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Alessandro Filosa
@alex-filosa.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, Neuronal Circuits, Neuromodulation, Behavior, Zebrafish

Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany
Are you thinking of enrolling in graduate school next year? The @lsiexeter.bsky.social is a fantastic place for multidisciplinary research... and my group is also hiring!
Apply here 👇
Are you looking for a PhD starting in September 2026/27? Then do not miss the fantastic opportunity to be part of the LSI PhD Community. New positions for the LSI PhD Programme are out now. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... Deadline: 26.11.2025
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
When you finally manage to convince yourself to stop buying books till the pile of unread ones is at least half tall, the Princeton University Press decides to have a 70% sale.
homer simpson from the simpsons is holding a napkin in his mouth and making a funny face .
ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is holding a napkin in his mouth and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Any danish located postdoc who wants to apply to work with us and zebrafish, pls contact me (postdocs from other places can also get in touch, as we have other alternatives)
novonordiskfonden.dk/en/grant/pos...
Postdoctoral Fellowships at Uppsala University - 2026 - Novo Nordisk Fonden
novonordiskfonden.dk
October 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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We are hiring a postdoc to work @istaresearch.bsky.social on an @erc.europa.eu funded project, investigating the control of behavior and physiology by the hypothalamus. Please apply and share! ist.ac.at/en/job/postd...
Postdoc Research Group Douglass
Our Group Our newly established research group at ISTA is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on an ERC-funded project- HypoAdapt. We study how the brain controls bodily responses to environm...
ist.ac.at
September 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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'Doublethink' means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. […].
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
#BookSky
September 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists.

I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to.

Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.
September 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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The Yang and Phillips labs have an exciting GW4 MRC BioMed DTP PhD project on beta-cell regeneration & designing new proteins with AI tools to control neural signals. Come join us at LSI-Exeter!
gw4biomed.ac.uk/regenerating...
@proteinmotion.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet
Regenerating insulin cells by using new designer biologics to fine-tune neural signals - GW4 BioMed MRC DTP
Project Code MRCPHS26Ex Yang Project Type Wet lab Research Theme Population Health Science Project Summary Download Summary A hallmark of type 1 diabetes is elevated blood glucose levels caused by aut...
gw4biomed.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Interested in zebrafish as a disease model for NF1? We are seeking a motivated PhD student to join our team and become an expert in high-resolution imaging/precise genome editing in collab with AZ. gw4biomed.ac.uk/establishing... @lsiexeter.bsky.social @zebrafishrock.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social
gw4biomed.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Motor Folks: a nice opportunity to present your work & get feedback! BTW registration to the Conference "Searching Principles in Motor Control" on Sept 23-24, 25 is free but mandatory, please sign up and present your work to the French community ! motorconference.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
August 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Guardian is usually a decent news outlet, but time by time they come out with this sort of articles.
August 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Reality catching up with Black Mirror.
Hard to imagine anything going wrong here.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Aug 21
Brain-implanted devices that allow paralyzed people to speak can also decode words they imagine, but don't intend to share.
August 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I'm going to have nightmares tonight 😱
With Italians reacting with fury to a recent UK Good Food recipe, our poll previously found the rest of the world is committing a great deal of Italian food crimes

yougov.co.uk/internationa...
August 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
ohh South Park!🤣
July 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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We are offering an exciting opportunity to join the Austin Smith Group at the Living Systems Institute (LSI), University of Exeter as a Postdoctoral Research Associate or Fellow in stem cell biology. tinyurl.com/yjw86vjj
July 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This is how I imagine my demise 😂
June 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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🧿 Excited about molecular biology & genetics 🧬🧬🧬? Wanna live in Paris? Join our team as a lab manager under the supervision of @kevinfidelin.bsky.social & myself! Personal development in professional environment is our mission. Inclusive space where proactive and playing collective people flourish 🧿
June 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Congrats to @stednitz.bsky.social and Andrew Lesak on their @currentbiology.bsky.social paper! They use HMM to identify two interaction states in #zebrafish: one visual for long-range interactions and one lateral line for quick, close interactions.

Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lCYh3QW8S...
June 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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So if you go anywhere near some fool who is wearing these gadgets, your image, behaviour and voice will be used by Meta to train their skanky AI. How on earth is this compatible with EU and UK privacy laws?? www.macrumors.com/2025/04/30/m...
Meta Now Collects More Data From Ray-Bans to Bolster AI
Meta this week sent out an email (via The Verge) to Meta Ray-Ban customers informing them about upcoming privacy changes to the smart glasses, which...
www.macrumors.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Here is another reminder to be very careful when traveling to the other side of the pond 😱
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/27/m...
Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School detained by ICE for undeclared ‘frog embryo samples’ - The Boston Globe
Kseniia Petrova has spent the last six weeks in immigration detention and is facing possible deportation.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I wonder when tech billionaires are going to stop naming their commercial products after famous academics who don't have a say on these decisions since they have been long dead.
Nvidia's CEO suggested the company's chips will soon power "10 billion digital agents" that perform work for humans, and said that by the end of this year, 100 percent of Nvidia engineers will be assisted by AI models.
Nvidia announces “Rubin Ultra” and “Feynman” AI chips for 2027 and 2028
CEO Jensen Huang says new chips will power robots and billions of AI agents.
arstechnica.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“We are almost ready for the test flight. All we need is the license." ...in Germany that may take much longer than developing and building the rocket 😂
February 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM