I’m proud to have helped launch the #PITraining survey of FKNE @fkne-scholars.bsky.social We ask PIs to share what really matters for effective research leadership. Your feedback = better support, better science. Take part or share: fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-pi-surv... Deadline: 29 Dec 2025

A 4-year fully funded international PhD project in the lab in collaboration with Johan Vande Voorde. Apply if you are interested in working on an exciting project on CRC and interorgan communication in flies and mice. www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/cruk-si-educ...

New review out! 🔥🧊 We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1

Join the 4th Asia Pacific #Drosophila Neurobiology Conference in China: lhs.suat-sz.edu.cn/info/1031/13... @fly-eds.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social

Apply for a PhD in Paris!! A project to come and work with me and my team at the GutSense lab included in the list! 🪰🧠⛽

Want to carry a PhD in London, in one of the best Universities in the world? We have two calls for PhD students to join our lab at Imperial College. Deadline January 12th. More details for applications in the link below. Feel free to keep in touch!

Mind-bogglingly detailed recordings from virtually every neuron in the higher olfactory centres of the Drosophila brain reveal how innate odour values (= nice/nasty) are encoded by different processes (also, attractive pheromones share the nice process). www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Artificial intelligence promises rapid and polite feedback on papers — but we must first review the reviewer, says Giorgio F. Gilestro go.nature.com/3McjUsw

Cool preprint from the lab of Raouf Issa at ESPCI in Paris with a small contribution from our lab at @ijmonod.bsky.social Padmanabhan et al found that a specific set of Drosophila dopamine neurons, which is already active in embryos and stays functionally important for locomotion throughout life.

Looking for an interdisciplinary funded #PhD in #bees and #physics, #behaviour, #physiology, #neuroethology, modelling? Call open now. International students eligible. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Centre for Research in Aimal Behaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social Exeter campus.

Our paper on the counterintuitive effects of activating dopamine "reward" neurons is out now! Props to all the trainees, especially Fio Lozada-Perdomo and Yuzhen Chen who did most of the work. Yuzhen is applying for PhD programs now and you'd be lucky to get her! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Paper for the #Drosophila community on a food recipe that rears dozens of species. This was a full team effort, with key contributions from UG, MSc, and PhD students! 👩‍🎓🎉 Plus an #infection observation re: Diet x #Microbiota 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #EvolBiol #AcademicSky #SymbioSky 1/4

Happy to see that our recent work led by @nataliafavila.bsky.social and @jcmneuro.bsky.social on amygdala interneuron function for learning and memory was selected as an Editor’s Highlight by @natcomms.nature.com Check our work an many other great articles out here: www.nature.com/collections/...

Excited to share the latest work from the lab: rdcu.be/eRWuD Great team effort, led by @enriberti.bsky.social first at @unil.bsky.social and now @unifr.bsky.social; with fantastic collaborators @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and @dahaniel.muench.bio.

Thrilled to share our new paper! With @tomtom-auer.bsky.social team, we asked how #evolution reshapes what animals #eat to match their ecological niches. Using pan-neuronal Ca2+ imaging, we show that the changes are in how the brain processes #taste. Link @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ed Kravitz was an extraordinary scientist, educator and activist. I had the privilege of getting to know Ed through his work with SPINES, a professional development course at the MBL. His legacy will carry on, not only through his science, but also in the many students he taught and mentored. 🧪

SO HAPPY to share our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using volumetric EM, we found daily shifts in synapses, vesicles, and mitochondria that accompany neuronal remodeling, linking structural plasticity to changes in how s-LNv neurons influence their targets www.cell.com/current-biol...

Hi folks, Check out our updated website! Details on next year's conference will be posted there soon! fly-jedi.org

Happy to share our current opinion on the insulin and octopamine systems and their role in shaping neuronal circuits, energy homeostasis, and behavior in #Drosophila, other insects, and 🧑‍🦱.

Want to join the LMB as a PhD student in October 2026? You’ve got two weeks left to apply! Visit our website for more details: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int... Applications close on 2nd December 2025.

