Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 shorturl.at/rAKAT

A revised version of our preprint now includes results from D. biarmipes Or67a paralogs, data from a second D. suzukii Or67a4 mutant, and a model describing how Or67a paralogs are expressed in two distinct neuronal types in D. suzukii. Stay www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Good job Qi!

Our first big preprint, led by the great Dr. Qi Xue @Qi_Xue_94 . We discovered three mechanisms for olfactory adaptation in the fruit pest Drosophila suzukii, two of which are novel .Well Done Qi; you will be a great professor. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Raghav is a high school student who has been working in the lab on spotted lanternflies for the past two years.

So glad to finally have this out with co-author @mallerybreban.bsky.social and very thankful for the many amazing people who contributed to this study and provided materials and input! 🦟🦠1/12 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NIH Extends the ESI eligibility window drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/n...

🎈Our latest 🪅 We know that in addition to exteroceptive mechanisms, interoceptive chemosensation is also critical for regulating physiology/behavior. We find that an enteric neuron in worms senses ingested salts via a variant ionotropic receptor (IR like the fly IRs) to regulate salt stress. 1/n

spotted lanternfly peeps, check out this new paper from my labmate Katherine's masters work! super cool application of community science in NYC ~ doi.org/10.3954/JAUE...

Preprint! Minos-mediated transgenesis in the pantry moth www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... By @donyaniyaz.bsky.social

Yes, lots of doom and gloom, but stellar science is still produced! From Kronforst lab, sensory underpinnings of mate choice in pretty butterlfies!

Interested in Neuroethology? Then, join us at the 1-day Meeting of the French Club of Neuroethology, in the beautiful city of Montpellier, on May 13th. NO FEES REQUIRED. Just register and submit your abstract in: www.zebrain.bio.ens.psl.eu/neuroetholog... . And enjoy our guest speakers!

As federal funding for research is uncertain, we need to diversify funding sources for our PhD students. Here is a comprehensive list of >160 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities, mostly from private foundations and scientific societies. Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

The latest from the lab, led by the very talented postdoc Dr Qi Xue. Back to the love (Drosophila) with the real love (Shimaa Ebrahim) and the product of the love (Omar Dweck). bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

While I hate listening to my own voice 😀, I am glad I can help explain to my neighbors why science funding is important for our economy, for our nation's scientific leadership, for better treatments for disease and for the next generation of scientists 🧪

"NIH admit freezing is illegal, will resume issuing grants" popular.info/p/breaking-n...

New paper from my group and the group of @kiranrpatil.bsky.social: Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities By Ghada Yousif @metagenomez.bsky.social with @swagatika.bsky.social @isamirgiri.bsky.social Sharvari Harshe et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇

I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...

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Does anyone know what will happen to the council meetings that were canceled? Thanks

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

How do animals compensate for trait loss? In beetles, symbiosis is a consistent strategy. Where the repeated loss of endogenous digestive enzymes is offset by functionally convergent symbioses: www.cell.com/current-biol... Excited to share our latest, out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social!

Last few days to apply for this position. The LMB, is a wonderful place to grow a group with amazing, collaborative colleagues, core funding and a rich intellectual environment in Cambridge.

Kellogg Biological Station is searching for a new Director! KBS is unique in its ability to integrate lab and field research, as well as integrating fundamental research in ecology and evolution with applications to environmental problems. Questions to me or the search chairs. Please apply!

New Ant Lab video out today about jumping parasitoid wasp cocoons! youtu.be/7FNXl1xes18

🦟 Pestered by mosquitoes? Fear not—grapefruit might hold the key! 🍊In our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social, led by Merybeth Triana and Felipe Andreazza, we explore how nootkatone, a compound derived from grapefruit, affects mosquitoes. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Hi peeps! We have a super interesting seminar THIS THURSDAY by Tineke Cantaert. She is an inspiring research director and head of immunology, based in @pasteur.fr Cambodia. All welcome and please re-post to help support! #dengue #protection #immunology

A new method for trimming alignments in #phylogenomics — PhyIN. It identifies and trims regions with high phylogenetic discord. Able to trim well even on single loci — an advantage for gene tree/species tree studies. #evolbiol #phylogeny 🧪http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18504 Some backstory... 🧵

Here is a link to an exciting collection of 14 new review articles in Current Opinions in Insect Science on "Parasitoid Biology in the Anthropocene" edited by Editors: R.M. Borges, R. Venkatesan and S. van Nouhuys. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Message me if you want PDFs you can't access.

If you live in a red state, now is a good time to call or write your senators and ask them to stand by NIH and oppose the confirmation of RFK and Bhattacharya🧪. If you live in a blue state do it as well! We need to galvanize opposition to the wrecking ball approach to reform

So excited to announce our department is hiring a tenure track position in Forest Ecophysiology! Happy to answer any questions about the position!! Join us in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at Penn State! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

I made a systems neuroscience starter pack, focused on experimentalists who study the brain at the level of populations of neurons! Also want to be on the list? Reply or DM me a picture of your ephys rig or 2p setup and I'll add you 🤭 go.bsky.app/UiqX7ry

and as I said with the cell biology set--its awesome how many folks are her--now we need to start posting, re-posting and encouraging our colleagues who are only lurking here to do so as well

(Re)introduction! I am a scientist by profession but also a wife, special needs parent/foster parent, grandparent, runner, hiker, reader, and court appointed special advocate. I post a lot about science, especially fruit flies, but also about whatever else piques my interest.

PS If we ant this to work we needed to: 1) Post science here 2) Repost others science as that's how the algorithm here works

Hi fellow Bluesky scientists. We have a job opening for a new assistant professor of biology and herbarium curator here at the University of New Mexico! Come join our fantastic community at the Museum of Southwestern Biology! See the link below for more details. unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

1/ I cannot think of a better first post in the fresh blue sky to introduce the Caron lab than a thread about 👾Arc👾 and our newest preprint. So, buckle up science butterflies!🦋🧞‍♂️ #neuroscience #Drosophila #ArcGenes #WomenInSTEM

Alright, I guess someone had to do this. Let me know if I forgot you (or anyone else), I can add accounts! go.bsky.app/DRMSeby

Here is a link to my developmental biology starter pack. Please add and follow. go.bsky.app/M5AgJhn

Using this as a way to re-introduce myself and my lab's work here. I also post about other random non-science things. Thanks for the WordCloud: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/pu...

Interesting piece by Chris Hedges open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

Intro time: I am Hany Dweck, an Egyptian American immigrant. I work with the people in the Dweck lab (www.dwecklab.com) to study insect chemoreception.

The University of Iowa is hiring tenure-track investigators with research interests in neurodegenerative disease. Primary appointments can be in various departments. Great research environment and colleagues in a cool town. For more information and to apply, see: jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...