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Nature @nature.com · 7d

The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner

go.nature.com/4pNC96G

End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity

The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can now help to devise better indicators.

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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · 10d

Calling all BRAIN tool, tech, and theory developers! The BRAIN Initiative Alliance is hosting the BIA Toolmakers Showcase at #SfN25. If you have a tool/tech to share with the #neuroscience community, apply by Friday: http://bit.ly/3W4GeWv

#studyBRAIN | @sfn.org

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Angie Michaiel @angiemicha.bsky.social · 21d

"When scents vanish, they erase relationships between plants, animals, and people.” Great article in @atmosmag.bsky.social about climate change erasing the scents of daily life, and featuring @riffelllab.bsky.social

Jeff Riffell @riffelllab.bsky.social · 22d

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

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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.

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Angie Michaiel @angiemicha.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧠🌍 SO excited to announce this new set of grant awards in partnership with NSF. Awardees will investigate mechanisms of neural resilience to a range of anthropogenic stressors across a range of species. Congrats to the awardees!

The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Sep 2

The Kavli Foundation & #NSF announce four new NiCE grants to study how brains adapt to a changing world - linking genes, cells, behavior, and ecosystems.

From bees to bats to jellyfish, check out the 2025 awardees. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/4fYz8vK

#KavliNeuro #Neuroscience

Kavli and NSF Announce New Grant Awards to Advance Neurobiology in…

An initiative to explore how nervous systems function and evolve in dynamic natural environments

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Clayton Page Aldern @compatibilism.bsky.social · Aug 19

I have an op-ed in @statnews.com today (with the incomparable Dr. Burcin Ikiz!) on the longterm neurological toll of wildfires: www.statnews.com/2025/08/19/w... (short 🧵 follows; not a story of 'climate anxiety')

The hidden neurological toll of wildfires

Disaster response systems are woefully unprepared to address long-term neurological health impacts.

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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Aug 18

Join us (and @sfn.org) this Wednesday for a webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field.

Learn more: bit.ly/3HeL1kv

#KavliNeuro #neurosky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social

Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · Aug 7

Join SfN and @kavlifoundation.org‬ for an upcoming webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field and get all of your questions answered related to neural adaptation.

Register now 🔗 vist.ly/32mnu

#neurosky

Neurogenomic Adaptations to Variable Environments,' happening Wednesday, August 20, from 12–1 p.m. EDT. Features logos of the Society for Neuroscience and The Kavli Foundation, with speaker photos and affiliations: Hans Hofmann (UT Austin), Kimberly Rosvall (Indiana University), and Alison Bell (University of Illinois).

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Aug 18

Impeach, Remove, Make your voice heard.
Sign our petition here: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...

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Angie Michaiel @angiemicha.bsky.social · Aug 7

Excited for this webinar we're putting on with our partners at @sfn.org! 🧠🌍

Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · Aug 7

Join SfN and @kavlifoundation.org‬ for an upcoming webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field and get all of your questions answered related to neural adaptation.

Register now 🔗 vist.ly/32mnu

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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Aug 4

Announcing this year's Kavli Institute Collaboration Kickstarter grants - innovative projects forging connections between researchers at different Kavli Institutes, even outside of the same field.

Learn more about the awardees http://bit.ly/4oh6r12

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Angie Michaiel @angiemicha.bsky.social · Jul 18

🎉 🧠Congrats to the organizers for another successful #NeuroDataReHack workshop, teaching scientists how to access and reuse precious neurophysiology #OpenData! 📈

The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Jul 18

Congrats on another successful #NeuroDataReHack!

Inspiring to see the creativity & collaboration around open neurophys data. Attendees are invited to apply for the Kavli NeuroData Discovery Award - a one-year grant supporting innovative #DataReuse.

Excited to see your ideas! #KavliNeuro #OpenData

Neurodata Without Borders @nwb.org · Jul 18

NeuroDataReHack participants from all over the world are finishing up 10 exciting projects analyzing open neurophys data on @dandiarchive.org. Thank you @hhmijanelia.bsky.social for being amazing hosts as always! Stay tuned for the workshop report.

@chrishalcrow.bsky.social @mcelotto95.bsky.social

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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Jul 16

2025 Kavli-Grass Fellow Kyra Schapiro is spending this summer in the Grass Lab (@grassfoundation.bsky.social) understanding how environmental factors shape shell patterning in Zebra nerite snails and how the nervous system might control this process.

Learn more here: bit.ly/4llySJ7

Do Light and Darkness Shape the Patterns on Shells? A Grass Fellow Investigates | Marine Biological Laboratory

Kyra Schapiro knows how to find a good shell. A self-professed sheller – “ Yes, it’s a noun,” she said – Schapiro has amassed hundreds of seashells. “It’s the patterns and the beauty” that compels her...

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Angie Michaiel @angiemicha.bsky.social · Jun 26

Grateful to @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @callimcflurry.bsky.social for highlighting my work at @kavlifoundation.org building a new subfield in neuroscience 🌍🧠

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jun 26

Program officer Angie Michaiel spoke with The Transmitter about her efforts to shepherd a burgeoning climate neuroscience subfield and the fruit she hopes it will bear.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/community/bu...

