detailed anatomical diagram of the fruit fly brain

Centripetal force with a twist

Let’s get rid of the term “higher animal”

Paper out!!! #Drosophila has muscles that attach to their retinas, which it uses to move its photoreceptor sheet in ways that resemble vertebrate eye movements nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Paper is out! #Drosophila 'know' what's best! Flies build an internal expectation of the substrate options in their environment and use it to make informed egg-laying decisions. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… [fly exploring options before laying an egg on the best one, 20x speed]🧵(1/7)

so...can mastodon infrastructure actually support this twitter migration? sounds like it's just one dude running the whole thing.

Really lovely #sfn2022 talk from Max Aragon walking carefully through the neural processes underlying stay/switch decisions in fly courtship: how do male flies decide whether to persist in courting females through optogenetically mediated heat stressor? Great way to start the day.

Thank you!

My book **The Entangled Brain** by MIT Press is out and provides an introduction to the brain to non-specialists while embracing the complexity of how brains help bring about behaviors. I'll be posting 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 in the coming 1-2 weeks

Please RT! I am hiring a lab manager to help start my neuroscience lab at NC State in Jan 2023. We’ll use Drosophila to dissect neural mechanisms of hearing. More info at christabakerlab.com

emacs: yea or nay?

Airport personnel in Qatar are safety heroes

Just wanted to say that I got an 8/10 on the nyt quiz quiz for distinguishing essays written by children or chatgpt.

Studying the classics

New pre-print with Max Aragon, Dean Pospisil, Jonathan Pillow. ‘From connectome to effectome: learning the causal interaction map of the fly brain’. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/9

Check out our new paper on how to use the (newly released) fly connectome to learn the fly effectome! Our approach relies on optogenetic perturbations, instrumental variables, and a "connectome prior"!

A team led by Princeton Neuroscience Institute's Mala Murthy (Murthy Lab) and @sebastianseung has mapped a fly's entire brain — a new step in understanding brain diseases in humans. bit.ly/3BCz1pz

Pospisil et al. reveal high-dimensional dynamics supported by many small independent circuits, motivating a proposal for optogenetic perturbation to efficiently learn the "effectome", a causal model of whole-brain neural dynamics! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Check out our paper on inferring and analyzing the fly effectome (led by the fearless Dean Pospisil and Max Aragon), now in print as part of the FlyWire Connectome collection.

Such a fun collaboration, and so exciting to be part of the amazing work by the FlyWire team.