Just out in Nat Neurosci: disentangling of neural odor manifolds in "olfactory cortex" of adult zebrafish after learning. Great work by Bo, Nesibe et al and wonderful collaboration with @sueyeonchung.bsky.social that fundamentally changed my view of olfactory cortex. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

How fast can mice learn complex mazes? With @mameister4.bsky.social we reveal memory, generalization, latent learning, and remote credit assignment of mice in the Manhattan Maze. Do mice born without a cortex or hippocampus have them too? Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Rapid spatial cognition in mice, with and without neocortex and hippocampus

Rapid learning, memory, and generalization are often attributed to circuits of the neocortex and hippocampus, but their specific role remains unclear. To examine these cognitive abilities together in ...

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Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591

Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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What regulates the urge to sleep? William Joo and colleagues identified brain regions that reflect how long mice have been awake. Strikingly, inhibiting one of these regions reduces sleep by 70%, without the major behavioral deficits associated with sleep deprivation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wake-activated neuronal populations that regulate sleep drive - Nature

Whole-brain activity mapping, targeted cell manipulations and electrophysiology in mice identify wake-activated neuronal populations that are crucial for sleep drive and can persistently red...

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Do you have trouble sleeping when away from home or your partner and family? In our latest, we find that shells 🐚🏠 (homes) and conspecifics 🐟❤️ (family) control (or mask) circadian rhythms in shell dwelling cichlid fish: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Callipterus Cichlid Collecting Shell

Alt: Callipterus Cichlid Collecting Shell

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Happy #SharkWeek! Did you know zebrafish are more closely related to zebras than they are to zebra sharks? 🐟🦓🦈 🤯 Credit diagram to Tyler Greenfield (X/@TylerGreenfieId) #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

We're hiring! Postdoc position to study the neural control of reaching using high-density multi-area electrophysiology. 5 years of funding, great collaborative environment. Please share with anyone who may be interested. For details, see: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pruszynski Postdoc 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...

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"Replay occurs in the dorsal striatum during offline consolidation of a procedural memory in mice" - even with total hippocampal lesions pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42493550/ It looks like memory replay is a general capability of the brain - not a special feature of the hippocampus!

Proud to report that an image from my student @yesthatlindsay.bsky.social has been selected as a finalist for this year's BRAIN initiative conference photo and video contest - hint: It involves #zebrafish neurons. Cast your vote for all the awesome entries here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

Might cerebellar disinhibition underlie Restless Legs Syndrome symptoms? Will Joo found that loss of the RLS-associated gene meis1b perturbs locomotion in zebrafish by disinhibiting cerebellar output. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wonderful opportunity in Vienna 🐟 #ZebrafishJobs 🔗: ccri.at/working-at-t...

St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute (CCRI)@stanna-ccri.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are hiring a Principal Investigator (f/m/d) – Zebrafish Models for Pediatric Cancer. Lead an innovative zebrafish research program focused on functional disease modeling, and translational applications in pediatric precision oncology. 🔗 Apply now: lnkd.in/d_HJ4yzv

NoA day! Grateful and excited to report that our research will continue to be supported by an R01 from NINDS.

Excited to share the published version of MIC-Drop-seq @natcomms.nature.com! Shoutout to co-lead authors @claycarey.bsky.social @sparvez.bsky.social for driving this work. Excited to see where this new scale of single-cell perturbation screening goes next. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

James Gagnon@james-gagnon.bsky.social · last yr.

To dissect the gene regulatory networks used to build organisms, we need Perturb-seq-like tools that work in whole animals. For this purpose, we developed MIC-Drop-seq, a tool that couples high-throughput CRISPR in zebrafish embryos with single-cell RNAseq. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy Memorial day weekend on.soundcloud.com/mOZeHeDx9uMx...

Clearing

But how clear is it really?

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Support a great cause. Spread the shrimp gospel. Everyone wins.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

We just got approved to hire a teaching professor in Quantitative Methods! This is the *very* rare tenure track teaching position at Berkeley. I'll be chairing the search committee. Official job ad coming later this summer!

We're hiring a postdoc to develop and use custom optical instruments for measuring and manipulating neural activity in worms and flies. Please apply via interfolio: apply.interfolio.com/186001

At some point we have forgotten that there must be a social contract and we as reviewers, readers and colleagues expect a bare minimum, default of truthfulness, correctness and collegiality. Otherwise, we're not doing science anymore 🧪

will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

absolutely wild to see people out here saying that it is responsibility of peer reviewers to check for hallucinated references. it is hard enough to persuade people to read articles and provide reviews. expecting them to spend hours cross reffing literature is unreal.

New preprint from my lab! Will Anderson developed a transgenic #zebrafish ubiquitously expressing an optogenetic FGF/ERK activator. We're having a lot of fun with it and think you will too! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint from the lab, led by Bradley Cutler. With the @james-gagnon.bsky.social lab we use zebrafish to show that fever is not a reduction in the perception of warmth. Immune signals instead increase the valence of warming stimuli while cooling turns aversive. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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megan peters 🧠@meganakpeters.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

Here’s our latest preprint on uncovering neural control of a coordinated walking pattern! doi.org/10.64898/202... (author-list jumbled, see pdf for corrected). Video shows the central paradigm in this study, we optogenetically induce walking in headless flies and sequentially reduce proprioception.

🧪 1/ New preprint from the lab: L5 pyramidal cell tLTD requires astrocyte Ca2+ and CB1 signaling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We revisit a classic STDP result in visual cortex

But there is more - phenotypes! inbreeding! pretty pictures! Read the full paper here at @devdynamics.bsky.social - anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Early ultraviolet exposure disrupts late dorsal fin skeletal development in zebrafish

Treating young zebrafish with UVB irradiation inhibits late dorsal fin development by ablating the larval fin fold so that fin skeletal mesenchyme cannot invade and form the fin skeleton. Genetically...

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Pls share: A postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Scharf lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech to study motility and chemotaxis in the symbiotic soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti. jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Postdoctoral Associate - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Job Description A full-time postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Scharf lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech to study motility and chemotaxis in the symbioti...

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Hey @natureportfolio.nature.com is this some sort of joke?? Please act ASAP. This is an abomination! 👇How the hell did this ever pass peer review, editorial processes??? doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This is so, so well-articulated.

Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

We are so looking forward to CSHL Neurobiology of Drosophila 2026 🔬 🧠. The new application deadline is April 13th. Come join us! @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlcourses.bsky.social @rister.bsky.social

Jens Rister@rister.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Can't wait to serve again as co-director of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course this year! 🧪🪰👀 Application Deadline: March 27 meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx... @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlcourses.bsky.social