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Shubham Rathore Ph.D. MSc.
@shubhamtr.bsky.social
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Neuroethologist interested in visual system development and sensory integration across time scales 🦟🪲🐜🕷️🐞🐁

Ph.D. : Buschbeck lab @ University of Cincinnati

Prev. at : Hattar lab @ NIMH / NIH

Postdoc : Reiser lab @ Janelia Research Campus
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ebablab.bsky.social
🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨

Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social

- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun

Deadline: 14/1/2026

Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Shades of blue and red in a slice through an immuno stained brain showing some deliciously lovely looking mushroom body lobes - ripe for investigation during a funded PhD - and the central complex. Image credit: Dr Max Farnworth
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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aaandmoore.bsky.social
Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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micarodriguezc.bsky.social
SO HAPPY to share our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using volumetric EM, we found daily shifts in synapses, vesicles, and mitochondria that accompany neuronal remodeling, linking structural plasticity to changes in how s-LNv neurons influence their targets
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Daily ultrastructural remodeling of clock neurons
A cluster of Drosophila clock neurons remodel their axonal arbors daily. Using volumetric electron microscopy at different times of day, Ispizua, Rodriguez-Caron, and colleagues reveal ultrastructural...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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schoppik.com
Like most animals, fish move less at night. Underwater, stable posture requires movement. Find out how fish don't fall down at night in: Lighting and circadian cues shape locomotor strategies for balance and navigation in larval zebrafish from @yunluzhu.bsky.social
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Lighting and circadian cues shape locomotor strategies for balance and navigation in larval zebrafish
Most fish are inherently unstable and must swim to stabilize posture. How diurnal fish reduce activity at night while maintaining postural control remains unclear. We defined distinct locomotor strate...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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posnienlab.bsky.social
📢 PhD Position Alert! 🪲
Fully funded PhD position (65% TV-L E13) at @uni-goettingen.de to study the evolution of morphological novelties in a darkling beetle.
You will join the interdisciplinary "GönomiX" graduate school: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/home/6242...
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
shubhamtr.bsky.social
Amazing work from @flyeyelab.bsky.social’s group showing how tinkering with the RDGN in Drosophila can result in distinct tissue fates!

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Modulating the levels and activity of the retinal determination network Is sufficient to induce the specification of distinct tissue fates in Drosophila
A pair of eye-antennal discs give rise to most tissues that comprise the adult head of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, including a pair of compound eyes and a trio of simple eyes called ocelli...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
shubhamtr.bsky.social
Definitely not stressed at all 🍾
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Spiders and their funny eye placements
chizz13.bsky.social James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 7d
This Male Walckenaeria acuminata may be common but its a fantastic looking spider, since getting into Linys this Genus is so fasinating. And its great that the male and female of this species can be Identified with a hand Lens.
@britishspiders.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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kelseytea.bsky.social
Heading to San Diego for #sfn25 today! I’ll be presenting a poster on this work Monday afternoon!

looking forward to meeting neuroscientists! please stop by my poster or reach out if you’re going and want to talk motor neuro/behavior, evolution, neuroethology…or whatever else! 🧠🥳 #neuroskyence
kelseytea.bsky.social Kelsey Tyssowski @kelseytea.bsky.social · Oct 22
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!

We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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ajcann.bsky.social
Fed up with autumn leaf backgrounds yet? Let's go green.
Nigma walckenaeri.

#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #green #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Femnale Nigma walckenaeri on a green leaf.
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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socdevbio.bsky.social
🥉 Third Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🎨
✨ “Fluorescent Flight” by Jessica Wilkins 🦋 A glowing celebration of development and motion, where vivid fluorescence meets the elegance of form and flight. A stunning fusion of science and art! 💫 #DevBioArt #ScienceArt
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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longpainter.bsky.social
Northern Lights 6”x6” oil
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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ashwhiffin.bsky.social
Super useful tips & tricks for insect specimen imaging from @andrewjohnston.bsky.social! He shares how to build an affordable focus stacking system on your own.

Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...

#ECN2025 📸 🪲
Camera set up with Schmitt box for sense of scale. Photo credit: Andrew Johnston.
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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race2extinct.bsky.social
Fish in Michigan are getting smaller.
Warming water, agriculture runoff, microplastics, and chemical toxins now flow through every tributary, every gill, every egg.

Climate change heats the surface. Pollution poisons the depths. Between them, the lakes are starving.
apple.news/AhaipZbCLT5G...
Researchers studied fish from 1,497 lakes in Michigan. What they found is concerning — BBC Wildlife Magazine
Since 1945, many of Michigan's lake fish species have reduced in size, new research finds. November 6, 2025 A new study has revealed that changes in climate are causing fish in Michigan’s inland lakes...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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elife.bsky.social
Findings reveal how TGF-beta signalling keeps the brain’s blood vessels healthy.

Disrupting this in brain blood vessels disrupts retinal development and triggers immune cell invasion, revealing its role in maintaining vascular–immune balance in the CNS.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
the only "honor" Watson's getting from me is that i've built a lab full of outstanding students who are everything he hated: Black, Indigenous, female, trans, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and beyond.

he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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lpachter.bsky.social
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...
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
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celestelabedz.bsky.social
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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bwjones.bsky.social
I talked with the @scifri.bsky.social peeps the other day for an episode on resolution and vision.
george-harper.bsky.social George Harper @george-harper.bsky.social · 15d
After you cram lots of pixels into a small space, does it matter if you cram in some more? What are the limits of our vision?

Today's SciFri podcast is "Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Resolution On A TV?" with Dr. Maliha Ashraf, U of Cambridge, and Dr. Bryan W. Jones, U of Pittsburgh
scifri.bsky.social Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 15d
With Black Friday approaching, you might be looking for a deal on a super-high-res television. But a new study questions whether you’ll see a difference—literally. 👀
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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thetattooedprof.bsky.social Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 16d
It's even worse inside the Oval Office, believe it nor not
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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ameliacervera.bsky.social
Tumblr post by aylwyyn228: "My PhD research was focused on grief in the 19th century. I can tell you exactly how much they would have wanted modern medicine. I've read so many accounts of people writing about how they would have done anything to save their children, their spouses, their siblings. Mothers and fathers who sat up all night praying that their baby would see the morning. People giving huge sums of money to quack doctors in the hope that they could save their wives. Mothers writing about how they would do anything to not leave their children alone. One father after the loss of his fifth child in a month retelling how he had wanted to go outside and scream, but that he was too tired, so he lay down on the dining room floor instead. After I read all that it feels like an insult that anyone in the modern world would turn down vaccines, when for thousands of years countless people would have given everything they had for the opportunity to save their loved ones."
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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elife.bsky.social
Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
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eLife Assessment This important study reports the results of efforts to replicate two phenomena of significant interest to early-career scientists and scientific policymakers: the Matthew effect and the early-career setback effect. Several previous studies of these effects have focused on early-career researchers with grant proposals that fell just below or just above a funding threshold. Those just above the threshold were more likely to be successful when they applied for funding later in the career (an example of the well-known Matthew effect), while those just below were more likely to go on to have stronger publication records (the early-career setback effect). In this study the Matthew effect was found to be robust across funders, and to generalize from those close to the funding threshold to the whole population. The early-career setback effect was not robust across funders and did not generalize to the whole population. The evidence reported is convincing.
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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travismcenery.bsky.social
Well this was neat.

World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black | Live Science share.google/IcsbD2Lb3zhT...
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black
A giant colonial spiderweb in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania may be the largest ever found — and it was built by spiders we didn't know liked the company of others.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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mcaterino.bsky.social
Supercool deep dive into sawfly ovipositor functional morphology, with applications to surgical tools!
mrandrewclarke.bsky.social Andrew Clarke @mrandrewclarke.bsky.social · 24d
Another superb example of #biomimicry reinforcing the intrinsic significance of protecting all biodiversity including the newts, bats & invertebrates demonised as barriers to development by Rachel Reeves

As this study demonstrates one day they may literally save your life.

phys.org/news/2025-10...
Smart cutting system used by female sawflies could transform surgery and reduce patient harm
Scientists at Heriot-Watt University have unlocked the secret behind how female sawflies make specific cuts to plants—a discovery that could revolutionize surgical instruments and dramatically reduce ...
phys.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM