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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Activating peptidergic neurons is not necessarily equal to neuropeptide role, and pattern-wide and individual neuron manipulations differ in behavioral effect. Important insights for circuits in behavior research. Plus NPF!

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aqmhd2026.bsky.social @aqmhd2026.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🗓️ AQMHD 2026 reminder: Registration closes THIS FRIDAY, Sept. 25 at 6:00 PM! Planning to join us Oct. 17–21 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole? Now is the time to register! aqmhd.org 🧵 1/3

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AQMHD 2026 | Aquatic Models of Human Disease

12th Aquatic Models of Human Disease Conference, October 17–21, 2026, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

just deleted google maps from phone, ipad

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Stéphane Dissel @sdissel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Right. Let’s give this another try…. My laboratory is looking for a motivated postdoc in the field of Neurobiology. We have multiple exciting projects, NIH funding. Experience using the Drosophila model is preferable. Please share Job ID: 60378 erecruit.umsystem.edu/psc/tamext/K...

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Dr Lynette Pretorius @drlpretorius.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Presenting our research on the hidden norms and values of doctoral education at #HERDSA2026 today. PhD students learn unintended messages about academic norms through their experiences. Our study explored who sets academic norms and values and what those learned norms and values are. #AcademicSky

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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The Brock Lab is hiring a postdoc to help us study sensory ecology and sexual selection in urban reptiles! 🐍🦎🌆 Comes with a $5K travel stipend. App closes July 1! careers-sdsurf.icims.com/jobs/20539/p...

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Prospective Employees | SDSU

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Matt Smear @mattsmear.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I 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.

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Meet Zandawala @zandawala.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Zandawala lab is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on neuromodulation of feeding in Drosophila and other arthropods at KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). Details for the position can be found here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share!

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuromodulation of Feeding

We are recruiting a postdoctoral scientist to join the recently opened Zandawala Lab at KU Leuven. The position is funded by an Odysseus grant from FWO (Research Foundation – Flanders). For more infor...

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Stephanie Woo @itsthewoolab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New preprint alert! Led by @qsb-uc-merced.bsky.social grad student Po-Shu Tu from my and Stefan Materna's labs, we found that the receptor tyrosine kinase Met is required for directional migration of #endoderm cells in #zebrafish. But — plot twist! — Met's canonical ligand HGF is dispensable.

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findlatergroup.bsky.social @findlatergroup.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Hey y’all - I need a big favour! If you’ve been hired into a biochem faculty role in the last ~3-5 years, could you send me a message? #ChemSky

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Meet Zandawala @zandawala.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Can a single brain cell decide whether to eat or not? 🧠🪰 Turns out... yes. And we found it in the fruit fly. A pair of neurons called SELKs (subesophageal leucokinin neurons) can drive feeding behavior in both directions. They promote it or suppress it. Here's how: 🧵

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Imprisoning children is child abuse. No matter how a child arrived in our country, we should not use government resources, taxpayer money, to abuse and traumatize children.

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Stephanie Woo @itsthewoolab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Author spotlight thread! This study was heroically led by @qsb-uc-merced.bsky.social grad student Jesselynn LaBelle who consistently pushed for our work to be quantitatively rigorous. She is looking for a postdoc position! Her interests are mathematical biology, image analysis, and microscopy. 1/6

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Divya Sitaraman @dsitaraman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

No NCE button for R15s nearing their end date—1st NCEs need prior approval through the NIH Prior Approval Module. More steps, delays, and stress since active R15 PIs can’t be PIs on other NIH grants. Nothing I submitted in 2025 has even been reviewed/decisioned. I guess it was nice having a lab.....

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Stephanie Woo @itsthewoolab.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

New paper alert! We report that #zebrafish endodermal cells use contact inhibition of locomotion as a dispersal and spacing mechanism. It’s a neat example of large-scale patterns emerging from local interactions using a simple set of rules. Summary in the thread below 1/9 doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I handwrite markup the article PDF on an iPad, export the messy PDF to a searchable database, and summarize my notes in a very long text file (with embedded references). Rewriting the notes is what makes information stick for me, I suspect. Wish I could take your course!

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Hungover and awake Monday morning? Been daydrinking?? Come to Lina Garcia's poster #SfN2025 to learn how the first drink creates memories and impacts your sleep (well, if you are a fruit fly)! LBP167 (program LBP051.08) late-breaking poster session H.08 – Drugs of Abuse and Addiction.

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Kurt Fraser @kurtfraser.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Sad that even biorxiv is falling victim to AI slop

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UC Merced @ucmerced.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

UC Merced biologist Néstor Oviedo is exploring how the brain may hold the key to controlling cancer. Supported by a $2 million NIH grant, his lab is studying how molecular signals influence the earliest stages of cancer development. 🔗 ucm.edu/orzdvg

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The incredible @doc-brock.bsky.social, @qsb-uc-merced.bsky.social @ucmerced.bsky.social alumni, is guest teaching my grad prof skills class today!

