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Fascinated by the evolution of the brain | Senior Research Associate at EBaB lab (University of Bristol) (he/him) https://linktr.ee/max.farnworth
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elifesciences.org/articles/105... Really neat and important study by the Doe lab. Congrats!

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This is the new account of the section Neurobiology of the DZG. Follow us for news around the DZG, Neurobiology in Germany and mention us in your tweets for papers if you want them to share a wider audience. @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social @dzg-sysbiodiv.bsky.social

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🎉🏆🏆🏆We're delighted to announce 3 new @royalsociety.org Fellows here in Zoology! Dr Gregory Jefferis, Prof Claire Spottiswoode and Dr Marta Zlatic are all now FRS. Many, many congratulations! Read more: bit.ly/3H4rCCk

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In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

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Registration NOW OPEN. Join us in Berlin! #DZG2025

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Why join #DZG2025? Reason #1: Outstanding plenary speakers! For example… #share #like (bio.kuleuven.be/faculty/0000...)

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I am so grateful that @thetransmitter.bsky.social higlights my research group launch at the 'LIFTOFF' www.thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-...

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Come and work with us for a few months on a standalone project! Up to £3,000 (c. 3560 EUR) available for students or postdocs to visit a new lab like ours 👀 Deadline 6th June, but get in touch with me ASAP to discuss your ideas and interests!

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#CharlotteFörster #Farewell #Symposium #Chronobiology #GermanClockClub2025 #CircadianClock #Drosophila #Fruitfly #Würzburg #KatharinaBeer #RudolfoCosta #BambosKyriacou #OrieSchäfer #MonikaStengl #SheebaVasu #TaishiYoshii #CharlotteHelfrichFörster #Circadia_Clock @uni-wuerzburg.de

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🔈 Cassandra Extavour, invited speaker at #ICDB2025, leads groundbreaking research on the evo-devo of germ cells and early embryonic development across species 🥚🔬🧪

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www.zeit.de/2025/19/fors... stimmt, sollten wir, aber irgendwie bin ich dann doch zu beschaeftigt, meine naechste Finanzierung und Stelle zu erarbeiten...

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This will be a fun and interesting meeting across the different fields of zoology - and it's in Berlin!

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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN 👋 Join us in Berlin for the Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society! Visit our website for all the details: dzg-meeting.de Early Bird offers are available—register now to secure your spot! We look forward to seeing you in Berlin. #share #like

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Come hang with @ebablab.bsky.social and the whole team. He isn't too bad a boss.

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Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue rdcu.be/ek8GG Wow! 😍

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We are #hiring! Interested in comparative neuroscience? Check details here (www.unifr.ch/bio/en/depar...). We look for a motivated #PhD student or #PostDoc to combine genetics, physiology, neural circuit tracing, and behaviour to study taste processing evolution in #Drosophila. Please repost.

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Here is an excellent summary of my work: a meme.

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Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out! @neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex

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Mandatory reading for anybody in German academia: #ichbinHanna #WissZeitVG

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Really excited to announce that I have been selected as one of eight PI fellows for this year. 😌 This will be fun and incredibly helpful in the journey ahead, especially when you have Cassandra Extavour as a mentor 😎

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Why does the forebrain expand dramatically while other neural regions grow less? Our new publication reveals progenitor metabolism critically shapes region-specific brain growth. Thread below. authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-udL7PXu...

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Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!

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www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Some news! I'm officially the new Executive Editor for Development @dev-journal.bsky.social, following @katherine-brown.bsky.social's 13+ years at the journal. I'll be writing a post for @the-node.bsky.social soon about what this means for me, and for the journal, but I'm excited to get going!

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Víctor @borrell-lab.bsky.social kicking off #ECCN2025 in Alicante. Looking forward to an amazing meeting with fantastic speakers covering a large range of the phylogenetic tree. First up: Gilles Laurent on Evolutionary perspectives on circuits for vision and sleep, including octopus camouflaging 😍

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Editors be like:

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Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social, @avaskham.bsky.social, @claudia-lopez.bsky.social, @shaena.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

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Really cool article in @pnas.org on #electroreception for #predatordetection gets well-deserved #CozzarelliPrize2024 🏅 Congratulations @samjakeengland.bsky.social and Daniel Robert 🥳🥳🥳↘️ doi.org/10.1073/pnas... ↙️

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Hear, hear, the deadline is near. For the @embo.org lightsheet course @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. Don't forget to send us an abstract so we can choose your cool #lightsheet project!

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Now out in #ProcB 🧪 Ancestral complexity and constrained diversification of the ant olfactory system 🐜 Expertly led by Simon Marty and Antoine Couto, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk and @agencerecherche.bsky.social 🙏🏻 #socialinsects @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

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Neurobiology will be organising an interesting symposium. Should be great!

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How do #brain cells change over #evolution? @bentonlab.bsky.social compare #scRNAseq from ecologically distinct #drosophilid species to identify changes in composition & gene expression of different cell types, revealing higher divergence in #glia than #neurons @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4js7Rms

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@joachimgoedhart.bsky.social wanted a web extension to easily share #preprints on Bluesky. When he couldn't find one, he decided to create one himself. Find out how he managed to do that in this post👇

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