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mossworm.bsky.social
speak for yourselves FlyBase
"FlyBase News: Like many research communities, the FlyBase community has begun using AI tools."
July 4, 2026 at 7:13 PM
flybase.bsky.social
FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
wiki.flybase.org
August 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
lucksmith.bsky.social
🪰 folks! I spoke to the Transmitter about FlyBase. As noted at flybase.org, bridge $ ran out and many staff were laid off.

Good news is stopgap contributions will keep core FlyBase operations active. But community support remains essential. Please donate @FlyBase and share! 1/2

tinyurl.com/FlyBase
FlyBase secures funding for year, but future still uncertain
The FlyBase team’s fundraising efforts have proven successful in the short term, but restoration of its federal grant remains uncertain.
tinyurl.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
flybase.bsky.social
There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us.
#FlyBase #Drosophila
FlyBase Update – October 2025 The termination of the NIH/NHGRI FlyBase grant has placed the long-term sustainability of FlyBase at risk. However, thanks to the generous support of several key individuals and institutions, we are pleased to announce that FlyBase will remain operational through the coming year. We extend our deepest gratitude to Yukiko Yamashita, Cassandra Extavour, Hugo Bellen, Thom Kaufman, the Genetics Society of America / Drosophila Board, the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center, an anonymous donor and the Wellcome Trust. We are especially thankful for a generous gift from Seemay Chou, Jed McCaleb, and The Navigation Fund. We also greatly appreciate the continued support from the broader Drosophila community – your donations and service fees have been vital in helping us stay afloat. Special thanks also go to Jessica Manning for her tireless administrative work at Harvard, to Ruth Lehmann, Hugo Bellen, and Paul Sternberg for advice and efforts, and to the Board of the European Drosophila Society for all their efforts. Sadly, we must also share that several long-standing FlyBase team members have recently moved on. We are immensely grateful to Susan Russo-Gelbart, Lynn Crosby, Gil dos Santos, Kris Broll, Victoria Jenkins, and TyAnna Lovato for their many years of dedicated service and contributions to FlyBase. Looking ahead, ensuring FlyBase’s sustainability beyond the next year – and successfully integrating with the Alliance – will require new funding sources. We kindly ask for your continued support: • European labs: Please consider contributing to the Cambridge, U.K. FlyBase group • U.S. and other non-European labs: Please consider contributing to the U.S. FlyBase groups • Both U.K. and U.S. FlyBase are working diligently to establish an invoicing system. We appreciate your continued patience. For more information on how to support us, please visit: Contribute to FlyBase wiki page https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
drglam.bsky.social
I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.
August 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
petrovadmitri.bsky.social
Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
flybase.bsky.social
FlyBase release FB2026_01 is live!

There is news about FlyBase funding. Go to the FlyBase homepage flybase.org for details.
FlyBase Funding Update – March 2026 The NHGRI funding for FlyBase has been restored for US-based FlyBase teams but the foreign subaward that supported the essential curation team at the University of Cambridge UK has been terminated. Therefore, the Cambridge UK team now requests annual contributions from fly labs to support curation of new data into FlyBase and the Alliance of Genome Resources. Without these annual contributions, FlyBase will become frozen in its current state and become progressively less useful. Please visit the ‘Contribute to FlyBase’ wiki page for details of how to contribute.
March 12, 2026 at 9:49 PM
ritastrack.bsky.social
FlyBase needs our help.
June 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
flybase.bsky.social
FlyBase is now on Bluesky!
November 20, 2023 at 6:18 PM
lucksmith.bsky.social
🪰 folks! Despite Harvard lawsuit outcome, FlyBase NIH grant was not released. FlyBase now runs on the public, like NPR, PBS etc. If we don't step up, it can go away! Donations site on flybase.org homepage. Note: it links to IU stock center, but its for FlyBase, see instructions. pls give+share! 2/2
FlyBase Homepage
FlyBase: a database for drosophila genetics and molecular biology
flybase.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
flybase.bsky.social
As you may know, NIH abruptly terminated funding to FlyBase curators based in the United Kingdom. Please help us retain these curators and thereby enable ongoing curation of bibliographic, genetic and phenotypic data by contributing annually (tinyurl.com/4jw65mbb). Thank you.
#FlyBase
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
tinyurl.com
September 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
flybase.bsky.social
New FlyBase commentary: Using AI to get FlyBase data.

I'm going to post some brief talking points, but please read the whole thing:

flybase.org/commentaries...
Using AI to get FlyBase data
FlyBase: a database for drosophila genetics and molecular biology
flybase.org
June 26, 2026 at 7:16 PM
flybase.bsky.social
Did you know that FlyBase maintains a page highlighting papers that report useful new techniques, resources, or reagents? Check out our Papers with Technical Advances page (updated monthly): wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
FlyBase:Papers with technical advances - FlyBase Wiki
wiki.flybase.org
November 28, 2023 at 7:00 PM
mads100tist.bsky.social
I'm putting this on my CV brb
"FlyBase followed you back"
June 4, 2025 at 7:07 AM
flybase.bsky.social
Ideally, we'd like authors to cite a recent FlyBase publication. There's a blue box with the text "Citing FlyBase' on our homepage that takes you a page detailing how to cite us wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
FlyBase:Citing FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
wiki.flybase.org
April 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
bdsc.bsky.social
FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
wiki.flybase.org
August 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
hansonmark.bsky.social
A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate.

www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
August 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
briancalvi.bsky.social
Remain calm and carry on. We at Flybase have a plan and will make an official statement very soon.
May 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
flybase.bsky.social
FlyBase.org release FB2025_03 is live! Go enjoy the refreshed data.
FlyBase Homepage
FlyBase: a database for drosophila genetics and molecular biology
FlyBase.org
July 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
lucaswaltzer.bsky.social
#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate!

www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
thetransmitter.bsky.social
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
Harvard University lays off fly database team
The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.
www.thetransmitter.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
langsec.hacker.gf
yes I would flybase.org
FlyBase Homepage
FlyBase: a database for drosophila genetics and molecular biology
flybase.org
September 8, 2026 at 9:53 AM
kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy
Dear UK #drosophila @FlyBase Cambridge is now able to accept PO orders for support. So please get in touch with
https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
wiki.flybase.org
February 17, 2026 at 9:18 PM
barrlab.bsky.social
Worms love flies! Please consider donating to FlyBase. Model organisms unite! #celegans
flybase.bsky.social FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Aug 15
FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
wiki.flybase.org
August 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
flybase.bsky.social
MassLive.com recently interviewed several Harvard FlyBase people and wrote this news article about the importance of FlyBase: tinyurl.com/4chpts9f
Why a database of bug genes could be one of Trump’s most devastating cuts at Harvard
FlyBase, the world's only fruit fly database, is in the crosshairs of Trump's attack on Harvard. Here's why it could matter for your health.
tinyurl.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM