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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Here is our new collaborative paper on the origin of cholinergic and monoaminergic signaling. The data suggest that biogenic amine signaling is thus not a bilaterian innovation but an ancient mode of cellular communication that evolved from generalist to […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Main biosynthetic pathways of biogenic amines and their evolution. Diagram showing key steps of the main pathways for the production of biogenic amines. The main enzymes that catalyze each reaction are shown, as well as, alternative
enzymes that may promiscuously catalyze the same reaction.

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Pavel Tomancak on the past present and future of Fiji in our @ZooCELL graduate school in Paris. He warns about chaos and the fragmentation of research #software, on how #AI and the proliferation of vibe-coded tools is undoing over a decade of work of […] [Original post on biologists.social]

schematic of the plethora of new tools and bespoke analyses, fundamentally changing the landscape of scientific software.

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Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆 @kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

#UKRI speedy reviewing process seems to be under way...I have literally got my reviews back from a grant I submit one month ago...never heard of this speed...a couple of the reviews tho are very very short #lifeofPI

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Naomi Mittet @naolimit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sharing an old FB post about my kid's Non-24 journey for #Non24 awareness (name redacted for privacy). My child is now a young adult and gave me the green light for advocacy. Diagnosis was done by Dr. Bushnell, a sleep specialist who is also a neurologist. #CircadianRhythms #Sleep

Screenshot of a 2020 Facebook post by Naomi Mittet describing their child’s Non-24 sleep-wake cycle, a 25-hour circadian rhythm, and why switching to homeschooling worked best for them.

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Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆 @kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

glad to report our IT finally found fix the #Zotero block in the MSWORD🙏 , but I will learn to switch TeX for my next writing project

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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very grateful to have been part of such a special and emotional day celebrating Sara Bray & Nick Brown at their Retirement Symposium. Two outstanding scientists and, even more importantly, truly wonderful people. Thank you, Sara and Nick, for such a memorable day! #protistsOnSky

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Wow, there's an absolutely brimming Student-Staff Association meeting at #Edinburgh Uni. Beamed into its second overflow lecture theatre #UCU.

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

In the Vatican, at the "Evolution and Development" meeting organised by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, an academy founded in 1603 and joined by Galileo in 1610. www.pas.va/en/events/2026/evodevo.h… Meeting organised by Eddy De Robertis and […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Rome, picture of St Peter''s basilica at night

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Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆 @kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Interested in understanding how environmental light control #sleep in #Drosophila and other #Diptera species? Two potential #PhD opportunities to work in my lab from 2027 September, please see details in www.kofanchenlab.net/come-join-us and spread the words

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7

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Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆 @kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@brembs/11730928947… "you cannot generate a six-week recording of a thousand #Drosophilae sleeping, you have to run it. You need the animals, the incubators, the cameras, the failed pilot that taught you the arena geometry was wrong. That cost does not go to […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Giorgio Gilestro @giorgiogilestro making a novel case for open hardware: "A design that anyone can replicate cannot be rented out. That is the whole argument for it, and it is a better one now than it was five years ago." giorgio.gilest.ro/the-weimar-of-kno… If you only read one […]

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Well no thanks @Fairphone for dropping support of the FP3 last month. Not great when the USB port stopped charging (1% per hour?) and my #InterRail pass to get home from 4500km #StayGrounded trip 🚅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇧🇪🇩🇪🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 was only on the phone 😬! So yay […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Three parts used to repair a mobile phone and the tiny screwdriver marked Fairphone on a wood background. A Top Module with camera, Bottom Module with Microphone symbol and a battery marked "Change is in your hands".

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Naomi Mittet @naolimit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"A thin and long-overlooked layer at the base of the cerebral cortex helps organise the brain’s electrical rhythms across waking and sleep, according to new research from the Molnár and Vyazovskiy Laboratories from DPAG, University of Oxford published in eLife."

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Fillip Port @crisprflydesign.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Several FlyBase services are down. Probably just a glimpse of what it's like to work with most other genomes, but can't say I'm enjoying the experience. Please send decorated FASTA... 😭😭😭

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Tapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We waspologists really have to sort out our mess of what we laughably refer to as wing vein "systems". (Actually lots of separate, contradictory ways of naming veins, none of which really work.) Now looking up one of the latest systems, which includes an "anterior anal" and "posterior anal" vein.

Picture showing one of the systems. It's apparently the Ross system – don't ask me, I've only been studying these wasps for over a decade, how would I know what the Ross system is? Not the one I mention in the post though, here those wing veins are 1A and 3A, they're next to each other in the hind wing. No idea what happened to 2A.

The picture is from the American Entomological Institute, http://www.amentinst.org/GIN/morphology.php

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Naomi Mittet @naolimit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'd like to share this article again. I was interviewed last year about my kid's #Non24, a circadian rhythm sleep disorder. Sighted Non-24 is considered rare, N24 is more common for blind people. #CircadianRhythm #Sleep www.seattlemet.com/health-and-w...

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What It’s Like to Truly Be Sleepless in Seattle

Life with a circadian rhythm sleep disorder.

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Interesting initiative I just became aware of: #Peerreview is a finite resource, and every review invitation presents a choice about where our time goes. The Diamond Reviewer Pledge asks researchers to commit to reviewing at least one article a year for a #diamond #openaccess journal — free to […]

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Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆 @kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Good news here "While #England’s biggest improvement came in science, it was its performance in reading that stood out, putting it ahead of Australia, the US, Finland and France, and with only the scholastic powerhouses of Singapore, #Taiwan and the combined Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and […]

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

"We are putting all our eggs in the same basket. And our milk, our water, our house, our furniture and our loved ones. In an electrical-auto-closing basket remotely controlled by a foreign entity that openly spies on us and wants to extract as much money as they can. For some reason, it is […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

How do the mushroom bodies regulate habit formation ? Classical learning forms an association between a neutral external stimulus and a consequence of innate value. Conversely, operant learning associates the animal’s own behavior with such consequences; eventually, habits form which ensure […]

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/09/2026

We are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Please apply or forward to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor, Psychology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Psychology at Stanford University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. In addition ...

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Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆 @kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Small farewell to #postdoc, Yu-Chien at #vegetarian eatery Bubala KingsX. thanks for her establishing and teaching me #Drosophila ERG! Also great in advising PhDs in the lab! Good luck with #Neurofly2026 and her next step #LifeOfPI

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Three positions advertising in friendly lab on butterfly rearing & experiment support, image-based identification platform development, developing transgenic insects. PDRA/PDRF (2x): careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/13... careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/13... GRA: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate or Fellow This Advanced Research and Innovation Agency funded full...

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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Since it remains unclear whether my current #PostDoc contract will be prolonged in January, I am starting to look for a new #AcademicJob! My expertise are #ecology, #ethology, #AnimalBehavior, with a focus on #olfaction in #mammals. I had a stint in #NeuroEthology, but that wasn't quite my cup […]

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Gotta respect a creature that feeds on poison to thwart its enemies.

A monarch butterfly caterpillar eating a milkweed leaf. Milkweeds produce cardiac glycosides that monarchs concentrate to make predators sick if they try to eat them.

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

🦁 Camera traps in Spain captured female Iberian lynxes deliberately dunking dead rabbits in water troughs — the first documented case of a wild carnivore soaking its prey. The behavior was first recorded in August 2020 when a lynx named Naia was seen carrying a freshly killed rabbit to a water […]

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Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆 @kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Heatwaves have affected our daily life, my postdoc sent me these pictures after they realised our incubator running #ethoscope failed overnight...the 3D printed cast started to warp 😔 luckily they saved the Raspberry pi and camera...LMS has been good, but […] [Original post on biologists.social]

3D printed Ethoscope cast melted and deformed

3D printed Ethoscope cast melted and deformed with Rasberry pi rescued

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

HIRING MICROBIOLOGIST: effective start asap! The PDRA/PDRF (per xp) will investigate the interactions of bumblebee antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with the gut microbiota & more. Our work has shown AMPs have striking specificity for ecological microbes. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/13... 1/2

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Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow This job is part of an Advanced Research + Inventio...

