How does an animal choose between exploring for a better food source and taking advantage of a known one? Our recent work in Current Biology demonstrates how recent feeding and metabolic state dynamically influence fly local search. bit.ly/3PfrIv3 #Science #Neurosky #Foraging #Drosophila

My laboratory is looking for a motivated postdoc in the field of Neurobiology. We have multiple exciting projects, NIH funding. Experience using the Drosophila model is preferable. Please share erecruit.umsystem.edu/psc/tamext/K...

Great lab and mentor!

Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases (A, G, C, T, U). Their presence in Ryugu and Bennu supports the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to the prebiotic chemical inventory of early Earth. http://dlvr.it/TRWtVp ☄️

⏰ Deadline approaching! Apply by 20 March for the ALBA Network’s 6-month internship and help support global events and outreach promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in neuroscience. 👉 loom.ly/Wo5FbD0

This is why we love #CalciumSignaling Look how mechanical damage triggers long range Ca2+ waves in this plant !! By @annalisabellandi.bsky.social, who is now around here ;) Full www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org #microscopy #cell #mechanobiology 🧪🔬

This is wild. Bacteria spreading via nerves rather than bloodstream.

Calling all #Drosophila #NewPI #researchers! A few spots remain for the upcoming JEDI Conference - and you won’t want to miss this! Every attendee gives a talk, making the exchange dynamic, personal, and highly interactive - all at a stunning venue that inspires collaboration and creativity.

Curious about how the brain works? Come to Brain Awareness Week for a day of hands-on activities for all ages. Saturday 21 March. 10am–3pm Midlands Arts Centre, Garden Studio, Cannon Hill Park From fly brains to human brain health #BrainAwarenessWeek #Birmingham #Drosophila

How does the brain build a memory? A common assumption is that the neurons activated during an experience collectively form the memory engram. In our new Nature Neuroscience paper (finally out!), we show that this is not the case. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

Happy to announce I've launched a new service for the fly community: flyRoom, a web-based comprehensive stock manager for all your fly pushing needs. Organise all your stocks, maps all your genotypes, plan your crosses, print and scan your labels. Give it a try and let your colleagues know!

The School of Biosciences @unibirmingham.bsky.social is recruiting five Assistant/Associate Professors working across a range of areas, including neuroscience. Join a vibrant interdisciplinary research environment. Deadline: 14 April 2026 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Check out our latest paper - In neural networks with inhibitory feedback, local homeostatic adaptation can conflict with adaptation at the network level doi.org/10.1113/JP29...

Looking forward to #Dros26 this week. My lab is recruiting and I would be delighted to chat with anyone interested in grad school/postdoc positions in evolutionary cell biology and developmental genetics. Please reach out if interested!

Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!

I am glad to say that the first manuscript from the lab is now available on BioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685496v1 We set out to answer a simple question: If the fruit fly #drosophila cannot see clearly, how would they #sleep?

New paper out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🥳 Congratulations to our PhD student Katja for her inspiring work just published in Nature Communications on how the larval zebrafish brain processes multiple visual features. Check out a short summary of the work here: tinyurl.com/yzv4ct9k

When a fly lands on your arm, how does your nervous system decide where to swat? By reconstructing tactile axons in a Drosophila connectome, we found a leg somatotopic map and downstream circuits that sample the map to initiate targeted grooming Led by Leila Elabbady, PhD doi.org/10.64898/202...

Excited to share our latest work in @nature.com showing shared neural substrates for parenting and prosocial helping behavior. Full text available here: rdcu.be/e6PnY

After several years of work, my lab is starting to put out our first papers on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). Here we show evidence for a form of associative learning in Stentor: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham is recruiting Assistant or Associate Professors (Research & Education). Areas of interest: • Engineering biology • Epigenetics • Mycology • Plant science • RNA biology edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

After 5 years of developing, a new preprint from the lab - introducing our workflow for comparative insect connectomics, aimed at democratizing connectomics. @erc.europa.eu @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Insect research has used Drosophila as a model organism for over a century. But today’s tools now open up a much wider spectrum of insects which deserve to be studied. See the recent commentary in @fly-journal.bsky.social by @peterkdearden.bsky.social, ‘Why just fly?’ doi.org/10.1080/1933...

