Stop by poster panel 99 (and/or 69 as I have two posters in this session) to check the latest FERAL updates! @neuroethology.org #icn2026

You're probably already doing science advocacy — you just might not call it that. Our new commentary (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) makes the case that every scientist has a role, and that advocacy takes many forms. Find and embrace yours! @natcellbio.nature.com @vfarm15.bsky.social

Every scientist has a role in advocacy - Nature Cell Biology

In this Comment, we call on scientists to share their stories. Through casual conversation or prepared presentations, with images or essays, scientists can advocate for their research and reach taxpay...

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Day 1 of the #ICN2026 Mosquito Satellite concluded with a session on vector control. In other words, how do we stop mosquitoes from biting us? @jacoporazzauti.bsky.social and @yoonjikim.bsky.social from the Vosshall lab talked about chemical deterrents and aging mosquitoes.

In an article published today, we show that ancient feeding-related neuropeptides have been repurposed to control brood care in clonal raider ants. Photo: Bart Zijlstra, UNIL /1

Why do animals age in such similar ways, yet live for wildly different spans - from days to a century? Our new paper in @NatureAging fits a damage accumulation model across 9 species and finds the knob that best predicts lifespan doi.org/10.1038/s435...

A damage accumulation model identifies distinct aging regimes across species - Nature Aging

Raz and colleagues fit survival data across species to a stochastic model of damage accumulation and removal. They report that damage production rate best predicts lifespan and reveal two distinct agi...

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30% of our proteome is disordered, yet we still don't have reliable ways to predict functional implications of mutations in disordered regions, or drug them. Here's the latest on chromatin, condensates, and cancer from my group in Discovery Onc at Genentech journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Decoding intrinsically disordered regions in chromatin dysfunction and cancer

Summary: This Perspective describes cancer variants that rewire chromatin regulation through intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) and argues for comprehensive mapping of condensate-related nuclear ...

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Happening next Wednesday June 24 at 3PM Eastern: Live Kick-Off Event to learn about our 2026 @hhmi-science.bsky.social program competitions. Register here: bit.ly/43KVLi9 Early Career Faculty: #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Postdocs: #HannaGray Fellows PhD students: #GilliamFellow

Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ...

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Congratulations new #VosshallLab PhDs!! So proud of all 3 of you - you make the world better Dr. Priyanka Lakhiani > MSKCC bioinformatic specialist Dr. Adriana Rosas > Whitehead Institute postdoc Dr. Yael Tsitohay > NYC public high school biology faculty @rockefeller.edu

What happens in a mosquito's brain when it's infected with dengue? Almost nothing! 🦟🧠 We show DENV actively replicates in the brain, yet triggers virtually no transcriptional response. a striking case of neural tolerance ⬇️ New preprint by Umberto Palatini #Vosshalllab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dengue virus infection in Aedes aegypti mosquito brains elicits minimal transcriptional response

Billions of people each year are at risk from infection by dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and chikungunya viruses, which are transmitted by female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Mosquitoes themselves are infe...

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📢**new pre-print article alert** Us: OMG your entire brain is teeming with dengue virus particles Female mosquito: [shrug][goes about daily activities] #VosshallLab @hhmi-science.bsky.social @rockefeller.edu www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dengue virus infection in Aedes aegypti mosquito brains elicits minimal transcriptional response

Billions of people each year are at risk from infection by dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and chikungunya viruses, which are transmitted by female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Mosquitoes themselves are infe...

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A Primary Cell Culture Platform for Studying Venom Gland and Brain Tissue in Octopus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.01.729309v1

What's better than one #HHMIInvestigator being elected to the @nasonline.org? Ten! Meet the newest members, recognized by their peers for distinguished, ongoing contributions to original research: bit.ly/4cCxRuv.

Join us in celebrating #HHMIInvestigators Olga Boudker, William Jacobs (Emeriti), Michael Shadlen, Kim Orth & @leslievosshall.bsky.social (also HHMI VP & Chief Scientific Officer), all elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for their leadership & excellence in science! bit.ly/4vQerd2

Fantastic weekend at the Breakthrough Prize gala, finally celebrating our Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences with @hymanlab.bsky.social. What an incredible event!

📢🎉@hhmi-science.bsky.social HHMI competition for the next cohorts of #HannaGray Fellows and #FreemanHrabowski Scholars opening 11/3/2026. Senior postdocs and faculty within 7 years of appointment. Up to $10M over 10 yrs, + salary & benefits. Spread the word and consider applying! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

Join us in shaping the future of science! @hhmi-science.bsky.social is hiring a new Scientific Program Officer to support the #HannaGrayFellows #FHScholar programs hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Senior Director – Scientific Program Officer

Primary Work Address: 4000 Jones Bridge Road, Chevy Chase, MD, 20815 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) advances the disco...

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New #VosshallLab pre-print! Test your sense of smell, coming soon to your clinic or doctor's office www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

SMELL-RS: A Self-administered, Digital Test for Olfactory Dysfunction that is Rapid, Reliable, and Accurate

Background: Smell testing is increasingly recognized as essential in rhinology practice but remains underutilized because of time constraints and limited clinical resources. This study aimed to evalua...

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Some molecular machines, like ribosomes, can persist for long periods of time in cells. Could molecular aging of ribosomes shape how proteins are made? In our new preprint we track ribosomes as they age in cells and uncover unexpected effects on translation (1/10) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out our newest paper from the great @jbotello.bsky.social . Such an awesome discovery that the ribosome population undergoes molecular aging!!!!

Jordy F. Botello@jbotello.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Some molecular machines, like ribosomes, can persist for long periods of time in cells. Could molecular aging of ribosomes shape how proteins are made? In our new preprint we track ribosomes as they age in cells and uncover unexpected effects on translation (1/10) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Congratulations to our grad student Lifei Jiang!!!!! Well deserved

Fred Hutch Basic Sciences Division@basicsci.fredhutch.org · 5mo ago

“These awardees stood out for their scientific originality, rigor and dedication to asking important scientific questions. They reflect the strength and promise of the next generation of scientific leaders.” - Dr. Bai, director of the Weintraub Award. www.fredhutch.org/en/news/rele...

No rabbits, no top hats — just #GilliamFellow Axel Vera leveling up on the standard poster session with a little sleight of hand. We guarantee you've never heard an anti-CRISPR (used to help control & improve precision gene editing) explainer like this before, & it's ... magic 🪄.

🎉 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

Please encourage undergraduates with an interest in biomedical research to apply! Deadline is December 22. $15,000 stipend for the 9 week @hhmi-science.bsky.social Cech Fellows Program.

Leslie B Vosshall PhD@leslievosshall.bsky.social · 9mo ago

@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025 Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!! www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...

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...

Our preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required. It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)

FERAL: A Video-Understanding System for Direct Video-to-Behavior Mapping

Animal behavior unfolds continuously in time, yet quantitative analyses often require segmenting it into discrete, interpretable states. Although manual annotation can achieve this, it remains slow, s...

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

As you can see in this pic we practiced this presentation a lot and we also have some FERAL tshirts! #getferalatSfN

#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai

Researchers in the Vosshall lab have discovered the first evidence of what happens when a female mosquito chooses to mate for the one and only time in her life. We spoke to @leslievosshall.bsky.social and @leahhouri.bsky.social about their unexpected findings. See the full Q&A:

What we got wrong about mosquito mating - News

Researchers have discovered the first evidence of what happens when a female mosquito chooses to mate for the one and only time in her life.

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New Yorkers! Come to my talk at Rockefeller University on Friday if you're interested in the mechanisms of adaptive genome regulation.