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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

First AI agents came for math...then for tardigrades?? 🫠 Solidarity with all the researchers trying to do careful, open science & suddenly finding themselves scratching their heads over (AI-generated??) material with unclear attribution 🫣

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wondering....what is it like to be a blob with legs 🦵🤔💭

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

How lucky am I that this is my evening drive home in rural Japan, where I live...and I get do the research I’ve dreamed of doing for years (decades really) 🖤✨🥺

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In 日本 Japan, today is 8/8/8! ✨ August 8, Reiwa 8 (2026) = 8/8/8 So an extra-lucky Happy Tardigrade Day to all who celebrate: :8: :8: Eight little legs on a day of triple 8s. 💧🐻🪲🔬 みなさんの研究の願いが叶いますように！✨

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Perfect ending to a great conference !! Stumbled upon a new exhibit at the Bordeaux Botanical Gardens, featuring soil ecology & our beloved tardigrades! May they not overshadow worms too much 😉🥰🧠👁️🦵💫

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Happy to be representing tardigrades, and my research community in Japan, here at #CeNeuro2026 in Bordeaux! 🇯🇵🇫🇷🐻🐛🧠 My poster 127 has already passed, but please find me for free stickers & fun tardi-facts: GCaMP, neural atlases, ethograms, and why these funny-looking "worms" are ultra-coordinated 😉

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I recently celebrated my 1 yr anniversary moving to Japan, to work with an AMAZING tardigrade (クマムシ) & comparative -omics group 🧬 (Keio TTCK & RIKEN IMS) I am incredibly grateful for @ss-f.bsky.social support 💫 Having a pathway to continue my science means SO much, especially during difficult times

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

It means a lot to share a bit of my personal journey & eco-ethics musings in this beautiful synthesis of science and stewardship 🌱 "If we know more about tardigrades, and love them—and how could you not? —we might protect the trees, the moss, the lichen and the waters in which they live."

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Important reminder to all the #Worm25 🪱 people at Davis now!! Super-sized water bear 💧🐻 photo op 😉 @bohartmuseum.bsky.social

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Have you ever given a conference talk to over 100 experts in your field...DIRECTLY AFTER doing a (conference excursion) mountain hike in 30C+ weather? I can now say I have.... !!! (Mt. Haguro, HIGH humidity, 2,446 stone steps...BEAUTIFUL but brutal before giving a talk 😂😅🙏🥹 I have been humbled !!)

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Huge thanks to Benj Plackett & the @nature.com journalism team for featuring our tardigrade 🧠🔬🧬 work! Means so much as an early-career researcher building community + tools (neural atlas, GCaMP strain, behavior) now based in @gaou-ak.bsky.social Lab @ IAB Tsuruoka 🇯🇵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Tardigrade-obsessed: meet the researchers trying to turn water bears into neuroscience models

For water-bear enthusiasts, it’s the creature’s legs that make it stand out.

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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

With all their complexity in a tiny transparent package, could tardigrades be a useful organism for neuroscientists to study as they unravel the many mysteries of the brain? @tardi-neuro.bsky.social thinks it’s time tardigrades have their moment! grassfoundation.org/time-for-tar...

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Big thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for the great writeup & helping 📢 tardigrades step up systems neuroscience! 🧠 These tiny creatures are ready to walk us toward new insights in whole-animal neuro. Excited to keep building tools & a supportive community for💧🐻! It's been my life's work 😍

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Grateful for my (very snowy) new scientific homebase 🤍❄️🇯🇵 and all the amazing colleagues @ Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University 慶應義塾大学先端生命科学研究所 ...stay tuned for tardigrade クマムシ content on overdrive 🔬

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It's also Black History Month and "Black" was among those words allegedly flagged. We cannot erase our colleagues, community, and their experiences, invaluable perspectives, and contributions.

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We love all aquatic eight-legged wonders of the world 🐙🌊🤝💧🐻 ...plus an amazing scientist and speaker !!

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Happening today! (In 20 min!) Register for Free 🧠

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Perfect for the upcoming C. elegans meeting at Davis—come for the worms, stay for the sofa-sized stunner! 🛋️ Epic lab photo opportunity here! 📸

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Hello 🦋 world, Posted a preprint this week, advocating tardigrades as a new model for systems-level neuroscience! 🧠🐻💧 Synthesizing physiology, neuroanatomy, genomics & behavior was no small feat—feedback is welcome with all 8 arms! 💌 My email for contact is on the PDF 🌟 arxiv.org/abs/2501.06606

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The tardigrade as an emerging model organism for systems neuroscience

We present the case for developing the tardigrade (Hypsibius exemplaris) into a model organism for systems neuroscience. These microscopic, transparent animals (~300-500 microns) are among the smalles...

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