A little life update😊

📢Our lab balbilab.com at Queensland Brain Institute, UQ is looking for a PhD student interested in brain oscillations and their intricate role in restoring function after stroke. Lots of cool techniques such as in vivo electrophysiology and imaging in🐭. Info: study.uq.edu.au/study-options/…

Our lab is looking for a talented and motivated postdoc to work on a NIH funded project investigating novel sleep-promoting neurons in the fly Ventral Nerve Cord. For more details contact me, please RT #sciencejob

📢Anyone interested in doing an Honours project in Brisbane? And in the cool model that zebrafish is?? We have a very interesting project on the short term effects of noradrenergic system impairment in zebrafish. Contacts: me or Carlie L Cullen #zebrafish #honours

Our group has TWO earmarked PhD scholarships in Alzheimer's disease and brain cell communication. Lots of interdisciplinary approaches (advanced imaging/math modelling/biochemical techniques). DM/email ([email protected]) me for more info. UQ Medicine Queensland Brain Institute, UQ UQ News

We are recruiting!! Melbourne (preferably close to Clayton) people register your interest by taking the survey #psilocybin #food #reward Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute

We are excited to announce the next Workshop on Neural Circuits & Behavior of Drosophila that will be held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete (OAC), Kolymbari, from June 15-21, 2025. Please RT.

The new class of HHMI investigators average 3.9 papers as corresponding author in Cell, Nature, or Science. 26 out of 26 members of this group previously trained with a PI who is in the National Academy of Sciences or who was an HHMI investigator themselves.

After how many months/years does this daycare sickness madness slow down? It has been about 2 months since he started daycare and we have just been jumping from one to another. What a fun cycle🤡

A 🧵 about women applying for things. We’ve run a postdoc seminar series for the past few years. Our selection is entirely anonymized. We read only the research statements. No CV’s, no names, no lab references. But when all was revealed this year, 8/10 finalists were male.

I hope Australian funding agencies have a look at this (and maaaybe rethink their strategies?)

GWAS for Nobel prize laureates.

Flybrain> Banana. My entry for the art in neuroscience competition at QBI.

We've got a good program, and have had strong interest so far. Last few hours to apply!

#Türkiye: We are very concerned by the detention of at least 92 people over the past week, including Istanbul’s democratically-elected mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. All those detained for the legitimate exercise of their rights must be released immediately & unconditionally.

🇹🇷 #BREAKING | Pikachu was spotted fleeing from the police during anti-Erdoğan protests in Turkey.

BBC's Mark Lowen deported from Turkey after covering protests bbc.in/3RncTUR

Turkish democracy was ailing even before the main contender for challenging (and perhaps winning against) President Erdoğan, the Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was arrested last week on charges that many are arguing to be trumped up. This by itself is noteworthy. It has become

Officially starting a joint project with SeuntjensLab and Oleg Simakov lab- studying the link between genomes, gene expression and cell type diversity in #Cephalopod brains! Open positions to apply- Please RT!

⁦The cancellation of Harvard grants has put FlyBase⁩ on life support. The Flybase grant is at Harvard and everything else is a subcontract. This community resource is absolutely essential! philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-cambri…