American science is shrinking.
A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. https://wapo.st/3OgoHKV
When it comes to sensory processing, cortex should not get all the credit... In olfaction, a key challenge is identifying odors regardless of concentration. Our new paper in @natneuro.nature.com shows how the olfactory bulb performs this crucial computation before signals even reach the cortex.
New favorite mosquito, indeed! Thanks for such a valuable resource, Jonathan, Ben and all! @elissakhodikian.bsky.social and I are grateful and look forward to all the fun science ahead!
On the cover of our current issue: the 'cool' snow fly❄️❄️❄️
whose genome reveals several fascinating cold adaptations.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
5 large data centers are being proposed in Seattle.
They would use 369 megawatts, which is 1/3 of the electricity Seattle currently uses
Seattle City Light declines to identify the four companies.
They should hold a public input meeting before making any final decisions.
Are you a computational scientist? Within 7 years of your PhD? Come join us at Lund University! We have two new positions as assistant professor! Deadline: 25th of May. The advert is broad, but this is your chance to push computational neuroscience in a fantastic place!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Congrats Hany!!
Awesome work Orit!
Honeybee swarms do not come together and fall apart in the same way 🐝
In this new preprint led by Danielle Chase, we report how to trick swarms to repeatedly assemble and disassemble in front of our cameras, while tracking individual bees in 3D!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Pablo Villar et al discover male octopus mating arms are sensory organs used to find females, navigate internally to the oviduct & deliver sperm. From behavior to structure, these findings offer a framework for how sensory systems shape reproduction & species barriers
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@jlarsch.bsky.social and I are organising the 2026 CIG Symposium on June 11-12 in Lausanne on "Information transfer: from genes to behaviour", featuring an eclectic set of brilliant scientists. Details and registration here (abstracts by May 1, registration by June 1):
www.unil.ch/fbm/en/home/...
A new preprint shows that deep learning can make a fly walk realistically using a worm’s brain — exposing a fundamental problem with how connectome models are being built and sold to investors.
By @natmesanash.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867
Boom!! Congrats!!
Congrats Noah!!
Honored to be among the other @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social faculty in the 2025 @aaas.org fellows class: news.berkeley.edu/2026/03/26/e...
Nice!!
our latest publication is now published! 🍾
Sensitivity to cuticular hydrocarbons across the odorant receptor family in the Indian jumping ant, Harpegnathos saltator
Congrats to all of my co-authors, many of whom are undergraduates and this is their first paper!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ins...
Yuki giving an amazing talk at UW Biology
Super excited to have @yukihaba.bsky.social visit Seattle and @uwbiology.bsky.social and give a talk on his mosquito work!
Seagrass on the northeast side of Willapa Bay. Photo credit: Jennifer Ruesink/University of Washington
March 1 was #WorldSeagrassDay, which celebrates the flowering plants that look like blades of grass waving in our oceans. @uwbiology.bsky.social Professor Jennifer Ruesink shared insights on what seagrass is and what makes the seagrasses in Washington unique. www.washington.edu/news/2026/02...
Poster showing red-tinted Statue of LIberty with "National Day of Action" on March 7 from 12-3pm at Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater to take back our Science, Health & Democracy. Sponsored by Stand Up For Science.
Hey #Seattle, come join the National Day of Action on March 7 from 12-3pm at #SeattleCenter and rally around Science, Health & Democracy with @standupforscience.bsky.social
Close-up image of a Aedes aegypti mosquito, piercing human skin with its proboscis to feed on blood. Credit: wikimedia/James Gathany
In PNAS Science Sessions, Laura Duvall of Columbia University explains how a circadian peptide helps control when Aedes aegypti mosquitoes hunt and why understanding this timing could inform new disease prevention strategies. Listen now: https://ow.ly/scgm50Yl8F7
🌟🌟Interested in a postdoctoral project about host-parasite coevolution and/or underlying mechanisms? 🌟🌟
Check your eligibility for this fellowship & contact me. I am particularly interested in hosting scholars from the Global South (¡Arriba mi gente!). www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...
Murthy Lab to Host Open House Showcasing the Science of Smell on March 6 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @luxorboero.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social
Congrats to @willemlaursen.bsky.social and Vikram Iyer on their Sloan Fellowships!
Five UW faculty members have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. They are, from left to right, Maria “Masha” Baryakhtar, Matthew R. Golder, Vikram Iyer, Willem Laursen and Frankie Pavia. Photo: University of Washington
Congratulations to the @uofwa.uw.edu faculty members who have been awarded early-career fellowships from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social! The new Fellows include #UWArtSci faculty members Maria “Masha” Baryakhtar, Matthew R. Golder, and Willem Laursen. www.washington.edu/news/2026/02...
Faculty meeting vibes
My colleague is bringing it to faculty meeting today
