Day 1 of #HCA2026GM on 16 June includes a lunchtime Civic Science session with @kritvenks.bsky.social exploring the impact of HCA beyond discoveries. From trust and shared infrastructure to capacity-strengthening, how we recognize and value these contributions. buff.ly/8GSh97r 🖥️ 🧬 #Genomics

We are so excited to include these new Fellows-to-Faculty Fellows in the Simons Foundation fold!

calling all neuroscience courses and conferences - request for applications open!

We are accepting applications for funding of courses or conferences in autism research, healthy cognitive aging, and systems and computational #neuroscience. Deadline is 5/22/2025: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science #autismresearch

Thrilled to share 'BuzzWatch', my post-doc work with Felix Hol and @lambrechtslab.bsky.social ➡️Filming mosquitoes in a cage with a €15 camera but for 700h(1month) revealed fascinating insights into their behavior⌛🦟🎥⏳ preprint🔍 doi.org/10.1101/2025... DIY guide 🛠️ theomaire.github.io/buzzwatch 🧵⬇️

Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

AT LAST OUR PEER-REVIEWED PRE-PRINT IS PUBLISHED We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

1/ 🧵 Free resources for scientists 💡 Covering research skills, careers, #SciComm, leadership, activism and more, everything in this thread appears on our Learning Resources page, with tips for researchers and academics at any career stage. #AcademicChatter #ECRChat https://buff.ly/4f8vIpk

2 new studies on brain aging with sex-specific findings —Angiogenesis factors www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... —Loss of gray matter press.psprings.co.uk/jnnp/novembe...

Hoping for some of this this week!

I am somewhat biased towards lantern bugs and often make little trips searching for them. Here's Pyrops pythicus, endemic to Sumatra. How many colours do you see?

Here are some nice mushrooms

Ru-upping this thread from last year since the paper is now out! @chenshuliu.bsky.social identified a Piezo-dependent mechanism that enables C. elegans to sniff out “bad eggs” and target them for destruction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Aging starter pack! go.bsky.app/5UXXaDA

A thread on NIH Reorganization and the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through. 1/n

This is an essential and immensely clarifying piece. You should read anything and everything Dara writes, but this in particular.

A really nice write up of the recent studies looking at how the human brain handles the unique number zero! Featuring some words and work by me and @smfleming.bsky.social, as well as many others. Check it out👇0️⃣🧠 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

In my latest newsletter, I'm excited to announce my 3rd book! THE INFINITE EXTENT. A book about life at different scales--of size, time, geography, longevity, connectivity, individuality, & more. I see it as the conclusion of a trilogy of books. More details: buttondown.email/edyong209/ar...

Happy Halloween 🎃 Here are the pumpkins I carved this year: An active red dwarf star and its gas giant planet. I call it an exo-pumkin. 🧪🔭

I am hoping my 🟦 to be more science-y 😜 but hey, check this preprint out: median base rate for Indian women in STEM is 16.7% 🫢. Thrilled to spot biaswatchindia folks here 💪🏽 👀 Are there any south asian women scientists I'm not following yet? Feel free to say hi! Let's connect! 🧪🔬 #WomenInSTEM

It's time to recruit for the 2024 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program, which is our fourth year! Mentee form: forms.gle/tryM66LaKGM5... Mentor form: forms.gle/ncCcoNxYkJhN... Applications are due December and placements will occur by mid-January! Reach out with any questions!

Your regular reminder that pandemics are social problems, which cannot be solved by the products of biomedical research if the social infrastructure necessary for delivering said products is in fucking tatters.

Absolutely thrilled to share my postdoc work in the Axel lab. We found odor-evoked representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex and showed that mice desire knowledge as its own reward. Now on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Such an interesting story by @jenbussell.bsky.social from the Axel lab: mice want to know more!

Hello world! Looking forward to exploring science, nature, education, and all things weird and wonderful on here.