Sha Liu 刘沙
@flysleeplab.bsky.social
Neurobiologist studies sleep, biological rhythms, and insect cognition.
Group Leader @VIB_CBD @cbdresearch.bsky.social | Assistant Professor @KU_Leuven ||
http://www.flysleeplab.com
Group Leader @VIB_CBD @cbdresearch.bsky.social | Assistant Professor @KU_Leuven ||
http://www.flysleeplab.com
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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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November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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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Kinematics and morphology reveal how mammals descend trees safely, showing posture and movement strategies that suggest early upright behaviours in ancestral primates.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Kinematics and morphology reveal how mammals descend trees safely, showing posture and movement strategies that suggest early upright behaviours in ancestral primates.
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How neurons go with the blood flow when migrating through the brain.
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November 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
How neurons go with the blood flow when migrating through the brain.
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The China-Argentina Radio Telescope is facing a series of new obstacles. https://scim.ag/49xkgTU
Argentina’s move to woo Trump has derailed South America’s largest radio telescope
U.S.-Chinese tensions have left nearly complete observatory in limbo, jeopardizing research into pulsars and other celestial objects
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October 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The China-Argentina Radio Telescope is facing a series of new obstacles. https://scim.ag/49xkgTU
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Apply for our International PhD Call! Discover the 11 new projects for this edition and apply until the 20th of November.
🔗More info: cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026
🔗More info: cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026
October 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Apply for our International PhD Call! Discover the 11 new projects for this edition and apply until the 20th of November.
🔗More info: cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026
🔗More info: cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026
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Our paper reconstructing hydras endodermis published in @currentbiology urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Our paper reconstructing hydras endodermis published in @currentbiology urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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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
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
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
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
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New work from Sha Liu's lab connecting a cellular level process to behavior! 🪰💤
Presynaptic Release Probability Determines the Need for Sleep https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.16.682770v1
October 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
New work from Sha Liu's lab connecting a cellular level process to behavior! 🪰💤
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Edward Kravitz, a Harvard biochemist who proved GABA's inhibitory power, passed away last month. He will "be remembered for his humanity, for his social conscience and his desire to help those less fortunate than he,” says Ronald Harris-Warrick.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
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By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
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Remembering GABA pioneer Edward Kravitz
The biochemist, who died last month at age 92, was part of the first neurobiology department in the world and showed that gamma-aminobutyric acid is inhibitory.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Edward Kravitz, a Harvard biochemist who proved GABA's inhibitory power, passed away last month. He will "be remembered for his humanity, for his social conscience and his desire to help those less fortunate than he,” says Ronald Harris-Warrick.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
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By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
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Jellyfish helmet!
This larval-stage jack fish (aka trevally) is living inside the #jellyfish for protection against whatever might come his way.
#jackfish #trevalley #jellyfish #🪼 #symbiosis #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #okinawa #kume #kumejima
This larval-stage jack fish (aka trevally) is living inside the #jellyfish for protection against whatever might come his way.
#jackfish #trevalley #jellyfish #🪼 #symbiosis #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #okinawa #kume #kumejima
October 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Jellyfish helmet!
This larval-stage jack fish (aka trevally) is living inside the #jellyfish for protection against whatever might come his way.
#jackfish #trevalley #jellyfish #🪼 #symbiosis #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #okinawa #kume #kumejima
This larval-stage jack fish (aka trevally) is living inside the #jellyfish for protection against whatever might come his way.
#jackfish #trevalley #jellyfish #🪼 #symbiosis #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #okinawa #kume #kumejima
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Very happy to see our first paper on Black Soldier Flies out!
A chemically defined oviposition attractant and repellent of black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens)
doi.org/10.1163/2352...
This was a Master project of amazing Nyasha Thomas, who set up the BSF work in the lab.
A chemically defined oviposition attractant and repellent of black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens)
doi.org/10.1163/2352...
This was a Master project of amazing Nyasha Thomas, who set up the BSF work in the lab.
October 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Very happy to see our first paper on Black Soldier Flies out!
A chemically defined oviposition attractant and repellent of black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens)
doi.org/10.1163/2352...
This was a Master project of amazing Nyasha Thomas, who set up the BSF work in the lab.
A chemically defined oviposition attractant and repellent of black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens)
doi.org/10.1163/2352...
This was a Master project of amazing Nyasha Thomas, who set up the BSF work in the lab.
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what Piali said! Looking to recruit a new assistant professor to our fabulous neuroscience group and department at Brandeis. Please circulate far and wide and alert anyone you know who is on the job market!
#neuroscience
#neuroscience
TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
Brandeis University, Biology Department
Job #AJO30961, Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program, Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US
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October 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
what Piali said! Looking to recruit a new assistant professor to our fabulous neuroscience group and department at Brandeis. Please circulate far and wide and alert anyone you know who is on the job market!
#neuroscience
#neuroscience
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We're very proud to be releasing the complete male fly CNS connectome!
It's the product of a huge team effort here at Janelia in partnership with the Cambridge Fly Connectomics group (@jefferis.bsky.social and colleagues), plus invaluable collaborators.
More soon...
www.janelia.org/project-team...
It's the product of a huge team effort here at Janelia in partnership with the Cambridge Fly Connectomics group (@jefferis.bsky.social and colleagues), plus invaluable collaborators.
More soon...
www.janelia.org/project-team...
Male CNS Connectome
A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system —a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...
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October 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We're very proud to be releasing the complete male fly CNS connectome!
It's the product of a huge team effort here at Janelia in partnership with the Cambridge Fly Connectomics group (@jefferis.bsky.social and colleagues), plus invaluable collaborators.
More soon...
www.janelia.org/project-team...
It's the product of a huge team effort here at Janelia in partnership with the Cambridge Fly Connectomics group (@jefferis.bsky.social and colleagues), plus invaluable collaborators.
More soon...
www.janelia.org/project-team...
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Ed Kravitz passed away yesterday.
He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired.
We will miss you, Ed.
He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired.
We will miss you, Ed.
September 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Ed Kravitz passed away yesterday.
He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired.
We will miss you, Ed.
He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired.
We will miss you, Ed.
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This is a disaster if the EU doesn't follow up by doubling the budget 😬🧪
record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
September 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This is a disaster if the EU doesn't follow up by doubling the budget 😬🧪
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The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle
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go.nature.com/47mxGkM
Ant queens produce sons of two distinct species
The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle about a missing population of another ant species.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle
go.nature.com/47mxGkM
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“Perception as Inference” is a century-old idea that has inspired all major theories in neuroscience 🧠, including:
✅ Sparse Coding
✅ Predictive Coding
✅ Free Energy Principle
& more!
In my new blog post, I build the intuition behind this idea from ground up 👉[1/6]🧵
🧠🤖🧠📈
✅ Sparse Coding
✅ Predictive Coding
✅ Free Energy Principle
& more!
In my new blog post, I build the intuition behind this idea from ground up 👉[1/6]🧵
🧠🤖🧠📈
June 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
“Perception as Inference” is a century-old idea that has inspired all major theories in neuroscience 🧠, including:
✅ Sparse Coding
✅ Predictive Coding
✅ Free Energy Principle
& more!
In my new blog post, I build the intuition behind this idea from ground up 👉[1/6]🧵
🧠🤖🧠📈
✅ Sparse Coding
✅ Predictive Coding
✅ Free Energy Principle
& more!
In my new blog post, I build the intuition behind this idea from ground up 👉[1/6]🧵
🧠🤖🧠📈
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Neural Connectome of the Ctenophore Statocyst 🤩.
@kei-jokura.bsky.social, @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy team identify a new syncytial nerve net in older animals & differences in innervation patterns. Great collaboration & co-submission to bioRxiv. Exciting times! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
@kei-jokura.bsky.social, @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy team identify a new syncytial nerve net in older animals & differences in innervation patterns. Great collaboration & co-submission to bioRxiv. Exciting times! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
June 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Neural Connectome of the Ctenophore Statocyst 🤩.
@kei-jokura.bsky.social, @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy team identify a new syncytial nerve net in older animals & differences in innervation patterns. Great collaboration & co-submission to bioRxiv. Exciting times! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
@kei-jokura.bsky.social, @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy team identify a new syncytial nerve net in older animals & differences in innervation patterns. Great collaboration & co-submission to bioRxiv. Exciting times! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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New prize at our center!
Our Liu Lab received the Outstanding Early Investigator Award, by the Sleep Research Society.
This distinction was awarded to Joana Dopp, former PhD student at our center, following their publication on Nature Neuroscience. Congratulations!
cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...
Our Liu Lab received the Outstanding Early Investigator Award, by the Sleep Research Society.
This distinction was awarded to Joana Dopp, former PhD student at our center, following their publication on Nature Neuroscience. Congratulations!
cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...
June 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
New prize at our center!
Our Liu Lab received the Outstanding Early Investigator Award, by the Sleep Research Society.
This distinction was awarded to Joana Dopp, former PhD student at our center, following their publication on Nature Neuroscience. Congratulations!
cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...
Our Liu Lab received the Outstanding Early Investigator Award, by the Sleep Research Society.
This distinction was awarded to Joana Dopp, former PhD student at our center, following their publication on Nature Neuroscience. Congratulations!
cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...
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This ‘fundamental’ study reports anatomical, molecular, and functional mapping of the central complex in #Drosophila.
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May 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This ‘fundamental’ study reports anatomical, molecular, and functional mapping of the central complex in #Drosophila.
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Now online! Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants
Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants
Comparative analyses of 163 ant genomes reveal extensive genome rearrangements, context-specific gene family expansion patterns, and selection on conserved pathways that together underpin the evolution and diversification of social traits and caste differentiation in ants.
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June 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Now online! Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants
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🛩️ Have you ever flown 1000 km against the pitch black night sky with only the stars 💫 above you? No?
Well Australian bogong moths have - and they do! Twice a year! They use the stars ✨ as a compass 🧭 to guide them!
Read more in this beautiful investigation:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Well Australian bogong moths have - and they do! Twice a year! They use the stars ✨ as a compass 🧭 to guide them!
Read more in this beautiful investigation:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night - Nature
Every spring, Bogong moths use the starry night sky as a compass to navigate up to 1,000 km towards their alpine migratory goal.
www.nature.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
🛩️ Have you ever flown 1000 km against the pitch black night sky with only the stars 💫 above you? No?
Well Australian bogong moths have - and they do! Twice a year! They use the stars ✨ as a compass 🧭 to guide them!
Read more in this beautiful investigation:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Well Australian bogong moths have - and they do! Twice a year! They use the stars ✨ as a compass 🧭 to guide them!
Read more in this beautiful investigation:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Why a database of bug genes could be one of Trump’s most devastating cuts at Harvard
Why a database of bug genes could be one of Trump’s most devastating cuts at Harvard
FlyBase, the world's only fruit fly database, is in the crosshairs of Trump's attack on Harvard. Here's why it could matter for your health.
www.masslive.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Why a database of bug genes could be one of Trump’s most devastating cuts at Harvard
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FlyBase needs your help!
Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org
Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org
June 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
FlyBase needs your help!
Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org
Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org