U.S. court orders NIH to restore killed grants to California researchers. https://scim.ag/46xy9hY

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Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

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Walking and feasting on the German shore of Lake Constance

Im ersten Vortrag berichtet Prof. Dr. Britta Renner, @uni-konstanz.de und Vizepräsidentin der DGE, über die Bedeutung der Ernährungsumgebung in Bildungseinrichtungen. 👉 Sie betont: "Was Kinder sehen, prägt, was sie für normal halten“. #BERTA25

🚨 Applications are open! The Princeton Neuroscience Institute invites exceptional postdoctoral researchers to apply for our CV Starr Fellowship, which provides up to 3 years of support plus research funds 🌠 🗓️ Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 🔗 More info: pni.princeton.edu/apply/postdo...

🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬 Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

🥳Congrats! Exciting to see the similarities and differences between hunger-modulation from our findings in the brain and the VNC. Internal state configures olfactory behavior and early sensory processing in Drosophila larvae | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Helge Ewers @ewerslab.bsky.social takes us on an exciting journey into light-controlled release of single proteins in living cells enabling cool new cell biology such as light-controlled signalling studies #SMLMS2025

Be aware of issues with your genetic tools - An essential experimental control for functional connectivity mapping with optogenetics: academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

One of the people I'm indebted the most for creating stunningly beautiful #mesoSPIM samples was Martina Schaettin - who tragically passed away in March this year. To honor her memory, Elkhan Yusifov created an award - submit your best #microscopy images & videos! www.linkedin.com/company/mart...

Can't wait to read this preprint from Misha Ahrens and team. Calcium imaging in larval zebrafish, in every cell in the body! Amazing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a convoluted, 36-page emergency order about NIH grant terminations. Two main takeaways: -$2 billion (not the government # of $780 million) in NIH grants will likely be re-terminated -future legal challenges will be much harder w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social:

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns? To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠 #preprint thread ⬇️1/8

If you’re interested in ants, olfaction, gene regulation, or all of the above, here’s a new preprint from the lab for you. It describes an unorthodox mechanism of transcriptional interference by which ant olfactory sensory neurons produce a single functional receptor. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

And now for an update on my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Thrilled our discovery of a novel sensory pathway controlling satiety in mice is featured in the General-Anzeiger @gabonn 🐭👃🍽️! 👇 Kölner Studie: Geruch macht satt (zumindest Mäuse) ga.de/news/wissen-...

Join junior group leaders using #Drosophila to understand development, #CellBiology, #evolution and more at the EMBO Workshop on Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila, 21–27 June 2026 in Kolymbari, Greece. Deadline: 3 November meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro... #EMBOevents #GeneSky 🧪

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

Exciting new paper from the Bahl lab @bahllab.bsky.social @zwitscherarmin.bsky.social and Katja Slangewal about parallel and convergent processing pathways of different visual features in the larval zebrafish brain🐟 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@katrinvogt.bsky.social representing @uni-konstanz.de at the #KITP Neurosensing/QBio program, presenting work on the social life of fly larvae! 🪰🪱

We have a full house . Konstanz School of Collective Behavior is off to a great start with Iain Couzin as our opening keynote speaker @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social

Over the past 2 weeks, our Scientific Officers walked you through the key aspects of your ERC grant application, in our brand new "ERC Classes" videos. Now the complete playlist is available to view. Watch and learn how to best prepare your proposal for ERC research funding 🎥 👉 bit.ly/3GJjwiO

Heading over to Santa Barbara for the @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social Sommer program. Looking forward to awesome science and exciting discussions!🏖️🌊

Count down to my favorite event of the year that I enjoy organising Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour (21st July - 8th August ) Three week immersion in collective behaviour research Can’t wait to welcome students and faculty next week exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

#Prospects PhDs & postdocs of all disciplines note: Would you like to lead an independent junior research group? In our online talk you will get first-hand information about the aims and requirements of the DFG Emmy Noether Programme and more. Link to the meeting will be published here: fcld.ly/enp

Tomorrow the second Behavioral Neurobiology Summer School in Collaboration with the Pristina International Summer University will start at University of Pristina, Kosovo!! Thank you Ilir Mazreku for having us over for a visit from Konstanz! Thank you Flutura Shabani for all the organization!

Jessleen Kanwal, a postdoc in Caltech talks about research conducted in the Parker lab The lab studies the interaction between myrmecophile rove beetles and ants and compares it with free-living beetles non-symbiotic to ants. www.beetles.caltech.edu

We are looking for early carrer researchers who want to share their fascination for Neuroethology by introducing their work.

Von Ihrem DFG-geförderten Projekt gibt es Bilder, die an die Wand gehören? Dann bewerben Sie sich damit für unseren #Kalender 2026. Das Thema ist "NETZWERKE" und darf frei ausgelegt werden. Einsendeschluss: 15.09.2025. Alle Infos zum Fotowettbewerb: fcld.ly/qumpcsu

Congratulations to our spokesperson Veronica Egger for receiving an ERC Advanced Grant!!🥂🐭🎉

We are proud to have @maxcapelle.bsky.social's paper out on bioRxiv! He found that phototactic behavior in #zebrafish switches during #ontogeny🐟🔆 Through elegant behavioral dissections, he identifies the navigational strategies related to this transition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread 👇

Thank you so much for bringing us all together!!! Great science in such a beautiful location - it was a lot of fun!!! 🪰🏖️

It was a lovely first Fly North(East) meeting, diverse and supportive. Thank you all for sharing your science and the enthusiasm in strengthening our community. Thank you @gensocuk.bsky.social for the sponsorship that made it possible.

Selective octopaminergic tuning of mushroom body circuits during memory formation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.16.659845v1

calling all fly folks, keep an eye out for new system coming soon, through which you can help support FlyBase in this time of dire need.

Heading to one of my favorite meetings where the #Drosophila neuronal circuits world will come together to discuss science in Crete. We will celebrate the golden age of our field and there is so much more to come. Sad that the stete of the world is stopping some of us joining. Science will prevail.

🧿 Excited about molecular biology & genetics 🧬🧬🧬? Wanna live in Paris? Join our team as a lab manager under the supervision of @kevinfidelin.bsky.social & myself! Personal development in professional environment is our mission. Inclusive space where proactive and playing collective people flourish 🧿

VFB works closely with the FlyBase team and we rely on their hard work to provide many of our features. Due to the current funding situation at FlyBase (flybase.org), we encourage our users to donate and help maintain this essential resource.

D. erecta larvae are basically hungry D. melanogaster larvae - such an amazing study! Evolution seems to have hardwired a neuromodulatory circuit change...

How do brain circuits evolve? We started looking for some answers by using synapse-resolution cross-species comparative connectomics on an entire olfactory circuit 👇 bit.ly/44aVm9E

📢 🤩Excited to share our latest paper👃🧠! Huge thanks to the amazing first author @janice-bulk.bsky.social‬ and all co-authors, especially @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social and ‪@tobiasackels.bsky.social‬ 🙌! ‬‬ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Move over, starling murmurations. There’s a slimier, squirmier collective behavior in town. It's a living, twisting tower of worms. Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱 Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...

The Drosophila genetic database FlyBase has lost its nearly $2 million grant. It’s part of the more than $3 billion in federal funding that has been terminated at Harvard University this year. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...

👀 For more than 15 years, Janelia researchers have been on a mission to catalogue the neurons of the fly optic lobes & develop genetic tools to study them. This effort has culminated in a complete inventory of all the visual neurons in the fruit fly ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...