Here’s the schedule for MCCS Asia-Pacific. It’s a cracker!!!!!

Hi Everyone, the schedule is now finalised for our upcoming MCCS Asia-Pacific meeting! November 29, 2026 at the Hilton in Sydney. This is a satellite of the NeuroAlliance meeting happening directly afterward. Registration is FREE but spaces are limited! lnkd.in/e-VqiE4s

NHMRC Investigator reviewers, for the top 10 in 10, would you prefer best publications specifically related to the proposed research programme, or my best high impact work broadly defined over the past 10 years.

The community has clearly spoken. Wonder if the major pay to play publishers are taking notice?

Daniel Gorelick@danielgorelick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Canada gets it.

Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM)@ircm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧠 The IRCM welcomes the significant support of the Brain Canada Foundation through its 2025 Platform Support Grants program for the establishment of PRIME-RNA, an innovative platform dedicated to advancing RNA-based therapies for brain diseases. 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4o2apux

I am recruiting an exceptional postdoc to join my lab at UC Irvine. Must be a productive researcher with experience in functional neuroimaging, network neuroscience, AI/ML, who is interested in aging, neuropsychiatric or neurodegenerative illness. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Single cell people, this is how it’s done.

Sendoel Lab@sendoellab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very happy to see our study on the development of an in vivo single-cell ribosome profiling strategy for the epidermis now online at @cp-molcell.bsky.social. Fantastic work by @claradure.bsky.social and all co-authors involved. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Abstracts and registrations are now open for #NeuroAlliance2026 🧠 Submit your latest research for consideration as an oral or poster presentation at this landmark joint meeting of ANS, ACNS and BPA. Visit: neuroalliance26.eventsair.site/call-for-abs... Deadline: 22 July 2026, 23:59 AEST

Nice!

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Spatially resolved transcriptomic identification of thousands of neurons recorded in vivo. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.15.725413v1

This is going to be a great meeting in an absolutely epic location. Students and Postdocs, there are travel awards! Deadline to apply is May 15. meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna...

The speed at which countries around the world are building AI infrastructure is breathtaking.

This looks like it will be an outstanding meeting!

Marija Kundakovic@kundakoviclab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to speak at the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Neural Genetics & Epigenetics this summer, July 19-24, in New Hampshire. Come join us -- there is a fantastic lineup -- check out the program here: grc.org/neural-genet... 🔥

Opportunity.

Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD@diegopizzagalli.bsky.social · 3mo ago

6/6: Details, including priority areas and submission information, are available at: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10128.

expanding networks of extinction learning.

Paul Frankland@franklandlab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sharing the latest from the lab. Led by Yunlong Liu, this work explores how microglia and engram neurons interact during fear extinction in the hippocampus. rdcu.be/fgNH7

Putting together a speaker list for an MCCS satellite meeting adjacent to the @ausneurosoc.bsky.social conference in Sydney this November, sponsored in part by UQ's Centre for RNA in Neuroscience. DM for info!

Our latest work is online. An interesting observation about the contents of vaults in the absence of the key ncRNA vaultRC5. Seems important for memory.Well done Mason! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dynamic regulation of neuronal vault trafficking and RNA cargo by the noncoding RNA, Vaultrc5

Vaults are large ribonucleoprotein complexes of unknown function. Here, we report that the vault-associated noncoding RNA, Vaultrc5, is highly enriche…

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More Obelisks!

Tominaga K. (tomiken)@pacyc184.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Identification of hot spring Obelisk-like RNA replicons and expanded diversity of the Obelisk superfamily | Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71096-6

Magneto lives! Awesome stuff. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Electromagnetic field-inducible in vivo gene switch for remote spatiotemporal control of gene expression

The EMF-inducible gene switch (Ei) platform provides precise spatiotemporal control of gene expression through Cyb5b-mediated calcium oscillations. This system enables Ei-OSK-driven in vivo rejuvenati...

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Ocassional reminder.

How are we approaching government support for science here in Australia @albomp.bsky.social?

Nature@nature.com · 5mo ago

The Chinese government is ramping up its support for science go.nature.com/3P6OTaY

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... finally!

Gold!

Josh Johansen@jojolab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to share our new paper: We uncover a locus coeruleus→amygdala circuit linking β-adrenergic signaling to transcription regulation in defined amygdala cells during memory reconsolidation—+ stress or elevated noradrenergic signaling at recall can strengthen memory. www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

arxiv.org/abs/2602.23268 Like!

The selfish ribosome

The ribosome is responsible for protein synthesis in all cells, and is the largest energy consumer in the cell. We propose that the ribosome originated as a mutualistic symbiont of an RNA-dependent RN...

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like! www.nature.com/articles/s12...

Two codes of RNA editing by deamination in human diseases - Experimental & Molecular Medicine

RNA editing is a process that changes the genetic information in RNA molecules after they are made from DNA. The study explores two main types of RNA editing: adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) and cytidin...

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Colleagues. I’m super excited about presenting at the Canadian 🇨🇦 Neuroscience meeting in May! How’s going and who wants to get together for a catch up? @canacn.bsky.social can-acn.org/meeting-2026/

Alright people, re-upping this on your feed. Space is limited so please register soon! www.neurosas.org/advanced-cou...

Friends and colleagues, please sign this petition to increase the MRFF allocation

Medical Research Matters

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Here’s awesome bit of technical work by PhD student Josh Davies in Paul Marshall’s lab at ANU. Proud to part of it. Sex differences run deep when you look at the brain with high resolution.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Light-inducible proximity labelling in vivo captures sex-specific RNA at excitatory synapses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.28.702434v1

Excited to share our latest preprint: "SWARM: A Single-Molecule Workflow for High-Precision Profiling of RNA Modifications" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by Stefan Prodic #RNA #Epitranscriptomics #Nanopore 1/6

Another outstanding RNA meeting!

EMBO@embo.org · 6mo ago

Sign up now for the EMBO Workshop "#RNA metabolism: Perspective from physiology to brain disorder" in Darjeeling, India, 25–28 October 2026. Deadline: 15 May 2026 https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna-metabolism #EMBOrnaMetabolism #RNAsky #LifeSciences #research #conference #EMBOevents 🧪