Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18

The #ThermoFisher #antibody scandal is an ugly reminder, I think, of how few people (including those at TF, it seems) are trained to properly validate antibodies before use. Some advice on antibody validation in the posting 👇 totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2022/09/18/h...

Doing a linear stretch on these images shows how dramatic the "edits" were, revealing the deception in clear terms. This should be a complete scandal for Thermo Fisher and more people in the biosciences should be talking about it.

Together with Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio, we contributed a review about complex neural processing across phyla - and how this allows adaptions to a dynamic environment. Enjoy reading!

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees. Amazing work by the bees who were put in these puzzling situations by @akshayebhambore.bsky.social in the lab of @olliloukola.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The @biologists.bsky.social @dev-journal.bsky.social 2025 PI fellows had their first peer group meeting post our meet up in Cambridge 🎉🤗. It was great to catch up - having people at a similar career stage to talk to is actually pretty powerful. 💪🏻🫶🏻

In our new TREE paper, with M. Borgerhoff Mulder, S. Brosnan and E. Strauss we show that power in animal societies can be subject to control. When high-powered individuals use aggression to gain better access to resources, other group members can respond with "levelling". doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Over the past year, @biologyopen.bsky.social has expanded its Fast & Fair initiative to accelerate peer review. The results are impressive - take a look at their latest preprint to find out more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Want to build some of the most advanced light-sheet microscopes in the world to watch life assemble itself cell by cell? The Royer Lab @ Biohub is hiring an Optical Engineer (Advanced Light Sheet Microscopy). 🧪🔬💻🔧 #Hardware + #Python + Advanced #Optics job-boards.greenhouse.io/biohub/jobs/...

now that the full version is out, the graphical abstract needed an update... here you go.

Our central complex paper with Yi Peng Toh, Theodora Loupasaki, Basil el Jundi, @eahodge.bsky.social & @ebablab.bsky.social has now emerged, like a butterfly, in it's final form. Some heavy grant-writing induced heterochrony has delayed eclosion, but...finally done. elifesciences.org/articles/107...

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If you’re a sports fan, watch this. You just have to. www.netflix.com/title/81785900

Looking forward!

A small contribution to an important topic, in Nature Reviews Biodiversity. I highlight @howbrainsevolve.bsky.social and Harvey's work in 2000 and illustrate it's pivotal role in our understanding into the principles of brain evolution. Have a read - it's short! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.

Thanks for the snapshot Riverside, really appreciate that snapshot selection 🤡 Just filmed a little piece talking about my research and what advice I'd give to undergraduates looking to get into the field of visual ecology for an upcoming biology textbook from Oxford University Press 🦋🤸‍♂️🌟

Story time friends... Ring attractor networks rely on fine-tuned symmetric connectivity. The fly head direction network has ring attractor dynamics but heterogeneous connectivity. How is this possible? 1/🧵 Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Loh, L. S., DeMarr, K. A., Tsimba, M., Heryanto, C., Berrio, A., Patel, N. H., Martin, A., McMillan, W. O., Wray, G. A., Hanly, J. J. (2025). Lepidopteran scale cells derive from sensory organ precursors through a canonical lineage. Development, 152(5) journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Are you a computational scientist? Within 7 years of your PhD? Come join us at Lund University! We have two new positions as assistant professor! Deadline: 25th of May. The advert is broad, but this is your chance to push computational neuroscience in a fantastic place! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

We've started an effort to bring every 3D (non-human) anatomical atlas that exists into BrainGlobe. Get in touch if there's an atlas we've missed, or you think there's a specific atlas we should prioritise. Read more in our blog: brainglobe.info/blog/the-sys...

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congrats Gregor. Looking forward to reading the paper!

Pollinators matter for human health!🐝 Our new @nature.com paper traces links from wild pollinators>crops>nutrient intake & income of families in rural Nepal—showing how pollinator declines threaten health & livelihoods, but also how farmers can help manage these risks doi.org/10.1038/s415...

We are very pleased to announce Dr Adam Tyson @adamltyson.com of the @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social as winner of the RMS Life Sciences Award. 🙂 🔬 Congratulations Adam! 👏🎖️ Read more about Adam's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/dr-...

