Catherine Dulac

Correction: there was an incorrect date in the first posting, here with the deadline corrected by the Foundation
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Attention, Attention, Early career investigators in Neuroscience: this is a great funding opportunity and a terrific community of scientists to join: deadline for application is February 25, 2026 🧠🧬🔬🧪

My Own Lab at Westlake University is OPEN! We are recruiting cool people at all levels NOW!
By tinkering behaviors and neural circuits in distinct animal species (mouse, sugar glider, etc), we are exploring new ways of doing social neuroscience in vivo, in silico and at home!

Zebrafish Study Reveals Hidden Dimensions of Attention - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology Why do we sometimes falter at even the simplest of tasks? A new study from the lab of MCB Professor Florian Engert suggests that lapses in focus, rather […]

Zebrafish Study Reveals Hidden Dimensions of Attention🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Come join our collaborative research environment with state-of-the-art facilities in NYC! Application review starts Oct 22.
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Yes!…💪

“I Stand with MCB” at the MCB Retreat - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology On September 19–20, MCB members gathered in Falmouth for the annual MCB Research Retreat. This two-day event has long been an essential opportunity for faculty, students, postdocs, and […]

“I Stand with MCB” at the MCB Retreat 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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The image is an X post by @RealJakeBroe from 7 hours ago, featuring a two-panel comic. The top panel shows a scientist pointing to a chart with a general trend and an outlier, illustrating a rational argument. The bottom panel depicts a person labeled "ANTI VAX" pointing to a similar chart, labeling it "CONSPIRACY THEORY" with "Lies" and an outlier called "IRREFUTABLE PROOF!!!", satirizing irrational arguments. The caption reads, "It is difficult to win an argument with a smart person. It is impossible to win an argument with an idiot."

This captures much of the frustration of today.

Kathleen Quast on Finding Her Path to Neuroscience Education at Harvard - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology For many scientists, the path into research is straightforward: a keen interest in science as a child, a major in biology or chemistry, and years of graduate training. […]

Kathleen Quast on Finding Her Path to Neuroscience Education at Harvard 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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Bellono Lab Research Featured on Two September Cell Covers - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology Two recent studies from the MCB lab of Nick Bellono will be featured on the cover of Cell this month, highlighting the lab’s ongoing exploration of unconventional model […]

Bellono Lab Research Featured on Two September Cell Covers 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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A new amazing story by @nbellono.bsky.social: an animal
species -sea slugs- making photosynthesis by stealing chloroplasts from another organism!…

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Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research

Legend David Baltimore died yesterday. He understood the way things should work: "the real contribution of MIT is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It takes ideas seriously, but the people are relatively informal. They are not self-aggrandizing the way academics can be."

A. James Hudspeth, Who Unlocked Mysteries Behind Hearing, Dies at 79

A. James Hudspeth, Who Unlocked Mysteries Behind Hearing, Dies at 79 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/s...

MCB Rhino League 2025 Championship Recap - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology The 2025 MCB Rhino League Championship was almost washed out before it began, as a storm rolled through just as games were set to start. Fortunately, the skies […]

MCB Rhino League 2025 Championship Recap 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
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Congrats Herbert!... looks super interesting 👏🤩

thinking about this again. Is it the earliest articulation of a theoretical neuroscience?

@neurograce.bsky.social ?

Convergent motifs of early olfactory processing are recapitulated by layer-wise efficient coding The architecture of early olfactory processing is a striking example of convergent evolution. Typically, a panel of broadly tuned receptors is selectively expressed in sensory neurons (each neuron exp...

Excited to share new computational work, led by @jzv.bsky.social, driven by Juan Carlos Fernandez del Castillo + contribution from Farhad Pashakanloo. We recover 3 core motifs in the olfactory system of evolutionarily distant animals using a biophysically-grounded model + efficient coding ideas!

Congrats: such an amazing story and beautiful cover!

Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social

MCB Launches A Slice of Science Seminar Series This Fall - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology This fall, MCB will introduce a new seminar series, A Slice of Science, which merges two well-known departmental traditions: Friday Talks @4 and the MCO Journal Club (MCB […]

MCB Launches A Slice of Science Seminar Series This Fall 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

Mice navigate scent trails using predictive policies Animals actively sense their environment to extract features of interest to guide behaviors. For mammals, odors are prominent environmental features which are sampled by active modulation of sniffing ...

Thrilled to share this work, long time in the making! Carried through creatively by @siddjakes.bsky.social after initial design & piloting by @trackingskills.bsky.social, with help from @trackingactions.bsky.social. Modeling in collaboration with Massimo Vergassola & Nicola Rigolli.

Neural Circuit and Molecular Mechanism Underlying Social Hierarchy Identified - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology The formation of social hierarchies is a fundamental aspect of group living, reducing conflict and guiding behavior across species—from animals to humans. Yet, the precise neural and molecular […]

Neural Circuit and Molecular Mechanism Underlying Social Hierarchy Identified

From @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social and colleagues, co-first authors Adam C. Nelson and Vikrant Kapoor. 
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Remarkable Evo-Devo research on human bipedalism by @tdcapellini.bsky.social and collaborators

Welp, I guess I'm back on my tool time rants. So let me tell you about probably the most consequential tool maker of the last two centuries. A person who completely changed how we cut and process lumber.

A Shaker woman named Tabitha Babbitt.

BioFestival at Harvard: A Day of Science, Connection, and Friendly Competition - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology Harvard is gearing up for an exciting new event — BioFestival, a science-filled day of lightning talks, posters, games, and prizes — all aimed at bringing trainees together […]

BioFestival at Harvard: A Day of Science, Connection, and Friendly Competition 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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NIH: After review, we note that you have a large unspent balance on your grant. Please explain immediately.

me: well, uh, yeah, one reason we're not spending on that grant is because NIH terminated it in May along with all the rest of federal funding to Harvard, maybe you don't remember