Day 1 of #HCA2026GM on 16 June includes a lunchtime Civic Science session with @kritvenks.bsky.social exploring the impact of HCA beyond discoveries. From trust and shared infrastructure to capacity-strengthening, how we recognize and value these contributions. buff.ly/8GSh97r 🖥️ 🧬 #Genomics

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Breakout Room - Bray

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We are so excited to include these new Fellows-to-Faculty Fellows in the Simons Foundation fold!

Simons Foundation@simonsfoundation.org · 11mo ago

Announcing our 9 new Fellows-to-Faculty Fellows! These awards help senior postdoctoral researchers with fresh perspectives on autism & neuroscience transition to tenure-track faculty positions: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/simons-foundation-announces-recipients-of-2025-fellows-to-faculty-awards/

calling all neuroscience courses and conferences - request for applications open!

Simons Foundation@simonsfoundation.org · last yr.

We are accepting applications for funding of courses or conferences in autism research, healthy cognitive aging, and systems and computational #neuroscience. Deadline is 5/22/2025: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science #autismresearch

We are accepting applications for funding of courses or conferences in autism research, healthy cognitive aging, and systems and computational #neuroscience. Deadline is 5/22/2025: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science #autismresearch

Simons Foundation Autism & Neuroscience Conferences and Courses Awards

The Simons Foundation’s Autism and Neuroscience division is accepting applications for funding of courses or conferences that align with our mission.

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Thrilled to share 'BuzzWatch', my post-doc work with Felix Hol and @lambrechtslab.bsky.social ➡️Filming mosquitoes in a cage with a €15 camera but for 700h(1month) revealed fascinating insights into their behavior⌛🦟🎥⏳ preprint🔍 doi.org/10.1101/2025... DIY guide 🛠️ theomaire.github.io/buzzwatch 🧵⬇️

BuzzWatch: uncovering multi-scale temporal patterns in mosquito behavior through continuous long-term monitoring

Understanding the temporal dynamics of mosquito behavior is essential for developing effective interventions against pathogen transmission. However, limited knowledge exists about the environmental, p...

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Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito

Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. Here we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipiens form m...

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AT LAST OUR PEER-REVIEWED PRE-PRINT IS PUBLISHED We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans

Mosquitoes enhance sensitivity to human body heat by a sensory compensation mechanism when their sense of smell is disrupted.

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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

1/ 🧵 Free resources for scientists 💡 Covering research skills, careers, #SciComm, leadership, activism and more, everything in this thread appears on our Learning Resources page, with tips for researchers and academics at any career stage. #AcademicChatter #ECRChat https://buff.ly/4f8vIpk

Learning resources for scientists · eLife

A collections of articles that provide practical resources and guidance for researchers and academics

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2 new studies on brain aging with sex-specific findings —Angiogenesis factors www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... —Loss of gray matter press.psprings.co.uk/jnnp/novembe...

Hoping for some of this this week!

I am somewhat biased towards lantern bugs and often make little trips searching for them. Here's Pyrops pythicus, endemic to Sumatra. How many colours do you see?

Here are some nice mushrooms

Ru-upping this thread from last year since the paper is now out! @chenshuliu.bsky.social identified a Piezo-dependent mechanism that enables C. elegans to sniff out “bad eggs” and target them for destruction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Chemically induced proximity reveals a Piezo-dependent meiotic checkpoint at the oocyte nuclear envelope

Sexual reproduction relies on robust quality control during meiosis. Assembly of the synaptonemal complex between homologous chromosomes (synapsis) regulates meiotic recombination and is crucial for a...

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Abby Dernburg@adernburg.bsky.social · 3y ago

I'm excited to introduce a new story from my lab in which we developed a new tool for inducible proximity and used it to determine the molecular basis of the "synapsis checkpoint," which @needhibhalla.bsky.social and I first described in 2005...

Aging starter pack! go.bsky.app/5UXXaDA

A thread on NIH Reorganization and the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through. 1/n

This is an essential and immensely clarifying piece. You should read anything and everything Dara writes, but this in particular.

Dara Lind@daralind.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW FROM ME: The government will do things that hurt people. But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him. Here’s a start. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

A really nice write up of the recent studies looking at how the human brain handles the unique number zero! Featuring some words and work by me and @smfleming.bsky.social, as well as many others. Check it out👇0️⃣🧠 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero | Quanta Magazine

Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.

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In my latest newsletter, I'm excited to announce my 3rd book! THE INFINITE EXTENT. A book about life at different scales--of size, time, geography, longevity, connectivity, individuality, & more. I see it as the conclusion of a trilogy of books. More details: buttondown.email/edyong209/ar...

Happy Halloween 🎃 Here are the pumpkins I carved this year: An active red dwarf star and its gas giant planet. I call it an exo-pumkin. 🧪🔭

I am hoping my 🟦 to be more science-y 😜 but hey, check this preprint out: median base rate for Indian women in STEM is 16.7% 🫢. Thrilled to spot biaswatchindia folks here 💪🏽 👀 Are there any south asian women scientists I'm not following yet? Feel free to say hi! Let's connect! 🧪🔬 #WomenInSTEM

Shruti Muralidhar@polybiotique.bsky.social · 3y ago

Hoping to start some conversations around Indian #WomenInSTEM with our work! @vaishananth.bsky.social and I founded BiasWatchIndia back in 2020 during the pandemic and started collecting both base rate and conference data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's time to recruit for the 2024 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program, which is our fourth year! Mentee form: forms.gle/tryM66LaKGM5... Mentor form: forms.gle/ncCcoNxYkJhN... Applications are due December and placements will occur by mid-January! Reach out with any questions!

Your regular reminder that pandemics are social problems, which cannot be solved by the products of biomedical research if the social infrastructure necessary for delivering said products is in fucking tatters.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 3y ago

“Unless they are ill, many adults interact infrequently with the medical establishment. When they do, they may get care in a variety of places — making it no one person’s job to ensure they are up to date with their vaccinations… adults often have to figure this stuff out themselves”

Absolutely thrilled to share my postdoc work in the Axel lab. We found odor-evoked representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex and showed that mice desire knowledge as its own reward. Now on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Representations of information value in mouse orbitofrontal cortex during information seeking

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Such an interesting story by @jenbussell.bsky.social from the Axel lab: mice want to know more!

Jennifer Bussell PhD@jenbussell.bsky.social · 3y ago

Absolutely thrilled to share my postdoc work in the Axel lab. We found odor-evoked representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex and showed that mice desire knowledge as its own reward. Now on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hello world! Looking forward to exploring science, nature, education, and all things weird and wonderful on here.