*First preprint from our lab* !!!!! How does the brain learn to anchor its internal sense of direction to the outside world? 🧭 led by Mark Plitt @markplitt.bsky.social & Dan Turner-Evans, w/ Vivek Jayaraman: “Octopamine instructs head direction plasticity” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread ⬇️

Our lab from @HHMINEWS & @UCBerkeley is looking for undergrads to come for an internship! www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

A single neuron in fruit flies can trigger two different behaviors in response to the same odor. www.cell.com/current-biol...

i wrote an essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social about what it feels like to serve on an NIH grant review panel (study section) right now www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

Congrats to MCB's Filipa Rijo-Ferreira on being named a @hhmi.org 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! 🎉👏 www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

Big news this week for the Fisher lab!! It's a huge honor to join this community — and it's all thanks to the amazing scientists in my lab. We're extremely grateful for the support of our research!!

Honored join this community and extremely thankful for support of the exciting research being done by the amazing scientists in my lab!!

Believe it a not, a third multisite connectomic project also lost funding. The multi-PI R01 led by @darbly.bsky.social with myself and @bassemh.bsky.social as co-PIs.

The IRACDA program was one of my favorites at NIGMS, good for the postdocs involved and for the institutions where they taught. Terminating it is just idiocy. Well said @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social

This is a super clear and helpful article explaining why the 15% indirect cost rate is unfair, hurts science, and does NOT increase $ for research: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wow, major breakthrough in the development of broadly neutralizing bispecific antibody therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2, led by @stanford-chemh.bsky.social institute scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social 😃 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Today's the day! Minnesota, let's show up and make our voices heard to support science!

What a great event! Complete with shout out to @standupforscience.bsky.social

First, we are touring Nobel Prize Chemistry winner Professor Jennifer Doudna's lab to learn more about an NIH-funded CRISPR project and discuss how the NIH cuts will hurt groundbreaking research projects and lives.

Mark Cuban on NIH. Yes. Public money also funded the basis of Netscape, Google, Intel, and Moderna. Those companies wouldn’t be in the US without government funding science. 1/2

Our latest study is available as a preprint. We show that psychedelics induce subtle changes in gene expression but robust changes in alternative splicing lasting at least one month, suggesting that alternative splicing may represent a general mechanism for prolonged plasticity in neurons. #RNAsky

1/3 How does visual input affect the heading direction (HD) network? In our latest lab preprint, Ryosuke presents "visual landmarks" to larval zebrafish and shows that the HD network tethers to the visual environment. The experiments are again inspired by the beautiful recent work in Drosophila.

I joined 75+ @nobelprize.bsky.social laureates urging US Senators to oppose RFK Jr.'s confirmation as DHHS Secretary. If you’re in a state with GOP senators, PLEASE reach out to them! I’d deeply appreciate it if you amplified this post! 🙏 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

First public reveal of Piezo tattoo! Thanks @leslievosshall.bsky.social for documenting this and for the appreciation after the talk. And welcome back to Blue Sky!