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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 24/09/2026

🚨 New paper out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social by Jeschke et al. "Bees exhibit behavioural flexibility to learned visual cues to prevent negative consequences during navigation in clutter" 🐝🧪 #InsectResearch #AnimalNavigation #AssociativeLearning #Cognition ↘️ doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... ↙️

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Coral King @rocketcoral.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Found it! My favourite ever #hoverfly snap! It’s not big and fancy but I just love it. A marmalade hoverfly taking flight after nibbling on some ragwort 🌼🪰💛

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Lisa Fenk @fleyes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Many thanks to @lochlanw.bsky.social and @prelights.bsky.social for highlighting our preprint!

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hummingbird Clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe) moves like a hummingbird as it hovers, taking in nectar with its long proboscis along the way. Filmed with her Nikon ZIll at 240 fps, super slow motion. IG: @debsandidge www.instagram.com/debsandidge?...

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Shubham Rathore Ph.D. MSc. @shubhamtr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Crazy how good phone cameras have gotten…!

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, you can be realistic and know that you don't know everything. But this doesn't solve that problem. In fact, it moves you exactly *zero* towards knowing more

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Christina🌊🌊 @sassycc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Do you understand it!!

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Spooky Sky-leton 💀 @gobigred.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Saw this lizard yesterday

A tiny lizard clings to a log while under the heat lamp. His eyes are closed and he looks very peaceful

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 11/09/2026

CO2 is an important cue used by #mosquitoes when searching for a human blood meal. @darbly.bsky.social @megyounger.bsky.social &co show that the wiring of #neurons that sense CO2 differs from that in #Drosophila, allowing robust detection of this key host cue @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4cFCPpV

Feedforward connectivity of maxillary palp glomeruli. Top left: Schematic with feedforward OSN-to-PN connections highlighted. Top right: Dendrograms (flattened 2D representations of the 3D dendritic arbor preserving distance information) of uPNs and their incoming feedforward synapses from OSNs. * denotes branch leading to soma, and arrow denotes branch leading to the inner antennocerebral tract (iACT). (top) uPN cable length, glomerular volume, and cable density. Scale bar 100 µm. Bottom left: Coronal view of uPN reconstructions. Scale bar 25 µm. Bottom right: Axograms (flattened 2D representations of the 3D axonal arbor preserving distance information) of representative OSNs with their feedforward synapses to uPNs shown as colored dots. Scale bar 25 µm.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 09/09/2026

male mayfly eyes will never not be funny as hell to me

female mayfly on the left, male on the right

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 07/09/2026

Electric fish have long been a workhorse of neuroethology. Their cerebellum receives electrosensory information from their body, and it was not well understood how they learnt and cancel out predictable responses. Check out this new fascinating connectomic analysis!🧠🐟 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Connectome analysis of a cerebellum-like circuit for sensory prediction - Nature

Connectomics, electrophysiology and modelling of electric fish neural circuits shows how distributed synaptic plasticity across multiple network layers cooperates to enable fast, accurate and noi...

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A particularly infuriating aspect of this A.I. bullshit is that nobody seems to remember that we all got along just fine without it for centuries. How are we all suddenly incapable of reading and understanding written words? Of creating art? Of telling stories? It’s madness.

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A developmental biologist's guide to mechanics Read this Primer from our special issue #DevSIextracellular by Jialing Cao, @raphclement.bsky.social, @pflenne.bsky.social and colleagues. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Intracellular force-generating mechanisms drive tissue-scale mechanical behaviors. The central schematic provides an overview of the major cellular force-generating mechanisms in developing tissues and serves as the basis for the four surrounding panels, which illustrate how these mechanisms generate distinct tissue-scale mechanical behaviors. It includes actomyosin contractility, actin polymerization, cell–cell adhesion and ion transport through membrane channels. These processes generate and transmit forces within and between cells. (A) ATP-dependent ion transport establishes an osmotic pressure difference (ΔP), driving water influx into the lumen. Black radial arrows indicate the outward mechanical effect of the luminal pressure during lumen expansion. (B) Actin polymerization at the tissue edge generates protrusive forces that drive coordinated, directional collective cell migration. Here, leading edge refers to the advancing front of a moving cell group, featuring specialized lead

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Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge @camzoology.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

World-first male fly brain map may help explain human behaviour. Research co-led by our Drosophila Connectomics Group could help better understand conditions in which genetic differences affect brain wiring, such as autism and schizophrenia. Read more: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This post is ten years old and still accurate. #climatechange

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New in PNAS today: we projected how climate change will reshape the body size of marine life across the entire ocean. 23,329 mollusc species, every ocean basin. The headline everyone expects is "life shrinks." The real answer is far stranger. 🧪 #marinelife www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Nonuniform resizing of marine life under climate change | PNAS

Global warming is often predicted to drive universal declines in animal body size, but empirical evidence remains equivocal. This is particularly t...

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I have a dog now. Everyone look at my dog.

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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 31/08/2026

Stimulating certain neurons in the brain may help improve Huntington’s disease symptoms, a new study from the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain suggests. Read more about the work: bit.ly/3SPEJxu #science #neuroscience

quote from Irina Dudanova: "In neurodegenerative disorders, not all neurons suffer equally and not all die. Some are affected in different ways."

