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Harvard_MCB @harvardmcb.bsky.social · 3d

RNA Structure beyond Canonical Base Pairs Guided by Evolution 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

RNA Structure beyond Canonical Base Pairs Guided by Evolution - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

In addition to messenger RNA (mRNA) that provide the code for proteins, there are other RNAs that exert their function just as RNA, usually referred to as non-coding […]

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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 4d

Correction: there was an incorrect date in the first posting, here with the deadline corrected by the Foundation
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Klingenstein Philanthropies @klingensteinorg.bsky.social · 4d

Applications are open for the Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience, supporting early-career investigators engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Learn more: klingenstein.org/esther-a-jos...

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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 4d

Attention, Attention, Early career investigators in Neuroscience: this is a great funding opportunity and a terrific community of scientists to join: deadline for application is February 25, 2026 🧠🧬🔬🧪

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Ding Liu @dingliu.bsky.social · 8d

My Own Lab at Westlake University is OPEN! We are recruiting cool people at all levels NOW!
By tinkering behaviors and neural circuits in distinct animal species (mouse, sugar glider, etc), we are exploring new ways of doing social neuroscience in vivo, in silico and at home!

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Harvard_MCB @harvardmcb.bsky.social · 7d

Zebrafish Study Reveals Hidden Dimensions of Attention🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @sterrett-sc.bsky.social @hannazwaka.bsky.social @zwitscherarmin.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social

Zebrafish Study Reveals Hidden Dimensions of Attention - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

Why do we sometimes falter at even the simplest of tasks? A new study from the lab of MCB Professor Florian Engert suggests that lapses in focus, rather […]

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Samara Reck-Peterson @samreckpeterson.bsky.social · 11d

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Come join our collaborative research environment with state-of-the-art facilities in NYC! Application review starts Oct 22.
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Join our Faculty | Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

Call for applications:We invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the newly established Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. We are conducting an open search for ou...

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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 12d

Yes!…💪

Harvard_MCB @harvardmcb.bsky.social · 12d

“I Stand with MCB” at the MCB Retreat 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @craigphunter.bsky.social @fleshball.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

“I Stand with MCB” at the MCB Retreat - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

On September 19–20, MCB members gathered in Falmouth for the annual MCB Research Retreat. This two-day event has long been an essential opportunity for faculty, students, postdocs, and […]

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Harvard_MCB @harvardmcb.bsky.social · 12d

“I Stand with MCB” at the MCB Retreat 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @craigphunter.bsky.social @fleshball.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

“I Stand with MCB” at the MCB Retreat - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

On September 19–20, MCB members gathered in Falmouth for the annual MCB Research Retreat. This two-day event has long been an essential opportunity for faculty, students, postdocs, and […]

www.mcb.harvard.edu

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13d

This captures much of the frustration of today.

The image is an X post by @RealJakeBroe from 7 hours ago, featuring a two-panel comic. The top panel shows a scientist pointing to a chart with a general trend and an outlier, illustrating a rational argument. The bottom panel depicts a person labeled "ANTI VAX" pointing to a similar chart, labeling it "CONSPIRACY THEORY" with "Lies" and an outlier called "IRREFUTABLE PROOF!!!", satirizing irrational arguments. The caption reads, "It is difficult to win an argument with a smart person. It is impossible to win an argument with an idiot."

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Harvard_MCB @harvardmcb.bsky.social · 18d

Kathleen Quast on Finding Her Path to Neuroscience Education at Harvard 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @zombiflied.bsky.social

Kathleen Quast on Finding Her Path to Neuroscience Education at Harvard - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

For many scientists, the path into research is straightforward: a keen interest in science as a child, a major in biology or chemistry, and years of graduate training. […]

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Harvard_MCB @harvardmcb.bsky.social · 22d

Bellono Lab Research Featured on Two September Cell Covers 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...
@nbellono.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @zombiflied.bsky.social @microbiometcell.bsky.social @jeeyunc.bsky.social

Bellono Lab Research Featured on Two September Cell Covers - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

Two recent studies from the MCB lab of Nick Bellono will be featured on the cover of Cell this month, highlighting the lab’s ongoing exploration of unconventional model […]

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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 22d

A new amazing story by @nbellono.bsky.social: an animal
species -sea slugs- making photosynthesis by stealing chloroplasts from another organism!…

Nicholas Bellono @nbellono.bsky.social · 22d

Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. Photo by Anik Grearson. #evolution #symbiosis. #cellbiology. @cellpress.bsky.social

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Perrimon Lab @perrimonlab.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research

Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research | News | The Harvard Crimson

FlyBase lost a multimillion dollar grant when the Trump administration cut off Harvard’s federal funding in May. Now the repository is laying off staff — and researchers worldwide are worried.

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Sep 7

Legend David Baltimore died yesterday. He understood the way things should work: "the real contribution of MIT is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It takes ideas seriously, but the people are relatively informal. They are not self-aggrandizing the way academics can be."

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Mary Beth Hatten @mbhatten.bsky.social · Sep 7

A. James Hudspeth, Who Unlocked Mysteries Behind Hearing, Dies at 79 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/s...

A. James Hudspeth, Who Unlocked Mysteries Behind Hearing, Dies at 79

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Harvard_MCB @harvardmcb.bsky.social · Sep 5

MCB Rhino League 2025 Championship Recap 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @zombiflied.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

MCB Rhino League 2025 Championship Recap - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

The 2025 MCB Rhino League Championship was almost washed out before it began, as a storm rolled through just as games were set to start. Fortunately, the skies […]

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Herbert Wu @herbertwu.bsky.social · Sep 4

Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congrats Herbert!... looks super interesting 👏🤩

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · Sep 4

thinking about this again. Is it the earliest articulation of a theoretical neuroscience?

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · Aug 29

incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩

Steve Furber powerpoint slide showing picture of Ada Lovelace and a quote: "I have my hopes, and very distinct ones too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations--in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of brain. .... I hope to bequeath to the generations a calculus of the nervous system."

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Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · Sep 4

Excited to share new computational work, led by @jzv.bsky.social, driven by Juan Carlos Fernandez del Castillo + contribution from Farhad Pashakanloo. We recover 3 core motifs in the olfactory system of evolutionarily distant animals using a biophysically-grounded model + efficient coding ideas!

Convergent motifs of early olfactory processing are recapitulated by layer-wise efficient coding

The architecture of early olfactory processing is a striking example of convergent evolution. Typically, a panel of broadly tuned receptors is selectively expressed in sensory neurons (each neuron exp...

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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congrats: such an amazing story and beautiful cover!

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Nicholas Bellono @nbellono.bsky.social · Sep 4

Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social

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Harvard_MCB @harvardmcb.bsky.social · Sep 3

MCB Launches A Slice of Science Seminar Series This Fall 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @microbiometcell.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social

MCB Launches A Slice of Science Seminar Series This Fall - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

This fall, MCB will introduce a new seminar series, A Slice of Science, which merges two well-known departmental traditions: Friday Talks @4 and the MCO Journal Club (MCB […]

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International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

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