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Kory Evans Ph.D @sternarchella.bsky.social · 9d

New paper alert!!!🚨 in our new study we find that Antarctic icefishes added a new module in their skulls during their adaptive radiation special shout out to @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social who led this project!

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 9d

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Cube Enthusiast @killhamster.bsky.social · 10d

Nature is healing

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18d

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS

Comment period ends September 29th

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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...

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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · Aug 28

American Academy of Pediatrics vaccine schedule for newborns - 18 yrs is the one to use. Just published August 19, 2025 ❤️ downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...

American Academy of Pediatrics Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule
Table 1 for Ages 18 Years or Younger, United States, 2025
Published August 19, 2025. View full document and notes here: https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-Immunization-Schedule.pdf

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Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · 19d

Former staffers of Climate.gov are launching a new site: www.climate.us

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Climate.us

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

www.climate.us

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 20d

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PIEZO channels link mechanical forces to uterine contractions in parturition

Mechanical forces are extensively involved in pregnancy and parturition, but their precise roles and mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we identify mechanically activated ion channels PIEZO1 a...

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 22d

Many songbirds have regional dialects that mean their calls have measurable differences across populations. We must then conclude that ducks have quaccents

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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 27d

Come to the MBL in Woods Hole @mblscience.bsky.social for a GRASS FELLOWSHIP @grassfoundation.bsky.social 🦑 🐙🐛
There are two application deadlines this year: Oct 15, 2025 (submit by then to receive feedback on your application!), and Dec 1, 2025 (final deadline). grassfoundation.org/application-...

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 28d

Water anoles take a bubble of air down when they submerge, which they breathe like a tiny scuba tank, and now @lindseyswierk.bsky.social & co reveal that the reptiles may also be using the bubble like a gill, to breathe oxygen directly from the water

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A submerged water anole (Anolis aquaticus) with a bubble of air held on its head. Photo credit: Lindsey Swierk.

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Adrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social · Sep 8

Following up: searching for the distribution of estrogen receptors in the brain, I realized the Allen Brain Atlas is male only. How is it possible that something this fundamental is still missing?

Adrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's 2025, and there's apparently no female mouse atlas.
Please, tell me I'm wrong.

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Megan Barkdull @meganbarkdull.bsky.social · Sep 8

While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is great

Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · Sep 6

👏👏👏 👏👏

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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · Sep 5

FAT BEAR WEEK APPROACHES

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Sep 5

One of America’s most loved competitions is nearing. Get ready to binge on bear cams.

Fat Bear Week will take place from Sept. 23 to 30, with contestants going beast mode on the millions of sockeye salmon that run from Bristol Bay down the Brooks River.

Fat Bear Week is coming. Prepare to binge on bear cams.

Find out where to vote and how to watch your favorite bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve during Fat Bear Week 2025.

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Mar Huertas @olfactlady.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm so happy that they continue this program. The emerging community of neurobiology in the changing environment is thriving and growing. We have a slack group, too, if you want to join us

join.slack.com/t/nice-commu...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 31

'A swoop of swallows' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #UnravellingWomensArt #summer

Three birds in flight flying to the left against a swirling green blue sky

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Maria Antonietta Tosches @matosches.bsky.social · Aug 25

Excited to share our latest work on brain evolution, where we dive into the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells! If you are interested in cell type evolution and cerebral cortex evo-devo, please read on… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/7

Evolution of Cajal-Retzius Cells in Vertebrates from an Ancient Class of Tp73+ Neurons

In the developing cerebral cortex, Cajal Retzius (CR) cells are early-born neurons that orchestrate the development of mammalian-specific cortical features. However, this cell type has not been conclu...

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Bence Ölveczky @olveczky.bsky.social · Aug 25

Wrote a eulogy for the yellow letters in my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

My Lab Displayed A Message of Solidarity on Our Windows. Harvard Took It Down. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

If we continue down this path, we risk not only Harvard’s future as an institution of free inquiry and expression but also its integrity and trustworthiness.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · Aug 25

NEW: Florida and Texas asked Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk to join the ongoing lawsuit against the FDA over the abortion drug mifepristone. They say they seek to challenge the drug's APPROVAL from 2000—going way farther than wanting to end telemed prescriptions
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS AMARILLO DIVISION
Case No. 2:22-cv-00223-Z
STATE OF MISSOURI, et al., Intervenor-Plaintiffs,
v.
U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, et al., Defendants,
DANCO LABORATORIES, LLC, Intervenor-Defendant, and
GENBIOPRO, INC., Intervenor-Defendant.

THE STATES OF FLORIDA AND TEXAS’S BRIEF
IN SUPPORT OF THEIR MOTION FOR LEAVE TO INTERVENE
The States of Florida and Texas, in support of their Motion for Leave to Intervene pursuant to Rules 24(a) and 24(b), state as follows

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · Aug 13

Sex-reversal in birds (genetically male/female but appear female/male) is surprisingly common. Best detail: A genetically male bird called a laughing kookaburra had recently laid an egg. (1/2)

By @phiejacobs.bsky.social on @science.org

‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests

Survey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg

www.science.org

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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · Aug 8

Register here: forms.gle/6kn696gFtgZa...

SBN ORS 2025 Registration form

This form is to register for the 2025 SBN ORS held on October 16th & 17th, 2025. Registration will close October 15th, 2025 at 11:59pm PST. All attendees must submit this registration form, but if you...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 12

Out of the terrible destruction of the Manhattan Project came a decades-long partnership between the federal government and universities, attracting talent from around the world, to do good--the NIH, NSF all are a product of that era, now being destroyed by Donald Trump and Russell Vought.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · Aug 12

My oped in the NYT today, as we mark the 80th anniversary of the Manhattan Project and the end of the World War II, Trump is undoing the model of innovation that powered US prosperity ever since. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project

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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · Aug 8

The @flatironinstitute.org is hosting a 2-day workshop on Python packages for neural data analysis ( @pynapple.bsky.social NoMoS) prior to #SfN2025: neurorse.flatironinstitute.org/events/2025/.... Apps due Sept 8. And best of all, it's free, including meals and lodging! Go check it out!

SfN 2025

neurorse.flatironinstitute.org

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Daniel Pollak @danielpollak.bsky.social · Aug 8

1/ Late to the game to publicize my paper with @healeylab.bsky.social ocial: Parsing social context in auditory forebrain of male zebra finches (PLOS ONE, March 19, 2025). We also developed a low-cost microdrive for long-term neural recording in freely behaving finches.

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · Aug 4

"They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases."

NPR's ‪@rhersher.bsky.social‬ on Trump administration plans to potentially destroy satellites‬.
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

www.npr.org

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