What is a body made of? Many great studies have identified, characterized, and cataloged cell types across organisms. New in @science.org, we take this question to the scale of an entire adult vertebrate, opening organism-wide biology at single-cell resolution: tinyurl.com/3fbkwp4d; #ScienceResearch

Whole-body single-cell atlas of an adult vertebrate, Danionella cerebrum

A complete cell type transcriptome atlas of a vertebrate could promote understanding of animal cell type composition, organization, and evolution. The miniaturized, transparent, and regenerative teleo...

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Barbara Finlay, who died on 12 September, championed the idea that developmental constraints dictate how evolution sculpts brains, which she used to model the timing of hundreds of events and align them across mammalian species. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/re...

Barbara Finlay, ‘maverick’ of evolutionary neuroscience

Finlay, who died on 12 September, championed the idea that developmental constraints dictate how evolution sculpts brains.

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If you've ever wondered how the brain *really* keeps things in mind, come let Aaron, Nick & their colleagues in the Nagel lab tell you how the fly does it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A split attractor design for rapidly writing a navigational goal - Nature

The recurrent h∆K–PFG neural circuit generates persistent heading memories through slow excitation, fast inhibition and a disinhibitory gate, where disinhibition controls the functional...

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An other example of the value and beauty of fundamental biology research: we don’t always know what kind of future applications will be made possible by a basic discovery. This work in a single-celled alga open the doors to optigenetics 💡🧬

Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 4w ago

Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga. Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.

The answer to this question is a very loud and resounding NO. And neurobiologists don't just consider the notion of a "lizard brain" in humans misleading. It is wrong. Very wrong. The only lizard brain is that found within lizards. #neuroethology #neuroskyence www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Do humans really have a ‘lizard brain’ lurking beneath our rational minds?

It’s a powerful analogy that captured the popular imagination, but the biological reality is quite different

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Come to be my colleague! We have a broad search for a tenure track position in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia. Amazing students and collegial environment in the ❤️ of NYC jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/680518/t...

Tenure-track, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences - New York City, New York (US) job with Columbia University Department of Biological Sciences | 680518

The Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position. The successful ...

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Atlas of adult Danionella fish telencephalon reveals retention of larval characters https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.23.753900v1

The Cajal Club remembers neuroscientist Barbara L. Finlay, whose pioneering research advanced our understanding of brain development, evolution, and the cerebral cortex. We honor her remarkable scientific legacy, mentorship, and friendship. #Neuroscience #Cajal www.cajalclub.org/in-memoriam-...

In Memoriam: Barbara Finlay

The Cajal Club remembers Barbara L. Finlay, an influential developmental and evolutionary neuroscientist whose pioneering research transformed our understanding of brain evolution and development, and...

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Generation of a transgenic cephalopod https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.23.753964v1

this story about @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social captures science at its best: a scrappy team, a homemade microscope in a motel room, working under funding duress, pursuing a fundamental question about the evolution of photosynthetic organelles. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...

In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life

A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.

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The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University is hiring! Come and do cutting edge research on the neural basis of natural behaviors at NBB (nbb.cornell.edu). No animal too small, no behavior too strange! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32592

There is still time to apply for the EMBL International PhD Programme! 📢 Don’t miss this opportunity to receive dedicated mentoring while doing interdisciplinary research. Research groups across EMBL are recruiting now! bit.ly/4x9Edss

NEW PREPRINT! An evo-devo look at how new cerebellar nuclei are made. Spoiler: it’s all driven by region-specific excitatory progenitors in the early rhombic lip; inhibitory neurons fill in later. If you care about brain evolution or cerebellar development, check it out: tinyurl.com/CNdevelopment

Lovely to see several pieces of our ctenophore work featured in this beautiful new story from @quantamagazine.org 🪼 Great piece by @mstarling.bsky.social, also featuring work by @stevehaddock.bsky.social, @arnausebe.bsky.social & @hejnol.bsky.social. www.quantamagazine.org/ctenophores-...

Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders. | Quanta Magazine

Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works.

