I’m thrilled & honored to be starting a new lab @ the NIA!! 🤩🥹 The Computational & Evolutionary Neurogenomics Unit focuses on: • neurodegenerative diseases 🧓🏽 • sex-biased 🧠 aging • comparative neurobio 🐒🐁 We’re looking for postdocs! 👀 Pls RT! DM me for more info ☺️

Huge win. Ecuadorians have voted in a historic referendum to halt the development of all new oilwells in the Yasuní national park in the Amazon, one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet: buff.ly/3QNZzdo Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate

Excellent perspective on human brain evolution, by Madeline Lancaster Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Mosaic Brain Evolution Drives Learning in Tropical Butterfly Researchers have discovered that Heliconius butterflies exhibit mosaic brain evolution, where certain brain regions, particularly the mushroom bodies responsible for learning and memory, expand significantly. These

“A species of tropical butterfly with unusually expanded brain structures displays a fascinating mosaic pattern of neural expansion linked to a cognitive innovation.” Dr. @Max_Farnworth from the University of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences, lead author of the study, said: “We

🚀 Thrilled to announce #inTRACKtive: a web-based tool for exploring massive cell-tracking datasets, no software installation required! Just open your browser and dive into terabytes of developmental biology data. We used it to build the virtual embryozoo.org of

In expansion microscopy, higher resolution is achieved by tuning the sample🦠, not the microscope. But it comes with some relevant drawbacks🤔. Learn more in our knowledge base: abberior.rocks/knowledge-base… #ExM #superresolution #abberiorknowledgebase #scienceexplained

We are primed and ready to go for the 10-year celebration week! Our doors are open to the public from 3-6:30pm today! 🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉

Excited to share I will be joining Université Neuchâtel as an assistant professor early 2025. OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠 Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd Spread the word 🙏🏽

Trending in #Biology: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Planktons & long-distance vertical migration (Current Biology) 2) Memory skills in butterflies 3) Guard cells count environmental stimuli 4) Genetic variation: Asian elephants 5) Rangers & wildlife monitoring (Communications Biology)

New paper in EvoDevo, led by ABLV, on the early development of the German cockroach. Cool embryology and weird deviations from most of the well-studied insect models. Note teasers for an upcoming paper on the evolution of arthropod tagmosis. rdcu.be/dYeNI

I've combined some of these together into a new #neuro #visualization "In the eye of a fly": Using the FlyWire visual system wiring diagram, #Brian2 spiking #neuron simulator, and #blender. Information flow through the chiasms, across a topographic map.

I've just explored the brand-new tidyplots package in R, and it’s impressive how effortlessly it enables you to create beautiful, publication-ready plots. Designed with scientific papers in mind, tidyplots lets you build, adjust, and refine plot components gradually, all with a

tidyplots Time to say goodbye to ggplot2?🫡 "a significant reduction of code complexity" vs ggplot2 cran.r-project.org/web/packages/t… Jan Broder Engler bioRxiv 2024 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hominin brain size increase has emerged from within-species encephalization | PNAS. V pleased to be a small part of this project, led by ⁦Thomas Püschel⁩ with Chris Venditti Samuel Nicholson and ⁦Jo Baker⁩ pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

#Ants hold a grudge – they remember who attacked them and fight back harder against those enemy colonies! Our new paper led by Bey Melanie is now published Current Biology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…