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Catherine (Katie) Schretter @ceschretter.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Excited to announce our new pre-print (www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...)! This collaborative work (co-led by Adriane Otopalik and Gerry Rubin) examines how neuronal circuits regulate social behaviors, like courtship🫶 and aggression🥊, across sexes. #neuroscience #Drosophila #WomenInSTEM 🧪1/

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Teamrat @teamrat.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Grew up under a dictatorship, they attacked expertise first. This is alarmingly familiar. Trust in expertise is the foundation of modern civilization. Even as a researcher, I rely on expert knowledge I could never master in a lifetime. Rejecting that isn’t freedom, it’s how societies collapse!

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Happy to be hosting NeLLi scientist Frederik Schulz for a QSB grad program @qsb-uc-merced.bsky.social JGI/RENEW seminar here at @ucmerced.bsky.social today! And you should sign up for this excellent symposium too.

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Just in time for the Cold Spring Harbor Neurobiology of Drosophila meeting - read up on the receptor for the best neuropeptide, ever, NPF/NPY, and thirsty water seeking.

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

NSF GRFP solicitation is finally up. Life Sci deadline extended to Nov 10 but 2nd year grad students no longer eligible www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

A new large study of alcohol intake using genetics (Mendelian randomization) finds a dose-response relationship for risk of dementia with no protective effect at low levels of intake ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I’ve tried three NJ pharmacies and none of them have the Novavax COVID vaccine. Is availability very limited? The mRNA vaccines take me out for 48-72 hours every single time, and Novavax doesn’t. I don’t have time to sleep for 3 days! 💉

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Recently 'retired' umbrella bio chair here: Do other programs allow PI's w/o funding to admit students? Historically we have (esp eco/evo), but unionized TAship salaries are high cost to the U, & TAships are being reduced. Like to help btw grant PIs, & keep have/have not split minimized.

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Megan Barkdull @meganbarkdull.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Please help me to celebrate Mei Zhen, an innovator and tremendous collaborator, named to the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science on September 4, 2025

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

These 10 rules for teachers and students really good! Adopted all but one (because of course we all get to make the rules)

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Patrick Mulholland (He/Him) @mulhollandlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We are looking forward to the 2026 #Alcohol GRC in Ventura, CA! The main meeting starts Feb 22, 2026 (GRS Feb 21-22). For both, we will be selecting additional invited talks from the submitted abstracts. For consideration, submit your abstract by Oct 10! #alcoholGRC2026 #alcoholGRS2026

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Still no NSF GRFP announcement for this year. Another week or two and the program is going to be effectively cancelled, because students will not have time to prepare. Any chatter out there about whats going on???? www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Smells like Oracle adoption

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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Class starts on Monday and I'm trying to write GRFP draft deadlines into the syllabus... Is this even happening?

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Still nothing about this year's NSF GRFP. Will there even be any?

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

As a young man I used to think it would be a shame if humanity didn’t get off Earth and spread across the galaxy. Now I understand that (a) we definitely won’t and (b) that’s a very good thing. No other sentient species should have to deal with us

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

If you haven't already, ask (or have your campus legal counsel ask) your congressperson to advocate on your behalf.

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Any whispers about when the NSF GRFP due dates and program information will be posted? Last year it was mid-July....

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Axel Visel @axelvisel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🧬 @jgi.doe.gov is hiring! We're seeking an Advanced Analysis Manager to lead data infrastructure and software engineering supporting the generation, analysis, and dissemination of genomics data Hybrid | SF Bay Area | Apply by Aug 7 jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/advance... @biosci.lbl.gov @berkeleylab.lbl.gov

Buildings on the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab campus, with the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. It's sunset time, the sky is orange. On the left is the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB), which houses the JGI, NMDC and KBase. On the right is the BioEPIC building.

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findlatergroup.bsky.social @findlatergroup.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

An outstanding opportunity for a senior leadership role here at UC Merced. The Dean of the School of Natural Sciences has the chance to work with an amazing team of staff and faculty. If folks have specific questions please don't hesitate to reach out. Apply here: aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02013

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Dean, School of Natural Sciences

University of California, Merced is hiring. Apply now!

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Spoken like a true Drosophilist

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A single NPFR neuropeptide F receptor neuron that regulates thirst behaviors in Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Stephanie Woo @itsthewoolab.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Just a reminder that the abstract deadline for a short talks at the West Coast SDB meeting is coming up next week! Links to abstract submission, registration, and the preliminary program can be found here: www.sdbonline.org/wcsdb2025 #wcsdb2025

Flyer for the 2025 West Coast Society for Developmental Biology regional meeting, taking place August 14–17 at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, California. Registration and more info: sdbonline.org/wcsdb2025. There is a QR code that links directly the to meeting website.

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

the extra buckets of service will help you with that

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