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Angelo Iulianella
@aineurolab.bsky.social
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Developmental neurobiologist at Dalhousie University. All things Nature, Cosmos, & Science. www.iulianellalab.com
#neuroscience, #DevBio, #EvoDevo, #NeuroDev, #cytoskeleton 🧠 🧪
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Angelo Iulianella @aineurolab.bsky.social · Nov 7
As many scientists are fleeing the former bird app, I’ll reintroduce myself. I’m a professor in developmental neurobiology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. I study how neurons are born and migrate during the formation of the 🧠. #devbio #neuroscience #evodevo #cytoskeleton
aineurolab.bsky.social
A rare sea slug who dares to make food from sunlight found in waters near a beach not too far from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Really interesting adaptation. If only we could do this trick…
A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited | CBC News
Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study.
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social
Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday

Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday Link for more information: https://www.popsci.com/science/voyager-one-light-day-earth/
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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joshmorsell.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic
Evidence that the whales and other marine animals are particularly vulnerable to sound is driving calls for quieter vessels
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
aineurolab.bsky.social
Dalhousie offers generous Killam scholarships for both Canadian and international students. My lab is looking for graduate students, and is an exciting opportunity, especially for folks looking to do science in an interesting part of the world.
Killam Predoctoral Scholarship Level 2 (Doctoral)
Doctoral • Entrance or in-program scholarship • Canadian or international students • $42,000/yr • Up to 3 years
www.dal.ca
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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simonepapa.bsky.social
Stunning work from the Lichtman Lab & Google Connectomics: a true 3D EM reconstruction of a single cortical neuron, with every yellow dot marking a synapse.

AI tools trace thousands of spines, revealing the micro-architecture of cortical computation. One cell, an entire universe (Nicolas Hubacz)
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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siegenthalerlab.bsky.social
Our work out in @devbiol.bsky.social, PDGFra is needed for 🧠 perivascular fibroblast development... ⬇️ perivascular fibroblast = ⬇️ perivascular macrophage...cross-talk? 👀
Led by Hannah Jones @hejcell.bsky.social w/ Kelsey Abrams, Sophia Kim, excited for more projects w/ @fantauzzolab.bsky.social!
Micrscopy images of cleared cerebral brain tissue showing penetrating blood vessels (white) in mice - magenta cells are perivascular fibroblasts and cyan cells are perivascular macrophages - in control mice, both cell types are near the vessel termini by postnatal day 10 but in 'cKO' mice that lack expression of a tyrosine kinase receptor PDGFRa in fibroblasts, both the fibroblasts and macrophages are only partially covering the vessels. From Figure 4 of our paper - https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7fa2mzTkyfS
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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rogerslabucd.bsky.social
Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
Faculty Position in Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology We are seeking an outstanding integrative physiologist (broadly defined) for the position of Assistant Professor (tenure track) to join our faculty in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology in the School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), UC Davis. Our department is a highly integrated group of faculty studying molecular, cellular, physiological, and pathophysiological mechanisms of health and disease. The candidate should have an active research program that focuses on interdisciplinary physiology research using state-of- the-art approaches. We welcome research which diversifies our expertise, and/or that which complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory systems as well as developmental biology. Candidates are expected to expand access to education and provide opportunities in research for students, trainees, and the community across various life and professional experiences. • Candidates must possess a PhD and postdoctoral experience in physiology or a related field. • Aptitude/experience in teaching broad-based physiology or functional anatomy to professional or graduate students. • Experience with grant writing. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and collegially within a diverse community. Sunrise at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Sunrise in Davis CA
October 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
aineurolab.bsky.social
Here is the poster for special issue on NEURAL MIGRATION: DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION in Developmental Dynamics. Submission details are included in the last paragraph.
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
aineurolab.bsky.social
Dear #Neuroscience researchers, I am Guest Editing an issue in @devdynamics.bsky.social on NEURAL MIGRATION.
Due date: March 31, 2026.

