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David Schoppik

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Studying how balance develops, functions, and fails at NYU Langone. www.schoppiklab.com . "And worse I may be yet: the worst is not so long as we can say, 'This is the worst.’” -- King Lear (Act IV Scene I)

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Michael Lin, MD PhD @michaelzlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excited to share a new study from our lab in Cell: “Non-invasive control of gene editing in vivo by photoswitchable Cas12f and focused ultrasound” We engineered a compact CRISPR system that can be activated at specific locations in the body using focused ultrasound (🧵) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Non-invasive control of gene editing in vivo by photoswitchable Cas12f and focused ultrasound
Remote activation of a single-AAV-deliverable photoswitchable Cas12f system enables precise spatial and temporal control of genome editing in deep tissues without surgery or implanted devices.
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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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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Repeated Inertial Stimulation Reveals Divergent Plasticity in Peripheral and Central Vestibular Pathways www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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Rainer Friedrich @rainerfriedrichlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Precise structural and functional organization of the olfactory bulb neuropil early in development, revealed by volume EM, dense reconstruction and 2P calcium imaging in zebrafish. Great work by Ruth and others in collaboration with @michalwj.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Fine ultrastructural organization of glomerular neuropil in the developing zebrafish olfactory bulb
Across animal phyla, odor information is represented in the first olfactory processing center by combinatorial activation of discrete glomeruli. To examine how this organization of olfactory processin...
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Scott Juntti @scottjuntti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When a fish sees the world move, it immediately swims with it. This is the optomotor response: a visual reflex found across animals that helps us maintain our position and orientation as our surroundings appear to drift. 🐟👀
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Are there key discoveries made with spatial RNA seq? Or what are your favorite spatial rna seq papers? Pls reski!
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David Schoppik @schoppik.com · 26/09/2026
Rainy Saturday project complete.
Picture of granola with apricots, dried cherries / blueberries, pecans and pumpkin seeds.
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David Schoppik @schoppik.com · 26/09/2026
Amazing sky before the storm tonight in #nyc.
The Chrysler and Chanin buildings against a purple-pink sky.
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Cedric Feschotte @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thrilled to see this published today! Truly special because we made the initial discovery >15 yrs ago! We found two copies of a human gene called BC200 embedded in a human poxvirus. BC200 blurs the line between gene & transposon—both functional & mutagenic! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/n
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Escape of the BC200 gene to a human poxvirus reveals its persistent transposition in primates
Transposable elements mobilize within and occasionally between genomes, including from host to virus. We identified two insertions of the human BC200 noncoding RNA gene in the poxvirus molluscum conta...
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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University is hiring! Come and do cutting edge research on the neural basis of natural behaviors at NBB (nbb.cornell.edu). No animal too small, no behavior too strange! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32592
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Matt Lovett-Barron @mlovettbarron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our lab's latest paper on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now published www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is the work of a great team in the lab - led by Jo-Hsien Yu, with Geoff Meyerhof, Jimjohn Milan, and Julia Napoli @nature.com @danionella.bsky.social
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
preprint🚨 ✨A Stickiness Response System in Rats tinyurl.com/4wnu88v9 What underlies that sticky, icky feeling? Sticky sensing is surprisingly underexplored. we investigated its neural and behavioural basis Congrats to Sandra, @simonerencken.bsky.social @jasmine-stone.bsky.social Adam, Tom & Pam! 👏
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Florian T. Merkle, PhD @florianmerkle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seeking a PhD at Cambridge in collaboration with NovoNordisk? Consider this funded opportunity titled "Human cellular models of leptin signalling and resistance": bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/project-refe... Application details: bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/how-apply Thanks for spreading the word!
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Dan Grimes @dangrimes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/11. New preprint from our lab! Serotonergic Control of Spine Morphology During Growth in Zebrafish www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Serotonergic Control of Spine Morphology During Growth in Zebrafish
Scoliosis is a three-dimensional deformity of the vertebral column that commonly emerges during growth, yet the biological mechanisms that initiate and drive curve progression remain poorly understood...
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Margarita Parada-Kusz @margaritapk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain - Nature Neuroscience
This study shows that the brain arises from two distinct progenitors: one forms the forebrain and midbrain, whereas the other generates the hindbrain. These insights enable the generation of human hin...
