Vincent Croset
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Neurogeneticist - Associate Professor, Durham University, UK
https://crosetlab.net/
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Clara Howcroft Ferreira
14 days ago
🎉 Exciting news for our lab: we will have open positions soon
#PostdoctoralResearcher
#ResearchTechnician
! If you are interested in
#SocialBehaviour
,
#FearResponses
, and
#DrosophilaMelanogaster
, get in touch with a short CV and a statement of research interests.
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The Green Party of England & Wales
21 days ago
Real solutions, unity over division, and a plan to deliver for all of our communities- what you'll get when you vote Green this Thursday 🗳️✅
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Zack Polanski
21 days ago
When you see the relentless attacks from other parties on the Greens across the media remember this: They hate our plan to end Rip Off Britain. They don't want a wealth tax. They don't want public ownership & lower bills. They're trying everything in their power to stop us.
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Meet Zandawala
about 1 month ago
Can a single brain cell decide whether to eat or not? 🧠🪰 Turns out... yes. And we found it in the fruit fly. A pair of neurons called SELKs (subesophageal leucokinin neurons) can drive feeding behavior in both directions. They promote it or suppress it. Here's how: 🧵
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George Monbiot
2 months ago
If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one. My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot
The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/uk-energy-prices-soaring-war-iran-fossil-fuel-north-sea
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Ali Twelvetrees
3 months ago
Save the date for
#NeuroBioUK26
Do you like neurons? Maybe glia? Molecules? Cell biology? - The venue is booked and we are excited to see you and your incredible science there on the 11th of September! Please do join our email list to stay up to date.
neurobiouk.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
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Zack Polanski
3 months ago
EXCL: Zack Polanski overheard speaking loudly on his phone on a train saying there's shit loads of new green party members. And the Greens are going to win elections right across England and Wales in May.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Lukas Groschner
3 months ago
🚨 We are
#hiring
a PhD Student to study cerebellum-like circuits in
#Drosophila
. Please spread the word!
www.groschner-lab.org/join
#Neuroscience
#PhD
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🚨 Postdoc opportunity to study memory or nutrition in
#Drosophila
🪰 I am looking for a candidate to support for a 3 year Addison Wheeler Fellowship application
lnkd.in/e2rvNf5x
Interested? Please send a CV & cover letter with brief research outline by 20th February to
[email protected]
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addison-wheeler-fellowship - Durham University
https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/advanced-study/fellowships-funding/addison-wheeler-fellowship/
3 months ago
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Marco Bocchio
4 months ago
Fully-funded PhD with me and
@srikipedia.bsky.social
to study serotonin functions with cutting-edge experimental-computational approaches in a
#NeuroAI
framework. Based at
@durhampsych.bsky.social
&
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
🔗
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
⏰ Deadline: 27 Feb 2026 More info👇
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Control of top-down and bottom-up information by serotonin: a combined experimental and computational approach at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Control of top-down and bottom-up information by serotonin: a combined experimental and computational approach at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/control-of-top-down-and-bottom-up-information-by-serotonin-a-combined-experimental-and-computational-approach/?p193837
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Matthew Freeman
4 months ago
I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of
@ukri.org
) appearance this morning at
@ukparliament.parliament.uk
Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.. A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting... A 🧵
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Johannes Felsenberg
5 months ago
Congrats to all the grant recipients! Extra happy for Burak and Dennis from my lab. And in this context: we’re hiring—open postdoc positions in the lab. Feel free to reach out if you’re interested.
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Clara Howcroft Ferreira
6 months ago
Interested in the neurobiological basis of social behaviour and its dysfunction? Join the Ferreira and
@wolfhuette.bsky.social
groups at Northumbria University for a fully funded PhD opportunity studying group behaviour in flies. Further details are available here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Neuronal circuit-level action of genes underlying social behaviour dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster (Ref: RDF26/SE/GNS/FERREIRA) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Neuronal circuit-level action of genes underlying social behaviour dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster (Ref: RDF26/SE/GNS/FERREIRA) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/neuronal-circuit-level-action-of-genes-underlying-social-behaviour-dysfunction-in-drosophila-melanogaster-ref-rdf26-se-gns-ferreira/?p190873
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7 months ago
We have two advertised fully-funded PhD positions to work on memory or disease models in Drosophila! Please check the SWBio DTP website for more information and reach out if you are interested:
www.swbio.ac.uk/molecular-me...
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Molecular Mechanisms & Pathways projects – SWBiosciences Doctoral Training Partnership
https://www.swbio.ac.uk/molecular-mechanisms-pathways-projects/
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Scott Waddell
7 months ago
@senapati.bsky.social
latest and greatest! Charly Treiber on board too. Over and out.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Visceral signaling of post-ingestive malaise directs memory updating in Drosophila
Consolidation is a time when labile memories transition to a stable form. Malaise learning in Drosophila reveals consolidation to also permit memory updating. Flies taught to associate one of two odor...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.21.683769v1
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Richard Benton
7 months ago
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...
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Career Opportunities: Posdoctoral researcher in toxin susceptibility and evolution of resistance in insects (22517)
https://career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jobId=22517&company=universitdP
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
8 months ago
A gut-brain axis for aversive interoception drives innate and anticipatory emesis in Drosophila.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679515v1
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Richard Benton
8 months ago
Having personally sworn for years that insects don’t use GPCRs for odour detection, Suguru Takagi (
@sugurutakagi.bsky.social
) discovers that, in fact, they sometimes do …
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A GPCR signaling pathway in insect odor detection
Odor detection differs fundamentally in vertebrates, which use G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), and insects, which employ ion channels. Here, we report the first evidence for a GPCR defining tunin...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680299v1
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8 months ago
Excited to share our collaborative PhD project with Adam Dobson (
[email protected]
) on interorgan signalling in the ageing gut. Please contact Adam If you are a highly motivated student wanted to work on a super exciting Fly project.
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Emmanuel Perisse
8 months ago
You still have some time to apply! don't miss this opportunity
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👀 Highly recommended 👇🏻
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Richard Benton
9 months ago
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...
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Intersecting experimental evolution and CRISPR screens to identify novel toxin resistance loci
Understanding toxin resistance in insects is key to appreciate niche adaptations and for pest management, but remains challenging due to complex genetics. To investigate how Drosophila sechellia evolv...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.23.666417v2
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Mari Bastashevski
11 months ago
I'm looking for teaching materials to help encourage cellular biology students to drop AI illustration and instead sketch during lectures—as well as while conceptualizing the future of food—without fear of lacking hard art skills. Suggestions, anyone?
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Andreas Prokop
12 months ago
Towards more sustainable research: reducing the environmental impact when working with
#Drosophila
. Challiner, Saurya., Patel, Raff, Fostier, Prokop, A. (2025)
@genetics-gsa.bsky.social
, in press --
doi.org/10.1093/gene...
- Always happy to discuss and hear your ideas and views!
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European Drosophila Society
12 months ago
#Drosophila
@flybase.bsky.social
requires 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 help if you can!
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Andreas Prokop
12 months ago
SUSTAINABILITY &
#DROSOPHILA
- If you keep flies & have tried to re-use containers but then given up on it, please could you let us know & tell us the reasons? We urgently need statements for a publication about sustainability in fly labs. Please, contact
[email protected]
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Marco Bocchio
12 months ago
🧠🍄Have you used classic or non-classic
#psychedelics
? We are running an anonymous online study on how these experiences relate to mental processes. Share your experience (takes less than 15 min):👉
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Alice French
about 1 year ago
Interested in the neural circuits underlying memory formation?🧠🤔 See below a postdoc position advertised by the Boto lab at the University of Bristol 👇
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=375201&jobTitle=Research%20Associate%20in%20Sensory%20perception%20and%20learning%20and%20memory%20circuits%20in%20Drosophila%20(Postdoc%20position)
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This is all sadly very true. We urgently need to put together a strategic committee to generate a portfolio of recommendations about how to initiate a reflection about these issues.
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‼️🔬 I am looking for a PhD student to investigate the molecular signatures of memory engrams in Drosophila. 🎓 Fully funded 4-year PhD position (BBSRC NEEDL) 📍 Durham University, UK More details and instructions to apply:
tinyurl.com/durhamPhD
#Drosophila
#Neuroskyence
#Neuroscience
#Memory
about 1 year ago
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Wolf Huetteroth
about 1 year ago
Join us for a 4-year PhD in Newcastle at
@northumbriauni.bsky.social
on a fun project (literally)! Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
), we will explore:
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Highly recommended! 👇🏻
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Alicia Hidalgo Lab
over 1 year ago
Post-doctoral position available to investigate how experience shapes the brain. Ideal candidate with skills in: Drosophila, behaviour, imaging. Advert out soon. Meanwhile, if interested, pls contact me.
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Paul Donlin-Asp
over 1 year ago
A plug that my lab is currently recruiting a postdoc. 5 years of funding, the lab has steady funding for the next 8 years, and no active attempts to burn down the scientific enterprise in your potential new home.. Plus the occasional bagpipe player rocking a kilt on the street.
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Alicia Hidalgo Lab
over 1 year ago
Looking for a keen PhD student to investigate how experience shapes the brain, and/or mechanisms of central nervous system regeneration, plasticity and degeneration. Apply here: select "Biosciences", then my projects. Fully funded. Deadline 12 January.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/act...
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Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership
Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/mibtp
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
over 1 year ago
A modulatory attentional gate promotes recent memory expression in Drosophila
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629828v1
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🎓 Looking for a new PhD student to investigate the neuronal and molecular basis of learning and memory in
#Drosophila
! This is a competitive, but fully funded position. More info here:
tinyurl.com/drosobrain
🧠 🪰 Deadline: 8th January 2025
#Neuroskyence
#Memory
#Neuroscience
#Dopamine
over 1 year ago
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Maike Kittelmann
over 1 year ago
Great opportunity to do a
#PhD
with me! Think
#Drosophila
#eyes
are fun to work with? Love to do
#microscopy
? Want to look into organ size regulation and evolution? Maybe even in a pest species? Get in touch and check out how to apply via Oxford Brookes University:
tinyurl.com/37h7pudv
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Oxford Brookes Helps Train Future Science Leaders - Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes partners with leading institutions to train the next generation of researchers addressing global challenges in life and environmental sciences.
https://tinyurl.com/37h7pudv
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Carlotta Martelli
over 1 year ago
There is an open PhD position in our Lab! In collaboration with the lab of
@manuperisse.bsky.social
we will study how flies evaluate negative experiences based on context. More info here:
mrtlllab.uni-mainz.de/we-are-hiring/
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We are hiring! - mrtlllab
We are hiring! Are you passionate about neuroscience and eager to understand how the brain processes negative experiences? The mrtllab is looking for a driven PhD candidate to study the neural mechani...
https://mrtlllab.uni-mainz.de/we-are-hiring/
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Tomás Ryan
over 1 year ago
Registration & Abstract Submission is open for the 2025 "Engram and Ensembles in Learning and Memory" meeting, at Trinity College Dublin in May. Abstract deadline February 14.
#EngramsandEnsembles2025
Preliminary Agenda at event website:
event.fourwaves.com/engramsensem...
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Carolina Rezaval
over 1 year ago
We're hiring! Please share! Exciting opportunities for
#PhD
students,
#postdocs
, and
#research
assistants to join our team in exploring how the brain prioritizes actions in conflict.
#Neuroscience
#Drosophila
Interested? Reach out!
rezavallab.org
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Sophie Caron
over 1 year ago
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
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Every year we invite a late-stage
#PhD
student working in circuit
#neuroscience
or neurogenetics to present their research at our lab meeting at Durham University (UK). Are you interested? Then do get in touch! Dates are flexible between January-March 2024.
#neuroskyence
over 1 year ago
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Alicia Hidalgo Lab
over 1 year ago
Thrilled to see our paper in eLife! Showing structural circuit plasticity in the Drosophila brain and an underlying mechanism involving a neurotrophin, a Toll and a kinase-less Trk. Amazing work by postdocs Jun Sun, Fran Rojo-Cortés & all authors, very grateful to our collaborators. 😃
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A neurotrophin functioning with a Toll regulates structural plasticity in a dopaminergic circuit
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/102222
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Andrew Lin
about 2 years ago
Postdoc position available in my lab! We study sensory coding and memory in the Drosophila mushroom body. More about us at
www.aclinlab.org
Deadline 25 March. Please spread the word!
bit.ly/LinPostdoc2024
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Research Associate at University of Sheffield
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
https://bit.ly/LinPostdoc2024
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#Drosophila
people! Has anyone ever seen (or made) a fly strain with something like UAS-FRT-GFP-STOP-FRT-mCherry? Or a similar construct that enables permanent swapping of fluorophore with a flippase recombinase?
#neuroskyence
#genetics
over 2 years ago
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FlyBase
over 2 years ago
The 20th Neurofly conference will take place in the beautiful University of Birmingham campus, 2-6 September 2024. Neurofly2024 is now open for registrations. Early bird deadline: 16 June 2024.
uobevents.eventsair.com/neurofly24/
#neurofly2024
Pls RT.
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NeuroFly 2024 - Neurofly24
The 20th biennial European Drosophila Neurobiology Conference, Neurofly 2024, will be held at the University of Birmingham, UK from September 2nd to 6th 2024.
https://uobevents.eventsair.com/neurofly24/
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⏰ Just a few more days to apply...
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