Just peeking out to see how everyone is doing.

I don't know if this is what people meant by turning to industry for support during these difficult funding times but I know #NewEnglandBiolabs has my marker needs sorted. Thanks besties. ❤️

Tuesday.

"Never before in human history has there been a more urgent need to understand living systems & how they interact with each other and the environment" Check out this blog from the 'wild frontiers of model organisms' symposium, inc on the importance of TREC's approach of taking the lab to the field

Hey Australia, we paying any attention?

Hey @natureportfolio.nature.com so we besties now right?

I was interviewed for this article!

Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In vivo reconstruction of Duvernoy's postmortem vasculature images - Fast, high-res imaging: Whole-brain 0.35 mm MRI in <7 min at 7 T - Vessel-type specific podt-processing: Capturing large leptomeningeal, pial, and intracortical meso-veins PDF: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Today I'm delivering an open science lecture for our master students. These kind of lectures are one of the most enjoyable parts of my job

I can’t believe this needs to be said. TransGENIC mice are not TransGENDER mice

What emotions does music express? Through 3 experiments with association tasks & context-based activities with 5000+ participants & 600+ affect terms, we report structures that differ from music-induced emotions such as romantic, in love, free, & festive #musicscience doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Same feels Bernie.

MagLOV! MagLOV is a fluorescent protein you can "turn off" with a handheld magnet, engineered by @mariaingaramo.bsky.social. We think/hope we can use it to turn arbitrary proteins (including drugs!) on and off in opaque creatures (including humans!). bsky.app/profile/addg...

🚨New paper published!🚨 Our findings (@theauditorylab.bsky.social) suggest that auditory input deprivation alone does not affect cognition in middle-age. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #hearing #science #neurosky

You’re telling me this life crisis is mid?

Just a PSA for iced coffee (Aussie for coffee with ice cream) orders this summer: you can order ice cream flavours other than vanilla. People really be out there getting chocolate or coffee ice cream in their iced coffee.

May your holidays be as restful and spoilt as my chihuahua who sleeps twenty hours a day and gets away with stealing whole slices of ham from my plate.

I wish gladwrap worked as well as parafilm.

A useful daily reminder.

Thanks #ans2024 for the early career presenter prize. And big congrats to Kady Braack (also from the @theauditorylab.bsky.social!) for winning best PhD student presentation. Thanks to everyone at the @theauditorylab.bsky.social for helping us prep such well received talks. 😊

Excellent plenary lecture 🧠🧲 at Australasian Neuroscience Society meeting in Perth today by A/Prof Jenny Rodger #ANS2024 #neuroscience #brainstimulation

Excellent talk from PhD student Kady Braack on cochlear implant induced fibrosis. #ANS2024 #neuroscience

This is one of my all-time favorite figures. It shows the size comparison between a retinal bipolar cell and a cortical pyramidal cell in a mouse. Scale bars are great and all but sometimes the sizes just don't compute. Masland. (2012). The Neuronal Organization of the Retina. 🧪 #neuroskyence

Here’s my spreadsheet of starter packs (>80!) related to broadly ‘mechanistic biology’ plus some intriguing extras Complete with collective nouns I’ve been tracking these but now can’t keep up Hope it’s helpful 2/2 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Bless.

Ever seen imaging of a chihuahua knee before? Meet Amos! He's the friendliest chihuahua you'll ever meet. Like many chihuahuas, he's had some bad knee issues. He's a before and after of his patella surgery. And a sneaky photo of him post surgery. #imaging #science 🧪

Can we all just gush over this cover for a moment? #science 🧪

This is Pat the chihuahua. Always willing to share his opinion but hasn't contributed enough to warrant co-authorship. #academia #science 🧪

The thing that made Twitter magic in the early days was it collapsed the social network. You could suddenly talk with people that you would not normally ever be able to converse with. Famous folks. Scientists. Artists. Musicians. Heads of state. A ton of interesting people. Bsky brings that back.

I feel that the auditory research community has either not arrived here yet or is not very well connected. Please let me know who to add to this starter pack and self-nominate. 🧪 go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu

In my job I get to work with a lot of scientists using different equipment for stimulus presentation. Today's personal favourite... "MouseGoggles" VR for mouse #neuroscience and #behaviour youtu.be/YFkAKO795Ro?...

Here is the head of a bearded dragon embryo (~50 days old), imaged with light sheet fluorescence microscopy 🦎🔬 🧪

Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.

I live for the #auditoryworkshop #AANW. It is my favourite conference of such a chill and tight knit community. #ans2024 #auditoryneuroscience

Here a "LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈 in Neurosciences" starter pack. Do not hesitate to share and if you identify yourself within this community raise you hand and you'll be added 😀🏳️‍🌈. Together we're stronger! go.bsky.app/UxfGB3u

"This is fine" Me, 2025. #H5N1, #COVID, and whatever else I must keep looking inside the brain next year.

"Research shows that patients with a history of #cancer are less likely to develop dementia and those with Alzheimer's are less likely to develop cancer. Understanding this relationship, say scientists, could lead to new treatments." 🧪🧠💊 #neuroskyence www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

As always, gorgeous chemogenetic circuit dissections from Takafumi Minamimoto and colleagues. Always setting the bar for this work higher and higher. It’s crazy to see how far the NHP community has come in using chemogenetics in the past 10 years. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Who else has a #sciencetattoo? I got an auditory thalamus neuron tucked behind my ear to commenorate finishing my PhD. #neuroscience #science

First try at #FluorescenceFriday on this platform! Mechanosensory fiber network in duodenal villi! #mechanosensation #neuroscience

As #cats age, their brains show signs of atrophy and cognitive decline that more closely resemble the deterioration seen in ageing humans than do the changes in the brains of ageing mice, according to findings presented last month. 🧪🐱🧠⏳ #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/d41...