Very glad to announce that my first postdoc study in @beckergroup.bsky.social has been officially published in @plosbiology.org If you ever wondered how microglia control the production of new neurons and simultaneously promote spinal cord repair, this is your paper. Microglia rule! 🤟🐟

Whole-body Single-cell Spatial transcriptomic atlas of adult Danionella ~1 cm long scRNAseq MERFISH (500-gene) HCR Endothelial cell podxl+ (Fig S8) Vascular vs Visceral mural cell (Fig S10) Peter Reddien lab bioRxiv 2026 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Nature research paper: Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks go.nature.com/4eBe8fV

Incredibly proud of this paper led by @ossamaghenissa.bsky.social and @mathiasgua.bsky.social titled Basolateral 'Amygdala Astrocytes Encode Anxiety States'. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... 🧵 below

Special congrats to @hlemmik.bsky.social, @thezgs.bsky.social, @nathaliejuya.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social, @jrmarmor.bsky.social, @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social, @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social, @ehannezo.bsky.social, @mvargam.eurosky.social, & @fabianlab.bsky.social among others! 🎉 #YouRock

Wild, wild news: my dream postdoc project on astrocyte computation in Danionella just got HFSP funding. Joining Volker Bormuth’s group at the Sorbonne soon and can’t wait to do some serious microscopy and coding. Stay tuned! #HFSP #danionella #astrocytes #HFSPAwardees

Adaptive evolution of gene regulatory networks in mammalian neocortex www.nature.com/articles/s41... - very interesting work from Nenad Sestan and colleagues...

🧪🦣 Extremely interesting - Southern Doggerland appears to have had a microclimate w/ significant warm-species refugium, inc deciduous trees & boar, existing as early as 16 Ka. Big implications here for #Neanderthals too, if similar conditions existed in earlier cycles. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited so share our newest study using a single-library HiFi-CiFi approach to generate chromosome-scale diploid assemblies of two vole genomes, identifying putative drivers of divergent pair-bonding behavior, namely a prairie-vole-specific duplication of Avpr1a gene, led by @mabuelanin.bsky.social

Tiny, transparent, and now charted! Our brain atlas of adult Danionella cerebrum includes >200 annotated regions, 29 whole-brain in situs, and male/female reference volumes – openly available, versioned and extendable. Work by @nkadobyansky.bsky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ever failed to replicate a widely accepted knockout mouse phenotype? You're not alone. I can finally share our surprising null and negative findings on the complement system receptor C3aR1 in the brain: doi.org/10.1093/brai... #nullresults #negativeresults #mri #behavior #C3aR1 #complement

A new high-coverage #Denisovan genome, chock-full of fascinating new information. Must-read study by @stephanepeyregne.bsky.social @janetk.bsky.social and colleagues On @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: 🧪🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Repeated failures of editorial oversight and likely absence of peer review at Scientific reports. As @deevybee.bsky.social says, a journal's name means nothing unless you can see the reviews. But SciREP retains its impact factor, for "validating" scientific articles.

In a short story, one my favourite authors Julio Cortázar imagined the world collapsing under viscous paper goo from the all the books & papers we churn out. Not far from today’s academia… Words and words read by absolutely no one, not even the authors. telegrafi.com/en/the-end-o...

🌟 A Moment to Remember! 📸 Here’s the group photo featuring the instructors from the 2nd block, the students, and today's speakers of our #CajalCourse: on "Movement & Motor Control in Health and Disease" 🧠💡 @clairewyart.bsky.social @olekiehn.bsky.social

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.

Following the news that eLife will not receive an Impact Factor in 2025, we’ve shared an update on how our model is doing since we were first placed “on hold” by Web of Science, and what we’re up to now. Find out more. https://buff.ly/3ATRAFT

Surprisingly, I find myself really enjoying the thesis writing process. What luck to be able to split my time only between thinking and writing, and perhaps finding some beautiful libraries. I only hope to remember this sentiment as vividly during the inevitable existential crises.. #PhDSky

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