🧪 New from @dataforprogress.org: Federal research grants are awarded on scientific merit judged by panels of scientists and outside experts. Trump has moved to change that. Voters don't approve. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/7/...

🚨Applications are now open for our S.P.i.N.E.S. Postdoc Seminar Series 2026/2027! Deadline August 15th. Find all info and link to the application here: med.nyu.edu/departments-...

We still have more amazing researchers in our society to celebrate! 🥳 Let's congratulate our Daniel S. Lehrman Award winner! Hear his Keynote Address that will wrap up #SBN2026 on July 11 from 2:00 - 3:00 PM 🦜 🧠

Antelope Island State Park, Utah. Delivered on proghorn, bison, and.... bison babies!!

This year marks 30 years since TPF released its first California Condors over the red rock of Arizona—a turning point for a species on the edge of extinction. We're celebrating three decades of condor recovery in the months ahead. Follow along. 🪶 📷 Jim Shane #Raptors #Birds #RaptorResearch

Antelope Island State Park, Utah. Delivered on proghorn, bison, and.... bison babies!!

Acadia National Park - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/KD85uc

In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it. Learn more during #InsectWeek: https://scim.ag/4mM2aS9

Yesterday, I met Jay Bhattacharya briefly for the first time. I don’t think he’s a fan. 😬🤷‍♀️😇 He spoke yesterday at an NIH workshop on Health Disparities. I want to reflect on his talk, as well as the brief interaction that followed. Here goes… 🧵1/???

@commsbio.nature.com kindly prepared a video summary on our paper. Have a look!

Since Google destroyed the most useful tool for my most treasured skill, finding anything on the internet in seconds, I am developing a new spite skill… knowing what sort of queries are mostly likely to return specious nonsense.

NINDS is signed on to the K01 NOFO for Sept/Oct receipt dates. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

"Rollins displays gentleness, a delicate feeling for beauty in line, and a puckish sense of humour. And all done with the uncompromising swinging that has characterized them all along" Ralph J. Gleason #nowplaying 'Saxophone Colossus' (1957) RIP Sonny Rollins. What a life. #jazzsky #musicsky

Fire together, fire together.....

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Thelonious Monk hitting tricky dance moves before sitting down to unleash a piano solo during a performance of "Evidence"

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We are hiring! Focus is on colleagues interested in protein homeostasis and human disease. Priority reviewing starts mid-June and will continue on a rolling basis. Here is the ad, hit me up if you have questions! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...

🚨 Nominate a neuroethologist for the Mosaic Prize by May 31! The ISN Mosaic Prize seeks to identify and acknowledge individuals in the neuroethology community for their contribution and commitment to making the research environment more inclusive. For more info: www.neuroethology.org/mosaic-prize/

“Specific expansion of motor cortical projections in a singing mouse” Great new work by @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social E. Isco @cliffscience.bsky.social @xmikezheng20.bsky.social @tonyzador.bsky.social & colleagues on the neural basis of vocal dexterity, now out in @nature.com 🧪🧠

Neuromatch is defined by our worldwide participants. Please share your Neuromatch story with us, so we can help share it with the world!

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

The Michael Harbuz Prize is a great opportunity for all our outstanding emerging neuroendocrinologists 🧠. Winners get: 🔬30 min lecture at #NeuroendoCelebrate2026 🖋️JNE Early Career Perspective article 💸£750 🧡1yr BSN membership Apply by 1.5.26: neuroendo.org.uk/pag...#NeuroendoCelebrate2026

My institution relentlessly going whole hog on AI has the one benefit of inspiring colleagues to be completely hilarious- www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fre...

Lots of western meadowlarks belting out their songs this morning. #Alberta #wildlife #birding #birds 🪶

Large study of the effects of mRNA COVID vaccination impacts in France. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/3

First off, these cells are gigantic. This one, for example, has >72 cm of axon! To our knowledge, it’s the longest neuron ever fully reconstructed. I leave it to the reader as an exercise to estimate the length of a human LC neuron. 5

“Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego, California.” Photo by Sandy Huffaker

There is no McTry.

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

Presented this iconic photo in class today, and convinced my students that the parental pituitary hormone prolactin (they'd never heard of it) is called "kittensulin"....

Presented this iconic photo in class today, and convinced my students that the parental pituitary hormone prolactin (they'd never heard of it) is called "kittensulin"....

Wait… localized norepinephrine transients in the awake visual cortex?! Who would have guessed this neuromodulatory signal is that spatially precise, right where visual processing is happening. Brain state control just got a lot more local. @ruedigersarah.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c...

FACT OF THE DAY. 26 March 1953. In a huge medical breakthrough, US medical researcher Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had created the first polio vaccine. Polio cases fell from 58,000 per year in 1952 to 6,000 by 1958. Salk’s vaccine was replaced by a new one developed by Albert Sabin in 1962.

My kids and I read the book together, and LOVED the opening night of the movie last night. What a great adaptation and all around fun time. Amaze!!!

Mathematical modelling, computer #simulation, and machine learning upgrade #endocrinology. Applying principles of #biocybernetics and #biophysics, they enjoy growing interest and deliver novel methods for research, diagnosis, and therapy. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41852474/ doi.org/10.3389/fend...

This is why we love #CalciumSignaling Look how mechanical damage triggers long range Ca2+ waves in this plant !! By @annalisabellandi.bsky.social, who is now around here ;) Full www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org #microscopy #cell #mechanobiology 🧪🔬

want to share something I've been working on to help me get better at backyard #birding, hope this helps others

Spring is arriving, but there's still snow in the forecast! How do late #winter storms affect our migratory #birds? Out now in @natecoevo.nature.com, we ask that Q with 25+yrs of #CitizenScience data and ~400 museum specimens collected after the 2021 Great TX Freeze: rdcu.be/e7aUy #EcoEvo #evolution

📢 Hiring: Tenure Track Professor of Flyway Ecology & Scientific Director of BirdEyes, the Centre for Global Ecological Change Apply before 31 Mar 👇 werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/ten... #Hiring #Vacancy #ScienceJobs #SciComm

nobel prize. right fucking now. im serious.

I had the opportunity to write a research briefing for Nature, in which I summarized our recent work in African Striped Mice. It’s a short read for anyone who wants a quick overview! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1/6 Do neighboring #PlaceCells in #Hippocampus CA1 map neighboring locations in space? 🧠🗺️ Is there micro-scale spatial topography in the hippocampus? See our latest paper from @kavlintnu now out in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Bugs, any bird and bug in one capture. Here's a male #YellowHeadedBlackbird with a beakful of bugs to feed the kids. #PaternalCare #Birds🪶

Like professional football players, snapping shrimp shield their brains and eyes from concussive forces with protective headgear, according to a new study. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4quFGG6