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Lanternfish and the Deep Scattering Layer! Go check out the episode with @drandrewthaler.bsky.social ! #deepsea #ocean #fish #aquarium #science

We have a tenure-track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology in Columbia's E3B Department. Application deadline is October 15. Come be our colleague. Please RT! apply.interfolio.com/193016

Our team is recruiting a PhD student to investigate the evolution of pressure sensation in Zooplankton! The project will use marine invertebrate larvae to explore the molecular, cellular, and neuronal mechanisms behind this fascinating sensory system. More details here: bit.ly/3TTeF4Q

Join us! #SalamanderMeeting2026 REGISTRATIONS OPEN!! 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 salamander2026.iibiomedicas.unam.mx/inicio

🧠🧬🦤 Excited to be at #ICN2026! We're recruiting a #postdoc to study the neural and molecular basis of migration. Projects could include field experiments, captive studies, and spatial/single-cell. Stop by poster 72 today or email! @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social #neuroethology delmorelab.com/recruitment

Excited to share a new preprint from the lab, by @andrewmatheson.bsky.social and team, where we dive into the superpower of newts: plasticity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Like many good projects, this started with a serendipitous observation... 🧵1/5

Congratulations to lab members @andrewmatheson.bsky.social , Tori Saltz and recent alumna @ecbjaeger.bsky.social on their #ICN2026 awards! Keep an eye on these rising stars and don't miss Andrew's and Tori's talks at @neuroethology.org this week

Prebilaterian Origin of Monoaminergic Signalling is out! This paper represents four years of work, not only mine, but friends and colleagues. I am particularly grateful to Tatiana Mayorova; without her help, this paper would not have been nearly as complete. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Prebilaterian origin of monoaminergic signaling

Monoamines such as serotonin, dopamine, and tyramine regulate physiological and behavioral processes in bilaterian animals, but the evolutionary origi…

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I am excited to announce the latest paper from our lab, published in Science ! In this study, we show that thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain process sensory information hierarchically across topographically organized forebrain circuits.

Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits

Thalamocortical projections shape the functional regionalization and parallel sensory computations across the mammalian cortex. However, the principles of thalamocortical computations in non-mammalian...

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience@kavlintnu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Out now in @science.org by @emreyaksi.bsky.social, Anh-Tuan Trinh and colleagues at the Kavli Institute in Trondheim: Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits doi.org/10.1126/scie...

It is a huge honor to become an EMBO Associate Member. I am grateful to my mentors and to all the brilliant trainees in my lab.

EMBO@embo.org · 4mo ago

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 11 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! They join a community of more than 2,200 leading scientists. 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/seventy-one-leading-scientists-elected-to-the-embo-membership/ #EMBOMembers2026

Better late than never... an update on the recent work from the lab. First of all, the Foundation: @astridd93.bsky.social phenomenal paper on the evolution of layering in the cerebral cortex 🧵1/7 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I disagree. Is head is full of tadpoley thoughts, unknown and unimaginable.

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker🐟🪴🏕️🐝@fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hiding from me under two strings of algae, not a single thought in his rotund little head. 🐍

Looking forward to presenting our latest work in Seattle!

allen institute@alleninstitute.org · 7mo ago

Applications are open for the Lake Conference on Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology - co-hosted with Circuit Neuroscience Basel! 🗓️ Oct. 25-29, 2026 📍 Seattle, WA 🧠 All career stages welcomed. 🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/events/lake-conference-comparative-and-evolutionary-neurobiology-2026/

Chuffed to see our paper with @geneyeo.bsky.social finally published in @nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Very grateful to Fede, Susie, and Dave from my lab, and Sammi, Eric, and Pratibha from Gene's lab. What did we find? ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Single-cell and isoform-specific translational profiling of the mouse brain - Nature

Post-transcriptional regulation of mRNA translation was explored using Ribo-STAMP and single-cell RNA sequencing to reveal cell-type-specific and isoform-specific translation patterns across hipp...

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very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL

EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.

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Thank you @fredcauseret.bsky.social for this nice highlight of our work and @idoiaeu.bsky.social 's!

Frédéric Causeret@fredcauseret.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We're happy to highlight two very exciting preprints from @idoiaeu.bsky.social and @matosches.bsky.social about the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells. Find our perspective in @dev-journal.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....