🏃 A heads-up for the #FENS community! #FENS will take part in the Brussels 20K, with a dedicated team running and walking in support of FENS activities! 🌟 👉 Find out more information here: buff.ly/49gkN7D 👉 Team registration form: buff.ly/dGwCs6K Stay tuned for more updates!

come check out what we're cooking here! 📣 early career neuroscience researchers in europe 📣 this will be prior to FENS 2026 in Barcelona - have a look 😎

📢Are you a young PI or senior postdoc in neuroscience looking to embark on the challenging journey of starting your own lab? 📆Then save July 5, 2026 in your calendar and join us in Barcelona for the second Young PI Symposium. youngpisymposium2026.com

New paper covering what we think is a pretty nice and comprehensive overview over tools suitable for neuroethology in butterflies and moths. Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist. @neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s003...

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Congrats Bassem - very well deserved!

I’m proud to have helped launch the #PITraining survey of FKNE @fkne-scholars.bsky.social We ask PIs to share what really matters for effective research leadership. Your feedback = better support, better science. Take part or share: fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-pi-surv... Deadline: 29 Dec 2025

Apply for a PhD in Paris!! A project to come and work with me and my team at the GutSense lab included in the list! 🪰🧠⛽

Cool preprint from the lab of Raouf Issa at ESPCI in Paris with a small contribution from our lab at @ijmonod.bsky.social Padmanabhan et al found that a specific set of Drosophila dopamine neurons, which is already active in embryos and stays functionally important for locomotion throughout life.

Having witnessed many HHMI labs during my postdoc, my impression was that many of them struggled to even productively spend all their money. At some point it seems logical that you just hit diminishing returns; systematic studies have come to the same conclusion. www.science.org/content/blog...

***Super cool-project alert***⚠️ Come work with @dirkmetzler.bsky.social and me in trying to understand how transcriptional noise evolves in a phylogenetic context 🧬 Deadline 15th Dec 2025 (Project funded by @dfg.de @gevol.bsky.social)

Paris in the top-5 bike-friendly cities in the world ❤️ www.paris.fr/pages/paris-...

Call for junior or mid-career group leaders in neuroscience! Apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network. We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars who are committed to exchanging scientific ideas & improve neuroscience in Europe. fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...

Fellow neuroscientists, consider applying and reach out if you have any questions! fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...

Junior or mid-career group leaders working in neuroscience, apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network! We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars, committed to exchanging scientific ideas & contributing to improve Neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur

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#MembraneTraffickers! Our next online seminar is this Thursday, Nov 6 at 5 PM CEST! We’ll hear from @agatawitkowska.bsky.social on mechanical control of neurotransmission and @abdourachidthiam.bsky.social on lipid storage mechanisms in health and disease. Spread the word and join the discussion!

It's 2025. The world is going to shit and, in Greece, people get killed over football teams. A sense of despair not only about the present but also about the future.

50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of #DevoEvo #EvoDevo, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵

🚨 Excited to share my first preprint on bioRxiv! 🎓 We uncover a non-canonical role of condensin I, beyond chromosome segregation 🧬 This work is the fruit of a collaboration between the @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social & @betermieri2bc.bsky.social labs! ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Check out our new preprint on the evolution of enhancer loss. Turns out there are 50 ways to lose a function. We found four of them. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Preparations for the next JEDI meeting are underway! The upcoming Junior European #Drosophila Investigator / #NewPI meeting is planned for Portugal in June. Final dates and additional details will be announced soon - stay tuned for updates!​

Spread the word! There is a professor position opening at our University @upcite.bsky.social. There are several possible (great) labs to join, but if you are interested in DNA methylation and epigenetics in mammals, don't hesitate to contact me directly!

How do pleiotropic TFs generate organized diversity in developing tissues? @spinalorga.bsky.social shows that PAX3 & PAX7 organize #SpinalCord by acting as both repressors & pioneer activators, regulated by #morphogens to ensure precise neural subtype specification @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4qumsla

Aabel Aaberg and Zyra Zywiec are celebrating!

New preprint led by the brilliant @aleksandra-marconi.bsky.social on cichlid brain diversification, fgf8a signalling and regulatory divergence with TEs on the mix! All part of a wonderful collaboration with @ebablab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @camzoology.bsky.social

In Donostia, teaching myself some Basque

Our latest paper on a histone methyltransferase-independent function of PRC2 controlling small RNA dynamics during programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium is now published in #NAR. #RNAbiology #TEsky #smallRNAs #PRC2 #DNAelimination 1/5 academic.oup.com/nar/article-...

Ever wondered what drives enhancer-promoter specificity? Why would an enhancer activate one gene rather than another neighboring one? Check our latest preprint, led by @mmasoura.bsky.social, to find out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm looking to recruit a post-doc to help push forward our growing interests in insect ecotoxicology. Apply here by Nov 30th! (thanks for reposting) career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...

Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports... This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman 1/3

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

Interested in morphogens and how they can robustly specifiy different cell types with single-cell resolution? Check out this preprint combining experiments and modelling by our colleagues and partners in crime @ucl-cdb.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

That feeling when you wake up and realize that the POTUS "disparaged renewable energy sources and challenged the scientific consensus on climate change"

🔔 Applications are open for the #FKNE Online Training Series for New PIs in Europe! Launching 11 November 2025, this 6-week course helps new PIs in Europe strengthen leadership, communication and lab management skills. 🧠 🗓️ Deadline: 15 October 2025 Apply now 👉 https://loom.ly/Ceus8Ys

The #FKNE Leadership Training Course for the Starting PI is open! Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your abilities and learn to tackle challenging moments as an early group leader! Application deadline: 15 Oct. 2025 fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders... @fens.org

Very excited to share an excellent review from @teresa-urli.bsky.social, published one week before her PhD defense! We did a deep dive into the fascinating biology of the variant Polycomb complex, PRC1.6 (1/5) journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

In Greece, the words "antifascist" and "in solidarity" are used as an insult by a large fraction of the population and that's all you need to know about contemporary Greece

That's not possible - at some point nature (not the journal) has to read some textbooks and stick to them...

🧠🦈Excited to present our latest work🧠🦈Interested in brain evolution? And shark embryos? Then read on… Our work sheds light on the deep origins of our brain’s most complex regions.

At long last, the version of record of our paper on the #platynereis #connectome "Whole-body connectome of a segmented annelid larva" is out. Explore the rich online presentation with all the videos, figures and source data here: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97964 @eLife @biology […]

At FKNE @fkne-scholars.bsky.social we believe in community empowerment and skill building. The registration for the Leadership and Soft Skill Training Series for the starting PIs is now open (deadline October 15)! Apply and network! 💪🏻

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

New preprint, taking our lab into ecotoxicology, with a nifty combination of experimental evolution and CRISPR screening in cells, to help unravel the still-mysterious resistance of Drosophila sechellia to its favorite fruit: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

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Latest paper elifesciences.org/articles/107... closes an important cycle in our efforts to study regeneration: week-long recordings allow us to observe the behaviour of cells during the entire course of regeneration in a crustacean leg – bright objects in movie are fluorescent nuclei of cells. 1/6