Ana Lyons
@tardi-neuro.bsky.social
Tardigrade-obsessed, developing water bears クマムシ for systems-level neuro 💧🐻🧠 CZI-Stellar GGS Postdoc https://tardi-neural.net/
📍RIKEN IMS | IAB Keio University 🗾 義塾大学先端生命科学研究所 | former UCSF, NSF PRFB | PhD '22 - tardigrade cold tolerance ❄️
📍RIKEN IMS | IAB Keio University 🗾 義塾大学先端生命科学研究所 | former UCSF, NSF PRFB | PhD '22 - tardigrade cold tolerance ❄️
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Ana Lyons
@tardi-neuro.bsky.social
· Jan 15
Hello 🦋 world, Posted a preprint this week, advocating tardigrades as a new model for systems-level neuroscience! 🧠🐻💧 Synthesizing physiology, neuroanatomy, genomics & behavior was no small feat—feedback is welcome with all 8 arms! 💌 My email for contact is on the PDF 🌟 arxiv.org/abs/2501.06606
I’m deeply grateful for this opportunity (2 more years in Japan)!
We continue pushing the boundaries, developing tardigrades (クマムシ, kumamushi) as a small but powerful emerging model organism: ss-f.org/en/news/ss-f...
We continue pushing the boundaries, developing tardigrades (クマムシ, kumamushi) as a small but powerful emerging model organism: ss-f.org/en/news/ss-f...
[Press Release] Stellar Science Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network Announce Selection of 10 Outstanding Early-Career Postdocs for Global Challenge | Stellar Science Foundation (SS-F)
Stellar Science Foundation (SS-F) ステラサイエンスファウンデーションは、科学者の創造力に着目し、科学研究を支援、サポートする非営利団体です。
ss-f.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I’m deeply grateful for this opportunity (2 more years in Japan)!
We continue pushing the boundaries, developing tardigrades (クマムシ, kumamushi) as a small but powerful emerging model organism: ss-f.org/en/news/ss-f...
We continue pushing the boundaries, developing tardigrades (クマムシ, kumamushi) as a small but powerful emerging model organism: ss-f.org/en/news/ss-f...
Important reminder to all the #Worm25 🪱 people at Davis now!! Super-sized water bear 💧🐻 photo op 😉 @bohartmuseum.bsky.social
Perfect for the upcoming C. elegans meeting at Davis—come for the worms, stay for the sofa-sized stunner! 🛋️ Epic lab photo opportunity here! 📸
Did you know that there's a statue of a sofa-sized tardigrade outside the building where the Bohart Insect Museum is at the University of California, Davis? Well now you do. #invertebrates
July 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Important reminder to all the #Worm25 🪱 people at Davis now!! Super-sized water bear 💧🐻 photo op 😉 @bohartmuseum.bsky.social
Have you ever given a conference talk to over 100 experts in your field...DIRECTLY AFTER doing a (conference excursion) mountain hike in 30C+ weather? I can now say I have.... !!!
(Mt. Haguro, HIGH humidity, 2,446 stone steps...BEAUTIFUL but brutal before giving a talk 😂😅🙏🥹 I have been humbled !!)
(Mt. Haguro, HIGH humidity, 2,446 stone steps...BEAUTIFUL but brutal before giving a talk 😂😅🙏🥹 I have been humbled !!)
June 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Have you ever given a conference talk to over 100 experts in your field...DIRECTLY AFTER doing a (conference excursion) mountain hike in 30C+ weather? I can now say I have.... !!!
(Mt. Haguro, HIGH humidity, 2,446 stone steps...BEAUTIFUL but brutal before giving a talk 😂😅🙏🥹 I have been humbled !!)
(Mt. Haguro, HIGH humidity, 2,446 stone steps...BEAUTIFUL but brutal before giving a talk 😂😅🙏🥹 I have been humbled !!)
Huge thanks to Benj Plackett & the @nature.com journalism team for featuring our tardigrade 🧠🔬🧬 work! Means so much as an early-career researcher building community + tools (neural atlas, GCaMP strain, behavior) now based in @gaou-ak.bsky.social Lab @ IAB Tsuruoka 🇯🇵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Tardigrade-obsessed: meet the researchers trying to turn water bears into neuroscience models
For water-bear enthusiasts, it’s the creature’s legs that make it stand out.
www.nature.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Huge thanks to Benj Plackett & the @nature.com journalism team for featuring our tardigrade 🧠🔬🧬 work! Means so much as an early-career researcher building community + tools (neural atlas, GCaMP strain, behavior) now based in @gaou-ak.bsky.social Lab @ IAB Tsuruoka 🇯🇵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Ana Lyons
With all their complexity in a tiny transparent package, could tardigrades be a useful organism for neuroscientists to study as they unravel the many mysteries of the brain?
@tardi-neuro.bsky.social thinks it’s time tardigrades have their moment!
grassfoundation.org/time-for-tar...
@tardi-neuro.bsky.social thinks it’s time tardigrades have their moment!
grassfoundation.org/time-for-tar...
