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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A conversation between Alan Rodrigues and Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social on the YouTube Conceptual Biology Forum channel about how living systems self-organise and consequences to our understanding of brain development, function, health and disease. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6qZ...

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Neuronal systems: bridging ontogeny and function | Bassem Hassan | CBF Dialogues 004

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Maheva @maheandria.bsky.social is a scientist through and through. An original and deep thinker, and a rigorous experimentalist. Can’t wait to see the beautiful work of her lab in the years to come.

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an den ehemaligen Einstein Visiting Fellow Bassem Hassan @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social 🎉

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Check out this amazing video summarising the recent discovery from Robin Hiesinger's lab on target-independent formation of retinotopic maps in the fly's visual system: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhZP...

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Target-independent retinotopy in Drosophila / Curr. Biol., Feb. 3, 2026 (Vol. 36, Issue 5)

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I am grateful and excited to receive the Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award) from the @humboldt-foundation.de I look forward to inspiring interactions with this amazing scientific community. Thank you to Prof Robin Hiesinger for the nomination and the award committee for selecting me.

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

It was areal pleasure to visit and exchange with colleagues about the beautiful science being done. Thank you for having me!

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Thank you for the invitation. Really looking forward to the visit.

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Julien Pigeon and colleagues show how conserved processes can be fine tuned to result in species-specific patterns of brain development. Thanks to @alexbaffet.bsky.social @boyanbonev.bsky.social @neurogenesis-i3s.bsky.social for a great collaboration 👇🏽

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Looking forward to this exciting meeting

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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Registration is now open for 2026 GRC on Neural Development @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social Register early because places go fast!

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EXPeditions @expeditions.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

“How does a brain take shape?” Neurobiologist @bassemh.bsky.social on the embryonic cells that fold into the neural tube and become the brain. Discover more in The Brain’s Secret. #Biology #Neuroscience #Brain #Education #ReliableKnowledge #PublicEngagement

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Siegenthaler Lab @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social, Corey Harwell & yours truly are co-chairs for 2026 Neural Development #GRC August 2-7, 2026 in Newport, RI 🇺🇸 - if you are interested in updates on the conference & to hear about our 🤩 line-up of speakers...follow @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social! 🧠🪰🐭🐙🐸🦎🧒🏻🧫🧪🧠

image of web page for Neural Development GRC - go to https://www.grc.org/neural-development-conference/2026/

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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

"Solo le pido a Dios Que la guerra no me sea indiferente Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvyl...

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Mercedes Sosa - Sólo Le Pido a Dios (con León Gieco)

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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social discussing Temporal control of Neurogenesis at #neurogen25 . What governs the length? How do novel genetic elements interact with highly conserved mechanisms? @nereokalebic.bsky.social @harschnitz.bsky.social @humantechnopole.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Fantastic opportunity for neuroscience research. The ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize for a basic or clinical research project in the areas of neurodegenerative diseases or psychiatric disorders. 750.000 EUR - Deadline JUNE 30 2025. www.fondation-roger-de-spoelberch.ch/en/roger-de-...

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ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize | Fondation ROGER DE SPOELBERCH

Each year, the Foundation awards the ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize to a laureate for a clinical or fundamental scientific research project in the field of neurodegenerative diseases and certain psychiatri...

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

@maheandria.bsky.social and I challenge the notion of a static and deterministic definition of a (neural) cell type and argue for its replacement by a multi parametric probabilistic definition in this perspective sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Toward a probabilistic definition of neural cell types

A classical view of cell type relies on a definite set of stable properties that are critical for brain functions. Single-cell technologies led to an …

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I contend that the genome does not encode a mean and an error around it. It encodes a distribution. I would suggest that even evolutionary selection is on phenotypic distributions. The mean is just an emergent property of the distribution, and thus not in and of itself interesting to understand.

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Paris Brain Institute - Institut du Cerveau @institutducerveau.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Journée portes ouvertes : le saviez-vous ? Les mouches drosophiles sont des modèles de choix pour les scientifiques. En effet, leur cerveau fonctionne selon les mêmes principes physiologiques que le cerveau humain.

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Just a little stream of thoughts: As materialists (i.e. non-dualists) we believe that there is only the universe out there an nothing outside it that imposes anything on it and that the universe is made of matter and energy (and they are interchangeable and I will thus only refer to matter)...

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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Join us this coming May 6-9 in Paris for the second EMBO Meeting on developmental timing across species. Registration now OPEN. Stellar line-up of inv. speakers + talks selected from abstracts. meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev... @trayon.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social

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Teresa Rayon @trayon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Final poster for the second edition of the #EvoDevoTempo meeting is finally ready! Great lineup and 3x more social activities: meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev... @bassemh.bsky.social @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social

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Oliver Harschnitz @harschnitz.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

🗓️ Mark your calendar: May 19-21, 2025 Registration is now open for the Neurogenomics Conference @humantechnopole.bsky.social: humantechnopole.it/en/trainings.... Come and join us in beautiful Milan! Incredibly excited to welcome a truly stellar line-up of speakers: including... 1/2

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Margarete Diaz Cuadros @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Can't miss opportunity for anyone interested in developmental timing!! See you in Paris⏳️

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Josh Dubnau @joshdubnau.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

@hrw.org report: By deliberately depriving people of water, the Israeli government created “conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction” of Palestinians in Gaza. That's how the Genocide convention defines a “genocidal act.”

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Thanks to all the followers on @bsky.app if you’re a scientist please also follow the lab account @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social for updates on our work minus all the personal/political opinions 😃

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

What - if anything- does the fact that AI (LLMs) use memory mechanisms, but are incapable of reasoning tell us about the link between the two in biological intelligence?

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