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Mosquitoes are smarter than you think | CNN

CNN Medical Correspondent Meg Tirrell goes inside a Virginia Tech laboratory to find the new ways researchers are learning to fight back against mosquitoes.

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Do you find mutualisms fascinating? Work on behavior, neurobiology, or sensory biology in mutualistic animals? Join us at our symposium or complementary session on the neuroethology of mutualisms at SICB 2027! @sicb.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social

1/8 Breathing seems automatic. But it's a finely tuned motor behavior that has to be controlled. In this preprint, I map the circuits that match a fly's respiration to the metabolic demands of flight and mitigate the risk of dehydration. 🧵🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This short-term funding bill blocks a corrupt policy that would allow Trump to hold even more federal grants hostage—and it closes House Republicans' loophole to pull funding for other agencies to give to Border Patrol. My full statement.⬇️

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How do parasites reprogram brains so your host becomes a zombie? If you are still at #ICN2026 tomorrow Friday, come to my talk at 3:30 pm (room 2306/2309) #strepsiptera #zombiewasp

Signing the Royal Society's Charter Book (created in 1663) earlier this month was a very moving experience. It contains the signatures of every other person we have learned about in school science lessons, and there was strong sense of "why on Earth am I here...?" Thank you so much to my team! 🥹

@ajblake05.bsky.social from @riffelllab.bsky.social lab talked about spectral sensitivity in mosquito 👁 and how the olfactory context affects color learning.

The last poster session of #ICN2026 is successfully done ✅️ Thanks to all poster presenters and all visitors 🤗 We will share impressions of the #icn2026vancouver conference day below 👇

Walking on webs isn't easy. @natashamhatre.bsky.social tells us all about her amazing work researching how black widow spiders use their forelegs to sense and walk at the same time! #ICN2026 @neuroethology.org

Beginning to understand the physiology of spermatogenesis is really fun and super fascinating. A big thank you and congrats to everyone involved in this study. It took us a while, but it was worth it. P.S.: check out the supplemental movies.

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Seminiferous tubules of the testes play an important role in #sperm production. This study by @marcspehr.bsky.social &co shows that all cell types in the mouse seminiferous epithelium display unique calcium signaling patterns that are under endocrine control. 🧪#AcademicSky plos.io/3TnAWY9

First speaker in symposium 1 is Nicholas Kathman presenting "Neural dynamics for working #memory and evidence integration during olfactory #navigation in #Drosophila" 🧠👃🪰

ICB celebrates #NationalSeaStarDay Sea Star Superpowers: Celebrating our Ocean Superheroes for National Sea Star Day by Colleen Hecker on the work of Matt McHenry & Theodora Po, PhD read in full integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/s... #science #biology

Wildfires are currently raging in several countries. This edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social looks at how chemistry helps fight them 🔥 cen.acs.org/environment/...

Marta Andres shows that the development of insecticide resistance paved the path towards an adaptation to urban areas with high noise pollution which improved auditory behavior in mosquitos.

The #ICN2026 Mosquito Satellite concluded with a great talk by @neuroluk.bsky.social about olfactory circuit evolution that lead to human specializing mosquitoes that can better discriminate human smells from animal smells.

A successful start to ICN 2026 with the Neurobiology in a changing world satellite meeting @neuroethology.org #icn2026 @kavlifoundation.org

Has it been an hour since I last reskeeted this? Fuck it, I'm gonna do it anyway. Whole piece is well worth a read. And for those of you who don't regularly read Science magazine, um, no, this is NOT the way they normally express themselves. www.science.org/content/blog...

HL Eisthen, defective human product@hleisthen.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Explore emerging research with field leaders @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies, this February in Geneva! keysym.us/KSVectorPathog27 #KSVectorPathog27 www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies | Keystone Symposia

Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies, February 2027, in Geneva, with field leaders!

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Congratulations to Anupama @manel-a-pama.bsky.social, who won the Poster Prize at the annual biology Poster Session! She will also bring her poster to #ICN26 in Vancouver, so stay tuned 🦋🌸 @neuroethology.org

Science friends! This fall I'm teaching a class on "Scientists as Writers" and looking for model papers. What is a scientific paper you love for the quality of its writing? Maybe something you have used as a model in your own work? What do you love about it?

Please submit your comment if you have not already. And Happy Festivus Day to all of us.

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 4w ago

Monday, July 13th is the LAST DAY that you can leave a public comment on Russell Vought's science-destroying OMB Grant Proposal. Join us from 2 - 3PM ET to learn what comes next, hear from experts, and learn how the proposal will affect you. Register at the link in our bio or go here:zurl.co/tH8hn

If you are a scientist, this is the #1 priority this weekend! We either comment, or we sink.

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 4w ago

Do it. Think of writing a comment to OMB like writing an incredibly powerful post that gets liked by your nemesis.

🌟🌟🌟Proud of Aidan, as part of the first cohort of our undergraduate researchers at the @nynathanshock.bsky.social Stay tuned for his finding! 🌟🌟 #aging #lifespan #teamwasp

Upstate NY Nathan Shock Center@nynathanshock.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Summer Undergraduate Scholars Program is in full swing! Aidan Flanders, an incoming senior majoring in Biology at the University of Rochester, is working closely with Dr. Floria Uy to investigate aging processes in social wasp colonies.

🦟🧪Looking to hire an exceptional post doc or know of any entry level academic positions in vector work? My former Ph.D. student, Limarie, is on the look out. She's got a ton of vector biology and vector ecology experience, she's an exceptional writer, and all around great person. Please share.

Limarie Reyes, PhD@limarie-reyes.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’m looking for my next research position! 🦟🔬 I’m a medical entomologist and vector ecologist seeking permanent research positions or postdocs funded for 2+ years in Europe and the U.S. 📅 Flexible start date: now through early 2027 Please share! 🧵 ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-15...

🐸 Postdoc Position (m/f/d) in Neurobiology! The project focuses on how smell shapes feeding behavior in poison frogs and is conducted in collaboration with Prof. Jennifer Stynoski (Costa Rica). 🌎🌿 . For more information and to apply, please use the link below. www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Research Associate / Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) “Olfactory Control of Behavior in Amphibians”

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PhD Student in my lab, Ricky, was just awarded the eMCDB T32 fellowship! Couldn’t be prouder of my students who have been brave enough to join my new lab and excel already! ☺️ www.baiklab.com/news/ricky-t32

Ricky awarded the eMCDB T32 Fellowship! — Baik Lab

Our PhD student, Ricky, has been awarded the eMCDB T32 Fellowship!

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I'd like to ask you to consider helping our people during this unprecedented catastrophe, either now or in the future as the media attention fades. This curated directory has an excellent list of opportunities to help through reputable organizations: donarseguro.com/en. I can't thank you enough! 2/2

Which neural mechanisms do parasites use to control behavior, physiology, health, and lifespan in their hosts? Join our Mind Hackers symposium at the International Congress for Neuroethology! Saturday 25: 1-5 pm #ICN2026 @neuroethology.org Thanks to @bugsneedheroes.bsky.social for the image

I am a neurodivergent neuroscientist. My bipolar brain brings struggle but it also helps me think off-the-map ideas. To help others who are similarly different, I co-founded the Neurodiversity Innovation Center for Excellence in Neuroscience (niceinneuro.org) with Leah Blankenship and Lila Kaye.

My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735