New paper alert!!!🚨 in our new study we find that Antarctic icefishes added a new module in their skulls during their adaptive radiation special shout out to @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social who led this project! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The bees have discovered Brutalism

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/2

American Academy of Pediatrics vaccine schedule for newborns - 18 yrs is the one to use. Just published August 19, 2025 ❤️ downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...

Former staffers of Climate.gov are launching a new site: www.climate.us 🧪

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Many songbirds have regional dialects that mean their calls have measurable differences across populations. We must then conclude that ducks have quaccents

Come to the MBL in Woods Hole @mblscience.bsky.social for a GRASS FELLOWSHIP @grassfoundation.bsky.social 🦑 🐙🐛 There are two application deadlines this year: Oct 15, 2025 (submit by then to receive feedback on your application!), and Dec 1, 2025 (final deadline). grassfoundation.org/application-...

Water anoles take a bubble of air down when they submerge, which they breathe like a tiny scuba tank, and now @lindseyswierk.bsky.social & co reveal that the reptiles may also be using the bubble like a gill, to breathe oxygen directly from the water journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Following up: searching for the distribution of estrogen receptors in the brain, I realized the Allen Brain Atlas is male only. How is it possible that something this fundamental is still missing?

While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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FAT BEAR WEEK APPROACHES

I'm so happy that they continue this program. The emerging community of neurobiology in the changing environment is thriving and growing. We have a slack group, too, if you want to join us join.slack.com/t/nice-commu...

'A swoop of swallows' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #UnravellingWomensArt #summer

Excited to share our latest work on brain evolution, where we dive into the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells! If you are interested in cell type evolution and cerebral cortex evo-devo, please read on… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/7

Wrote a eulogy for the yellow letters in my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

NEW: Florida and Texas asked Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk to join the ongoing lawsuit against the FDA over the abortion drug mifepristone. They say they seek to challenge the drug's APPROVAL from 2000—going way farther than wanting to end telemed prescriptions storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sex-reversal in birds (genetically male/female but appear female/male) is surprisingly common. Best detail: A genetically male bird called a laughing kookaburra had recently laid an egg. (1/2) By @phiejacobs.bsky.social on @science.org

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Out of the terrible destruction of the Manhattan Project came a decades-long partnership between the federal government and universities, attracting talent from around the world, to do good--the NIH, NSF all are a product of that era, now being destroyed by Donald Trump and Russell Vought.

The @flatironinstitute.org is hosting a 2-day workshop on Python packages for neural data analysis ( @pynapple.bsky.social NoMoS) prior to #SfN2025: neurorse.flatironinstitute.org/events/2025/.... Apps due Sept 8. And best of all, it's free, including meals and lodging! Go check it out!

1/ Late to the game to publicize my paper with @healeylab.bsky.social ocial: Parsing social context in auditory forebrain of male zebra finches (PLOS ONE, March 19, 2025). We also developed a low-cost microdrive for long-term neural recording in freely behaving finches.

"They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases." NPR's ‪@rhersher.bsky.social‬ on Trump administration plans to potentially destroy satellites‬. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

This is an excellent explainer of the value of basic science research and offers excellent examples, as well as good advice about HOW to ‘explain’ the value of basic science to the public. We are where we are because we scientists have not done a good job of this historically.

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees. This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees. Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025. More details: www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

A major NIH grant to study ways to restore hearing was terminated by the Trump administration bc it was awarded through a DEI initiative—to a researcher who qualified bc of his own hearing loss www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/h... @manorlaboratory.bsky.social

Aliens with alien abilities It turns out that the strange shapes of treehoppers have a function that also seems like science fiction: they help them detect the electrical charge of their predators. Amazing. Check out the thread and paper below

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Our next profile is here! Dr. Melissa Caras studies the neurophysiological mechanisms of auditory perceptual learning. Follow the link to listen and learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... #WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN

🧠 Join the JNeuro Early Career Advisory Board! 🧪 A great way to learn about the world of publishing and support other early career researchers by sharing your perspectives! Apps due July 18 www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-...

We did some science. We found some things. Killer whales get by with a little kelp from their friends. Evidence of tool manufacture and use in resident killer whales - check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The National Science Foundation is critical to our future, but Trump wants to cut it by $5 billion. Here are 5 things we wouldn't have today if it wasn't for the NSF.

Male brains are full of estrogen. Testosterone in the circulation is converted into estrogen by the enzyme aromatase, which is expressed in the brains of all vertebrates.

11 of 12 Fulbright board members resign in protest over Trump-era meddling. Hundreds of awardees canceled; 1,200 foreign scholars face extra review. A pillar of U.S. academic diplomacy is under threat. zurl.co/o2mgg #StandUpForScience #Fulbright

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

A very special treat to visit @inhcirlab.bsky.social and the @institutocajal.bsky.social . A pilgrimage for any neuroscientist...

the reissued NOFO for theRuth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowship for Students at Institutions Without NIH-Funded Institutional Predoctoral Dual-Degree Training Programs (Parent F30) is finally published! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature! When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️ The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar bit.ly/3HvWSum

Excited to visit and discuss aromatase, neuroestrogens, and interneurons with you!!

El próximo Viernes, 13 de junio a las 12:30 hrs. en la Sala Washington Buño del #InstitutoCajal, seminario presencial de @healeylab.bsky.social (University of Massachusetts), con el título: "Learning, cell-types, neuroestrogens, and modulation in the songbird auditory system".

My Op Ed: President Trump often touted that his first administration approved more generic drugs than any in history. He had good reason to highlight the success. Recently, however, the FDA review team enabling these approvals was disbanded, and it may undo that historic progress. @statnews.com

We will regret this pioneering endocrinologist who has made several great discoveries about steroids, in particular DHEA and the inventor of RU 486. A real model at the age of 15, he was fighting against the Nazis. www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

Just published, expansion in situ genome sequencing, where you can sequence DNA while still inside the cell, mapping its organization relative to proteins and other markers, with the help of expansion microscopy! Led by @jbuenrostro.bksy.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The war on science in the US is already having an effect on private sector research like AlphaFold. Bears repeating but the private sector builds on top of things created by academic research for the public good. This hurts everyone.

Since the CDC guidelines for COVID vaccines are now just misinformation here is what the NHS (UK) says about COVID in pregnancy and the recommendation for vaccination. www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/ke...

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

🪰 A team of Janelia researchers & collaborators have created a new set of tools for studying motor control of wing movements in fruit flies, providing an important #openscience resource for future studies of fly flight & courtship 🧠 hhmi.news/3H3ohn8

Look at this gorgeous chonk of a baby. Look at his lil face. We are treating his life-threatening ultra-rare genetic condition with super cool science. With a gene editing tool that we stole from bacteria! Just in case you also needed a reminder that humanity can still do some pretty awesome stuff.