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Ana Lyons

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Tardigrade-obsessed, developing water bears クマムシ for systems-level neuro 💧🐻🧠 CZI-Stellar GGS Postdoc https://tardi-neural.net/ 📍RIKEN IMS | IAB Keio University 🗾 義塾大学先端生命科学研究所 | former UCSF, NSF GRFP | PhD '22 - tardigrade cold tolerance ❄️

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jan 15

Hello 🦋 world, Posted a preprint this week, advocating tardigrades as a new model for systems-level neuroscience! 🧠🐻💧 Synthesizing physiology, neuroanatomy, genomics & behavior was no small feat—feedback is welcome with all 8 arms! 💌 My email for contact is on the PDF 🌟 arxiv.org/abs/2501.06606

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 1d

Thankful to my new host mentor Dr. Yuka Iwasaki for her inspiring expertise, and to Dr. Kazuharu Arakawa for his continued guidance and support in tardigrade (クマムシ) research. 日々「努力あるのみ」で、全力で頑張ります！

Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 1d

I’m deeply grateful for this opportunity (2 more years in Japan)!
We continue pushing the boundaries, developing tardigrades (クマムシ, kumamushi) as a small but powerful emerging model organism: ss-f.org/en/news/ss-f...

[Press Release] Stellar Science Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network Announce Selection of 10 Outstanding Early-Career Postdocs for Global Challenge | Stellar Science Foundation (SS-F)

Stellar Science Foundation (SS-F) ステラサイエンスファウンデーションは、科学者の創造力に着目し、科学研究を支援、サポートする非営利団体です。

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jul 2

Important reminder to all the #Worm25 🪱 people at Davis now!! Super-sized water bear 💧🐻 photo op 😉 @bohartmuseum.bsky.social

Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jan 23

Perfect for the upcoming C. elegans meeting at Davis—come for the worms, stay for the sofa-sized stunner! 🛋️ Epic lab photo opportunity here! 📸

petnoodle @petnoodle.bsky.social · Jan 21

Did you know that there's a statue of a sofa-sized tardigrade outside the building where the Bohart Insect Museum is at the University of California, Davis? Well now you do. #invertebrates

Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jul 2

Same 😢 and I don't even study worms 😔

Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jun 25

Have you ever given a conference talk to over 100 experts in your field...DIRECTLY AFTER doing a (conference excursion) mountain hike in 30C+ weather? I can now say I have.... !!!

(Mt. Haguro, HIGH humidity, 2,446 stone steps...BEAUTIFUL but brutal before giving a talk 😂😅🙏🥹 I have been humbled !!)

Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jun 24

Thank you for the feature !! 💧🐻🧠🔬🧬🙏🙏🙏

Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jun 24

Also supported/inspired by co-author & UCSF tardigrade-neuro advisor Saul Kato @focolab.bsky.social & grateful to mentorship from Sae Tanaka (tardigrade transgenics visionary), @girlsinscience.bsky.social @jasnir.bsky.social & support from @mblscience.bsky.social @grassfoundation.bsky.social 🙏

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jun 24

Huge thanks to Benj Plackett & the @nature.com journalism team for featuring our tardigrade 🧠🔬🧬 work! Means so much as an early-career researcher building community + tools (neural atlas, GCaMP strain, behavior) now based in @gaou-ak.bsky.social Lab @ IAB Tsuruoka 🇯🇵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tardigrade-obsessed: meet the researchers trying to turn water bears into neuroscience models

For water-bear enthusiasts, it’s the creature’s legs that make it stand out.

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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · May 6

With all their complexity in a tiny transparent package, could tardigrades be a useful organism for neuroscientists to study as they unravel the many mysteries of the brain?

@tardi-neuro.bsky.social thinks it’s time tardigrades have their moment!

grassfoundation.org/time-for-tar...

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Apr 12

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Mar 15

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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · Mar 14

Tardigrades are all the rage for studying how critters survive extreme conditions. But they could be great neuroscience models, too. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Mar 15

Thank you !!! I'm an author; please follow for more tardi-breaking neuro news! 🗞️ 🤩🙏

Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Mar 11

Big thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for the great writeup & helping 📢 tardigrades step up systems neuroscience! 🧠 These tiny creatures are ready to walk us toward new insights in whole-animal neuro. Excited to keep building tools & a supportive community for💧🐻! It's been my life's work 😍

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Mar 11

The tardigrade may help neuroscientists understand how a small number of neurons can produce complex behaviors, but getting there will require a community effort.

By @dgrijseels.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Feb 24

Grateful for my (very snowy) new scientific homebase 🤍❄️🇯🇵 and all the amazing colleagues @ Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University 慶應義塾大学先端生命科学研究所 ...stay tuned for tardigrade クマムシ content on overdrive 🔬

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Feb 12

It's also Black History Month and "Black" was among those words allegedly flagged. We cannot erase our colleagues, community, and their experiences, invaluable perspectives, and contributions.

Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · Feb 11

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Feb 7

We love all aquatic eight-legged wonders of the world 🐙🌊🤝💧🐻 ...plus an amazing scientist and speaker !!

Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · Feb 6

Don't forget to join us TOMORROW, Friday, February 7, for a special MBL Falmouth Forum with MBL's own Roger Hanlon. Can't make it in person? That's okay, we'll be streaming live! mbl.edu/falmouth-forum

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Feb 1

Folks who can’t be out and about, volunteer opportunity:

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jan 30

And this is hurting the most at-need, early-stage scientists and community members the most 💔

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Jan 30

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills

An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

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👻Sewall Fright🎃 @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · Jan 29

To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled

👻Sewall Fright🎃 @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · Jan 29

As of now, NSF does not appear to be changing course at all given the temporary restraining order or the rescission of the memo. I can't help but feel that the NSF director is failing us and his handling of this is indefensible. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders

Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jan 29

Happening today! (In 20 min!) Register for Free 🧠

The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Jan 16

Register now for the free SFN & Kavli webinar "Neural Adaptation in Changing Ecosystems," moderated by ‪@wolfgangstein.bsky.social.‬

This is part of a 4-part webinar series w/ segments on neuromodulatory, genetic, behavioral, and evolutionary adaptations for a changing world.
tinyurl.com/ynajpw4y

Webinar: TBC Neural Adaptation in Changing Ecosystems

Join speakers Amanda Lauer, Cosima Porteus, and Joseph Santin for the inaugural session of an exciting new collaborative series by the Society for Neuroscience and The Kavli Foundation. Moderated by W...

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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jan 29

This is truly catastrophic for all NSF PRFB fellow who literally cannot draw monthly stipends or research funds now. And it reads as a full "stop work" directive for all "broadening participation" fellows. I am a recent fellow and all active fellows are DISTRESSED

Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jan 29

I'm so sorry; solidarity

Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jan 29

I fear it's too late 😭😭😭 I'm so sorry to everyone impacted by this. It's simply unacceptable and cruel to treat junior scientist this way.

Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · Jan 28

I am so sorry...but those tardigrades did not survive that crash 😔🙏

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