A special #Valentines message from my flies (that are conveniently eclosing this evening). #DrosLife

What an amazing discovery from Scott Kennedy's lab! A new splicing system that recognizes transposons and removes them from mRNAs! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I’m still failing to see the long term vision here for a country that wants to create a healthier America and as a result should be the in lead with science, tech and innovation. govexec.com/workforce/2025…

Funding from the NIH contributed to the development of 354 out of 356 (99.4%) of the new drugs approved by the FDA between 2010 and 2019, and 🚨 100% 🚨 of FDA approved drugs btw 2010-2016. NIH funding is the backbone of American biomedical innovation. #protecttheNIH

Trump administration continuing to freeze NIH funding despite court order nature.com/articles/d4158…

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

My god man. Everyone on planet earth has dirt on Republicans except for democrats

Huge cancer breakthrough! mRNA vaccine (similar to COVID vaccine tech) shows stunning results against pancreatic cancer! 75% of responsive patients STILL cancer-free at 3 yr, normally 80% recur. Could revolutionize treatment for one of deadliest cancers! Funded in part by NIH

Our new paper on the P-element invasion in D.simulans mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I'm quoted in this article on how NIH is still blocked from funding new grants. This sabotage makes no sense. Nearly every medicine or treatment you've ever received has roots in NIH-funded research, and every $1 of NIH spending generates $2.46 in returns. wbur.org/news/2025/02/2…

Experimental evolution reveals dynamics of horizontal transfer of a transposable element between D. melanogaster and D. simulans. In Mobile DNA led by Filip Wierzbicki (alum of our PhD program) and current student Riccardo Pianezza from the Kofler lab PopGen Vienna

Pretty interesting that shit starts breaking after he got his hands on it and now the only thing that can fix it are his products

Excited to share a new pub in Science that Meghan Yap-Chiongco and I co-authored! Using new #genome data from all 8 classes of #Mollusca, we reconstructed the group's phylogeny and provide valuable resources for future research. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

RIP NIH—not only did the director of the NIH resign today, but the website nih.gov is down. PubMed, one of the world’s most valuable repositories of medical knowledge, is also down.

ma'am is anyone able to access era commons right now

"A GO term analysis? how is this helpful?"

Featured today by MSK Library: Double trouble: two retrotransposons triggered a cascade of invasions in Drosophila species within the last 50 years #GenomicEvolution #Retrotransposons #DrosophilaGenetics #MolecularBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #GeneticInvasion

“Why should it stop at people who come across the border?” Folks, he’s saying it out loud.

Everything is on fire but we have an awesome new lab logo from CampMustelid Sunnyday NYC and you should def have them make you one too