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Grant Chou

@grantchou.bsky.social
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Grad student @princetonneuro.bsky.social, Dickerson/Murthy labs Previously: RA w/ @tuthill.bsky.social, undergrad w/ @kamdh.bsky.social

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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Agrawal lab has published its first paper! "Sticking the landing: leg mechanosensory feedback coordinates the transition from flight to landing" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This project was led by a technician in the lab, Tse-Wei (Wayne) Kuo. Brief 🧵on what we found
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Yichen Luo 骆奕辰 @camellyc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
1/8 Breathing seems automatic. But it's a finely tuned motor behavior that has to be controlled. In this preprint, I map the circuits that match a fly's respiration to the metabolic demands of flight and mitigate the risk of dehydration. 🧵🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
By comparing the proprioceptive systems of mosquitos and fruit flies, Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social aims to uncover fundamental features of proprioception. #neuroskyence By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/neuros-ark/w...
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What mosquitos lay bare about proprioception
By comparing the proprioceptive systems of mosquitos and Drosophila, Sweta Agrawal aims to uncover key features of the ability to sense self-movement.
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Neural Variability Enhances Artificial Network Robustness: new preprint from the lab led by master's student Robin Preble, together with Praveen Venkatesh and @mihalas.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.13801
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Neural Variability Enhances Artificial Network Robustness
Neural responses in cortex exhibit substantial trial-to-trial variability in response to repeated stimuli, while peripheral sensory neurons respond far more consistently, leading many to wonder whethe...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Researchers have long searched for the neural circuit underlying locomotion. Now they’ve found it in flies. By @natmesanash.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
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Long-sought walking circuit found in fruit flies
The neuronal circuit controlling repetitive locomotion patterns in any animal has been a mystery until now.
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Bing Wen Brunton @bingbrunton.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Run, don’t walk, to your closest local preprint server to see our latest 3D tracking results! I’m still tickled that our results show flies don’t exactly walk, they “ground run” everywhere. I bet they also talk fast and suffer no fools.
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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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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New paper from Brandon Pratt, @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social, and colleagues on how hair plate proprioceptors sense joint limits and contribute to sensorimotor control of walking. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Yichen Luo 骆奕辰 @camellyc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
So grateful for this even if the reward prediction error had almost gone extinct (look at my happysad face). Thank you John and everyone who supported my proposal, Nino Ramirez, @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @darbly.bsky.social, Rui Chang, and the NIH reviewers and program officers!
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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...
fly circuit diagram
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Bradley Dickerson reflects on how a 1940s paper on fly neuroanatomy shaped his scientific ambitions. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
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kyle thieringer @kylethieringer.com · 20/02/2026
Happy to share work I contributed to during my time in the Murthy lab! now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🎉🥳 www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is who runs this account
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Chris J Dallmann @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
How does the brain control locomotion? In our new preprint, we uncover a brain circuit in Drosophila that controls forward walking independently of turning. This dedicated locomotor circuit enables flexible motor control and might reflect a shared principle across species. doi.org/10.64898/202...
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
How do neural circuits generate the walking rhythm? Using connectome simulations, @sarahpugly.bsky.social found a minimal central pattern generator (CPG) that produces oscillations in leg motor neurons. Same circuit motif for each 🪰 leg. w @bingbrunton.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Grant Chou @grantchou.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
@princetonneuro.bsky.social first-years out in full force!🐯🧠 #sfn25
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 06/11/2025
y'all seem to really like baseball bsky.social/about/blog/1...
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The World Series Was Electric — So Was Bluesky - Bluesky
“How can you not be romantic about baseball?” — Moneyball 2011
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Jess Jones @jonesjes.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
My thesis work is out! 🪰 We often link pain to mammals—sometimes exclusively humans—but what about flies? Thanks to @tuthill.bsky.social for supporting a funky, fun project, and to @NIH & @hhmi.org for funding over the past half decade!
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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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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We had a nice CS & Behavioral Neurosci student workshop yesterday given by @alleninstitute.org scientists and @wwu.edu alums! Thanks to @sejdevries.bsky.social and Su-Yee and Feng for organizing
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!
Agrawal lab logo. A fly in the UBC colors, with dots framing its body.
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Chris J Dallmann @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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