Max Farnworth
@maxfarnworth.bsky.social
Fascinated by the evolution of the brain | Senior Research Associate at EBaB lab (University of Bristol) | 2025 PI Fellow (Company of Biologists) | Section Speaker Neurobiology DZG | he/him
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Max Farnworth
@maxfarnworth.bsky.social
· Aug 22
Pathway to Independence – an interview with Max Farnworth
Max Farnworth completed his PhD in Gregor Bucher's lab at the University of Göttingen, Germany, where he explored how heterochrony shapes the evolution and development of insect brains. He then joined...
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If you happen (…!) to be interested in what fascinates me about science and brain evolution and what I am up to, click here:
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Thanks to @dev-journal.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social for the interview 🙏
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Thanks to @dev-journal.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social for the interview 🙏
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Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
January 28, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
see you later for this talk!
Excited for the upcoming TIBBE online talks &discussions with the amazing @stanley-heinze.bsky.social around
How can we increase our comparative dataset and make it more transferable between disciplines?
Next Wednesday, January 28, 3pm UTC, 4pm Paris 🧠🐜🪰🪳🦟🪲🐝 Join us www.crowdcast.io/c/comparativ...
How can we increase our comparative dataset and make it more transferable between disciplines?
Next Wednesday, January 28, 3pm UTC, 4pm Paris 🧠🐜🪰🪳🦟🪲🐝 Join us www.crowdcast.io/c/comparativ...
January 28, 2026 at 9:56 AM
see you later for this talk!
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🤩 Join us for the next TIBBE seminar:
Comparative databasing
January 28, 3–4pm UTC
This event hosts an outstanding neuroscientist & biologist particularly interested in insect brains who will present his work, followed by an interactive discussion with the audience: www.crowdcast.io/c/comparativ...
Comparative databasing
January 28, 3–4pm UTC
This event hosts an outstanding neuroscientist & biologist particularly interested in insect brains who will present his work, followed by an interactive discussion with the audience: www.crowdcast.io/c/comparativ...
January 23, 2026 at 1:04 PM
🤩 Join us for the next TIBBE seminar:
Comparative databasing
January 28, 3–4pm UTC
This event hosts an outstanding neuroscientist & biologist particularly interested in insect brains who will present his work, followed by an interactive discussion with the audience: www.crowdcast.io/c/comparativ...
Comparative databasing
January 28, 3–4pm UTC
This event hosts an outstanding neuroscientist & biologist particularly interested in insect brains who will present his work, followed by an interactive discussion with the audience: www.crowdcast.io/c/comparativ...
Does anybody know how to solve this Zenodo problem? I am also looking for alternative data storage sites...
Anyone else ever had problems uploading larger files to Zenodo? It's getting a tad frustrating...
January 27, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Does anybody know how to solve this Zenodo problem? I am also looking for alternative data storage sites...
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Model organisms promise insights into the human brain only if they’re representative. This new paper argues that convenience-driven choices weaken extrapolation in neuroscience, and highlights growing calls for comparative, evolution-informed approaches. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 6, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Model organisms promise insights into the human brain only if they’re representative. This new paper argues that convenience-driven choices weaken extrapolation in neuroscience, and highlights growing calls for comparative, evolution-informed approaches. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Something to consider…
Something to consider…
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:28 PM
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Something to consider…
Something to consider…
Woohoo!!
Excited that my 2nd MSc paper is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social 🦋🎉 doi.org/10.1093/evol...
We find Heliconius’ impressive visual memory is not due to increased visual-structure investment over that of their outgroup relatives, but instead consistent with specialisation of the central circuitry.
We find Heliconius’ impressive visual memory is not due to increased visual-structure investment over that of their outgroup relatives, but instead consistent with specialisation of the central circuitry.
January 23, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Woohoo!!
Anyone else ever had problems uploading larger files to Zenodo? It's getting a tad frustrating...
January 23, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Anyone else ever had problems uploading larger files to Zenodo? It's getting a tad frustrating...
Come and join us to learn about insect brains with @stanley-heinze.bsky.social
🤩 Join us for the next TIBBE seminar:
Comparative databasing
January 28, 3–4pm UTC
This event hosts an outstanding neuroscientist & biologist particularly interested in insect brains who will present his work, followed by an interactive discussion with the audience: www.crowdcast.io/c/comparativ...
Comparative databasing
January 28, 3–4pm UTC
This event hosts an outstanding neuroscientist & biologist particularly interested in insect brains who will present his work, followed by an interactive discussion with the audience: www.crowdcast.io/c/comparativ...
January 23, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Come and join us to learn about insect brains with @stanley-heinze.bsky.social
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Our journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Apply by 6 February 2026.
biologists.com/grants/trave...
biologists.com/grants/trave...
January 23, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Our journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Apply by 6 February 2026.
biologists.com/grants/trave...
biologists.com/grants/trave...
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Help me out. I'm looking for a paper I think I saw on bluesky from ~1950s about experiments where chimps were given rats on strings to use as living tools to access out of reach food. I think it might have been Schiller but I can't find it anywhere! Have I gone mad?
January 22, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Help me out. I'm looking for a paper I think I saw on bluesky from ~1950s about experiments where chimps were given rats on strings to use as living tools to access out of reach food. I think it might have been Schiller but I can't find it anywhere! Have I gone mad?
Congratulations @giuliapaci.bsky.social !! Fantastic news! ☺️
Very excited to receive this award and truly grateful to the @bscb-official.bsky.social who have been supporting me throughout my postdoc since I moved to the UK!
We are delighted to announce that @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @ucllifesciences.bsky.social has been awarded the 2026 BSCB Postdoctoral researcher medal
You can read about Giulia's work on how tissues withstand mechanical stress here:
bscb.org/postdoctoral...
You can read about Giulia's work on how tissues withstand mechanical stress here:
bscb.org/postdoctoral...
January 22, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Congratulations @giuliapaci.bsky.social !! Fantastic news! ☺️
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Undergraduates, come and work with us in Bristol this summer! If you're interested in eyes and vision, get in touch to discuss projects - we have several opportunities to study the impacts of eye loss, evolution of retinal musculature, and the growth of distributed visual systems, to name a few!
Are you finishing your undergraduate degree next year?
Are you interested in animal eyes, and would you like to gain some paid research experience this summer @bristolbiosci.bsky.social?
If so, get in touch! @rankprize.bsky.social funds 8-week studentships 👇
www.rankprize.org/grants/under...
Are you interested in animal eyes, and would you like to gain some paid research experience this summer @bristolbiosci.bsky.social?
If so, get in touch! @rankprize.bsky.social funds 8-week studentships 👇
www.rankprize.org/grants/under...
Rank Prize
Stimulating and celebrating the brightest minds in nutrition and optoelectronics
www.rankprize.org
January 22, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Undergraduates, come and work with us in Bristol this summer! If you're interested in eyes and vision, get in touch to discuss projects - we have several opportunities to study the impacts of eye loss, evolution of retinal musculature, and the growth of distributed visual systems, to name a few!
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My collaborator at University of Copenhagen, Anders Garm, is looking for a 3 year postdoc to work on bioluminescence, neurobiology and ecology of ctenophores. More information here:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
January 21, 2026 at 10:45 AM
My collaborator at University of Copenhagen, Anders Garm, is looking for a 3 year postdoc to work on bioluminescence, neurobiology and ecology of ctenophores. More information here:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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🔬🚨New preprint alert! 🚨🔬
We developed quantitative expansion microscopy (qExM) - a method to accurately count proteins in situ by combining expansion microscopy's improved labeling with statistical estimators borrowed from ecology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#SuperResolution #CellBiology
We developed quantitative expansion microscopy (qExM) - a method to accurately count proteins in situ by combining expansion microscopy's improved labeling with statistical estimators borrowed from ecology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#SuperResolution #CellBiology
www.biorxiv.org
January 20, 2026 at 4:12 PM
🔬🚨New preprint alert! 🚨🔬
We developed quantitative expansion microscopy (qExM) - a method to accurately count proteins in situ by combining expansion microscopy's improved labeling with statistical estimators borrowed from ecology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#SuperResolution #CellBiology
We developed quantitative expansion microscopy (qExM) - a method to accurately count proteins in situ by combining expansion microscopy's improved labeling with statistical estimators borrowed from ecology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#SuperResolution #CellBiology
I wish you could feel the love I feel for.... some of my imaging data.
January 19, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I wish you could feel the love I feel for.... some of my imaging data.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Picard management tip: Don't assume anything is possible or impossible until you've asked the people who will be doing the work.
January 19, 2026 at 8:22 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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#UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social researchers studied how insect brains take in complex light stimuli and process them in parallel. Neuroethologists Anna Stöckl and Ronja Bigge are the first to have found evidence that information is processed in different layers of the lamina. Details: t1p.de/h15yj
January 19, 2026 at 12:19 PM
#UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social researchers studied how insect brains take in complex light stimuli and process them in parallel. Neuroethologists Anna Stöckl and Ronja Bigge are the first to have found evidence that information is processed in different layers of the lamina. Details: t1p.de/h15yj
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🧠The NeuroDoWo is coming to Würzburg
The NeuroDoWo is a conference where neuroscience and phd students are brought together!
📍Würzrburg, Germany
🗓️ 8th to 12th June 2026
Stay tuned for speaker announcements, workshops, and registration info
#phdlife #neuroscience #wuerzburg #conference #neurodowo
The NeuroDoWo is a conference where neuroscience and phd students are brought together!
📍Würzrburg, Germany
🗓️ 8th to 12th June 2026
Stay tuned for speaker announcements, workshops, and registration info
#phdlife #neuroscience #wuerzburg #conference #neurodowo
December 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🧠The NeuroDoWo is coming to Würzburg
The NeuroDoWo is a conference where neuroscience and phd students are brought together!
📍Würzrburg, Germany
🗓️ 8th to 12th June 2026
Stay tuned for speaker announcements, workshops, and registration info
#phdlife #neuroscience #wuerzburg #conference #neurodowo
The NeuroDoWo is a conference where neuroscience and phd students are brought together!
📍Würzrburg, Germany
🗓️ 8th to 12th June 2026
Stay tuned for speaker announcements, workshops, and registration info
#phdlife #neuroscience #wuerzburg #conference #neurodowo
This is still so wrong.
January 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM
This is still so wrong.
For the presentation nerds: Have a look at this (free) font. It was developed by the @brailleinstitute.bsky.social to be the most readable for the visually impaired. I think its also beautiful and will use it from now on.
www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:02 PM
For the presentation nerds: Have a look at this (free) font. It was developed by the @brailleinstitute.bsky.social to be the most readable for the visually impaired. I think its also beautiful and will use it from now on.
www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
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chinmo provides insights into the evolution of insect metamorphosis
This Research Highlight showcases work by Hana Nagata and Yuichiro Suzuki from @wellesley.edu.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
This Research Highlight showcases work by Hana Nagata and Yuichiro Suzuki from @wellesley.edu.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
January 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
chinmo provides insights into the evolution of insect metamorphosis
This Research Highlight showcases work by Hana Nagata and Yuichiro Suzuki from @wellesley.edu.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
This Research Highlight showcases work by Hana Nagata and Yuichiro Suzuki from @wellesley.edu.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Termine! 📅 2026 tagen die DFG-Gremien turnusmäßig wieder 4 Mal – und beraten sich über Anträge in der Einzelförderung, von Forschungsgruppen und andere Entscheidungsvorlagen. Die Ausschüsse der Graduiertenkollegs (GRK) und Sonderforschungsbereichen (SFB) kommen an gesonderten Terminen zusammen.
January 15, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Termine! 📅 2026 tagen die DFG-Gremien turnusmäßig wieder 4 Mal – und beraten sich über Anträge in der Einzelförderung, von Forschungsgruppen und andere Entscheidungsvorlagen. Die Ausschüsse der Graduiertenkollegs (GRK) und Sonderforschungsbereichen (SFB) kommen an gesonderten Terminen zusammen.
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Environment & evolution take centre stage at January’s #DevPres
📅 14 January 15:00 GMT/UTC
Three talks, three unique stories. Told by @ethanewe.bsky.social @maxfarnworth.bsky.social @sonyawiden.bsky.social
Chair: @pritiagarwal.bsky.social
🔗Learn more & register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📅 14 January 15:00 GMT/UTC
Three talks, three unique stories. Told by @ethanewe.bsky.social @maxfarnworth.bsky.social @sonyawiden.bsky.social
Chair: @pritiagarwal.bsky.social
🔗Learn more & register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 12, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Environment & evolution take centre stage at January’s #DevPres
📅 14 January 15:00 GMT/UTC
Three talks, three unique stories. Told by @ethanewe.bsky.social @maxfarnworth.bsky.social @sonyawiden.bsky.social
Chair: @pritiagarwal.bsky.social
🔗Learn more & register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📅 14 January 15:00 GMT/UTC
Three talks, three unique stories. Told by @ethanewe.bsky.social @maxfarnworth.bsky.social @sonyawiden.bsky.social
Chair: @pritiagarwal.bsky.social
🔗Learn more & register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...