Join us at Neurotalks next time to hear all about about conscious, from how it begins when we're babies, through to altered states of consciousness during life! 📆Tues 10 February 🕐7pm-9pm 🗺️ Cambridge Tap

Our first 2026 paper is out @currentbiology.bsky.social! 👏 to @nathancsharris.bsky.social (now Asst Prof, GA State) and PD Priya Dutta. Here we show how transcriptional and trafficking pathways coordinate thermoreceptor levels to precisely modulate response plasticity www.cell.com/current-biol...

This #RaceEqualityWeek join us at 1pm (GMT) on Tue 3rd Feb for an inspiring conversation on career progression in biomedical research. We look forward to welcoming our speakers Adewale Adebajo, Emmanuel Adukwu & Chinedu Agwu! Find more info & register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/24e236...

While UK is proposing to narrow diagnoses (!), our new study led by @isaacahuvia.bsky.social: adults w/ self-identified autism had more unmet needs & higher distress, & similar understanding of autism, than officially diagnosed peers. Most wanted formal diagnosis journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢Calling all @cam.ac.uk neuroscience students: Applications are still open to join our wonderful CamBRAIN team!🧠 This is a fantastic opportunity to get involved in the committee of one of the largest student neuro societies in the UK! More details in the comments👇 Apply by 26/01: lnkd.in/eMZ3P286

🌐Our new LMB website is live!🌐 Fresh design, better navigation, same first-class science. Take a look around ➡️ mrclmb.ac.uk

Tracking the details of an experiment in successively cited Methods sections

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

We have had a lot of requests for the protocol for single-nucleus RNA-seq of adult C. elegans neurons that our lab developed - I hope that you find this helpful! 🧪 #Celegans www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Abstract submission deadline alert for #EESBioOsc! If you are interested in learning about oscillatory phenomena and biological dynamics across a wide range of fields, you should join the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'Biological oscillators' 📥 Submit abstract by 6 January: https://s.embl.org/ees26-04-bl

Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Nicolas Sarkozy reçoit le “prix de littérature” de la FIFA https://www.legorafi.fr/2025/12/12/nicolas-sarkozy-recoit-le-prix-de-litterature-de-la-fifa/

In an interview with @timeshighered.bsky.social, @sventruckenbrodt.bsky.social, Group Leader of the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, shares his motivations for moving to the LMB & how Global Talent Funding has helped. Register to read: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/talent-... #LMBintheNews

Exam season is officially here - and staying motivated, focused, and well can feel like a challenge. We’ve teamed up with @drckt.bsky.social and @learningscientists.bsky.social to share research-informed strategies to help you revise more effectively and look after your wellbeing.

“Remember that there are people on the other side of this who will be reading your review. Those people have feelings. Many will be junior trainees. Your review could be the thing that convinces them to stay in or leave science.”

Happy to share a new preprint from our lab, uncovering "spooky action at a distance" - for RNA Polymerase II: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Can we build a human? Madeline Lancaster joined Brian Cox & a panel of experts for the @crick.ac.uk & BBC Studios podcast A Question of Science, to answer this question. Find the episode here: www.lnk.to/AQOSBioengin... #LMBintheNews @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social @lancasterlab.bsky.social

BBC News - Top UK scientist says research visa restrictions endanger economy www.bbc.com/news/article...

Something to be thankful for ~ our paper on the intersection of fatty acid metabolism and host-pathogen response in #Celegans is now published in DMM! journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

Just in case anyone, like me, has never understood this meme, this is my go-to resource: www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/t... Yummy looking biscuits btw 😋

Read this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

All hail Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most researched organisms on Earth. Collaborative data sharing in the nematode research community led to four Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about human development and disease. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/uNqU50Xyj4e

Racism is not justified by immigration levels or rising poverty, unemployment or crime. It is not justified, period. I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.

My favorite piece of content today.

Introducing the experts joining our webinar in partnership with the BPS Prof. Kirsty Bannister – pain mechanisms Prof. Katy Vincent – gender differences in pain Dr. Letizia Pontoriero – clinical management and research 📅 Wednesday, 26 November | 6:30 PM 🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Are you a postdoc or Asst. Prof on the job market? Check out our listing and consider applying! The search is very broad and it’s in a great department, location, university! Even with the crazy schedule that comes with being a PI- I love my job @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social!

I wrote this insight for eLife. A friend said, "Why would you want to step on that rake?". Well, I guess that's just who I am. Enjoy. elifesciences.org/articles/109...

#caturday again. My little Tallulah, looking angelic, just before chasing the neighbours’ cat over the fence, her first adventure outside the garden.

Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

My article in tomorrow's @theobserveruk.bsky.social now online. But go and buy a copy!

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

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 🙏

Imagine if you had your very own lab to play in at home! Super-cool Lego design from an LMB colleague. Vote to help make it a reality! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

In #GENETICS, @jsrinivasanwpi.bsky.social and the team present a rescue-by-feeding approach, showing that feeding engineered E. coli containing neuropeptides to #Celegans mutants can successfully rescue behavior defects in worms. buff.ly/Qdw9Nsq

Mild stresses on the body, like fasting or cold exposure, can delay ageing. But how? A new Insight Article explores how oxygen-sensing neurons in C. elegans trigger body-wide stress signals that boost resilience and extend lifespan. buff.ly/wJIQKfm

Kittens exploring the garden for the first time (while we all stood around anxiously trying to pretend we weren’t watching their every move)

One of today's winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi. Last year I wrote about Yaghi and Atoco, the startup he founded to commercialize his scientific breakthrough with a device that extracts water from air using just sunlight. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🪱 Ready to take your C. elegans skills to the next level? Join our #EMBOCelegans course! 🎯 Learn hands-on genome editing, AI-driven imaging, microfluidics & uncover development, physiology & evolutionary insights. 📍 EMBL Heidelberg 📅 23 – 29 Mar 2026 👉 Apply by 8 Dec: s.embl.org/cel26-01-bl

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

📢 Deadline for Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship extended till 13th Oct 2025! 12 fellowship awards available, ~£117k each, for individuals from any sector in the UK or globally, with ideas at any stage to advance treatments for neurological conditions 🧠💡 Info: cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...

One of my @somervillecollege.bsky.social science heros. Loved my Structural Biology tutorials with her.

What do we know about the causes of #autism? @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Professor Laura Andreae speaks with BBC Radio 4's Inside Science about the genetic factors behind autism, particularly around twin studies. 🔊 Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

🎉 Congratulations to Needhi Bhalla, UC Santa Cruz (www.bhallalab.com ), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology

Over the last 8 years, Oliver Burton has tested >1000 different fix/perm combos, and here the final verdict is: "Burton's Best Buffer": 2% formalin, 0.05% Fairy dish soap, 0.5% Tween-20, 0.1% Triton X-100. Yep, replace all of those expensive detergents with @pg.com dishwashing liquid

#caturday and neither surgery nor our silly suits slow us down, apparently

Somerville's final Open Day of 2025 is this Friday! If you're thinking of applying to Oxford, please come and visit us between 8.45am and 5pm. It's a great opportunity to meet some of these friendly faces, learn about the college, and talk to our fantastic tutors.

Our Emeritus Fellow Barbara Harvey is featured on today's episode of Last Word. Barbara's former colleague Professor Emeritus Joanna Innes speaks about her life and career, alongside her former student, Professor John Blair.