I have re-started my lab at @towsonu.bsky.social a month ago. 🤩 Big changes come with challenges, but also with lots of positive sides. Moving disrupts progress in the short term but can accelerate growth in the long run. 💪 How was your move? tinyurl.com/34tjkhtw #NewPIagain

What a powerful way to end the week with a seminar by Sonia Shah on human and other animal migrations (and well, much more than that) 👏 @towsonu.bsky.social

Join us today for a great #TIBBE seminar and discussion! @neuroluci.bsky.social and I can’t wait to co-chair this 🤩 Starting in less than 2 hours!!! #EvolutionaryNeuroscience

This guy and I are ready to start teaching some human anatomy and physiology this semester 😉 @towsonu.bsky.social

Starting this new adventure at @towsonu.bsky.social with three pretty amazing new women faculty 🤩 also, finally got to meet @crystaluminski.bsky.social in person!

Vacation mode? 🙅‍♀️nope! 8 am: Early morning coffee, kids already dropped off at daycare, and ready to tackle a Monday of intense #grant writing today. 💪

Official start date at @towsonu.bsky.social is getting closer and closer..in the meantime, I spotted this already 😉

What an amazing #glia #meeting in Marseille. It was great to have a symposium with @inbalgoshen.bsky.social @julimrosa.bsky.social and Mattias Ollivier. It was also great to meet good old friend-shining scientists, and make some new too!

It was wonderful to see the representatives of the Glia Network in Europe, Canada, and China in one place 🤩

This might have been my shortest European Glia Meeting (could only come for two days🥲), but @gliameeting.bsky.social is ALWAYS worth it. Great to catch up with a few glia friends in Marseille 👇🤩 #GLIA2025

It was a real blast to see all the posters of a growing community of #GliaNetworks at #GLIA2025 🤩 Thanks @astrocytenet.bsky.social (aka Kerstin Lenk) for your efforts to put us together 👏 See you all around the world 😊

Fun to participate to the #GliaNetworks joint booth, see you next time!!🙌 Learn more about what all of these network do here: www.networkglia.eu/resources/re... #IGN #GLIA2025 @gliameeting.bsky.social

Intrigued about glial cell diversity across #evolution? ✨🪱🐟🐀🐒🐅🦍 Come to our symposium #S23 at 4 pm today at #GLIA2025 ! 🤩 Aleksandra Pekowska and I are honored to co-chair this session! Thanks to our speakers Carlos Diaz-Salazar and Shai Shaham👏👇👇👇

Two weeks until #GLIA2025 🤩 Who’s coming? Aleksandra Pekowska and I are bringing a bit of #evolution to this great meeting 😉 Looking forward to co-chairing our symposium “S23 Glial cell diversity and function across evolution: from worms to mammals” 🪱🪰🐁🐅🦇🦧 More info soon!

We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Want to learn more about #astrocyte diversity across #mammals beyond Rodents and Primates? My student and I dug the literature to find out what is known about astrocytes in non-rodent and non-primate species, I hope you will enjoy our review! 🤩👇👇👇 karger.com/bbe/article-...

Starting now!!! :)

Looking forward to another cool #TIBBE seminar today, the topic for today’s talks and discussion will be “linking brain and behavior” 🤩 Join us on crowdcast 👇👇👇

It was fun collaborating with Dr. Giovanna Ponte and Martina Zinourov Roncalli di Montorio to write this review on #octopus #glia: go check it out, it is finally out in Brain, Behavior and Evolution by @kargerpublishers.bsky.social! #GliaEvolution karger.com/bbe/article-...

I honestly can't wait to chair this session today, together with Matthew Broadhead! Join us to hear three new talks at #AstrocyteCafe ☺️🥰

Great to connect finally in person!!!😍 #TIBBE #ECCN2025

It’s a wrap for #ECCN2025, many new ideas, collaborations, but -above all- new interesting people to hopefully meet at other meetings in the future!!! Grateful to be part of this community! #ComparativeNeurobiology #EvolutionaryNeuroscience #EvolutionaryGliaBiology

Now you can also read all about @idoiaeu.bsky.social beautiful work on catshark brain development and the enigmatic origin of cajal retzius cells in their preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@k4tj4.bsky.social’s talk left me speechless: a great study on how mechanical forces can shape the evolution of brain morphology (70 primate species,impressive computational models and validation from development!). 👏👏👏 Also, so glad to finally meet Katja in person! #ECCN2025

Brought a bit of #glia to this great evolutionary meeting. It was fun to be part of this session, together with Bradley Colquitt and Auguste von Bayern, chaired by the amazing @k4tj4.bsky.social 🤩 Thanks @borrell-lab.bsky.social and the other organizers for the invitation! #ECCN2025

Alain Chédotal @alainchedotal.bsky.social giving a beautiful presentation with amazing data on the Development and evolution of the visual system. at #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

Takashi Namba @takashi-namba.bsky.social talking about the metabolic microenvironment for the evolution and development of the human neocortex at #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

