Carolina Rezaval

Assistant or Associate Professor (Research and Education) - School of Biosciences - 107106 - Grade 8 or 9 Evidence of a developing track record in publishing work of high academic quality and impact is essential, as is an emerging portfolio (or clear potential) of external research funding. Applicants mus...

The School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham is recruiting Assistant or Associate Professors (Research & Education).

Areas of interest:

• Engineering biology
• Epigenetics
• Mycology
• Plant science
• RNA biology

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After 5 years of developing, a new preprint from the lab - introducing our workflow for comparative insect connectomics, aimed at democratizing connectomics. @erc.europa.eu @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Insect research has used Drosophila as a model organism for over a century. But today’s tools now open up a much wider spectrum of insects which deserve to be studied. See the recent commentary in @fly-journal.bsky.social by @peterkdearden.bsky.social, ‘Why just fly?’ doi.org/10.1080/1933...

ShineGAL4 FLP-out clones

#Drosophila calling. Delighted to share our new collection of ShineGAL4 drivers for CNS, FB, muscles, enterocytes, oenocytes and MTs made by @vgirard.bsky.social, @sebsorge.bsky.social and colleagues @crick.ac.uk. All at Bloomington @bdsc.bsky.social

@dev-journal.bsky.social
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@annaryba.bsky.social's paper on the neural underpinnings of intraspecific behavioral variation is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social

Highly recommend! -> Paper identifies neural substrate for variation in promiscuity among Drosophila melanogaster strains🧪

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Young PI Symposium 2026 Visit the post for more.

Last days to register!
Our second keynote speaker is Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social. He is Professor of Neuroscience at
@tcddublin.bsky.social and Chair of the FENS Advocacy Committee. He will speak about advocacy for neuroscience in Europe.

Join our @fens.org Satellite 👉 youngpisymposium2026.com

learningfromscratch march 16th, workshop day 1 @ cosyne 2026

Excited to be co-organising a #cosyne2026 workshop with Alison Comrie on 'algorithms for learning from scratch'! With a great line-up of speakers, we'll be tackling the question of what processes enable naive biological & artificial agents to adapt to new situations. Info here: tinyurl.com/4u8enf7k

Neural circuits regulating social dominance implement a strategy predicted by evolutionary game theory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.20.706896v1

Dynamics of glia and neurons regulate homeostatic rest, sleep and feeding behavior in Drosophila - Nature Neuroscience Animals alternate between active periods and periods of rest or sleep. This study in fruit flies points to brain metabolism as a cause for this and shows that a network of glial cells interacting with...

Flores-Valle, A., Vishniakou, I., Seelig, J. D. (2025). Dynamics of glia and neurons regulate homeostatic rest, sleep and feeding behavior in Drosophila. Nat Neurosci, 28(6):1226-1240 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dear UK #Drosophila @FlyBase Cambridge is now able to accept PO orders for support. So please get in touch with
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Specialized parallel pathways for adaptive control of visual object pursuit Collie et al. show how adaptive control in Drosophila visual pursuit arises from two parallel pathways: one steers objects from the periphery toward the center, while the other maintains central fixat...

Thrilled to share that my graduate work is officially published in Neuron! 🎉
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Now in its final form published in @devbiol.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Neuroscience has a species problem If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought, writes @suthanalab.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

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Fluorescent neurons on black background. We're hiring! PhD Student

🚨 We are #hiring a PhD Student to study cerebellum-like circuits in #Drosophila.

Please spread the word!

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#Neuroscience #PhD

How does evolution influence the brain and its ability to adapt? Join Kavli & @sfn.org on Feb. 18, 11am–12pm EST with PhDs Marco Gallio, Katja Reinhard & Sophie Caron to explore advances in #neuroscience and the mechanisms of flexibility and adaptation. ⬇️

Incredibly excited to share that we've been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to reach new depths in our memory research! @erc.europa.eu #ERCCoG @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch

New lab preprint! Can we study conscious perception of gut sensations in mice to reveal its neuronal basis? Can we train mice to report their gut sensations? Omer Rafael and Stav Shtiglitz in the lab teamed up to discover that…YES! Thread…1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Starvation suppresses shock responses only with food odours, via a defined neuromodulatory circuit that biases action selection towards goal-directed behaviour.

To survive, animals must balance opportunity and risk. We show that hunger gates nociceptive avoidance in Drosophila, enabling food approach under conflict.

Our new preprint is out!

A state-dependent neural circuit resolves approach–avoidance conflicts

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Fantastic work led by Devika Bodas, with key contributions from Marine Balcou, and a great collaboration with Lisa Scheunemann Lab, fearuting Şevval Demirci.

🚨 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

Behavioral biases drift in individuals.

• Drift happens on many timescales
• Drift rate depends on genetics and neuromodulators
• It might be adaptive for rapidly changing environments

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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Do you work or study in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, artificial intelligence, or philosophy?

What does the term 'representation' mean to you?

We invite you to participate in a brief survey on key conceptual questions across fields.

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Fruit fly study reveals how mating triggers behavioural changes in females Researchers from The Universities of Manchester and Birmingham have identified the exact nerve cells in the brain that drive important behavioural changes in female fruit flies after they mate.The dis...

See our fantastic story in @elife.bsky.social from Karthik Nallasivan and @deepanshund.bsky.social well distilled by our press office champion Michel Addelman @mcf-uom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
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Can we make brains “smarter”? By boosting mitochondrial metabolism in neurons of memory circuits, we improved memory in flies and mice. Thrilled to see this work out - congrats to @amrapalianjali.bsky.social for spectacular work, and to all lab members for invaluable contributions!

Thrilled to start 2026 with our latest preprint, in which we dive into a dedicated forward-walking circuit in the fly brain: doi.org/10.64898/202.... This effort was spearheaded by the fantastic @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social with help from a bunch of talented people in the lab.

🧨🧨🧨 Beautiful work @felsenberg.bsky.social and beautiful dispatch!!!!