Hanna Zwaka
@hannazwaka.bsky.social
Neuroscientist | Group leader at Leibniz Institute for Neuroscience | Feminist | Working with amazing zebrafish |.. still in love with honeybees
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
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New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees
iapetus.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women | United Nations
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women aims to create awareness of the fact that violence against women is a human rights violation that impedes progress in many areas, in...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...
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(1/n) We are excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications, by Hagar Lavian (@hlavian.bsky.social) and team, revealing how the zebrafish brain integrates visual navigation signals! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Visual motion and landmark position align with heading direction in the zebrafish interpeduncular nucleus - Nature Communications
How are various visual signals integrated in the vertebrate brain for navigation? Here authors show that different spatial signals are topographically organized and align to one another in the zebrafi...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
(1/n) We are excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications, by Hagar Lavian (@hlavian.bsky.social) and team, revealing how the zebrafish brain integrates visual navigation signals! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
www.hhmi.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
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For those interested!
PhD position on fear response in zebrafish in a new and exciting lab working with Dr. Emmanuel Marquez Legorreta. He's a great scientist and super nice guy, I highly recommend him
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
PhD position in Neuroscience
Reveal the neuronal populations underlying innate fear responses using whole-brain imaging of neuronal activity and gene expression in larval zebrafish!
www.uu.nl
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
For those interested!
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🚨 Postdoc openings!
We’re looking for postdocs excited about sleep, synapses & cellular neurophysiology (fly or mouse).
Yes, we also have mouse projects!
See details: www.flysleeplab.com/positions
We’re looking for postdocs excited about sleep, synapses & cellular neurophysiology (fly or mouse).
Yes, we also have mouse projects!
See details: www.flysleeplab.com/positions
Positions | flysleeplab
www.flysleeplab.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🚨 Postdoc openings!
We’re looking for postdocs excited about sleep, synapses & cellular neurophysiology (fly or mouse).
Yes, we also have mouse projects!
See details: www.flysleeplab.com/positions
We’re looking for postdocs excited about sleep, synapses & cellular neurophysiology (fly or mouse).
Yes, we also have mouse projects!
See details: www.flysleeplab.com/positions
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Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants. n.pr/4pgmAna
As funding falters, young brain scientists rethink careers in research
Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants. n.pr/4pgmAna
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AALAS is our opportunity every year to help facilities new to #zebrafish to make connections and understand that support is out there for them. It's incredibly gratifying to connect with those folks.
This week, Amber and Christine attended #AALAS2025, the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science National Meeting. We were there supporting @zebrafishhusbandry.bsky.social, both taking part in multiple seminars and panels, as well as volunteering at the information booth for ZHA.
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
AALAS is our opportunity every year to help facilities new to #zebrafish to make connections and understand that support is out there for them. It's incredibly gratifying to connect with those folks.
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🤩 Beautiful cover from @loicaroyer.bsky.social @merlinlange.bsky.social et al
Our November issue is now live! 🎉
www.nature.com/nmeth/volume...
On the cover, cell tracking in a developing zebrafish embryo visualized using Ultrack. Cover by Alexandre Dizieux, Jordão Bragantini, Loic Royer, Merlin Lange, CZ Biohub. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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On the cover, cell tracking in a developing zebrafish embryo visualized using Ultrack. Cover by Alexandre Dizieux, Jordão Bragantini, Loic Royer, Merlin Lange, CZ Biohub. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 AM
🤩 Beautiful cover from @loicaroyer.bsky.social @merlinlange.bsky.social et al
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For those interested:
The Kuo Lab is hiring! Looking for a Associate Research Specialist. We'll be investigating in the TME of Ewing sarcoma!
jobs.chla.org/jobs/55152?l...
jobs.chla.org/jobs/55152?l...
Associate Research Specialist / HemOnc / Full-time / Dr. Kuo Lab in Los Angeles, California | Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Children's Hospital Los Angeles is hiring a Associate Research Specialist / HemOnc / Full-time / Dr. Kuo Lab in Los Angeles, California. Review all of the job details and apply today!
jobs.chla.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM
For those interested:
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Would you like to learn more about #XAI?
Take a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social's presentation on "Explainable Machine Learning" on the @scadsai.bsky.social #Zenodo page. It covers the basics, including SHAP analysis and Grad-CAM as examples.
