Fallow twitter account of a sensory neuroscientist, earthworm research advocate, and chemical senses enthusiast. See https://nitter.gq/t.co/uktJoL0g2y for contact info.
Union, NJ
Joined September 2008
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This fish has legs — and it uses them for more than just walking: Sea robins’ legs are not only crablike, but also like tongues...
sciencenews.org/article/fish…
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This fish’s legs are made for walking — and tasting the sea floor nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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In parallel, we are launching a crowdfunding campaign in support of AChemS' efforts in advancing chemosensory science and education. Click below to contribute gofundme.com/f/support-educa….
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Today is World Taste and Smell Day, created in 2021 by the World Taste and Smell Association. Join us in celebrating these senses and their impact on daily life. To mark this day, we will be tweeting about the chemical senses each day over the next two weeks.
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New Research: Mechanisms of carbon dioxide detection in the earthworm Dendrobaena veneta: Introduction
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a critical biological signal that is noxious to many animals at high concentrations. The earthworm Dendrobaena veneta… frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #Ecology
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Yesterday while celebrating #NationalOnionDay, foodies and chemical senses enthusiasts took a moment to appreciate #allicin and all the other sulfur-containing compounds that give these aromatic veggies their characteristic pungency. #Chemethesis #TRPA1 🧅🔪😂😂😂
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New Research: Dietary diversity, sociality, and the evolution of ant gustation: Ants have remarkably diverse diets and extraordinary species richness, making them an excellent model system to study the evolution of taste. In this entirely… #Ecology frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Wonder why those annoying #mosquitos just can't seem to get enough of you? A recent paper from @EllenDeObaldia @leslievosshall @RockefellerUniv in @CellCellPress demonstrates that making high amounts of specific carboxylic acids might make you smell irresistible. #ChemSenses
Now online! Differential mosquito attraction to humans is associated with skin-derived carboxylic acid levels dlvr.it/SbJYS0
Jake Saunders PhD retweeted
Last year I taught myself R with resources I primarily found via Twitter. I've been meaning to share some of the resources here, and I finally have a little time today. So here they are... 🧵
@AcademicChatter #rstudio #rstatistics
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This is our craziest story yet! We have been looking at how epithelial cells cope with protein aggregates. We found that neuronal receptors known to sense sweet taste are up in epithelial cells and protect them by clearing aggregates. Out in @PlosBiology!
journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…
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The Castillo-Azofeifa lab @Genentech is still expanding. We are looking for candidates with doctoral degree w/ or w/o postdoc experience to work with us on intestinal regeneration and rejuvenation.
Apply here:
roche.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/…
DM if you have questions. RTs appreciated!
Jake Saunders PhD retweeted
So I was thinking about Roman age/gender terminology (boy vs. man, etc) and it occurs to me that today's supposed 'extended adolescence' is really just the reemergence of something I think about as 'graduated adulthood.'
So let's take a trip through Roman age/gender words! 1/
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Hello everyone, I have made this poster with 9 open source (online) bioinformatics tools. Below I share the links to access each tool. #Bioinformatics #datascience #Biology #DNA #genetic #metabolomics #neuroscience #genomics #proteomics #gene #immunology #opensource #tools
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Brain cells making friends with each other on a grid:
#neuroscience
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Following the Battle of Shiloh of 1862, during the American Civil War, soldiers & medics reported that the men’s wounds glowed in the dark. This is how the mystery of the Angel’s Glow was finally solved.
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ALT A coloured photograph of Photorhabdus luminescens. They look like neon, blue worms covering the shot. It’s a science shot.
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Tomorrow (July 1st) is the last day to register for the #Neuroscience #Teaching Conference being held @WakeForest. Join us @WakeDowntown July 21-22nd!
sites.google.com/wfu.edu/neu…
#science #education
Jake Saunders PhD retweeted
My super-postdoc Rose Hill and colleagues show that PIEZO1 is expressed and functional in DRG sensory neurons after all (most previous findings in DRGs were about PIEZO2), and plays an important and specific role in sensing mechanical itch.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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So honored to have contributed to this super interesting project from the @c_constan lab. In this paper we explored a very debated topic: the evolution of the primate brain!
Big thanks to @c_constan and Clément Garin for the opportunity given to me.
New paper from the lab: Multilevel atlas comparisons reveal divergent evolution of the primate brain! (1/10)
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
