Reposted by Davi BockGaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 12hIf you are interested in serial sectioning for electron microscopy, we have now uploaded a revised version of our paper Shahidi et al: "Volume Electron Microscopy: Tips & Tricks on Micromanipulator-Assisted Serial Sectioning for Array Tomography" […] [Original post on biologists.social] 1176
Reposted by Davi BockIvy Chan @ivychanchiwai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Our paper on odour categorization in the Drosophila mushroom body is now out in Cell Reports! 🎉 We found that αβ and α′β′ Kenyon cells—but not γ KCs—distinguish food-related from non-food odours at the population level. Very happy to see this work published! 🪰🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 1234
Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Very nice to see this extension + (most importantly) functional assay of our initial observation of non-random overconvergence of food-responsive PNs onto downstream aB and a'B' KCs (@zhihaozheng.bsky.social et al. Curr Biol 2022). Connectomics leading to testable hypotheses: as it should be!😀 130
Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Claude has a privacy setting for whether or not your sessions can be used to train their models. I'd like to know what the setting was in this case. 100
Reposted by Davi BockMike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026new #preprint: t.co/eE1qqGSflK Ben Hartl explains: In 1917, D'Arcy Thompson drew Cartesian grids around different anatomical shapes & showed that deforming the grid could change one species' shape into that of another. We find that "reusable regulatory handles control phenotypic variation" in NCAst.cohttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29755 1215
Reposted by Davi BockJulia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Protists deserve the spotlight and so do scientists! This was such an honor but mostly, this project reminded me why I have the best job and friends/colleagues in the world! 🔬 25622
Reposted by Davi BockDavid Solecki @so-lets-kilab70.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Georgios Skiniotis and I are announce a unique St. Jude faculty search: a joint effort between the CoE for Structural Cell Biology an intellectual community advancing structural imaging & the Division of Neuronal Cell Biology. CryoET/vEM + neuron cell biology = 🚀 talent.stjude.org/careers/JobD...talent.stjude.orgFaculty position, Neuronal Cell Biology and Cryo-ET/vEMDepartment of Developmental NeurobiologyCenter of Excellence for Structural Cell Biology and Neuronal Cell Biology DivisionSt. Jude Children’s Research HospitalThe Center of Excellence for... 01818
Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Now I can say: last week we received Notice of Award from NSF on a Midscale Research Infrastructure Design proposal for a National Connectomics and Ultrastructure Volume Observatory (NCUVO) www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news...uvm.eduUVM Launches $19 Million National Observatory to Unlock…| The University of Vermont 137317
Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this is interesting in its own right and because Flourish raised $500m to develop new AI architectures based at least in part on neuroanatomy data they plan to acquire. (see flourishlabs.ai/flourish_wir...)flourishlabs.ai 150
Reposted by Davi BockBen de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We are hoping that word of this search goes far and that we draw a wide and diverse pool of applicants. Please take a look and share if you're inclined. 5 departments involved! • Organismic & Evol Bio • Mol & Cell Bio • Stem Cells & Regen Bio • Earth & Planetary Sci • Human Evolutionary Bio 166
Reposted by Davi BockOmaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026For two weeks, our entire lab is dropping everything to focus on one mission: deploying @embl.org's Advanced Mobile Laboratory to cultivate microbial eukaryotes from Alpine ecosystems. Our dream? Isolating new #Ichthyosporeans never cultured before. Let's see what we find. 🔬🏔️ 2399
Reposted by Davi BockSweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just a little under 2 weeks until this deadline! Come join my department! 🧪 087
Reposted by Davi BockSven Dorkenwald @sdorkenw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Applications are now open for the San Juan Winter School 2027 on Connectomics and Brain Simulation! Join us to learn how to analyze and simulate connectomes. sjcabs.com 01920
Reposted by Davi BockAndrew Lin @andrewclin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026We'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.orgjobsite.sheffield.ac.ukResearch Associate: Neuroscience (2 Posts)Research Associate: Neuroscience (2 Posts) 01816
Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026nice job by my former mentee @zhihaozheng.bsky.social :) 180
Reposted by Davi BockVincent Bonin @boninlab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026That contextual signals are broadly available does not mean that signals everywhere are used, or causally involved in behavior, at every moment. They aren’t. A bit like a radio broadcast, information may be widely available while circuits selectively “tune in” when needed. So where still matter. 2111
Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I’m happy to see all this movement but still want to see how the various optical methods work out at scale. 120
Reposted by Davi BockGreg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Last week to apply for these posts. This a great time to join this project — every week we’re finding out new and exciting things about the organisation of the mosquito brain — with super collaborators @darbly.bsky.social and @megyounger.bsky.social. Pls share! 064
Reposted by Davi BockAndrew Plested @andrewplested.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Thanks to @bwjones.bsky.social for the polite education... I had no idea that glutaraldehyde-linked small molecules can indeed be detected in this way, by antibodies raised against the same small molecules cross-linked to BSA. bwjoneslab.com/wp-content/u...bwjoneslab.com 082
Reposted by Davi BockKit D. Longden @theflyside.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Mosquito Aedes aegypti brain connectome project is super exciting: jobs available Elizabeth Marin & @jefferis.bsky.social recruiting Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Research Associate Deadline: 3 September 2026 Brilliant colleagues & bosses - highly recommend flyconnecto.me/2026/08/01/t...lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 044
Reposted by Davi BockAdam Hantman @adamhantman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Do you want to be part of the RCP (www.raynorcerebellumproject.org) effort to usher in the next generation of closed loop neuromodulation? Work with a one of a kind human dataset? Collaborate with top groups all over the world? Apply. cdn.prod.website-files.com/679cf22d773c...cdn.prod.website-files.com 032
Reposted by Davi BockMBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Adding some deep-sea wonder to your scroll💙✨️ This siphonophore, Erenna richardi, can be identified by the massive clusters of tentilla (the side branches of the tentacle) at the end of the tail (siphosome). In Monterey Bay, this species has been observed at average depths of about 1,100 meters. 4332101
Reposted by Davi BockClay Reid @clayreid.bsky.social · 12/08/2026x.com/rclayreid/st...x.comClay Reid (@rclayreid) on XWe're starting a lab at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to map the human brain at single-axon resolution: Axonal Connectomics. We're looking to hire postdocs, programmers, technicians, anyone who wan... 063
Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026xcancel.com/rclayreid/st... clayreidlab.orgclayreidlab.orgReid Lab — Connectomics 040
Reposted by Davi Bockvoigtvision.bsky.social @voigtvision.bsky.social · 12/08/2026🚨 Now out in @aaas.org Science Advances 🚨: aDISCO: a protocol for clearing & antibody-staining human formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue by Anna Maria Reuss! 🧠🔬#lightsheet #Microscopy @mesospim.bsky.social @ptrrupprecht.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 04812
Reposted by Davi BockBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/08/2026My newsletter turns five years old this month. It's time to take stock of where the climate is, and where the fight is. billmckibben.substack.com/p/take-five-...billmckibben.substack.comTake FiveThe Crucial Years at the halfway point 721173
Reposted by Davi BockZhihao Zheng @zhihaozheng.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Happy to share the CA3 dataset is published. First large-scale dense connectomics from hippocampus. First connectomic dataset imaged in @princetonneuro.bsky.social. A harbinger of many larger datasets to come (for both). doi.org/10.1038/s415... #hippocampus But my personal favorite is (1/2)doi.orgHippocampal CA3 connectomics reveals a gradient of mossy fiber inputs and selective feedforward inhibition onto pyramidal cells - Nature NeuroscienceThe authors present a dense connectomic reconstruction of a 0.1 mm3 hippocampal CA3 volume and reveal spatial gradients, high convergence and cell-type-selective feedforward inhibition of inputs to py... 34817
Reposted by Davi BockSchallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026#FluorescenceFriday Our lab studies microglia: microscopic 🔬 immune cells in the retina 👁️ We label them with Green Fluorescence and catalog of some impressive types! @flaumeye.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social bit.ly/4kMNErh 0389
Reposted by Davi BockAdria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Come join the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab in Cambridge to study the evolution of Socially Transferred Materials! Fun new HFSP project btwn UK, NL and Costa Rica! Deadline September 7th #Postdoc #JobAlert #Evolution #Bioinformatics #STM #socialfluids www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... leboeuflab.comcam.ac.ukResearch Associate (Fixed Term)A Research Associate position is available in the Social Fluids Lab, led by Dr. Adria LeBoeuf, in the Department of Zoology. The post is funded by a new 3-year international Human Frontier Science Pro... 23232
Reposted by Davi BockStanley Heinze @stanley-heinze.bsky.social · 30/07/2026New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Nearly a decade after starting the project, the first major results from our comparative connectomics work is online! Comparing the head direction circuits of the central complex in bees, ants and flies, recapitulating >300million years of evolution. 615963
Reposted by Davi BockAdria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Biology is once again full of surprises most if us couldn’t dream up if we tried. 0204
Reposted by Davi BockAndrew Seeds @andrew-seeds.bsky.social · 28/07/2026How does the brain know where the body has been touched? In our new eLife paper, we map how touch-sensitive bristles on the fruit fly head connect to circuits that guide precisely aimed grooming, revealing how brain maps turn touch into action. (elifesciences.org/articles/108...)elifesciences.orgA comprehensive mechanosensory connectome reveals a somatotopically organized neural circuit architecture controlling stimulus-aimed grooming of the Drosophila headA synaptic-resolution map reveals how spatially organized touch pathways in the fly brain shape aimed head grooming through parallel excitatory circuits and inhibitory control. 0133
