Welcome to the 75th cohort of Grass Fellows! To celebrate, we reached out to past Fellows to hear about how their experience shaped their career: Graeme Davis (1994), Barbara Ehrlich (1980), and Dame Frances Ashcroft (1978). Find out what the Fellowship meant to them! www.mbl.edu/news/75-year...

Congratulations to Kavli-Grass Fellow Takato Honda, recipient of the @mit.edu Infinite Expansion Award! The @picowerinstitute.bsky.social research scientist is being honored for studies, mentoring, and recently discovering a new marine species! picower.mit.edu/news/takato-...

Join us in the Clapp Auditorium of @mblscience.bsky.social's Lillie Building for a night of science storytelling and live music, as the 2026 Grass Fellows share the stories they honed through a Transom storytelling workshop. Register for FREE www.eventbrite.com/e/science-st...

When #GrassFellow David Hildebrand got jaw surgery in his 20s, he was surprised to find that people he'd known for years struggled to recognize him. That's part of why he's so interested in how paper wasps recognize each other's faces. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KryG...

Former @grassfoundation.bsky.social Vanessa Ruta!!! Very exciting!!!

Postdoctoral researcher @isaacsiuwong.bsky.social in the @hymanlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de is 2026 Grass Fellow @grassfoundation.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social. 🎉 He will pursue his project “Dancing diatoms as a proto-neural model” at MBL for 14 weeks. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Two weeks left to apply for the Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Award! Do you know a rising star in neuroscience? Encourage them to apply!

DEADLINE EXTENDED! ⏰ Apply to Summer Program in Neuroscience, Excellence and Success (SPINES) by March 20. 🔗More info here: https://go.mbl.edu/SPINES

Three weeks left to apply for the Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Award! Go for it! grassfoundation.org/apply-for-th...

Welcome to the 2026 Grass Fellows! This year marks the 75th anniversary of the program. @mblscience.bsky.social www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-wel...

APPLY NOW for the *Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Award,* recognizing outstanding postdoctoral neuroscientists from underrepresented groups in neuroscience who demonstrate excellence in research and a commitment to diversity. Deadline: April 1 grassfoundation.org/apply-for-th...

A strong showing of #GrassFellows at this week's Cephalopod Neuroscience Gordon Research Conference!

Do you love quantifying animal behavior as much as we do? We have just the tool for you! Presenting #OCTRON - a pipeline that helps you create rich annotation data and enables training of custom segmentation models. Have a look, particularly if you work with non-model / invertebrate organisms!

ONE WEEK UNTIL THE DEADLINE! Spend the summer in the Grass Lab at the @mblscience.bsky.social in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, conducting your own original neuroscience research in a richly supportive shared environment. grassfoundation.org/application-...

Come see us at booth 3816 at #SfN25!

See you at #SfN25! Catch up with Grass Fellows and activities supported by The Grass Foundation. The full Grass Community Guide is right here for you! grassfoundation.org/grass-commun...

The priority deadline for the 2026 Grass Fellowship is 2 weeks away! Apply by October 15 for the opportunity to receive technical feedback on your proposal and make changes before the final December 1 deadline. grassfoundation.org/application-...

The neuroscience community has lost a dear friend and mentor. Ed Kravitz passed away on Sunday, September 21, 2025. Here he is this past summer speaking with (and making margaritas for) the 2025 Grass Fellows, as he's done for more than two decades. Rest in peace.

Now accepting applications for the 2026 Grass Fellowship! Do you have a great idea for a project you can do next summer in the Grass Lab at the @mblscience.bsky.social? Get working on that proposal! grassfoundation.org/apply-for-th...

Want to hear some amazing science talks from Grass Fellows? Tune in to the 2025 Grass Fellows Symposium tomorrow morning! Thursday, August 28. 9am-noon ET Zoom Link: mbl.zoom.us/j/9313786881...

We are pleased to announce the 2025 Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Awardees, Christian Cazares @fleabrained.bsky.social and Eddy Albarran @albarran.bsky.social! ‬ grassfoundation.org/2025-henry-g...

