The common fruit fly, D. melanogaster, acts as one of the most important model organisms in genetics, with our understanding of its genome helping inform all the rest of genetic research.

Cambridge scientists have taken another fly, D. mercatorum, that has the ability of virgin births and altered the corresponding genes in D. melanogaster to give it the same ability.

Opening up insights into insect pest reproduction.

#Drosophila #Flies #Biology #Science #Scicomm

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00913-2

Hi there!
Here is a short #introduction about me and things I have been doing lately!

Living in the UK, after a decade in Germany, originally being from South America.

for a while I have been an #openscience advocate and practitioner, focusing on #openhardware and tools for research.

I currently work at the University of Sussex in the UK, as a scientific officer and a lecturer in Open Science.

Some places that might be worth a visit (but some might be outdated)

https://open-neuroscience.com (a community led repository for open source tools in Neuroscience - which I started back in 20143

https://openhardware.space - online training resource for best practices on developing open hardware

https://amchagas.github.io (outdated personal page)

https://prometheus-science.com (my side hustle, a company offering services around open source hardware and open science

I'm super-duper excited by webR! Running #rstats directly in the browser without needing to install it is a dream come true for teaching and onboarding. I wished I had the time to add it to this trimester's introductory programming class.

https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/03/webr-0-1-0/

@rstats