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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 2d

🪰 A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system—a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the millions of connections between them.
🔗 https://hhmi.news/4o3EJnk

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Janelia FlyEM @janelia-flyem.bsky.social · 3d

We're very proud to be releasing the complete male fly CNS connectome!

It's the product of a huge team effort here at Janelia in partnership with the Cambridge Fly Connectomics group (@jefferis.bsky.social and colleagues), plus invaluable collaborators.

More soon...
www.janelia.org/project-team...

Male CNS Connectome

A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system —a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...

www.janelia.org

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 3d

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 7d

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting!

If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch.

www.ncclab.ca

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 14d

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 13d

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www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.18234

The Illusion of Readiness: Stress Testing Large Frontier Models on Multimodal Medical Benchmarks

Large frontier models like GPT-5 now achieve top scores on medical benchmarks. But our stress tests tell a different story. Leading systems often guess correctly even when key inputs like images are r...

www.arxiv.org

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Josh Dudman @dudman.bsky.social · 14d

www.bbc.com/news/article... science ftw! Amazing work described here.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com

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Josh Dudman @dudman.bsky.social · 14d

All sounds fascinating. Would love to coordinate, maybe at BonnBrain? We did some head mounted video on mice years ago. It was pretty nauseating to watch, but would be fun to get back to.

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Josh Dudman @dudman.bsky.social · 14d

Agree. Love to coordinate on this with you and others.

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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · 20d

NIMH is looking for a new director - please encourage interested candidates to apply - deadline 10/6/25. Please share!
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

hr.nih.gov

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · Sep 9

BonnBrain 2026 is a go!
March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany).
Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts.

Keynotes & invited speakers 👇

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Josh Dudman @dudman.bsky.social · Sep 6

Fascinating work and a lovely, clear summary in the thread.

Mehrdad Kashefi @mkashefi.bsky.social · Sep 6

Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social!
We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement?
Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Compositional neural dynamics during reaching

The complex mechanics of the arm make the neural control of reaching inherently posture dependent. Because previous reaching studies confound reach direction with final posture, it remains unknown how...

www.biorxiv.org

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢We're #hiring Group Leaders!

Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning.

🔹5-year renewable appointment
🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches
🔹Collaborate across disciplines

Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

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Mark Nicholas @markolas.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you so much to @lauragrima.bsky.social for presenting her recent preprint today at @the-cnbc.bsky.social @cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social
Super cool science and design

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroskyence

A global dopaminergic learning rate enables adaptive foraging across many options

In natural environments, animals must efficiently allocate their choices across multiple concurrently available resources when foraging, a complex decision-making process not fully captured by existin...

www.biorxiv.org

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Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · Aug 17

Over a decade after reading it, I think about this Neil Young profile at least 1-2x/mo. especially this quote.
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/m...

“For whatever you’re doing, for your creative juices, your geography’s got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 8

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Aug 5

✨ We’re #hiring Theory Fellows!✨

Janelia is recruiting early-career scientists to join our collaborative research environment and use #computation & #theory to tackle bold questions in #biology.

🔗 Apply by Nov. 3 👉 janelia.link/theoryfellow...
@hhmi.org

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The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 5

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

theonion.com

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · Aug 4

A landmark volume, The Handbook of Dopamine, is now online:
www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han...

Big kudos to the editors, Stephanie Cragg and Mark Walton, for putting this together.

Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience | Volume 32: The Handbook of Dopamine | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest chapters of Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

www.sciencedirect.com

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨 Upcoming postdoc openings 🚨

We will soon be hiring postdocs to work on neural data analysis & modelling in the context of a recently awarded ARIA grant aimed at "precision control" of neural population dynamics (w. collabs. across the UK)

Reach out if interested!

www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-...

Precision Neurotechnologies

Backed by £69m, this programme aims to unlock new methods to interface with the human brain at the cellular level, with unprecedented precision.

www.aria.org.uk

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · Apr 17

My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good

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Matt Perich @mattperich.bsky.social · Jul 29

Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world!

🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW

A neural manifold view of the brain - Nature Neuroscience

Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed how neural population activity underlying behavior can be well described by topological objects called neural manifolds. Understanding how nature, nurture...

www.nature.com

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · Jul 29

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Jul 29

Now do the Department of Defense budget, Andrew.

“Washington has thrown billions at NIH for decades with little accountability and few measurable outcomes,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement to Future Pulse.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

NIH spending battle’s ripple effect

www.politico.com

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Jul 23

Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!

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Josh Dudman @dudman.bsky.social · Jul 16

Wonderful story about the importance of accessibility for all - as he says we will all need it at some point. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Meet the Google engineer making Maps more accessible

After a falling tree branch paralyzed him, Google software engineer Sasha Blair-Goldensohn began helping people with disabilities navigate their cities and neighborhoods.

www.wbur.org

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