The IL2 neurons are my new favourite neurons in Pristionchus. In our new paper, lead by @marianneroca.bsky.social, we show which sensory modalities are crucial for a predating worm, which all are sensed in the IL2’s. And the IL2’s are sensitive to octopamine, promoting aggression in these worms 🧠🪱🔬🧪

How does a predator sense its prey? 🪱The nematode Pristionchus pacificus preys on other nematodes, but how it detects them in its environment? That is what we have been exploring : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our latest paper is out in Nature 🥳 We investigated the underlying neuromodulatory regulation of aggressive behavior in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus 🪱🧠🔬 And we show that novel behaviors can evolve through changes of single neuron function by switches in neuromodulator-receptor expression. 👇

No more work for me this year. Had a lot to do again at the end. But was worth it and fun. I think next year will be cool 🔬🪱🧬 Now, I‘ll be enjoying the break and Christmas🎄and as a starter, I always enjoy the neat little stories ⬇️ #happyholidays #froheweihnachten

Hey 👋 ich dachte ich stell mich nochmal vor: ich bin Grafikdesignerin und Illustratorin und habe mir vor kurzem einen Blog eingerichtet. Ich finde meine Arbeiten funktionieren am besten mit Text und der ist mehr … #illustration #art #natur #wattiskunst #sciart #birdart #kleinekunstklasse #lesen

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Interested in neuromodulation, predatory worms or hidden Markov models? Or the combination of all three? Then come and see my poster (number 21) today in poster session 1 at the #BernsteinConference.

Welches Zugdesign wurde inspiriert von einem Vogelschnabel?🤔 Um welchen Vogel es sich handelt seht ihr schon im Bild, alles weitere könnt ihr in meinem Blogartikel lesen. ☺️📖 #bird #sciart #graphicdesign #blogging #illustration #birdart #nature #kleinekunstklasse

Yesterday’s PhD symposium of the #BernsteinConference was great fun. Today I spent the morning in the Senckenberg museum, what a great exhibition! Too much to look at in 3h, will have to come back. Now heading to the start of the main conference. Looking forward to a lot of great talks and posters.

Oder was Duo, oder was?

Time to say goodbye to the glacier Marmolada, which will be gone soon😥 goodbye-glaciers.info/glaciers/RGI...

Me: this is great, glad to see authors ripped off by AI getting their due. Me after using the search tool: I am one of these ripped off authors. Academics, it only takes a minute. Seven of my papers are in this and I had no idea.

It has such a beautiful red colour 😍 so I really couldn’t resist to illustrate this bird of the month for the #birdwhisperer project. @birdwhisperers.bsky.social #birds #vogel #birdart #sciart #art #vectorart #illustration #vectorillustration #kleinekunstklasse #graphicdesign #wildlife #natur #bird

New preprint: Scientists, how many times has this happened to you? You collect all kinds of data from a camera or microscope. But then you are faced with an analysis pipeline that threatens to take 100x longer than collecting the data did!

What a concept, sadopopulism. Explains some twisted things, kind of.

The funds are approved! We're hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans. Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!

Guter Artikel! Mit „die anderen sind doch noch viel schlimmer“ kommen wir auch nicht weiter. Auch weil wir uns alle gegenseitig beeinflussen. For better or for worse. #klimakrise

Are LLMs correlated when they make mistakes? In our new ICML paper, we answer this question using responses of >350 LLMs. We find substantial correlation. On one dataset, LLMs agree on the wrong answer ~2x more than they would at random. 🧵(1/7) arxiv.org/abs/2506.07962

Kudos to @bcmerchant.bsky.social for some absolutely essential reporting from the frontline of AI’s enshittification of our culture (not to mention our software). Worth the long read.

I will be opening my new lab in September at UBC! if you’re coming to #Worm25 and are looking for graduate studies or a postdoc position, let’s meet! Vancouver + worms = perfect vibes. www.zoology.ubc.ca/~yeecs/labsi... Please share! 🙌

Ist euch schon aufgefallen, dass sich die Lachmöwen für den Frühling in Schale geschmissen haben? 🎩 Ich habe dazu einen kleinen Blogartikel geschrieben, denn: ich blogge jetzt! 🤓😄 #birds #birdart #illustration #kleinekunstklasse #möwe #lachmöwe #art #seabirds #frühling steadyhq.com/de/vanessa-k...

Who would have guessed.

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming. Could these be the real culprits? The evidence is in--and the answer is NO. This thread explains! 🧵

Ein schönes Osterwochenende euch allen 🌼🎨 #april #flower #frühling #blume #gänseblümchen #digitalart #illustration #nature #art

Curious about how the cannibalistic nematode Pristionchus pacificus hunts its prey? Check out our preprint on BioRxiv, where we explore the roles of mechanosensation and chemosensation, using behaviour tracking among other methods! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨 Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses! Applications are due Sunday, March 23. Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/ #mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪

Zur Attacke der Union auf NGO‘s: Warum die Fragen sehr einseitig sind, sehr einseitig, sehr einseitig 👇

📢 Call for Speakers – Pint of Science 2025 in Bonn! 🍻🔬 We’re looking for enthusiastic researchers to join Pint of Science in Bonn on May 19–21, 2025! 🌍 More info: pintofscience.de/ueberuns/ If you're interested : [email protected]. #PintOfScience #Bonn #ScienceOutreach

CDU/CSU haben druckfrisch eine "kleine Anfrage" an die amtierende Regierung mit über 500 Fragen gestellt. Tatsächlich handelt es sich um einen Rundumschlag-Angriff auf die demokratische Zivilgesellschaft, von Omas gegen Rechts, Campact, BUND, Netzwerk Recherche etc dip.bundestag.de/vorgang/poli...

Hallo bluesky 👋😊 ich bin neu hier. Ich bin Illustratorin und Grafikdesignerin. Das hier ist eine Illustration von mir wie ich mich beim illustrieren illustriere ♾️👽 Folgt mir gerne, wenn ihr mehr von meinen Arbeiten sehen wollt. 🎨 🌈 #illustration #vectorillustration #vectorart #graphicdesign #art

We ask students to write a research proposal, but we should also teach them about how the project will likely actually unfold.

Great Pristionchus pacificus paper by the Okumura lab. They investigate its light avoidance behaviour and show some key differences compared to how this functions and has evolved compared to C. elegans! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

My lab after doing a hackathon with those this year 😂 kind of hard to work with

Yesterday, I saw the first beautiful autumn fog of this year. I always cross a bridge on my way to work, and yesterday, there were so many spider webs wet with dew that I had to take a few photos. 📷

Cool talk just now from Ronen Segev about spatial navigation in goldfish. They found border and head-direction, as well as (I guess) depth cells in the central telencephalon. And the most lovely thing: they build a robot for a fish to drive around in 🚗🐟

Can’t believe my 2nd TAC meeting is over. Always this suspense after the Q&A are over and you’re put in a waiting room to wait for feedback. #PhD #PhDlife

Hi Bluesky! I recently joined, I think it’s time to introduce myself 👋 I’m Leo, #PhD student looking into how #worms with teeth kill other worms 🧠🪱🔬I investigate how feeding behaviors are controlled by the brain #ecology #neuroscience #pristionchus #nematodes #compneuro #MLsky #neuroskyence