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clarahowcroft.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Northumbria University, researching social behaviour in Drosophila. https://ferreira-lab.weebly.com/
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The lab's first PhD student, Mirjam Heinemans, co-supervised with the fantastic Marta Moita @moitalab.bsky.social, brilliantly presented and defended her thesis today! Massive congratulations Dr Heinemans!!!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Hey #Drosophila folks ! #FlyCROSS is back and #Mentor surveys are open NOW ! If you're a faculty/postdoc/ equivalent in any scientific career & have #Drosophila research experience - we'd be delighted to have you as mentors to empower early career scientists in the #Dros community !

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

It was a lovely first Fly North(East) meeting, diverse and supportive. Thank you all for sharing your science and the enthusiasm in strengthening our community. Thank you @gensocuk.bsky.social for the sponsorship that made it possible.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Towards more sustainable research: reducing the environmental impact when working with #Drosophila. Challiner, Saurya., Patel, Raff, Fostier, Prokop, A. (2025) @genetics-gsa.bsky.social‬, in press -- doi.org/10.1093/gene... - Always happy to discuss and hear your ideas and views!

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

We hosted the first North East Fly Meeting today! It was great to connect with people from all over as well as the local universities. A great learning and networking opportunity for us all! Sometimes it's just great to talk flies with all fly people! @clarahowcroft.bsky.social @dpdoupe.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It is already tomorrow, our first Fly North(East) England meeting at Northumbria University Newcastle! Co-organized with @toraks.bsky.social @dpdoupe.bsky.social. Looking forward to a day of bulding bridges and discussing how to nurture our network.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 We’re looking for a PhD student! 🧠🪰 Join the Münch Lab at @jlugiessen.bsky.social to study how neural circuits turn sensory input into behavior. We use #Drosophila, combining: 🔬 Imaging 🧬 Neurogenetics 🐝 Behavior 👉 bit.ly/drosophd 🌍 munchlab.org Feel free to share! #PhD #neuroscience #job

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Registration is open for the third #NeuroBioUK!! @dozenoaks.bsky.social @alexfellows1.bsky.social and I are excited to see you again in York!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently we do not have a JEDI starter pack yet. @fly-jedi.bsky.social and everyone else: let me know which other Junior European #Drosophila Investigators are missing! go.bsky.app/PcTGEMc

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

Proud to work @northumbriauni.bsky.social #pridemonth

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to share my PhD paper is out! We studied how motion vision is processed beyond the optic lobes to help flies walk straight. It has been a wonderful collaboration with @michaelreiser.bsky.social, @dddavi.bsky.social and many others not in bluesky! Paper + digest here: bsky.app/profile/cham...

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

Congratulations to our biomedical sciences researchers Dr @emilyhume.bsky.social and Dr Monika Winter, who are among 62 UK researchers awarded grants to further their innovative work by the @acmedsci.bsky.social Springboard programme. #Springboard25 #MedicalResearch 💡Discover more:

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

The International Society for Neuroethology has a grant for disadvantaged scientists investigating the mechanisms of animal behaviour. Apply for funds to help overcome any barriers you face! Membership fees can be included in your application. Details here: www.neuroethology.org/diversity-aw...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva!

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

Join us for a fully funded, 4-year PhD, a collaboration between Northumbria, Durham and Mainz Universities to study the evolution of the neuronal basis of defence behaviours in Drosophila! Application and full PhD advert: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment

Join us for a great collaboration between Durham and Northumbria Universities to study the social lives of mosquitoes!

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Join us for a 4-year PhD in Newcastle at @northumbriauni.bsky.social on a fun project (literally)! Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...), we will explore:

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

New preprint from the lab!

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Very happy to have contributed with behavioural data analysis and visualization to this creative and insightful work! Looking forward to strengthening our collaboration with the @wolfhuette.bsky.social group @northumbriauni.bsky.social

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

⚠️REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN ⚠️ Interested in the neurobiology of social behaviors? this is your meeting. Join us in the beautiful #Coimbra, next June 9th-12th, 2025. Plenty of very cool science and moments for discussion. Limited spaces, register soon and save your spot! esc-coimbra2025.cnc.uc.pt

submitted 176 days ago • 1 comment

A year in review and a year preview! 2024 highlights: 1. Lab up and running @northumbriauni.bsky.social to study the 'Neural basis of social behaviour in groups', with the support of the Applied Sciences department, a @royalsociety.org grant and the continued support of @moitalab.bsky.social

submitted 170 days ago • 1 comment

Are you aware of our #Drosophila #art gallery? droso4public.wordpress.com/fly-art/

submitted 199 days ago • 1 comment

1/ How do animals integrate different forms of learning? Our @eyalrozenfeld.bsky.social new study in Science Advances shows that active mechanisms prevent the co-formation of competing memories. Here’s what we found! 🧵👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 202 days ago • 2 comments

I intended my first post here to be about my own lab's work, but I can't help but sharing this beautifully detailed trailblazing work on freezing behaviour from @moitalab.bsky.social led by the amazing @annahobbiss.bsky.social

submitted 208 days ago • 0 comments