A high-resolution atlas of the brain predicts lineage and birth order underlying neuronal identity: Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Follow-up paper on sex, online in the New year

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

New podcast. This is about how Tom Barrys flying column intersects with wanking Minotaur porn in a zeitgeist of rising global fascism open.spotify.com/episode/2zIR...

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

Boom, congratulations Joel

Explore neurons that enter/exit the fly central nervous system by body part with this clickable fly!: codex.flywire.ai/app/body_par... (graphics: @mottcallie.bsky.social‬, tool: Arie Matisliah) Vector graphics! github.com/wilson-lab/s... Effector cells in 3D! ng.banc.community/2025a/effere...

NEW: Landmark decision on UK's failure to investigate Russian interference to be handed down tomorrow. A five-year legal battle in UK and European courts comes to a head: will we finally - learn the truth about the Kremlin & the Brexit vote?

Now that performative wokeness is no longer mainstream they can go back to being publicly evil

Our study on a male-essential microRNA and the evolution of other dosage compensation mechanisms in birds is now out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

While the world watches Israel's war with Iran, Netanyahu's extremist government continues to starve and massacre Palestinians in Gaza. Today, Israeli forces again opened fire on people desperately trying to collect food aid, killing dozens. Over 56,000 have been killed so far.

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

New preprint from lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Sexual dimorphism arises not through wholesale transcriptional reprogramming, but via selective sex-specific survival of neurons defined by birth order and shared developmental programs.

New preprint from the lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A molecular atlas of the Drosophila central brain links transcriptional identity to development, anatomy, and behaviour, revealing stable transcription factor codes and a temporal cascade marking birth order.

A virtual fly powered by #AI could help scientists better understand how the nervous system, body & environment work together to control behavior. Read more: hhmi.news/3Rwop0w

Ozzy's first College committee meeting

WTF

Protesters in San Francisco formed an “Impeach & Remove” human banner on Ocean Beach during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday. 📸: Stephen Lam

Invitation to the Starter Pack for FLY journal Editorial Board go.bsky.app/DBQmMKD Please also follow the journal, and repost it! @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social @flyeyelab.bsky.social @lucksmith.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social @ryuniwa.bsky.social @cahirokane.bsky.social

"he made two and a half billion today, and he made 900 million" timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/wat...

If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

We have open PhD positions in the lab to work in the Neuroscience of #Cephalopods #Cnidaria and #Drosophila- please RT www.sprecherlab.com

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

You know this is a hoax bc the only things driving this bus are tiny fistfuls of Adderall, tertiary syphilis, and bleach.

Just a normal Tuesday at the Very White House

The UK’s academic recession is in full swing

‘Tis truly a fate worse than death

also, interesting use of passive voice. Would be seen by whom? And are they people we should care about?

Seen at #StandUpForScience2025 Sacramento

Here's some Magdalen women in STEM for International Women's Day www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/women-a...

After last week publication from the lab on circuits of social isolation/satiety, today we publish a different line of research by @harriskaplan.bsky.social et al., on the development trajectories of hypothalamic POA cell types driving survival and social behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I sure hope that thing is slathered in some West Texas measle juice.

Our latest findings on social behavior circuits is out: how does the brain responds to social isolation? Terrific work by @dingliu.bsky.social et al. uncovering a circuit with similar neural architecture as physiological needs (hunger, thirst, sleep..). Detailed thread soon. rdcu.be/ebo63

Imbecile, Putin puppet.

Vital services and protections for everyday Americans are being gutted thanks to DOGE. And this is happening in exchange for renewing one of the biggest tax cuts in American history that will predominantly benefit people like...you guessed it...Elon Musk. See the problem here?

❗️🇨🇦Canada will transfer part of Russia's frozen assets worth $5 billion, 25 LAVIII infantry fighting vehicles, 4 F-16 flight simulators, artillery shells, and more in the coming months, Prime Minister Trudeau announced assistance for 🇺🇦Ukraine

European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like. Stand tall against right-wing extremism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

Trump officials are trying to sneak around federal judges’ orders. They could be held in civil contempt of court, which can include jail time and can’t be undone with a presidential pardon, according to @sbagen.bsky.social . My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🔬 Researchers from the Shroff Lab & collaborators have developed a new method to simultaneously image the 3D orientation & position of biomolecules, giving scientists a new view into how structures are arranged inside cells. 🔗 www.janelia.org/news/new-ima...

“Nazism has officially taken over the GOP. The few remaining conservatives have a choice: either leave the party and obstruct it—or choose to be complicit,” Joshua Reed Eakle youtube.com/watch?v=7E9p...

Jeez. Trump actually just said it. He actually just said that Ukraine shouldn't have started this war! He’s actually siding with a crazed, murderous dictator

Let me emphasize: Elon Musk has not been confirmed by Congress. His “department” was never actually enacted. No one other than Trump has given him any authority. Democrats and any Republicans with a spine need to step in and stop this madness. Call your rep now (202) 224-3121

President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also aligning himself with those who are brandishing the term DEI as a catchall for discrimination against white people, and using it as a pejorative to attack nonwhite and female leaders as unqualified for their positions.