The #LondonEvoDevo goes to Cambridge! Kindly hosted by @emiliapsantos.bsky.social, mark on your calendars *October 2nd* at the Main Theatre in the Department of Zoology (Cambridge). Registration (£0.00): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... All welcome to present: #PI #PhD #PostDocs, submit abstracts!

LondonEvoDevo meeting - October 2026

This event will take place on Friday October 2nd, 2026, at the Department of Zoology (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge, Downing Street CB2 3EJ, 12:30 - 18:30. There will be no posters, ...

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Out now in @science.org : How does the brain rapidly scan space to guide navigation? We found that the brain’s internal map is continuously retuned from moment to moment, focusing neural activity on what matters most. 🧵1/8 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Adaptive modulation of theta sweeps in the brain’s navigation circuit

Efficient navigation requires prioritizing information from behaviorally relevant locations. In rats, such selective sampling may arise from theta-paced sweeps in grid and place cell populations, whic...

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My friend is a co-lead on this project (my wife is a collaborator). Let me tell you what it was about and why Battacharya’s decision simply amplifies the consequences of structural racism that the project was attempting to understand. A 🧵 1/12

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Fresh grant terminations at NIH 🤬 www.science.org/content/arti... 1/7

New review from our lab! We discuss DNMT1 as an environmental sensor and its role in linking environmental exposures, sex hormone signaling, and vulnerability to neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases. www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Frontiers | DNMT1 as an environmental sensor: epigenetic pathways linking environmental exposures, sex hormone signaling, and vulnerability to neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases

DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) has classically been viewed as the canonical maintenance methyltransferase, yet accumulating evidence positions it as a multi...

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Great news from #ENCODS2026 in Barcelona 🧠🎓 My PhD student Katharina Vöhringer won the poster prize for her work on how DNMT1 loss in PV interneurons reshapes neuron-glia communication and PNNs. Congrats Kathi, and thanks to the ENCODS & FENS community for an inspiring meeting!

Science is not meant to be a prestige game. If careers depend on impact factors and flashy stories instead of careful, verifiable work, fraud is not an exception – it is a system error. We need to put truth back above metrics. doi: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

‘Student Geng’ ignites research-integrity scandal in China after calling out senior academics

Video blogger’s viral accusations of data manipulation in Nature journals have sparked intense debate and speedy institutional investigations.

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A feature in Nature explores what happens when AI companies produce models that they say the public can’t have and asks how users and governments should react. #AI 🧪

Too dangerous to release: is Mythos the start of the restricted-AI era?

What happens when AI companies produce models that they say the public can’t have — and how should users and governments react?

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A feature in Nature reports on the growing concern over emerging AI tools in biology. Although they are being developed to help produce innovative drugs and other societal benefits, there are concerns they could also make it easier to create new threats. 🧪

AI can design viruses, toxins and other bioweapons. How worried should we be?

Scientists are debating whether to limit biological AI software to ward off threats.

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New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Cell Type Knowledge Explorer allows anyone to explore the diversity and complexity of the mouse, human, and non-human primate brain. Explore this free and open resource at: https://knowledge.brain-map.org/celltypes #BICCN #studyBRAIN #BrainAwarenessWeek

You asked, we listened. Millions of AI-predicted protein complex structures are now available in the #AlphaFold Database. This spans homodimers from 20 of the most studied species, including humans, as well as the World Health Organization’s priority pathogens list. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

Interoceptomimetics that stimulate gut–brain communication may counteract age-associated cognitive decline.

The Innovation Nutrition@nutrisci.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Inhibition of gut–brain signalling during ageing can lead to impaired neuronal activation in the hippocampus and loss of memory encoding. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Celebrating 60 years of partnership between #IITMadras and #RWTHAachen in Chennai, with ABBt – Aachen Biology and Biotechnology proudly represented!🌏✨ Inspiring talks, meaningful exchanges - a great momentum for future joined research and collaborations!