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/mzmitnigaa
Take a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social's presentation on "Explainable Machine Learning" on the @scadsai.bsky.social #Zenodo page. It covers the basics, including SHAP analysis and Grad-CAM as examples.
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/mzmitnigaa
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Would you like to learn more about #XAI?
Take a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social's presentation on "Explainable Machine Learning" on the @scadsai.bsky.social #Zenodo page. It covers the basics, including SHAP analysis and Grad-CAM as examples.
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/mzmitnigaa
Take a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social's presentation on "Explainable Machine Learning" on the @scadsai.bsky.social #Zenodo page. It covers the basics, including SHAP analysis and Grad-CAM as examples.
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/mzmitnigaa
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I read this book when I was 15 and fell in love with DNA. I re-read it at 32 with lived experience in Science and it filled me with rage. I cannot pick up that book now. It reveals what women were/are up against.
Based on his self-described behavior in The Double Helix and these actions it is easy and appropriate to write him off as an ignorant jerk.
38/41
38/41
November 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I read this book when I was 15 and fell in love with DNA. I re-read it at 32 with lived experience in Science and it filled me with rage. I cannot pick up that book now. It reveals what women were/are up against.
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
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James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
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November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Applications for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award are now open! This program supports early career scientists in #autism or #neuroscience research by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. Apply by 1/14/2026: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/31/a... #science
Applications for Fellows-to-Faculty Awards Now Open
Applications for Fellows-to-Faculty Awards Now Open on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Applications for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award are now open! This program supports early career scientists in #autism or #neuroscience research by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. Apply by 1/14/2026: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/31/a... #science
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[Job]
Aquaculture Research Associate, Knaut and Torres-Vazquez Labs, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
#zebrafish
Aquaculture Research Associate, Knaut and Torres-Vazquez Labs, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
#zebrafish
Aquaculture Research Associate, Knaut and Torres-Vazquez Labs, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY - Jobs - Confluence
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November 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
[Job]
Aquaculture Research Associate, Knaut and Torres-Vazquez Labs, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
#zebrafish
Aquaculture Research Associate, Knaut and Torres-Vazquez Labs, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
#zebrafish
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Lovely summary on why #zebrafish make excellent models of human disease! Featuring @crumplab.bsky.social 🐟🧪
Did you know zebrafish share many of the same genes as humans?
Gage Crump, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at USC Stem Cell, explains how this tiny fish is helping advance human health research.
@keckschoolusc.bsky.social
Gage Crump, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at USC Stem Cell, explains how this tiny fish is helping advance human health research.
@keckschoolusc.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Lovely summary on why #zebrafish make excellent models of human disease! Featuring @crumplab.bsky.social 🐟🧪
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Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨
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Motor learning in fruit flies: what happens where and how to improve it
Humans use motor learning to learn how to speak, walk, write or ride a bike. Motor learning is essential also for sports or rehabilitation after stroke or spinal injury. Evidence suggests that all forms of motor learning […]
Humans use motor learning to learn how to speak, walk, write or ride a bike. Motor learning is essential also for sports or rehabilitation after stroke or spinal injury. Evidence suggests that all forms of motor learning […]
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November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Motor learning in fruit flies: what happens where and how to improve it
Humans use motor learning to learn how to speak, walk, write or ride a bike. Motor learning is essential also for sports or rehabilitation after stroke or spinal injury. Evidence suggests that all forms of motor learning […]
Humans use motor learning to learn how to speak, walk, write or ride a bike. Motor learning is essential also for sports or rehabilitation after stroke or spinal injury. Evidence suggests that all forms of motor learning […]
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I'm on the academic job market!
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I'm on the academic job market!
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
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🧠In this essay Carlos Ribeiro and Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, @champalimaudf.bsky.social, explore the brain-body interactions.
🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two.
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...
🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two.
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🧠In this essay Carlos Ribeiro and Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, @champalimaudf.bsky.social, explore the brain-body interactions.
🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two.
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...
🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two.
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...
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Calling aspiring group leaders! We've just opened applications for group leader fellowship sponsorship to start a lab in UCL NPP. Deadline 5 Jan. @uclnpp.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3h33dvev
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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November 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Calling aspiring group leaders! We've just opened applications for group leader fellowship sponsorship to start a lab in UCL NPP. Deadline 5 Jan. @uclnpp.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3h33dvev