😴 #newstudy about #sleepdeprivation from the Liu Lab!
🧠 A new study in Current Biology shows that lack of sleep impairs pattern separation
🔬 At the neural level: disrupted sparse coding → more overlap & confusion.
Read more: vibneuroscienceleuven.be/en/news#/new...
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...
Fluorescent neurons on black background. We're hiring! PhD Student
🚨 We are #hiring a PhD Student to study cerebellum-like circuits in #Drosophila.
Please spread the word!
www.groschner-lab.org/join
#Neuroscience #PhD
If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought, writes @suthanalab.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
"Saw her in the Amazon
With the voltage runnin' through her skin
Standin' there with nothin' on
She gonna teach me how to swim"
for more about the electric (f)eel, check this primer by Ken Catania ⚡ www.cell.com/current-biol...
(and yes, finally some current biology in Current Biology)
🚀 Proudly introducing the VIB-KU Leuven Center For Neuroscience, a merger of the two former VIB research centers VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research and Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF)! Our new motto: Bold Science, Real Impact.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhaq...
Birds have a thick retina devoid of blood vessels - so how do they ensure sufficient oxygen availability?
They don't - neurons rely on glycolysis, metabolizing glucose released from the pecten.
Insane new study that includes comparative data on lizards and crocs.🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats!
only China is still trying to save the mankind.
Cover image with sleeping baboon
Our paper is published today in Current Biology and is featured on the cover!
We report a neat, and somewhat counter-intuitive, finding: higher-ranking baboons get less and more interrupted night-time rest.
On the left, the image shows a schematic of a fly head, ring neurons and EPG neurons together with some calcium imaging frames. On the right is a photo of a fly on a ball in virtual reality and another schematic of a VR system.
📢 Join us, the Haberkern lab, @uni-wuerzburg.de for a postdoc studying neural circuit mechanisms of navigation. You’ll spearheading neurophysiology experiments on our brand new 2P!
⏳ Apply by 28th February 2026
Details: www.haberkernlab.de/docs/ENPostd...
#neuroscience #academicjobs #postdoc
Honoured to have contributed to a new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Mario Bronzati and lots of excellent and brainy (yes, pun intended) colleagues, showing that pterosaurs and birds evolved flight-capable brains but in different ways. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Congrat, Tom!
Indeed. And despite all the harshness, it still takes months to get it.🤬
🚨 Postdoc openings!
We’re looking for postdocs excited about sleep, synapses & cellular neurophysiology (fly or mouse).
Yes, we also have mouse projects!
See details: www.flysleeplab.com/positions
Nature research paper: Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals
go.nature.com/4i0i61w
This is not only starting with Trump. It is bipartism.
Sponges back?
Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree. @science.org
#sponges vs #ctenophores
supper slow🤬
Quanta contributing writer @maxlevy.bsky.social has received a Kavli Gold Award from @aaas.org and @kavlifoundation.org for “The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology,” a detailed account of how small organisms use static electricity to their advantage.
www.quantamagazine.org/quantanews/q...
not in Texas？
eLife Assessment This important study reports the results of efforts to replicate two phenomena of significant interest to early-career scientists and scientific policymakers: the Matthew effect and the early-career setback effect. Several previous studies of these effects have focused on early-career researchers with grant proposals that fell just below or just above a funding threshold. Those just above the threshold were more likely to be successful when they applied for funding later in the career (an example of the well-known Matthew effect), while those just below were more likely to go on to have stronger publication records (the early-career setback effect). In this study the Matthew effect was found to be robust across funders, and to generalize from those close to the funding threshold to the whole population. The early-career setback effect was not robust across funders and did not generalize to the whole population. The evidence reported is convincing.
Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
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Strategies of descent on vertical supports of various diameters by species.
Kinematics and morphology reveal how mammals descend trees safely, showing posture and movement strategies that suggest early upright behaviours in ancestral primates.
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How neurons go with the blood flow when migrating through the brain.
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Congrats, Tom!
The China-Argentina Radio Telescope is facing a series of new obstacles. https://scim.ag/49xkgTU
Apply for our International PhD Call! Discover the 11 new projects for this edition and apply until the 20th of November.
🔗More info: cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026
Our paper reconstructing hydras endodermis published in @currentbiology urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
New work from Sha Liu's lab connecting a cellular level process to behavior! 🪰💤