Do flies feel pain? Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social. 🪰⚡👻🎃 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Tschida Lab is recruiting a new PhD student this cycle! We have ongoing projects related to (1) neural circuits that regulate vocal communication across behavioral contexts and/or development and (2) motor control of different vocalization types. Please RT! Strong neuro background a plus.

One week until this fantastic seminar with speakers @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social Register here for the link! braincoustics.com #bioacoustics #neuroskyence

Our latest study on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now posted as a preprint, led by UCSD PhD student Jo-Hsien Yu @anitajhyu.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social @danionella.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks Anne for sharing! This seems like a fantastic resource 👇🏽

Do you plot transcriptomic data, coloring each cell by its cell type? ~ Don't use a default colormap! ~ Instead, use colormaps that capture biological meaning. If two cell types are very similar, their colors should be similar too. Read on 🧵 🧬💻

Congrats Felix @mollfw.bsky.social and team. Really interesting behavioral study setting the stage for subsequent neurobiological investigations! 👇🏽

🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! 🚨 Excited for our new NiCE grant with @lauerlab.bsky.social @batwoman123.bsky.social 🎉We use a comparative approach, two-photon imaging & optogenetics to identify why bats🦇 and deer mice resist noise but lab mice don't. If you're interested, please DM or e-mail me!

Nice thread! I also use AI for coding on a regular basis. It increases efficiency only if you are already an expert. On the other hand, unlike grad students, it never gets tired and is always polite!

Do you know an outstanding early career researcher in the NCM Community? Nominate them for the Early Career Award! Deadline for nominations is Sept 8 and more details can be found on the website - ncm-society.org/awards/

1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very interesting thread! I really like “Principles of Neural Design” by Sterling and Laughlin. It doesn’t shy away from biological details but presents it in a form that is appearing to engineers and physicists.

If you're into math and music, you'll probably love this in-depth video by my friend Henry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl... And it features an interactive about dissonance that I put together years ago: aatishb.com/dissonance/

Really enjoyed this summer’s lab trip to fire island, NY!

Couldn’t agree more! Evolutionary perspective is a guiding principle for most projects in our lab.👇🏽

Mechanisms and control of a novel vocalization: The Alston singing mouse song is a whistle that depends on the inflation of the ventral pouch –an enlarged intralaryngeal air sac– laryngeal airflow, and cricothyroid muscle action By ⁦ @evolbrain.bsky.social et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come visit Calcutta in the last week of August and see some amazing neuroscientists talk about the neural basis of behaviour at @behaviour2025.bsky.social With @neuroetho.bsky.social @danielavallentin.bsky.social @selmaan.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social and Michael Brecht!

Next-generation of barcoded projection mapping techniques: MAPseq2 and POINTseq! Congratulations @justuskebschull.bsky.social and team.

Delighted to receive the McKnight Scholar Award! Great to see many friends and colleagues on this year's list. It's a real privilege to be able to pursue an academic life probing nature's mysteries—huge thanks to my lab members and @cshlnews.bsky.social for making it all possible.

The Roland Garros final — Sinner vs. Alcaraz — is turning out to be real special!

ongoing...a new edition of TENSS (www.tenss.ro). thanks to the wonderful people that make it happen yet again!

Our work with Pablo Tano, @hyunggoo-kim.bsky.social Athar Malik, Alexandre Pouget and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social exploring how dopamine neurons could enable multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain is out in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here is the collective effort of 12 labs, lead by my own at the Broad to target the range of cortical interneuron subtypes! These tools should be a game changer for all of you using NHP and other less genetically amenable species! Have at it! urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

Given all that is going on consider this quote from Bertram Russell's 1930 book The conquest of Happiness: “The man who can be interested in the structure of atoms or the way in which a beetle navigates, is likely to get a joy in life which no amount of success in the pursuit of power can give. ”

Very interesting use of X-rays for connectomics!

NEW: We simulated a disease outbreak to show how vaccines can stop the spread of a contagious disease. With @fparis.bsky.social @upshot.nytimes.com (Paywall-free gift link) 🎁

Cool! The motor patterning of a full singing mouse song (100 notes over 10 seconds) can be explained by a linear equation with 3 parameters! Why is a good question. How do neural circuits produce these accelerating rhythms in diverse animals? convergent evolution?

Our first look at midbrain PAG’s role in singing mouse vocal control. When near each other, these mice produce two divergent vocal modes. Same circuits for USVs and Songs—or different ones? Bets were made..some of us bought beers for others! Led by @xmikezheng20.bsky.social & Clifford Harpole. 👇🏽

Important study here from @katietschida.bsky.social et al on the transition from neonatal isolation calls to social vocalization in lab mice “juvenile mice begin producing social USVs earlier than previously reported, at ages P20-P24” #bioacoustics #prattle💬

I really enjoyed reading this paper! Thanks for sharing. It’s rare to be able to connect the genetic, developmental, and neural circuit mechanisms underlying behavioral evolution. Also who doesn’t like butterfly wing colors!

Another study to share, led by my grad student Nicole Pranic! Before diving in, I'll add that Nicole (who is clever, tenacious, and interested in neural changes that underlie developmental changes in social behaviors) is looking for a post-doc position! Please RT! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This was a fun (side) project that ended up providing a satisfying answer to a common challenge faced by olfactory systems from flies to mammals. Let us know if you have any feedback.👇🏽

Neurobiology of tardigrades. Now that is fascinating! Well written piece by @dgrijseels.bsky.social

Congrats to Leila Elabaddy and the other winners of this years Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. Leila (in blue) is a grad student in my lab co-advised by Forrest Collman from @alleninstitute.bsky.social. www.fredhutch.org/en/news/rele...

Amidst all that is going on, feeling excited to attend the NAS frontiers of science symposium this week.

We must learn to showcase the practical significance of basic research, demonstrating how seemingly arcane investigations yield transformative applications, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/outreach/how...

Recommend reading the @thetransmitter.bsky.social piece by @gershbrain.bsky.social 👇🏽 Reminds me of an older essay about making bricks vs. constructing edifices.

Congratulations @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social

I have been searching for a book of this kind for a while. The example chapter looks great. Just ordered one copy for my lab.

Insightful article!

Honoured to have been selected as a #SloanFellow Thankful for all the support from family, mentors, collaborators, colleagues and students along the way! @sloanfoundation.bsky.social

Re-reading this after many years. Don’t confuse a pile of bricks with useful edifices!

This is a few weeks old, but LIZARDS NEVER GET OLD 🦎😇 Find out what makes them so interesting in our Creature Column @naturemethods.bsky.social

Gene regulatory mechanisms underlying evolutionary adaptations of homologous neuronal cell types https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.30.635650v1

New paper from the lab: feedback from piriform cortex to the olfactory bulb carries identity and reward contingency signals in a multimodal (odor and sound) rule-reversal task. Feedback is re-formatted within seconds and reflects changes in the perceived rules of engagement. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

We just re-locate our twitter/X-history with the help of @blueark.app and then our moving will be final. Please help us to build a new #neuroethology community here by asking colleagues to follow us and by using hashtags or linking @neuroethology.org so that we can share your content 🧪🧠🦋🪲🐝🦑🐟🦐🐜🐦🐸🐢🦈🪼

Nice feature in The Scientist on the power of using 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴 mice to study evolution of social and other behaviors⁣. Beautiful lead photo of an Oldfield dad with his pups by Wyatt Toure in my lab. www.the-scientist.com/on-a-wild-mo...

Highly recommend. 👇🏽

Here is the link for the "back-story" for a paper we published in 2024. It was in collaboration with Feng Chen (Stanford), Shaul Druckmann (Stanford) and Michael Long (NYU). This is my first attempt at doing this. Feedback welcome. www.arkabanerjeelab.com/_files/ugd/c...