NIBAI 2025 Workshop on the Nature of Intelligence was held in Sheffield, bringing together over 70 participants from diverse backgrounds in neuroscience, animal cognition, philosophy, and AI. Thanks to @asab.org the @sheffielduni.bsky.social, and @devjoni.bsky.social for sponsoring this event.

First episode is out! I spoke with Professor James Marshall @sheffielduni.bsky.social @opteran.bsky.social about his research on modelling the #brain of #bees and implications for #ai . Take a listen! #neuroscience #sciencecommunication

We all know that correlation doesn't imply causation. So we took some correlations and tested if they were causal. Here's what happened: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Excited to share our latest work - expressing the bacterial sodium channel in fly Kenyon cells surprisingly *decreases* their excitability, thanks partly to decreased endogenous sodium channels. This prevents learning and decreases odor-evoked calcium influx doi.org/10.1113/JP28...

🚨new paper alert Blind mice use stereo olfaction, comparing smells between nostrils, to maintain a stable sense of direction. Blocking this ability disrupts their internal compass. Kudos to @kasumbisa.bsky.social! Another cool chapter of the Trenholm-Peyrache collab😉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2024 marked the 10-year anniversary of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence. We warmly invite you to explore the 10-Year Report, showcasing its impact on science, mentoring, outreach, advocacy, and personal achievements. @fens.org @kavlifoundation.bsky.social fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-10-year...

Excited to have this study out today (on my birthday and 'tines day no less!). Here we resolve input-specific mechanisms of homeostatic plasticity! Congrats Jerry, Kaikai, and team! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dear All, I believe that this thread will become one of my most important contributions to the fly field (I hope I will make other contributions)! Here, I introduce the Soy Milk Machine Fly Food Method, a.k.a., DeepCook!#Drosophila#NewPI

Excited to share our new preprint: How does the fly mushroom body support odour categorisation and discrimination? 🧠✨ 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...

New pre-print: an one-stop shop for everything you wanted to know about the fly olfactory system: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This article shows that "non-responsive" neurons can still add to the Fisher Info about object location in the midbrain of weakly electric fish: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... Brings me back to one of my usual bugbears in #neuroscience, i.e. don't judge a cell's function by its tuning curve! 🧪

Dear Droso peeps, we re-announce the upcoming JEDI meeting that will take place at Château du Feÿ from June 3rd to 5th in 2025. You'll find a prelim program flies-jedi.github.io/projects/202... We're hoping to gather about 45 of more or less young droso PI to reboot the community. -> Register Now!

The unbearable slowness of being: Humans still clock in at just 10 bits/s. Even after peer review :) Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHVa3BtfH.... ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

Sharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.

There is an open PhD position in our Lab! In collaboration with the lab of @manuperisse.bsky.social we will study how flies evaluate negative experiences based on context. More info here: mrtlllab.uni-mainz.de/we-are-hiring/

1/ 🧠 Ever wondered how different types of learning coexist in our brains? Spoiler: Sometimes, they don’t! Our new study flips the script on what we thought about memory and learning in Drosophila. Dive in for a surprising twist! 🧵👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1/ How do animals integrate different forms of learning? Our @eyalrozenfeld.bsky.social new study in Science Advances shows that active mechanisms prevent the co-formation of competing memories. Here’s what we found! 🧵👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New from Shiko Parnas' lab: Classical & operant learning in *Drosophila* rely on distinct neuronal pathways, challenging current paradigms! Unstoppable www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thrilled to present our latest BioRXiv on brain/body interactions during defensive freezing behaviour! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). You might think that a frozen animal has, well, frozen muscle activity, right? Wrong! Underneath the still surface of a fly, something in the legs is beating… 🧵

I digested two nature papers @natureportfolio.bsky.social @crezaval.bsky.social @MikeCrickmore about flexible integration and decision-making in Drosophila courtship and mating. Out came this dispatch for @currentbiology.bsky.social : authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCED_LsQS... Enjoy reading!

But injecting noise on the weights of quiescent neurons can: www.nature.com/articles/s41... So a bit of random homeostatic plasticity should do the trick.

🌟 It’s time to nominate a scientist who made outstanding contributions to promoting #diversity, #equity and #inclusion in neuroscience. This year, ALBA and the FENS-Kavli Scholars are targeting Europe-based students & PIs. Winner announced @ #FRM2025 (Norway, 16-19 Jun) 👉🏾 loom.ly/elEwkCE 📅 19 Dec

Excited to read the new preprint from the Ramdya lab about social behavior in fruit flies: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Neuroscientists! A key message from the ALBA Network Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!! Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience! 🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4 🗓️20 January 2025

First post on Bluesky! New collaborative study from Quentin Gaudry and I, led by Dr. Ahana Mallick on the role of 5-HT in modulating critical period plasticity in the antennal lobe of Drosophila. Enjoy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This was fun, both for the science and the wonderful collaborators. Great to have Meng-Fu (Maxwell) Shih’s final paper from my lab submitted. Starvation of flies drives foraging at night, mediated in part by transcriptional responses in a single pair of LHLK neurons. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations @andrewclin.bsky.social on winning the R Jean Bannister prize and giving a fantastic lecture here in Edinburgh

It's an honor to co-edit a special edition of Learning & Memory on the mushroom body with Andre Fiala. Following the 1998 original by Martin Heisenberg, it starts with our editorial "What do the mushroom bodies do for the insect brain? Twenty-five years of progress" www.kaunlab.com/post/fiala-k....

Check out our new review about sensory coding in the fly mushroom body, with Moshe Parnas and Julia Manoim! learnmem.cshlp.org/content/31/5...

Great thread of tips for Drosophila behavioral experiments!

Postdoc position available in my lab! We study sensory coding and memory in the Drosophila mushroom body. More about us at www.aclinlab.org Deadline 25 March. Please spread the word! bit.ly/LinPostdoc2024

A 4-year fully funded PhD studentship (for UK and international students) is available in my lab to study the systems neuroscience of classical psychedelic compounds. Application deadline: 16-Jan. Further details: sites.google.com/view/lcdl/me... #neuroskyence #compneuro #neurojobs