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Max Farnworth

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Fascinated by the evolution of the brain | Emmy Noether Group Leader at JGU Mainz | Section Speaker Neurobiology DZG | he/him linktr.ee/max.farnworth

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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thanks for putting a spotlight onto our upcoming work! Exciting times ahead...
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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I cannot even begin to stress how important mentors have been for my career thus far, especially informal and/or peer mentorship. Sometimes mentoring is from your supervisor, or a formal programme, but more often it's a diffuse network of people in your corner. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Successful early-career scientists rely on network of mentors
Large networks are particularly beneficial to researchers in under-represented groups.
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
open.spotify.com/album/3y9ho8... This album.
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Full Circle - Album by Tom Misch | Spotify
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As they are not active here, I left a comment on the LinkedIn post from Nikon Small World about the concerns I think I share with many (first screenshot is their post, second screenshot is my comment) lnkd.in/p/ecdT6saZ
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
includes a wonderful thread on Emmy Noether herself - thanks for highlighting!
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Nikos Konstantinides @nkonst4.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is today! Whoever can make it is in for a treat :-)
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Justus Kebschull @justuskebschull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW PREPRINT! An evo-devo look at how new cerebellar nuclei are made. Spoiler: it’s all driven by region-specific excitatory progenitors in the early rhombic lip; inhibitory neurons fill in later. If you care about brain evolution or cerebellar development, check it out: tinyurl.com/CNdevelopment
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Apply, apply, apply (till Monday!)
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
News!! 🎉🎉🎉 We've officially re-launched our newsletter! Our first post is a "starter pack"—a brief orientation for newcomers to the show, with suggested episodes on different themes. Feel free to make alternate suggestions in the comments! manymindspodcast.substack.com/p/many-minds...
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Many Minds podcast: A starter pack
A guide for new listeners
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
everyneuron.com this is so beautifully made.
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Every neuron, every connection
The complete wiring diagram of a male fruit fly's nervous system, and the AI team at Google Research that helped draw it.
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Richard Merrill @dickmerrill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Very excited to see this multi-faceted* study, led by Shane Wright and representing years of work on visual evolution and perception in Heliconius as part of our ERC Starting Grant, released into the world! 🦋*pun very much intended www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@samjakeengland.bsky.social giving a fantastic talk at #DZG2026
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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We are hiring a new lecturer in Bioinformatics! Hit the link below to find out more and apply: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... #bristoluni #wearebristoluni #biologicalsciences
Job Alert! Lecturer in Bioinformatics. Come and join use in the world class Life Sciences Building at the University of Bristol! Closing date: Sunday 27 September.
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DZG Neurobiology @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Several days in and slightly late with this tweet, but thanks very much particularly to @maikekittelmann.bsky.social and @hannazwaka.bsky.social for both giving fantastic talks, covering hardcore neuroanatomy to genetics to neuroethology.
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Münster is pretty. And enough specialty coffee shops to keep you busy for several weeks. @posnienlab.bsky.social looking at you 👀🥲
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How did the coffee shop know I work on insects? 😱🫶🏻
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Reminder I am hiring a postdoc and PhD student. Thanks to all the applications I already received 🙏 If you know anyone particularly with single cell expertise for the postdoc position, please let me know!
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🌟Congratulations🌟 to @josharbon.bsky.social on two great #OpenaAccess papers about pre-emptive behaviour & intergroup conflict from his #NERC funded postdoc out within a month of one another: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... doi.org/10.1038/s415... @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #mammals #birds #cognition
Front cover of Trends in Ecology & Evolution featuring a dwarf mongoose.Front cover of Nature Ecology & Evolution featuring a dwarf mongoose
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am presenting my lab's future work (or what I hope will happen...) at the DZG conference today, so come have a look at Poster Neuro 2 tonight and have a chat :-)
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
on the way to Münster for this years DZG conference. See you there!
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dzg-gerzoolsociety.bsky.social @dzg-gerzoolsociety.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#DZG2026 news: The detailed programme, guidelines & abstract book are out. If you haven't checked out already: dzg-meeting.de/en/programme... Now that everything is set, we are looking forward to an exciting meeting, big thanx to the Münster organising team!! Have a save trip and see you you soon!
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Detailed Programm | DZG Meeting
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Andrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
Bee trajectories in agricultural landscape and two photon microscope for in-vivo calcium activity imaging.
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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🚨new work with the dream team @danakarca.bsky.social @loopyluppi.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @stuartoldham.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wooohoo. Congrats to the mighty @pbrand.bsky.social
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Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
First day at work on this lovely, leafy campus and it made me very happy to see "Life-History Evolution" on the sign outside our building. Looking forward to growing our group, research and teaching here at @unimainz.bsky.social in the next years!
Sign outside building saying "Anthropology, Life-History Evolution" with trees in background
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Marlies Oomen @marliesoomen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Guess it's official now! #NewPI #TEsky #UMassChan
Picture shows the door to the office of Marlies Oomen at UMass Chan Medical School
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Philipp Brand @pbrand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are looking for a research assistant to join our team. brain.mpg.de/brand Apply using the link below if you are interested in doing research on the neural and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. jobs.brain.mpg.de/jobposting/6...
