Hofstra Biology is hiring (again!): a tenure-track position in microbiology. Come join our collegial and rapidly growing dept. Small class sizes, hands on learning and research, manageable teaching loads and real startup. Please reach out for more info!

Very proud of our lab’s FIRST graduating students, Rose Arias and Hannah Thomas, who did a fantastic job presenting their research at Hofstra’s undergraduate research day! Congratulations!

Very excited to read this!

We're hiring (yes, in this economy!) a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Neurophysiology. Hofstra is an R2/PUI that values both research & teaching. We offer REAL startup, manageable teaching loads, & a very collegial, growing dept. (7 new faculty in the past few years + 2 searches this year).

✨🦟✨HOW DO MOSQUITOES HAVE SEX? ✨🦟✨ Join us for a wild journey into hidden female control, rapidly evolving stimulation devices, fierce species competition, and DEADLY MOSQUITOES! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

How do #brain cells change over #evolution? @bentonlab.bsky.social compare #scRNAseq from ecologically distinct #drosophilid species to identify changes in composition & gene expression of different cell types, revealing higher divergence in #glia than #neurons @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4js7Rms

And more from our favorite species trio: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Happy to see this out now: Olfactory projection neuron rewiring in the brain of an ecological specialist: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports... In a team effort with @bentonlab.bsky.social 's lab we establish new genetic tools in #drosophila sechellia and compare single central brain neurons.

Creating the first comparative single-cell brain atlases for 3 Drosophila species was a huge effort by Daehan Lee in @bentonlab.bsky.social. With it, we describe glial cell evolution potentially associated with D. sechellia's specialization. Explore the atlases: scope.aertslab.org#/DmelDsimDse...

Hofstra Bio is looking to hire a microbiologist: hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/5036 Bio Dept. is an extremely collegial group of scientists. We've hired 7 new faculty in the past few years (myself included). Hofstra is a private PUI transitioning to R2 that values both education and research.

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What better demonstrates that ‘biological sex’ is but a social construct than the u.s. president needing to declare it to be binary by political fiat in order to uphold its legitimacy.

If you're looking for some trans (umbrella term) STEM people to lift up and support, you can check out my starter pack. go.bsky.app/2oTAUBo Some biologists, some other fields. Lifting up more people helps everyone. (If you want to be added to the list request by leaving a response)

New pre-print #2: Jérôme Mermet profiles living and dying lineages in the olfactory system to begin to explain how these sensory pathways are robustly specified but also evolvable: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new paper is out in Ecology and Evolution in which we use hemiclonal analysis in #Drosophila to document genetic variation in the strength of male mate choice for large females. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I'm thrilled to be opening my own lab this Fall at the @maxplanck.de MPI for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The lab is going to investigate the neuronal and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. We are hiring on all levels. Don't hesitate to share widely and reach out if interested.

Are you PhD student or Postdoc working in the field of Neuroethology? Then apply as a speaker for the Webinar Series 'The Future Of Neuroethology'

Finished grading. Time for baking!

First cook in years, desperately trying not to burn myself 🤞

Happy #caturday

🦟 Pestered by mosquitoes? Fear not—grapefruit might hold the key! 🍊In our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social, led by Merybeth Triana and Felipe Andreazza, we explore how nootkatone, a compound derived from grapefruit, affects mosquitoes. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Resharing for new users to find collaborations or just people posting cool #animal #research! I think I've got a decent mix of taxonomic groups of interest, so hopefully this will be useful 🐟🦍🐠🦎🦗🦈🐧🦂🐬🕷️🐌🐢🐙🦟🐳🦁🦋🐊🐜🦆🐘🦃🦘🐛 DM to be added 😊 go.bsky.app/9CV3PAd #Behavior

Excited to read the new preprint from the Ramdya lab about social behavior in fruit flies: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My lab studies both lab mice and naked mole rats. There is a belief amongst some that what we discover in mice will be universally true, and what we discover in naked mole rats will be a weird mole rat quirk. I believe this mouse-centric view of biological systems is very limiting.

Just posting this to #popgen Here's a link to my notes on population & quantitative genetics: github.com/cooplab/popg... Hoping to extend it more after the winter holidays, as I'm just finishing up teaching the undergrad version of class.

Our Oceans, out now on Netflix (amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...) has some amazing footage of bioluminescent ostracods in the Atlantic Ocean episode. Truly phenomenal imagery of my favorite system (yes, I’m biased). Collaborator Trevor Rivers consulted. Pls go check it out! #SciComm #MarineLife

Just enrolled my first research student! 🎉🎉🎉

I'll restart here by plugging our latest describing circadian plasticity loss in an equatorial island endemic. A collaborative effort with folks not yet here, including 2 exceptional Master students. My new lab will continue to study behavioral plasticity and its evolution using these species.

I thought we could use a Drosophila starter pack, please let me know if you’d like to be added. (I think there is also a more general insect list out there somewhere that i cant find rn..) go.bsky.app/JGggkH3