Black grouse in the French Alps need protection from ski cables. To design better warning flags, Simon Potier, @lienardmarjorie.bsky.social & co discovered that the birds see black & white cheques well, don't see deep red & markers must be no more than 16m apart doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

New paper out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! Under the leadership of @lienardmarjorie.bsky.social, we explore the visual system of the Black Grouse and how it plays a role in how the species deals (or not) with human-made structures in its environment. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

Exploring the visual system of the black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix): combining experimental and molecular approaches to inform strategies for reducing collisions

Highlighted Article: Investigation of how black grouse perceive their environment suggests how vision-informed marker design may improve detection of aerial structures and reduce collision risk.

journals.biologists.com

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

The Trump administration intends to deport a Harvard scientist back to Russia, government lawyers told a federal judge on Wednesday. The scientist fled the country in 2022 and fears she will be arrested there over her protest of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

U.S. Tells Court It Plans to Deport Scientist to Russia

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🧬 New study out: we report a chromosome-level assembly of the deer mouse Peromyscus maniculatus! A launching pad for chemosensory-evolution research. Read more 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Functional and Genetic Architecture of Olfaction in Deer Mice

Mammals have well-developed olfactory systems, but the molecular logic driving the extraction of biological information, how this logic evolves and contributes to differences in behavior remain unclea...

biorxiv.org

Scared to share this after 10 freaking years of waiting, but here we go: We found that temperature *perception* can change the biology of the next generations, even when “it’s just in the parents' head”. Read how C. elegans neurons control epigenetic inheritance! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Perception of Temperature Even in the Absence of Actual Change is Sufficient to Drive Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance

Can processes occurring in one individuals nervous system influence the physiology of the descendants? Here we explored the provocative hypothesis that parents sensation or perception of environmental...

biorxiv.org

Scientists are reporting that it would take just a single mutation in the version of bird flu that has swept through U.S. cattle herds to produce a virus adept at latching on to human cells, a much simpler step than previously imagined.

Single bird flu mutation could let it latch easily to human cells, study finds

The potential mutation would allow the avian influenza virus sweeping through cattle herds to attach to a receptor protein on the surface of our cells.

washingtonpost.com

Happy VSS submission day to all who celebrate! #VisionScience

VIVE LE MERCOSUR ! Ce traité est nécessaire pour notre industrie, pour la transition écologique… et même pour notre agriculture. Tant pis pour les fakes news sur le bœuf aux hormones. Un thread qui ne va pas me faire que des amis. ⤵️

Just put together the beginnings of a systems & behavior neuro starter pack (focus on rodent work) - obviously a lot of people missing, and most included are in my own little bubble, so if you want to be added do reply here! go.bsky.app/Hxpe53o