Description of job ad for Research Assistant in the lab of Evolutionary Neuroscience and Behavior Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.Description of job ad for Research Assistant in the lab of Evolutionary Neuroscience and Behavior Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.
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Chris Schnaitmann @cschnaitmann.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026
Highly recommended! Join our vibrant Mainz Neuroscience community!
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.
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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Do you work with microscopy images and segment to quantify or track? Do you study cell biology? development? Gather round! Let me tell you about FOCUS-3D, a segmentation algorithm that is fast, accurate and can be used on any model. We used it here to study zebrafish development. 🧪 (thread)
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FOCUS‑3D: Robust, generalizable volumetric cell segmentation for three‑dimensional fluorescence microscopy
Understanding how cells establish spatial organization within tissues is a fundamental question in life sciences. While modern three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy captures large-volume tissue ar...
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fuck slop, support your people.
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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Come and work with us (the Kokkonuts) as a postdoc! Our research within (theory-evo-eco) is broad; let's say it's implicitly defined by the journal club papers we read. Which is why the application process includes a JC-related task, I hope it'll be a fun one for you! www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What the actual fuck? Abcam??? how dare you.
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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Join us in Oldenburg and study the #SensoryBasis 👀👂👃🤚👅🧭, Mechanisms 🧠🧬🧪, and Impacts of #AnimalNavigation in our Cluster of Excellence "NaviSense" as a PhD student 🎓 👇 In case you would like to discuss project ideas related to #insect #navigation, feel free to contact me 🤗 🐜❤️ #NaviSense #CoE #ExStra
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Obama Mic Drop: Enough Said
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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Proud of fantastic students Ayla Webb, Ellie Trelfa-Stewart, and Dylan Thatcher for giving two great talks and one great (and wine-fuelled) poster at #IUSSI2026!
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Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Exciting times both professionally and personally - we're moving to Mainz as I am starting a professorship in September! Thank you to the Wübben foundation @w-s-w.org for the amazing support. Really looking forward to the work and life adventures to come! (1/3)
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Mieke Roth 🟥 @miekeroth.com · 18/08/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The narwhal tusk assembles its macroscopic helix from building blocks with opposing twists - Nature Communications
Narwhal tusks are macroscopically helical and chiral. This structure originates from left- and right-handed helices of tusk nanostructural components. The double helix creates a straight, mechanically...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In this month’s “Liftoff,” our Q&A series with PIs who opened new labs, @jhennig.bsky.social discusses fostering a culture of polite and constructive disagreement and @droligo.bsky.social talks about the value of being kind. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-...
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Liftoff: New lab alerts
Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.
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Marcus Ghosh @marcusghosh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Now published @commsaicomp.nature.com with @neural-reckoning.org We: 🤖 Define a taxonomy of neural network architectures (here 128 unique structures) 🦾 Train > 25,000 models on different navigation tasks #RL 🧠 Link each architecture's behaviour to its memory dynamics doi.org/10.1038/s444...
A taxonomy of recurrence. We defined a family of neural networks for exploring questions in neuroscience and machine learning. Here each network is represented by three circles joined by different connections (short, coloured lines). Networks are joined by longer, pale grey lines if they differ by one connection. Moving from left to right takes us from the simplest to the most complex network.
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Harris Kaplan @harriskaplan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm thrilled to announce the opening of the Kaplan lab at the University of Virginia @uvabio.bsky.social ! We are a neuroscience lab aiming to define circuits underlying naturalistic behaviors in infants and adults. We're actively recruiting students and postdocs. Learn more at kaplan-lab.org.
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
@ebablab.bsky.social
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My Emmy Noether funding got funded via the Global Minds Initiative Germany. More info here: www.dfg.de/de/foerderun...
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Global Minds Initiative Germany
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Our book chapter from 7 (?!?!) years ago, is now also available as protocols.io version! That's pretty neat. www.protocols.io/view/the-red...
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The Red Flour Beetle as Model for Comparative Neural Development: Genome Editing to Mark Neural Cells in Tr...
The Red Flour Beetle as Model for Comparative Neural Development: Genome Editing to Mark Neural Cells in Tribolium Brain Development. . Read full protocol, s...
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Maria Antonietta Tosches @matosches.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Excited to share a new preprint from the lab, by @andrewmatheson.bsky.social and team, where we dive into the superpower of newts: plasticity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Like many good projects, this started with a serendipitous observation... 🧵1/5
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
First proper day in the office. 😱
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Johnny Davila-Sandoval @johnnyds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very happy to announce that my first paper is officially out in Evolution & Development. In this article, we showed that species from two major annelid clades with similar fate maps have conserved mechanisms of specification of their central nervous system. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Patterns of Autonomous and Conditional Neural Specification for the Brain and Ventral Nerve Cord in Annelida
Diagrams of blastomere isolations in Capitella teleta and Platynereis dumerilii showing autonomous head neural tissue (from 1q) and trunk neural tissue (from 2d) as well as a decoupling of D–V axis f...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wow. Just wow.
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