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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨 Very urgent for many of us. I also just learned this today. Tell your friends. Tell your grant admins. 🧪

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Beverly Piggott @beverly-piggott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How do stem cells decide what to become? Beyond genes and metabolism, bioelectric dynamics across subcellular compartments shape cell fate and function. Our new review in Current Opinion in Cell Biology explores this emerging framework for bioelectric regulation. authors.elsevier.com/a/1noWh_Ljpb...

This is an image of a cell depicting bioelectric dynamics across sub cellular compartments.

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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773

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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI

The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developme...

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Sven Dorkenwald @sdorkenw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Applications 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

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🧠Ever wonder how the brain turns a taste into the decision to eat – or not? For the 1st time @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social team at @champalimaudf.bsky.social and their collaborators have mapped the complete neural circuitry behind an animal’s feeding decisions. 👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/bluepri...

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Tulilab.com @tulilab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

IU is hiring a virologist. I am so excited. Come join a great group of scientists and people.

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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 11/09/2026

We have a tenure-track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology in Columbia's E3B Department. Application deadline is October 15. Come be our colleague. Please RT! apply.interfolio.com/193016

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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

(1/2) When Janelia set out to map every neuron in the fly brain in 2008, many thought it couldn’t be done. Nearly 20 years later, a complete wiring diagram of the 166,000+ neurons of the adult male fruit fly is helping to reveal the brain’s secrets: bit.ly/4zT7jPf.

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Registration for the Midwest #Drosophila meeting is open. It's a wonderful meeting to see the Midwest community. And Allerton is a beautiful venue ! You'll not regret making the trip 🎉 midwest-drosophila-conf.indiana.edu/index.html

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Midwest Drosophila Conference

Join us for the Midwest Drosophila Conference, the perfect small meeting setting to promote interactions among PIs, students, and postdocs. Held each year at the self-contained and historic Allerton P...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Many aspects of animal physiology contribute to temperature tolerance. But “the nervous system is one of the major drivers of animal expansion,” says Wolfgang Stein. #neuroskyence By @sarahdeweerdt.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/environment/...

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Climate neuroscience needs integration and guided research

Five years after a groundbreaking paper, can a young field move beyond piecemeal studies?

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Nature @nature.com · 20/08/2026

The US National Science Foundation will award about 30% fewer new research grants this fiscal year than in the last one, Nature has learnt. go.nature.com/3UcGoNW

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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 20/08/2026

Wherever we look, insect numbers are declining... but most insect life on Earth is found in locations we aren't actively monitoring. @justinmcrocker.bsky.social discusses the #insect decline and how can we build the planetary observatory that #biodiversity requires @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4qzS2yv

Long-term insect monitoring sites and global pesticide use intensity. Total pesticide use per area of cropland (kg ha−1), most recent year available per country (2015–2023), from the FAOSTAT Pesticides Use domain; gray indicates no reported data. FAOSTAT totals exclude seed-applied systemic pesticides and so understate exposure to the neonicotinoids emphasized in the text. White points mark representative long-term insect monitoring programs. Base map: Natural Earth (public domain).

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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We’re recruiting postdocs! Join our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded programme 'Decoding competition in the brain'. How does the brain resolve competing needs and prioritise behaviour? 📅 Deadline: 1 September Apply: rezavallab.org Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSM781/r...

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Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham

Recruiting now: Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Andrew Dacks @adacks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Nominations for the GSA Larry Sandler Award are now open! genetics-gsa.org/awards/larry... This award recognizes an outstanding PhD thesis (graduating between 07/2025 and 12/2026) in any area of Drosophila research. Include 1) the thesis abstract, 2) the Nominee's CV and 3) a nomination letter.

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Larry Sandler Award - Genetics Society of America

The Larry Sandler Award was established in 1988 by the colleagues, friends, and students of Dr. Larry Sandler after his untimely death in 1987. The award serves to honor Dr. Sandler for his many contr...

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Interested in genetics, diversification, and speciation? We're hiring a Research Associate to help with our projects, including the convergent evolution of fruit color. Come and work with us! Feel free to contact me with questions. (Reposts appreciated!) Link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33973

a matrix of 6 different Solanum (wild tomato) species with six different fruit colors, ranging from white to bright red.

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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Rudimentary magic by Daniel Barreto for Vicente Medel's essay: Talent is global. Access to the world’s scientific stage is not. Neuroscience in Latin America, does not lack talent, but current systems price its researchers out. www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-... @thetransmitter.bsky.social

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

When you start running, your breathing speeds up before your body needs the oxygen. Turns out flies do the same thing and @camellyc.bsky.social worked out the circuit that makes it happen. Check out our new preprint on how the nervous system coordinates breathing with movement.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Raced home from vacation so we could submit and preprint postdoc @keisukefukumura.bsky.social's paper! It's an exciting first foray for our lab into the periphery, where we find a unique role for CLOCK in regulating lifespan on high fat diet. 🧪https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.20.739608

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Fat body CLOCK restrains innate immunity and maintains survival under dietary stress in Drosophila

Both aging and a high-fat diet (HFD) dampen circadian gene transcription rhythms and promote chronic inflammation. How aging and HFD interact to affect peripheral molecular clocks and circadian behavi...

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Andrew Seeds @andrew-seeds.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

How 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...)

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A comprehensive mechanosensory connectome reveals a somatotopically organized neural circuit architecture controlling stimulus-aimed grooming of the Drosophila head

A synaptic-resolution map reveals how spatially organized touch pathways in the fly brain shape aimed head grooming through parallel excitatory circuits and inhibitory control.

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Clara Howcroft Ferreira @clarahowcroft.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Lovely tribute to the wonderful human and researcher Ed Kravitz by Alo Basu and @mariadelapax.bsky.social starting the day at #ICN2026. His legacy continues in good hands!

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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · 23/07/2026

The countdown is on as #ICN2026 kicks off this weekend. If you're joining us at the International Congress for Neuroethology, don't miss these two special sessions exploring how neuroscience can help us better understand and respond to a changing world: 1/4

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Jens Rister @rister.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I am grateful for having been part of this year's CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course. Thanks to my co-directors @mariadelapax.bsky.social and Tingting Wang, our TAs, instructors, and lecturers! We wish our highly talented students all the best! @cshlcourses.bsky.social #scicomm #drosophila 🪰🧪

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Sergio Hidalgo Sotelo @sergiohidalgo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I am very happy to share that our article, "Splicing of a core circadian clock gene regulates seasonal adaptations by a winter gating mechanism," is now available in Science Advances. 🎊 (1/4) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Splicing of a core circadian clock gene regulates seasonal adaptations by a winter gating mechanism

The circadian clock integrates photoperiodic and temperature cues by RNA splicing to promote seasonal plasticity.

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Jens Rister @rister.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In the 'Behavior' section of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course, we studied grooming behavior (Andy Seeds/Steffi Hampel), visual navigation (Michael Reiser), courtship (Christa Baker), and aggression (Sarah Certel)! @cshlcourses.bsky.social @mariadelapax.bsky.social Tingting Wang #scicomm 🧪🪰

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Jens Rister @rister.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course, our students successfully performed NMJ recordings (Tingting Wang), voltage imaging (Cheng Huang), and patch-clamp recordings (Nara Muraro). Thanks also to Yimei, Ruibao, and Flor for their support! @cshlcourses.bsky.social @mariadelapax.bsky.social 🧪

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Jens Rister @rister.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

In the 'Development' section of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course, our students learned to stage, stain, and dissect fly embryos, larvae, pupae, and adults. Khanh and Heena explained how to handle fragile pupal brain and eye tissue! 🪰🧪 @mariadelapax.bsky.social @cshlcourses.bsky.social

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Having mastered epidemiology, toilet paper supply chain logistics, large language models, submarine design, maritime law, and marine biology, I’d like to explain the changes I would make to the offsides rule in soccer….(1/47)

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Maria de la Paz Fernandez @mariadelapax.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Cheng Huang somehow simultaneously attending the Argentina–Cape Verde match and giving a wonderful lecture on voltage imaging at the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology Course. @cshlcourses.bsky.social #cshldros26

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Jens Rister @rister.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Great to be back with @mariadelapax.bsky.social and Tingting Wang as co-directors of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course 🪰! Thank you for the excellent technical support, Heena Khurana and Khanh Lam-Kamath! 🧪 @cshlcourses.bsky.social @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlaboratory.bsky.social

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Justin Kumar @flyeyelab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It was great to be back at CSHL. I had a fantastic time talking to the students of the Drosophila Neurobiology course about eye development. Many thanks to Jens Rister and Maria Fernandez for the invitation to be a guest lecturer this year! @rister.bsky.social @mariadelapax.bsky.social

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Maria de la Paz Fernandez @mariadelapax.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ending Day 2 of #cshldros26 in style with a memorable lecture by emeritus course director @drosophilosophy.bsky.social : "The Microscopy Toolkit for the Modern Drosophilist." Thank you for joining us!

