Shubham Rathore Ph.D. MSc.
@shubhamtr.bsky.social
Neuroethologist interested in visual system development and sensory integration across time scales 🦟🪲🐜🕷️🐞🐁
Ph.D. : Buschbeck lab @ University of Cincinnati
Prev. at : Hattar lab @ NIMH / NIH
Postdoc : Reiser lab @ Janelia Research Campus
Ph.D. : Buschbeck lab @ University of Cincinnati
Prev. at : Hattar lab @ NIMH / NIH
Postdoc : Reiser lab @ Janelia Research Campus
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The final version of the clonal raider ant reference brain is now out OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social:
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December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The final version of the clonal raider ant reference brain is now out OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social:
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Welcome back to #FossilFriday!
Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.
Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Welcome back to #FossilFriday!
Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.
Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.
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Freshly out at @natcomms.nature.com ! Our @univie.ac.at @awi.de @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @ercgrantees.bsky.social research into neurogenic plasticity of adult worm brains, and similarities in stem cells supporting growth of camera-type eyes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/7]
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Freshly out at @natcomms.nature.com ! Our @univie.ac.at @awi.de @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @ercgrantees.bsky.social research into neurogenic plasticity of adult worm brains, and similarities in stem cells supporting growth of camera-type eyes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/7]
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Textbook neurons are usually spiking. However, there exist plenty of non-spiking neurons whose information transmission is less understood. Shirahata et al. studied Ca-dynamics of non-spiking mechanosensory neurons in crickets that are sensitive to air flow.
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Subcellular Information Processing in Mechanosensory Non‐Spiking Interneurons
We measured membrane potential and Ca2+ responses to airflow from different angles in cricket mechanosensory local non-spiking interneurons (LNIs). LNIs exhibited spatially heterogeneous patterns of ...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Textbook neurons are usually spiking. However, there exist plenty of non-spiking neurons whose information transmission is less understood. Shirahata et al. studied Ca-dynamics of non-spiking mechanosensory neurons in crickets that are sensitive to air flow.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New study from @michellebeyer.bsky.social published in Animal Behaviour: Silk of females performing maternal care elicits reduced courtship responses in male spiders.
November 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
New study from @michellebeyer.bsky.social published in Animal Behaviour: Silk of females performing maternal care elicits reduced courtship responses in male spiders.
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Church Street Burlington Vermont
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Church Street Burlington Vermont
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Stubby season is here in the Pacific Northwest and this chonker is showing some big feelings about being photographed by turning white and burying itself in the sand!
This color change is super hard to photograph, let alone light, but I'm pretty happy with how these turned out.
#marinelife
This color change is super hard to photograph, let alone light, but I'm pretty happy with how these turned out.
#marinelife
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Stubby season is here in the Pacific Northwest and this chonker is showing some big feelings about being photographed by turning white and burying itself in the sand!
This color change is super hard to photograph, let alone light, but I'm pretty happy with how these turned out.
#marinelife
This color change is super hard to photograph, let alone light, but I'm pretty happy with how these turned out.
#marinelife
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the blank document heckling me
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
the blank document heckling me
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(1/n) We are excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications, by Hagar Lavian (@hlavian.bsky.social) and team, revealing how the zebrafish brain integrates visual navigation signals! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Visual motion and landmark position align with heading direction in the zebrafish interpeduncular nucleus - Nature Communications
How are various visual signals integrated in the vertebrate brain for navigation? Here authors show that different spatial signals are topographically organized and align to one another in the zebrafi...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
(1/n) We are excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications, by Hagar Lavian (@hlavian.bsky.social) and team, revealing how the zebrafish brain integrates visual navigation signals! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Come and work with us in our new home @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ! This fully funded PhD opportunity is open to anyone interested in spiders/eyes/light pollution/evolution/development! 🕷️👀
⏰Deadline 15th December, online info event TODAY @2pm! Link in the PhD advert👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
⏰Deadline 15th December, online info event TODAY @2pm! Link in the PhD advert👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Come and work with us in our new home @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ! This fully funded PhD opportunity is open to anyone interested in spiders/eyes/light pollution/evolution/development! 🕷️👀
⏰Deadline 15th December, online info event TODAY @2pm! Link in the PhD advert👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
⏰Deadline 15th December, online info event TODAY @2pm! Link in the PhD advert👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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🚨Good news, everyone!
1) I'm thrilled to be joining the behavior powerhouse that is Indiana University!! So stoked, starting Jan 2026.
2) I'm recruiting grad students! Are you (or your trainee) interested in sensory ecology? behavior? evolution? fieldwork? spiders? Drop me a line Jstafstr(at)iu.edu
1) I'm thrilled to be joining the behavior powerhouse that is Indiana University!! So stoked, starting Jan 2026.
2) I'm recruiting grad students! Are you (or your trainee) interested in sensory ecology? behavior? evolution? fieldwork? spiders? Drop me a line Jstafstr(at)iu.edu
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
🚨Good news, everyone!
1) I'm thrilled to be joining the behavior powerhouse that is Indiana University!! So stoked, starting Jan 2026.
2) I'm recruiting grad students! Are you (or your trainee) interested in sensory ecology? behavior? evolution? fieldwork? spiders? Drop me a line Jstafstr(at)iu.edu
1) I'm thrilled to be joining the behavior powerhouse that is Indiana University!! So stoked, starting Jan 2026.
2) I'm recruiting grad students! Are you (or your trainee) interested in sensory ecology? behavior? evolution? fieldwork? spiders? Drop me a line Jstafstr(at)iu.edu
Jumpers have so much to teach us
Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal!