Funded 4-year BBSRC NWD PhD to advance neuroscience through vCLEM techniques. 🧠 Are you passionate about EM, neurons, ageing, neurodegeneration? Come and join us! 🙏repost this project with @ianprior.bsky.social @natsansor.bsky.social @aliemliv.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

@rorycoleman.bsky.social and I wrote an opinion piece called 'From neurons to novelty: Circuit mechanisms shaping courtship evolution' We argue that now is a great time for neuro-evo research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Call for junior or mid-career group leaders in neuroscience! Apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network. We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars who are committed to exchanging scientific ideas & improve neuroscience in Europe. fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...

Final version published here in @cellpress.bsky.social: Structure www.cell.com/structure/fu...

🚀 New paper alert! Thrilled to share our latest study led by postdoc @gera_jayati published in eLife. 👉 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Continue reading for a summary. 🧵

Super pleased with this one, led by the amazing PhD student and foraging expert @emmavscholey.bsky.social!

Out now: Favila, Capece Marsico et al. 2025, Nature Communications: Using longitudinal deep-brain imaging, we report that amygdala interneurons exhibit complex and heterogeneous plasticity during associative learning, at both the single-cell and population level. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Birmingham campus looking beautiful in autumn

🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions! Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery. Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

It’s a good day to talk about women scientists. Let’s also remember Margaret W. Rossiter, who died in August of this year. She coined the “Matilda Effect” (named after suffragist Matilda Gage), which describes bias against acknowledging women’s achievements.

🧠 How do emotion and memory shape behavior? Join live webinar with Dr. Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social l & Dr. Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social(European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen) 🗓️ November 13th | 14:00 CET 👉 Clickto register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🧠In this essay Carlos Ribeiro and Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, @champalimaudf.bsky.social, explore the brain-body interactions. 🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two. 👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...

Come check out the #MCCS25 debate on November 14! Drs. André Fenton & Yaniv Ziv will be debating a hot topic: are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? Moderated by Dr. @sarahrobins.bsky.social 🧠 Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇

We have two advertised fully-funded PhD positions to work on memory or disease models in Drosophila! Please check the SWBio DTP website for more information and reach out if you are interested: www.swbio.ac.uk/molecular-me...

Mariana Wolfner Mariana Wolfner has spent her life studying a creature so small it could rest on the tip of her finger. In her hands, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster becomes something extraordinary, a key to understanding how life is shaped, sustained, and passed on. On a windy fall…

We’re hiring a technician!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇 wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/ Job posting: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968

We are hiring, come work with us! Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department Deadline: December 1st #neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky

On the cover - Congrats @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...

⏰ Last chance! Nominations for the Hugo Bellen and Catherine Tasnier Drosophila Neurogenetics Lecture close Nov 6. Recognize a scientist in #Drosophila neurogenetics—self-nominations welcome! 🚨Submit your nomination today: buff.ly/F2UmFpp

Europe's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.

Phd project on Climate Change Impacts on Sexually Selected Traits, lead by Alison Wright at Sheffield Uni, with supervisor team including @andrewpom.bsky.social and me. Application deadline 7th Jan

Fully funded 4-year PhD position available in my lab! Study neuronal compensation for natural circuit perturbations in the fly brain - learn calcium imaging, electrophysiology, genetics and computational modelling. Apply by 7 Jan 2026. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Proud to have contributed to @gaiabianchini.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social new paper on how the superior colliculus temporally integrates multisensory information

📣 Interested in cell behaviour and cell-cell communication? Curious about cell architecture? Join us at @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social in Barcelona! We’re looking for postdocs to apply for a Juan de la Cierva fellowship. Want to join us? Get in touch! www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...

Neural evolution of complex motor behaviors: insights from Drosophila courtship song #Drosophila

📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t... Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc... Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager. Get in touch!

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of Málaga, Spain🇪🇸 is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch! 📅 Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility. 🙏Please, RT!

A tiny neural network is sufficient to control the daily rhythm of the fruit fly: New paper out in @pnas.org s.org by @nils-reinhard.bsky.social and @flyingclocks.bsky.social ingclocks.bsky.social. Only four specialized nerve cells drive the animals' endogenous clock. go.uniwue.de/circadianclock