Sinosauropteryx robot created by Crenexus, a Shenzhen-based robotics company, specialising in museum installations. I'll be visiting their warehouse this weekend, so watch out ✨

😴 #newstudy about #sleepdeprivation from the Liu Lab! 🧠 A new study in Current Biology shows that lack of sleep impairs pattern separation 🔬 At the neural level: disrupted sparse coding → more overlap & confusion. Read more: vibneuroscienceleuven.be/en/news#/new...

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...

🚨 We are #hiring a PhD Student to study cerebellum-like circuits in #Drosophila. Please spread the word! www.groschner-lab.org/join #Neuroscience #PhD

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 www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

"Saw her in the Amazon With the voltage runnin' through her skin Standin' there with nothin' on She gonna teach me how to swim" for more about the electric (f)eel, check this primer by Ken Catania ⚡ www.cell.com/current-biol... (and yes, finally some current biology in Current Biology)

🚀 Proudly introducing the VIB-KU Leuven Center For Neuroscience, a merger of the two former VIB research centers VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research and Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF)! Our new motto: Bold Science, Real Impact. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhaq...

Birds have a thick retina devoid of blood vessels - so how do they ensure sufficient oxygen availability? They don't - neurons rely on glycolysis, metabolizing glucose released from the pecten. Insane new study that includes comparative data on lizards and crocs.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper is published today in Current Biology and is featured on the cover! We report a neat, and somewhat counter-intuitive, finding: higher-ranking baboons get less and more interrupted night-time rest.

📢 Join us, the Haberkern lab, @uni-wuerzburg.de for a postdoc studying neural circuit mechanisms of navigation. You’ll spearheading neurophysiology experiments on our brand new 2P! ⏳ Apply by 28th February 2026 Details: www.haberkernlab.de/docs/ENPostd... #neuroscience #academicjobs #postdoc

Honoured to have contributed to a new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Mario Bronzati and lots of excellent and brainy (yes, pun intended) colleagues, showing that pterosaurs and birds evolved flight-capable brains but in different ways. www.cell.com/current-biol...

🚨 Postdoc openings! We’re looking for postdocs excited about sleep, synapses & cellular neurophysiology (fly or mouse). Yes, we also have mouse projects! See details: www.flysleeplab.com/positions

Nature research paper: Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals go.nature.com/4i0i61w

Sponges back? Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree. @science.org #sponges vs #ctenophores

Quanta contributing writer @maxlevy.bsky.social has received a Kavli Gold Award from @aaas.org and @kavlifoundation.org for “The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology,” a detailed account of how small organisms use static electricity to their advantage. www.quantamagazine.org/quantanews/q...

Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely. buff.ly/UEtcRd4

Kinematics and morphology reveal how mammals descend trees safely, showing posture and movement strategies that suggest early upright behaviours in ancestral primates. buff.ly/59o59R8

How neurons go with the blood flow when migrating through the brain. buff.ly/wIrwf4q

The China-Argentina Radio Telescope is facing a series of new obstacles. https://scim.ag/49xkgTU

Apply for our International PhD Call! Discover the 11 new projects for this edition and apply until the 20th of November. 🔗More info: cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026

Our paper reconstructing hydras endodermis published in @currentbiology urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

New work from Sha Liu's lab connecting a cellular level process to behavior! 🪰💤

Edward Kravitz, a Harvard biochemist who proved GABA's inhibitory power, passed away last month. He will "be remembered for his humanity, for his social conscience and his desire to help those less fortunate than he,” says Ronald Harris-Warrick. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social bit.ly/479Ggmo

Jellyfish helmet! This larval-stage jack fish (aka trevally) is living inside the #jellyfish for protection against whatever might come his way. #jackfish #trevalley #jellyfish #🪼 #symbiosis #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #okinawa #kume #kumejima

Very happy to see our first paper on Black Soldier Flies out! A chemically defined oviposition attractant and repellent of black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens) doi.org/10.1163/2352... This was a Master project of amazing Nyasha Thomas, who set up the BSF work in the lab.

what Piali said! Looking to recruit a new assistant professor to our fabulous neuroscience group and department at Brandeis. Please circulate far and wide and alert anyone you know who is on the job market! #neuroscience

We're very proud to be releasing the complete male fly CNS connectome! It's the product of a huge team effort here at Janelia in partnership with the Cambridge Fly Connectomics group (@jefferis.bsky.social and colleagues), plus invaluable collaborators. More soon... www.janelia.org/project-team...

Ed Kravitz passed away yesterday. He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired. We will miss you, Ed.

This is a disaster if the EU doesn't follow up by doubling the budget 😬🧪

The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle go.nature.com/47mxGkM

“Perception as Inference” is a century-old idea that has inspired all major theories in neuroscience 🧠, including: ✅ Sparse Coding ✅ Predictive Coding ✅ Free Energy Principle & more! In my new blog post, I build the intuition behind this idea from ground up 👉[1/6]🧵 🧠🤖🧠📈

Neural Connectome of the Ctenophore Statocyst 🤩. @kei-jokura.bsky.social, @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy team identify a new syncytial nerve net in older animals & differences in innervation patterns. Great collaboration & co-submission to bioRxiv. Exciting times! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New prize at our center! Our Liu Lab received the Outstanding Early Investigator Award, by the Sleep Research Society. This distinction was awarded to Joana Dopp, former PhD student at our center, following their publication on Nature Neuroscience. Congratulations! cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...

This ‘fundamental’ study reports anatomical, molecular, and functional mapping of the central complex in #Drosophila. buff.ly/7nlgaXb

Now online! Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants

🛩️ Have you ever flown 1000 km against the pitch black night sky with only the stars 💫 above you? No? Well Australian bogong moths have - and they do! Twice a year! They use the stars ✨ as a compass 🧭 to guide them! Read more in this beautiful investigation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why a database of bug genes could be one of Trump’s most devastating cuts at Harvard

FlyBase needs your help! Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org

Why human connectomes can probably not be useful for AI open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

Just published, expansion in situ genome sequencing, where you can sequence DNA while still inside the cell, mapping its organization relative to proteins and other markers, with the help of expansion microscopy! Led by @jbuenrostro.bksy.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why do some neurons say “sleep” while others shout “stay awake!” — inside the same brain? In fruit flies, researchers just mapped the molecular chaos behind this nightly tug-of-war. And it’s wilder than we thought. buff.ly/nA9M8EM

We are very pleased to share that our paper on sexual dimorphism in circadian rhythms has been published in @plosbiology.org. This work was led by the very talented Aishwarya Iyer and includes contributions from three undergraduate co-authors. You can read the full study here:

🧠 Are you a physicist, engineer, chemist, or coder curious about life sciences? 🧪 Challenge the boundaries. Take risks. Go international. Apply for an #HFSPFellowship! The 2026 call is OPEN 💪 🌍 Deadline to start application: 7 May 2025 🔗 zurl.co/ffHmt#HFSPFellowship#sts #hfsp

Relieved that our data is stored in the EU about.zenodo.org/infrastructu...

In a new Science study, cryo–electron tomography captures the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, illuminating how the coordinated action of molecular machines drives life’s fundamental energy conversion. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq

After closing the registration, here's the word cloud of themes that will be present on site for the resurrection of the JEDIs. Looking forward to meeting y'all there!

An excellent read on hibernation from Vlad Vyazovskiy, and thoughts provoking as per usual! aeon.co/essays/how-a...