Today we mourn the passing of Humberto Maturana (92). A humble genius, whose huge contributions to systems biology, cybernetics, neuroscience, evolutionary theory, epistemology, and social sciences will keep shaping these fields for many generations to come. Haven’t read him yet?

Please wear a mask outside of your home if you are in Noosa, Sunshine Coast, Ipswich, Logan, Redlands, Moreton, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Scenic Rim, Lockyer Valley and Somerset.

Morrison & Murdoch want to gaslight Australians into thinking everything is fine. Rubbish. While the world opens up, Morrison's failure on vaccines & failure on quarantine have locked us down. The world sees Australia as a country whose leaders have inexplicably let them down.

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Scientists say the closure of the Animal Resources Centre, a major source of rats and mice located in Perth, Western Australia, is a blow to biomedical research. go.nature.com/3k1dwUF

I honestly don't know if I'll ever get tired of looking at neurons. CA1 pyramidal cells from the rat hippocampus.

We're hiring! Interested (and interesting) postdoctoral researchers in Systems Neuroscience 🦘🧠🔬 🏝️UQ Medicine, ask for details. Fully funded scholarships for PhD students also available. Deadlines soon. Please RT UQ News Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS)

Very excited to finally share my first publication! We found that human and rat pyramidal neurons have conserved biophysical properties, however, the larger dendritic tree of human neurons enhances their computational capacity. cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Very happy to finally share this work done as part of my MPhil thesis with Rodrigo Suárez, PhD in the lab of Linda Richards, available to read now as a preprint in bioRxiv!

New paper from the Williams lab is out now! Congratulations to Stephen, Xiangyu and Lee for their amazing work that reveals how dendritic information processing in striatal cholinergic interneurons is powerfully transformed by peptide neuromodulation sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Australian PhD students currently earn far below minimum wage - 25% less than the $39,000 you would get paid in a minimum wage-earning job. This is unreasonable, and we should expect to earn enough to support ourselves during our studies. Please sign this petition.

New issue is out! cell.com/neuron/current Cover is by Lee Fletcher. Together with Williams & Zhou, they show that the structure and biophysics of striatal cholinergic interneurons transform input to output, just like stained glass. Read more here: cell.com/neuron/fulltex…