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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 19h

we are almost booked! Only a handful of openings left. So, please do attend if you register. Also, here is the poster!

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 1d

Attending #SfN2025 in San Diego☀️? Don’t miss the Dorris Neuroscience Center Symposium at @scripps.edu, happening right before the meeting. A great lineup of speakers to kick off your SfN week. Plan your trip accordingly and register for free here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/dorris-neu...

Please amplify!

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 1d

I got so many "you work on oceanography now?" comments when I moved here :) Having a project on jellyfish probably didn't help!

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 1d

Funny that an immune researcher was appointed at an oceanography institute!

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · Jul 20

A Peacock Fly (Callopistromyia sp.) showing off the beautiful display on those wings! They strut around waving their wings and doing a little wiggle, an amazing behavior right in your own backyard.

#Invert #Diptera #bugsky 🌿 #entomology

Macrophotograph of a Peacock Fly (Callopistromyia sp) resting on a slightly weathered metal beam. The fly holds its patterned wings upright in an elaborate, fan-like display, appearing almost butterfly-like. Each wing is intricately marked with shades of dark brown, black, white, and subtle hints of iridescent blue, creating a mosaic-like camouflage pattern. The fly’s body is robust and heavily speckled in shades of brown, black, and cream. Bright, vivid orange-red eyes stand out distinctly on its head, along with delicate antennae and fine bristles visible along its legs and thorax. The textured metal beam beneath it has faint scratches and rust streaks, providing contrast that highlights the detail and coloration of the insect.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 5d

Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language! www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...

www.newscientist.com

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 6d

When you live in an arid climate and your colleague is collecting VNO stimuli

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 7d

A maternal-fetal PIEZO1 incompatibility as a barrier to Neanderthal-modern human admixture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679417v1

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Rocio Servin @rocioservin.bsky.social · 7d

We’re hiring!
My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease.
🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 7d

After 12 days over 3000 people have signed up for the MABe 2025 competition, and almost 300 have made submissions!

If you'd like to join in, kagglers have shared a K-nearest-neighbors baseline notebook that gets a respectable F1 score of 0.39 across labs: www.kaggle.com/code/taylors...

MABe Nearest Neighbors: Testing New Features

Explore and run machine learning code with Kaggle Notebooks | Using data from MABe Challenge - Social Action Recognition in Mice

www.kaggle.com

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Malu Murugan @malu-murugan.bsky.social · 8d

Come be my colleague! Lots of exciting science, fantastic students and supportive colleagues. Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience. share.google/945Jko4W1MTA.... Please feel free to retweet and share widely.

Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience - Atlanta, Georgia job with [email protected] | 675335

Candidate uses experimental approaches to examine any aspect of neural function, including molecular, cellular, systems, or developmental neuroscience

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 9d

It continues to be weird to me that adult CNS neurons have a single, nonmotile cilium just hanging out, maybe acting as a site for receptor expression. Like a little extra antenna that we all just ignore in our drawings of neurons. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Primary Cilia in the Developing and Mature Brain

Primary cilia emerge as key regulators of development, neurogenesis, and signaling in the mammalian brain. Guemez-Gamboa et al. review the status, genetic basis, potential, controversies, and unanswer...

www.cell.com

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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 15d

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 11d

Whether you think limiting student visas to 4 years is a good or bad thing, please comment. Be heard.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 11d

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

www.federalregister.gov

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 12d

I'm returning home to the Columbia Theory Center for a seminar tomorrow at 11:30am. Come say hi!
ctn.zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu

ctn.zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you Paul @braininspired.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about my path into deep brain structures and survival behaviors! This was a fun experience.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14d

In this episode of “Brain Inspired,” @braininspired.bsky.social talks to @antihebbiann.bsky.social, who argues that molecular signaling, like protein expression, controls innate brain responses to varying environmental contexts.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Ann Kennedy explains the theoretical neuroscience of survival behaviors

The Scripps neuroscientist calls for a broader theoretical neuroscience approach in her area of research, which focuses on how the subcortex bridges life and cognition.

www.thetransmitter.org

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14d

In this episode of “Brain Inspired,” @braininspired.bsky.social talks to @antihebbiann.bsky.social, who argues that molecular signaling, like protein expression, controls innate brain responses to varying environmental contexts.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Ann Kennedy explains the theoretical neuroscience of survival behaviors

The Scripps neuroscientist calls for a broader theoretical neuroscience approach in her area of research, which focuses on how the subcortex bridges life and cognition.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 14d

If you are looking to get into the MABe challenge, there are some great notebooks popping up on Kaggle:

Exploring the data:
www.kaggle.com/code/antonin...
Videos of pose + annotations: www.kaggle.com/code/kriyeng...
And a baseline entry using k-nearest neighbors: www.kaggle.com/code/ambrosm...

MABe Nearest Neighbors: The Original ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Explore and run machine learning code with Kaggle Notebooks | Using data from MABe Challenge - Social Action Recognition in Mice

www.kaggle.com

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 14d

Close enough!

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 14d

GPT says: "Rodent Action Tracking Across Tasks: Objects, Utilities, Levers, Locomotion, Interaction, and Exploration — a mouse “kitchen” benchmark for dense, sequential, ethological behavior."

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 14d

...more like a dense foragy/approach-avoidy mix of Josh's FOMO, SWC's AEON, some closed-loop stim control, some risky decision with shelter-seeking /-building, some sequential goal / spatial decision, some digging, some exploring. And yes: difficult. The acronym would have to be RATATOULLIE.

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 14d

Ok well now you HAVE to do it, that acronym demands it!

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 14d

Would love to see this! Like an American Ninja Warrior for mice. (American Ninja Forager?)

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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 16d

For last 10 years - we have worked with thousands of organizations around the world helping support them in integrating foldscope programs.

To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!

TeamFoldscope @teamfoldscope.bsky.social · 18d

🔬 Free microscopes + teacher training!

📅 Applications are now open. To apply, visit www.foldscope.com or scan the QR code (video)

✉️ Any questions? Email us at [email protected]

#stem #education #science #teachers #training #free #microscopy #educators #professionaldevelopment #microscope

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 17d

Okay their commitment to emojis is pretty great too

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