Max Farnworth
Fascinated by the evolution of the brain | Senior Research Associate at EBaB lab (University of Bristol) (he/him)
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- Reposted by Max Farnworth🔈 Cassandra Extavour, invited speaker at #ICDB2025, leads groundbreaking research on the evo-devo of germ cells and early embryonic development across species 🥚🔬🧪
- www.zeit.de/2025/19/fors... stimmt, sollten wir, aber irgendwie bin ich dann doch zu beschaeftigt, meine naechste Finanzierung und Stelle zu erarbeiten...
- This will be a fun and interesting meeting across the different fields of zoology - and it's in Berlin!
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- Come hang with @ebablab.bsky.social and the whole team. He isn't too bad a boss.
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- Reposted by Max FarnworthWe are #hiring! Interested in comparative neuroscience? Check details here (www.unifr.ch/bio/en/depar...). We look for a motivated #PhD student or #PostDoc to combine genetics, physiology, neural circuit tracing, and behaviour to study taste processing evolution in #Drosophila. Please repost.
- Here is an excellent summary of my work: a meme.
- 🚨new 🧪 pre-print alert🚨 @maxfarnworth.bsky.social’s epic piece on the #evolution of the central complex during mushroom body expansion in #Heliconiini butterflies. Here is the graphical abstract:
- Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out! @neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex
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- Introducing the 2025 PI Fellows of our Pathway to Independence Programme Over the next year, we will be supporting this talented group of eight postdocs, providing training, mentorship and networking opportunities as they apply for independent positions. journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
- Reposted by Max FarnworthMandatory reading for anybody in German academia: #ichbinHanna #WissZeitVG
- “There is far too much power in the hands of professors in the German system,” says @leising.bsky.social. My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.
- Really excited to announce that I have been selected as one of eight PI fellows for this year. 😌 This will be fun and incredibly helpful in the journey ahead, especially when you have Cassandra Extavour as a mentor 😎
- Meet the 2025 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows Eight developmental and stem cell biologists transitioning from postdoc to principal investigator journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
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- Reposted by Max FarnworthInterested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!
- Reposted by Max FarnworthSome news! I'm officially the new Executive Editor for Development @dev-journal.bsky.social, following @katherine-brown.bsky.social's 13+ years at the journal. I'll be writing a post for @the-node.bsky.social soon about what this means for me, and for the journal, but I'm excited to get going!
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- Reposted by Max FarnworthNow out in #ProcB 🧪 Ancestral complexity and constrained diversification of the ant olfactory system 🐜 Expertly led by Simon Marty and Antoine Couto, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk and @agencerecherche.bsky.social 🙏🏻 #socialinsects @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
- new from our project with Patrizia d’Ettore and Jean-Christoph Sandoz’s labs, led by Simon Marty & Antoine Couto, with Neven Brard and Erika Dawson - comparing the olfactory pathway across ants, from sensillae to specialised antennal lobe structures 🐜 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Neurobiology will be organising an interesting symposium. Should be great!
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- Fascinating talk by Marie Dacke about navigation and dung beetles. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @lundvision.bsky.social
- Reposted by Max FarnworthHappy to see this out now: Olfactory projection neuron rewiring in the brain of an ecological specialist: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports... In a team effort with @bentonlab.bsky.social 's lab we establish new genetic tools in #drosophila sechellia and compare single central brain neurons.
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- Reposted by Max FarnworthThis has been more widely circulated than any edited comments on television in quite some time Perhaps it should be circulated further still ?
- Reposted by Max FarnworthSteve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
- Reposted by Max FarnworthI just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
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- www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m.... Watch it
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- Reposted by Max Farnworth20 minutes ago here in Venetie, Alaska, the skies erupted in a beautiful auroral substorm. Here is just one of many real-time videos I recorded during the show to give you a sense of how fast and dynamic the aurora can move.
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- "Our multisystem analyses reveal patterns of co-evolution in genomic, molecular and neuroanatomical traits that are consistent with a sensory ‘reallocation’ rather than strict trade-offs."
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- I know when eye see a cool paper (SEE what I did there - okay I'll stop).
- 📢New paper in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B!📢 We tracked #eye #development in seven spider species with wildly different visual systems to try and identify the mechanisms underlying their diversity 👀👀👀👀 1/n royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... (Funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social)
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- Can’t make this shit up.
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