Jacopo Razzauti
@jacoporazzauti.bsky.social
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PhD student at the Rockefeller University
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Our preprint is out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required. It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (π§΅1/n)
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FERAL: A Video-Understanding System for Direct Video-to-Behavior Mapping
Animal behavior unfolds continuously in time, yet quantitative analyses often require segmenting it into discrete, interpretable states. Although manual annotation can achieve this, it remains slow, s...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.16.688666v1.full.pdf+html
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Jessica Zung
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The Card lab at Columbia Univ (NYC) is hiring a mechanical engineer! If you like tinkering with mechanical systems and want to help us build custom rigs for neuroscience research, this job is for you! Please feel free to pass along to interested folks.
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Mechanical Engineer, Hardware Systems - Card Lab
Primary Work Address: 100 Haven Avenue, New York, NY, 10032 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) advances the discovery and ...
https://hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/details/Mechanical-Engineer--Hardware-Systems---Card-Lab_R-4122
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Ben de Bivort
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Behavioral biases drift in individuals. β’Β Drift happens on many timescales β’ Drift rate depends on genetics and neuromodulators β’ It might be adaptive for rapidly changing environments
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Drift in Individual Behavioral Phenotype as a Strategy for Unpredictable Worlds
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/103585
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Nadav Shai
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π Thrilled to see our
#MosquitoCellAtlas
featured on the cover of
@cp-cell.bsky.social
! This mosaic represents 367K cells across 19 tissues, unveiling the complex biology that makes mosquitoes the world's deadliest animals. Beautiful art by
@somedonkey.bsky.social
meets the
#Vosshalllab
science! π¦π¨
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Our preprint is out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required. It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (π§΅1/n)
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FERAL: A Video-Understanding System for Direct Video-to-Behavior Mapping
Animal behavior unfolds continuously in time, yet quantitative analyses often require segmenting it into discrete, interpretable states. Although manual annotation can achieve this, it remains slow, s...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.16.688666v1.full.pdf+html
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Ann Kennedy
4 months ago
#sfn2025
three fun posters from us today: theory work by
@rgast.bsky.social
on the effects of neural heterogeneity on computation, a hippocampus+feeding collab with
@liye-tsri.bsky.social
, and LLMs for pose interpretation in rehabilitation data with
@peabody124.bsky.social
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stop by board ZZ5! We are presenting FERAL!
4 months ago
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Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here:
www.getferal.ai
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Olivia Goldman PhD
4 months ago
Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in
@cellpress.bsky.social
!! π¦π©Έ There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito
A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres...
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01137-7
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Leah Houri-Zeevi
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What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right? Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>
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Nadav Shai
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New
@currentbiology.bsky.social
paper from
@leslievosshall.bsky.social
&@leahhouri.bsky.social: FEMALE mosquitoes control mating, not males, by special genital movement. No elongation = no mating! Plus: male asian tiger mosquitoes can bypass the yellow fever mosquito female control
shorturl.at/tsIWH
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A rapidly evolving female-controlled lock-and-key mechanism determines Aedes mosquito mating success
Houri-Zeevi et al. uncover a lock-and-key mating system in mosquitoes, where females control mating through genital responses to rapidly evolving male structures. Males of the invasive Asian tiger mos...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01266-7
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Nature Portfolio
10 months ago
A paper in Nature presents a suite of previously unknown features belonging to the oldest known fossil bird, Archaeopteryx. Analysis of the Chicago Archaeopteryx shows new information about the skeleton, soft tissues and plumage of this iconic taxon.
go.nature.com/4jNZIJg
#Paleosky
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The Rockefeller Uni ducklings are back!
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#birds
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Goldfinch in Central Park
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Golden-crowned kinglet in Central Park (by Turtle Pond)
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Jacopo Razzauti
Marcus Stensmyr
about 1 year ago
My BFFL Marco Gallio,
@mlcapek.bsky.social
, and colleagues just dropped an absolute banger of a paper in
@nature.com
! The Evanston flylords reveal the molecular and neuronal basis of thermal niche adaptation in drosophilid flies. A must-read! π₯π₯
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evolution of temperature preference in flies of the genus Drosophila - Nature
A study using flies of the genus Drosophila adapted to life in diverse thermal environments shows how evolution has shaped temperature preference by acting on both molecular heat receptors and th...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08682-z
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Olivia Goldman PhD
about 1 year ago
I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research. Plus we made some surprising discoveries! π¦π§΅
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Excited to share our new preprint: How does the fly mushroom body support odour categorisation and discrimination? π§ β¨ Dive into Ivy Chan's
@ivychanchiwai.bsky.social
findings on how neural circuits enable complex olfactory processing in flies. Check it out here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Odour representations supporting ethology-relevant categorisation and discrimination in the Drosophila mushroom body
Neural representations of sensory stimuli serve multiple distinct purposes, from the rapid recognition of familiar environments, to the precise identification of individual salient cues. In the insect...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.25.634657v1
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Leslie B Vosshall PhD
about 1 year ago
AT LAST OUR PEER-REVIEWED PRE-PRINT IS PUBLISHED We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans
Mosquitoes enhance sensitivity to human body heat by a sensory compensation mechanism when their sense of smell is disrupted.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn5758
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So cool to see this finally out!
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Lena Riabinina
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I have made the mosquito neurobiology and ecology starter pack - please add a comment if you want to be included!
go.bsky.app/5BNKUSK
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