Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December. By Lauren Schneider www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Microbiology legend Esther Lederberg was born 103 years ago today. In spite of having been the first to isolate Lambda phage, and bacterial F factor, the director of the Plasmid Research Center, and the originator of replica plating, she never received a tenured university position. #WomenInSTEM 🧪

"Der Vorschlag der Kommission sei "stark von den Forderungen der Pestizidindustrie beeinflusst...Die ersten Opfer dieses Rückschritts in Sachen Gesundheit und Umwelt werden die Landwirte und die ländlichen Regionen sein, die toxischen Pestiziden ausgesetzt sind""

Assistant Professor of Psychology Nacho Sanguinetti is using an unexpected technique to teach students about the brain: improvisational theater. He discusses in our latest Three Questions featured in Omnia Magazine. @upenn.edu @neuroetho.bsky.social

Do we tell them we use it as an antifungal for our fish embryo water?! 🤭

My first experimental PhD paper is finally out! 🎉 We investigate trace conditioning in honeybees and its links to awareness processes and serotonin 🐝🧠 Combining behaviour, computational modelling (by Andrea Alamia), and neuropharmacology ⭐ Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

Deadline for this post-doc position in my lab extended to Jan 11th!

We are hiring a lab manager, for our research group, the Synthetic Neurobiology group (aka Boyden Lab) at MIT/HHMI (on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA)! Please apply if you're qualified and interested, and spread the word! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me, @maxreuter.bsky.social, @fcamus.bsky.social and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University! healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati... 1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies 2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher Please share widely and reach out for questions!

Friends of mine's first publication as a PI showing the dangers of sublethal pesticide doses for honey bee behavior: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749125018585?dgcid=author (gift link) I feel happy for the author, but so sad for the bees! #biology #pesticides #bees […]

This is tough. Adam Kampff was one of the most brilliant people that I have had the privilege to know. He was a wonderful and generous friend and colleague, a remarkable teacher and a visionary who inspired hundreds of others. He was a shining example to us all, and we will miss him very much.

There’s an art to writing a grant proposal so that your creativity is on full display. Maria Leptin - president of the ERC - talks about it on the new episode of the Night Science Podcast.

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

Frauenanteil bei Professuren steigt#Frauenanteil#Hochschulen#Professuren

We are very excited: @hannazwaka.bsky.social has been awarded a Leibniz Best Minds grant as a Junior Research Group Leader! Five years of independent research, tenure track and part of the Best Minds network – a real boost for her career.

Call is out for Champalimaud International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme 2026! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Apply! It's a great experience and you get to meet very cool people. Let me know if you want to know more 🧪

This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news: They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.

New #PhD ad alert! Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England? Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...

(1/n) We are excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications, by Hagar Lavian (@hlavian.bsky.social) and team, revealing how the zebrafish brain integrates visual navigation signals! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025 Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!! www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...

For those interested!

🚨 Postdoc openings! We’re looking for postdocs excited about sleep, synapses & cellular neurophysiology (fly or mouse). Yes, we also have mouse projects! See details: www.flysleeplab.com/positions

Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants. n.pr/4pgmAna

AALAS is our opportunity every year to help facilities new to #zebrafish to make connections and understand that support is out there for them. It's incredibly gratifying to connect with those folks.

🤩 Beautiful cover from @loicaroyer.bsky.social @merlinlange.bsky.social et al

For those interested:

Would you like to learn more about #XAI?  Take a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social's presentation on "Explainable Machine Learning" on the @scadsai.bsky.social #Zenodo page. It covers the basics, including SHAP analysis and Grad-CAM as examples. 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/mzmitnigaa

I read this book when I was 15 and fell in love with DNA. I re-read it at 32 with lived experience in Science and it filled me with rage. I cannot pick up that book now. It reveals what women were/are up against.

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...

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Applications for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award are now open! This program supports early career scientists in #autism or #neuroscience research by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. Apply by 1/14/2026: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/31/a... #science

[Job] Aquaculture Research Associate, Knaut and Torres-Vazquez Labs, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY #zebrafish

Lovely summary on why #zebrafish make excellent models of human disease! Featuring @crumplab.bsky.social 🐟🧪

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨

Motor learning in fruit flies: what happens where and how to improve it Humans use motor learning to learn how to speak, walk, write or ride a bike. Motor learning is essential also for sports or rehabilitation after stroke or spinal injury. Evidence suggests that all forms of motor learning […]

I'm on the academic job market! I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics. A few highlights of my research areas are:

🧠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...

Calling aspiring group leaders! We've just opened applications for group leader fellowship sponsorship to start a lab in UCL NPP. Deadline 5 Jan. @uclnpp.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3h33dvev

#YoRC Webinar TODAY! Join the Joint Young Researchers Committee of #IZFS and #EZS for their webinar: From Tank to Planet - Advancing sustainability in Aquatic Research Facilities Today, November 6th, at 11am EST. Register for #free here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I've updated my Bioinformatics Bootcamp: Zebrafish Special Edition blog post on @the-node.bsky.social! Please do share with trainees or anyone new to the community. I hope it adds some breadth to the many resources available to #zebrafish researchers. 🔗 thenode.biologists.com/bioinformati...

When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.

For those interested, we’ve got two #WomenInScience lists, a list of resource and society accounts that support #zebrafish and lists of Senior Scientists & Group Leaders that work with our favorite fish. If you’re not on a list and want to be added (or just want to double-check), please reach out! 🧪

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/47zrzYZ