Beautiful new preprint from Antonio and Andres on the evolution of eye loss in spiders! Find the full thread below for details on unequal losses across parallel visual systems, possible regains of eyes, 1000s of surveyed species, ecological and developmental clues, and a gratuitous dinosaur emoji 🦕

Rethinking hierarchy: the auditory system as an integrated cortical–subcortical network www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you’re into evolutionary neuroscience, apply. 🤓🤓

This sounds like a great podcast to follow. Especially for rapidly aging people like myself and a few others I have in mind but will not mention here 😬🤓

A century of curiosity and unmatched storytelling that helped us fall in love with the natural world, and reminded us why it’s worth protecting. Thank you for opening our eyes, inspiring generations, and giving nature its voice. Happy Birthday Sir David Attenborough!

Do you have a vision for a Workshop but don’t have the time to arrange the logistics or raise the funding? Submit your idea to us in our annual call for topics. We'll provide all necessary support for successful applications. Deadline to submit your idea is 29 May. www.biologists.com/workshops/pr...

this is the moment where we hope that governments around the world did learn something from the recent past... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Excellent @nature.com study showing that selective expansion of specific long-range motor cortical projection motifs accompanies the expansion of vocal repertoire in singing mice 🧪 👇

Very happy to announce that I will be joining the Faculty of Biology & @cibss.bsky.social at @uni-freiburg.de as an Emmy-Noether funded group leader. We will tackle the molecular and genetic basis of developmental timing and size control using diverse Oryzias species. We are hiring at all levels !

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... really interesting results (and beautiful figures 😍)

Welcome 2026 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows Maëlle Bellec, @iamzico.bsky.social, @evhealy.bsky.social, @josepmercadal.bsky.social, @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social, Jessica Perochon, Yamini Ravichandran & Margherita Zamboni More info journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

Wichtiger 🧵 von @amreibahr.bsky.social zum Thema Finanzen und Wissenschaft, das v.a für Frauen extrem wichtig ist. Ich habe 2021 angefangen, Tagesgeld und ETFs zu besparen und wünschte, ich hätte mich schon früher damit befasst. Fun Fact: mit den Zinsen finanziere ich jetzt z.T. meine Forschung 😂

🧠🐒🐼🐷🐭🐬🦁Last chance to register to the Comparative Brain Meeting, April 27–30 2026, @pasteur.fr and online. MRI, fossils, connectivity, behaviour Register: forms.gle/DekynBhj8YC4... Program: braintrees.github.io/ComparativeB... @k4tj4.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Another session of the London Developmental Neurobiology chalk talk series! Thank you to our funder, @crick.ac.uk - university partners networking fund and the co-organizers @giulia-boezio.bsky.social and Vil Fernandes

Fantastic talk from our 2026 Postdoc ECR Medal Winner @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at #DynamicCellVI explaining her research on the role of 3D epithelial topology in developmental patterning Congratulations Giulia 👏👏

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This is the first of many collaborations to build novel anatomical atlases. We want to expand advanced computational anatomy to new fields. If this sounds interesting, get in touch!

May 29th. If you're in Paris, mark your calendars. Lock your pipettes. TELL YOUR cHAIR. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 🧪🐟

Ania Chrzanowska and @bassemh.bsky.social discuss why it is informative to think about neuronal circuit function from a developmental perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am hiring a postdoc for scRNA-seq research in Lund, Sweden on the visual systems of non-model inverts as part of an ERC project on the evolution and ecology of advanced color and polarization vision. Apply here or share the link with someone who may be interested! 🧪 lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🧪 Who should apply? Researchers across disciplines, from #paleontology to #biology, #physics, #math or #AI. If your work explores #evolution from an #interdisciplinary perspective, we’d love to hear from you! 📣 Abstract submission is open: zurl.co/I6Ovo#paleontology#biology#physics#math#AI#evolution#interdisciplinary#sts#HFSP

Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me: Nature-inspired neuroscience We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨ tinyurl.com/y5y9du27