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November 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Jumpers have so much to teach us
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Spiders that experience vibrations, visual stimuli, both or none during development do not differ strongly in the size of their brain areas. This is a surprising finding. Even more surprising is that siblings react alike. See our new publication in the J. comp. Neurology.
doi.org/10.1002/cne....
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November 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Spiders that experience vibrations, visual stimuli, both or none during development do not differ strongly in the size of their brain areas. This is a surprising finding. Even more surprising is that siblings react alike. See our new publication in the J. comp. Neurology.
doi.org/10.1002/cne....
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doi.org/10.1002/cne....
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Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects | CNN
Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found.
edition.cnn.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
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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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Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.
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SO HAPPY to share our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using volumetric EM, we found daily shifts in synapses, vesicles, and mitochondria that accompany neuronal remodeling, linking structural plasticity to changes in how s-LNv neurons influence their targets
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Daily ultrastructural remodeling of clock neurons
A cluster of Drosophila clock neurons remodel their axonal arbors daily. Using volumetric
electron microscopy at different times of day, Ispizua, Rodriguez-Caron, and colleagues
reveal ultrastructural...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
SO HAPPY to share our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using volumetric EM, we found daily shifts in synapses, vesicles, and mitochondria that accompany neuronal remodeling, linking structural plasticity to changes in how s-LNv neurons influence their targets
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Like most animals, fish move less at night. Underwater, stable posture requires movement. Find out how fish don't fall down at night in: Lighting and circadian cues shape locomotor strategies for balance and navigation in larval zebrafish from @yunluzhu.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Lighting and circadian cues shape locomotor strategies for balance and navigation in larval zebrafish
Most fish are inherently unstable and must swim to stabilize posture. How diurnal fish reduce activity at night while maintaining postural control remains unclear. We defined distinct locomotor strate...
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Like most animals, fish move less at night. Underwater, stable posture requires movement. Find out how fish don't fall down at night in: Lighting and circadian cues shape locomotor strategies for balance and navigation in larval zebrafish from @yunluzhu.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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📢 PhD Position Alert! 🪲
Fully funded PhD position (65% TV-L E13) at @uni-goettingen.de to study the evolution of morphological novelties in a darkling beetle.
You will join the interdisciplinary "GönomiX" graduate school: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/home/6242...
Fully funded PhD position (65% TV-L E13) at @uni-goettingen.de to study the evolution of morphological novelties in a darkling beetle.
You will join the interdisciplinary "GönomiX" graduate school: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/home/6242...
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
📢 PhD Position Alert! 🪲
Fully funded PhD position (65% TV-L E13) at @uni-goettingen.de to study the evolution of morphological novelties in a darkling beetle.
You will join the interdisciplinary "GönomiX" graduate school: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/home/6242...
Fully funded PhD position (65% TV-L E13) at @uni-goettingen.de to study the evolution of morphological novelties in a darkling beetle.
You will join the interdisciplinary "GönomiX" graduate school: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/home/6242...
Amazing work from @flyeyelab.bsky.social’s group showing how tinkering with the RDGN in Drosophila can result in distinct tissue fates!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Modulating the levels and activity of the retinal determination network Is sufficient to induce the specification of distinct tissue fates in Drosophila
A pair of eye-antennal discs give rise to most tissues that comprise the adult head of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, including a pair of compound eyes and a trio of simple eyes called ocelli...
journals.biologists.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Amazing work from @flyeyelab.bsky.social’s group showing how tinkering with the RDGN in Drosophila can result in distinct tissue fates!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Definitely not stressed at all 🍾
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Definitely not stressed at all 🍾
Spiders and their funny eye placements
This Male Walckenaeria acuminata may be common but its a fantastic looking spider, since getting into Linys this Genus is so fasinating. And its great that the male and female of this species can be Identified with a hand Lens.
@britishspiders.bsky.social
@britishspiders.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Spiders and their funny eye placements
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Heading to San Diego for #sfn25 today! I’ll be presenting a poster on this work Monday afternoon!
looking forward to meeting neuroscientists! please stop by my poster or reach out if you’re going and want to talk motor neuro/behavior, evolution, neuroethology…or whatever else! 🧠🥳 #neuroskyence
looking forward to meeting neuroscientists! please stop by my poster or reach out if you’re going and want to talk motor neuro/behavior, evolution, neuroethology…or whatever else! 🧠🥳 #neuroskyence
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Heading to San Diego for #sfn25 today! I’ll be presenting a poster on this work Monday afternoon!
looking forward to meeting neuroscientists! please stop by my poster or reach out if you’re going and want to talk motor neuro/behavior, evolution, neuroethology…or whatever else! 🧠🥳 #neuroskyence
looking forward to meeting neuroscientists! please stop by my poster or reach out if you’re going and want to talk motor neuro/behavior, evolution, neuroethology…or whatever else! 🧠🥳 #neuroskyence
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Fed up with autumn leaf backgrounds yet? Let's go green.
Nigma walckenaeri.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #green #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Nigma walckenaeri.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #green #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Fed up with autumn leaf backgrounds yet? Let's go green.
Nigma walckenaeri.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #green #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Nigma walckenaeri.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #green #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
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🥉 Third Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🎨
✨ “Fluorescent Flight” by Jessica Wilkins 🦋 A glowing celebration of development and motion, where vivid fluorescence meets the elegance of form and flight. A stunning fusion of science and art! 💫 #DevBioArt #ScienceArt
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🥉 Third Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🎨
✨ “Fluorescent Flight” by Jessica Wilkins 🦋 A glowing celebration of development and motion, where vivid fluorescence meets the elegance of form and flight. A stunning fusion of science and art! 💫 #DevBioArt #ScienceArt