A systematic analysis of claudin-like cell adhesion molecule expression in #Celegans nervous system identifies CLC-3 as a neuronally expressed claudin that regulates motor system output. 🪱 Learn more about this work from @kavita-babu.bsky.social lab in #GENETICS: 🔗 buff.ly/30wGQVN

The International C. elegans meeting #worm27 is coming to Asia for the first time. Do consider joining us!

The International C. elegans meeting #worm27 is going to Kobe, Japan in 2027! genetics-gsa.org/celegans/ Organizers: Erik Andersen @erikandersen.bsky.social, Johns Hopkins University Kavita Babu @kavita-babu.bsky.social, IISc Bangalore Suhong Xu, Zhejiang University @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

So great to see @usbumer1's cool story out at @commsbio.nature.com! Funding thanks DBT and India Alliance. Umer et al have found a role for the neuropeptide FLP-15 in worm foraging. Thanks to all authors and our collaborators @monikakscholz.bsky.social lab. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Explaining science to a general audience, without equations, detailed methods, or specialized jargon, demands a different kind of clarity. Thanks, RFCSR, for inviting me to contribute my opinion article rfcsr.org/wp-content/u... Thanks @kavita-babu.bsky.social for constant support & encouragement.

Thank you @biopatrika.bsky.social for spotlighting Navneet's work.

Thank you Indian IISc and Souptika Das for highlighting this work. All credit to Navneet for leading this work with Nisha, Sharveri, Dimple and collaborators' Egemen and Askin. Funding thanks: DBT/WT India Alliance, ANRF and DBT. #CNSIISc iisc.ac.in/events/wormi...

Very cool work by Navneet on collective behaviour in worms now out in @pnas.org. Congratulations to all the authors Nisha, Sharveri, Dimple and collaborators Sarıtekin and Aşkın Kocabaş. We show that calsyntenin mutants in C. elegans show a collective swarming behaviour. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New study in The Lancet confirms Rabishield, developed by UMass Chan in partnership with the Serum Institute of India, is a safe, effective alternative to older rabies treatments: direc.to/nLSh In India, two people die of rabies every hour. #rabies @thelancet.com @umassmedicine.bsky.social

Cool story by Atal et al from Abhishek's lab at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social. Do have a read. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This was also an exciting paper for us because we got to pre-review it even before submission with q.e.d’s AI qedscience.com. really helpful and improved a lot!

Thank you! It makes me want to pull my hair out too :)

The results are in! We're excited to announce the awardees of the IBRO/SfN Travel Grants to attend #SfN25, who will present their work on a global stage & engage with the international neuroscience community 👏 Find out who they are: ibro.org/ibro-sfn-tra... @sfn.org #neuroscience #conference

IBRO Parenthood Grants cover various costs for early-career #neuroscientists, helping them stay active in their career while balancing the new parent life 👨🍼 Discover what's covered & apply by 15 Aug👇 buff.ly/k0Fx2ah #IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope

Neuromodulation of Swarming Behavior in C. elegans: Insights into the Conserved role of Calsyntenins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.06.663344v1

🚨Looking for #grant opportunities in #neuroscience? Here are all the current open calls at IBRO. Don't wait too long to apply - the deadlines are approaching! buff.ly/17r6uS3 #IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope

FLP-15 functions through the GPCR NPR-3 to regulate local and global search behaviours in Caenorhabditis elegans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651881v1

Make #IBRO2027 a dynamic & inclusive global gathering by proposing candidates to join the Scientific Program Committee! Learn more & help us shape an innovative, inclusive & high-impact program: ibro.org/ibro-2027-wo... Deadline: 16 May 2025 #conference #neuroscience @thebalelab.bsky.social

Ageing speeds up at high altitudes, unless you’re native Tibetan. Their DNA methylation patterns adapt immune function and oxygen use to extreme conditions. A beautiful example of epigenetic resilience.

Love worms, molecular genetics, and big questions? 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!

Yet another horrible, wasteful decision…

#NewComicAlert! We are back with another inspiring comic with Tinkle Magazine featuring cognitive and behavioural neuroscientist Dr Abhilasha Joshi! 🧠 🐀 Happy reading! Download your free copy here: bit.ly/ncbsxtinklec... @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social #sciencecomics #womenscientists

1/11 Though it's personal, I’m sharing this analogy if it helps others: In the last few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about my past journey with cancer. Years ago, I found out in the worst way. My doctor accidentally released the biopsy results to my online patient portal. 🧵 Thread

🎉 bioRxiv & medRxiv are now managed by openRxiv, a new independent nonprofit. This transition allows for more flexibility and innovation. Our mission remains being a free service to authors ensuring rapid sharing of scientific information before peer review. ℹ️ openrxiv.org/introducing-...

