Our #AFOSR MURI program review is starting. Led by @simonsponberg.bsky.social

Open faculty position in Neuroendocrinology at St. Olaf, an amazing liberal arts college in Minnesota! www.higheredjobs.com/institution/...

Thrilled to announce our lab just received an NIAID DP2 New Innovator Award!! 🎉 We’re looking for discovery-hungry postdocs + grad students who want to dig into sensory mechanisms of mosquito blood feeding. 🩸🦟🧬🧪 Join our swarm! 👉 sites.uw.edu/wlaursen/

Folks, see a fantastic opportunity to work in an amazing lab!

A wonderful article by Omnia Saed partly based on our work on atmospheric pollutants (funded by @kavlifoundation.org, @angiemicha.bsky.social, and NSF) atmos.earth/science-and-...

RFK Jr. has been methodically dismantling our public health system, pushing out scientists & experts who refuse to put his cuckoo-bananas nonsense over decades of hard, scientific evidence. Today, while discussing how WA state is stepping up, I reiterated that he must be FIRED.

Very excited about our new preprint, led by @gkafetzis.bsky.social /w @mikebok.bsky.social & @denilsson.bsky.social. We suggest that the vertebrate 'duplex' retina emerged from interconnecting two ancient median-eye microcircuits. Say goodbye to the 'simplex' retina - it probably never existed!

Come to the MBL in Woods Hole @mblscience.bsky.social for a GRASS FELLOWSHIP @grassfoundation.bsky.social 🦑 🐙🐛 There are two application deadlines this year: Oct 15, 2025 (submit by then to receive feedback on your application!), and Dec 1, 2025 (final deadline). grassfoundation.org/application-...

🌟Looking for a PhD? 🌟 check out this exciting opportunity in integrative biology with an amazing PI! 👇🏽👇🏽

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

I still can't believe that my ERC starting grant proposal, #BeeSpace got accepted by the @erc.europa.eu. For the next 5 years, we have funding to study place coding in the insect 🐝 brain. Exciting times are ahead. Without the great support of my former PIs this wouldn't have been possible.

Happy to announce that @ajblake05.bsky.social’s JEB paper was selected as this month’s Editors Choice article. This article discovered that mosquito color/wavelength preferences shift depending on the odor they experience.

🚨 Hiring! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in computational fluid dynamics and structural simulations to investigate biomechanics and mechanosensory feedback in insect flight. Extreme agility ✔️ Morphological computing ✔️ Meshes! ✔️ jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

It's time for #InverteFest, BRING OUT YOUR BUGS! Go find bugs, draw bugs, have a seance with bugs but most importantly share bugs (all inverts). We'll have a special announcement soon as well. Plus, we've got this poster in multiple languages on our website! www.metrofieldguide.com/invertefest/

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

Amaia Alcade Anton talk on expanded mushroom bodies in Heliconius butterflies @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #ESEB2025 SYMPOSIUM 17.2

Francesco Cicconardi talk on single cell transcriptomes of Heliconiini butterfly brains @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #ESEB2025 SYMPOSIUM 17.2

A third search at UC Berkeley this year is an open rank position in Climate Equity and Environmental Justice. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842

We're hiring for a second position in my department this year! Assistant Professor in Environmental Geochemistry. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05078

Impeach, Remove, Make your voice heard. Sign our petition here: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...

Join us (and @sfn.org) this Wednesday for a webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field. Learn more: bit.ly/3HeL1kv #KavliNeuro #neurosky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social

🤩 The Washington Research Foundation has awarded a $275,000 technology commercialization grant to Dr. Nino Ramirez of @seattlechildrens.org to enable the development of a treatment that could halt the progression of schizophrenia. Congratulations Dr. Ramirez! bit.ly/4mLUfE0

More new science from the lab! Led by @nathancsharris.bsky.social (now at GA State) and PD Priya Dutta. We describe how experience tunes the ratios of functional receptors in a single sensory neuron via coordinating transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms to drive response plasticity.

Thank you @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @martajhill.bsky.social for highlighting our work!

New preprint from the very talented Bob Pellegrino! 🧪

📢 Fresh off the press! Our article on Arc is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... 🧶 Full thread on our discoveries here: bsky.app/profile/thec...

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...

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New paper from our lab! This was such a fun project to be a part of - proof that sometimes following a spurious observations down the rabbit hole leads to awesome findings. www.cell.com/current-biol...

🚨New research paper 🧪📄 out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social by @ajblake05.bsky.social and @riffelllab.bsky.social on "Spectral preferences of mosquitos are altered by odors" 🦟🟢 ↘️ doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... ↙️ This article is ✨️highlighted✨️ ↘️ doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... #InsectVision #Olfaction #SensoryIntegration

Our new paper is now out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social!!! We had all sorts of fun generating LED stimuli for mosquitos to investigate their visual preferences in the presence of different odors. The paper is open access and available here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

We all have our favourite colours, but Adam Blake & Jeff Riffell have discovered that mosquitos can change their favourite colour, preferring to land on green when they smell flowers or dirty pond water, but love every colour when they smell dirty socks journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Pleased this paper led by Teru Matsunaga at University of Tokyo (former postdoc) and in collaboration with many colleagues is out @official-smbe.bsky.social Molecular Biology & Evolution: doi.org/10.1093/molb.... Palp-expressed Or42a is an isothiocyanate sensor and can drive aversion to ITCs…

@scottjuntti.bsky.social @hokuba.bsky.social @joewynnbirds.bsky.social @junishigohoka.bsky.social @juleneumann.bsky.social @riffelllab.bsky.social @olfactlady.bsky.social @wolfgangstein.bsky.social

Special thanks to this year's organizer of the Neuroethology GRC, Julie Simpson & @genmig.bsky.social. We had a fantastic week of great science, met colleagues or started collaborations. We are looking forward to the next GRC in 2 years. 2027 Co-Vice chairs: Jessica Fox & @scottjuntti.bsky.social

I am looking for a Postdoc and a PhD student who want to study the neuronal mechanisms of the bee's waggle dance. 🐝 More details can be found on our webpage: www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...

😭 Sad to miss the #GRC #neuroethology conference co-organised by Miriam Liedvogel @genmig.bsky.social from our @sfb1372.bsky.social, 😊 but very happy that our #research on #magnetoreception in #ants 🧪🐜🧠🧭🌞 is presented by my dear friend and co-antpert Robin Grob to the @neuroethology.org community 😊👍

Seattle friends: In a few days, Kevin Gross and I will be having talking about how science works and the importance of teaching science as a social process. The best part: It'll be at Burke Gilman brewing, and we won't be speaking all that long. So you can have beer—and talk back!

Grateful to @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @callimcflurry.bsky.social for highlighting my work at @kavlifoundation.org building a new subfield in neuroscience 🌍🧠

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...

National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...

Shell-Shocked Soldier Ant Has Thousand-Inch Stare

Trump's NIH Director couldn't tell me how many clinical trials had been impacted by grants he’s frozen, terminated, or delayed. So I told him—he cancelled clinical trials to: -Develop an HIV vaccine, -Treat type II diabetes -Help cure recurrent ovarian cancer. This is what's happening RIGHT NOW.

Bummer… www.sfgate.com/entertainmen...

What the hell is a Malign Foreign Talent Recruitment Program?

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

A public talk by me 30 June in Seattle: "Whales fear orcas, changing their songs, migration and growth"

A very nice article about our research on the octopus visual system, by @callimcflurry.bsky.social @thetransmitter.bsky.social