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Neuroscience – behavior – genetics – evolution Columbia University
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Happy to have played a role in this discovery. As a case, not a scientist.
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Caroline Hu
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Met my books for the first time. 'Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater?: Jacques Cousteau' by
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and me is out now!
#unboxing
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
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Next-generation enhancer AAVs for selective interspecies targeting of midbrain dopaminergic neurons
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Applications are now open for the
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Alan Kanzer Postdoctoral Fellowship. Deadline: December 16, 2025
bit.ly/KanzerFellows
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Alan Kanzer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
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Ardem Patapoutian
2 days ago
RIP Jim Watson. You inspired many of us to pursue a life in research. I wish you had made it easier for us to celebrate your legacy.
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna
4 days ago
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Genome Biology. We are particularly interested in researchers investigating the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying genome function and regulation. More details ➡️
tinyurl.com/3t7vvdct
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The Borborites were a fun bunch
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Roger Freedman
8 days ago
The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢
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Mike O'Donnell
16 days ago
I'm thrilled to share our new preprint, in which we've found that neurotransmitters can be chemically "marked" as a way to incorporate metabolic history - such as diet or life stage.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Led by Porhathai "Un" Malaiwong, Allen Schroeder and Tia Brown. (1/6) 🧵
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Nuclear receptor-neurotransmitter coupling links behavior to metabolic state
Animals must flexibly respond to environmental stimuli to survive, and optimal responses critically depend on the organism's current needs. Many organisms have evolved both cell-intrinsic and intertis...
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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis
13 days ago
#EPFL
has an open faculty position - tenure track or tenured!! - in AI driven biophysics. Deadline is Nov 15th. Please spread the word!
www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
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Assistant/associate Professor of AI-assisted Biophysics at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Group Leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) jointly seek to appoint a Tenure Track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor in AI-As...
https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/assistant-associate-professor-of-ai-assisted-biophysics-at-the-ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne-epfl-and-group-leader-at-the-paul-scherrer-institute-psi/
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12 days ago
Please share/repost widely: I have a postdoc position available. Please see ad below and reach out to apply.
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15449
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Postdoctoral Fellow in the Capellini Laboratory of Developmental and Evolutionary Genetics
The Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Evolutionary and Developmental Genetics Laboratory of Dr. Terence D. Capellini....
https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15449
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Jonathan Frazer
17 days ago
Applications are open for the @crg_eu PhD Programme! 20 fully funded positions — including one in our group through the Evolutionary Medical Genomics ITN. Join us to develop deep generative models of cross-species data to tackle open questions in disease genetics.
www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
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Catherine (Katie) Schretter
17 days ago
Excited to announce our new pre-print (
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
)! This collaborative work (co-led by Adriane Otopalik and Gerry Rubin) examines how neuronal circuits regulate social behaviors, like courtship🫶 and aggression🥊, across sexes.
#neuroscience
#Drosophila
#WomenInSTEM
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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute
17 days ago
Our Alan Kanzer Postdoctoral Fellowship program is accepting new applications! The fellowship offers a competitive salary, broad-ranging collaboration opportunities and access to state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. Learn more!!
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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós
17 days ago
The CRG PhD call is now open. Exciting opportunities across diverse topics and within a world-class scientific environment. Our group is offering one PhD position to study chromatin evolution. Consider applying or share with anyone who might be interested!
www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
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Kelsey Tyssowski
18 days ago
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
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New faculty job opening at
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@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Come be our colleague! Application deadline: November 22
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William Burns
21 days ago
In a grim world, some good things continue, such as the annual
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70% off sale.
press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off
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70% Off Sale
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WeRateDAGs
23 days ago
We couldn't not rate this classic early DAG by our beloved collective granddagy, Sewall Wright. 14/10. Ten for the DAG, plus one for each cute guinea-pig node. From Wright (1920) "The Relative Importance of Heredity and Environment in Determining the Piebald Pattern of Guinea-Pigs"
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Pwnallthethings
24 days ago
Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...
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A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/science/kryptos-cia-solution-sanborn-auction.html
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Piali Sengupta
24 days ago
Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc! If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email. Please RT 🙏
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The Onion
24 days ago
Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams
https://theonion.com/biologists-announce-there-absolutely-nothing-we-can-learn-from-clams/
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Philipp Brand
25 days ago
Excited to share our new
#biorxivpreprint
We discovered that the fruit fly
#drosophila
erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion. Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit
shorturl.at/gGYm7
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Greg Jefferis
25 days ago
Excited to share our new
#biorxivpreprint
: “Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We describe the
#connectomics
reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult
#maleCNS
#drosophila
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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós
25 days ago
We are happy to share our latest work in
@nature.com
. We study the genomic and cellular basis of facultative symbiosis in Oculina patagonica - a Mediterranean coral remarkable for its ability to survive long periods without algal symbionts. Led by Shani Levy and
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The Brain Prize
26 days ago
This morning Larry Abbott, 2024 Brain Prize winner, delivered a plenary lecture at
#ECNP2025
. It was a stunning example of how reconstruction of neural circuits at synapse resolution can provide fundamental insights into mechanisms of circuit computation.
#NeuralCircuits
#TheBrainPrize
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Kaessmann Lab
25 days ago
We are thrilled to share our new preprint entitled “The origin and molecular evolution of the mammalian liver cell architecture”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Lucia Prieto Godino
about 1 month ago
We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying:
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Prieto Godino Lab | Cellular and molecular bases of neural circuit and behavioural evolution
https://www.crick.ac.uk/careers-study/vacancies/2025-09-24-prieto-godino-lab-cellular-and-molecular-bases-of-neural-circuit-and-behavioural-evolution
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Cahir O'Kane
about 1 month ago
Sad to hear of the death of John Gurdon this morning, aged 92.
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Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-sir-john-gurdon-frs-1933-2025
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Excited to share our new work, led by undergrad extraordinaire Lochlan Krupa. Vitamin A and its product, retinoic acid, are essential in vertebrates. We either get VA preformed in diet or make it from carotenoids. Using betta fish we discovered a gene that is essential for VA production
doi.org/p8h5
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Retinoic acid production via the ray-finned fish gene beta-carotene oxygenase 1-like is essential for juvenile development
In vertebrates, vitamin A (VA) is crucial for development, tissue homeostasis, vision, and immunity. Retinal, a form of VA, is produced via enzymatic cleavage of β-carotene by beta-carotene oxygenase ...
https://doi.org/p8h5
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Mia Levine
about 1 month ago
Check out this new Levine-Lampson collaboration, led by the talented Hyuk-Joon Jeon. We explored the consequences of inheriting long telomeres from dad and short telomeres from mom. Or the reciprocal. Turns out, parent-of-origin matters (in mice, at least).
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Merriam-Webster
about 1 month ago
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology
about 1 month ago
A maternal-fetal PIEZO1 incompatibility as a barrier to Neanderthal-modern human admixture
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679417v1
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Anita Devineni
about 1 month ago
My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist! Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!
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Akiyoshi Kitaoka
about 1 month ago
How to create a demo of color illusion
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Dan Garisto
about 1 month ago
New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit.
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/grfp-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship-program
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
about 2 months ago
Holy shit, this is a huge deal
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Richard Sever
about 2 months ago
HHMI adopts Plan U
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Rebecca R Helm
about 2 months ago
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Matt Rockman
about 2 months ago
C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]
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The Onion
about 2 months ago
Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving
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Tiffany Ito
about 2 months ago
University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#socialpsychology
#cogpsyc
#PsychSciSky
#PsychJob
#psycjobs
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Assistant Professor
https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=67372
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Cedric Feschotte
about 2 months ago
📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the
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PLS spread the word!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607
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Cornell University, Molecular Biology & Genetics
Job #AJO30607, WDR-00055221 Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607
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Adria LeBoeuf
about 2 months ago
If you are from the US and interested in applying for a PhD with me (or anyone else
@camzoology.bsky.social
@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social
), your deadline for the gates scholarship is October 15! (You’ll need to write a research proposal, so contact PIs now)
www.gatescambridge.org/programme/th...
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Postgraduate Cambridge University Scholarship | Gates Cambridge
A fully funded graduate education for future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.
https://www.gatescambridge.org/programme/the-scholarship/
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Ecology and/or Evolution
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
. Deadline to apply September 30. Reach out if you have questions.
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about 2 months ago
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Sasha Gusev
about 2 months ago
Massive sibling regression study finds that human traits are largely environmentally driven (average heritability = 0.3)
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Within-family heritability estimates for behavioural and disease phenotypes from 500,000 sibling pairs of diverse ancestries
Quantification of the direct effect of genetic variation on human behavioural traits is important for understanding between-individual variation in socio-economic and health outcomes but estimates of ...
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Ecology and/or Evolution
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
. Deadline to apply September 30. Reach out if you have questions.
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about 2 months ago
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World Bollard Association™️
about 2 months ago
Patience is a virtue.
#WorldBollardAssociation
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Corrie Moreau
about 2 months ago
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...
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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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