@jasonsynaptic.bsky.social given the relationship between ARC and HSV-1, interesting finding, n'est-ce pas? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vaults are incredibly interesting ribonucleoprotein complexes that are vital for cellular function.

Finishing 2025 on a high.

RNA therapeutics for the win.

Excited to share that this work is now published in its final form! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Keeps coming…… the US juggernaut. www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...

Solid.

RNA transfer or cell surface RNA, take your pick…. both are awesome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

$600 million… that’s how to invest in discovery. like I said awhile ago, don’t count out US science just yet… astera.org/neuroscienti...

Intrigued. Will have to reexamine our circRNA translation data!

My good friend, colleague and mentor, @gavanm.bsky.social speaking truth about the Australian research landscape. Will @albomp.bsky.social listen, hear, and act? The money is there in the MRFF, we need to access it immediately. substack.com/@gavanmcnall...

Cool! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Announcing the 2026 edition of the EMBO workshop on RNA localization and local translation! This meeting will be held June 30 - July 4 near Porto, Portugal. Come for exciting updates in the field from both established investigators and trainees. See the link below for details!

Now we’re getting somewhere. direct analysis of acquisition vs extinction on the horizon.

Nowhere will this be more evident than in the brain…… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ecDNA is super interesting.

The @sfn.org posts inundating my feed were awesome. Unfortunately, we are now back to the overwhelmingly boring political reposts. Wishing those posters could stay on X, bigger audience there anyhow.

Share your research at the next Canadian Neuroscience Meeting May 18-21, 2026 in Montreal! Calls for Parallel Symposia, Satellite Meetings, Poster Abstract and Travel & Professional Awards are now open - Don't miss these opportunities! can-acn.org/meeting-2026/

Don’t count US science out just yet. The largest economy on the planet will rebound in a very big way. It’s already correcting….. episteme.com

Cool paper on pseudoU and memory by former postdocs Wei Wei and Xiang Li. Proud to see where they have taken their science…. molecularbrain.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

We have strength across a wide range of neuroscience topics, including ageing and development, brain injury and repair, cognition and behavior, mental health, RNA science, etc.

To clarify, the QBI Director need not be focused on Dementia, this just happens to be one of the sites where the recruiter has posted….

Here’s the posting. Please reach out if you have any questions about the QBI or life in Brisbane. Director: Queensland Brain Institute www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/director...

The search for the next QBI Director continues. If interested, please touch base. Lots of new initiatives in play at QBI and there is substantial support for exceptional researchers with a bold vision.

I'll admit it! The suspense is killing me.

Understatement!

picosecond times scales for rna modifications….. imagine structure states are not far of this speed so riboswitchs must be wicked fast. x.com/j_a_c_s/stat...

RNome? Sad that politics won’t allow us to call it what it is.

Introns rule. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looks like the right conditions for RNA structure function control inside neurons.

Future thinking.

It’s that time a year again…

The QBI is crowdfunding its Brain Research Endowment Fund and we've almost reach our 2025 target. Please share with your network, we would appreciate any and all gifts to support Discovery Research. givingday.uq.edu.au/campaigns/qb...

… plants and infecting fungi can use packets of havoc-wreaking RNA as a form of coevolutionary information warfare: An enemy cell reads the RNA and builds self-harming proteins with its own molecular machinery.

Say what? 👍

Like!

TNTs for the win! RNA transfer is a thing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Solid thread.

RNA in neuroscience people, save the date, this course is going to be epic. All are welcome! www.neurosas.org/advanced-cou...

Nowadays, too many institutions thinking ‘if we build it they will come’ combined with a shortsighted research funding model, a saturated Phd training sector, bloated admin load, and a general decline in creativity. Tough times indeed!

Occasional PSA: Intracellular molecular processing, especially in neurons, is not about differential RNA expression or even protein abundance for that matter. Not about quantity. It’s about qualitative, functional states. The sooner we get there as a community the faster the science advances

RNA and Proteins: Who Bosses Whom? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

We've been busy in the lab, and I'm super proud of the team right now. These three papers are great examples of "Night Science", creative, curiosity driven work at its best! All are works in progress. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This was huge effort that involved many great friends and colleagues, including Sourav Banerjee, Howard Chang, C.K. Chen, Xiang Li, Wei Wei, @irinavoineagu.bsky.social, @anggonolab.bsky.social, and the entire lab @QueenslandBrainInstute.

How do neurons deal with fitting large regulatory proteins into small spaces to control plasticity and memory? By generating micropeptides via local translation of circRNAs, of course! Here’s to shedding new light on the ‘dark’ proteome in the brain. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

First of two major paper drops this week. Ever hear of extrachromosomal DNA? Mostly studied in the context of cancer and oncogene amplification, we’ve found an important role for these peculiar DNA elements in the brain! #neuroepigenetics #memory www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Long non-coding RNA Cerox1 targets components of the mitochondrial electron transport chain to regulate the memory impairment caused by sleep deprivation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676326v1