Two more weeks before the deadline to recruit a 3-year Postdoctoral position in Systems Neuroscience - Bioinformatics applied to Brain Evo-Devo. Please RT and/or apply at: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

📣 PhD Opportunity in Mathematical Modelling at The University of Queensland

This finding could lead to treatments for neurological diseases https://go.nature.com/4c4zHCv

Elisabeth Vrba has died. May her memory be a blessing. Here’s an obituary by @nilese.bsky.social. 🌱🐋🧪🗃️🧠🦫🦋 #EvoBio #HistSTM

Interested in complex systems, brain evo-devo, and/or computational approaches to big questions in neuroscience? Check out new opportunities in our lab! 🧠🧬💻🦘🔬🏝️🏄‍♀️😍 Further details and deadlines will be announced soon! #PhD #Postdoc #NeuroJobs

The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations 🧠🤖 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature Neuroscience Developmentally distinct architectures in top–down pathways controlling threat avoidance www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Genes are... the easy part" @philipcball.bsky.social argues biologists need to embrace complexity from the start, rather than beginning with oversimplified "one gene, one trait" models +1 www.cell.com/cell-systems...

It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

Do you have an idea for our 2027 #BiologistsWorkshops programme? We cover all costs so you can simply focus on the science. We're now accepting proposals - send us yours by 30 May 2025. bit.ly/4hVT3M0

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb. https://go.nature.com/41a7Zzj

"Can a book be ahead of its time by 50 years?! The answer is a definitive ‘yes’ in the case of this phenomenal book by Francisco Varela. A real gem of a book about the philosophical foundations of biology and so much more." - Luiz Pessoa @pessoabrain.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...

Behind the scenes there has been a lot of work to get the electrophysiology rigs unpacked, built, and tested for our 12 students. From many boxes to 6 fully equipped patch clamp rigs!

A new Science study in mice identifies cross-talk between muscle and the reproductive system and raises questions about interventions to increase muscle mass that might affect fertility. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective:

"...we show topological representations of individual visceral organs in the major abdominal sympathetic ganglion complex... one class of neurons regulates gastrointestinal transit, and another class of neurons controls digestion and glucagon secretion" @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Another unknown is whether NIH researchers will still be allowed to submit papers to peer-reviewed journals.” This is insanity, and could have major impact on entire fields of research worldwide (we all collaborate with one another)

p38 MAPK-MK2 inhibitors (e.g. losmapimod) show new promises in treating Alzheimer's disease. Today @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

A lot of people who don’t “believe “ in climate change are about to find out that their insurance company does.

Love this. And as a consequence aussies are some of the world's most hardcore commuters... Source www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

Disappointing new study showing - once again - that women are leaving research careers at far higher levels than men If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️ #WomeninSTEM 👩‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature Sleep microstructure organizes memory replay www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A beautiful video of the Blue Brain Project's improved CCFv3 annotation and Nissl atlas of the entire mouse brain building upon the @alleninstitute.bsky.social atlas. Recommend watching end-to-end. Great work by Sébastien Piluso @cyrillefavreau.bsky.social and others www.youtube.com/watch?v=upul...

A study in Nature Human Behaviour shows that large language models—especially BrainGPT, an LLM the authors tuned on the neuroscience literature—outperform experts in predicting neuroscience results and could assist scientists in making future discoveries. https://go.nature.com/3OBWeLV 🧪

Journal of Neuroscience Symmetry in Frontal But Not Motor and Somatosensory Cortical Projections www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...

Single cells can learn without a brain, but how? Our new preprint from @deeparajan.bsky.social describes a model for habituation in Stentor coeruleus, based on receptor internalization and recycling, along with new experiments inspired by the model. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Science Whole-brain spatial transcriptional analysis at cellular resolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Neuron Direct Fit to Nature: An Evolutionary Perspective on Biological and Artificial Neural Networks www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Please check the KI press release about our recent story. In it, we found that LXR can unlink the processes of regeneration and tumorigenesis. We provided a safe alternative to immunosuppressive drugs to treat IBD and a potential treatment for colorectal cancer. news.ki.se/first-molecu...

For all the Developmental Neuroscientists ... So excited to see our review out in NatRevNeursoci @natureportfolio.bsky.social (w/ Michelle Wu, lead by C. Portera-Cailliau) "Network state transitions during cortical development" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Calling undergrad neuroscience educators! 🍎🧬 We're now accepting application for a 4-day workshop (July 21-24, 2025) on developing inquiry-based activities using our open #neuroscience data. 🧳 Travel to Seattle, meals, and $1000 stipend included! Apply by Feb. 3: alleninstitute.org/events/neuro...

Biophysical network modeling of temporal and stereotyped sequence propagation of neural activity in the premotor nucleus HVC https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.13.623378v1

Time is running out, but with more people added to Bluesky, please contact me if you are interested in applying for a MSc or PhD with us on sensory systems of living and extinct birds. CT scanning and access to the world's biggest bird brain collection! #ornithology #neuroskyence

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for the Cortical Development Conference 2025 Neural Stem Cells to Neural Circuits Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy Date: 25 May to 28 May 2025 Organizers: G Fishell, AR Kriegstein, Z Molnár and F Vaccarino corticaldevelopment.wordpress.com/registration/