How does cell end developmental biology inform our understanding of evolution? Join us for an afternoon of discussion about #cells, #development, #plasticity and #evolution. Zoomlink Sep 25th: lu-se.zoom.us/j/62473328732 Zoomlink Sep 26th: lu-se.zoom.us/j/67411449026 #EvoDevo @biologylu.bsky.social

Selection Shapes Animal Minds: More completely free videos of talks from our Royal Society Discussion meeting last year. Today's highlighted talk: Dr Zegni Triki (Neuchatel) @zegnitriki.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social youtu.be/WQLjnfhSyD4?...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Now... THAT is funny 😇

Two weeks are left to apply for a 5 year Postdoc position in #neuroscience, #behavior, #neuroethology in collaboration with @puh23.bsky.social from Flinders University. 🇦🇺🇩🇪🐝 👀

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Our paper on central complex evolution in Heliconiini butterflies is now available as reviewed preprint at @elife.bsky.social 🎉🎉. Please check out the helpful and constructive reviews which we are going to address in the next weeks 🤗 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... @ebablab.bsky.social

Our latest manuscript is out, and this one tackles the problem of cellular aging in the retina, using comparative multiomic analysis of zebrafish, mouse, and humans. What led us to work on aging after studying development and regeneration? Explainer follows./1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

👁️The retina — strikingly conserved across vertebrates, but an oddity among bilaterians! So how did it evolve? With @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social, we argue that retinal complexity may 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

Traplining-behavior requires extensive spatial memory which is linked to Mushroom Body expansion in the brain of Heliconius 🦋. @maxfarnworth.bsky.social from @ebablab.bsky.social lab talks about the neural lineages that may underly this anatomical expansion. #dzg2025

great talk and results by a bachelor student 🤯👏🏻

🤩 It's always a pleasure to present our #ant #research 🧪🐜🧭☀️, especially to such a nice audience 🧠💖 @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social ✨️New level of proudness: @chiaratenne.bsky.social presents parts of her project in her very 1st conference talk @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social🥳 Brilli🐜 presentation🤩 #ProudPi

Yesterday we also had two fantastic invited speakers, representing also the wide diversity of approaches and model system that the section of neurobiology covers. @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social @neuroethology.org

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@silkesachse.bsky.social ’s plenary talk @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social on the neural basis of insect olfaction. 👀👀 👏🏻 also another neuro talk. Just sayin’ 💅 @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨ We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/

Very well deserved recipient of this DZG award - congrats! 🙂

We had a fantastic contributed talk and invited talk session today at @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social for the section Neurobiology. Disclaimer: I didn't manage to take pictures of all of our fabulous speakers which only reflects my personal failure more than anything else 🫠

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Maria Antonietta Tosches on Cajal-Retzius cells and the evolution of homologous cell types in the Evolution of Brain Cell Types seminar.

Yesterdays icebreaker @mfnberlin.bsky.social @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social

New review on how changes in cell type composition in and outside the brain contribute to the evolution of behavior. 🧪 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lihM,LqAZ...

Application is open! Come join us and our fantastic line-up of speakers next year in March in Bonn!

We're going to see a lot of bullshit in the coming days and weeks about "causes of autism", and most will be based on flawed, over-interpreted observational studies (1/n)

🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬 Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

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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.

Thanks to Katie Pickup (@katiepickup.bsky.social) for chatting with me about my scientific journey and what’s next in the future! If you’re curious about what I do, where I’m heading, and why I used to sleep with a chicken, check out my interview with Development (@dev-journal.bsky.social) below! 🧬

@pinpilinpauxa-aaa.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social

I am thrilled to announce that I just opened my lab at New York University in @nyucns.bsky.social and Biology! Our work will explore the richness of animal behavior, dissecting the genetic and circuit mechanisms that shape its evolution.

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The rig for conducting intracellular recordings from the 🐝🧠 is getting in shape. If you are interested using it here in Würzburg 🇩🇪 contact me. We have an open PhD position expected to be filled until spring 2026. www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio... #neurethology

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these look like really cool positions!

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Toshimichi Yamada In this interview, Toshimichi Yamada talks about why he decided to apply to the Pathway to Independence programme, and what research directions he hopes to pursue with his own lab. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

1 WEEK to go for DZG 2025 in Berlin 😱😍 See you soon! @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social @dzg-sysbiodiv.bsky.social

This is a great opportunity to learn all about genomics!!!!!

Need time to think in an inspiring environment? A new institute for advanced study (#vicas) is emerging @univienna. SENIOR- and EARLY-CAREER FELLOWSHIPS are available here: https://vicas.univie.ac.at Deadline is Sep 1. There is still enough time to apply!

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

Very exciting to have Richard Benton @bentonlab.bsky.social today at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch to talk about the brain, sensations, and their evolution 🧪

Are you Neuroscientist (Electrophysiologist) interested in how insect brains encode space? Are you on the job market and looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) in Germany? Then this position might be a good match. Application deadline: 1st of October. 🐝🧭🗺. More infos: www.spatial-navigation.com

Let them conquer us! Imagine the bike infrastructure and work/life balance…

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Max Farnworth In this interview, @maxfarnworth.bsky.social talks about about why he decided to apply to the Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, and what research questions he hopes to address with his own lab. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

If you happen (…!) to be interested in what fascinates me about science and brain evolution and what I am up to, click here: doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Thanks to @dev-journal.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social for the interview 🙏

Fortunately I am one of those eight! The other seven are great! ☺️ and shout-out to @biologists.bsky.social , @dev-journal.bsky.social and @amjeve.bsky.social : you are all doing a fab job!

Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns? To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠 #preprint thread ⬇️1/8

Exciting new Ruta lab preprint by @annaryba.bsky.social et al. on the neural underpinnings of intraspecific behavioral variation: Strain variation identifies a neural substrate for behavioral evolution Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

You want to apply #ATACseq in your emerging model organism, but you don't know where to start? Is #ATACseq the best method for my research questions? Search no more! We got you covered with our new review: doi.org/10.1002/jez.... Excellent collaboration with @gevol.bsky.social

@borreroja.bsky.social shows how ecological divergence & post-eclosion brain dev shape visual performance in Heliconius butterflies. Speciation often related to transitions closed /open forest #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Anzy Miller Here, @anzymiller.bsky.social talks about about her research interests at the intersection of developmental biology and modelling, as well as her advocacy for inclusivity and sustainability in science. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...