I am recruiting 1-2 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my lab at @psychualberta.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Please share widely, and if you are interested in endocrinology, animal behavior, neuroscience, and/or seasonal biology, I would love to chat! 🐟🧠🧬🍂

I am one of these faces.

I certainly do feel like my life has been turned upside down multiple times this year, but I will always love my #NIHMOSAIC family and I am so glad we have people like @jeremymberg.bsky.social fighting for us ❤️

Our latest preprint is out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do #ctenophores control their sense of balance "without a brain"?

We used connectomics to uncover the neural network behind their gravity sensing!

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...

Stay denied by Judge Young in APHA v NIH and State AGs v Kennedy cases.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.

Breaking news: President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, one of the country’s premier climate science agencies, according to an internal budget document seen by Science. scim.ag/4ctpT4Z

The termination of the NIH MOSAIC program is a critical loss. As one of the 5 societies supporting MOSAIC scholars, ASCB remains dedicated to supporting early-career scientists & broadening the biomedical workforce. We'll continue our mentorship & development efforts through the end of the grant.

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants.

This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director.
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

I highly recommend applying for a Grass Fellowship! @mblscience.bsky.social
The discovery here was (almost!) unplanned, and half of the people involved weren’t even studying ctenophores during their Fellowship! This is as pure as scientific discovery gets! Read the paper here.

tinyurl.com/2upnu5xy

Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social for featuring cichlids and the behavioral development work my lab does, along with all of these amazing scientists and the diversity of animals they study! 🐠🧪

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!

Please like and repost to help us get the word out!

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
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Hope you are making a new year's resolution to attendICDB in Puerto Rico next June - it is going to be an epic meeting

This new study, led by Shigeki Watanabe and partially conducted in the MBL’s Neurobiology course, challenges a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons and proposes a new model for understanding how information is transmitted in the brain. #science 🧪 🧠

Just In case people need to follow people in neuroscience focused on natural behaviors and the brains of cool non-trad animals! Please join let me know if you wanna be added. go.bsky.app/AcLpM4h