#Drosophila calling. Delighted to share our new collection of ShineGAL4 drivers for CNS, FB, muscles, enterocytes, oenocytes and MTs made by @vgirard.bsky.social, @sebsorge.bsky.social and colleagues @crick.ac.uk. All at Bloomington @bdsc.bsky.social @dev-journal.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4jpw9jd6

@annaryba.bsky.social's paper on the neural underpinnings of intraspecific behavioral variation is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social Highly recommend! -> Paper identifies neural substrate for variation in promiscuity among Drosophila melanogaster strains🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Last days to register! Our second keynote speaker is Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social. He is Professor of Neuroscience at @tcddublin.bsky.social and Chair of the FENS Advocacy Committee. He will speak about advocacy for neuroscience in Europe. Join our @fens.org Satellite 👉 youngpisymposium2026.com

Excited to be co-organising a #cosyne2026 workshop with Alison Comrie on 'algorithms for learning from scratch'! With a great line-up of speakers, we'll be tackling the question of what processes enable naive biological & artificial agents to adapt to new situations. Info here: tinyurl.com/4u8enf7k

Neural circuits regulating social dominance implement a strategy predicted by evolutionary game theory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.20.706896v1

Flores-Valle, A., Vishniakou, I., Seelig, J. D. (2025). Dynamics of glia and neurons regulate homeostatic rest, sleep and feeding behavior in Drosophila. Nat Neurosci, 28(6):1226-1240 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dear UK #drosophila @FlyBase Cambridge is now able to accept PO orders for support. So please get in touch with https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase

Thrilled to share that my graduate work is officially published in Neuron! 🎉 www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Now in its final form published in @devbiol.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought, writes @suthanalab.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

🚨 We are #hiring a PhD Student to study cerebellum-like circuits in #Drosophila. Please spread the word! www.groschner-lab.org/join #Neuroscience #PhD

How does evolution influence the brain and its ability to adapt? Join Kavli & @sfn.org on Feb. 18, 11am–12pm EST with PhDs Marco Gallio, Katja Reinhard & Sophie Caron to explore advances in #neuroscience and the mechanisms of flexibility and adaptation. ⬇️

Incredibly excited to share that we've been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to reach new depths in our memory research! @erc.europa.eu #ERCCoG @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch

New lab preprint! Can we study conscious perception of gut sensations in mice to reveal its neuronal basis? Can we train mice to report their gut sensations? Omer Rafael and Stav Shtiglitz in the lab teamed up to discover that…YES! Thread…1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our new preprint is out! A state-dependent neural circuit resolves approach–avoidance conflicts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Fantastic work led by Devika Bodas, with key contributions from Marine Balcou, and a great collaboration with Lisa Scheunemann Lab, fearuting Şevval Demirci.

🚨 Postdoc opportunity to study memory or nutrition in #Drosophila 🪰 I am looking for a candidate to support for a 3 year Addison Wheeler Fellowship application lnkd.in/e2rvNf5x Interested? Please send a CV & cover letter with brief research outline by 20th February to [email protected]

Behavioral biases drift in individuals. • Drift happens on many timescales • Drift rate depends on genetics and neuromodulators • It might be adaptive for rapidly changing environments elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Do you work or study in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, artificial intelligence, or philosophy? What does the term 'representation' mean to you? We invite you to participate in a brief survey on key conceptual questions across fields. eu.surveymonkey.com/r/VX9GNXM

See our fantastic story in @elife.bsky.social from Karthik Nallasivan and @deepanshund.bsky.social well distilled by our press office champion Michel Addelman @mcf-uom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/f...

Can we make brains “smarter”? By boosting mitochondrial metabolism in neurons of memory circuits, we improved memory in flies and mice. Thrilled to see this work out - congrats to @amrapalianjali.bsky.social for spectacular work, and to all lab members for invaluable contributions!

Thrilled to start 2026 with our latest preprint, in which we dive into a dedicated forward-walking circuit in the fly brain: doi.org/10.64898/202.... This effort was spearheaded by the fantastic @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social with help from a bunch of talented people in the lab.

🧨🧨🧨 Beautiful work @felsenberg.bsky.social and beautiful dispatch!!!!