Jeff Riffell
@riffelllab.bsky.social
Sensory Neuroecology Lab. Mosquitoes, moths, and chemicals. Professor at the University of Washington, Department of Biology riffelllab.org
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New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees
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October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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Let's compare our world models. I find that different people seem to have rather distinct internal world models. E.g. I personally have neither visual imagination nor an inner voice, found it weird others do. Here is a quick google forms to check idea:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
World-models in your head
Talking with a lot of people, they have rather shocking different kinds of world-models. I believe that people have somewhat specialized simulators. Let me list some and then give you the chance to ad...
docs.google.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Let's compare our world models. I find that different people seem to have rather distinct internal world models. E.g. I personally have neither visual imagination nor an inner voice, found it weird others do. Here is a quick google forms to check idea:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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The fuck? Hard to even know where to start with all the things wrong here. (Also hope Glenn Northcutt doesn't see it -- he'll have a stroke.) Just appalling. not #neuroethology
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The fuck? Hard to even know where to start with all the things wrong here. (Also hope Glenn Northcutt doesn't see it -- he'll have a stroke.) Just appalling. not #neuroethology
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Under two weeks before my #play hits the stage @taratheatre.com ! Can't wait!
Come see it if you're in London- it'll be great to have tons of people there.
Book here: taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...
A video of me wittering on about the play in the post below ⬇️
#theatre #newWriting #immigration
Come see it if you're in London- it'll be great to have tons of people there.
Book here: taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...
A video of me wittering on about the play in the post below ⬇️
#theatre #newWriting #immigration
I Dream of Theresa May – Tara Theatre
taratheatre.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Under two weeks before my #play hits the stage @taratheatre.com ! Can't wait!
Come see it if you're in London- it'll be great to have tons of people there.
Book here: taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...
A video of me wittering on about the play in the post below ⬇️
#theatre #newWriting #immigration
Come see it if you're in London- it'll be great to have tons of people there.
Book here: taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...
A video of me wittering on about the play in the post below ⬇️
#theatre #newWriting #immigration
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For those of you at the SfN conference...
Stop by the Neuroethology Social & Networking event on Sunday, 7-9 at the Grand Ballroom 1/2, Marriot Marquis!
Stop by the Neuroethology Social & Networking event on Sunday, 7-9 at the Grand Ballroom 1/2, Marriot Marquis!
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
For those of you at the SfN conference...
Stop by the Neuroethology Social & Networking event on Sunday, 7-9 at the Grand Ballroom 1/2, Marriot Marquis!
Stop by the Neuroethology Social & Networking event on Sunday, 7-9 at the Grand Ballroom 1/2, Marriot Marquis!
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This year is the first year I am not giving a talk at #entsoc2025. But I have 1 postdoc and 4 PhD students giving talks, and 3 undergrads giving posters. Please check out what we’ve been doing!! 🥳🐝
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This year is the first year I am not giving a talk at #entsoc2025. But I have 1 postdoc and 4 PhD students giving talks, and 3 undergrads giving posters. Please check out what we’ve been doing!! 🥳🐝
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Joshua Sanes Receives Society for Neuroscience’s Highest Honor 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu @sfn.org
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu @sfn.org
Joshua Sanes Receives Society for Neuroscience’s Highest Honor - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Joshua Sanes, PhD, the Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, emeritus, and founding director of Harvard’s Center for Brain Science (CBS), has been awarded the […]
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November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Joshua Sanes Receives Society for Neuroscience’s Highest Honor 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu @sfn.org
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu @sfn.org
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Combining genomic and neuroanatomical data shows that #Heliconiini olfactory systems vary in their #olfactory receptor diversity and investment in individual brain structures, but are developmentally plastic in responsive to environmental conditions:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Yi Peng et al. 2025
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Yi Peng et al. 2025
Evolution of the olfactory system during the radiation of Heliconiini butterflies
Abstract. Sensory system evolution plays a crucial role in shaping species’ interactions with their environment, yet the extent to which olfactory system d
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Combining genomic and neuroanatomical data shows that #Heliconiini olfactory systems vary in their #olfactory receptor diversity and investment in individual brain structures, but are developmentally plastic in responsive to environmental conditions:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Yi Peng et al. 2025
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Yi Peng et al. 2025
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1/ Hello Drosophila-philists and braino-maniacs! 👋🪰🧠🧪
The Caron lab has a new preprint, and it is about 🥁🥁🥁 democracy!
Neuro-democracy, to be precise. So: drop EVERYTHING and listen up — a 🧶!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Caron lab has a new preprint, and it is about 🥁🥁🥁 democracy!
