New preprint! 📃 Here, we examine dopamine’s role in modulating fictive and real locomotion and find it acutely shifts the network towards tunneling motor programs in larval Drosophila.

Recently gave a talk and presented a poster at the Motor Circuits Meeting 2025 in St Andrews! Must thank the committee for letting me help organise (+ attend for free...!). Great science, great people and great impatience to see everyone again

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Now also covered by #FarmingToday on BBC Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Beetles on the radio!

First post! Our paper is out now in @jexpbiol.bsky.social, come learn about how little beetle larvae walk around :) journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...