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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 15d

A gut-brain axis for aversive interoception drives innate and anticipatory emesis in Drosophila. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679515v1

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Richard Benton @bentonlab.bsky.social · 10d

Having personally sworn for years that insects don’t use GPCRs for odour detection, Suguru Takagi (@sugurutakagi.bsky.social) discovers that, in fact, they sometimes do …

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A GPCR signaling pathway in insect odor detection

Odor detection differs fundamentally in vertebrates, which use G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), and insects, which employ ion channels. Here, we report the first evidence for a GPCR defining tunin...

www.biorxiv.org

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corderolab.bsky.social @corderolab.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to share our collaborative PhD project with Adam Dobson ([email protected]) on interorgan signalling in the ageing gut. Please contact Adam If you are a highly motivated student wanted to work on a super exciting Fly project.

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Emmanuel Perisse @manuperisse.bsky.social · 21d

You still have some time to apply!
don't miss this opportunity

Emmanuel Perisse @manuperisse.bsky.social · Sep 15

You just finished your PhD and you are looking for a postdoc to study stress-dependent modulation of learning. We are using the powerful fly model to understand the underlying circuits and mechanisms. You can apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoc position (M/F) in Neuroscience, stress modulation of learning (H/F)

emploi.cnrs.fr

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Vincent Croset @vincentcroset.bsky.social · Sep 15

👀
Highly recommended 👇🏻

Emmanuel Perisse @manuperisse.bsky.social · Sep 15

You just finished your PhD and you are looking for a postdoc to study stress-dependent modulation of learning. We are using the powerful fly model to understand the underlying circuits and mechanisms. You can apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoc position (M/F) in Neuroscience, stress modulation of learning (H/F)

emploi.cnrs.fr

Vincent Croset @vincentcroset.bsky.social · Sep 8

Just a reminder...

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Richard Benton @bentonlab.bsky.social · Aug 20

New preprint, taking our lab into ecotoxicology, with a nifty combination of experimental evolution and CRISPR screening in cells, to help unravel the still-mysterious resistance of Drosophila sechellia to its favorite fruit: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Intersecting experimental evolution and CRISPR screens to identify novel toxin resistance loci

Understanding toxin resistance in insects is key to appreciate niche adaptations and for pest management, but remains challenging due to complex genetics. To investigate how Drosophila sechellia evolv...

www.biorxiv.org

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Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Jun 19

I'm looking for teaching materials to help encourage cellular biology students to drop AI illustration and instead sketch during lectures—as well as while conceptualizing the future of food—without fear of lacking hard art skills. Suggestions, anyone?

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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · Jun 13

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!

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Vincent Croset @vincentcroset.bsky.social · Jun 6

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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · Jun 4

#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!

FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Jun 3

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 3

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · Jun 4

SUSTAINABILITY & #DROSOPHILA - If you keep flies & have tried to re-use containers but then given up on it, please could you let us know & tell us the reasons? We urgently need statements for a publication about sustainability in fly labs. Please, contact [email protected]

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Marco Bocchio @marcobocchio.bsky.social · May 28

🧠🍄Have you used classic or non-classic #psychedelics?
We are running an anonymous online study on how these experiences relate to mental processes.

Share your experience (takes less than 15 min):👉 durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Alice French @aliceisnotfren1.bsky.social · May 3

Interested in the neural circuits underlying memory formation?🧠🤔 See below a postdoc position advertised by the Boto lab at the University of Bristol 👇

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

www.bristol.ac.uk

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Vincent Croset @vincentcroset.bsky.social · Apr 16

🔬🐀🚪__ labrador

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Vincent Croset @vincentcroset.bsky.social · Mar 6

So how do we get started?

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Vincent Croset @vincentcroset.bsky.social · Mar 6

This is all sadly very true. We urgently need to put together a strategic committee to generate a portfolio of recommendations about how to initiate a reflection about these issues.

Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · Mar 6

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Vincent Croset @vincentcroset.bsky.social · Feb 27

‼️🔬 I am looking for a PhD student to investigate the molecular signatures of memory engrams in Drosophila.

🎓 Fully funded 4-year PhD position (BBSRC NEEDL)
📍 Durham University, UK

More details and instructions to apply: tinyurl.com/durhamPhD

#Drosophila #Neuroskyence #Neuroscience #Memory

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Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · Feb 27

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:

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Vincent Croset @vincentcroset.bsky.social · Feb 10

Highly recommended! 👇🏻

Alicia Hidalgo Lab @aliciahidalgolab.bsky.social · Feb 10

Looking for an enthusiastic post-doc to investigate how experience shapes the brain. Drosophila neurogenetics, molecular and cellular mechanisms, imaging, optogenetics, neural circuits and behaviour will be used. At University of Birmingham campus, UK. Application deadline 19 March.
Pls RT.

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Alicia Hidalgo Lab @aliciahidalgolab.bsky.social · Jan 30

Post-doctoral position available to investigate how experience shapes the brain. Ideal candidate with skills in: Drosophila, behaviour, imaging.
Advert out soon. Meanwhile, if interested, pls contact me.

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Paul Donlin-Asp @pdaphd.bsky.social · Jan 23

A plug that my lab is currently recruiting a postdoc. 5 years of funding, the lab has steady funding for the next 8 years, and no active attempts to burn down the scientific enterprise in your potential new home.. Plus the occasional bagpipe player rocking a kilt on the street.

Science Magazine @science.org · Jan 22

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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Alicia Hidalgo Lab @aliciahidalgolab.bsky.social · Jan 6

Looking for a keen PhD student to investigate how experience shapes the brain, and/or mechanisms of central nervous system regeneration, plasticity and degeneration. Apply here: select "Biosciences", then my projects. Fully funded.
Deadline 12 January.

www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/act...

Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Dec 22

A modulatory attentional gate promotes recent memory expression in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629828v1

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Vincent Croset @vincentcroset.bsky.social · Dec 18

🎓 Looking for a new PhD student to investigate the neuronal and molecular basis of learning and memory in #Drosophila!

This is a competitive, but fully funded position. More info here: tinyurl.com/drosobrain 🧠 🪰

Deadline: 8th January 2025

#Neuroskyence
#Memory
#Neuroscience
#Dopamine

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