Great opportunity to showcase your findings on neural migration. #DevBio

Please reskeet 🙏

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1097...
Developmental Dynamics
<em>Developmental Dynamics</em> is a developmental biology journal publishing novel discoveries that advance our understanding in development, morphology, evolution, and disease.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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ijdb.bsky.social
New IJDB issue! Our cover image features an immunostaining of neural crest cells and their derivatives in an Mllt1 E10.5 murine embryo from the paper by Zinck et al doi.org/10.1387/ijdb... Congratulations to the team of @aineurolab.bsky.social for their outstanding contribution!
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
aineurolab.bsky.social
Happy to report that our recent findings on the innervation of the masseter made the cover of the International Journal of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social .
Early post for #FluorescenceFridays
#DevBio @brchfx.bsky.social 🧪

ijdb.ehu.eus/issue/69/
Beta3-tubulin staining in a whole mount mouse embryo (embryonic day 10) in blue, with neural crest cell derivatives labeled with tdtomato transgene (red).
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
aineurolab.bsky.social
“I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony…”
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
aineurolab.bsky.social
Finally had a bit of time to see @neilshubin.bsky.social Collège de France lectures on YouTube on our evolutionary journey on this rock. Wonderful. Thank you @denisduboule.bsky.social for making these accessible for those of us living far away from the City of Lights.
November 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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alleninstitute.org
What happens when you combine 10 years of brain data with one of the world’s fastest supercomputers?

A virtual mouse cortex simulation, thanks to a global collaboration.

🧠📈 https://alleninstitute.org/news/one-of-worlds-most-detailed-virtual-brain-simulations-is-changing-how-we-study-the-brain/
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
aineurolab.bsky.social
Leaf shadow/floating under the late autumnal sun.
Leaf floating on water over a tarp casting its shadow on the late autumn sun.
November 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
aineurolab.bsky.social
"Are we going to support talent here in Canada and the development of our students and our researchers who are here?'" Whitaker asked…simply injecting a wave of high-profile academics at the top without supporting the foundation beneath them is "going to leave us short-changed." @caut.bsky.social
Canada seeks star academics from abroad, but stable funding for higher education remains a concern | CBC News
Proponents believe a current push to recruit star researchers from abroad will mean top-tier learning for Canadian students and a boost to research innovation and excellence. Yet concerns remain about...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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amartinezarias.bsky.social
The passing of A. Garcia Bellido
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio...
means another pioneer of #DevBiol leaving the room. An impactful personality who could create an intellectual storm w/ a sentence.
Here from a discussion with L Wolpert pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9654040/
#Drosophila #CellsRUs #Genes
November 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
aineurolab.bsky.social
Does anyone know how to turn off copilot in word? An update has forced it presence onto the page margin (bottom right). And I could not find any way to turn it off in the preferences.
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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jeffbush.bsky.social
I'm thrilled to be able to share this new paper from post-doc Camilla Teng @xsciteng.bsky.social and our collaborators in the Leslie-Clarkson lab @emorygenetics.bsky.social on mechanisms of tissue fusion and cleft lip url: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Actomyosin contractility and a threshold of cadherin cell adhesion are required during tissue fusion | Journal of Cell Biology | Rockefeller University Press
Teng et al. investigate the cellular basis for tissue fusion during mammalian lip formation. They demonstrate that actomyosin contractility drives fusion,
rupress.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
aineurolab.bsky.social
Lest we forget.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada's Unknown Soldier in 2025: Where science collides with sacred symbolism | CBC News
Canada's Unknown Soldier — a casualty of the First World War — was brought home to be interred in Ottawa 25 years ago, and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission forbids any attempt at identification....
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November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
I'm curious as to why @bylinetimes.bsky.social are running tech corporation talking points, including pushing them out to hundreds of thousands of people.

Here's my recent post breaking down why this line is so profoundly misleading:

ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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The CSMB is concerned that, despite new investments, Federal Budget 2025 weakens rather than strengthens Canada’s research ecosystem.
Sustainable research funding is essential for innovation and competitiveness.
Read more: csmb-scbm.ca/csmb-stateme...

#CSMB #Budget2025 #ResearchCanada #Science
Canadian Parliament buildings
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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“There’s just no moths on that sheet.” @tessairini.bsky.social writes in the @theguardian.com about #InsectDecline with #DanJanzen, #WinnieHallwachs and the caterpillars of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste #ACG in #CostaRica @gdfcf.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
June 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Grant submitted. Time for walk @dalhousie.bsky.social, leaves blanketing the ground. The cloudy calm before the hurricane fuelled weather tomorrow.
Leaves on the ground on small wooded area of Dalhousie University campus, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
October 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM