40 years ago today, the BDSC made its 1st shipment. To celebrate, Trudy Kaufman, who packed the 1st shipment, boxed up the same kinds of flies for John Roote at Cambridge, who placed the 1st order. Watch for pics of the arrival next week. We’ve shipped 4,882,378 vials total. That’s a lot of flies!

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why a fruit fly? white eyes (1910), x-ray mutations, the body plan, the clock, toll, 77% of human disease genes with a fly match, a whole brain mapped (2024). and now a copy of one, running: me. #drosophila #science #neuroscience

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My favourite part of this poster design is that is a “myriorama” (inspired by @tomgauld.bsky.social’s “Endless Journey” cards), meaning the sections can be cut out and re-arranged in 10! (i.e. 3,628,000) different combinations! #SciArt

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Very happy with how this latest #LaurierBiology seminar poster turned out! #SciArt

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Doing some very important talk prep before I go visit @joshdubnau.bsky.social at Stony Brook next week. With sincere apologies to the creators of this once-adorable childrens' book, I present the Barber Lab Limited Edition: 🧪🪰

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