Maria Paz Fernandez

Calling all scientists with an interest in photography! The @royalsocietypublishing.org Photography Competition closes this coming Friday 15 August, with categories including Astronomy, Behaviour, Earth Science & Climatology, Ecology and more: #RSPphotocomp

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How is the nervous system organized to coordinate behavior? To approach this massive question, a team led by @asbates.bsky.social, @jasper-tms.bsky.social, @mindyisminsu.bsky.social, & Helen Yang present the BANC: a Brain and Nerve Cord connectome.

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧪#Neuroskyence

Our department at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada) is running two faculty searches. One is a joint hire with the Institute for Healthy Aging, one a cohire with the Math Dept cps.med.ubc.ca/careers-2/ Click on “Faculty Positions” on the page. Please help spread the word!

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

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We are looking for 2 postdocs to join my lab at Sussex University in Brighton, UK (South of London, on the sea). One position is for a molecular/cell biologist, the other, for a neurobiologist/behavioural person. Drosophila experience desirable. Flyer w/more info below. Please repost. Thank you!

On the Essential Principles and Practice of Circadian Biology: A Road Map – Simple Book Publishing Circadian Biology is about the adaptation of life to our rotating world, to the Earth’s 24-hour rhythm of day and night. Not surprisingly, the field has attracted considerable popular and scientific ...

#Circadian #Biology has grown into an incredibly broad field, one that you can now learn the fundamentals of through a clear, concise, and expertly written book. For free.

Read it here and share it with your students and peers: doi.org/10.21827/686... [doi.org]
#chronobiology #SciComm 🧪

Congratulations to Manuel!

Hi folks — What federally-hosted data sets do you use for your research? Please reply below. I'm especially curious about more obscure .gov data sets that might be research critical for you.

(And I'm interested to hear about data sets in any domain, not just life sciences!)

Congrats, Andy! 🥂

New alleles of D-2-hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase enable studies of oncometabolite function in Drosophila melanogaster Abstract. D-2-hydroxyglutarate (D-2HG) is a potent oncometabolite capable of disrupting chromatin architecture, altering metabolism, and promoting cellular

Check out our work in @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #G3journal on new #Drosophila tools for studying D-2HG #oncometabolite in a context dependent manner during development and disease.
#devbio #genetics #metabolism

@tennessenlab.bsky.social
@superflymr.bsky.social
@iubiology.bsky.social

Congratulations, Shefali!

Congratulations!

Report: National Science Foundation headquarters to be taken over by HUD, displacing 1,800+ employees | ALXnow The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will reportedly take over the National Science Foundation (NSF) headquarters building (2415 Eisenhower Ave.), displacing more than 1,833 NSF emplo...

Local reporting…

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Thanks to all who have expressed a willingness to support FlyBase. The wheels of bureaucracy are large and grind slowly. We expect to have a fee process in place by July. @flybase.bsky.social

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We are hiring! The Hidalgo Lab is seeking motivated Lab Technicians to contribute to the study of neurobiology in seasonal physiology. More information on: seasonalbrain.com/Join

Photo of Wally, the resident Amorphophallus titanum (corpse flower) at the Indiana University Bloomington Biology Building Greenhouse,

Wally, the resident Amorphophallus titanum (corpse flower) at the IU Bloomington Biology Building Greenhouse, may be preparing for another rare and spectacular bloom! You can watch Wally grow – and possibly bloom – live via the Wallycam livestream here: go.iu.edu/wally.
Learn more: go.iu.edu/8tEt

How do brain circuits evolve? We started looking for some answers by using synapse-resolution cross-species comparative connectomics on an entire olfactory circuit 👇

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IU Bloomington Distinguished Professor of Biology Roger Innes.

IU biologist Roger Innes, newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences, is advancing research on plant immune systems that could increase crop yields and reduce costs for farmers. @inneslab.bsky.social @msr20.bsky.social @luciaborniego.bsky.social

Read more: go.iu.edu/8tDD

Congratulations, Tim! 🥂

A Role for Exaptation in Sculpting Sexually Dimorphic Brains from Shared Neural Lineages Sex differences in behaviours arise from variations in female and male nervous systems, yet the cellular and molecular bases of these differences remain poorly defined. Here, we take an unbiased, sing...

New preprint from lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Sexual dimorphism arises not through wholesale transcriptional reprogramming, but via selective sex-specific survival of neurons defined by birth order and shared developmental programs.

Almost all Nobel Prizes are awarded for work that is exploratory, or absolutely basic science with no obvious commercial or medical benefit.

You cannot predict where advancements come from, so you have to invest in science and scientists.

Targeted (corporate) science investment will never do this.

Congratulations to @aishwaryaramak6.bsky.social , who led this work, and also to Eva Scholz-Carlson, Eve Bell, and @grace-b14.bsky.social from our lab, and Shlesha Ricchariya (Brandeis)

Featuring work from CSHL fly course alumna @aishwaryaramak6.bsky.social !!!

Work in flies suggests circadian systems aren’t the same in males and females Adult female fruit flies proved less sensitive to disturbances of their circadian system through experimental disruptions of a peptide in their brains (green). Image credit: Eva Scholz-Carlson, Indian...

Nice highlight of super cool new study from @mariadelapax.bsky.social and co-authors! Congrats to all!

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