📝 The PsychGen Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health is hosting a two-day, in-person workshop for early-career researchers on family-based genomic analyses. The workshop takes place in Oslo, Norway, on 9-10 April 2026 and registration is now open: shorturl.at/etXCN

Press release from UKRI: www.ukri.org/news/survey-... Learn more about why we use zebrafish to study human diseases: irp.nih.gov/blog/post/20...

This is not limited to #zebrafish but includes all organismal research. If you can spare 15 minutes, you may help safeguard the future of responsible animal research in the UK. 🙏

In case you were wondering what’s up with Finland, they just had a 3 day televised Moomin reading marathon and that’s what they’ve been all about since. The readers were mostly big names, like the president. Around 10% of the population tuned in live and now can’t talk about anything else.

A lovely read about researchers who make animals happy for a living 😊 A day spent playing the sounds of baby bonobo laughter is surely a day well spent www.sciencenews.org/article/scie...

The race is on to re-home 120 ex-commercial laying hens in Didcot before February 8th. The British Hen Welfare Trust is appealing for would-be kind hearted chicken keepers to come forward by 4pm Friday and give the hens a chance at a free range retirement.

Deadline in 3 days (Thursday 5th) to apply for a PhD with me and @ktsetsos.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience / neuro-AI. Please share!

I have a 3-year postdoc position available at University of Manchester for a mass spec expert in proteomics. The person will be involved in exciting projects in single cell proteomics, drug discovery and innate immunity - on timsTOF Ultra AIP & HF & Astral Zoom. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ093/r...

We're Hiring! We're looking for a postdoc with bioinformatics/modelling skills to join us in an exciting microbiome ecology project in Manchester (deadline 1st March) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Forget pickles and ice cream. I published a fake paper on pregnancy cravings for prime numbers.

How are energy #metabolism pathways distributed across the #cortex? @alaindagher.bsky.social &co map five pathways in the human #brain, linking metabolic organization with brain structural & functional properties, as well as developmental dynamics @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4c1JVp8

to be fair. that xkcd came out in 2014. so it took about twice as long as estimated

Are you an undergraduate interested in neuroscience? Come and do a placement at BRIC! You will get a chance at experiencing a range of neuroscience research, from brain imaging to computational science! If you are interested, please apply using this link: mycareer.plymouth.ac.uk/user/app/job...

📒 NEW STUDY “supports abolition of Daylight Saving Time and adoption of permanent Standard Time to minimize negative consequences including migraines.”

Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research. Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

What Steve said. There has never been a study in which high-quality, well-fitting masks were actually WORN that did not show a significant impact on disease transmission. Many mask studies failed to take account of post-allocation confounders (non-adherence + non-mask people choosing to mask).

Canadian job 👀 🇨🇦 ‼️ Second search this year! Our Dept of Psychology is hiring again, this time at the assoc/full level, for a prestigious, endowed position. Focus is social/affective neuroscience in any area (clinical, social, cog, or dev). Apply by Jan 30! Reposts, pls www.queensu.ca/psychology/n...

I know that I am officially at Edinburgh now that I have an official profile page edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/davi...

github.com/bede/deacon For anyone still using Bowtie2 for filtering or depletion of host sequences or specifics, I can recommend Deacon from @bedec.bsky.social . It is so much faster and easier than Bowtie2, and its performance is equal or better (tested with metagenomes and mitogenomes).🧬 & 🖥️

Thanks to everyone who reached out via DM. I really appreciate your help 🙏 If you have any examples (even anecdotal) of articles published in eco/evo journals where supplementary materials are no longer available, please share them with me. We’re trying to gather preliminary data on this issue.

We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

High-quality mouse reference genomes [PacBio Long Read genomes of 17 strains] reveal the structural complexity of the murine protein-coding landscape, Cell Genomics. www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Genomes and annotations here: projects.ensembl.org/mouse_genomes/

"I am *unsettled* that ChatGPT, fed on the plethora of articles I and others have written on the subject as well as my own chat history has reproduced a rough sketch of our arguments back to me, this is *chilling*!" This guy has massive influence on tech policy. Wonderful.

Haidt is "stunned" that ChatGPT asked how it would threaten youth reveals that its plan would be what Haidt has argued in his books. The secret plan! There should be some way to rescind the doctorate of any commentator on digital media who interprets ChatGPT output like this. I am not joking.