Each scientist brings a unique identity and cultural background into their professional space. Join SfN and the @grassfoundation.bsky.social's upcoming webinar to learn how you can navigate these dynamics and create a more inclusive scientific community. 🔗: vist.ly/3y9i7 #NeuroSky

At @mblscience.bsky.social, Grass Lab Associate Director Oscar Arenas Sabogal is peering into ctenophores’ puzzling physiology to determine how their nervous system transforms sensations into behavior. "The more we investigate, the weirder it gets." www.mbl.edu/news/comb-je...

Zebra nerite snails have diagonal stripes painted across their shells. But sometimes, a dramatic change will pause and switch their shell pattern to something new. 🐌 Kyra Schapiro investigates how these shell patterns emerge in the Grass Lab. Learn more: bit.ly/4llySJ7

2025 Kavli-Grass Fellow Kyra Schapiro is spending this summer in the Grass Lab (@grassfoundation.bsky.social) understanding how environmental factors shape shell patterning in Zebra nerite snails and how the nervous system might control this process. Learn more here: bit.ly/4llySJ7

Huge thanks to Benj Plackett & the @nature.com journalism team for featuring our tardigrade 🧠🔬🧬 work! Means so much as an early-career researcher building community + tools (neural atlas, GCaMP strain, behavior) now based in @gaou-ak.bsky.social Lab @ IAB Tsuruoka 🇯🇵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Birds have a structure called the lumbosacral organ at the base of their spinal column, and we don't know yet what it does. But 2024 Grass Fellow Hannah Martin wanted to be among the first to investigate its neurons in detail. grassfoundation.org/how-birds-ba...

Please help us welcome the 2025 Grass Fellows! The Grass Fellowship program brings early-career investigators to the MBL to pursue a self-designed, independent research project in neuroscience. Learn more here: bit.ly/3H57boR 📷 Credit: Scott Bennett

Looking for some good news today? We have eight inspiring early-career scientists heading to @mblscience.bsky.social to spend the summer conducting research on topics ranging from pain sensation in sharks to ocean acidification and behavior in sea slugs. grassfoundation.org/announcing-t...

Please help us welcome to campus the students in our Frontiers in Reproduction Course! For the next 6 weeks, they will learn state-of-the-art methods and current concepts in reproductive biology. Learn more here! bit.ly/43nKfK0

Missed the Neurobiology in Changing Environments #NiCE symposium? Watch the full event on YouTube! Explore how nervous systems respond, resist & recover from the challenges of a rapidly changing world. 🌎 🌊 🧠 🧬 #KavliNeuro #FrontierScience #Neuroscience www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

With all their complexity in a tiny transparent package, could tardigrades be a useful organism for neuroscientists to study as they unravel the many mysteries of the brain? @tardi-neuro.bsky.social thinks it’s time tardigrades have their moment! grassfoundation.org/time-for-tar...

What is it like to do a Grass Fellowship at @mblscience.bsky.social, spending a summer doing intensive research in this amazing community of scientists? For early-career researchers like Andrea Gaede, it's a boost of enthusiasm!

🐸 How do gliding tree frogs see the world? ➡️ What are the mechanisms of their visual motion processing? ➡️ How do they make the split-second decisions? ➡️ What can this tell us about the evolution of neural systems? grassfoundation.org/how-gliding-...

Horseshoe crabs are amazing, and last summer one of our Grass Fellows successfully made the first genome-edited horseshoe crabs while he was at @mblscience.bsky.social! grassfoundation.org/first-genome...

Congratulations to A. Kimberly McAllister, one this year's @aaas.org Fellows! She is a Trustee at The Grass Foundation, as well as a former fellow! Congratulations to all this year's amazing fellows, and thank you for the work you do! www.aaas.org/programs/fel...

The first genome-edited horseshoe crabs! 🧬 2024 Grass Fellow Guilherme Gainett spent a summer at @mblscience.bsky.social developing genetic tools for these ancient creatures to see what their eyes can teach us about the evolution of sensory systems. 👀 grassfoundation.org/first-genome...

MBL in the news! 🔔 Check out this story in @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the importance of neuroscience courses like the ones at the MBL. www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

@mblscience.bsky.social Hi there! How are things in Woods Hole?

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