Scott Waddell
@scottishwaddell.bsky.social
Neurobiologist. Learning. Memory. Motivation. Dopamine.
Why are some reviewers so confidently nasty? Is it necessary to be like that?! Don’t they understand how much work goes into each manuscript and how damaging it can be for some people to read the vitriol? Or even consider that they might be wrong?!
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Why are some reviewers so confidently nasty? Is it necessary to be like that?! Don’t they understand how much work goes into each manuscript and how damaging it can be for some people to read the vitriol? Or even consider that they might be wrong?!
@senapati.bsky.social latest and greatest! Charly Treiber on board too. Over and out.
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Visceral signaling of post-ingestive malaise directs memory updating in Drosophila
Consolidation is a time when labile memories transition to a stable form. Malaise learning in Drosophila reveals consolidation to also permit memory updating. Flies taught to associate one of two odor...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
@senapati.bsky.social latest and greatest! Charly Treiber on board too. Over and out.
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Final extension until March 17 ☘️ at 12 noon Dublin time for abstract submission. Existing submissions are published on the website.
Join us at @tcddublin.bsky.social in May to disseminate your research and listen to the latest findings by leaders in the field at all career stages.
Join us at @tcddublin.bsky.social in May to disseminate your research and listen to the latest findings by leaders in the field at all career stages.
Abstract submission will remain open until March 14th - after which time speakers will be selected.
Submitted abstracts and registered delegates are available here:
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Submitted abstracts and registered delegates are available here:
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March 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Final extension until March 17 ☘️ at 12 noon Dublin time for abstract submission. Existing submissions are published on the website.
Join us at @tcddublin.bsky.social in May to disseminate your research and listen to the latest findings by leaders in the field at all career stages.
Join us at @tcddublin.bsky.social in May to disseminate your research and listen to the latest findings by leaders in the field at all career stages.
Reposted by Scott Waddell
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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Pleasing to see that our Krashes et al 2009 study in the fly is the way it is in the mouse in 2024/5.
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December 17, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Pleasing to see that our Krashes et al 2009 study in the fly is the way it is in the mouse in 2024/5.
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Here's the paper
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The Janelia Atalanta plasmids provide a simple and efficient CRISPR/Cas9-mediated homology directed repair platform for Drosophila
Homology-directed repair (HDR) is a powerful tool for modifying genomes in precise ways to address many biological questions. Use of Clustered Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)...
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December 7, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Here's the paper
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We are currently repeating key experiments of our multisensory learning study. We have communicated with the journal and will correct literature as necessary and as soon as possible. Please get in touch if this impacts your work. Thanks to those that raised a flag. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37100911/
Multisensory learning binds neurons into a cross-modal memory engram - PubMed
Associating multiple sensory cues with objects and experience is a fundamental brain process that improves object recognition and memory performance. However, neural mechanisms that bind sensory featu...
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December 7, 2024 at 2:44 PM
We are currently repeating key experiments of our multisensory learning study. We have communicated with the journal and will correct literature as necessary and as soon as possible. Please get in touch if this impacts your work. Thanks to those that raised a flag. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37100911/
It took us 11 years but: Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences
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Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences - Nature
In Drosophila, a subpopulation of reward-encoding dopaminergic neurons antagonizes punishment-encoding neurons and can override punishment or hunger cues in favour of reward-seeking behaviour.
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October 25, 2023 at 3:23 PM
It took us 11 years but: Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hello Bluesky peeps. Will start to post here from now on to see how it goes. Before anyone asks, my profile isn’t AI generated. It’s the real me 😂
October 12, 2023 at 3:34 PM
Hello Bluesky peeps. Will start to post here from now on to see how it goes. Before anyone asks, my profile isn’t AI generated. It’s the real me 😂