Diving into Multiome approaches to understand gene specification networks in the zebrafish retina with Juan Ramon Martínez-Morales @jrmarmor.bsky.social at #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

Nuria Flames showing how C. Elegans can be used to learn about the mechanisms underlying evolutionary adaptations of homologous neuronal cell types, #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social

Víctor @borrell-lab.bsky.social kicking off #ECCN2025 in Alicante. Looking forward to an amazing meeting with fantastic speakers covering a large range of the phylogenetic tree. First up: Gilles Laurent on Evolutionary perspectives on circuits for vision and sleep, including octopus camouflaging 😍

On my way to #ECCN2025 in Alicante (Spain), can’t wait!!! Also, I am messing with my circadian rhythms this month with all this jet lag back to back 🙃 eccn2025.umh.es

Had a wonderful visit to the Krasnow Institute at the George Mason Universoty yesterday🤩 Thanks so much, Giorgio Ascoli, for the invite! If you don’t know them already, check their two massive online projects/databases NeuroMorpho.org and Hippocampome.org 💪 #OpenScience

The first @embo.org #Astrocyte #Meeting was a success! Thanks to our excellent speakers, brilliant trainees, & DiBio @unipd.bsky.social volunteers. Looking forward to the next iteration! Laura.Civiero Matthew.Holt Olga.Sin WonSuk.Chun Keith.Murai Valentin.Nagerl @carmenfalcone.bsky.social

This month marks the last one as a PI in Italy before moving my research to Towson University and starting a lab all over again. Shoutout to the amazing folks I had the honor to work with in Italy and made it all worth it: best of luck for the next steps of your careers! 🙌🫶

We will host a symposium on Evolution of behavioural diversity: from ecology to genes and neural systems at @eseb2025.bsky.social 17-22 August, Barcelona eseb2025.com Keynotes by @ornellabertrand.bsky.social & Isabela Almudi Cabrero Submit your abstract before April 25 eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

Great feedback from a galvanizing community at @embo.org #Astrocye Meeting where @zhenyangsun.bsky.social presented our data unravelling how #anatomy shapes astrocyte function @kcnhub.bsky.social @kbi-uhn.bsky.social

Thanks Laura Civiero and @mdepitta.bsky.social for organizing this amazing #EMBOastrocytes workshop. I am grateful to have you as collaborators but - above all - as friends ♥️ #Astrocytesrock but #sciencefriends even more 😉

Shoutout to my very dear friend Vanessa Casha who presented her latest results from Bal Khakh lab, and is thriving in her first European conference 🙌🫶

#Day4 of #EMBOastrocytes has another great lineup of speakers. Absolutely loved the talk by Laura Civiero (who’s also one of the organizers of this fantastic meeting!!) 👏👏👏

Starting day 3 of #EMBOastrocytes with a beautiful talk by Amit Agarwal on #astrocytes and #mitochondria: cutting-edge techniques and,l most importantly, very crucial fundamental biological questions pushing the frontiers of mitochondria and glial biology 🤩🤯

#ItalianGliaNetwork folks stick together and plan future intercontinental collaborations 😉🥹 #EMBOastrocytes #mentoringsession

Had an amazing time presenting our latest data from #FalconeLab (right before we move it to @TowsonU !) Also, it was amazing to connect with amazing young #astrocyte researchers right after it! #varicoseprojectionastrocytes #evolution #neuropathology #EMBOWorkshop

Beyond excited to be at EMBO workshop on Astrocytes in Venice. A great opportunity to connect with old and new friends! Starting now!!🤩

Check out our book chapter on our immunofluorescence protocol to stain #astrocytes in unconventional species, for the book Astrocytes - Methods and Protocols, edited by @dibenedetto-lab.bsky.social! . Congrats to our postdoc Caterina Ciani 🙌 #FalconeLab link.springer.com/protocol/10....

🚨The first #preprint of the #FalconeLab is OUT!🥹🚨 We found that varicose-projection astrocytes are not a physiological type of #astrocytes but they are rather associated with neuropathology. Read more here, feedback is welcome!! More details👇👇 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣 💥 The BraYn Association will award “Placido Illiano” Grant to young researchers who wish to pursue a short research stay in a different laboratory or attend a practical course 📣💥 Deadline: April 30, 2025 #Brayn #Braynconference #neuroskyence #neurosky www.braynassociation.com/placido-illi...

What makes us human? Bipedalism, empathy, art, yeah yeah..all good answers, but I think we have a winner 🤣 #AABA2025

Turns out I actually know somebody at this conference. Great to catch up, Begun! Want to know anything on the cortical cell composition at the basis of language-trained gorillas (yes, Koko included♥️)? Then she’s the person to talk to! #AABA2025 @gwanthropology.bsky.social

Finally got to meet in person @cbabbitt.bsky.social can’t wait to start collaborating! 🤩 #AABA2025

#AABA2025 is rocking not only the science but also the coffee!