This is so cool!

🎉We're excited and proud to share that Associate Professor Steve Flavell has earned tenure effective July 1! We also note that he's recruiting postdocs. flavell.mit.edu

Such a phenomenal talk by Iain Couzin at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Physics! Blown away by the science as well as the National Geographic-worthy collective behavior videos🤓

Out today in Nature Communications We mapped the divergence in transcriptional landscapes between the sexes across development. Check out our website for info on your favorite gene weizmann.ac.il/dimorgena/ nature.com/articles/s4146…

Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals. Our latest on using calcium imaging, to identify a novel behavior, which is synchronized in colonies. #choanoflagellates biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Jeffrey Colgren Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen bioRxiv

Happy birthday to renowned neuropsychologist Brenda Milner, who is celebrating her 106th birthday today! 🎈 🎁 While she may not count her age among her many achievements, in this video she did share a few thoughts (and a bit of folklore) about birthdays past and present.

Congratulations to Steve Flavell and 3 others Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on being named @HHMINews Investigators! Flavell’s lab studies neural mechanisms underlying internal brain states (e.g. different motivational and arousal states). picower.mit.edu/news/hhmi-hono… MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT Science #neuroscience

Congratulations to my postdoc advisor Steve Flavell MIT Picower Institute MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences on this fantastic achievement 🎉

🚀Our latest Flavell lab MIT Picower Institute preprint is live on bioRxiv! Aligning and annotating diverse cell types in complex tissues is a major challenge. We introduce 3 deep neural nets to automate this process in freely-moving C. elegans. 🧵: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🪱As the worm turns: A new pre-print study from the Flavell lab uses calcium imaging to track how neurons in a navigating C. elegans nematode encode its navigation strategies, incorporate sensory information and control locomotion. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #neuroscience

Congratulations to all the authors, especially @TalyaKramer 🎉

Congratulations Krishna Mudumbi! Wonderful news🎉

"They were looking at two worms that looked a bit funny and decided to understand why." Sounds like a good summary of my PhD with @meera_sundaram studying rod like lethal mutants in C.elegans. Today, all worm developmental geneticists stand a little taller.

Very excited to co-chair the 2025 Neuroethology GRS from Jun28-29 in Lucca, Italy with Maya Enriquez, MS (she/her)! To be followed by the GRC from Jun29-Jul4. Check it out here: grc.org/neuroethology-… Grad students and postdocs please submit your latest and best! Abstracts are open now :)

For those interested, Charnov's MVT paper is in the public domain. Read it and pass it on digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewconten…

Life can throw all kinds of circumstances your way. What you need is a nervous system flexible enough to cope. In a new study, MIT neuroscientists show how even a simple animal can switch many gears in its brain to adapt to an infection. picower.mit.edu/news/simple-an… #neuroscience

A simple animal’s response to sickness highlights the nervous system’s surprising degrees of flexibility picower.mit.edu/news/simple-an… #neuroscience MIT Picower Institute MIT Science

Even simple nervous systems aren't hardwired like thermostats—brains evolved for flexibility.

Only a couple of spots open for the GRS in Neuroethology. If you've been thinking about registering, now's the time-don't wait for the deadline! Join us for an inspiring meeting in beautiful Tuscany this June! 🌞🍝🍕 Check out the exciting program here:grc.org/neuroethology-…