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Matt Smear @mattsmear.bsky.social · 3h

Octopus track chemosensory plumes to find food

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Richard Benton @bentonlab.bsky.social · 5d

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...

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...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 8d

Are you paying us? Where?

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Jeff Riffell @riffelllab.bsky.social · 8d

The story:
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UW investigating after intruder disrupts a class with slurs, apparent Nazi salute

University of Washington police are investigating an incident where a man interrupted a human sexuality lecture. A viral video of the incident shows the intruder shouting gay and ableist slurs and app...

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Jeff Riffell @riffelllab.bsky.social · 8d

UW undergraduates (and faculty) don’t mess around

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Jeff Riffell @riffelllab.bsky.social · 10d

Congrats Sweta!! It will be wonderful to have you back as a neighbor!

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Jeff Riffell @riffelllab.bsky.social · 16d

Our #AFOSR MURI program review is starting. Led by @simonsponberg.bsky.social

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Sara Lipshutz (she/her) @jacanamama.bsky.social · 16d

Open faculty position in Neuroendocrinology at St. Olaf, an amazing liberal arts college in Minnesota! www.higheredjobs.com/institution/...

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

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Willem Laursen @willemlaursen.bsky.social · 22d

Thrilled to announce our lab just received an NIAID DP2 New Innovator Award!! 🎉

We’re looking for discovery-hungry postdocs + grad students who want to dig into sensory mechanisms of mosquito blood feeding. 🩸🦟🧬🧪

Join our swarm! 👉 sites.uw.edu/wlaursen/

Laursen Lab

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Jeff Riffell @riffelllab.bsky.social · 22d

Folks, see a fantastic opportunity to work in an amazing lab!

Willem Laursen @willemlaursen.bsky.social · 22d

Thrilled to announce our lab just received an NIAID DP2 New Innovator Award!! 🎉

We’re looking for discovery-hungry postdocs + grad students who want to dig into sensory mechanisms of mosquito blood feeding. 🩸🦟🧬🧪

Join our swarm! 👉 sites.uw.edu/wlaursen/

Laursen Lab

sites.uw.edu

Jeff Riffell @riffelllab.bsky.social · 24d

Wow! Awesome work! Congrats to the team!! @bingbrunton.bsky.social @tuthill.bsky.social

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Jeff Riffell @riffelllab.bsky.social · 24d

A wonderful article by Omnia Saed partly based on our work on atmospheric pollutants (funded by @kavlifoundation.org, @angiemicha.bsky.social, and NSF)

atmos.earth/science-and-...

When the World Stops Smelling Like Itself | Atmos

Climate change is erasing the aromas of daily life. Farmers say the loss is already here—from Grenada’s cocoa to Egypt’s jasmine—and affecting relationships between all living things.

atmos.earth

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29d

RFK Jr. has been methodically dismantling our public health system, pushing out scientists & experts who refuse to put his cuckoo-bananas nonsense over decades of hard, scientific evidence.

Today, while discussing how WA state is stepping up, I reiterated that he must be FIRED.

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Tom Baden @neurofishh.bsky.social · 29d

Very excited about our new preprint, led by @gkafetzis.bsky.social /w @mikebok.bsky.social & @denilsson.bsky.social. We suggest that the vertebrate 'duplex' retina emerged from interconnecting two ancient median-eye microcircuits. Say goodbye to the 'simplex' retina - it probably never existed!

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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · Sep 11

Come to the MBL in Woods Hole @mblscience.bsky.social for a GRASS FELLOWSHIP @grassfoundation.bsky.social 🦑 🐙🐛
There are two application deadlines this year: Oct 15, 2025 (submit by then to receive feedback on your application!), and Dec 1, 2025 (final deadline). grassfoundation.org/application-...

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Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy @avispatica.bsky.social · Sep 7

🌟Looking for a PhD? 🌟 check out this exciting opportunity in integrative biology with an amazing PI! 👇🏽👇🏽

Chris Jernigan @chrisjernigan.bsky.social · Aug 25

I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Wake Forest University Fall 2026. Current projects focus on the neurobiology, behavior, and development of identity processing in paper wasps. Contact me if interested. Deadline to apply is Dec. 15th 2025. Please share!
#PhDposition #PhD #wasplove

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Jeff Riffell @riffelllab.bsky.social · Sep 5

That’s awesome. I wonder if it has parasitoid wasps 👀

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Jeff Riffell @riffelllab.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yes, not too common, although they are more abundant east of the cascades. That is pretty awesome

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Jeff Riffell @riffelllab.bsky.social · Sep 5

In Seattle?? Ooo

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Jeff Riffell @riffelllab.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congrats!!

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · Sep 5

I still can't believe that my ERC starting grant proposal, #BeeSpace got accepted by the @erc.europa.eu. For the next 5 years, we have funding to study place coding in the insect 🐝 brain. Exciting times are ahead. Without the great support of my former PIs this wouldn't have been possible.

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de · Sep 4

We are very proud of our researchers Beatrice Baragli, Jerome Beetz, Jacqueline Degen, Mona Garvert, Jake Greenfield, and Jens Hör: They have been awarded prestigious ERC Starting Grants worth €1.5 million. Congratulations! @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

ERC Starting Grants were awarded to (clockwise): Jerome Beetz, Mona Garvert, Beatrice Baragli, Jake Greenfield, Jens Hör, and Jacqueline Degen. (Photos: Robert Emmerich / Kerstin Flake / Daniel Hanoch / Chris Weiss / Nik Schölzel / Thomas Hovestadt)

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Jeff Riffell @riffelllab.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy to announce that @ajblake05.bsky.social’s JEB paper was selected as this month’s Editors Choice article. This article discovered that mosquito color/wavelength preferences shift depending on the odor they experience.

Adam’s paper selected as the Editors’s Choice for August/September.

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Richard Bomphrey @richardbomphrey.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 Hiring! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in computational fluid dynamics and structural simulations to investigate biomechanics and mechanosensory feedback in insect flight.

Extreme agility ✔️
Morphological computing ✔️
Meshes! ✔️

jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Aug 28

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.

Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

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