Mayor of London Sadiq Khan urges government to re-join EU research project bbc.in/3pRC7AL

Cycling legs and pipeting arms?

#9: Not asking for writing training 💰 If you feel under-skilled at writing, ask your PI, department or grad school for funding to enrol in a scientific writing course. Many universities have funding available for professional development - you just have to make the ask!

Great advice. Not only gif grad students…

Number 8 is definitely true. I have written more than. 130 papers I. My career but am still learning each time. Hardest part is that theses days papers are rarely just 2 authors. each combination of authors requires a different set of team dynamics to complete the task.

First harvest of the year from our garden

British summer 101.

This should settle the R vs Python debate. No way that R can make plots better than *these*!

Looking forward to listening g to this

Kudos to Cell for the Portuguese dilapidated tiles cover. Very Lisbon…

Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

It us our best friend’s birthday today.

On the day of the AI safety summit in Bletchley Park, here is a recent outreach talk I gave with my colleagues Syma and Madu. Three of many positive applications to biomedical research. youtu.be/PzPyO0ibJaE

Looks interesting.

Sad news. David Ish-Horowicz, our colleague and friend, died on Friday. He was instrumental in discovering the genetic basis of pattern formation and a pioneer of the field of mRNA localisation. A wonderfully supportive and inspirational mentor. We will all miss him.

Hi all I am at the neurofly conference in Birmingham (uk) and having a fab time listening to great Drosophila neuroscience talks from scientists all over Europe. Organised wonderfully by Alicia Hidalgo and colleagues. We did our PhDs in adjacent labs in oxford starting 1986.

I am increasingly using blue sky social instead of X for obvious reasons to do with the nature of x’s owner. Please follow me there instead of here by joining blue sky and finding me: ilandavis.bsky.social

my obituary to my PhD supervisor and close friend David Ish-Horowicz, a lovely supportive mentor and friend for many generations of scientists and spent 10 years in my lab after “retiring”. We’ll all miss him. Development (2024) 151 (21): dev204429. doi.org/10.1242/dev.20…

elifesciences.org/articles/102... I am very excited to share with you our publication building Deep3DSIM microscope using adaptive optic. It allows imaging into an intact fly brain >130 microns with high quality 3DSIM as well as remote focusing without moving the objective or specimen.