Marla Feller
@mfeller.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist, retinal circuits, neuro development. UC Berkeley
http://fellerlab.squarespace.com/
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Piali Sengupta
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Here's the link to the online OA version:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An enteric neuron ionotropic receptor regulates salt stress resistance - Nature
The I3 pharyngeal enteric neuron in Caenorhabditis elegans detects high-salt conditions, and the GLR-9 ionotropic salt receptor expressed specifically in I3 regulates genes related...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10348-3?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20260401&utm_content=10.1038/s41586-026-10348-3
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Katrin Franke
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New paper out in
@cp-neuron.bsky.social
🎉 What determines contextual modulation in V1? Why does the visual surround sometimes facilitate and sometimes suppress a neuron's response to its preferred stimulus?
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mad neuroscientists marching in Berkeley
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A neuroscientist in the House!….let’s help make this happen. Thank you
@samwang.bsky.social
for stepping up
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Posting on behalf of (soon-to-be) Dr. Samira Monshietehadi (not on Bluesky) -- "I’m very excited to announce that my PhD thesis project is now a preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
. We show how Müller glia engage with growing retina vasculature in an activity-independent manner."(1/11)
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Sam Wang
15 days ago
Bay Area friends, I'm coming out this weekend! Meet up with me in the Stanford/Silicon Valley area. We have a great event on Saturday. Please come! RSVP for details:
secure.actblue.com/donate/wange...
In a hotly contested primary in NJ-12, help send a scientist and democracy reformer to Congress!
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Karthik Shekhar
24 days ago
New preprint from the group on the evolution of retinal cell types. Check the summary by Dario
@dariotommasini.bsky.social
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gorgrous day to
@standupforscience.bsky.social
in SF with Stanford Colleague
@wormsense.bsky.social
and
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
#neuroscience
and
#mcb
colleagues.
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Go
@annaintegrated.bsky.social
!!
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26 days ago
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Calling all Bay Area scientists and science believers - come to Civic Center Plaza from 1-3. We need to let them know that we support basic research and evidence-based science policies!
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26 days ago
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Cahir O'Kane
26 days ago
Respect to my US friends and colleagues taking part today in rallies for
@standupforscience.bsky.social
- and for non-citizen US residents who have reason to worry about the consequences of standing up.
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chasingmicrobes
26 days ago
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www.standupforscience.net
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Disrupted Science
27 days ago
This is how you do it! Kudos to
@standupforscience.bsky.social
. Rally 'round, dorks!
www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/s...
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How Stand Up For Science is trying to 'pull every lever' to win over the public
Stand Up For Science has become a formal organization and adopted a new strategy that's more confrontational with grassroots tactics
https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/stand-up-for-science-organizer-colette-delawalla-interview/
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Hart
28 days ago
1-3pm San Francisco, Saturday, March 7:
fight2win.standupforscience.net/SF-March/
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Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
https://fight2win.standupforscience.net/SF-March/
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Christine Grienberger
about 1 month ago
We’re looking for a new Research Tech! Our research tech is heading to graduate school (very exciting!), which means we’re recruiting someone new to join our team. The position involves hands-on neuroscience research in a collaborative environment.
brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Bra...
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Research Technician
Research Technician position available in the Grienberger lab at Brandeis University. We are a new neuroscience group studying the cellular basis of learning and memory in the mammalian brain. This is...
https://brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Brandeis---Waltham-Campus/Research-Technician_R0012878-1
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we are happening in SF - hope to see you all there!
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about 1 month ago
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RoordaLab
about 1 month ago
Vision Science makes the front page of NYT!! featuring work from
@neurofishh.bsky.social
and
@denilsson.bsky.social
with comments from Berkeley's own
@karthikshekhar.bsky.social
#visionscience
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...
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The Rise of Eyes Began With Just One
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/science/evolution-vertebrate-eye.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OlA.NKKy.Aflz8w7Badxi&smid=url-share
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Sam Wang
about 2 months ago
Can't make it to
#NJ12
? Wherever you are, donate to my campaign!!. Wherever you are in the country, if you want to fight gerrymandering, defend science, and rebuild democracy, I'm on your side! Donate:
secure.actblue.com/donate/sam4nj
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anyone else see Bayes theorum in the superbowl ad?
about 2 months ago
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Nicole Rust
about 2 months ago
I’m supporting
@samwang.bsky.social
(even though I don’t live New Jersey) - because he’s the type of scientist-as policy-maker that we so desperately need. Join me in helping him succeed!
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Inspiring article explaining why friend and colleague Sam Wang is running for Congress. Lets help put a Neuroscientist into the halls of policy-making.
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about 2 months ago
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Grab some popcorn and check out this fantastic "post-orial" from the soon-to-be-Dr.
@miah-pitcher.bsky.social
This story has everything: movies of retinal waves, explanations of dendritic integration, images of starburst cells. Enjoy!
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about 2 months ago
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yes!
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Stand Up for Science!
2 months ago
Stand Up for NCAR! Link in our bio!
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Samer Hattar
3 months ago
A new paper from my lab. I will have a full description soon.
rdcu.be/eX1Ld
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ipRGC properties prevent light from shifting the SCN clock during daytime
Nature - The inability of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells to shift the circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus during daytime is caused by light-dependent depolarization...
https://rdcu.be/eX1Ld
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Bob Johnston
3 months ago
G+D together with JHU worked to put together this cool video describing our latest work! Check it out!
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
3 months ago
Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type kappa (PTPRκ) regulates Superior ON-Direction Selective Ganglion Cell development, facilitating image stabilization
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.07.698158v1
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Self renewing pools of mitochondria at axon branch points to support those loooooong axons. great thread and fascinating finding from colleague
@samlewis.bsky.social
Congrats to all!
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3 months ago
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Katja Reinhard
4 months ago
Studying vision across light levels? Interested in rod photoreceptors and related (patho)physiology? Matteo Rizzi, Kate Powell and I wrote a review on rod photoreceptor activity at daylight
doi.org/10.1016/j.vi...
. Free access link here
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
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Dan Feldman
4 months ago
New preprint on sensory cortex dysfunction in Scn2a+/- mouse. Profoundly degraded sensory tuning and maps in S1--most dramatic of any ASD model. And rescued in post-critical period adults with CRISPRa.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Degraded sensory coding in a mouse model of Scn2a-related disorder and its rescue by CRISPRa gene activation
Heterozygous loss-of-function mutations in SCN2A , a sodium channel gene expressed in cortical pyramidal (PYR) cells, lead to a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by autism, intellectual disabi...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.13.694145v1
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Creative and important study for understanding visual processing.
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4 months ago
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Bilal Haider
4 months ago
10+ years of vision 👁️research in mice 🐭recasts our ideas about the brain 🧠and sharing data 🧪📈... a brief guide 👇 Thanks to many colleagues and
@gtresearch.bsky.social
@gt-neuro.bsky.social
for connecting us w
@us.theconversation.com
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Thanks
@nicolecrust.bsky.social
for forwarding the tweets and the perspective. What an incredible opportunity for an incredible scientist. Proud day for
#neuroscience
at
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
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4 months ago
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Rose Z. Hill, Ph.D.
4 months ago
Our story on mechanosensation in baroreceptor cells of the kidney is finally out! Well worth the wait on this project we began in 2020 that turned into a massive collaborative effort within the kidney field. 🫘
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
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https://www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/article/pii/S0092867425013091
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Piali Sengupta
4 months ago
Check out the newest Editors' (that would be me and Eunjoon Kim) Choice issue in Current Opinion in Neurobiology. Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and
@zknight.bsky.social
>20 review articles on Interoception
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Current Opinion in Neurobiology | Interoception 2025 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Current Opinion in Neurobiology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10F6GKGJB67
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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD
4 months ago
Application review launches on December 1, 2025. We want to read *your* application outlining a vision for a research program deciphering how membrane proteins collaborate to enable cell function, their biosynthesis, and the biophysics and structure of how membrane proteins change shape.
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Hollya
5 months ago
Announcing the Inaugural Fluorescence Advanced Imaging Research Workshop
sites.uci.edu/aimlfdworksh...
A joint effort between UC Berkeley and UC Irvine, bringing together the cutting edge talks of AIM and the intensive hands-on experience of the LFD Workshop.
#microscopy
#fluorescence
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LFD/AIM Workshop 2026
https://sites.uci.edu/aimlfdworkshop/
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There is a matching campaign today for the Berkeley Basic Needs Center to help
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
students dealing with reduced CalFresh (SNAP) benefits. Give if you can!
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/48580
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Support Basic Needs at Berkeley!
Help UC Berkeley students access food during the government shutdown.
https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/48580
5 months ago
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Ben Sivyer
5 months ago
We’re hiring! Join the Sivyer Lab at The University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurodegeneration within the Snow Vision Accelerator, a $50M initiative tackling glaucoma and optic nerve disease. iPSCs, electrophysiology, drug discovery, and gene therapy.
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Chiara Fornetto
5 months ago
Excited to share our paper now published in Cell! 'Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background' Huge thanks to
@neurofishh.bsky.social
&
@teuler.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social
@cp-cell.bsky.social
👇🏻
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background
Vertebrate eyes first evolved in water, where spectral content rapidly fades with distance. Zebrafish exploit this loss by antagonizing cone signals to suppress the background, pointing to distance es...
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01138-9
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Run-roh! Dr. Karina Bistrong’s last day in the lab. It was celebrated Scooby-Doo style 🐾🔍 She’s off to NYU for a postdoc with the exciting new lab run by @
[email protected]
— onward to solving the mysteries of motor systems!
5 months ago
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Piali Sengupta
6 months ago
Neuroscientists say No Kings
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Appreciating the art with fellow
@annualreviews.bsky.social
for vision science board members Roland Fleming and
@shinyanishida.bsky.social
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6 months ago
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AMAZING!! 🎉👏👁️🧠🤓
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Annual Reviews
6 months ago
The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Vision Science is now online. The most read article so far is "Behavior-Specific Computations in the Vertebrate Retina"
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@annaintegrated.bsky.social
@katrinfranke.bsky.social
TOC:
arevie.ws/3Wklava
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Erik Van Dis
6 months ago
Timely piece on the importance and safety of “gain-of-function” research, from my brilliant PhD advisor Sarah Stanley
www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...
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The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all
Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/gain-of-function-research-tuberculosis-expert-nih/
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a must read for anyone interested visual cortex plasticity - a fresh look at some textbook models and a fun read. congratulations to the authors!
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6 months ago
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Representing
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
#Neuroscience
chair
@danfeldman.bsky.social
and
@standupforscience.bsky.social
at annual
#BT5k
fundraiser for brain tumor research. GO BEARS!
7 months ago
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If you are a PhD student planning to graduate in Spring 2026, think about applying for a
miller.berkeley.edu/fellowship
. And if you are interested in development/neural circuits, I am happy to sponsor your nomination! email me....
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Miller Fellowship
UC Berkeley Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
https://miller.berkeley.edu/fellowship
7 months ago
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Come join our new Department of Neuroscience
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
as an Assistant Professor!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041
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Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041
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