic Database The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request 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 donate!

www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

#Zebrafish people, this is our time to shine. Let's help keep an important resource up so we can keep talking shit about flies for many many years

Congratulations 🎉👏🥳

Did you know that FlyBase maintains a page highlighting papers that report useful new techniques, resources, or reagents? Check out our Papers with Technical Advances page (updated monthly): wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

This was fun to write! Always amazed by the complexities of transcriptional regulation. @pinaronal.bsky.social

FEBS Press Disordered effector domains (EDs) of transcription factors (TFs) play versatile roles in transcriptional regulation. These include mediating protein–protein interactions with protein complexes like, ...

We did a thing with Rhea Datta @rheadatta.bsky.social, Dilan Akdoğan @dilanakdogan.bsky.social and Beste Tezcan. It got much better than we imagined with the help of the anonymous referees. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...