Recent Trends in Biotechnology 2025 | St Joseph's University, Bengaluru| sju.edu.in/TiBT

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

Friends! The science that we love is under threat. World-wide, there're forces seeking to make it corporate-like, focused on deliverables, or even the enemy of society. Take a stand & celebrate science & music! #theconferencetoendallconferences - Registration starts NOW! woodstock.img.cas.cz

Registration is now open for the event of the summer! Take a stand for the science that we know & love and join us for this once in a lifetime meeting, with amazing science, fun and a ton of surprises! Only 226 spots left! woodstock.img.cas.cz #TheConferenceToEndAllConferences

We're hiring! The Development & Stem Cells department at @igbmc.bsky.social, Strasbourg 🇫🇷 is recruiting a group leader working in cell & developmental biology. Our Integrated Structural Biology department also has an open call. More details below! + contact me for informal enquiries #sciencejobs

Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our lab has a handful of manuscripts that will be preprinted over the next couple of months. This pinned/embedded thread will get them on here when available on bioRxiv. 1/n

As the world of science wakes up to modern fascism, it's worth remembering older generations who stood up for humanity in much harsher circumstances. Jacques Monod worked actively for the resistance in WWII, while pursuing early stages of his research in occupied Paris. @standupforscifr.bsky.social

I think people both within science and outside science don’t fully appreciate the miracle that were the Covid-19 vaccines. How much courage it took to get the sequence out, how much work had already gone into figuring out the best viral antigen and how best to present it. 1/

ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.

For these uncertain times, we all need support of our communities more than ever. An updated list of 180+ researchers for the #Celegans community is here: C. elegans #1 (150 full) - go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW C. elegans #2 (30+) - go.bsky.app/J7soTHG #CeleganSky 🧪 1/n cc: @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Worm people: we have ~60 people signed up to be mentors for this year's C. elegans Mentor Match program. If you are thinking about it, please sign up now! Please repost to spread the word! 1/n

🧪The Genetics Society of America "our commitment to inclusivity is unwavering and we will continue to advocate for scientific research and the advancement of the field." @genetics-gsa.bsky.social genestogenomes.org/letter-from-...

🧪Very proud of our latest publication at @elife.bsky.social, brought to you by #NIH funding! This collaboration with Chris Rongo's lab covers a lot of ground, focusing on the transcriptional response to BMP/Smad signaling. 1/n doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Worm friends: Join the C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program! Become a mentor and pay it forward by sharing your wisdom with people at earlier stages of their career. Click on the link to sign up (we will be signing up mentees and peer-mentoring groups soon). Please repost and spread the word!

This is so important for understanding why research in model organisms is so powerful. Trained bioscientists find it easy to believe that many results relevant to cancer were discovered in yeast. By laypeople, particularly if they are skeptical for other reasons, think we are stupid or nuts. /fin

Let’s stop treating "leaving academia" as negative. Scientists train for academia, industry, or what suits them. Industry isn’t an alternative; it’s a choice. In fields like engineering, most PhDs go to industry, and no one calls it "leaving academia." We should train scientists for diverse paths.

📣 Please share: We’re hiring a tenure-track Group Leader in Multicellular Systems to explore the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the formation, maintenance, or destabilization of tissues, organs and organisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

I participated in a faculty panel a few weeks ago in which senior (ahem) faculty gave advice on careers in academia by pretending luck had very little to do with our success. One piece of advice riled me up, in which it was argued that a reason for their success was their ability to say no. 1/

This is going to be really fun to watch…lots of previously undiscovered genes encode tiny uncharacterized proteins www.science.org/content/arti...

I love this.

Hi Bluesky universe! Sharing with you my latest work. This study highlights the importance of the ZP protein Dusky-like in controlling the shape of the fly corneal lens (an apical ECM). A thread 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy Fly Day! November 18th is #Drosophila day. It commemorates the isolation of a white-eyed mutation, which is now used across the world. That mutation is white[1118], with the numbers standing for Nov 18th, the day it was isolated by Bob Levis. 🪰

The irony of this is that it is itself a political statement. The notion that the only role of science is to dispassionately inform does not reflect the current realities. It is under attack, and who else but scientists will defend it? 🧪 #academicsky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Call for submissions for the @heredityjournal.bsky.social special issue on C. elegans genetics and biology. www.nature.com/collections/...