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Stanley Heinze @stanley-heinze.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Nearly a decade after starting the project, the first major results from our comparative connectomics work is online! Comparing the head direction circuits of the central complex in bees, ants and flies, recapitulating >300million years of evolution.

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Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I am intrigued by scirev.org! This site solicits reviews of journals regarding time through the review and publishing process as well as quality of review reports.

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Salil Bidaye @salilbidaye.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Here’s our latest preprint on uncovering neural control of a coordinated walking pattern! doi.org/10.64898/202... (author-list jumbled, see pdf for corrected). Video shows the central paradigm in this study, we optogenetically induce walking in headless flies and sequentially reduce proprioception.

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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Here is a banger! Our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social is out! We have used museomics to sequence a 45yr old specimen of Drosophila enhydrobia, a rare and most unusual fly whose larvae are aquatic(!) and predatory(!). Very cool, big success. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

New preprint: Whole-body 3D kinematics of freely behaving 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 New tech from @blobology.bsky.social & others at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social, which @ispizua.bsky.social and @elliottabe.bsky.social used to gain insight into 3D structure of locomotion & courtship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Reposting this from April 1, 2007 in honor of Craig Venter. I did this as an April Fool's joke - sharing it as a PDF. I got stressed when I found out Craig had seen it and knew it was by me. But he loved it and said it was OK to share it more widely. So then I posted it on the web.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

Screen grab of an NIH grants checklist showing the first question is: "1. Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?"

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Ben Matthews @benmatthewslab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hello from Vancouver! Dusting off the bsky credentials to highlight two new mosquito preprints from the lab... extremely proud of everyone who contributed and happy to have their work out for all to see. Lots of good stuff happening in the lab these days! More below...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds over 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 institutions across all 50 U.S. states, supporting roughly 390,863 jobs and driving $94 billion in economic activity. I am one of them and am thankful to all who pay the taxes that support this enterprise 🧪

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Gus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

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Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport

The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The digital sphinx: Can a worm brain control a fly body? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

i found this book on archive.org called "motto book" and it's so funny i can't believe it was published in 1909

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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Genome of the Abominable Snowfly uncovers the mysteries of cold tolerance in a winter active insect! New cool (literally) paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social from Marco Gallio, @matthewcapek.bsky.social, @tuthill.bsky.social, myself, and fine colleagues! ⛄ 🦟 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Not my link being broken on such a happy milestone! Here’s the real link! (Thanks for the catch @atkinscolm.bsky.social ) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Divergent co-transmission by a predictive motor circuit modulates auditory processing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Stanley Heinze @stanley-heinze.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

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...

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farzaan @flyzaan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

jet lag and ramadan sleep schedule have canceled out

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farzaan @flyzaan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

so far it is a bad omen

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farzaan @flyzaan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I propose that all positions, not just first author, are determined by coin flip

These authors contributed equally and the order was determined by a coin flip.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Imprisoning children is child abuse. No matter how a child arrived in our country, we should not use government resources, taxpayer money, to abuse and traumatize children.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

while anthropic secretly buys and destroys millions of books in hidden warehouses, let it be known that human staff at @archive.org carefully scan physical media by hand as always and there's literally a daily livestream because the process is so wonderful to watch!!!

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Katrin Vogt @katrinvogt.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The first paper from the lab is now out in Science Advances: Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior in Drosophila www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... We find that fly larvae keep their distance to conspecifics in the absence of food, enjoy reading! @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

(a bar, somewhere) PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL, on third whiskey: they still don't understand the concept of a probabilistic forecast, I mean— THE NEEDLE, six beers deep: I hear you, man PHIL (startled): a talking needle!!

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez are named as the murderers of Alex Pretti. Both with enough experience that the excuse of a new agent panicking won’t fly. These guys are supposedly elite (one was on a SWAT team). Yet they pumped 10 bullets into a man they had just disarmed. Justice will come.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days

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Mountain State Spotlight @mtnstspotlight.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Slow internet doesn't just impact watching movies and reading emails. Some residents depend on it for work or doctor appointments, as they deal with unreliable service. mountainstatespotlight.org/2026/01/25/b...

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These West Virginians are still waiting for high-speed internet

West Virginia is set to receive millions for broadband, but residents say reliable internet still hasn’t reached them.

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sixpenceee none the richer @kagredon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 01/02/2026

West Virginia takes down Army and Navy in rifle!

WVU Rifle @WVURifle
X.com
CUE COUNTRY ROADS X2!!!
Mountaineers score a 4745 to defeat No. 6 Navy
(4719) and No. 16 Army (4683)
MOUNTAINEER RIFLE

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The venn diagram of rich science folks who have told me to kick rocks when I approached them about donating to Stand Up for Science and the rich science folks who are in the Epstein files is not a perfect circle, but there is significant overlap.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

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Best gas masks

“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 28/01/2026

Early Arthropods xkcd.com/3199/

3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*

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James Lightfoot @jameslightfoot.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

How does evolution turn a harmless bacterial feeder into an active predator? Our new study led by @marianneroca.bsky.social and published in @pnas.org explores how sensory systems were rewired to enable prey detection and predatory behaviour in nematodes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵below!

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Evolution of sensory systems underlies the emergence of predatory feeding behaviors in nematodes | PNAS

Understanding how animal behavior evolves remains a major challenge, with few studies linking genetic changes to differences in neural function and...

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

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I grew up with Alex Pretti

The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 22/01/2026

Over 160 million people are under winter hazards associated with the impending major winter storm. Disruptive snowfall is likely from the Rockies to the Northeast, including dangerous ice from the ArkLaTex to the Mid-Atlantic. You can find a detailed forecast at weather.gov. Here's the latest...

The latest Key Messages detail the latest information regarding the impending winter storm set to produce far-reaching impacts from the Southern Rockies to the Northeast. The top graphic displays the Probabilistic Winter Storm Severity Index which depicts the probabilities for experiencing at least Moderate Impacts. Moderate Impacts speak to potential for hazardous travel conditions and some infrastructure impacts. The bottom image shows, of those probabilistic areas, which winter weather hazard (snow or freezing rain) is the most likely hazard in that area.

High-Impact & Far-Reaching Winter Storm
A significant, long-duration winter storm is threatening over 160 million Americans with widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies to New England, lasting from Friday through Monday. Extremely cold air will follow, prolonging dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts into next week.

Widespread Heavy Snow
Heavy snow is likely across a broad region from the Southern Rockies and Plains through the Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast. Snowfall totals exceeding 12 inches are likely across the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast. Widespread travel disruptions are likely.

Catastrophic Ice Accumulation
Widespread freezing rain and sleet are expected south of the primary snow axis, affecting parts of the Southern Plains, Lower Mississippi Valley, Tennessee Valley, the Southeast, and southern Virginia. Significant to locally catastrophic ice accumulations are likely, with the potential for long-duration power outages, extensive tree damage, and extremely dangerous or impassable travel conditions.

Extended Impacts
In wake of the storm, communities from the Southern Plains to the Northeast will contend with bitterly cold temperatures and dangerously cold wind chills. This will prolong hazardous travel and infrastructure impacts into next week. Preparations should be completed as soon as possible, & forecasts closely monitored for updates.

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farzaan @flyzaan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

what does it mean if there's lightning in the middle of the snowstorm

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Sanjay Sipahimalani @handle.invalid · 05/11/2025

Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Me watching TRL after school in the late 90s

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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...

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UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute @ucscgenomics.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🦟 The mosquito is the most deadly animal in the world. The Mosquito Cell Atlas is an incredible new resource to help us understand more about their ability to transmit pathogens to humans. Data is available on the UC Santa Cruz @genomebrowser.bsky.social at mosquito.cells.ucsc.edu

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UCSC Cell Browser

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Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 30/10/2025

Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸 There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito

A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres...

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farzaan @flyzaan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I have been very excited to hear Jerseyite stories of mischief night but none of them knew what it was, not sure if I'm being double bamboozled

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

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Sara @sportsandsuffering.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

a graphic showing the pantone numbers for the two core colors of the toronto blue jays. they are skydome blue (pantone 293) and Stieb Navy (pantone 282)

a hat and canvas tote with the pantone number for Dodger Blue (294 C)

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