Dan Tracey
@Hoosierflyman
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Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience. Interest in somatosensation, behavior, and molecular genetics. Cycling. Personal account, not-representing IU. he/him
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Here's my research word cloud. Seems about right.
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Is there a German word for when you open your Twitter and there's a cool tweet right at the top of your feed, but then the feed refreshes and the tweet is gone forever?
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I am enjoying a delicious cup of coffee brewed with my
@keurig
and reading the incomprehensible posts from the people that want to
#BoycottKeurig
because they support a child molester.
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I accidentally saved my prostate exam appointment on the lab calendar.
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There's a serious problem when it requires 20-30 authors, seven figures w 10-20 panels each, plus 15 supplemental figures, to publish in the top journals of the field.
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Indiana University President Pamela Whitten says that her mantra is "Putting Students First." Let's take a look at how she puts Students first 🧵
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@DNCWarRoom
@AdamParkhomenko
Uhhh... he actually clearly says no the first time and the last time. I am no Trump supporter but this tweet is false.
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We’ve had $3 Trillion in COVID-19 stimulus packages so far. The entire NIH budget is about $42 Billion/year. So one pandemic costs the equivalent of 70 years of NIH funding in today’s dollars. I don’t know about you but my interpretation is that the NIH budget is too small.
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Amazing result in the lab today. All I can say is that we fucked around, and WE FOUND OUT. I can't wait to tell y'all about this one because it is so cool!🤯🤯🤯
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I am thrilled to announce that I have reached the "figures are jumping around from one page to the next in MS Word" phase of my grant proposal.
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Your rotation project will be: "fuck around and find out."
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Aims page almost finished!
AIM 1: Fuck Around.
AIM 2: Find Out.
AIM 3: Get Paid to do it.
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Most embarrassing thing you've done in science?
I thought a gene I was working on was polycistronic. So I go to Seymour and tell him about it. He gave a quizzical look so I explained polycistronic to him. He just said: “yes that’s exactly what I meant when I coined the term.”
13 years ago, Seymour Benzer, one of the greatest scientist passed away.
Miss him so much.
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I'm going to be on a Seabattical next semester. Sailing a 41' catamaran N from Grenada and collecting
#Drosophila
of Dunni subgroup on each island of the Lesser Antilles. Also hoping to find parasitoid wasps that prey on the native fly larvae. The boat will be our mobile lab. 1/N
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Am I the only one that cleans the kitchen BEFORE I start cooking? I think it’s like needing a clean bench before starting an experiment on the lab.
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I just made the most important discovery of my career. A dried out fine point sharpie can be quickly be brought back to life with a spritz of 70% EtOH!! 🤯🤯
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This dsRED is so bright that I can score without the scope. Demon flies!
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When my Dad he was 17 he drove his friend Kevin "Mac" to the USMC recruiting office. While Dad was sitting there, waiting for Mac to finish signing, the recruiter came out and asked my Dad "what are you going to do after high school? Your buddy is going to Hawaii." 1/N
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Other than CRISPR, GFP, thermus aquaticus, RNA interference, what are your favorite example of obscure basic biology science studies that eventually led to a major Nobel worthy breakthrough? It's fine if they have never actually been awarded a Nobel.
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My daughter is studying neuroscience
@DukeU
, and last year she texted me to say that she was assigned a paper from my lab. So needless to say I'm all proud. But, then she goes to class and I get another text from her saying "OMG, he's totally trashing your paper!" 1/N
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"THAT'S HOW THEY ROLL!" Teasing a preprint that is going to drop soon. Liping He from the lab has worked out the details of muscle activation during larval escape rolling. She used high-speed confocal microscopy of GCaMP6 in muscles & rolling triggered w/optogenetics of cIVda's🤯
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Happy 20th anniversary to "painless, a Drosophila Gene Essential for Nociception." Time flies when you're having fun!
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NYC to Niagara Falls- 568 Miles in 7 Days. $1.6M raised for Cancer Research!
I lost my Dad to prostate cancer in 2018. He loved everything about bicycles-So I am pedaling 500 miles from NYC to Niagara Falls to raise money for cancer research. This thread gives summary of the ride. Please click here and donate to help end cancer!
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When I 1st met Benzer, I showed him my data on fly maggot nociception behavior. We discussed my plan to do a screen for mutants. I asked him what I would do if the screen didn't work? He said "great science takes courage." The most important thing anyone ever said to me.
#nobel
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Me explaining a potential dissertation project to a first year student.
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🧵Got my PhD in 1999 and my wife and I each earned $15800 as stipends. We had a 2 year old daughter. What is that in todays $? Looks like $25k-$27.5k? A bit poor but grateful to get paid to go to school. They said “you’re students, not employees.’ We had student health ins. 1/X
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Let's take a moment to honor the SACRIFICE of our brave schoolchildren who lay down their lives to protect our right to bear arms.
#Columbine
#NRABloodMoney
#GunControlNow
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Thrilled to announce that we've developed antifreeze balancer chromosomes that allow for easy freezing and storage of fly stocks. Pre-print coming soon!
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I once gave my 10 year old daughter "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" by Oliver Sacks. I explained to her that it was written for the layperson. "What's a layperson?" she asked. I replied "a non-scientist." Then she said "You mean like muggles?" Yes, exactly like muggles
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Dear Reviewer 1: Congratulations on the drive by revenge killing you just did on our paper. We would've gladly added in more citations to your work if you would just ask nicely. I guess the fact that we can't reproduce ANY of it is no reason not to cite you.
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The whole
#NatureComms
fiasco made me think of a female mentor from my undergrad days that I haven’t been in touch with for 30 years. Her teaching was formative to who I am today. I reached out to thank her for her mentorship. She was very happy to hear from me. Recommend.
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PS- I hope people read the entire thread and not only the first tweet!
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Should I just go ahead and submit the grant to make it easier for me to find the typos? Or should I read it one more time first?
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@OsmosisReads
I’ve been called Dad by a student but it’s close enough to Dan that I can pretend not to notice.
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Braving a lack of social distancing (still no cases here) to learn how to wash fly food vials in case we need to step up and support
@flystocks
@IUBloomington
. The guys who work here normally wash over 4 million vials and 40,000 bottles per year in support of world fly pushers!
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Well that's kind of sad.
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Look at the cristae in this copper stained TEM section. 🤯
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Dishwashing staff shortage at the
@flystocks
kitchen so your friendly
@IUBiology
fly folk are pulling shifts to keep the operation up and running. Feat.
@TennessenLab
and
@calewhitworth
.
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So many people to thank-my Mother and Father for believing in me when nobody else did, my mentors J. Peter Gergen and Seymour Benzer, and all of the fantastic scientists that have worked in my lab to make this moment possible.
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I don't know about you but I was simply stunned by this gesture. The local authorities in Nanxun, China are worried about us over here in Bloomington, Indiana. They want to help us. The moral of the story is that this is a worldwide crisis and we all need to come together. END.
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I predict that understanding how molecules are important for the function of the nervous system will again be considered to be as important as neuroanatomy. Someday.
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Thread: My wife Wenmay is from Nanxun, China. She's locally famous because she grew up farming but ended up at Peking U.-arguably the top school in China. And then she came to the USA for her PhD in Neurobiology
@UCampusSunySB
We met, married, had kids.
#coronapocalypse
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I saved my Dad’s life when he was choking. He turned to me and said “That’s not how you do the fucking Heimlich.” True story.
"As a child, I promised my mother I would win the Nobel Prize in Physics. 50 years later, I said to my mother, 'See, I have kept my promise. I won the Nobel Prize.' 'No,' said my mother, 'You promised it would be in physics!'"
- Kenzaburo Oe, awarded the 1994 Literature Prize
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Received the official invitation to be permanent member on NIH study section today. Congratudolences may be in order.
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A friend that’s an editor just told me that a revised paper came back with new experiments suggested by reviewer 2. Reviewer 2 is now a coauthor of the new manuscript.
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If you're a postdoc that is trying to develop an independent research program, and you're trying to do something difficult and new, how on Earth are you supposed to have published something on these studies prior to submitting a K99 application? Not a fair criticism.
#reviewer3
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My Dad died over two years ago and I still can’t bring myself to remove him from my cell phone favorites.
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@Hoosierflyman
has been funded nearly $2 million through a 5-year Maximizing Investigators' Research Award for Established Investigators to broaden his research on nociception.
@GCDB_IU
@IUCollege
@IUScienceNews
@IUImpact
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On the bright side of Academia sometimes you get to travel to beautiful places to discuss and share science. Before I get ratioed: I do not take this privilege for granted and yes it’s a MAJOR privilege. We should also talk about what we love about this job in this space.
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I didn't think GAL4 could get any better. But now there is SHINE-GAL4, a photoactivated form.
#DROS21
Great talk from Florencia DiPietro.
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I lost my Dad to prostate cancer in 2018. He loved everything about bicycles-So I am pedaling 500 miles from NYC to Niagara Falls to raise money for cancer research. Any amount you can donate to help end cancer would be greatly appreciated!