Reposted by Davi BockKirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Do #tintinnids dream of electric sheep? 🤯 Here is a single cell capable of building a lorica and living inside it for protection... it also swims, feeds, hunts Can even detect and habituate to mechanical cues! #celllearning #protistsonsky #cilia Read more in our preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... 412537
Reposted by Davi BockBejaLabTechnion @bejalab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The cell that wasn't there grist.org/science/nitr...grist.orgThe tiny cell that broke a big rule of biologyIt took two scientists decades to find a new nitrogen-fixing organelle. It could change the future of sustainable agriculture. 281
Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 11/07/2026This profile of the artist on the Challenger expedition and his contributions to protistology was a very nice Saturday morning read. Though with some irksome bits... 010
Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 10/07/2026"This is the soundest idea you've floated in the whole thread — and I mean that as a real assessment, not a nicety." Wow, thanks Claude! 🙄 In other news, in the next few days I plan to try GPT5.6 Sol. Fable is completely off-limits for biologists, even for totally innocuous work. 271
Reposted by Davi BockKit D. Longden @theflyside.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Revised preprint on mitochondria in central brain of Drosophila now online: much new analysis + details of largest resource for analyzing neuronal mitochondria generated so far, with ~6M mitochondria, >20k neurons, >5k cell types. Much thanks to all coauthors, enjoy! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgConnectomic Analysis of Mitochondria in the Central Brain of DrosophilaMitochondria are integral to the metabolism and cell biology of a neuron. Electron microscopy images of fly brain volumes, taken for connectomics, can be analyzed for mitochondria as well as the cells... 0308
Reposted by Davi BockGaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026Here are my slides for #fens2026 “A versatile and affordable array tomography workflow” jekelylab.codeberg.page/FENS_Array_… for the 'Expanding Horizons: Array Tomography in Neuroscience for All' […] [Original post on biologists.social] 1115
Reposted by Davi BockCL @cllantz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026SHOW US YOUR BRAINS! Enter your beautiful brain images and videos into the Annual BRAIN Initiative Photo and Video Contest! Submission closes soon, and all are eligible to enter! 🧪🧠🎨 www.2026brainconference.com/event/44a17f...2026brainconference.comPhoto & Video Contest - 2026 BRAIN Initiative Conference 0108
Reposted by Davi BockPhil Abitua @ohnolog.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil 720357
Reposted by Davi BockJohn Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735 110789
Reposted by Davi BockDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Terrible news. The need for independent, non-profit science journalism only ever seems to grow. 48127
Reposted by Davi BockJuan Nunez-Iglesias @jni.codes · 23/06/2026Job alerts! Senior Image Data Scientist (x2!) and Senior Scientific Software Developer - Bioimage Informatics at the Center for Bioimage Informatics at St Jude Children's Research Hospital. These seem pretty nice. forum.image.sc/t/opportunit...forum.image.scOpportunities @ St Jude Children's Research HospitalThe Center for Bioimage Informatics (CBI) at St Jude is expanding rapidly and looking for talented individuals. We’re looking for someone who wants to bring rigor, creativity, and modern computational... 053
Reposted by Davi BockMark Histed @markhisted.org · 17/06/2026The Battle over the Constitution Has Spread to American Science. I'm out in the @theatlantic.com today about the new OMB proposed rule. It's just the longtime agenda of the the Supreme Court. US science and cancer cures now all depend on us picking up a fight with the Roberts Court.theatlantic.comThe Unitary Executive Takes Over New TerritoryThe Trump administration’s theory of how the federal government should work is a threat to American science. 11325169
Reposted by Davi BockMatt Smear @mattsmear.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I am a neurodivergent neuroscientist. My bipolar brain brings struggle but it also helps me think off-the-map ideas. To help others who are similarly different, I co-founded the Neurodiversity Innovation Center for Excellence in Neuroscience (niceinneuro.org) with Leah Blankenship and Lila Kaye. 1349
Reposted by Davi BockAdam Hantman @adamhantman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Looking for folks to study skilled movement across neurotypical/disease models (inc. autism), circuit resilience, smart closed-loop neuromodulation, or deer mice. We use high-density recordings, optogenetics, & dynamical systems analysis in a well-resourced, collaborative environment. DM or email. 011
Reposted by Davi BockJan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Meet Eyewire II: a new connectomic resource for the mouse retina. ~1 mm² of retina at nanometer resolution, with synapses and circuits of ca. 100,000 neurons, plus visual responses from the ~400 neurons shown in the video! Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... Data: eyewire.ai 🧠📈 🧠💻🧪 #VisionScience 25221