Yehuda Ben-Shahar
@benshahary
🇮🇱🇺🇸 Biology professor, Washington University in St. Louis. Insects, genomes, brains, behavior. Motorcycles.
Know an undergraduate who wants to pursue a neuroscience PhD? @WUSTL_ENDURE empowers participants in their path to graduate school and beyond. Includes $7000 per summer, travel, housing, two scientific meetings/year. Applications due by Feb. 3, 2025. endure.wustl.edu/apply/
We are hiring a research associate / lab technician to join our lab in the Biology Department @IUBiology at Indiana University Bloomington. To apply, visit this link at the IU careers website: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/26045 Please RT.
Big day for neuroscience & the end of the beginning for whole brain connectomics. Shout out to @sdorkenw and Philipp Schlegel, first authors of the connectome papers, @MurthyLab @SebastianSeung for establishing #flywire to make this possible and @dddavi for birthing this dataset.
Big news! The fly connectome is featured on the cover of a special edition of Nature. This is all possible thanks to the collaboration of 292 members of The FlyWire Consortium! nature.com/immersive/d428… Check out the thread for an overview of the 9 #flywire papers published today
Are you an undergraduate with interests in neuroscience? Applications for @WUSTL_ENDURE, a premier 2-year research-intensive program, are open. endure.wustl.edu/apply/
Wash U Biology is hiring. Please repost and encourage your trainees to apply. nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…
We bought a 10 acres farm in Wildwood. Can’t wait to have my own dirt-bike trails, goats, and a mini donkey.
On an Israeli campus, Jewish and Palestinian students carve out moments of sanity and hope / @LindaDayan9 haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
A dangerous example of excluding Jews and Israelis from academic life: Cultural Critique (@CulturalCritiq1) is an academic journal published by the University of Minnesota Press (@UMinnPress). It operates from within the University of Minnesota (@UMNews) - a *public*…
Being loud, angry, and destructive doesn’t mean you’re right. Bullying and violence can provide short-term gains but will rarely drive long-term, robust progress. This is not how you change the world.
I should not be the only Progressive this angry. Do you not see how these freaks are hijacking our movement and twisting it? Do you not see how they are inculcating young people to believe our Jewish brothers and sisters are the enemy? Can you not see how they’re telling you…
The idea that Biden will lose the presidency because of Israel is not supported by data. In fact, weakening the support for Israel is likely to hurt him more. Why This Pollster Says the Press Is Wrong About the Politics of Israel politi.co/4aqfd57 via @politico
We’re looking for a DEA approved protocol for discarding Drosophila culture vials treated with/ opioids. Any advice would be appreciated.
Do you love big data and the brain? We have #ScienceJobs for you! In Drosophila there are >11,000 cell types that define the circuit structure of the connectome – but we don't know their molecular identity. Integrating connectomes and transcriptomes would be revolutionary. RT 1/3
My ADHD brain this morning: “Is this a transmembrane protein..? Must be… Which one..? Both termini are extracellular so can’t be a GPCR…”
Finally, some good news out of Gaza.
IDF safely rescues 2 hostages from Rafah in special nighttime operation timesofisrael.com/liveblog-febru…
Powerful Super Bowl commercial against #antisemitism paid for by Robert Kraft of the @Patriots! #SuperBowlLVIII #SuperBowl #StanduptoJewishhate
Reports: Justice Department investigates US Rep. Cori Bush’s handling of campaign funds stltoday.com/news/local/col…
Finally some good news. I hope new elections are next.
Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday struck down a law pushed by Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government that would have limited the court’s power. The law, passed by the Israeli Parliament in July, had sharply divided Israelis and sparked mass protests. nyti.ms/3trMWvi
משרד הבריאות הגיש תלונה במשטרה בעניין סרטון ההסתה נגד עובדי מערכת הבריאות הערבים, פעל להסרתו מהרשת וגם מיידע את העובדים על זה. חשוב מאד