biology: embryology, neuroscience, evolution, anthropology
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25 May 2022
Ever wondered how motor cortex is organized in a bat? Hot off the digital press, the first full map of motor cortex in a species of bat, published today in @CurrentBiology. We found evidence that bat motor maps are organized to support flight and echolocation. 🦇🧠
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17 Nov 2025
🧬 Evolution meets neuroscience at #SfN25!
Learn how multi-omics approaches are revealing how evolution acts on cell types, underpinning neural circuitry and behavior changes across diverse species.
📅 Tues., 11/18, 9:30am–12:00pm
📍 Rm 6CF
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9 Mar 2020
An evolutionary view of the nervous system
[by Paul Cisek, via @andpru]
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21 Jul 2025
Yes.
Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.
Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
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15 Feb 2025
Deep learning provides new view on 300 million years of brain evolution phys.org/news/2025-02-deep-v…
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28 Feb 2025
Interested in complex systems, brain evo-devo, and/or computational approaches to big questions in neuroscience? Check out new opportunities in our lab! 🧠🧬💻🦘🔬🏝️🏄♀️😍 Further details and deadlines will be announced soon! #PhD #Postdoc #NeuroJobs
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30 Dec 2024
Why is human brain development, and particularly neuron morphogenesis, so slow and how is this linked to evolution? doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.28.6…
We developed mouse brain organoid methods capturing differences to human and used these to address this. doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.21.6…
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23 Dec 2024
Comparative neuroscience is taking off, glad to see the larger community realizing the potential. Bring it to the @JBJohnstonClub, all the incredible scientists who studied weird brains before it was cool. thetransmitter.org/animal-mo…
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20 Nov 2024
Lovely writeup of @cj_charvet and colleagues' work on the Translating Time project, which I've used extensively in my own research, and which I absolutely love. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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30 Aug 2024
Curious about human brain development through an animal model? 🧠🐒Check out our new preprint on Brain Charts of the Rhesus Macaque Lifespan! We've mapped normative trajectories for macaque brains using 1.5k MRI scans from PRIME-DE and collaborators! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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16 Aug 2024
A tribute to the great Harvey Karten, an absolute giant in comparative neurobiology thetransmitter.org/neuroanat…
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12 Aug 2024
🧠 Comparing 3D images of living brains reveals limitations of using skull moulds to glean historic capacity for language and learning
Read more: 👇🏻
go.nature.com/3SyALWQ
#NatureAfrica
@JournalofAnat @abalzeau @BeaudetAmelie
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25 Jul 2024
👀👀@jonas_o_wolff invited me to join him in writing a dispatch on the beautiful work on eye evolution in spiders🕷️by @KaylinChong, @Lauren_hSR and co-authors recently published in @CurrentBiology. This was a total pleasure to write!👀👀
doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.0…
3 Jul 2024
Very excited to share my first paper is out! 🎉 We explore the evolution of the multiple eye pairs in spiders🕷️(cell.com/current-biology/ful…)
Couldn’t have done it without to the mentorship of the brilliant @Lauren_hSR!
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20 Jun 2024
Why are human brains so big and slow (to develop)? Illuminating to work with the brilliant @feline_lindhout @mad_lancaster and Katie Pollard on this perspective on cellular and molecular mechanisms of specializations in human brain development (1/7)
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11 May 2024
Embryology of the fat-tailed dunnart, with lots of comparisons to eutherians, evidence for forelimb heterochrony similar to other marsupials. Very cool.
9 May 2024
Our paper on the embryology of the dunnart is now up! Stunning images of these amazing little animals, helping marsupial conservation efforts!!
doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.711
@AxelHNewton @itiscolossal @BioSci_UniMelb @Jendometrium
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30 Apr 2024
Really amazing lineup of speakers on brain evolution, including @cj_charvet!
30 Apr 2024
Join us at the @LakeConferences on Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology in Seattle, October 20-24, for #neuroscience discussions on conserved and species-specialized cellular and circuit makeup in the brain across mammalian species.
Apply by June 21 alleninstitute.org/events/la…
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5 Apr 2024
Fascinating timelapse of an alpine newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris) growing from a single cell, into a complete, complex living organism over three weeks.
📽: Jan van Ijken
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19 Mar 2024
🚨REVIEW ALERT!🚨 As the winner of best oral communication in #ECCN10 , @NeuroKarger let us publish a “bit opinionated” review about the existence of a phylotypic brain across vertebrates! 🦎🐁🐤 It has been a great journey! @PhyloBrain @NeuroKarger karger.com/bbe/article-abstr…
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28 Feb 2024
How did we lose our tail? A simple question.. but it wasn't really asked before! We discovered a plausible scenario for the genetic mechanism that led to tail loss. Amazing that such a big change may have been caused by such a small genetic event. nature.com/articles/s41586-0… @BoXia7
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26 Dec 2023
Reminded of this Richard Lewontin essay from 'Biology Under the Influence'
26 Dec 2023
That's because you're actually a smart person instead of a weird academic and so you understand that capitalism works because it reflects human nature as selected for through thousands of generations of evolution.
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