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Sweta Agrawal
@hokuba.bsky.social
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Insect neurobiologist who ❤️ flies, fungi, fiber, and fbooks. Campaniform nut. Assistant prof @VTNeuro
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · Jan 5
attn #SICB2025! a tech from my lab, Wayne Kuo, will be presenting a poster on fly landing! Find out how flies use mechanosensory info to decide when and how to land. Now soliciting names for our assay...we're currently calling it the Hokie Pokie

P4-67 on Tues Jan 7, part of "Flying and vision"
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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · Sep 4
For anyone on the neuroscience job market, our ads are up. We are looking for anyone working in systems neuroscience of animals to join us in southern Alberta 🇨🇦
#academicsky #neuroskyence #neuroethology #academicjobs #Canada
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Assistant Professor (Neuroscience, Tenure Track) - Lethbridge (City), Alberta (CA) job with University of Lethbridge | 39049
Assistant Professor (tenure track) of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 2d
Please just email me at the email on my website. Agrawalneurolab.com
Agrawal Lab
Proprioception is the sense of the position and movement of our bodies. It is our most important sense -- without it, it would be very difficult to move our bodies to do anything. The Agrawal lab stu...
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 2d
And while I am filled with incredible gratitude for what this opportunity did for me, I am also sad that opportunity might not exist for much longer. I miss the unreasonable optimism of my youth.

/fin
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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · 2d
Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators 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 ...
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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 5d
4. If you're looking for a postdoc and you're not looking outside of the US - what in the world are you thinking??? This is not a place to establish a stable science career at the moment.
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 5d
This is pretty horrifying, especially as someone who was detained by a police officer for a couple of hours as a TEENAGER (21 years ago) because he thought my friend and I were terrorists because we were Indian and Chinese and had cameras. I shudder to think what would happen now.
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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 5d
Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks to all the folks that gave me advice along the way. I am so grateful to have such a robust and supportive mentoring network, especially during such wild and crazy times ❤️
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 6d
But also, I am so so excited to join the group at UBC. Vancouver is one of my favorite cities, and UBC is home to so much talent and interesting science. I can't wait!
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 6d
We bought our dream home! in the mountains! That sadly we will now have to leave.
Photograph of a sunrise over a backyard. A garden, lawn, and mountains are all visible, and the sun is framed by trees.
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 6d
I am excited to be back in the PNW (or I suppose the PSW of Canada) but the decision comes with mixed emotions. VT has been a great home. I started some exciting collaborations, including transitioning to working with mosquitoes with help from @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social @lahonderelab.bsky.social
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 6d
The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!
Agrawal lab logo. A fly in the UBC colors, with dots framing its body.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6d
So what are the bottom lines?

First, a HUGE thank you to NIH staff (particularly grants management specialists but program officers and others as well) for getting this work done in a compressed period with many other stressors.

29/n
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 11d
📻👂On this week’s show: scientist @tuthill.bsky.social on what is being lost at the NIH, @joshuakeating.bsky.social on Trump’s ever expanding use of the word “terrorist.” And the always essential @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social on the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk. 👂📻 www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Trump v. Tylenol. Plus, How Charlie Kirk Became a Martyr for the Christian Right. | On the Media | WNYC Studios
President Trump has declared that Tylenol should not be used during pregnancy. On this week’s On the Media, how funding cuts and disputed claims linking the drug to autism have sent s...
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 11d
Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired

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The Free Speech Crisis for Black Americans Is Worse Than You Think
Don’t let Jimmy Kimmel’s return fool you: Black academics are more frightened of talking to the press than I’ve ever seen.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 13d
re: the elephants drawn by people who had never seen elephants, it is ESSENTIAL to click through to the master interactive, where you can enlarge each successively worse elephant (and link to the original source!!)
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 14d
"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 16d
"Roughly three-quarters (73%) of H-1B workers whose applications were approved in fiscal 2023 were born in India. A majority of approvals every year since 2010 have gone to workers born in India." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Line chart showing that India has long been the most common birthplace for workers whose H-1B visa applications in the United States are approved each year. The chart is based on a Pew Research Center analysis of data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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Maria Paz Fernandez @mariadelapax.bsky.social · 15d
Ed Kravitz passed away yesterday.
He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired.

We will miss you, Ed.
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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 15d
The Sosa Lab website is now live!
www.sosaneurolab.com

We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.
Sosa Lab
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Andrew Mountcastle @mounty.bsky.social · Apr 16
5/ Some wings have evolved strategies to help reduce damage resulting from collisions. For example, we learned a few years ago that wasp wings have a flexible joint that acts like a reversible crumple zone, allowing the wing tip to easily bend out of the way when it hits things...
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 18d
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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Josh Currie @joshcurrie.bsky.social · 19d
💥OUR LAB IS HIRING!!💥

We are hiring a research assistant/lab manager to assist with managing our axolotl colony and enabling some kick-ass science! Looking for high levels of organization, collaboration, problem solving and curiosity.

Application link: tinyurl.com/3tpvphpm
#SciJob #JobAlert
One of your future coworkers in the Currie Lab, an adorable axolotl.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19d
RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.
RFK Jr.-Backed Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine for Young Children
New members of a key committee tweak routine childhood vaccine guidance as some states and insurers go their own way.
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 20d
Congrats!!!
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 20d
new pape from our lab, led by the indefatigable @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social. i am very proud of this one.
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Chris J Dallmann @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social · 21d
Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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