(1/n) We are excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications, by Hagar Lavian (@hlavian.bsky.social) and team, revealing how the zebrafish brain integrates visual navigation signals! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

highlight of the pub quiz in a room full of neuroscientists

Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else? What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?

Bring back imposter syndrome

I love it when strangers on the train see my PowerPoint presentations and ask what I work with- in these moments I remember how excited I am about my own research and how I feel like I'm in the *exact* right spot 🥹🥹

my friends are so funny they have Spotify playlists called RT-qPCR

IT'S OUT!!! 🥰

That merely being “under review” by a Nature family journal is offered as a quality proxy for a paper is a tragic illustration of the extent to which academia is addicted to brands and outsources evaluation

Our newest publication is out, and it is most certainly a colorful one!! Using carefully controlled experiments in keratinocytes, we show that different light wavelengths affect cell metabolism and integrity in different manners. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

really wish I could afford academic textbooks but 160€ is just not gonna cut it for me...

how your email found me: (it didn't)

NMJs.... NMJs everywhere.......

Exciting study from @frisophagy.bsky.social in @chinnery in the Chinnery lab @mrc-mbu.bsky.social. Congratulations to all authors involved in the study! #mitochondria Ubiquitin-mediated mitophagy regulates the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA mutations | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Science friends, I want to invite you to my short lecture at the @bmc-lmu.bsky.social next Tuesday, 7th of October The topic is how mitochondria (yes, the powerhouse of the cell 🔋) keep our motor neurons healthy so we can keep moving our muscles until we're 100! #walterneupert #neupertstiftung

Also @ascbiology.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jcb.org

u know who are skeptics scientists are skeptics being anti-science is not being a skeptic

got baptised today- aka got PBS sprayed on my face while trying to remove spinal cord

Dear GenZ members of the #Drosophila community! You are needed to make cool fly research viral in your social media world! As a boomer I do not understand that sphere, but I can consult and contribute our enormous fund of outreach resources: droso4public.wordpress.com. Please, get in contact!

SAVE THE DATE: We, the @mpiforbi.bsky.social and @mpibiochem.bsky.social,‬ are opening our doors for you on October 25! Tours, talks, experiments – Join us to learn more about us and our science! More information: mpi.lineupr.com/tdot/

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Last few days at CSHL. This is "Sheets and Giggles"- our lightsheet baby with two excitation paths. It has been a dream and a privilege to be at this course 🔬☺️

miniscopes and telescopes @cshlcourses.bsky.social

Week 1 at @cshlcourses.bsky.social Imaging Structure & Function in Neuroscience is over! Feeling extra lucky to be amongst such amazing scientists and in this gorgeous campus ❤️🔬📚

Model organism communities are fantastic. Good work, "Drosophilists"! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

summer = getting to apply sunscreen on my face to go sit in a dark room with my microscope 😎

This would be a great time for everyone to be cool when reviewing manuscripts and *not* request $25,000 worth of new experiments that don’t substantially advance or validate the study...

#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Murray-Cors et al. (2025) Assessing impacts of mitochondrial dysfunction on axonal microtubule bundles as potential mechanism in neurodegeneration. bioRxiv, 2025.05.11.653329 -- www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out the newly-published results of an exciting multi-year collaborative project by the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative. A total of 56 labs performed over 140 replications of 56 experiments, assessing replicability across biomedical research in Brazil. 📄: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨Latin American Workshop Series🚨 The team from @bethcimini.bsky.social‘s lab at @broadinstitute.org and the Center for Open Bioimage Analysis will host three free online image analysis workshops for LATAM ... in SPANISH🇪🇸 and PORTUGUESE🇧🇷!!!🎉🎊 broad.io/latam_worksh... Deadline: April 23rd, 2025

*goes on holidays to get some time away from the lab* *stumbles into an amazingly cool chemistry lab from the 19th century at the University of Porto*

We're just one month out from <interact>! Talk and poster submission windows are now closed. We would like to thank you for all your submissions! Spots at <interact> are limited! Be sure to sign up early (and there may be something special in store for you too).

Fantastic (and ever so relevant) lecture by Sabine Hildebrandt at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry today. I suggest that anyone who has ever picked up an anatomy atlas hear what she has to say.