Thank you for this important paper! Using biobanks of thousands of people to check what effects archaic coding variants might have. Finding certain variants in healthy modern humans helps clarify which might have real consequences to human evolution, and which do not.

This is a great article and you can read it free here! A fresh perspective to understanding language with an interdisciplinary and integrative approach.

Just got @philipcball.bsky.social’s book, can’t wait to dig in!

Cool paper and cool thread! Makes me wonder, what’s going on in a whale or dolphin brain where there’s essentially no layer 4 🤔

Super excited for the start of #EESorgan 2025! One of my favorite parts of coming to EMBL is the walk to the ATC through the forest. Can’t wait for 4 days of awesome organoid science!

We are recuiting two new Associate Professors here in Oxford Biochemistry. Come join us! Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! tinyurl.com/mr3m7bd3

New paper alert! Rare DNA changes in the SETBP1 gene are linked to speech problems & diverse syndromes affecting brain development. Work led by ace postdoc @maggiemkwong.bsky.social uncovered impact of different gene variants, coupling clinical/speech evaluation to molecular & cellular readouts.🧬🗣️🔬🧪

The Vienna BioCenter PhD Program application deadline is approaching: October 10! Join one of Europe’s premier life science campuses, home to cutting-edge research across all areas of biology. Apply and start your scientific journey in Vienna! training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/ #PhD #LifeSciences

Interested in the mechanisms of neurogenesis, and how they might converge/differ across species, regions, and life epochs? Check this out, wonderful location and great science! Please RT neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...

🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience ➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism? Check out what we found! 🧵1/n

Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.

Amazing work! The Silver lab is on a roll!

This new preprint looks pretty interesting. Human neurons take up to 4 decades to fully mature!

Delighted & excited to share our latest preprint on non-canonical enhancers in human pluripotent stem cells, the result of a fantastic and fun collaboration with @guenesdoganlab.bsky.social‬: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 below

This is amazing. Really interesting science made accessible to non experts. I recommend tuning in if you can, even for a little while

Hi friends - In the face of unprecedented cuts to the basic research science funding, climate scientists are staging an 100-hour live stream of why science matters. There will be many talks on all sorts of things (I'm Saturday at 12:30 PT). Please share widely! wcstreamathon.netlify.app. 🌊🧪

Still openings, check it out!

New Faraday Fellowships for international applicants moving to the UK Up to £4 million per researcher over 5-10 years Fast-track option for mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK

This is so cool! It’s beautiful to see exactly the kind of elegant genetic locus swapping experiments I’ve been hoping to see in the field 🤩 Nice work Debby and team!

Check out this impressive work from the Jabaudon lab exploring an age old question: how does the forebrain grow more than the rest of the brain?

So many exciting papers and preprints in the past few weeks. This one is quite the tour de force!

Exciting work from the Albert lab on unique signatures of human basal radial glia. And look at those beautiful organoids with their basal progenitors! 🤩

Interesting new work from the McDole lab on the extreme stress primordial germ cells have to endure on their journey to the gonads during embryonic development. It’s wild that a new generation is even possible after all that! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In case you missed it, check out our recent preprint on developmental timing and how slower means bigger, axons that is! Led by the extraordinary @felinewlindhout.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A couple of weeks left to apply to join Development's *Pathway to Independence* programme Support & mentoring for post-docs on the academic job market Deadline: January 31 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

It’s been an exciting holiday season for the Lancaster Lab, with not 1, not 2, but 3 new preprints to share! Check ‘em out: doi.org/10.1101/2024... doi.org/10.1101/2024... doi.org/10.1101/2024... Happy holidays and best wishes for 2025 from our lab to yours! 🎄🎉

Last preparations for what will be an amazing CSHL conference on human #brain development and modeling with #organoids #assembloids and #transplantation Keynotes: Carla Shatz & Chris Walsh @djabaudon.bsky.social @debbysilver.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social @graycamplab.bsky.social

If you’re working with neural organoids, join our community to discuss methods, technical issues, and other organoid topics: groups.google.com/forum/#!foru...

Hello world! Looking forward to some constructive discourse on this platform!