I'm thrilled to announce the opening of the Kaplan lab at the University of Virginia @uvabio.bsky.social ! We are a neuroscience lab aiming to define circuits underlying naturalistic behaviors in infants and adults. We're actively recruiting students and postdocs. Learn more at kaplan-lab.org.

New paper alert!!...🤩 Led by @blogeman.bsky.social, we identify how cell type-specific hormonal responses in the hypothalamus tunes parenting behavior in males and females 🐭🧠🍼. Highlights in thread 👇 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Cell Type-Specific Hormonal Signaling Configures Hypothalamic Circuits for Parenting

Parenting behavior emerges from hormonally sensitive circuits, but how distinct circuit components are affected by, and contribute to, sex and state dependent changes in infant caregiving remains uncl...

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I am thrilled to share our latest work led by @zurisullivan.bsky.social in collaboration with @moffittlab.bsky.social ! We find that the brain encodes distinct, pathogen-specific sickness states across behavior, physiology, neural activity, and gene expression 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

MCB Researchers Highlighted in Nature Publication Series 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dulaclab.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @nature.com @harriskaplan.bsky.social

MCB Researchers Highlighted in Nature Publication Series - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

Researchers from the Brain Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) will release an extraordinary series of 16 manuscripts in Nature on November 5.. This collection, made possible by large […]

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New paper from our lab! This was such a fun project to be a part of - proof that sometimes following a spurious observations down the rabbit hole leads to awesome findings. www.cell.com/current-biol...

A cell type in the visual system that receives feedback about limb movement

Hartman et al. describe a cell type in the Drosophila visual system that is activated during head grooming through visual and non-visual signals arising from foreleg movements. These neurons inhibit a...

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Animal behavior changes considerably over postnatal development. How do such changes relate to the development of underlying neuronal circuits? On Friday, 7/25, 3pm, join hosts Drs. Marco Rizzo & Tamara Markovic as they welcome @harvard.edu's Dr. @harriskaplan.bsky.social to #MSNseminars & Find out!

I’m excited to share our publication from @dulaclab.bsky.social in @nature.com, where we illuminate the development of hypothalamic cell types involved in a broad range of functions, from social behaviors to thirst, thermoregulation, and sleep. Highlights below! 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sensory input, sex and function shape hypothalamic cell type development - Nature

Paired transcriptomic and chromatin accessibility profiling are used to examine the developmental trajectories of neuronal populations in the hypothalamic preoptic region, including cell types with ke...

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Delighted to share our new work just out today, led by terrific postdoc in the lab @harriskaplan.bsky.social: the development of instinct at the single cell level. Thread to follow shortly www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Harvard_MCB@harvardmcb.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Development of Instincts at the Single Cell Level #Science #Neuro 🧠🧪🧬 www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dulaclab.bsky.social @harriskaplan.bsky.social @blogeman.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

In our new paper @dulaclab.bsky.social, we investigated a fundamental question in social neuroscience: the origin of "sociality" (the need of being together) at the levels of behavior, neuron type, neural circuit and sensory modulation. (Detailed digest below) (1/7) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please look at the 🧵 from @dingliu.bsky.social summarizing our discovery of brain-wide circuits controlling the emergence and satiation of social drive during social isolation vs grouping

Ding Liu@dingliu.bsky.social · 2y ago

In our new paper @dulaclab.bsky.social, we investigated a fundamental question in social neuroscience: the origin of "sociality" (the need of being together) at the levels of behavior, neuron type, neural circuit and sensory modulation. (Detailed digest below) (1/7) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Obviously we don't need to wonder about Zuckerberg's moral compass or pecuniary interests here, we've known who this guy is forever. The question of why leaders of institutions like HHMI / universities would be so silent/compliant is more complicated.

Noelle L’Etoile@girlsinscience.bsky.social · 2y ago

HHMI, CZI your local grad group’s DEI committee (?) - the fear of retaliation is causing scientists across scales to abandon justice, morality and humanity. Fear is real - our response to the threat is in our control - we cower or confront. Your choice.

We have to stand up for science! Anyone who can join these rallies and believes that US science must be protected should come! @standupforscience.bsky.social

F99/R00 AND K99/R00 DIVERSITY AWARD APPLICANTS If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me. DM me, email berg.grants.2029@gmail.com, Signal jeremymberg.78 THANK YOU

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Exciting abstracts are already rolling in! Don’t wait—submit your work before the speaker selection deadline. We’re also eager to highlight the latest tools and tech in development! #neuroethology #animalbehavior #neuralcircuits

Sreeparna Pradhan@sreeparnap.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very excited to co-chair the Neuroethology 2025 GRS from Jun28-29 in Lucca, Italy! This will be followed by the GRC from Jun29-Jul4. Check out the awesome GRC speakers lineup here: www.grc.org/neuroetholog... Grad students and postdocs please submit your latest and best! Abstracts are open now :)

Humans and other animals take turns during conversations. In our new paper we study the aggressive visual conversations of betta fish. We discover how fish know when is their turn and how the telencephalon is not needed! 🧪 www.cell.com/cell-reports... More details in 🧵 ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/bend...

Coordination and persistence of aggressive visual communication in Siamese fighting fish

Everett et al. investigate the visual cues and neural substrates that drive turn taking and persistent aggression in Siamese fighting fish aggressive displays. They identify the pallial amygdala as es...

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Andres Bendesky@bendeskylab.com · 2y ago

How do animals know when it’s their turn to communicate during a conversation? In our latest preprint, we study the behavior and neurobiology of aggressive visual turn-taking of Siamese fighting (betta) fish to find out. Work lead by Claire Everett 🧵 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just In case people need to follow people in neuroscience focused on natural behaviors and the brains of cool non-trad animals! Please join let me know if you wanna be added. go.bsky.app/AcLpM4h

In collaboration with Reuben Saunders, @jswlab.bsky.social, and Xiaowei Zhuang, we are very excited to release Perturb-Multi: a platform for pooled multimodal genetic screens in intact mammalian tissue. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A platform for multimodal in vivo pooled genetic screens reveals regulators of liver function

Organ function requires coordinated activities of thousands of genes in distinct, spatially organized cell types. Understanding the basis of emergent tissue function requires approaches to dissect the...

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