Last week Julia, yesterday Jenice – two of my Aachen first‑generation PhD students smashed their thesis defenses. So proud of these awesome scientists and everything they’ve done, and super excited to see what they’ll get up to next. 🎓🚀

Out in its final form! Congratulations @sejpaton.bsky.social @jolusolo.bsky.social Alice Cadoret @adelinec.bsky.social @luisa-binder.bsky.social Béatrice Daigle @laura-mb.bsky.social Laurence Dion-Albert @katarzynaadudek.bsky.social @manonlebel5.bsky.social 🥂🧠🤓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Environmental enrichment and physical exercise prevent stress-induced social avoidance and blood-brain barrier alterations via Fgf2 - Nature Communications

Chronic stress disrupts the brain vasculature and contributes to mood disorders, but mechanisms of resilience remain unclear. Here, the authors show that enriched environments increase astrocytic Fgf2...

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Astrocytes make up one-quarter of the brain. Nature reports how researchers are learning their value in shaping our behaviour, memory, and health. #Neuroskyence 🧪

The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health

Astrocytes make up one-quarter of the brain, but researchers are only now realizing their true value.

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Excited to share that our new preprint is out, showing PV function linked to glial states by DNMT1. "DNMT1 Coordinates PV Interneuron–Glia Coupling to Maintain Cortical Network Stability and Regulate Behavior." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

DNMT1 Coordinates PV Interneuron-Glia Coupling to Maintain Cortical Network Stability and Regulate Behavior

Parvalbumin (PV) interneurons are central to cortical network stability and psychiatric vulnerability. Here, we identify DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) as a key epigenetic regulator linking PV intern...

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Nice review on lncRNAs in the brain by John Mattick and colleagues. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The emerging roles of long non-coding RNAs in the nervous system - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Long non-coding RNAs are abundant in the brain, where they are proposed to regulate numerous processes. In this Review, Mattick and colleagues describe our current understanding of their mechanisms of...

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We’re hiring! @RWTH is opening a W3 Full Professor position in Stress Resilience of Plants 🌿 Join a strong research environment with excellent facilities & great colleagues in the Faculty of Maths & Natural Sciences. Please share & spread the word! www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/crfe/?...

Small primate shows big promise? Grey mouse lemur exhibits various age-related changes in microglia. #neuroscience preLighter Isabel Paine covers a recent #preprint from Léo Dupuis and colleagues #CEA_Jacob_ #preLight ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/n...

Normal aging increases white matter microglial reaction and perivascular macrophages in the microcebe primate - preLights

Small primate shows big promise? Grey mouse lemur exhibits various age-related changes in microglia

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Honored to see our work featured among the Editors’ Highlights in the “From brain to behaviour” collection at @NatureComms! 🧩 DNMT1-mediated regulation of somatostatin-positive interneuron migration impacts cortical architecture and function ➡️ www.nature.com/ncomms/edito...

Nature’s 2025 PhD survey asked doctoral candidates worldwide what advice they would give to someone considering a similar degree. Respondents gave advice on choosing supervisors, managing mental health, and surviving academic culture. #Academicsky 🧪

27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs

Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.

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The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪

The authors of a Comment article discuss how scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices. They outline recommendations for an approach to handle software better. #Academicsky 🧪

Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it

Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.

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I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

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About EMBL-EBI EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute is a data powerhouse, utilised on a global scale to advance scientific discovery through bioinformatics and solutions to some of the world’s mos...

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Pipeline Olympics for DNA methylation data Check this out: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... Important study from @rn-toth.bsky.social & @pavlolutsik.bsky.social Published @narjournal.bsky.social #epigenetics #methylation #bioinformatics

Pipeline Olympics: continuable benchmarking of computational workflows for DNA methylation sequencing data against an experimental gold standard

Abstract. DNA methylation is a widely studied epigenetic mark and a powerful biomarker of cell type, age, environmental exposures, and disease. Whole-genom

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Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. Nature reports on what these results mean for the future of AI. 🧪

AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?

Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future?

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What if the DNA methylation enzyme DNMT1 isn’t just about DNA? Our new preprint reveals a cytosolic role for DNMT1 as a scaffold controlling neuronal morphology via DOCK7–Rac1/STMN1 signaling & mitochondrial trafficking. A paradigm shift in DNMT1 biology! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A cytosolic function of DNMT1 controls neuronal morphogenesis via microtubule regulation

Proteins traditionally confined to a single cellular compartment are increasingly recognized to exert non-canonical functions in alternative domains. The DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1), classically d...

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Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

Portland Oregon: #NoKings one of the most anticipated protests does not disappoint!