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I guess
@realDonaldTrump
would think my Dad was a
#sucker
& a
#loser
for enlisting. Dad was a life-long republican. He and I never agreed on politics. I'd give anything to have another argument with him. But, if he were alive today, I know even he would never vote for Trump. END
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I really miss spontaneous conversations in the hall/flyroom/lab with my labbies.
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I just realized that it has now been 30 years of the GAL4-UAS system for Drosophila!
@andreabrandlab
and
@PerrimonLab
paper came out in June 1993!
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Today I made the decision to write the grant I want to write (instead of the grant I think the study section would want me to write). Wish me luck.
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Gee I wonder why my postdocs K99 application was not discussed by a study section with 13 MDs 10 PhDs and no fly people. FML.
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Trying to finish a paper with someone that's already left the lab.
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Am I the only one that thinks that the tradition of naming labs after the PI is odd? I just feel like calling my lab "The Tracey Lab" is just wrong because the science is a collaboration between myself and all the other people I work with. Maybe "Drosophila Somatosensation Lab?"
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Is there any word in the English language that is sweeter than "PENDING?" Well I guess there is "Awarded". Very grateful to
@NIGMS
for the support of our research program and thanks to my long term Program Officer
@MichaelSesma
for the phone call giving us the great news!!!
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My daughters are having a conversation about RT-PCR at the dinner table.
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My Dad died at 1:09 pm, two years ago today. He was my best friend and I still really, really, miss him. So sorry for all of the people in the world losing their parents to coranavirus. It’s an incredibly painful loss to bear.
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My Grammy just turned 102. She’s just as beautiful as ever!
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I did a "Genetics Trivia" in class today for exam review session. The team names they came up with were awesome: 4 Peas in a Pod, the Dominant Alleles, Mendelian Army, Chromy Homies, Sister Chromatids, Autosomes, X-Linked, Recessive Lethals, and the Pleiotropies.
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ALERT TO ANYONE THAT IS DOING DROSOPHILA CELL CULTURE: YOU DO NOT NEED CALF SERUM ANYMORE!!!!!!!!! Amazing paper from
@IUBiology
colleagues
@aluhur
and
@DrosDGRC
which worked out a simple fly extract technique to replace serum. AOP
@GeneticsGSA
PLZ RT
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Tell me you're a biologist without telling me you're a biologist.
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I received the nicest e-mail this morning. Someone had read our Psi synthase paper, asked interesting questions, and suggested a cool hypothesis for us to test. Science needs more of this.
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Mel Green, discoverer of transposition in
#Drosophila
passed away this morning at age 101. Transcript of a 1968 letter to him from Barbara Mclintock found here:
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Our newest paper was published online today in
@CurrentBiology
! Check out the amazing supplemental videos. Super proud of this wonderful collaborative effort. 1/N Direction Selectivity in Drosophila Proprioceptors Requires the Mechanosensory Channel Tmc
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I feel like my lab is finally back on its feet and productivity is getting closer to pre pandemic levels. Anyone else still not functioning at 100%?
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New Rule: You can jump up and yell EXPECTO PATRONUM in faculty meetings whenever you feel your soul getting sucked out of your body. There's no parliamentary effect of the rule, it's just supposed to make you feel better.
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Thread: My wife has been telecommuting from home for 5 years already and she's incredibly productive. How does she do it you might ask? Here are some tips and tricks that she often recommends to me. 1/N
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I'm not a human neuroscientist, but maybe we're actually plants?
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There is something medieval about looking at specimens through the scope...on your boat...in a rainstorm.
#seabbatical
#seabattical
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Junior colleague in research rank received this weakness in critique on an R21 app. “the entirety of the work is to be performed by the investigator and a single technician, who has yet to be designated/hired/trained.” How are they supposed to hire the tech w/out the grant?
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Henceforth, every fly and worm researcher on grant review panels should point out the weakness in rodent grants if they fail to propose experiments that use our superior invertebrate model systems. Turn about is fair play.
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The students are striking, and it’s time to rethink this outdated idea that students are not workers. We must recognize their Union. 11/X
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Since this is blowing up, if you’re a man over 50, get your prostate checked. It’s no joke. My Dad was 54 when he was first diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer. But thankfully he lived for 20 more years. Honestly, it’s not that bad it’s over quick.
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How did it take so long for the
#scitwitter
to realize that
@MCHammer
is a connoisseur of really cool Neuroscience and Biology?
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