Neuro-democracy, to be precise. So: drop EVERYTHING and listen up — a 🧶!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
1/ Hello Drosophila-philists and braino-maniacs! 👋🪰🧠🧪
The Caron lab has a new preprint, and it is about 🥁🥁🥁 democracy!
Neuro-democracy, to be precise. So: drop EVERYTHING and listen up — a 🧶!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Caron lab has a new preprint, and it is about 🥁🥁🥁 democracy!
Neuro-democracy, to be precise. So: drop EVERYTHING and listen up — a 🧶!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito
A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell
types and widespread co-expres...
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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I’ll be co-chairing a session on Neural Circuits and Behavior at #Dros26! 🪰
Fly neuro friends, please submit abstracts! Our session will be 🔥
Deadline Nov 13
Fly neuro friends, please submit abstracts! Our session will be 🔥
Deadline Nov 13
Abstract submission for #Dros26 is now open! 🪰
Browse abstract submission topics online and start preparing your abstract today.
Learn more: buff.ly/N0ajcpu
Browse abstract submission topics online and start preparing your abstract today.
Learn more: buff.ly/N0ajcpu
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I’ll be co-chairing a session on Neural Circuits and Behavior at #Dros26! 🪰
Fly neuro friends, please submit abstracts! Our session will be 🔥
Deadline Nov 13
Fly neuro friends, please submit abstracts! Our session will be 🔥
Deadline Nov 13
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By comparing differently tuned glomeruli, this work shows that the brain uses different circuit layouts for specialised vs general smells, offering new insight into how odour meaning is encoded.
buff.ly/XDmo4Ue
buff.ly/XDmo4Ue
October 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
By comparing differently tuned glomeruli, this work shows that the brain uses different circuit layouts for specialised vs general smells, offering new insight into how odour meaning is encoded.
buff.ly/XDmo4Ue
buff.ly/XDmo4Ue
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How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities?
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
🧵(1/n)
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
🧵(1/n)
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito
Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. In this work, we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipie...
www.science.org
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities?
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
🧵(1/n)
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
🧵(1/n)
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
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TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
Brandeis University, Biology Department
Job #AJO30961, Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program, Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US
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October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
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🔎 New from the @jraslab.bsky.social at UW!
They used #Langerhans cells within the adult #zebrafish epidermis as a model to investigate roles of microtubules in immune cell tissue surveillance, phagocytosis, and directed migration.
🦓🐟 See it in @jcellsci.bsky.social : https://bit.ly/49fmQhf
They used #Langerhans cells within the adult #zebrafish epidermis as a model to investigate roles of microtubules in immune cell tissue surveillance, phagocytosis, and directed migration.
🦓🐟 See it in @jcellsci.bsky.social : https://bit.ly/49fmQhf
October 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
🔎 New from the @jraslab.bsky.social at UW!
They used #Langerhans cells within the adult #zebrafish epidermis as a model to investigate roles of microtubules in immune cell tissue surveillance, phagocytosis, and directed migration.
🦓🐟 See it in @jcellsci.bsky.social : https://bit.ly/49fmQhf
They used #Langerhans cells within the adult #zebrafish epidermis as a model to investigate roles of microtubules in immune cell tissue surveillance, phagocytosis, and directed migration.
🦓🐟 See it in @jcellsci.bsky.social : https://bit.ly/49fmQhf
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Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint
We discovered that the fruit fly #drosophila erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion.
Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit
shorturl.at/gGYm7
We discovered that the fruit fly #drosophila erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion.
Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit
shorturl.at/gGYm7
October 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint
We discovered that the fruit fly #drosophila erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion.
Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit
shorturl.at/gGYm7
We discovered that the fruit fly #drosophila erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion.
Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit
shorturl.at/gGYm7
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It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.
Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.
Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!
Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.
Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!
October 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.
Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.
Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!
Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.
Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!
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October 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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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...
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...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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UW undergraduates (and faculty) don’t mess around
October 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
UW undergraduates (and faculty) don’t mess around
Our #AFOSR MURI program review is starting. Led by @simonsponberg.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our #AFOSR MURI program review is starting. Led by @simonsponberg.bsky.social
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Open faculty position in Neuroendocrinology at St. Olaf, an amazing liberal arts college in Minnesota! www.higheredjobs.com/institution/...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Open faculty position in Neuroendocrinology at St. Olaf, an amazing liberal arts college in Minnesota! www.higheredjobs.com/institution/...
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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/
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
September 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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/
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/