Sreeparna Pradhan

Comparative connectomics of two distantly related nematode species reveals patterns of nervous system evolution Understanding the evolution of the bilaterian brain requires a detailed exploration of the precise nature of cellular and subcellular differences between related species. We undertook an electron micr...

Happy to share our publication - Comparative connectomics of two distantly related nematode species reveals patterns of nervous system evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

May all the good memories bring you comfort today.

The idlis look amazingly spongy!

Congratulations 🎉

Staying ahead of the curve: a decade of preprints in biology When Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced the launch of bioRxiv in November 2013, only the braver or more radical amongst us would have predicted that it heralded a lasting change within the scienc...

Hard to remember that just 12 years ago there was no @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social and almost no one in the biology community preprinted their work. What a long way we’ve come. @reinierprosee.bsky.social and I wrote a thing about how @biologists.bsky.social embraced the preprint world

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C. elegans enthusiasts - join me and @stern-lab.bsky.social ‪‪for a pre #worm25 meeting online workshop on *Monitoring inter-individual diversity across multiple levels and timescales* - Jun 26, 2025 12:30 PM Eastern Time
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I will be opening my new lab in September at UBC! if you’re coming to #Worm25 and are looking for graduate studies or a postdoc position, let’s meet! Vancouver + worms = perfect vibes. www.zoology.ubc.ca/~yeecs/labsi... Please share! 🙌

Congratulations, Dan! 🎉

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Eight Arms to Taste Your Microbiome

This is so cool - octopus can sense microbiomes: sending a gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/s...

Happy to present a single cell atlas of ALL glia, in BOTH sexes of an animal (in vivo validated!)! Fab work by postdoc @glia-maria.bsky.social, team, & collaboration with @manusetty.bsky.social . Find insights into glia, new analytics and ML models, and browse our companion website (wormglia.org)

Molecular profiling of adult C. elegans glia across sexes by single-nuclear RNA-seq A comprehensive understanding of nervous system function requires molecular insight into the diversity and sex dimorphism of both its component cell t…

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Looking forward to reading this :)

Very interesting insights! Lovely work... congratulations!

In 1975 "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Space Oddity" were on the UK top 100, and Ward, Thomson, White, and Brenner published the first reconstruction of the C. elegans sensory anatomy.

A short 50 years later, we reconstructed the same neurons and glia in the embryo:
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YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Have you ever seen a worm tower?

Move over, starling murmurations. There’s a slimier, squirmier collective behavior in town. It's a living, twisting tower of worms.

Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱

Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de

Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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GitHub - oist/Physics-of-Behavior-Tutorials Contribute to oist/Physics-of-Behavior-Tutorials development by creating an account on GitHub.

A vital and very enjoyable component of my academic work is teaching students at all levels how to extend the frontiers of knowledge. So I’m pleased to announce a set of Jupyter notebooks organized around our ideas for “physics of behavior”. You can find them here: github.com/oist/Physics...

How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony

𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸?
Don't expect simple mappings between mind and brain.
Check out this piece I wrote for Aeon.
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We only have a couple of spots open for the GRS in Neuroethology. If you've been thinking about registering, now's the time - don't wait for the deadline!

Join us for an inspiring meeting in beautiful Tuscany this June! 🌞🍝🍕

Check out the exciting program here: www.grc.org/neuroetholog...

I haven't seen one yet. It's on my list. They look so funny when they walk!

That's so cool!

Very cool story! Looking forward to reading the preprint. Congratulations!

Love worms, molecular genetics, and big questions? We’re hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans.

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For the cost of the commerical system that I bought in 2013 and I have no use for 99% of its features, you can make like 10 custom, purpose-built microscopes. LEDs are cheap, cameras are cheap, software is free.

“Relevant computations happen in here too”

Maimon on the limitations of pure connectivity data in the fly