Thrilled to finally see this work out! Congrats to everyone involved 🪱🧪✨

Oded Rechavi@odedrechavi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A new mechanism for “RNA memory”! This time in Planaria! (Here's a video of a Planarian with mulitple heads, one of the heritable phenotypes we studied). This work summarizes >10 years of research and is an amazing collaboration with the labs of Jochen Rink and Omri Wurtzel labs. Read thrad below👇

@annaryba.bsky.social's paper on the neural underpinnings of intraspecific behavioral variation is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social Highly recommend! -> Paper identifies neural substrate for variation in promiscuity among Drosophila melanogaster strains🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Strain variation identifies a neural substrate for behavioral evolution in Drosophila

Sexual selection acts on heritable differences within species, driving the parallel diversification of signal production in one sex and behavioral res…

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Philipp Brand@pbrand.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Exciting new Ruta lab preprint by @annaryba.bsky.social et al. on the neural underpinnings of intraspecific behavioral variation: Strain variation identifies a neural substrate for behavioral evolution Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎉 Thrilled to see our #MosquitoCellAtlas featured on the cover of @cp-cell.bsky.social ! This mosaic represents 367K cells across 19 tissues, unveiling the complex biology that makes mosquitoes the world's deadliest animals. Beautiful art by @somedonkey.bsky.social meets the #Vosshalllab science! 🦟🎨

Cell - a Cell Press journal@cp-cell.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New issue alert! 👉 cell.com/cell/current On the cover: The mosquito mosaic represents the tissues of the atlas presented by Goldman et al. The atlas reveals the complex diversity underlying the mosquito’s remarkable ability to locate human hosts and transmit deadly pathogens

The final version of the clonal raider ant reference brain is now out OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social: 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A reference brain for the clonal raider ant

Ants exhibit remarkable collective and social behaviors, such as alloparental care,1 chemical communication,2 homing,3 and cooperative group hygiene.4…

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Daniel Kronauer@danielkronauer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New preprint from the lab: A reference brain for the clonal raider ant. With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#SfN25 stop by board ZZ5! We are presenting FERAL!

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨

🦟 We've just published the world's first head-to-toe single-cell atlas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in @cp-cell.bsky.social! The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology. Read it here: shorturl.at/dJWT3

A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito

A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres...

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A real game-changer for the mosquito community - all packed in a beautiful paper!!!!

Olivia Goldman PhD@oliviagoldman.net · 9mo ago

Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸 There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right? Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>

Q.E.D works amazingly well! I was a skeptic at the beginning and then just really really impressed. For change 🥂

Oded Rechavi@odedrechavi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

Congratulations @karalmckinley.bsky.social & lab on their groundbreaking recent preprint establishing + characterizing a chemically inducible model of menstruation in mouse: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... My jaw dropped when I heard this presented earlier this year. Incredible.

Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding

During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

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Pls. share widely Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025 → Vibrant & friendly community → Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology → Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating) submit abstract by July 29

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · last yr.

⏰ Abstract deadline for 'The mobile genome' is 29 July! 👉 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl Join us 4–7 Nov 2025 at EMBL Heidelberg (or online) to explore the impact of TEs across biology. 🧬🔍 ⭐🧑🏼‍🔬 24 talks + 15 flash talks from posters – don't miss out! #EMBOMobileGenome

Just finished reading this amazing work from @WeingartenShira et al. A real tour de force to reveal the “dark matter” of viral genomes in high throughput: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pan-viral ORFs discovery using massively parallel ribosome profiling

Defining viral proteomes is crucial to understanding viral life cycles and immune recognition but the landscape of translated regions remains unknown for most viruses. We have developed massively para...

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Dr. Wild's Big Gallery of Bug Sex

Insect Sex - Alex Wild

The world's millions of insect species display a glorious diversity of strategies for courting and mating.

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Fantastic!! www.simonsfoundation.org/neuroscience...

Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience

The mission of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological NEuroscience (SCENE) is to understand how affordances offered by the world shape representations in the mind and the brain.

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🥼A new tissue expansion method developed by researchers in the Wang & Tillberg labs & collaborators @uwmadison.bsky.social enables scientists to use mass spectrometry imaging to simultaneously detect hundreds of molecules at the single cell level in their native locations ➡️ hhmi.news/4ixHOZZ

New technique expands tissues so hundreds of biomolecules can be seen inside cells

A new tissue expansion method developed by Janelia and University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers enables scientists to use mass spectrometry imaging to simultaneously detect hundreds of molecules

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Absolutely CRAZY study from the brilliant @leahhouri.bsky.social in @leslievosshall.bsky.social lab ✨ What restricts mosquito mating between species, how some species "break" this barrier and become dominant, and how that shift can reshape the landscape of mosquito-borne disease. Don't miss Leah's 🧵

Leah Houri-Zeevi@leahhouri.bsky.social · last yr.

✨🦟✨HOW DO MOSQUITOES HAVE SEX? ✨🦟✨ Join us for a wild journey into hidden female control, rapidly evolving stimulation devices, fierce species competition, and DEADLY MOSQUITOES! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks Oded!!!!!

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Oded Rechavi@odedrechavi.bsky.social · last yr.

WOW!! A new pre-print rethinking how mosquitoes, the world's deadliest animal, mates. Amazing work from Leah @leahhouri.bsky.social (former PhD student in my lab) conducted in @leslievosshall.bsky.social's lab. Huge implications (see below) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

✨🦟✨HOW DO MOSQUITOES HAVE SEX? ✨🦟✨ Join us for a wild journey into hidden female control, rapidly evolving stimulation devices, fierce species competition, and DEADLY MOSQUITOES! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Sorrells Lab is hiring a recent college graduate interested in neurobiology of mosquitoes! The position is ideal for someone interested in gaining skills for graduate school. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/164849

BIG NEWS! The Mosquito Cell Atlas preprint is live! 🦟🧬 My first senior author paper! Massive and accessible snRNA-seq dataset and a lot of cool mosquito biology. A true collaborative achievement! #MCA biorxiv.org/content/10.1... See @oliviagoldman.net thread here

Mosquito Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito

The female mosquito’s remarkable ability to hunt humans and transmit pathogens relies on her unique biology. Here, we present the Mosquito Cell Atlas (MCA), a comprehensive single-nucleus RNA sequenci...

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Olivia Goldman PhD@oliviagoldman.net · last yr.

I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research. Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research. Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

I'm thrilled to be opening my own lab this Fall at the @maxplanck.de MPI for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The lab is going to investigate the neuronal and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. We are hiring on all levels. Don't hesitate to share widely and reach out if interested.

Happy Holidays, and for a new year full of light ✨✨✨

The greatest poem ever written, by Nael, aged 6. Nael would be at least 14 today. He said that tigers made him happy. #ThingsThatMakeMeHappy #JoinIn

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: I was submitting files to the SRA

This is so cool! I love these little aliens and realizing how the adult-to-be mosquito is compacted inside them is just super satisfying

Josh Gibson, Ph.D.@drstrangeant.bsky.social · 2y ago

Possibly my favorite #microCT scan I've done all year - A mosquito pupa (Culex pipiens)! 🥰

Sharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.

A modular circuit coordinates the diversification of courtship strategies - Nature

Peripheral and central circuit adaptations can be flexibly coordinated in Drosophila, and such a modular circuit organization may facilitate the evolution of mate recognition systems by allowing novel...

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Science in Bluesky these past couple of weeks

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Here it is! Our best paper ever, by far. Have you ever wondered how complex traits have evolved repeatedly across the tree of life? May be we have some answers... t.co/n0HoWi36T7