Bellono Lab Research Featured on Two September Cell Covers 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @nbellono.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @zombiflied.bsky.social @microbiometcell.bsky.social @jeeyunc.bsky.social

A new amazing story by @nbellono.bsky.social: an animal species -sea slugs- making photosynthesis by stealing chloroplasts from another organism!…

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research

Legend David Baltimore died yesterday. He understood the way things should work: "the real contribution of MIT is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It takes ideas seriously, but the people are relatively informal. They are not self-aggrandizing the way academics can be."

A. James Hudspeth, Who Unlocked Mysteries Behind Hearing, Dies at 79 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/s...

MCB Rhino League 2025 Championship Recap 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @zombiflied.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

thinking about this again. Is it the earliest articulation of a theoretical neuroscience? @neurograce.bsky.social ?

Excited to share new computational work, led by @jzv.bsky.social, driven by Juan Carlos Fernandez del Castillo + contribution from Farhad Pashakanloo. We recover 3 core motifs in the olfactory system of evolutionarily distant animals using a biophysically-grounded model + efficient coding ideas!

Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social

MCB Launches A Slice of Science Seminar Series This Fall 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @microbiometcell.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬: 🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0 🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

Thrilled to share this work, long time in the making! Carried through creatively by @siddjakes.bsky.social after initial design & piloting by @trackingskills.bsky.social, with help from @trackingactions.bsky.social. Modeling in collaboration with Massimo Vergassola & Nicola Rigolli.

Neural Circuit and Molecular Mechanism Underlying Social Hierarchy Identified From @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social and colleagues, co-first authors Adam C. Nelson and Vikrant Kapoor.  www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...

Remarkable Evo-Devo research on human bipedalism by @tdcapellini.bsky.social and collaborators

Welp, I guess I'm back on my tool time rants. So let me tell you about probably the most consequential tool maker of the last two centuries. A person who completely changed how we cut and process lumber. A Shaker woman named Tabitha Babbitt.

BioFestival at Harvard: A Day of Science, Connection, and Friendly Competition 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

NIH: After review, we note that you have a large unspent balance on your grant. Please explain immediately. me: well, uh, yeah, one reason we're not spending on that grant is because NIH terminated it in May along with all the rest of federal funding to Harvard, maybe you don't remember

Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns? To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠 #preprint thread ⬇️1/8

New pre-print on sex differences in the choroid plexus- the 🧠's fluid secretion organ. Important differences in secretory signaling & immune compartments that can impact the 🧠 in health & disease. ‪@karol-kaiser.bsky.social‬@violesilvar.bsky.social‬ Luca von Allmen. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Insightful comments by @antihebbiann.bsky.social on the current rise of neuro theory and the need to embrace brain and behavior complexity. Not that easy though, right?!…

I still have to read the actual paper but these excerpts seem quite striking!… It also means that I will have to significantly change my class on somatosensory maps 😂 @hunterschone.bsky.social any idea why the original digit to face map reorganization data in human got it wrong?

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Joaquín Navajas Acedo. In this interview, @mads100tist.bsky.social talks about about his research vision, zebrafish and the importance of community: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

@raphaeldulac.bsky.social @helodlc.bsky.social @kettydulac.bsky.social @yvesdulac.bsky.social

3 generations of Dulac researchers, from literature and philosophy of the Enlightenment (my dad), to theoretical physics (my nephew Raphael) to neuroscience (that’s me)!… 🤩👍👏

Wendy Valencia Montoya – Bridging Natural History and Molecular Biology 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @nbellono.bsky.social @zombiflied.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardoeb.bsky.social

University of Tokyo IRCN Symposium Comes to Harvard 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

Ryan Nett Named Pew Scholar for Innovative Research on Plant-Derived Molecules 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @zombiflied.bsky.social @harvardmagazine.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social

Another excellent study by @dulaclab.bsky.social and collaborators. This new @cp-cell.bsky.social study uncovers a key role for the thalamus in the neural control of social hierarchy 🧪🧠🧬 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Lorenz wrote of a starling hunting invisibile insects and his hypothesis that the bird was satisfying an urge to hunt. That gave rise to his hydraulic model. Recently I heard a beautiful talk by @dulaclab.bsky.social that reminded me of that story www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting findings by @dulaclab.bsky.social lab! Neural encoding of individual social ranking, just mind blowing 🤯

Neural Circuit and Molecular Mechanism Underlying Social Hierarchy Identified 🧠 🧪🧬 🔬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social ss.bsky.social‬ @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

Very excited to announce our latest paper uncovering circuit, cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the formation and maintenance of social hierarchy, another terrific collaboration with @neurovenki.bsky.social, Vic Kapoor and Adam Nelson (not on bsky) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations @ctestard.bsky.social, I can't wait to see how this exciting project will develop in @harvardmcb.bsky.social and elsewhere!...

Early Exposure to Anesthesia May Shift Brain Development 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social

I've been stuck at home sick lately, organizing old attempts at nature sound recording and slowly losing my mind So here's something: an album (?) of the sounds of other people's parties, recorded accidentally from a distance of ~10m to 1 km soundcloud.com/nick-jourjin... Enjoy (maybe 😅)

You Are What Your Great-Grandparents Ate 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @craigphunter.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @microbiometcell.bsky.social @jeeyunc.bsky.social

Kazuki Nagashima Wins Charles H. Hood Foundation Award to Investigate Early-Life Dietary Triggers of Immune Tolerance 🔬🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @microbiometcell.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social

Daniel Cardozo Pinto: Decoding the Neural Circuitry of Reward Learning 🧠🧪 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dcardozopinto.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social

Your brain doesn’t just passively track time ⏳ - it structures it. In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2) 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Corey Allard and Amy Lee discuss curious "solar-powered" animals that steal and maintain foreign chloroplasts for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. @harvardcellbio.bsky.social, @danafarbernews.bsky.social. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

A super cool, mind blowing new story from my colleague @nbellono.bsky.social showing how sea slugs steal algae chloroplasts to perform their own photosynthesis!…🧪🧬🧠🐌 @harvardmcb.bsky.social

This is an excellent article on the termination of all federal funding at Harvard. This visualization shows all of the terminated programs that were supposed to train the next generation of scientists. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Thank you so much Catherine @dulaclab.bsky.social for a thought-provoking and an eminent talk today at @kavlintnu.bsky.social @edvardmoser.bsky.social

Delightful visit and dinner today in Trondheim and more tomorrow: thanks again @m-bmoser.bsky.social and @edvardmoser.bsky.social for giving me a chance to present our new data on social and sickness behavior. Looking forward to hearing more about the amazing projects at @kavlintnu.bsky.social

10 years of social dynamics and over a year of vocalization by wild mice in the wild, simply amazing! Great work by @nickjourjine.bsky.social at the very precious mouse barn established by Barbara König

Wonderful visit @mdc-berlin.bsky.social thanks @hannahornberg.bsky.social for the invitation and congrats @khallaf.bsky.social for showing me such cool data on naked mole rats!

Cholinergic neuronal activity promotes diffuse midline glioma growth through muscarinic signaling: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Octopuses Use Microbial Signals to Guide Complex Behaviors 🧠🧪 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @nbellono.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social

Respect and funding for science in the US are in danger: do sign the letter below to support the brave NIH folks ringing the alarm bell and please repost!