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

Happy days with images like this….

RNA can conduct electricity. Isn’t that interesting?

It would be interesting to learn whether the Crispr babies have enhanced memory.

Nice review on lncRNAs in the brain by John Mattick and colleagues. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Higher resolution approaches are required to fully understand how plasticity and memory work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#A-RNA2025 off to a great start. @martinalexsmith.bsky.social sharing his views on why lncRNAs should no longer be consider wallflowers.

This! Nice work by @martinalexsmith.bsky.social and his team.

Mesmerising image.

Congrats to @michaelbclark.bsky.social and team! Moving the needle on RNA modifications in the brain.

Hello Sydney!

I love this. @neurohalfling.bsky.social have a look!

If this one holds up, it's a huge discovery. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

x.com/nobelprize/s... Prof Craig Mello knows what’s up.

The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to [email protected].

A monkey wrench for single cell studies……. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Agreed. We will go there too. This is a fantastic initiative.

#bloomscrolling. Guess where these are from.

Wow! @raflynn5.bsky.social see this?

The IncaRNAto lab is seeking a motivated #PhD candidate, interested in studying #RNA structural ensemble dynamics in living cells. Here's the link to the vacancy: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor.... Please share!