Natasha Mhatre
@natashamhatre.bsky.social
I introduce Biology to Physics, Science to Art. Good things happen. I like thinking about thinking. Canada Research Chair in Invert Neurobio @ Western U. Views always my own.
The Liberals have shown their true colours. They had their chance to stand with workers and protect the right to strike. Instead, they stood with the corporations that want to exploit and squeeze them for all they’re worth. The Liberals have chosen whose side they're on — and it isn't yours.
If your an ECR in the Global South and you are fascinated by neural resilience and vulnerability @biologists.bsky.social is offering 20 funded places to attend the GS Workshop in Argentina www.biologists.com/workshops/au... Deadline for applications: 6 November coms.app/BiologistsWS... 🔁
Our experience illustrates the value of bringing theory—even seemingly straightforward theory—into ever-dangerous contact with the real world. In the process, you may reveal unexpected ways in which the theory might need to be revised or in which it might be fruitfully extended.
The labeled colonies are kind of cool to look at—and you can actually see the substitution process proceeding down each stack of plates in the second image as green colonies replace red ones at successive points in time.
📢Two fully funded #PhD options at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social: Intergroup communication & conflict in mountain gorillas tinyurl.com/3b389a4s @robinmorrison.bsky.social Ecology and conservation of migratory birds under global change tinyurl.com/5n7f79yk @fyguo.bsky.social 📆Deadline: 13th Dec 2026
Carney and Solomon are running a pump and dump scheme that will transfer our public funds into the hands of US technofascists
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 10h ago#ICYMI The not-so-sovereign-AI ... "Cohere Is Canada’s Biggest AI Hope. Why Is It So American? The company touts homegrown roots but leans on US hardware and partners." thewalrus.ca/cohere-is-ca...
The Ultrawealthy Produce More Carbon Pollution Than Nearly Half of Humanity time.com/article/2026...
The Carbon Footprint of the Ultrarich
Private jets are one of the biggest sources of emissions for the ultrawealthy.
time.com
I am beyond thrilled to share my new paper with @alexcnkingston.bsky.social out in Scientific Reports! We learned that unarmored snapping shrimp have behavioral markers of neurotrauma following exposure to shock waves from conspecifics! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Disorientation as a marker of neurotrauma in an animal that uses shock waves as weapons - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Disorientation as a marker of neurotrauma in an animal that uses shock waves as weapons
nature.com
The UCFA “found that, from 2011 to 2025, tenured and tenure-track faculty positions increased by 20% while senior administrative positions increased by more than 100%. It also found that there are 3,000 more senior administrators than there are Academic Senate faculty.”
UC Faculty Association calls on UC to hire more faculty, criticizes growing ‘senior administration’
The UC Faculty Association is calling on the UC system to hire more faculty, protect research budgets and defend university research against federal funding cuts.
dailycal.org
So all those Facebook profiles on us, even the “shadow profiles” on people with no Facebook presence, were just a practice run, or an inspiration for this? Great. theconversation.com/shadow-profi...
Shadow profiles - Facebook knows about you, even if you’re not on Facebook
Not on Facebook? Well the social media giant could still have created a shadow profile for you, without your knowledge or permission.
theconversation.com
whoa! Students who protested genocide weren‘t allowed to o leave their dorm rooms?!
"The gender dynamics at the faculty senate meeting on Oct. 14 were all too familiar to the female faculty present... We cited evidence and data; men said they felt our “anger” and “passion,” but that we lacked a “considered response.”" www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
GUEST ROOM | Reason vs. Repression: Inside the Faculty Senate Debate of No Confidence
The “Passionate” Women of the Cornell Faculty, a a group of women faculty in attendance at the Faculty Senate meeting on Oct. 14, describe their experience during the meeting and call out the administ...
cornellsun.com
“We’re not ‘passionate.’ We want to stop our students from being raped, Mr. Kotlikoff.”
Dan Hirschman@asociologist.bsky.social · 2d ago"The gender dynamics at the faculty senate meeting on Oct. 14 were all too familiar to the female faculty present... We cited evidence and data; men said they felt our “anger” and “passion,” but that we lacked a “considered response.”" www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
New paper from PhD student @sarahpugly.bsky.social, co-advised by @bingbrunton.bsky.social. Neuroscientists have long sought to understand how the nervous system generates the walking rhythm. Sarah walked into our office one day with an unexpected solution... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Connectome simulations identify a central pattern generator for fly walking - Nature
Computational simulations of a neural network based on fly connectomes identify a three-neuron circuit that is organized to produce leg motor rhythms for walking.
nature.com
People keep on asking me why I was paranoid when Trump fired the head of the Library of Congress and the Registrar of the Copyright Office and I said: copyright deposits would be awfully good to train AI.
Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 3d agoAnthropic's S1 reveals that the company considers copyright law a massive risk. It says: "If we cannot rely on the fair use doctrine to access copyrighted work for training our models, we may be required to pay significant fees to obtain a license to such training data..."
Kamala prosecuted people in San Francisco for WEED but prosecuting Donald Trump now that's too far
I know there’s a lot going, but 19 Republican AGs have said—in writing!—that pro-choice speech should be criminalized. Thats a Big Fucking Deal and it blows my mind that more people aren’t talking about it
NEW: 19 Republican AGs Want to Outlaw Sharing Abortion Information
Plus: Idaho’s war on Prop 1 ads, and antis’ obsession with the “demonic”
jessica.substack.com
HARVARD STRIKE HARVARD STRIKE HARVARD STRIKE HARVARD STRIKE www.instagram.com/reel/De9j6Tb...
Anna Meier@annameier.bsky.social · 4d agoTomorrow, Harvard grad workers go on strike after a year and a half of bargaining, after Harvard management agreed to reasonable proposals on only 10 articles of the contract, after the boss's ongoing failure to provide fair pay & support non-citizens. Solidarity with these dauntless workers. 🌹
Tomorrow, Harvard grad workers go on strike after a year and a half of bargaining, after Harvard management agreed to reasonable proposals on only 10 articles of the contract, after the boss's ongoing failure to provide fair pay & support non-citizens. Solidarity with these dauntless workers. 🌹
I'm hiring a postdoc for our NSF IntBIO project on songbird behavior, physiology and fitness! Start date as early as April 1 or as late as Sept 2027. Emphasis on behavioral endocrinology and transcriptomics, plus field ornithology based on applicant interests: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33216.
Duke University, Biology
Job #AJO33216, Postdoctoral Associate, Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
academicjobsonline.org
More shocking displays by Bolsonaro supporters in the last 24 hours: voters wearing T-shirts that say “long live fascism,” doing a Nazi salute when entering the polls, and a white man walking a Black man on a chain at a pro-Bolsonaro gathering in Rio de Janeiro.
a short history of me, in crayon. 400 million years of insects, a rocket in 1947, a white-eyed fly in a milk bottle, and now every one of my neurons, mapped and running in a jar. #SciArt #SciComm #drosophila
Transport issues in major capitals across Brazil right now, all major Lula-voting hubs, including the city of São Paulo. More arrest warrants for mayors across Brazil are currently being issued while the Labour Party tries to get voting times extended (polls are due to close in 95 minutes).
Here’s a shocking video of Bolsonaro supporters throwing stones and bricks at Labour Party councilwoman Iara Pimentel (PT-Montes Claros) in Minas Gerais last night. One of many shocking displays of public violence by Flávio Bolsonaro supporters.
We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.
This. And if most Americans weren't aware of this in 2019, I'd guess they're even less so now. Public university students were paying for a third of the cost of their education in 2009, and it was up to half by 2019. 2009 wasn't great compared to the 60s-70s, either. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...
Most Americans don't realize state funding for higher ed fell by billions
Spending is down by $9 billion over the last decade, driving tuition up and frustrating the search for skilled workers.
pbs.org
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 5d agoYour regular reminder that the solution to ~every single problem with 🇺🇸 higher education - both real & imagined - is to <all together now> Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Right, so, male influencers are being sent out to tell Black people that resisting data centers is wrong actually because people don't understand how to really measure their water use. It’s an appeal to scientific expertise intended to intimidate Black people.
