This is great - congrats. Their brains look so fascinating, especially compared to many other species. Stuff like the less obvious AOTU, the (I think) quite large POTU, etc. Lots to look at π
20.10.2025 18:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
New preprint from the lab: A reference brain for the clonal raider ant.
With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
17.10.2025 17:35 β π 57 π 18 π¬ 4 π 0
Reposting for the Monday morning scrollers! Funded PhD opportunity with me @multipleye-lab.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - spiders, their eyes, and their babies under long- and short-term light pollution!
20.10.2025 07:37 β π 12 π 17 π¬ 0 π 0
Dude so wrong. Also, what are you doing in London??
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π¨π¨Job! π¨π¨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527
17.10.2025 07:38 β π 36 π 39 π¬ 0 π 0
Career Opportunities: Posdoctoral researcher in toxin susceptibility and evolution of resistance in insects (22517)
I'm looking to recruit a post-doc to help push forward our growing interests in insect ecotoxicology.
Apply here by Nov 30th!
(thanks for reposting)
career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
16.10.2025 12:18 β π 24 π 34 π¬ 0 π 1
Wooohoo congrats!!
16.10.2025 12:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
a group of Drosophila erecta fruit flies on a small food patch. flies on white background
Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint
We discovered that the fruit fly #drosophila erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion.
Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit
shorturl.at/gGYm7
16.10.2025 06:33 β π 67 π 37 π¬ 12 π 3
π€© And here we go - thrilled to announce that two #AnHuNav postdoc positions are availble now β¬οΈ
Join us in exploring how humans navigated the ancient world - with the aid of animals!? π§πΊπ«π«πππ
1οΈβ£ Cognitive and textual #navigation uol.de/job785
2οΈβ£ #Archaeology of trade&pilgramage routes uol.de/job786en
16.10.2025 10:10 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint:
βSexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous systemβ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10
15.10.2025 16:17 β π 120 π 64 π¬ 1 π 4
Absinth? Wodka?
14.10.2025 10:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Are you enthusiastic about stem cell biology and developmental biology and looking to start a PhD in 2026? Funded opportunites now available. Contact for more infomation. Links below! @lovegrovelab.bsky.social @veronicabiga.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk @ukri.org
09.10.2025 16:21 β π 20 π 13 π¬ 2 π 2
should be re-titled to "Evolution of Vertebrate Nervous Systems" anyway. Just sayin' π
13.10.2025 08:41 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Very excited about this project: we believe that 3D anatomical atlases have a huge potential for developmental biology. As a starting point, we made the first ever Drosophila wing disc atlas!
10.10.2025 17:15 β π 43 π 9 π¬ 3 π 0
Prieto Godino Lab | Cellular and molecular bases of neural circuit and behavioural evolution
We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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07.10.2025 19:12 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In case you're interested in a bit of future talk and our dreams surrounding developmental biology... π
07.10.2025 16:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrowβs budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me πWeβre just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. Itβs been a roaring success. For every β¬1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got β¬1.46 back. Canβt argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
Damn. This is amazing. Β£325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
06.10.2025 22:03 β π 15538 π 5290 π¬ 131 π 803
inspirational π
07.10.2025 08:49 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Excellent talk by Andrea Adden of the @neuroluci.bsky.social lab @crick.ac.uk. @neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social Check out her Nature paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
06.10.2025 13:14 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Male CNS Connectome
A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system βa seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...
Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....
05.10.2025 15:40 β π 140 π 69 π¬ 2 π 8
Image depicting the napari viewer in grid mode with scale bars and color bars enabled
napari 0.6.5 is out! π
Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: napari.org/dev/release/...
02.10.2025 11:44 β π 27 π 12 π¬ 1 π 0
π Expand your #NeuroscienceCareer beyond borders!
The #FENS / #IBROβPERC #Exchange Fellowships offer hands-on training in leading European labs. π§
ποΈ Deadline: 15 October 2025
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@ibroorg.bsky.social
03.10.2025 07:00 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Bird brains aren't the same as mammal brains. They took their own twisty evolutionary path. So what can they teach us about brains in general?
A lot, it turns out.
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @evoneuro.bsky.social & Georg Striedter!
Listen: disi.org/brains-of-a-...
02.10.2025 15:53 β π 101 π 10 π¬ 0 π 2
Excited to announce I have officially joined the University of Barcelona for my Marie SkΕodowska-Curie Actions fellowship! I'll be working with Jesus Lozano Fernandez in the DeepEvo lab at the @geneticsub.bsky.social, on various deep nodes in the tree of life!
02.10.2025 14:22 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1
Associate Prof. @univie Mainly tweeting on animal development & evolution. also @ tim_wollesen@mastodon.world. Personal account - views are not of my working group or employer
Fly and Spider Evo Devo
http://mcgregor-evo-devo-lab.net/McGregor_lab/home.html
Visual Adaptations, Polarization Vision and Light Pollution
Hacker, Computational Neuroscience, ML beyond logistic regression, bear and muscle spindle aficionado. Passionate about open source. #deeplabcut and see https://mathislab.org for more.
A.v.Humboldt professor at the University of Mainz. Evolutionary ecologist. Runs a research group that once prompted the description "in this [coffee] room there's almost always someone who is at least partially fun". (Which we then translated into Latin.)
Postdoctoral Fellow
@Human Technopole
Passionate about science and technology
Evolutionary ecologist interested in early-life and parental effects, climate change, infectious diseases. Likes insects, theory and comparative studies.
Leads EVE lab, Bristol UK www.evelab.org
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, academic mama, from Zimbabwe
π§π· & π¨π·. Postdoc at Harvard MCZ working on #Paleozoic #fishes, soft-tissue preservation and #brain evolution (he/him)
Associate Professor at the Univerisity of Bologna. Past Maynooth, Oxford, Caltech, Bristol, Leicester and URF Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/feudalab/home?authuser=0
We build open source computational neuroanatomy software that works across species.
https://brainglobe.info
Posts by @adamltyson.com
Postdoc at Blizard Institute (Branco Lab) | Alumnus of @IMBA_Vienna (Burga Lab), @Martin-Duran Lab (QMUL), and Partridge Lab (IHA, UCL)
DPhil student @intelligentearth.bsky.social & Oxford biology graduate.
Machine learning, biodiversity, sensory ecology, biologgers, birds
PhD student
Brain & Neurogenesis | Evolution of the Brain | Genomics
Postdoc in the Dudman lab @HHMIJanelia. PhD @Oxford, BSc @RoyalHolloway.
dopamine | foraging | decision-making | hippocampus | reinforcement learning
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Wondering what mice are thinking about.
Here to enjoy nature, photography and any garden tips along with laughs and positive vibes! ποΈ Joined #teamtypo π
Not interested in Politics or Porn. π
Inventors of HCR, protease-free RNA-ISH, and the game-changing HiFi Encoder for multiplex IF
NeuroCyto lab π€Ήπ» Institute of NeuroPhysiopathology at CNRS & Aix-Marseille UniversitΓ© π§ Neuronal cell biology π¦ Super-resolution microscopy π¬ Come for science π¨π»βπ¬ Stay for some cooking, sneakers and bike adventures π₯ ππ΄
Biologist
A little obsessed by aphid galls
Run a little lab @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
Moving to @stowersinstitute.bsky.social Feb 1, 2026
Provide unsolicited advice to improve your science (or any) talk at howtogiveatalk.com
Assistant Professor @UniFr studying evolution of circuits and behaviors in drosophilids. Co-Director @TReNDinAfrica - strengthening education capacity.
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