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See my previous tweet for more on the cellular neurobiology of language

Here it is! A huge milestone in neuroscience – the complete connectome of the fly brain from the FlyWire team (FlyWire). In this special issue, we have 9 research articles. I’ll try to summarize them in a couple threads starting here 🧵

In 1972, Endel Tulving proposed the distinction between episodic and semantic memory - the recall of events vs the knowledge of information. Find out more about their life’s work in the new biographical memoir: ow.ly/AuOU50TBVLU #BioMems

In a fly's brain, there are some 140,000 neurons that connect via 54.5 million synapses. Researchers have now mapped *all of them*. That and more of the best in Science Magazine and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: science.org/content/articl… Vid: Tyler Sloan/FlyWire

"the most detailed 3D cellular map yet of a mouse embryo, visualizing [how] close to eight million cells... interact and migrate..." nature.com/articles/d4158…

Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian skull and brain nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our Winter issue is out on Thursday! Featuring: 🧠 Moheb Costandi on the promise (and perils) of brain implants 🗣 Peter Ward on the dark philosophy of the tech billionaires 💄 Clare Chambers on resisting the pressure to change our bodies Subscribe now: newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe

Neurobiologist and journalist Moheb Costandi takes us inside the rapidly-developing world of brain-computer interfaces - and explains how they could transform our lives newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6359

"Found in a 17th century manuscript, the illustration shows the brain of a honeybee drone" sciencenews.org/article/oldest…

Micro- and nanoplastics accumulate in human brain tissue, with the highest concentrations being found in tissue samples from dementia patients nature.com/articles/s4159…

Thoughtful obituary today The Irish Times Eleanor Maguire’s achievements well remembered by Dr Teresa Burke DCU School of Psychology Joseph j Duffy

Unique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE nature.com/articles/s4159… science.org/content/articl…

"Tool use by fish: the fish holds a hard-shelled prey item in its mouth and strikes it onto a hard surface (anvil) to open it" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to stimulate deep within the brain without the need for brain surgery (i.e. DBS), and without actually making a physical lesion in the brain (i.e. focused ultrasound or pallidotomy)? This paper provides 'proof of concept' that a transcranial

Nature Outlook supplement about sleep nature.com/immersive/slee…

Neurophilosophy blog, 2006: Astrocytes take centre stage in brain function neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/ast…

The paperback edition of my first book is now available for pre-order amazon.co.uk/Human-Brain-Id…

Cancer cells (red with blue nuclei) grow thin tubes to siphon mitochondria out of nerve cells (green). Credit: Simon Grelet and Gustavo Ayala nature.com/articles/d4158…

Out today:

Rubber arm illusion in octopus (Kawashima & Ikeda) cell.com/current-biolog… "we used the rubber hand illusion to demonstrate that an octopus, an invertebrate (cephalopod mollusk), also experiences body ownership of its arms."