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Max Farnworth
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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
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 🙏
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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A game changer in our hands... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Universal consensus 3D segmentation of cells from 2D segmented stacks - Nature Methods
u-Segment3D is a universal framework that translates and enhances 2D instance segmentations to a 3D consensus instance segmentation without training data. It performs well across diverse datasets, inc...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Follow this account. It will serve you well.
picardtips.bsky.social Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 1h
Picard management tip: If they know their jobs, leave them alone. If they don't, help them learn.
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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mcordellier.bsky.social
Big news last week, our project within @gevol.bsky.social got funded! 🤩 @nturetz.bsky.social @pechmannm.bsky.social @posnienlab.bsky.social, Niko Prpic-Schäper and myself will look into molecular mechanisms and phenotypic consequences of paralog divergence in insects and chelicerates. Stay tuned!
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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samjakeengland.bsky.social
Do you work (/want to work) with caterpillars? Or sensory systems? Or BOTH?! Well good golly do we have the paper for you! We explain the senses that caterpillars have, what they use them for, and how anthropogenic sensory pollution might be messing it all up 🐛 doi.org/10.1007/s003...
The sensory ecology of caterpillars - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Caterpillars (larval Lepidoptera) are one of the most ecologically and evolutionarily significant taxa on Earth. As both feeders and food, they shape the dynamics of enumerate ecosystems on land. Key ...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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gevol.bsky.social
🎉We are happy to announce that our wonderful GEvol SPP will be funded by @dfg.de for another 3 years. Included are 17 great projects all over Germany with amazing people. You want to be part of this fantastic community? Soon you can find new PhD/Post-Doc positions here & on our website. Stay tuned🎉
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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@ebablab.bsky.social and I helped a bit in this really informative article by Robin Grob in the el Jundi lab on spatial orientation strategies in Lepidoptera. Have a read :-)
The diversity of lepidopteran spatial orientation strategies – neuronal mechanisms and emerging challenges in a changing world - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
The Lepidoptera, butterflies and moths, display an astonishing diversity of spatial orientation strategies essential for survival, reproduction, and ecological success. These spatial orientation strat...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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shubhamtr.bsky.social
If we had more of people like him… scientists like me would’ve never had a chance 😒
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Massive grant proposal submitted 😭
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November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Congrats again, Danai! 🤗
danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 6d
I have some brilliant news to share! I recently received a DFG-funded Emmy Noether 6-year grant to establish my own group in Germany. I will soon be looking for a PhD student and a research assistant to join the team and investigate how the balance of power is maintained in animal societies.
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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ebablab.bsky.social
Now in its birthday suit with videos

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

And an interview with @ficusorganensis.bsky.social!

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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The world’s “most dangerous animal” just got easier to study 🦟

HHMI’s @leslievosshall.bsky.social & #VosshallLab at @rockefeller.edu have built the 1st cellular atlas of Aedes aegypti, mapping everything from legs to antennae. Available now to all researchers, & the public: bit.ly/4oO4MzB
Researchers release the world’s first head-to-toe cellular atlas of the mosquito - News
The atlas makes the most dangerous animal in the world a lot easier to study—and perhaps defeat one day.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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gso-forresearchers.bsky.social
Becoming a Junior Group Leader: How to Gain Independence after Returning from Abroad? For Ramona Wolf, now Junior Professor at the Universität Siegen, that step came earlier than planned. After her PhD in Hannover and a postdoc in Zurich, she returned to Germany through the #NRWRückkehrprogramm.
Becoming a Junior Group Leader - GSO - Guidance, Skills & Opportunities
Tips for becoming a Junior Group Leader in Germany from Junior Prof. Dr. Ramona Wolf - Fellow of the NRW Returning Scholars Program.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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gevol.bsky.social
📢 Check out our GEvol inspired Special Issue in JEZ-B:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15525015... 🚨
Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations in Insects: Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution: Vol 344, No 7
The Journal of Experimental Zoology – B (JEZ-B): Molecular and Developmental Evolution covers the structure & evolution of animal & non-animal organisms.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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November 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif
November 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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samtmugford.bsky.social
When all your PCRs fail, except for the negative control 😱
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October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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laurensr.bsky.social
I've unlocked a new science badge!! 🎉🛡️🎉

This thoughtful piece by @meganlinnay.bsky.social expands beautifully on a short review I wrote, citing 'the Sumner-Rooney cost-benefit model' of eye loss 🥲 honoured!

For anyone interested in evolution in low light, have a read! 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
At the edge of darkness: A framework for the evolution of visual systems in dim light
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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timsparwasser.bsky.social
🎉 Celebrating 100 Years of the ‚Studienstiftung‘!

This year marks a century of fostering excellence, curiosity, and responsibility. For 100 years, the ‚Studienstiftung‘ has supported outstanding minds - empowering research, innovation, and cultural engagement across generations!
#Studienstiftung
October 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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viveknityananda.bsky.social
New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?

Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.

iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees
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October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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bentonlab.bsky.social
Jérôme Mermet's developmental snRNA-seq atlas of living and dying neuronal lineages in the olfactory system (and much functional follow-up) reveal this "highly stereotyped" sensory system is not quite as precise as we assumed, and what it might mean for how olfactory pathways evolve:
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Multilayer regulation underlies the functional precision and evolutionary potential of the olfactory system
Nature Communications - How sensory neurons generate both functional precision and evolutionary flexibility remains unresolved. Here authors generate snRNA-seq atlas of Drosophila’s olfactory...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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pawelburkhardt.bsky.social
First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience

Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E

@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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lifesciencestudios.bsky.social
Hello ecologists and evolutionary biologists! I work with scientists to transform discoveries into beautiful, accurate, publication-ready figures. Get in touch if you want custom illustrations for your next paper.

Check out www.lifesciencestudios.com to explore services and get started!

#🐡 #🧪
Examples of science illustrations created by Julie Johnson at Life Science Studios, including fish paintings, mushrooms, beetles, an oyster reef, butterflies, and lizards.
June 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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What is it about far-right blabbering idiots and shitty hair styles? Trump, Wiilders, Milei, Johnson... Is that a must? Is there a secret club?
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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drruth.bsky.social
Guess what? COVID mRNA vaccines don't just protect against COVID.

COVID mRNA vaccines also cause cancers to become sensitive to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). buff.ly/GEfJ5Zl

Let's fund more mRNA research!

#medsky #oncsky 🛟😷🧪
complicated diagram with red cancer cells, green T cells, and other immune cells in purple (dendritic cells). Shows mRNA vaccine priming immunity for checkpoint inhibitors.
October 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM