Trying to set up a new network is always so motivating, you get to chat with many cool scientists, build bridges and be curious. Interdisciplinary research is definitely my favorite thing

It's online! In this series of perspectives @dev-journal.bsky.social, yours truly talks about the exciting open questions and many things to do in the field of dev bio and neuroscience #DevBio🧪 #PIsOfTomorrow journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Our Department of Microbiology & Immunology at UCSF is running a faculty search this year for a new Assistant Professor! Please see the ad below for details. Searching for a great colleague, mentor, and scientist! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05807

Ever wondered how to control stretch/compression in your epithelial system? Do you know why it’s important, which mechanotransduction mechanisms could be involved? I am @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and today I will guide you through this journey.

The deadline is the 13th of October, don't hesitate to reach out with any question!

When your weird idea is starting to give results and seems to be working, that's when science is really cool. Can't wait to share the videos and more details once it's been tested, but the optical tweezers are up and running :D

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Here's a link to the paper: Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our department is hiring a professor in proteomics at any level, feel free to ask any question about the department mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

We are recruiting a postdoc to join our team and study neuroinflammation along the gut-brain axis. Please share it with anyone who may be interested, and do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions. international.au.dk/about/profil...

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

"Everyone should think carefully about using generative AI simply because the technology is built on environmental destruction, labor exploitation, and IP theft"

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

AI is the tech & venture capital world gaslighting the rest of us into a 💩ier existence.

Beautiful work on stomach brain interactions and mental health, super interesting, it will be nice to compare to what we find in fish

Definitely time to kill exams that involves essay writing, a shame as I liked that format and it was interesting to read what students came up with. But 75%+ of the assignments have the same structure, very similar phrasing and points, so it's clear LLMs have killed creative writing for students

Really important work. Also important not to merely frame this as, 'hey, women faculty, don't forget to say no!' That places the burden in the wrong place. Organisations need to look critically at how requests are made and how workload is acknowledged. Systemic problems need systemic solutions.

Register for NAD 2025 - Annual Meeting 🌟 📅 WHEN: November 3-5 👩‍🦰 WHO: Neuroscientists based in Denmark 🌍 WHERE: Scandic Falkoner, Copenhagen ⏰ EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: August 10 Read more and register 👉 bit.ly/4koeDcF

See also "gaming" vs "gambling" as a way of using language to obscure some of the most damaging aspects of capitalism.

We're recruiting junior team leaders @mrc-lms.bsky.social This time we're looking for those working in human metabolic disease. It's a great place to start your lab. Fantastic colleagues, exciting science, world class facilities. Join us! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

Loved presenting our Brain-Body tutorial🫀🫁🧠 at #ASSC28, great initiative & brilliant talk from @brainandstomach.bsky.social & awesome talks as always from @danlikesbrains.bsky.social & @marieloescher.bsky.social. Looking forward to the rest of the conference!

Cannot emphasize enough that, if you dislike doing the things academics do (reading, writing, developing and expressing opinions about things you've read) enough to try to make a chatbot do them for you, there are lots of actual humans who would be happy to take that unpleasant job off your hands

WOW, WE'RE DOING TARDIGRADE NEUROSCIENCE? Noice! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

TIL that one of the books removed from the Armed Forces Library because it "had DEI" in it is Ben Barres' autobiography. Remember that you can buy and should read this book because Ben was badass and an amazing scientist mitpress.mit.edu/978026253954...

I'm so grateful to write my first magazine article with Psyche Magazine! psyche.co/ideas/how-mu... It features our preprint on 🫁 'Body-Wandering' 🫀 with invaluable guidance from @micahgallen.com and @themindwanders.bsky.social : biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Register for Computational Neuroscience - NAD Workshop 🖥️ 📅 WHEN: August 11-14 🧑‍🦰 WHO: Neuroscientists affiliated with a Danish research institution 🌍 WHERE: Gl. Avernæs Sinatur Hotel & Konference ⏰ DEADLINE: June 26 Read more and register 👉 bit.ly/3G7hIQ8

First Bluesky post! I'm excited to share a preprint from my postdoctoral work where we 1) define the developmental mechanisms guiding formation of a vagal gut-brain circuit and 2) discover that this circuit regulates much more than just appetite. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Some more exciting results from the neuroinflammation project, the first PhD thesis in the final stretch, the summer is looking good 😁

Amazing paper for chronomicrobiologists in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 👇🏼 Metatranscriptomics uncovers diurnal functional shifts in bacterial transgenes with profound metabolic effects www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Problematic colormaps are common: "Over 67% of biology articles contain at least one colormap, of which 81% contain some form of misuse" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Misuse is defined quite broadly though

Writing and thinking about grants can be so much fun. Especially collaborative ones, thinking of all the cool people I would like to work with!

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Delayed happy pride to all who celebrate, still so much work for LGBTQ+ people around the world. Especially for the trans community bearing the brunt of it, Trans rights are human rights!

Sometimes it is good to remember how much of Academia is driven by spite, and to channel Spider Jerusalem, or Carl

Call for Group Leaders - Join us at GIMM, 7 days till the deadline!

This is cool! #Immunology 🧪

Please support the European Citizens' Initiative to ban conversion practices in the EU. Today is the last day to sign and help protect LGBTQ+ people across Europe. If the ECI doesn't collect 1 mil. signatures by the deadline, this can't proceed to the Commission. eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

#scam I paid @Climeworks £1,650 to remove 2 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. Was I a gullible idiot? Yes. Icelandic newspaper @heimildinhas shown that they not only haven’t captured my 2 tons, they don’t even capture their own emissions heimildin.is/FGY3 via @heimildin

Interested in #microglia? 🤔 This paper presents comprehensive insights into their heterogeneity and detailed cell-state annotation across development and neurodegenerative conditions. Check it out! #CNS #Immunology #Science #neuroskyence #neuroscience #compneurosky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching. A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀 github.com/danionella/w...

#NatureMicroPicks Beneficial fasting? 🍽️ A mouse study reveals how fasting can potentiate antibiotic response. 🦠🐀💊 Published in @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social #MicroSky #AMR www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

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About 100 years the Mangold-Spemann organizer was published and this has been one of the most fruitful and inspiring concepts in Developmental Biology. But how can organizers self-organize? In this review we summarize the knowledge how cnidarians do that: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

UK universities should be advising students and staff travelling to the US on social media use, what border staff are entitled to seize or search, what to do if detained, and how to keep US colleagues safe, says @petraboynton.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

I am very excited to share our article on IFNg, stroma and disease tolerance during intestinal helminth infection published today in Cell. This work was lead by the amazing @susanwestfall.bsky.social and supported by many international collaborators. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It’s so impressive to see this science advancing. I remember from my years as a hospice doctor watching cachexia — including the desperate efforts of loving family members to feed their relative who was dying and who had completely lost interest in food — which always attracts concern.