After four wonderful years at the CAES, our lab is moving to TAMU Entomology (@tamuentomology). I am very excited about this new chapter. We will be hiring three postdocs to start early next year. Please contact me if you are interested.

The White House budget proposal for FY27 slash NSF funding by more than 50% and would drastically reduce support for PhDs, postdocs & investigator-initiated research. Selling something is not the same as doing something. Science is hard. This 'new golden age' won't make it easier.

Great primer from Chih-Ying Su: journals.plos.org/Plosbiology/... on a first connectomic foray into mosquitoes: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Go diptera #neuroskyence!

How the mosquito’s carbon dioxide sense gets an internal boost

Mosquitoes use carbon dioxide as a critical cue to sense if humans are nearby. This Primer explores a new study in PLOS Biology that reveals that carbon dioxide-sensing neurons in mosquitoes can ampli...

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Meg Younger@megyounger.bsky.social · last wk.

Excited to share this work from @darbly.bsky.social's lab and my lab with @davidhildebrand.bsky.social @briandepasquale.bsky.social and many others! It turns out that the sensory neurons that detect CO2 in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have lots of recurrent connections! 🦟👃🌟

excited to share my first preLight summarizing such an exciting preprint! from Tjalda Falt et al. @fleyes.bsky.social Vectorial efference copy and visuomotor transformation through gap junctions prelights.biologists.com/highlights/v...

Vectorial efference copy and visuomotor transformation through gap junctions - preLights

To see, or not to see: fruit flies selectively suppress visual input via electrical transmission of an efference copy

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We're hiring! Join us as a postdoc to study how the brain is optimised for sensory coding and memory Please spread the word! Apply at jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... Deadline: 5 October 2026 Learn more at: www.aclinlab.org

new paper out, led by @jobeneuro.bsky.social , exploring 5HT dynamics in cingulate and central amygdala, and how a history of alcohol consumption changes them! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Selective dysregulation of serotonin dynamics in the anterior cingulate cortex and central amygdala following binge alcohol consumption - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Selective dysregulation of serotonin dynamics in the anterior cingulate cortex and central amygdala following binge alcohol consumption

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We’re hiring two postdocs! Join the our Lab @unibirmingham.bsky.social to uncover how the brain resolves behavioural conflicts. Deadline: 22 September 2026 @wellcometrust.bsky.social Please share! www.rezavallab.org

Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham

Apply for the Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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@uobles.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Professor Carolina Rezaval has been awarded a Wellcome Discovery Award for £2.9 million to investigate how the brain makes decisions under competition. www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/2....

We’re hiring two postdocs! Join our Lab @unibirmingham.bsky.social to uncover how the brain resolves behavioural conflicts. Deadline: 22 September 2026 @wellcometrust.bsky.social Please share! www.rezavallab.org

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​ ​Animals must make crucial behavioural choices on a minute by minute basis to survive in a changing environment. A long-standing enigma is, how are alternative options evaluated in the brain...

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New lab website 😎 lizbinskilab.com

Lizbinski Lab

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The Agrawal lab has published its first paper! "Sticking the landing: leg mechanosensory feedback coordinates the transition from flight to landing" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This project was led by a technician in the lab, Tse-Wei (Wayne) Kuo. Brief 🧵on what we found

Safe to say the people of Kentucky are not being represented properly

CO2 is an important cue used by #mosquitoes when searching for a human blood meal. @darbly.bsky.social @megyounger.bsky.social &co show that the wiring of #neurons that sense CO2 differs from that in #Drosophila, allowing robust detection of this key host cue @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4cFCPpV

Excited to share this work from @darbly.bsky.social's lab and my lab with @davidhildebrand.bsky.social @briandepasquale.bsky.social and many others! It turns out that the sensory neurons that detect CO2 in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have lots of recurrent connections! 🦟👃🌟

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · last wk.

CO2 is an important cue used by #mosquitoes when searching for a human blood meal. @darbly.bsky.social @megyounger.bsky.social &co show that the wiring of #neurons that sense CO2 differs from that in #Drosophila, allowing robust detection of this key host cue @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4cFCPpV

Know an outstanding PhD student whose thesis work was on Drosophila? If so, please consider nominating them for the Larry Sandler award! The nomination and eligibility information are at genetics-gsa.org/awards/larry.... The deadline is November 12th.

a good summary of how we got here and what it means. i would add is that everyone who works with the fly connectome datasets knows that they all far from "complete". each one, though monumental, has major reconstruction/annotation issues, not to mention the lack of a peripheral nervous system.

Patrick Mineault@patrickmineault.bsky.social · 6d ago

Are virtual flies playing Beat Saber? SM64? Doom? No. The new fly connectome is an incredible achievement! Less is going on in the sim videos than it seems. I'm stoked to see people engage with neuroscience though. My breakdown: www.neuroai.science/p/are-flies-...

A legendary Medicare fraudster almost slipping up on illegal PAC coordination is pure brand consistency.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Rick Scott: "So I'm glad the Trump administration-- uh, the Trump -- uh, MAGA Inc is gonna invest in these races"

Amazing how even the Republicans that are supposed to be “normal” are complete psychopaths

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

"Marshall, a Republican seeking re-election this fall, filed lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills ... Marshall's lawyers garnished patients’ paychecks and bank accounts. They routinely charged patients an 18% annual interest rate."

I am extremely excited - or should I say rather chuffed? - to share that I am joining the University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk as Associate Professor of Animal Behaviour in the Department of Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk and as a Fellow of Merton College.

🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

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Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵

🧠Ever wonder how the brain turns a taste into the decision to eat – or not? For the 1st time @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social team at @champalimaudf.bsky.social and their collaborators have mapped the complete neural circuitry behind an animal’s feeding decisions. 👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/bluepri...

Read the full research by @florisvanbreugel.bsky.social at doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Fruit flies react instantaneously when blown about by gusts of wind to get back on course, but they also recall recent wind conditions when tracking an odour, which shapes their search as they pursue the source of an attractive scent @florisvanbreugel.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Pro tip: Most of these @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social Abs are documented in dozens of publications and are also substantially cheaper.

Kurianlab@kurianlab.bsky.social · 4w ago

dshb.biology.uiowa.edu We should support and make better use of hybridoma bank Maintained by a small team at the University of Iowa’s Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank

We have lived in Davis for 7 years and last night was the first time I have ever gone to watch the bats come out. We were gifted with an amazing sunset too! It was amazing! Huge props to Yolo Basin Foundation for a fantastic tour and event. 🦇 🌅 1/

Lead is still bad for your brain. neurofrontiers.blog/why-lead-is-... #publichealth #lead #brainhealth #health

Why lead is (still) bad for your brain - Neurofrontiers

Wait, wasn't this solved by the Romans? Anyway, my grandma ate lead paint and she was totally fine.

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Do you work with microscopy images and segment to quantify or track? Do you study cell biology? development? Gather round! Let me tell you about FOCUS-3D, a segmentation algorithm that is fast, accurate and can be used on any model. We used it here to study zebrafish development. 🧪 (thread)

FOCUS‑3D: Robust, generalizable volumetric cell segmentation for three‑dimensional fluorescence microscopy

Understanding how cells establish spatial organization within tissues is a fundamental question in life sciences. While modern three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy captures large-volume tissue ar...

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The ratio on this is hilarious Spare yourself this stream of narcissism and condescension that willfully misrepresents what unionization actually does (e.g: "The value of a good postdoctoral fellowship is not to be measured in salary but in the opportunity to learn at the feet of, yes, a master.")

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 3w ago

Opinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

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