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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 3h

Our new study modeling selection for (behavioral) variability has been covered in a lovely @genetics-gsa.bsky.social podcast featuring first author Shraddha Lall and @ecoevogal.bsky.social

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Family-based selection: an efficient method for increasing phenotypic variability

This article introduces a model comparing various selection regimes for increasing phenotypic variability. Individuals with the same genotype, reared in id

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Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge @camzoology.bsky.social · 4h

RIP John Gurdon

Inspirational colleague, teacher and leader, world-leading scientist and Nobel laureate.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 18h

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Hannah Haberkern @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you Ben! We an independent group :) As for how we got here: it was really just one thing leading to another. Laura gave a good summary here 👇

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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 23h

A little backstory on this one: sometime during the pandemic @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social and I were chatting in the servery at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social about how to encourage interactions between people working on foraging (+ neuroscience) across different species and perspectives... 1/n

Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Richard Benton @bentonlab.bsky.social · 2d

Having personally sworn for years that insects don’t use GPCRs for odour detection, Suguru Takagi (@sugurutakagi.bsky.social) discovers that, in fact, they sometimes do …

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A GPCR signaling pathway in insect odor detection

Odor detection differs fundamentally in vertebrates, which use G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), and insects, which employ ion channels. Here, we report the first evidence for a GPCR defining tunin...

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Hannah Haberkern @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to my wonderful coauthors and conference coorganizers 🤗 @lauragrima.bsky.social @neurorishika.bsky.social @maimmorimoto.bsky.social @adiraj95.bsky.social and @emmavscholey.bsky.social .

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Hannah Haberkern @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social · 1d

Really looking forward to this conference 👇 You can still register!

Emma Scholey @emmavscholey.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to hear about more like this, come join us at the University of Birmingham for ‘The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging’ conference. Registration closes 20th October!
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Home - The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging

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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience

The study of foraging is central to a renewed interest in naturalistic behavior in neuroscience. Applying a foraging framework grounded in behavioral …

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Hannah Haberkern @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social · 1d

One goal was to develop a shared language and better understanding of assumptions and limitations of different subfields. It was a privilege to learn from everyone involved and I hope we have brought some people together in the process!

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Hannah Haberkern @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social · 1d

Years ago @lauragrima.bsky.social talked about what a pity it is when scientists who work on #foraging miss out on fruitful interactions because they work with different animals. Together with collegues we started a virtual seminar series, which grew into a conference and now a review!

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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...
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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 ...

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 5d

“framing science as a debate to be won makes it easy to paint established scientists as opponents who must be overcome”

An interesting thesis and suggestion of a solution

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o... 🎁

Opinion | How the Manosphere Hijacks Young Men’s Interest in Science

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 6d

#ResearchCareers: Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme is a #funding option for your next step in academia? Come and find out in our digital info talk on 14 October. No registration, the meeting link will be published here:
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Infotafel mit Schriftzug "Walter Benjamin Programme" und Datumsangaben:
14 October
Tuesday
1:30 - 15p.m. CET
in English

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Ana Marija Jakšić @merianelion.bsky.social · 8d

🚨Preprint🚨
What started as an attempt to compare CT scans of diverse fly brains, ended up a new concept for analysis & segmentation of difficult tomographic data. No ground truths, no training, just maths. This is TopoTome, topological data analysis of 3D images

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Figure showing 3 panels. Panel A: workflow of a classical deep learning model vs TopoTome workflow, with marked differences between the methods, including manual segmentation of images, design and optimization of neural network and data post processing that is needed in deep learning workflow but not in TopoTome. Panel B: core concepts behind TopoTome shown connected by arrows. From left to right, there is a microCT scan of a fly brain (3D reconstruction), a persistence barcode of H2 homologies, an image of how persistent barcodes map to the original CT brain scan, and a segmentation of a CT scan. Panel C shows the concept of cubical complex filtration of 2D and 3D image data.

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Hugo Darras @hugodarras.bsky.social · 9d

@AntCommunity 🐜 🐜 Chengyuan Liu found a Camponotus ant colony where all sexual larvae have red spots of various sizes, but worker larvae don’t. Any idea what this is?🤔 Video in the comment.

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Aaron Kerlin @kerlinaaron.bsky.social · 14d

Our new preprint!: arxiv.org/abs/2509.18399
Imaging fast glutamate or voltage sensors?
New method to amplify electro-optical deflectors enables MHz line rate imaging. No new laser required. Led by @clwarkentin.bsky.social & @hari-shankar.bsky.social. MHz random-access imaging is in the works…

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Hannah Haberkern @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social · 11d

Wow, very cool! And congratulations 🎉

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Hannah Haberkern @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations, Kris! Excited to dig into this

Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 14d

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!

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Malcolm Campbell @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social · 19d

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨

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How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?

Read on to find out more! 🧵

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
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Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

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Honour McCann @honour.bsky.social · 20d

There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25d

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 25d

Our paper on central complex evolution in Heliconiini butterflies is now available as reviewed preprint at @elife.bsky.social 🎉🎉. Please check out the helpful and constructive reviews which we are going to address in the next weeks 🤗 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... @ebablab.bsky.social

Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies

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Emilie Macé @mace-lab.bsky.social · 26d

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨

We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭

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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ant reproduction is getting weirder and weirder. Here’s the latest: queens of a Mediterranean harvester ant mate with males from a different species and then lay eggs that clonally inherit those males’ genome. I.e., they lay eggs that develop into a different species. 🤯

Nature @nature.com · Sep 5

The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle

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Ant queens produce sons of two distinct species

The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle about a missing population of another ant species.

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