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em-hoc.bsky.social
Don’t forget to apply to this beautiful Electron Microscopy course at @szndohrn.bsky.social in Napoli, Italy by February 12th! 🌊 ☀️ Stay tuned for the preliminary program, in the meantime take a look here: www.szn.it/index.php/it...
January 5, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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adriatica.bsky.social
🐜 4-year #postdoc position in the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab @camzoology.bsky.social investigating metabolic cooperation between bodies in a BBSRC-funded project.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

#ants #socialtransfers #sociallytransferredmaterials #autophagy #socialinsects #aging #job (🧵1/n)
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Social Fluids Laboratory (https://leboeuflab.com) led by Dr Adria LeBoeuf in the Department of Zoology
www.cam.ac.uk
January 6, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy
Our dispatch:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225014691

on the recent Hydra volume EM paper by Zhang, Rafa Yuste and colleagues:

#connectomics, without synapses

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225013090

#neuroscience
Two nerve nets are formed in Hydra vulgaris: the endodermal (cyan) and the ectodermal (purple) net. (B) Intraepithelial neurons are randomly scattered between the epithelial cells of the two germ layers. (C) Two types of connections have been found between Hydra’s neurons. (D) Endodermal neurons are in physical touch with each other by forming neural handshakes by digiform endings, which get intertwined. (E) In other places, clusters of vesicles of different types can be released to mediate volume transmission between neurons and between neurons and other cells.
December 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
nadinerandel.bsky.social
We’re collecting protocols and reviews for studying neural mechanisms in marine invertebrates. Submit your functional imaging, connectomics, or electrophysiology techniques to our JOVE Methods Collection and help make these approaches accessible across species. app.jove.com/methods-coll...
JoVE | Peer Reviewed Scientific Video Journal - Methods and Protocols
Jove
app.jove.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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marinvmet.bsky.social
Interested in a #PhD with neuroendocrine and bioimaging focus? Check out our @swbiodtp.bsky.social project 'Creating a functional map for brain-gut signalling in a simple worm', with @alexdcorbett.bsky.social and CASE partner Cairn Research Ltd. Application deadline Wednesday 3rd December.
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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mariasachkova.bsky.social
🪸 Two weeks to go! Please apply for this Postdoc position! 🪸
mariasachkova.bsky.social Maria Sachkova @mariasachkova.bsky.social · Oct 27
🪸 🪸 🪸 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...
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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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...
rdcu.be
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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drcarmelmc.bsky.social
A joint Macquarie/St Andrews fully funded PhD scholarship is available to optimise the design of oyster reef restoration projects for biodiversity outcomes. The PhD will be jointly supervised by @melaniejbishop.bsky.social and me. See lnkd.in/e_Tr2EXQ
Image of three people examining a sampling quadrat over oyster clumps in an estuary. Includes the Macquarie University and University of St Andrews logos.
October 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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huiskenlab.bsky.social
Huisken lab is attending Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction. Learn about our research...

@spp2205.bsky.social @sfb1528.bsky.social @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social

@uni-goettingen.de events.gwdg.de/event/1099/
The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction
We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction The conference brings together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, behavioral biology, computational scie...
events.gwdg.de
October 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
nadinerandel.bsky.social
Excited to share that my latest paper is out in Open Biology!
It explores how late larval development allocates resources depending on the food source. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Effects of food availability on larval development during ontogenetic niche shift in a marine annelid | Open Biology
Many marine invertebrates have a biphasic life cycle with a free-swimming larva and a bottom-dwelling adult. The transition from a planktonic to a benthic lifestyle is a significant step in the animal’s life history, highly regulated and influenced by ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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thibautbrunet.bsky.social
Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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volumeem1.bsky.social
🗳️ Voting opens Oct 7 on our site
🏆 Winners announced Oct 9 @ virtual Town Hall
📧 Questions? vemcommunity@gmail.com

#volumeEM #AwesomevEMImages
September 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
nadinerandel.bsky.social
Check out our new preprint on bioRxiv: Brain-wide activity imaging combined with electron
microscopy reveals novel nociceptive circuits. We link whole-brain activity to the
connectome using volume EM. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Combining brainwide activity imaging and electron microscopy reveals novel nociceptive circuits
To understand how brains work, it is necessary to connect neural activity to synaptic-resolution circuit architecture. Recent advances in light-sheet microscopy (LSM) enable whole-brain, cellular-reso...
www.biorxiv.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy
With a related Insight piece written by Alex Winsor and Paul Katz
"Connectomes: The wiring diagram of an entire animal"

https://elifesciences.org/articles/108573

@eLife
A phylogenetic tree for bilaterally symmetric animals. Whole-body connectomes have been constructed for just three species (indicated by stars): the annelid P. dumerilii, the nematode C elegans, and the tunicate C. intestinalis. A whole-brain connectome has also been assembled for the insect D. melanogaster. Between them, these species span three major clades: Spiralia, Ecdysozoa and Deuterostomes. Only partial connectomes are available for molluscs and vertebrates.
August 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
nadinerandel.bsky.social
Congratulations!
jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 28
At long last, the version of record of our paper on the #platynereis #connectome

"Whole-body connectome of a segmented annelid larva" is out.

Explore the rich online presentation with all the videos, figures and source data here:

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97964

@eLife
@biology […]
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biologists.social
August 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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arnonelab.bsky.social
Do you want to understand how developmental programs are encoded in animal genomes? Join our lab at the @szndohrn.bsky.social for a PhD project to unravel the developmental dynamics in sea urchins during the metamorphosis from larva to juvenile.
Deadline JUNE 14th!
www.szn.it/index.php/it...
May 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
nadinerandel.bsky.social
Interested in how food affects larval development?
Check out my new preprint 👉 (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)
This work wouldn’t have been possible without the support of @marinvmet.bsky.social and @camzoology.bsky.social
Effects of food availability on larval development during ontogenetic niche shift in a marine annelid
Many marine invertebrates have a biphasic life cycle with a free-swimming larva and a bottom-dwelling adult. The transition from a planktonic to a benthic lifestyle is a significant step in the animal...
www.biorxiv.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM