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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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Hanna Zwaka @hannazwaka.bsky.social · 5d

“Blame your parents if you can’t pay enough attention." At least when you are a zebrafish! Our new study on attentional switching together with Kumaresh Krishnan, @paulapflitsch.bsky.social , @zwitscherarmin.bsky.social and Florian Engert is out in Science Advances:
doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 19d

The final version of our paper on how ants and possibly other insects use a crazy mechanism involving extensive transcriptional interference to regulate odorant receptor expression is now open access in my favorite journal, @currentbiology.bsky.social

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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fbm-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social · 20d

Apply now for FBM #PhD #Fellowships in #Life #Sciences – join one of the Faculty’s leading laboratories.

🚨 Application deadline for fellowships: October 6, 2025.
➡️ www.unil.ch/news/en/1756...

@unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social @dee-unil.bsky.social @dib-unil.bsky.social #fbm #unil

PhD Fellowships in Life Sciences: a competition open to future doctoral students.

Apply now for FBM PhD Fellowships in Life Sciences – join one of the Faculty’s leading laboratories.

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Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 22d

Check out this exciting study led by Anh-Tuan Trinh from our lab, where we investigated how thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish pallium receive, represent, and integrate sensory information:
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Hierarchical processing of sensory information across topographically organized thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain

Thalamocortical projections contribute to the spatial organization and functional hierarchies of the mammalian cortex. Primary sensory cortices receive topographically segregated information from firs...

doi.org

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 29d

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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Maxwell Shafer @maxshafer.bsky.social · Aug 28

Now published @natecoevo.nature.com with @annika-nichols.bsky.social, our latest on the evolution of 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 across 𝟲𝟬 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 of cichlid fishes! doi.org/10.1038/s415...
with members of the @schierlab.bsky.social and Salzburger labs, as well as the burgeoning Shafer lab @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social

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Johannes Larsch @jlarsch.bsky.social · Aug 23

Jim was an incredibly gifted teacher. Still remember his fundamentals in Neuroscience. Also, great, dry sense of humor.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 22

A. James Hudpseth, who died 16 August at age 79, devoted his 50-year career to untangling how the ear converts sound into electrical signals.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/hearing/reme...

Remembering A. James Hudspeth, hair cell explorer

Hudspeth, who died 16 August at age 79, devoted his 50-year career to untangling how the ear converts sound into electrical signals.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Isaac Bianco @isaacbianco.bsky.social · Aug 23

Latest from the lab. Beautiful work from Joanna Lau and a fantastic collaboration with James Fitzgerald.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Supraspinal commands have a modular organization that is behavioral context specific

Lau et al. use calcium imaging and statistical modeling to comprehensively survey reticulospinal activity during diverse locomotor behaviors. They find that a small set of functional modules act combi...

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · Aug 22

Can't wait to read this preprint from Misha Ahrens and team. Calcium imaging in larval zebrafish, in every cell in the body! Amazing.

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

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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you’re interested in ants, olfaction, gene regulation, or all of the above, here’s a new preprint from the lab for you. It describes an unorthodox mechanism of transcriptional interference by which ant olfactory sensory neurons produce a single functional receptor.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Transcriptional Interference Gates Monogenic Odorant Receptor Expression in Ants

Communication is crucial to social life, and in ants, it is mediated primarily through olfaction. Ants have more odorant receptor (OR) genes than any other group of insects, generated through tandem d...

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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns?
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
#preprint thread ⬇️1/8

ALT text: A UMAP representation of a single cell RNAseq dataset from the Drosophila ventral nerve cord as well as images of the Drosophila nerve cord connectome and different stages of fly development.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 12

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

www.scrippsnews.com

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Aug 8

💡 Whether you’re a new student, a lab leader or a decision-maker at an institutional level, you can now find free tools and guidance all in one place on our new Learning Resources page.

With everything in the thread below and more, get learning today!
buff.ly/sIpX5gU

A stylised hand holds a smartphone from which colourful digital pages flow outward, surrounded by icons of books, screens, and learning materials on a dark blue and purple background.

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Julie Semmelhack @juliesemmelhack.bsky.social · Jun 27

Latest from my lab: we identify and characterize the function of binocular neurons zebrafish larvae use to hunt prey; sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Congrats to Richard Tian, Gewei Yan and Tommy Lam @tkclam.bsky.social!

Binocular integration of prey stimuli in the zebrafish visual system

Most animals with two eyes combine the inputs to achieve binocular vision, which can serve numerous functions and is particularly useful in hunting pr…

sciencedirect.com

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Saikat Ray @ray-neuro.bsky.social · Jan 30

How does the brain work in natural scenarios, in multi-animal societies of wild animals? 🧠 🧪 🦇

doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Felix Baier @felixbaier.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!

We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

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Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social · Jun 16

Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home....
For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

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Johannes Larsch @jlarsch.bsky.social · Jul 21

Become our colleague! Tenure-track Assistant Professor position at The Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. unil.ch/cig/en/home....
More details for how to apply are here:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Johannes Gräff @graeffjohannes.bsky.social · Jul 21

We are looking for a new neuroscience colleague at the tenure track assistant professor level! All details below! 🧠🔥 All details here: www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

Faculty Position in Neuroscience

The School of Life Sciences at EPFL invites applications for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Neuroscience. At EPFL researchers develop and apply innovative technologies to understand br...

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Johannes Larsch @jlarsch.bsky.social · Jul 9

Congratulations Silvana! 🎉

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Ethan Scott's Lab @ethanscottlab.bsky.social · Jun 4

Congrats to @stednitz.bsky.social and Andrew Lesak on their @currentbiology.bsky.social paper! They use HMM to identify two interaction states in #zebrafish: one visual for long-range interactions and one lateral line for quick, close interactions.

Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lCYh3QW8S...

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · May 13

Heart disease is the world’s leading killer, and tackling it demands decoding the multi-gene networks driving disease progression 🫀

Learn how researchers used Medaka fish plus high-throughput heartbeat imaging to build a biomarker toolkit for early screening.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Bahl Lab @bahllab.bsky.social · Mar 17

We are proud to present our new preprint “Correlative light and electron microscopy reveals the fine circuit structure underlying evidence accumulation in larval zebrafish”, just posted on bioRxiv (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). (1/10)

Correlative light and electron microscopy reveals the fine circuit structure underlying evidence accumulation in larval zebrafish

Accumulating information is a critical component of most circuit computations in the brain across species, yet its precise implementation at the synaptic level remains poorly understood. Dissecting su...

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