I presumed the pull quote here was parody, but no…
Inside you there are two Elephant Seals 🐘 🦭
#mammals #seals
Very happy to see this out. 👏 @yinanwan.bsky.social
Bogdan Bintu and team.
Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis | free link Science www.science.org/eprint/5MHTM...
When you thought things could not get any worse. Dizzying feedback loops of ridiculousness
Cellular morphology emerges from polygenic, distributed transcriptional variation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.12.711281v1
Vocal production learning is a key ability enabling spoken language, but is not itself unique to humans, having been documented in (e.g.) some bird, bat, & seal species. A new study of pinnipeds in @science.org 👇 finds they have neural adaptations supporting voluntary control of vocalizations.
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In an Irish Atlantic rainforest, a 'wolf' oak: the term for a tree much older than those all around.
A grandmother tree, progenitor and nurturer of the ecosystem, she very possibly grew when – even because – wolves still hunted these parts.
A nice twist on the word.
Our interview with Kevin Mitchell (@wiringthebrain.bsky.social) on the hype surrounding Gut microbiome research is now up on ze YouTube. youtu.be/edeeGrCygPg
Celebrating #HHMIInvestigator Huda Zoghbi, recognized by the Lurie Autism Institute for her ground-breaking discovery that mutations in the MECP2 gene cause Rett syndrome (an autism-related neurodevelopmental disorder) — work that continues to transform autism research today: bit.ly/4sFhNx6.
#gfe2026 @gfeev.bsky.social PhD Award goes to Tatiana Lebedeva 🎉 for Tatiana's thesis investigating the role of β-catenin in specifying germ layers in one of my favourite organisms, the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella.
6/ What we found in the Cell paper:
Figure 2:
When subjects pick between two options, each associated with reward magnitude and probability, vmPFC embeds these options as “locations” in a 2D choice attribute space and represents the trajectory between these options with a hexagonal periodic code
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With Cosyne around the corner, I thought I would:
a) make a thread about our “A cognitive map for value-guided choice in the vmPFC” Cell paper (i'm a bit late). shorturl.at/DBA3H
If 176 children were slaughtered in their classrooms in Dublin, Brussels, Berlin, Tel Aviv or Texas by a foreign adversary, the world would rightfully be at a standstill.
- Shona Murray
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... @shonamurray.bsky.social
Report: RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda curbed as GOP realizes it's unpopular arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
It's Cosyne time!!
Here are some contributions from my lab and some of my close collaborator labs (Thomas Akam, @melgaby.bsky.social, Steve Kennerley, @sameershethmd.bsky.social )
Ireland's new fossil-fuelled #Petrotech data center will increase Ireland's **total** (everything, not just the power sector) emissions by ~1%
Absolutely nuts. A 1% national increase - for what? Come on boosters, explain why this is worth it 🫠
www.linkedin.com/posts/bgamaz...
I note “development” and “evolution” don’t appear! Y’all are missing a trick…
How does development shape the variation evolution can act on?
In our new paper in @pnas.org , we bridge developmental dynamics and quantitative genetics, linking dynamical models of phenotype formation with the statistical parameters used to study evolutionary change
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
TIL that "carbon footprint" is a campaign started by Brittish petroleum (BP) in order to distract attention away from coporate responsibility and culpability towards individual responsibility and culpability.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781541700116
If you are concerned about your carbon […]
Tiny, transparent, and now charted! Our brain atlas of adult Danionella cerebrum includes >200 annotated regions, 29 whole-brain in situs, and male/female reference volumes – openly available, versioned and extendable. Work by @nkadobyansky.bsky.social and team.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Predictive forgetting. What a fantastic choice of words. It conveys so much, so succinctly.
How does the brain build a memory?
A common assumption is that the neurons activated during an experience collectively form the memory engram.
In our new Nature Neuroscience paper (finally out!), we show that this is not the case.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A thoughtful response from @dermotcasey.bsky.social to an interview with @utafrith.bsky.social about the expansion of the diagnostic category of "autism"
Don't miss @maxschwabe.bsky.social's poster this evening (our master's student and presenter awardee 🎉) on decomposing RNN dynamics during naturalistic decision-making! It was a joint work with @armanbehrad.bsky.social and @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social!
One thing that radicalized me on this was following golden rice, as a friend of mine was working on it in the 00s. People in the Philippines destroyed a trial crop because of propaganda from rich countries with no vitamin A deficiencies, especially from Greenpeace and existing grain producers.
Really great work demonstrating the importance of task-based responses in characterizing the functional organization of the brain. Congrats to @carobellum.bsky.social and the rest of the team!
Neuronal axons in the mammalian central nervous system usually do not regenerate upon injury. The third #gfe2026 keynote, Frank Bradke, reveals key roles for cytoskeletal dynamics, vesicles and scarring in regeneration – a great example of how #devbio has informed treatment for spinal cord injury.
Everyone in ireland right now
I know we’re ODing on ‘end of the American empire’ bellwethers, but ‘Italy is better than us at baseball’ might be the most decisive one yet
It is extremely difficult to construct a practical case against this position. Net Zero is now as much about patriotism as it is about climate change.
