Hanna Zwaka
@hannazwaka.bsky.social
Neuroscientist | Group leader at Leibniz Institute for Neuroscience | Feminist | Working with amazing zebrafish |.. still in love with honeybees
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Would you like to learn more about #XAI?
Take a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social's presentation on "Explainable Machine Learning" on the @scadsai.bsky.social #Zenodo page. It covers the basics, including SHAP analysis and Grad-CAM as examples.
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/mzmitnigaa
Take a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social's presentation on "Explainable Machine Learning" on the @scadsai.bsky.social #Zenodo page. It covers the basics, including SHAP analysis and Grad-CAM as examples.
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/mzmitnigaa
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Would you like to learn more about #XAI?
Take a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social's presentation on "Explainable Machine Learning" on the @scadsai.bsky.social #Zenodo page. It covers the basics, including SHAP analysis and Grad-CAM as examples.
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/mzmitnigaa
Take a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social's presentation on "Explainable Machine Learning" on the @scadsai.bsky.social #Zenodo page. It covers the basics, including SHAP analysis and Grad-CAM as examples.
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/mzmitnigaa
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I read this book when I was 15 and fell in love with DNA. I re-read it at 32 with lived experience in Science and it filled me with rage. I cannot pick up that book now. It reveals what women were/are up against.
Based on his self-described behavior in The Double Helix and these actions it is easy and appropriate to write him off as an ignorant jerk.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I read this book when I was 15 and fell in love with DNA. I re-read it at 32 with lived experience in Science and it filled me with rage. I cannot pick up that book now. It reveals what women were/are up against.
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
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November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
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November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Applications for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award are now open! This program supports early career scientists in #autism or #neuroscience research by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. Apply by 1/14/2026: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/31/a... #science
Applications for Fellows-to-Faculty Awards Now Open
Applications for Fellows-to-Faculty Awards Now Open on Simons Foundation
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October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Applications for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award are now open! This program supports early career scientists in #autism or #neuroscience research by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. Apply by 1/14/2026: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/31/a... #science
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[Job]
Aquaculture Research Associate, Knaut and Torres-Vazquez Labs, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
#zebrafish
Aquaculture Research Associate, Knaut and Torres-Vazquez Labs, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
#zebrafish
Aquaculture Research Associate, Knaut and Torres-Vazquez Labs, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY - Jobs - Confluence
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November 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
[Job]
Aquaculture Research Associate, Knaut and Torres-Vazquez Labs, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
#zebrafish
Aquaculture Research Associate, Knaut and Torres-Vazquez Labs, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
#zebrafish
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Lovely summary on why #zebrafish make excellent models of human disease! Featuring @crumplab.bsky.social 🐟🧪
Did you know zebrafish share many of the same genes as humans?
Gage Crump, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at USC Stem Cell, explains how this tiny fish is helping advance human health research.
@keckschoolusc.bsky.social
Gage Crump, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at USC Stem Cell, explains how this tiny fish is helping advance human health research.
@keckschoolusc.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Lovely summary on why #zebrafish make excellent models of human disease! Featuring @crumplab.bsky.social 🐟🧪
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Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨
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Motor learning in fruit flies: what happens where and how to improve it
Humans use motor learning to learn how to speak, walk, write or ride a bike. Motor learning is essential also for sports or rehabilitation after stroke or spinal injury. Evidence suggests that all forms of motor learning […]
Humans use motor learning to learn how to speak, walk, write or ride a bike. Motor learning is essential also for sports or rehabilitation after stroke or spinal injury. Evidence suggests that all forms of motor learning […]
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November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Motor learning in fruit flies: what happens where and how to improve it
Humans use motor learning to learn how to speak, walk, write or ride a bike. Motor learning is essential also for sports or rehabilitation after stroke or spinal injury. Evidence suggests that all forms of motor learning […]
Humans use motor learning to learn how to speak, walk, write or ride a bike. Motor learning is essential also for sports or rehabilitation after stroke or spinal injury. Evidence suggests that all forms of motor learning […]
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I'm on the academic job market!
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I'm on the academic job market!
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
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🧠In this essay Carlos Ribeiro and Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, @champalimaudf.bsky.social, explore the brain-body interactions.
🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two.
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...
🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two.
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🧠In this essay Carlos Ribeiro and Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, @champalimaudf.bsky.social, explore the brain-body interactions.
🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two.
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...
🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two.
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...
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Calling aspiring group leaders! We've just opened applications for group leader fellowship sponsorship to start a lab in UCL NPP. Deadline 5 Jan. @uclnpp.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3h33dvev
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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November 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Calling aspiring group leaders! We've just opened applications for group leader fellowship sponsorship to start a lab in UCL NPP. Deadline 5 Jan. @uclnpp.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3h33dvev
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#YoRC Webinar TODAY! Join the Joint Young Researchers Committee of #IZFS and #EZS for their webinar: From Tank to Planet - Advancing sustainability in Aquatic Research Facilities Today, November 6th, at 11am EST. Register for #free here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: From Tank to Planet - Advancing sustainability in Aquatic Research Facilities. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the we...
Discover how zebrafish labs and other aquatic research facilities are leading the way towards greener science!