May 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
With all their complexity in a tiny transparent package, could tardigrades be a useful organism for neuroscientists to study as they unravel the many mysteries of the brain?
@tardi-neuro.bsky.social thinks it’s time tardigrades have their moment!
grassfoundation.org/time-for-tar...
@tardi-neuro.bsky.social thinks it’s time tardigrades have their moment!
grassfoundation.org/time-for-tar...
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Tardigrades are all the rage for studying how critters survive extreme conditions. But they could be great neuroscience models, too. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
March 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Big thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for the great writeup & helping 📢 tardigrades step up systems neuroscience! 🧠 These tiny creatures are ready to walk us toward new insights in whole-animal neuro. Excited to keep building tools & a supportive community for💧🐻! It's been my life's work 😍
The tardigrade may help neuroscientists understand how a small number of neurons can produce complex behaviors, but getting there will require a community effort.
By @dgrijseels.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
By @dgrijseels.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
www.thetransmitter.org
March 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Big thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for the great writeup & helping 📢 tardigrades step up systems neuroscience! 🧠 These tiny creatures are ready to walk us toward new insights in whole-animal neuro. Excited to keep building tools & a supportive community for💧🐻! It's been my life's work 😍
Grateful for my (very snowy) new scientific homebase 🤍❄️🇯🇵 and all the amazing colleagues @ Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University 慶應義塾大学先端生命科学研究所 ...stay tuned for tardigrade クマムシ content on overdrive 🔬
February 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Grateful for my (very snowy) new scientific homebase 🤍❄️🇯🇵 and all the amazing colleagues @ Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University 慶應義塾大学先端生命科学研究所 ...stay tuned for tardigrade クマムシ content on overdrive 🔬
It's also Black History Month and "Black" was among those words allegedly flagged. We cannot erase our colleagues, community, and their experiences, invaluable perspectives, and contributions.
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
February 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
It's also Black History Month and "Black" was among those words allegedly flagged. We cannot erase our colleagues, community, and their experiences, invaluable perspectives, and contributions.
We love all aquatic eight-legged wonders of the world 🐙🌊🤝💧🐻 ...plus an amazing scientist and speaker !!
Don't forget to join us TOMORROW, Friday, February 7, for a special MBL Falmouth Forum with MBL's own Roger Hanlon. Can't make it in person? That's okay, we'll be streaming live! mbl.edu/falmouth-forum
February 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
We love all aquatic eight-legged wonders of the world 🐙🌊🤝💧🐻 ...plus an amazing scientist and speaker !!
Reposted by Ana Lyons
Folks who can’t be out and about, volunteer opportunity:
February 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Folks who can’t be out and about, volunteer opportunity:
Reposted by Ana Lyons
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
Reposted by Ana Lyons
To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled
As of now, NSF does not appear to be changing course at all given the temporary restraining order or the rescission of the memo. I can't help but feel that the NSF director is failing us and his handling of this is indefensible. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
new.nsf.gov
January 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled
Happening today! (In 20 min!) Register for Free 🧠
Register now for the free SFN & Kavli webinar "Neural Adaptation in Changing Ecosystems," moderated by @wolfgangstein.bsky.social.
This is part of a 4-part webinar series w/ segments on neuromodulatory, genetic, behavioral, and evolutionary adaptations for a changing world.
tinyurl.com/ynajpw4y
This is part of a 4-part webinar series w/ segments on neuromodulatory, genetic, behavioral, and evolutionary adaptations for a changing world.
tinyurl.com/ynajpw4y
Webinar: TBC Neural Adaptation in Changing Ecosystems
Join speakers Amanda Lauer, Cosima Porteus, and Joseph Santin for the inaugural session of an exciting new collaborative series by the Society for Neuroscience and The Kavli Foundation. Moderated by W...
neuronline.sfn.org
January 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Happening today! (In 20 min!) Register for Free 🧠
Perfect for the upcoming C. elegans meeting at Davis—come for the worms, stay for the sofa-sized stunner! 🛋️ Epic lab photo opportunity here! 📸
Did you know that there's a statue of a sofa-sized tardigrade outside the building where the Bohart Insect Museum is at the University of California, Davis? Well now you do. #invertebrates
January 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Perfect for the upcoming C. elegans meeting at Davis—come for the worms, stay for the sofa-sized stunner! 🛋️ Epic lab photo opportunity here! 📸
Hello 🦋 world, Posted a preprint this week, advocating tardigrades as a new model for systems-level neuroscience! 🧠🐻💧 Synthesizing physiology, neuroanatomy, genomics & behavior was no small feat—feedback is welcome with all 8 arms! 💌 My email for contact is on the PDF 🌟 arxiv.org/abs/2501.06606
January 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Hello 🦋 world, Posted a preprint this week, advocating tardigrades as a new model for systems-level neuroscience! 🧠🐻💧 Synthesizing physiology, neuroanatomy, genomics & behavior was no small feat—feedback is welcome with all 8 arms! 💌 My email for contact is on the PDF 🌟 arxiv.org/abs/2501.06606