Happy Autumnal Equinox. Happy Chicagohenge. Today, we move into another season of the year.

Witch-hazel has the coolest fall flowers💛 #Hamamelisvirginiana #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱

Fabulous Buckeye (Junonia coenia) in the prairie today Nature is amazing #Leptember #Butterflies #NativePlants #Naturephotography

Six on Saturday has the blues this weekend. Two salvias, Blue Mistflower, Drummond's Aster, Tall Boneset, Partridge Pea, and the Diana that visited me this week. #SixonSaturday #nativeplants #gardening 🌱🦋

Good morning. Two fritillaries and their caterpillars on the Maypops vines from yesterday. I haven't found any chrysalides this year, probably because the garden is so messy. Fritillary/Agraulis vanillae and Variegated Fritillary/Euptoieta claudia. #butterflies #nativeplants 🦋 #gardening 🌱

Sun rise peeking through these pines

We have developed a new workflow to map whole human organs at single-cell resolution, while integrating spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. We applied this workflow to map precancerous lesions of the fallopian tubes. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Modeling whole ascidian embryos for #forksningdagene 😉🧪🧬🔬#devbio

Today, on #WorldAlzheimersDay 🌎, we come together to raise awareness and take action in the fight to #ENDALZ. 💜 Donate during our World Alzheimer’s Day 2X Match Challenge to double your impact: bit.ly/46cZKGm. Unable to give? Then repost 🔁 with why you support the Alzheimer’s Association.

On #worldalzheimersday our team is thrilled with our efforts to understand how amyloid (magenta) interacts with blood vessels (green) and how better 🐁 models and translational approaches will help the fight to #endalz And 🙏 @alzassociation.bsky.social for the support

The East Building of the National Art Gallery is one of my favorite places. Often overlooked - it’s kind of tucked away - is the roof terrace, including the Blue Rooster - worth making sure to swing by if you are visiting and have not been up there

How does the brain fill in what's missing? Pattern completion pushes visual cortex into "seeing" what is not there. Great to see this out, congrats to the authors on this impressive work! #neuroskyence

Lots of things hitting all at once so feeling a little underwater, and this image felt kind of like a self mirror for #FluorescenceFriday 🧠🔬🧪

I love growing all the 3D organoids, but here is cortical neurons appreciation 🧠 iPSC-derived TUJ1 + (green) cells #FluorescenceFriday

✨🔬 #FluorescenceFriday Confocal stack of chicken retina 🐥 — from inner nerve fibers up to photoreceptors. Layer upon layer of mosaics, each cell type in its place. Birds have remarkable visual systems, and under the microscope, they look absolutely stunning in detail.

Happy to share these gorgeous images of a chicken neural tube with fiery green, orange, and blue microtubules and explanted #NeuralCrest cells with green actin and pink microtubules taken by Camilo Echeverria on this #FluorescenceFriday. #DevBio @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social

✨ They say true beauty is on the inside… This zebrafish took that personally 🐟 🟢 Bone 🟣 tendon & ligament🔬Image by Hung-Jhen (Olivia) Chen #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #Zebrafish

If you are interested in great #fluorescencefriday videos, images and anything microscopy or MRI related follow our new account for the MIND platform @mind-western.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social @touchscreencog.bsky.social @tridentpct.bsky.social

I am normally focused on photoreceptor cilia, but this week I worked with an amazing lung epithelial tissue model and I can see the #motilecilia appeal 🤩 so fascinating! Happy #fluorescencefriday everyone!

Which track do I choose: On #FluorescenceFriday, a pair of newly formed oligodendrocytes encounter a field of neuronal axons. Later in development, they will wrap around and insulate subset of these axons

#FluorescenceFriday: a weekly reminder that behind the data, there are moments of pure wonder. This is why we do what we do. And the #retina is so uniquely beautiful!

Hey Keri, some nuclei wear their emotions on their chromatin 🤭 I’m sure this is not in any epigenetic text books. Ironically, I captured this on a Lattice Light Sheet microscope a few years back which protects cell from phototoxicity.

Striatal patches often look like eyes to me.

