{"id":428,"date":"2012-12-14T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T10:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/towardsdolly.wordpress.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2012-12-14T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T10:26:48","slug":"dancing-drosophila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/2012\/12\/14\/dancing-drosophila\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Drosophila!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_429\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/towardsdolly.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/14\/dancing-drosophila\/drosophila-ballet-cropped\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-429\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-429\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-429\" alt=\"Waddington photograph album: EUA IN1\/ACU\/A1\/5\/7\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/12\/drosophila-ballet-cropped.jpg?w=1024\" width=\"1024\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/12\/drosophila-ballet-cropped.jpg 3929w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/12\/drosophila-ballet-cropped-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/12\/drosophila-ballet-cropped-1024x894.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/12\/drosophila-ballet-cropped-624x544.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waddington photograph album: EUA IN1\/ACU\/A1\/5\/7<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As this will be our last blog post of the year, we thought we&#8217;d post something suitably silly to get you in the Christmas spirit! These photographs of a &#8216;Drosophila ballet&#8217; involving staff at the Institute of Animal Genetics were included in a photograph album presented to C.H Waddington at his 50th birthday celebrations in 1955.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who worked closely with the fruit fly <em>Drosophila<\/em> (used\u00a0frequently in genetics experiments), Waddington would no doubt have appeciated the &#8216;ballet&#8217;, which appears to involve various strains of\u00a0the fly\u00a0being pursued by a &#8216;researcher&#8217;. It obviously wasn&#8217;t all serious lab work at the Institute&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/towardsdolly.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/14\/dancing-drosophila\/drosophila-ballet-close-up-cropped\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-430\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-430\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/12\/drosophila-ballet-close-up-cropped.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/12\/drosophila-ballet-close-up-cropped.jpg 3057w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/12\/drosophila-ballet-close-up-cropped-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/12\/drosophila-ballet-close-up-cropped-1024x837.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/12\/drosophila-ballet-close-up-cropped-624x510.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Festive greetings to everyone, and we&#8217;ll see you in 2013!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this will be our last blog post of the year, we thought we&#8217;d post something suitably silly to get you in the Christmas spirit! These photographs of a &#8216;Drosophila ballet&#8217; involving staff at the Institute of Animal Genetics were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/2012\/12\/14\/dancing-drosophila\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Aqf-6U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}