Building a climate neuroscience subfield: Q&A with Angie Michaiel

Michaiel, a program officer at the Kavli Foundation, shares what it took to cultivate research on the relationship between climate change and the nervous system.

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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · Jun 25

A synthetic paper about fast vs. slow responses of ecological systems to changing climate, explaining how and why those responses can shift (even in sign) over time. Examples across scales and subdiscplines (population genetics, ecosystem ecology). besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Cris Niell @crisniell.bsky.social · Jun 24

Applications are open for the first Cephalopod Neuroscience Gordon Conference, to be held February 2026! Hope to see many of you there! 🐙🧠🔬
www.grc.org/cephalopod-n...

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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Jun 12

🎉Congrats to the 5 early-career scientists receiving Kavli support through the #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems!

Their bold, cross-disciplinary research explores how brains adapt in a rapidly changing world.🌎

Read more here: bit.ly/3Hz2Avh

#KavliNeuro @rescorp.org

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · Jun 5

On #WorldEnvironmentDay we're here to remind you that open source research tools can be useful for monitoring environmental damage. Here's a short list of a few tools we've previously highlighted or used in our own investigations... 🧵

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Angie Michaiel @angiemicha.bsky.social · Jun 4

Congrats to @stednitz.bsky.social and team on this beautiful paper! 🐟👀

Ethan Scott's Lab @ethanscottlab.bsky.social · Jun 4

Congrats to @stednitz.bsky.social and Andrew Lesak on their @currentbiology.bsky.social paper! They use HMM to identify two interaction states in #zebrafish: one visual for long-range interactions and one lateral line for quick, close interactions.

Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lCYh3QW8S...

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Cris Niell @crisniell.bsky.social · May 27

A very nice article about our research on the octopus visual system, by @callimcflurry.bsky.social @thetransmitter.bsky.social

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · May 27

The octopus brain has teased researchers since the 1960s, but recording from it seemed impossible. Cris Niell and his team’s calcium imaging experiments finally “showed that this brain could be studied,” says Sam Reiter.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/vision/cepha...

Cephalopods, vision’s next frontier

For decades, scientists have been teased by the strange but inaccessible cephalopod visual system. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough from a lab in Oregon, data are finally coming straight…

www.thetransmitter.org

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Angie Michaiel @angiemicha.bsky.social · May 22

Congratulations to all of the awardees! I am so excited to see where this interdisciplinary science goes, to advance the growing area of Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems! #Scialog #KavliNeuro

Research Corporation for Science Advancement @rescorp.org · May 22

Six cross-disciplinary teams have won funding in the 1st year of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, cosponsored with The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group @alleninstitute.org, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and @kavlifoundation.bsky.social.

2025 Scialog Awards: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems

This innovative Scialog initiative catalyzes cross-disciplinary science exploring neurobiological response to rapid and extensive human-caused environmental changes.

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Angie Michaiel @angiemicha.bsky.social · May 12

Join us for the 2nd installment of this series that explores how nervous systems cope with environmental challenges! #KavliNeuro

Neuronline (SfN) @neuronline.sfn.org · May 9

Have you registered for the next @sfn.org + @kavlifoundation.bsky.social webinar yet?

Claim your spot now: bit.ly/43lsrPJ

#NeuroSky

Promotional graphic for a Society for Neuroscience and The Kavli Foundation event titled 'Neuromodulatory Adaptation and Plasticity in Changing Environments’ on Wednesday, May 14, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. EDT. Features images of speakers Laura Duvall, PhD from Columbia University, Eve Marder, PhD from Brandeis University, and Jan-Erik Siemens, PhD from Heidelberg University.

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Angie Michaiel @angiemicha.bsky.social · May 7

What a great experience it was to put together this symposium and bring together researchers at the intersection of neurobiology and environmental change! Check out all of the inspiring presentations in the link below. 🧠🌍 #KavliNeuro #FrontierScience

The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · May 7

Missed the Neurobiology in Changing Environments #NiCE symposium? Watch the full event on YouTube!
Explore how nervous systems respond, resist & recover from the challenges of a rapidly changing world. 🌎 🌊 🧠 🧬
#KavliNeuro #FrontierScience #Neuroscience

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Neurobiology in Changing Environments Program 2025 - YouTube

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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Apr 22

Happy #EarthDay from The Kavli Foundation!

We support fundamental science that addresses our planet’s most urgent challenges—from understanding how neural systems adapt to environmental change to unlocking sustainable technologies through nanoscience.
🌍Learn more about our work: kavlifoundation.org

Kavli written in Landsat https://go.nasa.gov/4jETaMq

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Grist @grist.org · Apr 16

A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate-health funding.

Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.

grist.org/politics/den...

#Health #Bugs #mosquito #disease #Wellness #Climate

A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate-health funding

Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.

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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Apr 15

Welcome to the Neurobiology in Changing Environments symposium! We’re thrilled to begin this important gathering exploring how nervous systems respond to our rapidly shifting world. #KavliNeuro #FrontierScience #NiCE

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Angie Michaiel @angiemicha.bsky.social · Apr 11

Next week - Join the livestream of this event to learn about how the nervous system copes with the challenges of a changing world 🧠 🌍 #KavliNeuro

alleninstitute.org/events/2025-...

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