The flies arrived in Cambridge this morning—healthy and happy! So nice to see another successful shipment! And great to draw one of our all-time-best customers out of retirement long enough to recreate our first order! Here’s to another 40 years of the BDSC helping to make fly genetics happen!

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I have asked Claude to make a teaser for our open source sleep detection platform, the ethoscope. It delivered, I think.

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A study of wild orangutans now suggests that mothers go out of their way to arrange play dates for their offspring go.nature.com/4yQ9G4x

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Excited to share the first preprint from the Ferreira lab, led by PhD students Mirjam Heinemans and Rui Goncalves! 🪰🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We knew fruit flies freeze when threatened alone and that they freeze less in a group. Surprisingly, we found this social buffering differs by sex!

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Look at that! My play I Dream of Theresa May is up for an award 😍: www.asianmediaawards.com/asian-media-... Many thanks to @taratheatre.com and @natashakchandra.bsky.social for their amazingness! And @livetheatre.bsky.social for their support! Play details here: taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...

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