Thanks @maartenzwart.bsky.social for the invite to talk in St. Andrews in the @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social - it was truly enjoyable! And thanks to your sober judgment I also made it home across the Firth of Forth in time before storm Amy hit!

Heartwarming to see my city stand up against racism and hate! This is why I love Newcastle!

I daresay the same goes for subjective understanding too... "Op de Haare letten!" Key advice at Dutch new years' celebrations...

A sperm whale surfacing with a giant squid in its mouth. I love seeing things like this. Reminds me of the raw and beautiful savagery of nature.

Leipzig, the current home for the Ukrainian Antonov AN-124 fleet…

This is the graph we show whenever someone talks about how back in the old days there weren't (people who are not whoever the person speaking thinks are the default). Mostly we do this to underscore that a rise in apparent frequency isn't always a rise in real frequency.

You just finished your PhD and you are looking for a postdoc to study stress-dependent modulation of learning. We are using the powerful fly model to understand the underlying circuits and mechanisms. You can apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

My lab cannot afford donating at the moment, so I donated privately. Even if you don’t work on flies we all owe so much to FlyBase. Consider donating, and importantly, let’s strive to make the more official funding bodies aware of how much is at stake.

I think the "embodiment" of this connectome is going to be such a hit: For instance take the interactive "body part" maps on Codex, where you can simply click on your favorite external or visceral part and it will show you all of the neurons associated it! codex.flywire.ai/app/body_par...

We are looking for 2 postdocs to join my lab at Sussex University in Brighton, UK (South of London, on the sea). One position is for a molecular/cell biologist, the other, for a neurobiologist/behavioural person. Drosophila experience desirable. Flyer w/more info below. Please repost. Thank you!

Very cool work!

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

ICYMI: Neuroscientists long ignored variability in animals’ behavior in favor of studying differences across groups. But now researchers are studying the brain differences that underlie that variability. By @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroethology www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...

The singularity is awesome

It is already tomorrow, our first Fly North(East) England meeting at Northumbria University Newcastle! Co-organized with @toraks.bsky.social @dpdoupe.bsky.social. Looking forward to a day of bulding bridges and discussing how to nurture our network.

Room view is pretty neat indeed…

I always wanted to visit Knossos! - En route to the #Drosophila Neural Circuits & Behaviour workshop in Crete...

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

This is important. Flybase is an instrumental resource to probably every Drosophilist. Time to give back.

Our annual world-wide search for Vice-Chancellor's Fellows in selected subject areas @northumbriauni.bsky.social is now live. These are permanent Assistant/Associate/Full professor positions subject to normal probation criteria but with protected research time during the first three years.

PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬 📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀 🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/... 📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025 📩 Contact: [email protected] 🌍 Please spread the word!

Is it fly play? Is it fowl play? Great comment on our recent paper by one of the grandmasters of the subject:

US friends: there are incentives.

Hermann von Helmholtz quote of the day: "Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility may rest assured that he seeks in vain." — Academic Discourse (Heidelberg 1862)

Very good article about the next step after connectomes. But no mention of paracrine modulators as info transmission challenge, only gap junctions?

Carnivorous caterpillar!

Great page: www.goeuropean.org From the organizer Laura Katz on Spiegel: "It's not about boycotting certain labels. (...) But who wants to buy from a small Portuguese shoe label, should at least be able to know that they exist." In this sense: www.zouri-shoes.com/Home/About

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

Fantastic achievement! Yet, calling the "whole [fly] brain (almost 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses)" a mere 'fraction' of the now presented "84,000 neurons, half a billion synapses" in a cortex slice is - surprising...

This is how ChatGPT imagines me - thinking hard where the missing legs of the fly went... Mug is also clearly lacking the Grass lab logo: Fail!

Talking about a cool-looking display:

New scientist article on the culture debate (paywalled): www.newscientist.com/article/mg26... Note that the title of the piece is a bit of a mismatch to the differentiating text [I imagine an editor chose the title, not the author].

#Drosophila spielt! Jedenfalls scheint ein guter Teil der Fliegen zumindest gerne Karussell zu fahren … — Kurzer Blog-Post zum entsprechenden Paper von Tilman Triphan @wolfhuette.bsky.social & @clarahowcroft.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.laborjournal.de/blog/?p=14174

Today I have resigned from my position as a Data Editor at Proceedings B. I believe the journal does great work, but it feels wrong to voluntarily spend my time holding authors to account on behalf of the Royal Society, while the Society refuses to hold its own Fellows to account.

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

Aw, we got the cover for our new paper on X-ray imaging and atlas building in the snail brain. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Thanks @pnas.org .. and to @sussexneuro.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @ukri.org for funding support #invertebrate #brain #neuroscience THREAD: bsky.app/profile/kevi...

‼️🔬 I am looking for a PhD student to investigate the molecular signatures of memory engrams in Drosophila. 🎓 Fully funded 4-year PhD position (BBSRC NEEDL) 📍 Durham University, UK More details and instructions to apply: tinyurl.com/durhamPhD #Drosophila #Neuroskyence #Neuroscience #Memory

Join us for a 4-year PhD in Newcastle at @northumbriauni.bsky.social on a fun project (literally)! Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...), we will explore:

Members of the U.K. and international scientific community are invited to sign to show their support: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our story about flies on carousels is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! After formally engaging the fantastic @clarahowcroft.bsky.social and integrating helpful reviewer feedback, we present a more concise story with detailed behavioural quantification and cooler videos! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Stay tuned: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Once more with feeling! Hey! Are you using a script to scrape FlyBase? Just stop. NOW. You're crashing the site for everyone. Yes, we mean YOU.

US friends, if it becomes unbearable - there are options.

Fantastic pictures.

Spectacular!

We are hiring! We are looking for two PhD students interested in the regulation of habit formation. Habits are useful to decrease cognitive load, but carry the risk of becoming stereotyped and hard to control - it’s hard to shake a bad habit. The fruit fly Drosophila also forms habits and we […]

Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social, @avaskham.bsky.social, @claudia-lopez.bsky.social, @shaena.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!