Learn how labs are cutting water and energy use, reducing waste, and exploring sustainabl...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#YoRC Webinar TODAY! Join the Joint Young Researchers Committee of #IZFS and #EZS for their webinar: From Tank to Planet - Advancing sustainability in Aquatic Research Facilities Today, November 6th, at 11am EST. Register for #free here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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I've updated my Bioinformatics Bootcamp: Zebrafish Special Edition blog post on @the-node.bsky.social! Please do share with trainees or anyone new to the community. I hope it adds some breadth to the many resources available to #zebrafish researchers. 🔗 thenode.biologists.com/bioinformati...
Bioinformatics Bootcamp - Zebrafish Special Edition - the Node
A deep-dive into the many cool (and free) resources available to zebrafish researchers! Disclaimer: This is not a comprehensive list but a list of useful
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November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I've updated my Bioinformatics Bootcamp: Zebrafish Special Edition blog post on @the-node.bsky.social! Please do share with trainees or anyone new to the community. I hope it adds some breadth to the many resources available to #zebrafish researchers. 🔗 thenode.biologists.com/bioinformati...
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When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
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For those interested, we’ve got two #WomenInScience lists, a list of resource and society accounts that support #zebrafish and lists of Senior Scientists & Group Leaders that work with our favorite fish. If you’re not on a list and want to be added (or just want to double-check), please reach out! 🧪
Inject some #zebrafish into your timeline with our updated Starter Packs! 🧪
WomenInScience v1: go.bsky.app/4BegEjv
"" v2: go.bsky.app/VoebYrt
Resources: go.bsky.app/JcC5df3
Sr. Scientists & PIs v1: go.bsky.app/2cHYybY
"" v2: go.bsky.app/4zBuxAF
"" v3: go.bsky.app/JvjuSZg
"" v4: go.bsky.app/2c4WLQK
WomenInScience v1: go.bsky.app/4BegEjv
"" v2: go.bsky.app/VoebYrt
Resources: go.bsky.app/JcC5df3
Sr. Scientists & PIs v1: go.bsky.app/2cHYybY
"" v2: go.bsky.app/4zBuxAF
"" v3: go.bsky.app/JvjuSZg
"" v4: go.bsky.app/2c4WLQK
November 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
For those interested, we’ve got two #WomenInScience lists, a list of resource and society accounts that support #zebrafish and lists of Senior Scientists & Group Leaders that work with our favorite fish. If you’re not on a list and want to be added (or just want to double-check), please reach out! 🧪
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Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
go.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
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Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Kaarthik A Balakrishnan: We identify medullary circuits that represent the valence of thermal stimuli and control both long-term strategies of cold-avoidance and short term hot avoidance behaviors to enable thermoregulation. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Behavioral and circuit principles of temperature gradient navigation
Behavioral thermoregulation is critical for survival across animals. Balakrishnan
and Haesemeyer discover that thermoregulatory behavior in larval zebrafish is organized
into longer-term swim modes. T...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Kaarthik A Balakrishnan: We identify medullary circuits that represent the valence of thermal stimuli and control both long-term strategies of cold-avoidance and short term hot avoidance behaviors to enable thermoregulation. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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#Zebrafish Principal Investigators are invited to attend #SCZI2025 in Singapore, January 14-17, 2026! Poster abstract submissions and early bird registration are open until November 5th, register now and join us to advance your career!
Registration | IZFS - International Zebrafish Society
Registration for the 11th IZFC opens on August 13! Use the link below to register!
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October 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
#Zebrafish Principal Investigators are invited to attend #SCZI2025 in Singapore, January 14-17, 2026! Poster abstract submissions and early bird registration are open until November 5th, register now and join us to advance your career!
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My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film. n.pr/4n4s82s
How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to Hitler to fight fascism
It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film.
n.pr
October 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film. n.pr/4n4s82s
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During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost!
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October 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost!
apply.interfolio.com/174756
apply.interfolio.com/174756
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🎥 FMI scientists discovered that thousands of C. elegans genes switch on and off in rhythmic patterns controlled by chromatin, revealing how gene timing shapes development & offering clues to human biological clocks. @labgrosshans.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dibw...
DNA rhythms orchestrate gene activity across development
YouTube video by The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
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October 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
🎥 FMI scientists discovered that thousands of C. elegans genes switch on and off in rhythmic patterns controlled by chromatin, revealing how gene timing shapes development & offering clues to human biological clocks. @labgrosshans.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dibw...
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Don’t miss out on the UK #zebrafish husbandry meeting at the University of Manchester on Wednesday 22nd October. Ticket sales end in two days (15th). More details in the LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/zebraf...
#zebrafish | Zebrafish Rock!
The Francis Crick Institute and The University of Manchester have invited you to the UK #zebrafish husbandry meeting on Wednesday 22 October at the University of Manchester. Tickets are £10 and inclu...
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October 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Don’t miss out on the UK #zebrafish husbandry meeting at the University of Manchester on Wednesday 22nd October. Ticket sales end in two days (15th). More details in the LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/zebraf...
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Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩🔬
Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM
After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.
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October 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩🔬