Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me:
Nature-inspired neuroscience
We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨
tinyurl.com/y5y9du27
Here they are (Zygothrica sp) going at it to defend their mushroom kingdom.
El Refugio, Intag, Ecuador
Drawing of a long-legged crab titled "arthropod". Below it is a nearly identical drawing titled "anthropod," where the crab has human legs and hands instead of crabby limbs.
just had a thought...
It is with great sadness that I'm sharing the news that Dr. Don Moerman passed away this weekend. He was such a legend in the #Celegans and Canadian science community.
There is ABSOLUTELY another story here about how higher ed has abdicated its commitment to education by counting on federal funding to provide salary support to scientists like Donovan
Glia gang, this is for you!
In this video by our #ElectronMicroscopy team, shows a pyramidal neuron (PyC) surrounded by 8 glia brain cells – 5 microglia (MG) and 3 oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPC).
🧠📈 http://microns-explorer.org
The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈
Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."
Instructions for making mosquito-killing buckets. Cheap, effective, and won't harm butterflies, fireflies, pets, or birds like pyrethroid sprays do. Spring is a great time to set them out. #mosquitoes colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-...
Just discussed this with another female junior PI... It's obvious but maybe more data helps. What is necessary, is that policies aimed at retaining parents in academia do not treat fathers and mothers equal. Early on, the impact is not equal and denying this ends up disproportionately hurting women.
"men continued to publish the same number of papers after becoming fathers, women experienced a significant drop in research output (mothers had 31% fewer publications than did fathers 8 years after the birth of their first child)"
Can confirm, very soft. Much stylish.
🎉 lab’s first data paper 🎉
TL;DR: we found profound changes in vocal calls produced by mice with early-onset dystonia caused by cerebellar dysfunction. Thus, vocal impairments in people with dystonia may, in part, be driven by cerebellar dysfunction.
www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/dys...
A cycling in blue and black jacket, wearing a white helmet, rides along the paved Seawall cycle path next to Burrard Inlet. Above them is a canopy of pink cherry blossoms on branches. Across the water is an industrial area at the base of the north shore mountains that have a dusting of snow across the top
Cherry blossom photo of the day 🌸
#vancouver #weather #canada #bike
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
This is a core peril of connectome-body models: behavioral fidelity ≠ biological fidelity.
Virtual animals are powerful, but ONLY if brain-body interfaces are grounded in biology. A model that walks like a fly might just be a worm in disguise. 👀
Genome of the Abominable Snowfly uncovers the mysteries of cold tolerance in a winter active insect! New cool (literally) paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social from Marco Gallio, @matthewcapek.bsky.social, @tuthill.bsky.social, myself, and fine colleagues! ⛄ 🦟
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
How does an animal choose between exploring for a better food source and taking advantage of a known one? Our recent work in Current Biology demonstrates how recent feeding and metabolic state dynamically influence fly local search. bit.ly/3PfrIv3 #Science #Neurosky #Foraging #Drosophila
Sometimes failed experiments reveal gaps in how we are thinking about a problem, and digging into why an experiment didn't work can lead to discovery. This new preprint by Anne Sustar, in collaboration with Dion Dickman's lab, is one of those gratifying instances.🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
There is also the tension that in one's own lab, the productivity of the trainees reflects directly on the PI and their reputation. As a result insecurity can flourish and lead to toxic situations. At the institutional level there isn't the same feeling of personal risk/investment
Videos of talks from COSYNE (computational and systems neuroscience) are available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@cosynetalks
Happy holi!
fly circuit diagram
When a fly lands on your arm, how does your nervous system decide where to swat?
By reconstructing tactile axons in a Drosophila connectome, we found a leg somatotopic map and downstream circuits that sample the map to initiate targeted grooming
Led by Leila Elabbady, PhD
doi.org/10.64898/202...
With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.
So true. Every mycological society meeting i would go to in Seattle would prove this to be true -- a whole community of people that are interested in/pursue fungal taxonomy FOR FUN. AS A HOBBY.
After 5 years of developing, a new preprint from the lab - introducing our workflow for comparative insect connectomics, aimed at democratizing connectomics. @erc.europa.eu @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
NYU's Center for Neural Science is seeking a faculty candidate that would be jointly appointed with our Tandon School of Engineering. We are looking for post-doc applicants with neuroengineering or computational backgrounds.
apply.interfolio.com/182074
University of Toronto is hiring:
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
#assistantprofessorposition
