A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

We are looking for a motivated and creative PhD student who wants to investigate neurogenesis and brain development in beautiful Seville. Do you want to join our team? Please, check lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-... and get in touch!

How often have you heard that schizophrenia is “80% genetic”? That number is almost certainly too high because it comes from twin studies that overestimate heritabilty. Great explainer of this phenomenon👇 #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychiatry

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Nature research paper: Rewiring an olfactory circuit by altering cell-surface combinatorial code go.nature.com/3MbCoZT

Where on earth is the best laboratory to demonstrate the beauty of fluid dynamics? Actually, it’s not on earth. Here is the story of the soft cell. And a longer read: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74308

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“Among the EU countries, the proportion of female scientists and engineers varied widely in 2023, with the highest shares registered in Denmark (50.8%), Spain (50.0 %,) and Bulgaria (49.1%), Latvia and Ireland (each 49%).” Fuente: ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web...

Our new manuscript, led by Emily Corrigan, examines inhibitory neuron diversity across approximately 160 million years of evolutionary divergence, as part of BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) developing brain atlas package: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New issue of Nature - with NINE studies on #brain #development from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) 🧠🧪🔬 An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain! 🧠 Immersive feature: www.nature.com/immersive/d4... 🧠 Perspective: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

🤔 Is motile #cilia dysfunction a cause of #hydrocephalus ? The answer depends on who you ask and which species you study. 🤔😕🧐 In mice, motile cilia dysfunction almost always leads to hydrocephalus. In humans, however, the link is far less clear. So why the difference?

More than two decades have passed since we discovered that rare disruptions of the FOXP2 gene disturb development of proficient speech/language skills. Today we know of multiple FOXP genes that are directly implicated in distinct brain-related conditions with differences in symptoms & severity.🧪 1/n

Interested in understanding how new cell types evolve? Consider joining our group for a PhD!

RIP John Gurdon

Vertebrate Genome Evolution. Annual Symposium of the @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social Foundation in Geneva. Free access on site and on line. Great speakers for a super interesting topic. #SvantePaabo #HenrikKaessmann organisers 🙏 See you there! @biology-unige.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social

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I add that earlier and later diagnosed autism are not valid diagnostic terms and what we are looking at is (one) gradient. Also genetics explains only a fraction of the variance, with most studied factors explaining < 10%. We have FAQs in the Supplementary where we address common questions.

CORTICAL EVOLUTION - 15-17th June 2026 - Bilbao Spain Organizers: Verónica Martínez Cerdeño, Fernando García Moreno, Elena Vecino, and Stephen Noctor Early registration until 1st May 2026 ventricular.org/corticalevol... @veronicamartinez.bsky.social @phylobrain.bsky.social

Last days to apply! Cool project, cool cities! :-) (Please repost! 🙏)

What a beautiful story, Idoia. Congratulations!

🦟 Mosquitos invasores 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 El @ceabcsic.bsky.social y @mosquitoalert.bsky.social presentan el primer mapa municipal de la distribución de tres especies invasoras en España: mosquito tigre, de la fiebre amarilla y del Japón 🔎Más de 1.800 municipios han sido colonizados  👉 http://tiny.cc/ia5s001

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lamentamos profundamente el fallecimiento del académico José Manuel García Verdugo, catedrático de la Universitat de Valencia. Referente internacional en Neurocencia y Microscopía Electrónica. Su última charla en la #raciencias puedes recuperarla aquí: www.youtube.com/live/g7nPBVo...

Incredible diversity of #pollen grains! Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth #microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday

Really happy to see our work on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) microglia published in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... A great work at IBiS from Manuel Sanchez-Garcia, Nieves Lara-Ureña, Rosana March-Diaz, @alicielena.bsky.social , and all our collaborators.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Amazing differences within the EU. Via prof. Marco te Brömmelstroet on LinkedIn. NB: 2019 data.

Hot off the press: The excellent Maheva Andriatsilavo and colleagues show how a temporal sequence of stochastic molecular mechanisms allow the emergence of stereotyped individualised neuronal circuits. Just published in Nature Neuroscience: rdcu.be/ek010

Maps are everywhere in the brain...and finally we've discovered one in the nose! Led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social, we uncovered the logic that specifies the positions of each of the 1,000 sensory neuron subtypes in the nose and aligns their projections to the brain.👇👃see more details below👃👇

Why does the forebrain expand dramatically while other neural regions grow less? Our new publication reveals progenitor metabolism critically shapes region-specific brain growth. Thread below. authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-udL7PXu...

El próximo Viernes 9 de Mayo, a las 12:30 hrs. en la Sala Washington Buño del #InstitutoCajal, seminario presencial del Dr. Diego García González, @ibis_sevilla @CSIC, con el título: "How to make a newron". Organizado por: Dra. Aixa V. Morales

🔴 ENTREVISTA | Óscar Marín, neurocientífico: “Están en marcha los primeros trasplantes de neuronas 'viajeras' para tratar el cerebro” www.eldiario.es/128_bace79?u...

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

I could go on with more examples but instead here’s a message to take home. If you’re curious how your genome helps make you unique, don’t expect neat & tidy answers. Indeed, the richness of this tapestry is one of the reasons why human genetics is such a dynamic & exciting field of science. 11/n 🧬🧪

La UE debe hacer "un poquito más" que doblar su presupuesto para investigación para abandonar la categoría de "simpática anécdota" a nivel global. De lo contrario, nos vamos por el desagüe. @eloisadelpino.bsky.social @dianamorantr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So... Can be animals without #scutoids? This a difficult question to answer, you cannot get mutants without scutoids. So we designed a computational model to demonstrated that it is not possible to form epithelial tubes without apico-basal intercalations. www.csbj.org/article/S200...

#Cancer research needs #neuroscience and neuroscientists. Sharing some thoughts on #CancerNeuroscience, together with Frank Winkler. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Science under attack: a growing list of statements from journals @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @plos.org theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos... @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... @embopress.org www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

This piece of work is truly amazing, hats off to you! Massive congrats to all authors! 🥳

elpais.com/ciencia/2025... Mirad esto!!!

And please check out the wonderful Perspective by Maria Tosches and Giacomo Gattoni on our paper and the two related ones by the groups of @steinaerts.bsky.social and Fernando Garcia-Moreno!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Beautiful story!! Congratulations, Henrik!!

Interesting: following hemispherotomy – this is typically performed for severe intractable epilepsies, where one hemisphere is fully disconnected but left in place – there remains "islands of awareness" although most activity is sleep-like. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Empieza la semana del #11F, con mil eventos para dar visibilidad a la mujer en la ciencia Pues estaría bien que también sirva para reivindicar salarios y horarios razonables, estabilidad y corresponsabilidad en los cuidados Basta de fomentar vocaciones que abocan al abismo de las triples jornadas