First-ever atlas of brain development shows how stem cells turn into neurons There are 6 excellent human brain development papers in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/d41... Check them out!

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

🧵1/14 Preprint thread! Can we predict a cell’s fate based on its dynamics? 🔮 Our new study unveils a framework for watching development unfold in real-time, revealing how a cell's shape and movement encode info about its future fate. 🔬📄 Preprint: tinyurl.com/4shf8v4x

Microglia-astrocyte crosstalk regulates synapse remodeling via Wnt signaling @cellcellpress.bsky.social @travisfaust.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

My book, An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design, is published! I’d really appreciate it if you could help spread the word, and I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback. I hope people will find it useful. It’s available on Amazon: tinyurl.com/mx2hewen

New preprint by @labnowakowski.bsky.social & colleagues: Sex differences in the developing human cortex intersect with genetic risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, identifying “two points of vulnerability contributing to the sex-biased penetrance in neurodevelopmental disorders” 🧪🧠🧬

New from the lab: Fatty Acid Metabolism Sets the Species-specific Tempo of Cortical Development through Protein Acetylation Dynamics. Led by amazing trio: @ryo2iwata.bsky.social , Isabel Gallego, @emirerkol.bsky.social, together with @steinaerts.bsky.social , @fendtlab.bsky.social

Calling all Neuroscience postdocs! 🧠 Share your research through SPiNES (Seminars from Postdocs in Neuroscience: Extramural Series) from the NYUGSoM Department of Neuroscience. Applications close 08/20/25. Apply today! 👉 nyumc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #Neuroscience #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity

How does the brain 🧠 change around the clock 🕰️? Can this inform treatments? Learn more in a new review from the lab 'Harnessing the #circadian nature of the choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid' ➡️ npj Biological Timing & Sleep | #Nature @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Thrilled to share our latest study out in @natureportfolio.nature.com led by the fantastically talented Jing Liu. Our study provides insight into a long standing question in biology: What molecular features make us uniquely human and how do these function? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

Introducing CellBouncer, a unified demultiplexing toolkit built by nkschaefer.bsky.social to check IDs and keep the riff raff out of single cell genomics datasets, including by using genetic variation as an external ground-truth for ambient RNA removal: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our collaborative project with Matthias Stadtfeld and Jason Mezey labs has now been published. We examined how genetic variation impacts regulation of DNA methylation at the control regions of imprinted genes in naive pluripotent stem cells. www.cell.com/stem-cell-re...

Exciting new study from @bhadurilab.bsky.social on metabolic regulation of human cortical development!

Happy International Women's Day! Science is a team sport and I'm so thankful to be part of such a strong squad of #womeninSTEM @suprajagv.bsky.social @madelineandrews.bsky.social @jennkong.bsky.social @katrinaladams.bsky.social 🧪💪👩‍🔬🦄

The deadline for the following grants is 7 March: - Scientific Meeting Grants - Grants from our Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing - JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants @jcellsci.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social Find out more and apply at: www.biologists.com/grants

Grateful for this funding and the opportunity to work with a phenomenal group of scientists to study a novel hypothesis with patient impact. 🧫🔬🥼👶🏻👧🏾👦🏽 @bhadurilab.bsky.social @zeigerlab.bsky.social stemcell.ucsf.edu/news/scienti...

🚨Job Alert @arcadiascience.com! Are you an independent, generative, rigorous scientist that can pivot quickly? Can you apply your unique skills to a wide range of bio & tech problems? Can you work with other stellar scientists skilled in orthogonal domains? Join us! jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien...

Excited to post my first #skySplain about our recent work published yesterday in Nature Genetics! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... One of the first authors of this study - Annika Vannan – actually wrote this breakdown, but she's not yet over here on bluesky and asked me to post!

Happy to share some good news today, and our latest study on DDX3X! Led by super talented @federicamosti.bsky.social we use live imaging, transcriptomics and interaction studies to define how clinically diverse missense mutations in DDX3X influence neural development. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

The L’Oréal USA For Women in Science program awards women postdoctoral scientists. Candidates must have their PhD, started their postdoctoral research position, and be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Applications due 5:00pm ET on Friday, February 14. www.loreal.com/en/usa/pages...

We enjoyed discussing two interesting new preprints that evaluate instructive roles of metabolism in neurodevelopment. Thanks for the invitation @dev-journal.bsky.social!

Hi #neuroscience community! This is one of my favorite posts ever. In close collaboration with @liddelowsa.bsky.social and Ye Zhang, we've built a new tool that we are eager to share! www.webseq.net

We are now accepting applications for speakers from Native American trainees - if you know of someone who would be a good fit, encourage them to apply! More info in the original thread Apply to be speaker at Full Circle here: forms.gle/dMUtGWvigrNA... PS: We have travel funds available! Plz share!

We're excited to share our comprehensive protocol for generating human cerebellar #organoids, addressing the many requests we've received from the scientific community! Congratulations to Alex Atamian, @marcellabirtele.bsky.social, and Negar Hosseini! rdcu.be/d13Zu @natureportfolio.bsky.social

We are happy to report that our journals and community sites now have Bluesky accounts. Follow them at: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

Do you want to experience Thanksgiving in New York? The Pearson lab is hiring! Research technician and post doc position available

Excited for this great meeting!

A summary thread of our Cell Reports paper published last week. In brief, we found a novel activity for netrin1 in the developing spinal cord: it acts as a boundary, to limit Bmp signaling to the dorsal most spinal cord. 1/9 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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@jenellewallace.bsky.social led a preview of two outstanding papers from the labs of Cecile Charrier, Pierre Vanderhaeghen, and @franckp.bsky.social that connect regulation of the tempo of synaptogenesis by the human-specific gene SRGAP2C to ASD-linked genes: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k3583BtfH...

My lab @ASU is hiring a Research Specialist. Come study brain development with us! jobing.com/job/research...

Are you interested in using stem cell models to study brain development 🧫🧠? My lab at @ASU is recruiting a #postdoc to work on neurodevelopment & disease in an inclusion and collaboration-focused environment 🌞🌵. Interested applicants, please apply here 👇 apply.interfolio.com/136840

The Varadarajan Lab is hiring at all levels (research technicians, grad students, postdocs)! Learn more about us at varadarajanlab.org If you are interested in working with us and are at SfN later this week, email me and let's meet at #SfN23 .

UC Berkeley is looking for Assistant Professor in Statistics, Data Science, Computational or Theoretical Neurosciences Base salary range: $74,600–$97,200 Deadline to apply Nov. 15, 2023 #neurojobs #neuroscience |🧪|🧠💻|🧠📈 #academicsky #statsky aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04142

Job Alert! University of Oregon, Department of Human Physiology is searching for an Assistant Professor, with a focus in Neuroscience. All areas of neuroscience-related research are welcome, including research using model organisms or humans. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25319

Open rank faculty position in Microbiome & Neurodegeneration is now open at ASU. Come join our collaborative, interdisciplinary research community! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37531324...

Our new study is out! We identified that human cortical stems, called outer radial glia, are regulated by LIF signaling that (surprisingly!) promotes their development into inhibitory interneurons. www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...