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 26/06/2026

Did you know that before a federal rule is finalized, agencies are required to accept and consider public comments? A proposed OMB rule could significantly impact science funding, and your perspective carries real weight. Submit a comment before July 13: vist.ly/59775 #neurosky

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Tim Mosca (he/him) @drosophilosophy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Kicking off Day 2 of #cshldros26 ... the amazing Ellie Heckscher tackles embryo staining and neurogenesis and gives a tour de force presentation for our students.

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Tim Mosca (he/him) @drosophilosophy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The 2026 CSHL fly neuro summer course kicks off tonight with the biggest bang! Course pioneers and titans of science Lily and Yuh Nun Jan are here to tell historical tales of Drosophila Neurobiology! What an absolute treat! #cshldros26

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

FlyBase release FB2026_02 is live! As of this release we now have 2000 gene group reports🎉, including 1453 ‘classical’ gene group reports flybase.org/lists/FBgg, 399 protein complex reports flybase.org/lists/FBgg/c..., 96 metabolic pathway reports flybase.org/lists/FBgg/m... (continued)

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FlyBase - Gene Group List

FlyBase: a database for drosophila genetics and molecular biology

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Erik Herzog @erikherzog.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Join us! Ask Me Anything as part of the #SRBR World Circadian Day. Organized with expert researchers and physicians studying #biologicalrhythms and #sleep. Real-time responses starting in just 5 circadian cycles from now.

World Circadian Day. June 24, 9-11am Pacific Daylight Time. https://reddit.com/r/science

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Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18

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Katrin Vogt @katrinvogt.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Together with Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio, we contributed a review about complex neural processing across phyla - and how this allows adaptions to a dynamic environment. Enjoy reading!

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Troy Littleton @jtroylittleton.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Zhou Guan’s preprint from the lab on how mutations in Synaptotagmin 1 and 2 disrupt neurotransmitter release to cause human neurological diseases is available at BioRxiv. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 23/04/2026

The 2026 SfN Science Education and Outreach Awards celebrate those who take neuroscience beyond the lab creating innovative educational programs, engaging with communities, and nurturing scientific curiosity. Submit your nomination by Thursday, May 7. 🔗 vist.ly/4zhzp #neurosky

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Joanna Chiu @joanna-chiu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

@drummonk.bsky.social and I wrote a @plosbiology.org Primer to highlight a fantastic study by Aalim Weljie’s and Amita Sehgal’s groups that reveals time-of-day dependent activities of glucose metabolic pathways. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Circadian clock gates diurnal glucose utilization

The circadian clock and cellular metabolism are tightly coupled. This primer discusses a recent PLOS study that elucidates how glucose metabolism changes over the course of the day in Drosophila and h...

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Luísa Tupinambá Jabbur @jabbur.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

my former boss (and amazing mentor) Carl Johnson just released a series of lectures on the fundamental properties of #circadian clocks, which you should definitely check out if you're interested in chronobiology! as.vanderbilt.edu/johnsonlab/f...

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Six Lectures on the Fundamental Properties of Circadian Clocks

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Maria de la Paz Fernandez @mariadelapax.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Great news from the lab - we’ve been awarded a MIRA (R35)! This grant provides 5-year support for our research program. We are very grateful to NIGMS/ #NIH for supporting our research. We will be hiring a research technician and a postdoc. fernandez.lab.indiana.edu/news/index.h...

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Elizabeth Rideout @ejrideout.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Beyond delighted to share our amazing collaboration with Thierry Alquier's lab @alquierthierry.bsky.social on a conserved role for neuronal lipid droplets in regulating energy homeostasis in vivo led by Celena Cherian, Romane Manceau, Danie Majeur, and Colin Miller www.nature.com/articles/s42... /1

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Neuronal lipid droplets play a conserved and sex-biased role in maintaining whole-body energy homeostasis - Nature Metabolism

In vivo regulation of neuronal lipid droplet formation mediates whole-body energy homeostasis in a sex-specific manner in Drosophila and mice.

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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We’re recruiting! Exciting opportunities in our lab supported by a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award. • Postdoctoral researchers • Research assistant/PhD students Join us to study how neural circuits drive decision-making. Deadline 26/04 Learn more and Apply here: rezavallab.org

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Erik Herzog @erikherzog.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Attention #chronobiology and #circadian authors. You can now directly transfer your @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social to Journal of Biological Rhythms. 1. www.biorxiv.org/submit-a-man..., 2. click "Submit bioRxiv Preprint to a Journal” & 3. choose JBR. #SRBR #JBR

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