Richard Benton

🚨 Postdoc opportunity to study memory or nutrition in #Drosophila 🪰

I am looking for a candidate to support for a 3 year Addison Wheeler Fellowship application lnkd.in/e2rvNf5x

Interested? Please send a CV & cover letter with brief research outline by 20th February to vincent.croset@durham.ac.uk

We are recruiting three new lecturers!

Read on if you'd like to bring your passion for biology to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social at @bristoluni.bsky.social and join our team of ambitious, creative, inclusive and collaborative researcher–educators:

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

New lab preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A multi-lab collaborative effort and the first publication from my lab featuring a Hofstra Biology Undergraduate, Janpreet Kaur. Congrats Janpreet!

Pro-tip: white hyphens instead of spaces between words.

The Federal Council is proposing the dissolution of the Swiss Science Council.

Independent fact-based, scientific advice should be available for policy decisions.

Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain Allen et al. leverage a high-resolution single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the adult Drosophila central brain to map sexual dimorphism. They show that dimorphic neuronal types correlate with the expr...

Our follow up paper on Sex: Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain: Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!

Flags flying at half-mast at the lake during the period of national mourning for all the victims of the Crans-Montana tragedy in Switzerland

On this national day of mourning across Switzerland for the victims of the Crans-Montana tragedy, we remember all those who were lost, all who are gravely injured, their families and loved ones, the rescuers, and medical teams caring for them

Such a heartbreaking loss of young lives in our region 💔

The @neuroalc.bsky.social invites applications for two permanent research positions (Científico titular @csic.es , Tenure-track) to build independent programs in a collaborative, international environment. We welcome applicants from all demographic backgrounds 👇
in.umh-csic.es/en/ofertas/d...

JOB ALERT: Operations Director (DCI–Lausanne).
The DCI, a joint initiative of EPFL, UNIL, UNIGE and UNIBE, is recruiting an Operations Director to lead the cryo-EM facility in Lausanne.
📩 Questions: CEO of the DCI: @chgenoud.bsky.social
🔗 Apply here: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...

Congrats - so well-deserved!

A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...

Scientists around former IMP group leader David Keays (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social show that #pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear. Their discovery was now published in the journal @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

Olfactory receptors: Making sense (and antisense) of monogenic expression Monogenic expression of odorant receptors (ORs) in individual sensory neurons is a hallmark of olfactory systems in insects and vertebrates. New studies highlight how transcriptional interference and ...

You could read my Dispatch, but only as a teaser for two brilliant papers from Bogdan Sieriebriennikov (Desplan lab) and Giacomo Glotzer (Kronauer lab), which you *must* read.

Olfactory receptors: Making sense (and antisense) of monogenic expression: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Hofstra Biology is hiring (again!): a tenure-track position in microbiology. Come join our collegial and rapidly growing dept. Small class sizes, hands on learning and research, manageable teaching loads and real startup. Please reach out for more info!

Deadline for this post-doc position in my lab extended to Jan 11th!

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too!

preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵

Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Congrats Enrico!!!! 🎉 🥳

Excited to share the latest work from the lab:
rdcu.be/eRWuD

Great team effort, led by @enriberti.bsky.social first at @unil.bsky.social and now @unifr.bsky.social; with fantastic collaborators @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and @dahaniel.muench.bio.

Our preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025... getting media coverage (!)

FERAL: A Video-Understanding System for Direct Video-to-Behavior Mapping Animal behavior unfolds continuously in time, yet quantitative analyses often require segmenting it into discrete, interpretable states. Although manual annotation can achieve this, it remains slow, s...

Our preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required.
It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)

From neurons to novelty: Circuit mechanisms shaping courtship evolution The vast diversity of animal behaviors has long inspired ethologists and neuroscientists, but circuit mechanisms driving this variation remain elusive…

@rorycoleman.bsky.social and I wrote an opinion piece called

'From neurons to novelty: Circuit mechanisms shaping courtship evolution'

We argue that now is a great time for neuro-evo research

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Been there, done that.

Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp

🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions!

Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.

Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

Check out all the transcriptomic data on SCope; we cover and annotate EVERY sensory neuron population:
scope.aertslab.org#/Drosophila_...

Multilayer regulation underlies the functional precision and evolutionary potential of the olfactory system Nature Communications - How sensory neurons generate both functional precision and evolutionary flexibility remains unresolved. Here authors generate snRNA-seq atlas of Drosophila’s olfactory...

Jérôme Mermet's developmental snRNA-seq atlas of living and dying neuronal lineages in the olfactory system (and much functional follow-up) reveal this "highly stereotyped" sensory system is not quite as precise as we assumed, and what it might mean for how olfactory pathways evolve:
rdcu.be/eM8fP

📢 Applications open for a 𝗧𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 in #plant-organism #interactions
at the Department of Plant Molecular Biology
❗ Deadline: November 30th

More info 👉 career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

#joboffer @unil.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social

Structure-informed phylogenetic inference with FoldTree outperforms sequence-only trees on divergent proteins, and untangles RRNPPA quorum-sensing receptors across Gram-positive bacteria & phages. Work led by David Moi (www.linkedin.com/in/david-moi) Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!

We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