I'm pretty sure this is parody, right? Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

👋 Happy Friday! Here is the first preprint from the lab, starring Sophie Waldron and Yixin (Demi) Liu! We present a single-nucleus atlas of peptidergic neurons from the Drosophila brain, which we use to identify changes in gene expression under protein deprivation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This September, I will be running the Great North Run and raise funds for the Samaritans. If you would like to support their fantastic work, or if the thought of me suffering for a couple of hours brings you some joy, don't hesitate to make a donation 🏃😅👟 www.justgiving.com/page/vincent...

Zandawala lab is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on neuromodulation of feeding in Drosophila and other arthropods at KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). Details for the position can be found here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share!

🎉 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.

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 🗳️✅

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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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: 🧵

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...

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

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

🚨 We are #hiring a PhD Student to study cerebellum-like circuits in #Drosophila. Please spread the word! www.groschner-lab.org/join #Neuroscience #PhD

🚨 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]

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👇

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 🧵

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.

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...

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...

@senapati.bsky.social latest and greatest! Charly Treiber on board too. Over and 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...

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

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...

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.

You still have some time to apply! don't miss this opportunity

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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...

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?

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!

#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!

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]

🧠🍄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_...

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...

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.

‼️🔬 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

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:

Highly recommended! 👇🏻

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.

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.

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...

A modulatory attentional gate promotes recent memory expression in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629828v1

🎓 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

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

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/

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...

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

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

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

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. 😃