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Nicolas Di-Poi @nicolasdipoi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ever wondered why snake embryos coil?🐍 A beautifully simple question with a fascinating answer: a growth mismatch between body & gut shapes the coil Our study from @helsinki-biotech.bsky.social @helsinki.fi with T. Miyashita & R.E. Diaz in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

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How snake embryos coil

Snake embryos coil, but how and why they corkscrew remains unexplored. Weber et al. find that the embryos wind up clockwise via buckling of the rapidly elongating axial body against the slow-growing, ...

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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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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 30/08/2026

Multi-member gene families of cell-surface proteins can contribute to complex circuit assembly. This study in #Drosophila reveals that 2 conserved families are expressed combinatorially in olfactory #circuits, suggesting roles as neuronal tags for brain patterning. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/3UFJTfZ

Beats/Sides are heterophilically interacting IgSF proteins.
(top) Schematics showing the known interactions between Beat and Side proteins. (below) Expression pattern of each beat/side in the brain revealed by beat/side-MiMIC-GAL4. Green is the GFP signal driven by the gene trap GAL4, and magenta is anti-Ncad staining showing the brain architecture.

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swandiveswim.bsky.social @swandiveswim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#Birds #Kingfisher Helen Bennett @helenbennett.bsky.social says today’s #BirdOfTheDay Alt: is #KingfisherQuest Any Kingfisher species! A female Belted Kingfisher which was screeching at another Kingfisher on the opposite side of the pond.

A slate/blue/grey coloured bird perched on a weathered stump. The wings are spread wide above its back; the primaries are dark grey. It has a ragged crest, white collar, rust bar underwing and white spot on both wings & tail. The background is blue coloured water.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I took a picture of a couple of turtles just hanging out together. I love the reflection in this photo.

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Scott @scottbluewave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Last stop of the cruise was in Ketchikan. Went over to Creek street to watch the salmon try to get to their spawning area. There was many thousands them!

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

City by Yehan Wang

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 27/08/2026

Professor Bonnie Bassler is awarded the Copley Medal for her discovery of the universality of chemical communication in bacteria and for her idea that interfering with this communication could form the basis of novel anti-bacterials. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

A woman with dark hair and a light blue shirt smiles at the camera in front of a bright white background.

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Mark Wagner @mark-j-wagner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

How the cerebellum separates related contexts—now out in Nature! Martha Garcia-Garcia led this tour de force, with theory from @somnirons.bsky.social & Michał Wójcik. Martha is on the faculty market, and I could not recommend her more highly. My lab is also recruiting! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

this image tells a fun & interesting story I found this Colonus jumper at night dangling from her dragline, with an imm harvester (Leuronychus) prey 1) perhaps indicates that she was actively hunting at night, 2) maybe from her dragline, parallel to vertical cliffs? conjectural at this stage

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry, the versatile performer of screen and stage, who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, has died aged 80. Read more: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly and Tim Curry in one week? Lord have mercy!!!

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Caterpillar of the Lime Hawkmoth (Mimas tiliae).

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plesnercph🇩🇰 @plesnercph.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

🐸Red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas). Max size for males 5 cm (2"), for females 7 cm (2.75"). If sensing danger, tadpoles may hatch early and drop into the water below. Found from Honduras to northern Colombia. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷by JulieDuchesneau on Pixabay

A green frog is sitting on a large green leaf. More green leaves can be seen in the background. The frog has large red eyes with vertical black pupils. Its belly and throat is white. Some blue and yellow markings can just be seen on its side. More blue is visible on the inside of its legs. It has orange fingers and toes. The frog is looking up and to the right in the picture.

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Skye @skyleesullivan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#TBT From Amicalola Falls three years ago in October. Can’t wait for autumn 🍂 #ThrowBackThursday

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Some folks are giving the current administration the benefit of the doubt when it comes to binning NIH proposals into three broad bins instead of individual scores, ostensibly to solve a problem many complained about. “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts” especially after they’ve already ravaged Troy.

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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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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

it is finally here! and as usual my vote gets second place booooo you know what, having just watched Evolution by Chris Packham him narrating a short video with my drawings in it was NOT on my 2026 bingo card lol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The winner of the Guardian's Invertebrate of the year 2026 revealed

It's been a tightly fought race, but watch as naturalist and presenter Chris Packham reveals the Guardian's Invertebrate of the year 2026.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you’re a white man in academia and you think your problems come from EDI/DEI/woke, you’re failing on observational skills, research methods and critical thinking.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

No picture I’ve ever taken of squid will measure up to how beautiful they are in real life. I hope to get you get to see the living squid. In the meantime, have this Doryteuthis.

A white squid with red orange spots and green blue red patches on the bottom of an aquarium

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Yannick Günzel @yguenzel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Last day of #IUSSI26 in Freiburg and it's been great! Here's my poster again for anyone who missed it.

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Conversely, positive trends emerge where we enhance habitats, promote bee-friendly cultivation methods, and advance organic farming. In these regions, not only do bees benefit, but so do humans, thanks to more stable crop yields and a healthier environment.

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Bee Pollinating Pink Flower - Nat Geo

ALT: Bee Pollinating Pink Flower - Nat Geo

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our third preprint of the summer is up now! We use our piezoelectric crush method of head-specific traumatic brain injury (TBI) to identify which glial subtypes activate AP-1 after TBI and how glial subtype AP-1 activation affects survival. 🧪 🪰 #wewouldhurtafly doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A lesson for all our universities

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