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napari @napari.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Sizzling Summer Series 3 - naPLari Hackathon, Kraków 🇵🇱 A lucky crew of 13 got to spend 6 jam-packed sunny days inside pumping out a fantastical assortment of napari features 🖥️ It was a ☕️ caffeine-, string 🧀 cheese- and 🥟 pierogi-fuelled extravaganza 🎊

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Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆 @kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

just being notified with this Recommend to eLife App, I wonder @eLife would point to a article explaining about the thinking behind?

bioRXiv THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY
"Recommend this preprint to eLife"

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Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆 @kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

#memory #neuorscience folks, just thinking out loud here and will appreciate any pointers. Did any experiment (animal model preferred) investigate the relationship between the half life of a memory and the level of error during training? ie does how many times one makes mistakes during learning […]

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

"when we let a computer think for us, we put a gun to the head of civilisation." a must read for all teachers, by Katherine Rundell […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Whether you're an academic institution or a scholarly journal: if all you're interested in are too-good-to-be-true stories, you will inevitably get too-good-to-be-true stories. Don't say you didn't know.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The Hanson lab is about to be positively BUZZING. Stay tuned...

A picture through the grate at a bumblebee colony

A box is sitting on a desk that says "LIVE BEES PLEASE KEEP LEVEL"

A green and white box with purple motifs containing bumblebees sits in an incubator on a white wire rack.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

When #AI tools hallucinate citations, their made-up author names are not random. "We show that #LLMs do not merely default to high-probability individual names when generating fictional experts: they produce correlated character ensembles, pairs and trios [of co-authors] whose co-occurrence […]

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Naomi Mittet @naolimit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"The human clock protein cryptochrome-1 (HsCRY1) can be targeted by small molecular modulators to shift the 24 h rhythm, opening up possibilities for treating circadian disorders." pubs.acs.org/jacsat/artic...

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The Human Circadian Clock Protein Cryptochrome-1 Responds to Photochemistry by Conformational Changes

Abstract. The human clock protein cryptochrome-1 (HsCRY1) can be targeted by small molecular modulators to shift the 24 h rhythm, opening up possibilities

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Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆 @kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

#climatechange I don't think it is normal to see hummingbird moths but this is delightful #InsectsOfTheFediverse

A huge moth collecting nectar from boudleja

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Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆 @kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

#Vocation Vocation vocation Haing our window glass replaced, a 60yo came together with a youngster, they worked very efficiently and very friendly and professionally. Haven't seen this for a while, and it got me some hope for #UK

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Andrew Millar @a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

RE: social.growyourown.services/@FediTi… ℹ️ UK Met Office forecasts for UK fedi users, via open-meteo.com Thx @FediTips 🙏

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Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆 @kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Farewell to Enzo, our summer intern from Paris Cite University, who escaped the scorching heat at Paris by staying his summer at Leicester, did a great job helping Xinghua @lixinghua and found some cool stuff. Salute!

Group cheers with pint of beer in a pub booth

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hi all, putting feelers out: folks looking for a job ASAP in the 🇬🇧 in Cornwall, or willing to move? Collaborating group hiring a couple roles with skills in any of: - insect injections (incl. gene edits) - machine learning for image analysis - experience with 🦋 a plus! Can email me at link below.

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

"Peer review is imperfect, sometimes exclusionary, occasionally petty. We have all seen nonsensical reports and capricious delays. But the answer to those failings is to invest more in the human practice – through training, recognition and realistic expectation – not to hollow it out." […]

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