Pareidolia when looking at histology is a time-honored tradition, and honestly helped me learn anatomy

Lots of things hitting all at once so feeling a little underwater, and this image felt kind of like a self mirror for #FluorescenceFriday 🧠🔬🧪

All full of two-colour dSTORM just in time for #FluorescenceFriday 💥

#FluorescenceFriday Back at the confocal with lots of larvae to image from this spawning season. This a lateral view of the larva of Spirobranchus lamarcki from St Andrews, Scotland #EvoDevo #DevBio

It's #FluorescenceFriday! Another movie from our preprint, showing exocytosis of VAMP2-pHluorin (live-cell TIRF, blue) correlated with 2-color STORM of spectrins (green) and clathrin-coated pits (magenta). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Time to add some ExM to #FluorescenceFriday ! Sample description in alt-text.

Bringing from the bad place this bulbar dopaminergic neuron with 3 (!!!!!) AISs for #FluorescenceFriday 🧠

I am excited to announce that the Johns Hopkins University Solomon H. Snyder Department has become an interdivisional department between the School of Medicine and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, unifying neuroscience research and education across the university. hub.jhu.edu/2025/09/15/j...

Researchers at @uclastemcell.bsky.social & @dgsomucla.bsky.social created the first human hippocampal #assembloid model, which can be used to study epilepsy as well as neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative, and other brain disorders. stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-re... #devbio #neuroskyence 🧪

Reflections on water over hazy sunrise

✨ The Art of Open Science ✨ This beautiful crossstitch was created by Leah Blankenship, an undergraduate student at the @uoregon.bsky.social! This meticulously embroidered art uses data from our Allen Brain Reference Atlases. #OpenScienceWeek

One week left to register for the 1st conference on assembloids at @cshlnews.bsky.social this December. Spectacular list of speakers (see below) tackling cell-cell interactions across tissues and organs Two amazing keynotes: Ruslan M. Medzhitov & Joanna Wysocka #assembloids #organoids

For those interested in a neuroscience PhD - the University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Neuroscience www.neuroscience.umn.edu is hosting virtual open house events coming up on Oct 6th and Oct 30th. Learn about the program and meet students and faculty! Register here: forms.gle/kANEp4Fmd3ut...

echinacea purpurea & Physostegia virginiana hanging out #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

WE ARE... hiring! Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

This article is truly impressive, both for the significance of its findings and the enormous amount of work it represents! Briefly, it demonstrates that the gut-brain vagal axis exerts a considerable influence on dopamine-dependent reward-related processes... 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The search for the mechanisms cortical regulation of sleep continues. Latest collaborative work suggests that part of the answer lies in the cortex. By switching cortical neurons on and off, we could change how much sleep animals got — and even the quality of that sleep. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Monarda punctata front and center in our smorgasbord mass planting of fall blooms. #MonardaPunctata

The Turtleheads have grown! #flowers #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #nature #Connecticut #wildflowers #plants #grown #bloom #flowerlife #tall

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions. Lots of updates from the preprint!

Yes, I am on the academic job market looking to start my own lab at the intersection of molecular, computational, and systems neuroscience! If you think my work may be interest to your department, please don't hesitate to reach out. Thank you, Keri!

So super important and such top notch science from an incredible team!

Nature Reviews Neuroscience has turned 25! To mark the anniversary, the October issue features an expanded selection of Comments and Journal Clubs, and our first World View and Tools of the Trade articles. Check out the issue here: www.nature.com/nrn/volumes/... #neuroscience #neuroskyence

This was a really fantastic collaboration! Congratulations @mictott.bsky.social Rita Cervera Juanes, @svitlanabach.bsky.social and all co-authors! 🧪🧬💻🧠

We hope that this data will be a valuable resource for the broader community. We have developed in-browser shiny apps to explore the processed data available on the github page (tinyurl.com/2jnascj9), and all raw data is currently available via GEO (GSE281366). 12/13

Very excited to share my second postdoc, now out in Science Advances! We used targeted snRNA-seq to profile four major subnuclei of the primate across three species (including humans). 1/13 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats Michael! Really appreciate the brilliance & creativity you brought to the analyses and as always, sincere dedication to open science 🧪 🧠 @mictott.bsky.social is on the job market!! Amazing skillset spanning wet lab/computational at molecular, cellular + systems level - and across species!