Missing #EDRC2025, but the lab will be giving three talks: Ibo on the taste and feeding connectome on Friday at 15:00; Silvia on the microbiome and metabolic stress on Saturday at 10:30; and Rita on identifying the structure of metabolism at single-cell resolution in the same session. Enjoy!

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is a disaster if the EU doesn't follow up by doubling the budget 😬🧪

New publication from our lab, in Science Advances: Synaptic targets of circadian clock neurons influence core clock parameters www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy to share our work on uMAIA, a framework for building metabolomic atlases from mass spectrometry imaging. With uMAIA, we mapped the lipidome of zebrafish development, uncovering spatially organized metabolic programs . www.nature.com/articles/s41... #developmentalbiology #MSI #lipidtime

Excited to share work led by my PhD student Hayley McMorrow now published in @jclinical-invest.bsky.social. Hayley showed that GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonists rapidly inhibit AgRP neurons and that endogenous GIP is important for nutrient-mediated AgRP neuron inhibition. doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...

The #FKNE Leadership and Soft Skills Online #Training Course for the Starting PI is open! Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your abilities and learn to tackle challenging moments as an early group leader! Applicat. deadline: 15 Oct. 2025 👉http://rb.gy/6dhmxh fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders...

Today is a good day.

Journalists should know that words matter. Can we please consider replacing “mainstream” with “evidence” whenever appropriate. It has a completely different connotation and in science mainstream is very often due to all evidences pointing in that direction. Especially for vaccines. Thanks!

attention 🪰folks. many of you received a survey from @genetics-gsa.bsky.social about potential future sites of the US Fly meeting. We are excited for #Dros26 Chicago, but future sites are in question, for many logistical reasons. GSA is hard at work planning, but we need to hear from you. please RT!

🚨 #FENS2026 NEW DATES 🚨 First, Formula 1 sent us from Madrid to #Barcelona. Now the Tour de France Grand Départ has us switching gears again—we're updating our dates to 6-10 July 2026! 🗓️ Find out more 👉: https://loom.ly/zMkMKcA#FENS2026#Barcelona. 🔔 Stay tuned!

I had a fantastic time sharing our work at the #ssib2025 @ssibsociety.bsky.social meeting in Oxford. What a fantastic community discussing everything you ever wanted to know about feeding. Made many new friends and I learned a lot. I hope we stay in touch! Thanks for the invitation!

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Brace! showyourstripes.info/c/europe/por...

It was fantastic to hear and discuss the amazing science being done in the #Drosophila neuronal circuits field. Also great to catch up with my mates from the Dickson lab years. As a field we are building the future together. And it is extraordinary! 🙏, Nilay Eugenia Marion and Richard for organizing

Congratulations! The new Advanced Grant winners are great news. But yet again, many scientists - around 260 - with ground-breaking ideas were rated as excellent, but remained unfunded due to a lack of funds at the ERC. Hope that more funding will be available in the future!

Heading to one of my favorite meetings where the #Drosophila neuronal circuits world will come together to discuss science in Crete. We will celebrate the golden age of our field and there is so much more to come. Sad that the stete of the world is stopping some of us joining. Science will prevail.

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature! When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️ The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar bit.ly/3HvWSum

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Nuno Mendes on fire

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On Friday, June 6, we will welcome Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social @champalimaudr.bsky.social as the next speaker in our #BiozentrumDiscoverySeminar series. He will talk on "The Metabolic Mosaic: Illuminating the Interplay of Diet, Microbiome, Brain, and Metabolism"

Great work by @kosakamotohina.bsky.social in @obataf-lab.bsky.social lab, reveals how larval protein intake shapes adult lifespan by dialing down storage-driven translation. Elegant nutritional memory in action! Proud that Hina has now joined our lab as a postdoc. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Shit.

Candid interview with @ardemp.bskyverified.social in the biggest Portuguese newspaper about the real threat science faces in the USA and how this might lead to the demise of its innovation leadership. In Portuguese.

Judge blocks Trump administration’s ban on Harvard accepting international students

Fantastic hosting @ardemp.bskyverified.social to Lisbon in partnership with Razmik Panossian and the Gulbenkian Foundation. His inspiring presence infused @champalimaudf.bsky.social with high energy. The entire institute is still buzzing, eager for his next visit to keep the momentum alive.

Portugal perdeu as eleições.

Look who is back.

Light is back. No Milky Way over Lisbon tonight.

Time to use old school technology.

All good hear despite there being no power in the city. Luckily the emergency protocol seems to have worked and the power generators at the Foundation are keeping the patients safe and the critical infrastructure running. Let’s see what the next hours and days will bring.

We are excited to announce our new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE)! This program will unite experts in experimental and computational #neuroscience approaches to investigate how the brain represents sensorimotor interactions. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s... #science

I was off social media and missed this. Huge congrats to @danielmuench.bsky.social on the launch of the Münch Lab at @jlugiessen.bsky.social! So proud to see you starting your own lab. It has been fantastic working with you. We’ll miss you in the lab. But can’t wait to see what comes next.

Don’t miss the Presidential Symposium at the 32nd Annual @ssibsociety.bsky.social Meeting, curated by President @mitchroitman.bsky.social 🎤 Speakers: #SuzanneHiggs · @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · #KimberlySmith · #JohnFCryan 🗓️ July 28–Aug 1 · 📍Oxford Register👉 www.ssib.org/2025/registr...

In this week’s @nature.com, we publish a group effort to outline a framework for studies with neural #organoids, #assembloids and transplantation. More details below 1/n

Mine in today’s @newyorker.com

Wir brauchen einen “dreifachwumms”! Look at where the EU is (at the end of the chart) and tell me we could not do better.. This also shows you what a loss to science it was when the UK left the EU. Let’s work together.

The infrastructure with the largest return on investment is education and science. Why do European countries not see that and boost it? Without that no physical infrastructure can be built or used. No new generation defense can be developed. And its destruction in the US is the biggest news.

Discover and follow the announcement of the Brain Prize 2025 winners today, March 5th, here: brainprize.org

This is like a bad text book version of prisoners dilemma.

Missed the mountains. See you in a week.

Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...