Dr. Hayley Thorpe explores the intersection of complex traits with mental health using translational population genetics approaches #ACNP2026 Her recent work uses new GWAS of cannabis use traits to understand cannabis use genetic & biological underpinnings: tinyurl.com/57vdj3df

Another great preprint on neuronal APOE4 from the Huang lab!

i can not be the only person wondering about the five percent gap between bigfoot and the yeti i mean is this where u draw the line

We are excited to share our online book and preprint on “Orchestrating Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis with Bioconductor”!

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes. Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Is "top-notch" the new "highly motivated"?

We are co-funding a new clinical trial to investigate if a one-off gene therapy to replace faulty genes in stem cells can bring hope to children with Hunter syndrome. Ollie is the first child to participate in this @manchester.ac.uk study: bit.ly/49BaCjt

We are recruiting - deadline approaching!!! Postdoc position available in my lab to develop an exciting project with @alexfsantos2401.bsky.social to advance our understanding of food allergy and oral tolerance in early life. #ILC #organoids #intestine #FoodAllergy www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/128585-...

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Our lab digs into how serotonin tunes prediction errors and eye movements — with custom tools and curious mice.We got 2 posters at #SfN2025, Tue AM (C5) and Wed PM (R16). Recruiting PhD students & postdocs in sunny Marseille. Come chat about neuromodulators, tinkering, or free will and intuition.

To study how animals understand the physical world (and the rules that govern its dynamics), @jinyao-y.bsky.social trains rats to play fetch with robots 🐀🤖🎾 To learn more, come to our poster Tuesday morning! [Board W11] Rats learn and use intuitive physics knowledge to solve fetch tasks. #SfN2025

Had a great time presenting one of my PhD rotation projects in the @bjmarlin lab - a project that holds a special place in my heart! 👩🏻‍🔬💕🧠💗 #SfN #SfN25

There’s still time to connect with Isabelle Aiken and Frederic Gagnon at #SfN25! If you missed the poster presentation on “𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗘𝗚 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗲” (in collaboration with Porsolt), visit us at booth #2130 or download it here: hubs.ly/Q03Txd5Z0

@sfn.org #SfN2025 Interested in continuing your career in Germany? Come by the #NeuroscienceinGermany booth 3917 and meet scientists and funding agencies that can help you achieve your goals! 👇 🧠 🇩🇪

If you are at #sfn25 and work with animals in your #neuroscience research: drop by booth 3600, the Global Consortium for Public Outreach on Animal Research

#SfN25 Mini-symposium: Today at 9:30 am PST | The Richness of Vision in the Mammalian Brain: Neural Codes for Visual Perception and Behavior in Three Dimensions Read the accompanying article by Rosenberg et al. in #JNeurosci https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1316-25.2025

Get career advice from the pros! Early-career scientists can connect with experienced to discuss training, career development, and more at #SfN25 Ask Anything sessions. Add a session to your itinerary. 🔗 vist.ly/4evd2

There's 2 amazing Fonken Lab postbacs presenting this afternoon too: C13: Em Anders - effects of early life hormonal manipulation on microglia in rats. C24: Cecily Gibson - impact of circadian rhythm disruption on maternal caregiving & microglia in mice. #SocietyForGlia #SfN25 #SfN2025

#SfN25 's hottest club is Poster X8 Tuesday Morning. This club has everything: mice hunting robotic bait, quantitative behavior modeling, chronic superior colliculus Neuropixel data, and GLM encoding/decoding, not to mention the cheap new DAQ EVERYONE's been rumbling about. See you there!

I'm not at #Sfn25 this year and I'm having #SfNswag FOMO. Please fill me in!! (My recap video from last year's day 1 haul vm.tiktok.com/ZNdojN3re/)

Interested in whole genomes, AI and functional validation? Sign up to hear more about our summer school in the sunny southwest U.K. @exeter.ac.uk in Sept 2026, in partnership with the U.K. Functional Genomics Initiative @uk-fgx.bsky.social and Google Deepmind @nihrexeterbrc.bsky.social

UK Bioimaging @bioimaginguk.bsky.social launches User Access Fund for Researchers Researchers can apply for up to £5k for access to bioimaging facilities at @calm-stp.bsky.social, @esric-imaging.bsky.social, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York. First round deadline: 9 December 2025

Come see us at #SfN2025 Stephen Collins et al on Tuesday morning Erika Carlson and Lauren Singleton on Tuesday afternoon!

Come meet the CAN team at Booth #3732 in the Institute & not-for-profit area to learn about opportunities in Canada ! #sfn25