Gal Haspel
@galhaspel.bsky.social
Neuroethologist of locomotion using #celegans
Kyudoka and taichidoka, épée fencing
#FirstGen Opinions my own. He/him/his/Dr
https://neuromatch.social/@haspel
HaspelLab.org
Kyudoka and taichidoka, épée fencing
#FirstGen Opinions my own. He/him/his/Dr
https://neuromatch.social/@haspel
HaspelLab.org
For an educational project, I am looking for Interneting examples of null results in neuroscience research, tentatively defined as : "experiment found no statistically significant effect, difference, or relationship between the variables being tested"
Respond here or DM if you have ideas or opinions
Respond here or DM if you have ideas or opinions
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
For an educational project, I am looking for Interneting examples of null results in neuroscience research, tentatively defined as : "experiment found no statistically significant effect, difference, or relationship between the variables being tested"
Respond here or DM if you have ideas or opinions
Respond here or DM if you have ideas or opinions
I'm moving to a new scientific home!
I was recruited by the Max Planck institute as a senior scientist at the MPINB (mpinb.mpg.de/en/), starting Dec 1st. Very exciting new and old projects in the best neuroethology hub. I visited there earlier this month, and I really like Bonn so far :)
I was recruited by the Max Planck institute as a senior scientist at the MPINB (mpinb.mpg.de/en/), starting Dec 1st. Very exciting new and old projects in the best neuroethology hub. I visited there earlier this month, and I really like Bonn so far :)
Welcome to the MPINB - MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY OF BEHAVIOR — CAESAR
The MPINB is a neuroethology institute that studies how the collective activity of interconnected neurons in the brain gives rise to the plethora of animal behaviors.
mpinb.mpg.de
October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I'm moving to a new scientific home!
I was recruited by the Max Planck institute as a senior scientist at the MPINB (mpinb.mpg.de/en/), starting Dec 1st. Very exciting new and old projects in the best neuroethology hub. I visited there earlier this month, and I really like Bonn so far :)
I was recruited by the Max Planck institute as a senior scientist at the MPINB (mpinb.mpg.de/en/), starting Dec 1st. Very exciting new and old projects in the best neuroethology hub. I visited there earlier this month, and I really like Bonn so far :)
Eve Marder on memories, scientific excellence, rugs, and fading.
elifesciences.org/articles/109...
Insightful as always.
elifesciences.org/articles/109...
Insightful as always.
Living Science: My grandmother’s rug
The objects that migrants carry with them are tethers to the lives they have left behind.
elifesciences.org
September 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Eve Marder on memories, scientific excellence, rugs, and fading.
elifesciences.org/articles/109...
Insightful as always.
elifesciences.org/articles/109...
Insightful as always.
Finally, a fun collaboration published in Optica:
opg.optica.org/optica/fullt...
Fun times at the @mblscience.bsky.social , playing with optical toys with @edhirata.bsky.social and others :)
opg.optica.org/optica/fullt...
Fun times at the @mblscience.bsky.social , playing with optical toys with @edhirata.bsky.social and others :)
Optica Publishing Group
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August 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Finally, a fun collaboration published in Optica:
opg.optica.org/optica/fullt...
Fun times at the @mblscience.bsky.social , playing with optical toys with @edhirata.bsky.social and others :)
opg.optica.org/optica/fullt...
Fun times at the @mblscience.bsky.social , playing with optical toys with @edhirata.bsky.social and others :)
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FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
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August 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
Any academics in #Paris need a housesitter for any time frame in July-August?
I can connect you to a young and trustworthy scientist who plans to be there then.
DM for details
I can connect you to a young and trustworthy scientist who plans to be there then.
DM for details
July 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Any academics in #Paris need a housesitter for any time frame in July-August?
I can connect you to a young and trustworthy scientist who plans to be there then.
DM for details
I can connect you to a young and trustworthy scientist who plans to be there then.
DM for details
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May 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
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May 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."
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Just published, expansion in situ genome sequencing, where you can sequence DNA while still inside the cell, mapping its organization relative to proteins and other markers, with the help of expansion microscopy! Led by @jbuenrostro.bksy.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Just published, expansion in situ genome sequencing, where you can sequence DNA while still inside the cell, mapping its organization relative to proteins and other markers, with the help of expansion microscopy! Led by @jbuenrostro.bksy.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
If you like short stories and live now, the first story, Mobilization, is fun and distopic:
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pca.st/episode/ee5e...
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May 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If you like short stories and live now, the first story, Mobilization, is fun and distopic:
pca.st/episode/ee5e...
pca.st/episode/ee5e...
Eve Marder on the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social , talking about choosing your level of ambiguity and doing interesting science solving puzzles.
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May 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Eve Marder on the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social , talking about choosing your level of ambiguity and doing interesting science solving puzzles.
pca.st/episode/f5fe...
pca.st/episode/f5fe...
Don't panic and happy towel day to all
May 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Don't panic and happy towel day to all
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May 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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It's national limerick day
Again
I prefer haikus
Again
I prefer haikus
May 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
It's national limerick day
Again
I prefer haikus
Again
I prefer haikus
At last, someone is monitoring all the unofficial collections of downloadable books and papers (scihub, libgen, etc). So we know where not to go to not get them. Don't tell no one:
open-slum.org
open-slum.org
SLUM: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor
This dashboard tracks the availability of popular shadow libraries in real time from a US-based server.[Click here to learn more](https://open-slum.org/sta
open-slum.org
April 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
At last, someone is monitoring all the unofficial collections of downloadable books and papers (scihub, libgen, etc). So we know where not to go to not get them. Don't tell no one:
open-slum.org
open-slum.org
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The latest NIH grant chaos:
NIH apparently sent stop-work orders to all *97* MARC and U-RISE programs in the country.
These programs support underrepresented undergrads interested in health research careers.
MARC dates to 1977. Over 48 years, the programs have supported thousands of students.
NIH apparently sent stop-work orders to all *97* MARC and U-RISE programs in the country.
These programs support underrepresented undergrads interested in health research careers.
MARC dates to 1977. Over 48 years, the programs have supported thousands of students.
New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers.
❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429)
❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS
❌ 44 on cancer
❌ 28 on Alzheimer's
❌ 123 on Covid*
*And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants.
HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!
❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429)
❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS
❌ 44 on cancer
❌ 28 on Alzheimer's
❌ 123 on Covid*
*And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants.
HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!
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March 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The latest NIH grant chaos:
NIH apparently sent stop-work orders to all *97* MARC and U-RISE programs in the country.
These programs support underrepresented undergrads interested in health research careers.
MARC dates to 1977. Over 48 years, the programs have supported thousands of students.
NIH apparently sent stop-work orders to all *97* MARC and U-RISE programs in the country.
These programs support underrepresented undergrads interested in health research careers.
MARC dates to 1977. Over 48 years, the programs have supported thousands of students.
Elegant stuff!
Convo at faculty meeting led to my getting Eve Marder interested in worms!
Check out our collaborative theory paper providing an explanation for how the unusual properties of the EXP-2 K+ channel could maintain robustness of pharyngeal pumping to environmental noise.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Check out our collaborative theory paper providing an explanation for how the unusual properties of the EXP-2 K+ channel could maintain robustness of pharyngeal pumping to environmental noise.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
An unusual potassium conductance protects Caenorhabditis elegans pharyngeal muscle rhythms against environmental noise | PNAS
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans feeds by rhythmic contraction and relaxation of
a neuromuscular organ called the pharynx, which draws in and fi...
www.pnas.org
April 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Elegant stuff!
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Faculty across the country are watching. Will Harvard step forward, as the leader they claim to be— and fight back? Capitulation may doom us all… www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
ED, HHS, and GSA Initiate Federal Contract and Grant Review of Harvard University
ED, HHS, and GSA Initiate Federal Contract and Grant Review of Harvard University
www.ed.gov
March 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Faculty across the country are watching. Will Harvard step forward, as the leader they claim to be— and fight back? Capitulation may doom us all… www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
Fun with worms on @WIRED
www.wired.com/story/openwo...
