Rodrigo Suárez, PhD
@rsuarezsaa.bsky.social
🇨🇱🇦🇺 A/Prof. Neuro-Evo-Devo (ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland) 🧠🧬🔬🦘Neocortex live Ca2+ imaging, transcriptomics, connectomics in developing marsupials and mice. Autopoiesis, natural drift, complex traits evol. Lab: https://t.co/Kk490
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Interested in complex systems, brain evo-devo, and/or computational approaches to big questions in neuroscience? Check out new opportunities in our lab! 🧠🧬💻🦘🔬🏝️🏄♀️😍 Further details and deadlines will be announced soon! #PhD #Postdoc #NeuroJobs
Two more weeks before the deadline to recruit a 3-year Postdoctoral position in Systems Neuroscience - Bioinformatics applied to Brain Evo-Devo. Please RT and/or apply at: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...
April 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Two more weeks before the deadline to recruit a 3-year Postdoctoral position in Systems Neuroscience - Bioinformatics applied to Brain Evo-Devo. Please RT and/or apply at: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...
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📣 PhD Opportunity in Mathematical Modelling at The University of Queensland
March 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📣 PhD Opportunity in Mathematical Modelling at The University of Queensland
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Elisabeth Vrba has died. May her memory be a blessing.
Here’s an obituary by @nilese.bsky.social.
🌱🐋🧪🗃️🧠🦫🦋 #EvoBio #HistSTM
Here’s an obituary by @nilese.bsky.social.
🌱🐋🧪🗃️🧠🦫🦋 #EvoBio #HistSTM
Elisabeth Vrba obituary: palaeontologist who solved a problem that vexed Darwin
The biologist’s theories about how environments prompt rapid species evolution and extinction propelled her onto the world stage.
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Elisabeth Vrba has died. May her memory be a blessing.
Here’s an obituary by @nilese.bsky.social.
🌱🐋🧪🗃️🧠🦫🦋 #EvoBio #HistSTM
Here’s an obituary by @nilese.bsky.social.
🌱🐋🧪🗃️🧠🦫🦋 #EvoBio #HistSTM
Interested in complex systems, brain evo-devo, and/or computational approaches to big questions in neuroscience? Check out new opportunities in our lab! 🧠🧬💻🦘🔬🏝️🏄♀️😍 Further details and deadlines will be announced soon! #PhD #Postdoc #NeuroJobs
February 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Interested in complex systems, brain evo-devo, and/or computational approaches to big questions in neuroscience? Check out new opportunities in our lab! 🧠🧬💻🦘🔬🏝️🏄♀️😍 Further details and deadlines will be announced soon! #PhD #Postdoc #NeuroJobs
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Reposted by Rodrigo Suárez, PhD
Nature Neuroscience
Developmentally distinct architectures in top–down pathways controlling threat avoidance
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Developmentally distinct architectures in top–down pathways controlling threat avoidance
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Developmentally distinct architectures in top–down pathways controlling threat avoidance - Nature Neuroscience
Through circuit dissection in juvenile, adolescent and adult mice, Klune, Goodpaster and colleagues reveal multiple developmental switches in mPFC–NAc and mPFC–BLA pathways that underlie developmental...
www.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Nature Neuroscience
Developmentally distinct architectures in top–down pathways controlling threat avoidance
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Developmentally distinct architectures in top–down pathways controlling threat avoidance
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"Genes are... the easy part" @philipcball.bsky.social argues biologists need to embrace complexity from the start, rather than beginning with oversimplified "one gene, one trait" models
+1
www.cell.com/cell-systems...
+1
www.cell.com/cell-systems...
Should biology put complexity first?
The dictum “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” poses
a problem for biology. How simply can it be told without doing damage to its complex
nature? The answer might be foun...
www.cell.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
"Genes are... the easy part" @philipcball.bsky.social argues biologists need to embrace complexity from the start, rather than beginning with oversimplified "one gene, one trait" models
+1
www.cell.com/cell-systems...
+1
www.cell.com/cell-systems...
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It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science.
Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".
Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".
We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".
Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".
We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.
www.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science.
Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".
Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".
We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".
Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".
We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
go.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
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Do you have an idea for our 2027 #BiologistsWorkshops programme? We cover all costs so you can simply focus on the science. We're now accepting proposals - send us yours by 30 May 2025. bit.ly/4hVT3M0
February 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Do you have an idea for our 2027 #BiologistsWorkshops programme? We cover all costs so you can simply focus on the science. We're now accepting proposals - send us yours by 30 May 2025. bit.ly/4hVT3M0
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A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb.
https://go.nature.com/41a7Zzj
https://go.nature.com/41a7Zzj
Rare genetic disorder treated in womb for the first time
The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease.
go.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb.
https://go.nature.com/41a7Zzj
https://go.nature.com/41a7Zzj
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"Can a book be ahead of its time by 50 years?! The answer is a definitive ‘yes’ in the case of this phenomenal book by Francisco Varela. A real gem of a book about the philosophical foundations of biology and so much more." - Luiz Pessoa @pessoabrain.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...
Principles of Biological Autonomy
Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy was a groundbreaking text when it was first published in 1979, putting forth a novel theory of how...
mitpress.mit.edu
February 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Can a book be ahead of its time by 50 years?! The answer is a definitive ‘yes’ in the case of this phenomenal book by Francisco Varela. A real gem of a book about the philosophical foundations of biology and so much more." - Luiz Pessoa @pessoabrain.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...
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Behind the scenes there has been a lot of work to get the electrophysiology rigs unpacked, built, and tested for our 12 students. From many boxes to 6 fully equipped patch clamp rigs!
January 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Behind the scenes there has been a lot of work to get the electrophysiology rigs unpacked, built, and tested for our 12 students. From many boxes to 6 fully equipped patch clamp rigs!
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A new Science study in mice identifies cross-talk between muscle and the reproductive system and raises questions about interventions to increase muscle mass that might affect fertility.
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective:
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective:
Myostatin's flex on the reproductive hormone axis
A muscle hormone controls the mammalian reproductive system
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January 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A new Science study in mice identifies cross-talk between muscle and the reproductive system and raises questions about interventions to increase muscle mass that might affect fertility.
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective:
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective:
"...we show topological representations of individual visceral organs in the major abdominal sympathetic ganglion complex... one class of neurons regulates gastrointestinal transit, and another class of neurons controls digestion and glucagon secretion" @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Organ-specific sympathetic innervation defines visceral functions - Nature
Multi-modal transcriptomic analyses of the sympathetic nervous system reveal organ-specific neural innervation and modular regulation of visceral functions.
www.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"...we show topological representations of individual visceral organs in the major abdominal sympathetic ganglion complex... one class of neurons regulates gastrointestinal transit, and another class of neurons controls digestion and glucagon secretion" @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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“Another unknown is whether NIH researchers will still be allowed to submit papers to peer-reviewed journals.” This is insanity, and could have major impact on entire fields of research worldwide (we all collaborate with one another)
"Officials halted midstream a training workshop for junior scientists, called off a workshop on adolescent learning minutes before it was to begin, and canceled meetings of two advisory councils."
It could've been telegraphed in advance. The fear, uncertainty, chaos, and disruption are the point.
It could've been telegraphed in advance. The fear, uncertainty, chaos, and disruption are the point.
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
www.science.org
January 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“Another unknown is whether NIH researchers will still be allowed to submit papers to peer-reviewed journals.” This is insanity, and could have major impact on entire fields of research worldwide (we all collaborate with one another)
p38 MAPK-MK2 inhibitors (e.g. losmapimod) show new promises in treating Alzheimer's disease. Today @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Integrative pathway analysis across humans and 3D cellular models identifies the p38 MAPK-MK2 axis as a therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease
Naderi and Kwak et al. developed IPAA, an integrated cellular/bioinformatics platform.
IPAA derisks drug discovery by integrating Alzheimer’s brain gene expression with
cellular model functional reado...
www.cell.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
p38 MAPK-MK2 inhibitors (e.g. losmapimod) show new promises in treating Alzheimer's disease. Today @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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A lot of people who don’t “believe “ in climate change are about to find out that their insurance company does.
January 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A lot of people who don’t “believe “ in climate change are about to find out that their insurance company does.
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Love this. And as a consequence aussies are some of the world's most hardcore commuters...
Source www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
Source www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
January 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Love this. And as a consequence aussies are some of the world's most hardcore commuters...
Source www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
Source www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
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Disappointing new study showing - once again - that women are leaving research careers at far higher levels than men
If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️
#WomeninSTEM 👩🔬👩🏾🔬🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️
#WomeninSTEM 👩🔬👩🏾🔬🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Disappointing new study showing - once again - that women are leaving research careers at far higher levels than men
If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️
#WomeninSTEM 👩🔬👩🏾🔬🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️
#WomeninSTEM 👩🔬👩🏾🔬🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Reposted by Rodrigo Suárez, PhD
A beautiful video of the Blue Brain Project's improved CCFv3 annotation and Nissl atlas of the entire mouse brain building upon the @alleninstitute.bsky.social atlas. Recommend watching end-to-end. Great work by Sébastien Piluso @cyrillefavreau.bsky.social and others
www.youtube.com/watch?v=upul...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=upul...
An extended and improved CCFv3 annotation and Nissl atlas of the entire mouse brain
YouTube video by Blue Brain Project - EPFL
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2024 at 8:11 PM
A beautiful video of the Blue Brain Project's improved CCFv3 annotation and Nissl atlas of the entire mouse brain building upon the @alleninstitute.bsky.social atlas. Recommend watching end-to-end. Great work by Sébastien Piluso @cyrillefavreau.bsky.social and others
www.youtube.com/watch?v=upul...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=upul...
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A study in Nature Human Behaviour shows that large language models—especially BrainGPT, an LLM the authors tuned on the neuroscience literature—outperform experts in predicting neuroscience results and could assist scientists in making future discoveries. https://go.nature.com/3OBWeLV 🧪
December 3, 2024 at 8:09 PM
A study in Nature Human Behaviour shows that large language models—especially BrainGPT, an LLM the authors tuned on the neuroscience literature—outperform experts in predicting neuroscience results and could assist scientists in making future discoveries. https://go.nature.com/3OBWeLV 🧪
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Journal of Neuroscience
Symmetry in Frontal But Not Motor and Somatosensory Cortical Projections
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...
Symmetry in Frontal But Not Motor and Somatosensory Cortical Projections
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...
Symmetry in Frontal But Not Motor and Somatosensory Cortical Projections
The neocortex and striatum are topographically organized for sensory and motor functions. While sensory and motor areas are lateralized for touch and motor control, respectively, frontal areas are inv...
www.jneurosci.org
November 28, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Journal of Neuroscience
Symmetry in Frontal But Not Motor and Somatosensory Cortical Projections
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...
Symmetry in Frontal But Not Motor and Somatosensory Cortical Projections
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...