Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

re: the elephants drawn by people who had never seen elephants, it is ESSENTIAL to click through to the master interactive, where you can enlarge each successively worse elephant (and link to the original source!!)

"Roughly three-quarters (73%) of H-1B workers whose applications were approved in fiscal 2023 were born in India. A majority of approvals every year since 2010 have gone to workers born in India." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Ed Kravitz passed away yesterday. He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired. We will miss you, Ed.

The Sosa Lab website is now live! www.sosaneurolab.com We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.

5/ Some wings have evolved strategies to help reduce damage resulting from collisions. For example, we learned a few years ago that wasp wings have a flexible joint that acts like a reversible crumple zone, allowing the wing tip to easily bend out of the way when it hits things...

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

💥OUR LAB IS HIRING!!💥 We are hiring a research assistant/lab manager to assist with managing our axolotl colony and enabling some kick-ass science! Looking for high levels of organization, collaboration, problem solving and curiosity. Application link: tinyurl.com/3tpvphpm #SciJob #JobAlert

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

new pape from our lab, led by the indefatigable @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social. i am very proud of this one.

but yes conservatives who want to spend ten years in grad school to teach a 5:5 load for $45K a year and yes you do have to pay for parking should have the same opportunities as liberals to do so, and largely do.

So happy this is finally officially published!!! Such a gorgeous paper, gone out a read if you haven't yet (and also maybe even if you have, there's a lot of new stuff added since the first preprint came out). #Neuroskyence

My awesome Drosophila colleague Akhila Rajan at Fred Hutch (Seattle) is recruiting both a staff scientist and a postdoc to study fat–brain communication, innate immunity, mitochondrial signaling, and brain senescence. Great team, great environment. Apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30062/j...

This was certainly what I loved about going to Columbia as an undergrad, and why the news there is also so gutting :/

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

🪰 How do dozens of tiny fly muscles cooperate to move a leg? We’re excited to share the first 3D, data-driven musculoskeletal model of Drosophila legs based on Hill-type muscles, running in OpenSim and MuJoCo simulation environments. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06426

REMINDER: IN 2 WEEKS! Panel session on applying to grad school fellowships (emphasis on the NSF-GRFP + PD Soros)! 🎓✨ Hear from recipients on: 🔹 Lessons learned 🔹 Writing tips 🔹 Sharing your unique story 📅 September 22nd at 3pm ET 🔗 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/graduate-s...

God's work this thread. Will he ever run out???

Biology Department xkcd.com/3140/

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

This is clearly a jumping spider 👀 (Goeldichironomus carus midge with eyespots like a salticid)

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Trans rights are, in fact, human rights. Pass it on. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂

This is the best explanation of the weird new ant paper.

Since the season is approaching, I'm reposting my advice for applying to PhD programs. It covers things like *what the admissions committee is looking for *how to write a good statement *how to optimize your letters of rec *addressing weaknesses *and more! www.brains-explained.com/advice-for-a...

I have an autoimmune condition that just decades ago was a death sentence. Now I just need a drug infusion every once in a while and I'm good to go! Thanks science! #sciencesavedme

Science has already saved countless lives and will save many more if we let it. Hearing firsthand from patients whose lives have been saved by medical research (tinyurl.com/m65339fh) shows how vital this funding is, even for those lucky enough not to have needed it yet. Please share #ScienceSavedMe

Hello world! Today’s officially the first day of the lab! It’s an empty space currently only filled with ideas (that I don’t have card access to yet 😂) but I’m excited for the science that will happen here! -JCG

For my health, I can't read this at the moment. But I'm sharing because it's the type of information one should read if it wouldn't put them at risk for some sort of cardiac event.

My quote of the day Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks. Yo-Yo Ma

Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀 We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs. bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Come join us at UBC in Vancouver! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30389 @zoology.ubc.ca

day 2 #InverteFest #invertebrate weird fact: there are some ants with only a single chromosome, while some butterflies shred their genome into multiple "microchromosomes" 🧬🐜🦋

Excited to announce the opening of the @fitzsimmonslab.bsky.social at @michiganstateu.bsky.social dept. of biochemistry & molecular biology! (1/3)

We're kicking off our #ECO.EVO.EDU series with our annual webinar focused on NSERC scholarship & fellowship applications. This session is specifically tailored for our student & postdoctoral members who are navigating the evolving NSERC funding landscape. More info here: csee-scee.ca/event/nserc-...

The University of Oregon is searching for an Assistant Professor with a focus on Developmental Neuroscience. We are excited to have you come join us - apply! Application information can be found at: careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job...

We are deeply saddened to share that our friend and colleague Jim Hudspeth passed away on Saturday. We will remember and continue to be inspired by Jim’s integrity, his humility, and his unwavering commitment to discovery.

🧠 🌍 Should I stay or should I go? Join us Sept 10, 11–12:30 PM ET for the #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora Symposium! 🎙️Stories, science & real talk on moving countries for a scientific career. Hybrid AND free → Register here: tinyurl.com/BINW25 #5YearsOfBIN #BINW25

if you're a teacher who wants to bring science to life in the classroom, @skypeascientist.bsky.social brings scientists to your class. Sign up at: www.skypeascientist.com

📣 Calling all early career #neuroscientists! @thetransmitter.bsky.social & Neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support #EarlyCareer Researchers. Whether you're a student, postdoc, or launching your career, we want to hear from you. ➡️ www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

This is an official Skype a Scientist HQ Mayday Alert to all Archaeologists. We've already gotten more requests for archaeologists than we have archaeologists. We have 38. We need a lot more than 38! Dig yourself into this database, we NEED ya www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines. tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

Total disaster for the #drosophila community if flybase disappears

Our faculty job market series continues today on the topic of CVs, cover letters, and LORs. Come hear myself, @brisapalikuqilab.bsky.social & @jayeperview.bsky.social share our thoughts/advice today at 3pm ET / 12p PT. There will also be time for Q&A. Registration link in flyer - see you soon!

Really cool new story from Ed Levitan and @yulonglilab.bsky.social labs - check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We need about 300 more scientists before we let teachers loose on the database! Tell your colleagues, we need ya!

Bowdoin College is hiring in Neuroscience! Come join a growing and thriving community of colleagues and brilliant undergrads! Please share! @blackinneuro.bsky.social @sacnas.bsky.social @outtoinnovate.bsky.social @sfn.org @ostem.org @acnporg.bsky.social

These databases are critical community infrastructure that need dedicated funding streams. This is an opportunity for charitable funders—Wellcome, HHMI, CZI, Gates, etc.—to make a dramatic difference in biomedical research capacity at a cost that is negligible relative to their budgets. (2/2)

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.