We've been thinking about how #celegans can revolutionize science again, together with @kordinglab.bsky.social @eboyden3.bsky.social @wormsense.bsky.social and many other (also find our preprint on #arXiv)
www.wired.com/story/openwo...
We've been thinking about how #celegans can revolutionize science again, together with @kordinglab.bsky.social @eboyden3.bsky.social @wormsense.bsky.social and many other (also find our preprint on #arXiv)
The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack
One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.
www.wired.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Fun with worms on @WIRED
www.wired.com/story/openwo...
We've been thinking about how #celegans can revolutionize science again, together with @kordinglab.bsky.social @eboyden3.bsky.social @wormsense.bsky.social and many other (also find our preprint on #arXiv)
www.wired.com/story/openwo...
We've been thinking about how #celegans can revolutionize science again, together with @kordinglab.bsky.social @eboyden3.bsky.social @wormsense.bsky.social and many other (also find our preprint on #arXiv)
Professor Brian Cox and Jeff Wayne present
'Life on Mars'
YouTube Streamed Event about the legendary War of the worlds
www.youtube.com/@twotwoffici...
'Life on Mars'
YouTube Streamed Event about the legendary War of the worlds
www.youtube.com/@twotwoffici...
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
The official youtube channel for Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds.
#TheEveOfTheWar is coming... http://theeveofthewar.tumblr.com @TheEveOfTheWar https://twitter.com/TheEveOfTheW...
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March 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Professor Brian Cox and Jeff Wayne present
'Life on Mars'
YouTube Streamed Event about the legendary War of the worlds
www.youtube.com/@twotwoffici...
'Life on Mars'
YouTube Streamed Event about the legendary War of the worlds
www.youtube.com/@twotwoffici...
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A microscopic poem by Jacques Roubaud, who left us last December
March 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A microscopic poem by Jacques Roubaud, who left us last December
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Do you know who Douglas Prasher is? Many don't, even though he is the person who cloned the original #GFP gene in the late 1980s. In my short history of plant light #microscopy I also cover a bit of his story - & why he is relatively unknown today, despite the importance of his work. See this 🧵👇
May 20, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Do you know who Douglas Prasher is? Many don't, even though he is the person who cloned the original #GFP gene in the late 1980s. In my short history of plant light #microscopy I also cover a bit of his story - & why he is relatively unknown today, despite the importance of his work. See this 🧵👇
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I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...
Neuro4Pros summer school
NeUroscience Computational
LEAdership Retreat (NUCLEAR): happiness and success
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February 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...
ExM FTW!
I'm very proud of our involvement adapting it to use in #Celegans . It only got better and easier to use since Yu et al 2020 ExCel paper
I'm very proud of our involvement adapting it to use in #Celegans . It only got better and easier to use since Yu et al 2020 ExCel paper
The MIT McGovern Institute’s story celebrating the 10th birthday of expansion microscopy (ExM). One highlight: ExM is not only easy to do, it’s easy to modify - so lots of people are altering and applying ExM for custom purposes, leading to unexpected innovations: mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/03/03/t...
March 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
ExM FTW!
I'm very proud of our involvement adapting it to use in #Celegans . It only got better and easier to use since Yu et al 2020 ExCel paper
I'm very proud of our involvement adapting it to use in #Celegans . It only got better and easier to use since Yu et al 2020 ExCel paper
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Even in the 'good' days, students/PDs on visas were always worried that they would run afoul of the law and be asked to leave. I know - I was on a student visa myself. I can't even begin to imagine their fear and anxiety now. Time for all university leaders to collectively step up and speak out!!
March 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Even in the 'good' days, students/PDs on visas were always worried that they would run afoul of the law and be asked to leave. I know - I was on a student visa myself. I can't even begin to imagine their fear and anxiety now. Time for all university leaders to collectively step up and speak out!!