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Agrawal lab has published its first paper! "Sticking the landing: leg mechanosensory feedback coordinates the transition from flight to landing" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This project was led by a technician in the lab, Tse-Wei (Wayne) Kuo. Brief 🧵on what we found
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David Schoppik @schoppik.com · 12/09/2026
This is timely, lucid, and something worth having handy the next time it comes up. Because it will keep coming up.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“the only certainty we have is the certainty we had at the start: At fifteen seconds after 9:41 a.m., on September 11, 2001, a photographer named Richard Drew took a picture of a man falling through the sky—falling through time as well as through space…The picture is his cenotaph“
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Philippe Batut @philippebatut.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🧬🔬 Why are enhancers transcribed and how does that impact gene regulation? I’m really excited to share our new paper in @science.org showing that noncoding RNAs control the timing of gene activation in embryos. With Mike Levine #ScienceResearch @columbiamed.bsky.social A few highlights below... 🧵👇
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Noncoding transcription controls the developmental dynamics of long-range gene regulation
The genomic regions regulating gene expression are often themselves transcribed into a variety of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). However, the regulatory roles of this noncoding transcription remain largely ...
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Rainer Friedrich @rainerfriedrichlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just out in Nat Neurosci: disentangling of neural odor manifolds in "olfactory cortex" of adult zebrafish after learning. Great work by Bo, Nesibe et al and wonderful collaboration with @sueyeonchung.bsky.social that fundamentally changed my view of olfactory cortex. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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David Schoppik @schoppik.com · 10/09/2026
This is a great resource that encapsulates a lot of hard-won knowhow.
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Lovely article about a 99-year-old retired math professor who recently published a major result. It's the story of mentorship and multi-generational collaboration. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...
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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (Gift Article)
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 05/09/2026
Nathan wrote a good article. I'm quote tweeting in the Black way (to talk about a different point without derailing his thread). 🤔If Ben thinks you need to play football to build character, learn teamwork, leadership, etc, and girls don't play football... what does that say about his view of women?
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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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David Schoppik @schoppik.com · 02/09/2026
I thought the point was to empty the building? 😝
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4
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Dayu Lin @moccalin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Happy to share our new study comparing aggression level across 7 strains of mice, led by a talented undergraduate student, Xiuzhi Dai. Strain differences in aggression can be explained a lot by differences in the physiological properties of VMHvl cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hypothalamic representation of aggressiveness across mouse strains - Nature Communications
Genetics profoundly influences aggression by shaping neural circuits, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, authors show that strain differences in male mouse aggression are linked to di...
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New PNAS paper from our lab! 🪰🐭👩‍🦰 We developed a toolbox AutoGaitA to compare locomotion across species, revealing conserved velocity gradients and aging effects despite divergent strategies for propulsion. A step toward understanding conserved principles of motor control. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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David Schoppik @schoppik.com · 22/08/2026
I really want to see the protocol for this....
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James Gagnon @james-gagnon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In a new (ish) preprint, we used CRISPR barcodes to label germline stem cell clones in zebrafish, then tracked their contributions to sperm production for 2 years. Instead of staying stable, individual clones rose, fell, and disappeared over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Clonal dynamics deviate from neutral drift in zebrafish spermatogenesis
Spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) maintain male fertility, but how their clonal dynamics change with age remains poorly understood. Here, we use in vivo CRISPR barcoding in zebrafish to label SSCs and ...
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
📣 REGISTRATION IS OPEN 📣 Our 7th annual #BlackInNeuroWeek is coming soon 🧠 From July 27th to August 2nd, we have an ✨AMAZING✨ week of events planned for you all, free and open to the public 🤗 Don’t miss out! Register for #BINW26 here ⤵️ events.zoom.us/ev/AgaErvpe_... #BlackInSTEM #Neuroskyence 🧪
A cream-colored flyer for Black In Neuro Week registration. An arch shape in the middle of the flyer, from top to bottom has black text reading “a reimagined future”, orange text reading, “Black In Neuro Week”,  yellow text reading “2026”, pale blue text reading “July 27-Aug 2”, and orange text reading “Registration is Live!”

The arch shape has rays emerging from it in a beautiful “retro” palate of blues, oranges, yellows, and creams.

The Black In Neuro logo is in the center of the flyer and the bottom left.
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I am beyond excited to share that our paper, "Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces" has been published! A 🧵incoming because this paper is so special to me and the co-authors. doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
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Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces
Abstract. Neurodiversity has received considerable attention recently from the general population and academic researchers, coinciding with an increase in
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Stanley Heinze @stanley-heinze.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New 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.
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M. Brent Hawkins @homeobox.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I am excited to open my lab at @ibioillinois.bsky.social in Spring 2027! We will use zebrafish & other fishy friends to reveal the genetic basis of large scale changes in the vertebrate body plan, and how this impacts both human health and evolution. Join me at UIUC! 🧬🧫🔬 www.hawkinslaboratory.com
A confocal image of a zebrafish embryo featured on the webpage for the Hawkins Lab at UIUC
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voigtvision.bsky.social @voigtvision.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🚨 New Preprint! 🚨: A new method for quantifying #tissue #clearing and a next-get #lightsheet #Microscope - the #mesoSPIM ultra by Marko Pende, @jcregg.bsky.social, @murawalalab.bsky.social @mdibl.org & many more! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Github: github.com/mesoSPIM/mes...
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Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We're excited to present a single-cell atlas of vertebrate cranial motor neuron development, the first story from my postdoctoral work in the Moens lab, up now on bioRxiv!
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The mechanotransduction channel Piezo2 refines axonal projections to the accessory optic system and regulates the optokinetic reflex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I am excited to announce the latest paper from our lab, published in Science ! In this study, we show that thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain process sensory information hierarchically across topographically organized forebrain circuits.
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Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits
Thalamocortical projections shape the functional regionalization and parallel sensory computations across the mammalian cortex. However, the principles of thalamocortical computations in non-mammalian...
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I have been thinking since yesterday about why I find the 1% thing so, so disturbing. It's a visceral reaction of 'just no', which goes beyond the general yuck towards the enshittification of/via AI. I have finally put my finger on it: it is the feeling you get when
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Updated preprint and code from my lab. If you want to explore more realistic neural dynamics in models that can still perform visual tasks, check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Modeling Dynamical Vision with Biologically Plausible Recurrent Convolutional Networks
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) trained for image recognition have demonstrated remarkable conceptual similarities to the primate ventral visual pathway, but their standard feedforward architectu...
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
new readers: hello! I work for an independent, nonprofit, never-paywalled newsroom called The City Reporter we cover lots of important New York City news very well — and doing that costs money! we don't have giant piles of money or a deep-pocketed benefactor, so reader support is crucial 🫶
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Spring Campaign 2026 | The City Reporter (Powered by Donorbox)
THE CITY is now The City Reporter.Our name is new, but our work isn’t changing. The City Reporter is a reader-supported newsroom that covers New York's uncovered neighborhoods, holds the powerful...
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We've updated our cleared-tissue direct-view oblique plane microscopy preprint to include our latest resolution-enhancing results. Now the Nyquist sampling of our camera is no longer a limitation and so we obtain a diffraction-limited 2 μm lateral resolution! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
An panel of three images showing 1) raw data, 2) bicubic interpolated data on a two-fold finer grid, 3) properly upsampled data on a two-fold finer grid, for two parallel neuronal filaments that can only be resolved as separate entities in the upsampled image.
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David Schoppik @schoppik.com · 25/06/2026
Go fig
Two figs, labeled "fig 1" and "fig 2"
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Phoebe Reynolds @pheereynolds.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I’m very excited to share that our paper is now out in Neuron! 🎉
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The academic hiring system is simply not designed for candidates like me. It privileges a kind of performative intellectualism—the ability to stand at a whiteboard and extemporize about science as if you were some kind of 19th-century naturalist 😂 😂 😂 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...
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Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The perfect antidote to the real world: The Jimmy Awards. The finalists are singing now, and they’re incredible.
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The 2026 Jimmy Awards
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I have been watching the dialogue on this one closely. To everyone who is saying "OP is special, no one could use AI this way" well, I have spent 18 months doing significant amounts of scicomm in patient communities and they are ALL using AI this way. wrote this to help: github.com/DrCatHicks/i...
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GitHub - DrCatHicks/informed-patient: A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions
A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions - DrCatHicks/informed-patient
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