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Jan M. Ache

@jan-ache.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist & Co-supervisor of one-year-old; Associate Professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of Oxford; Fellow of Merton College

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wind and solar supplied 33% of EU electricity in the 12 months to August 2026, against 29% from fossil. In 2016 it was 13% and 43%.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/09/2026
“It’s not just about attacking warehouses so that we won’t have food. They also want to intimidate us — to make it so that we can’t work, study, do scientific research or really do anything at all.” nyti.ms/4dKfh3F
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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center (Gift Article)
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Now I can say: last week we received Notice of Award from NSF on a Midscale Research Infrastructure Design proposal for a National Connectomics and Ultrastructure Volume Observatory (NCUVO) www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news...
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UVM Launches $19 Million National Observatory to Unlock…
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Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am extremely excited - or should I say rather chuffed? - to share that I am joining the University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk as Associate Professor of Animal Behaviour in the Department of Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk and as a Fellow of Merton College.
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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Last week to apply for these posts. This a great time to join this project — every week we’re finding out new and exciting things about the organisation of the mosquito brain — with super collaborators @darbly.bsky.social and @megyounger.bsky.social. Pls share!
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) RIP
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Physiologist Ida Henrietta Hyde (d. #OTD 1945) invented one of the earliest intracellular microelectrodes. + One of the first women (& first American woman) to earn a PhD in #science from the U. of Heidelberg in Germany, 1896 + First woman elected, American Physiological Society, 1902 #WomenInSTEM
A black-and-white historical photograph of pioneering American neurophysiologist Dr. Ida Henrietta Hyde (1857–1945) working diligently in her laboratory at Heidelberg University around 1896. Shown in a left-profile view, Dr. Hyde stands bending slightly forward, her hands resting gently on the base of a vintage monocular microscope positioned on the workbench before her. Her expression is one of intense academic concentration, reflecting her historical significance as a barrier-breaking researcher who became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. from the institution. She wears a dark, textured period-style laboratory smock with structural puffed sleeves and a lighter, wide-folded collar draping over her shoulders, with her hair swept up in a soft updo style typical of the late 19th century. Behind her, a multi-tiered wooden shelf displays rows of laboratory glassware, chemical vials, and bottles. An articulated, mechanical desk lamp with a curved arm and a sharp, angled shade arches over the workspace from the right. The shot utilizes dramatic side-lighting from the left, casting deep shadows across her back and the cabinetry while brightly highlighting her profile, hands, and instrumentation. The seamless composition evokes a serious, deeply focused, and quietly triumphant atmosphere, preserving a monumental moment in early neurobiology.
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Dafni Hadjieconomou @drosostalis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Excited to announce "The Body in Dialogue" workshop @institutducerveau.bsky.social! 4 sessions on how the brain talks to the body across the animal kingdom: My session features Ana Domingos, @karalmarshall.bsky.social, Denis Burdakov & Michael Krashes. More announcements coming soon, stay tuned!
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Stefan Luschnig @luschnig.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Interested in using #Drosophila genetics & advanced imaging combined with modeling to study inter-organ transport and epithelial dynamics? We’re hiring a #PhD student @uni-muenster.de, based at the Multiscale Imaging Center and @sfb1348.bsky.social Graduate School. Apply here tinyurl.com/ypx74a5d
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Johannes Felsenberg @felsenberg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Finally out in @natneuro.nature.com! A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Creating true and false memories from forgotten information in Drosophila - Nature Neuroscience
Forgotten memories in Drosophila persist as silent memory traces and can be recovered by reminder cues. Manipulating reminders can create false memories, showing that memory reconstruction flexibly in...
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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026
@chrisjdallmann.bsky.social from @jan-ache.bsky.social lab talks about motor control in fruit flies and how sensory feedback modulates motor output. Please also take a look on their preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Clara Howcroft Ferreira @clarahowcroft.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Really happy to share exciting news for the lab: @ukri.org has awarded us a ~£1M BBSRC New Investigator award over 5 years to investigate the neurobiological basis of 'safety in numbers'. 🧵 1/3
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Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This paper is now published in its final (and much improved) form in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Huge thanks to @sanderliessem.bsky.social, Stefan Dahlhoff, all our co-authors & our collaborators in the @postpop.bsky.social and Büschges labs.
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Control of walking direction by descending and dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila
Animals fine-control the speed and direction of locomotion to navigate complex and dynamic environments. To achieve this, they integrate multimodal se…
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Kit D. Longden @theflyside.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Revised preprint on mitochondria in central brain of Drosophila now online: much new analysis + details of largest resource for analyzing neuronal mitochondria generated so far, with ~6M mitochondria, >20k neurons, >5k cell types. Much thanks to all coauthors, enjoy! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Connectomic Analysis of Mitochondria in the Central Brain of Drosophila
Mitochondria are integral to the metabolism and cell biology of a neuron. Electron microscopy images of fly brain volumes, taken for connectomics, can be analyzed for mitochondria as well as the cells...
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Salil Bidaye @salilbidaye.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We’re looking for a lab manager (+research work) position for my laboratory @mpfneuro.bsky.social ideal for someone with strong drosophila experience looking for a stable long term position doing lab management and work closely with active fly neuro research. Apply @ www.mpfi.org/our-labs/bid...
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Katrin Vogt @katrinvogt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It is so much fun to be back in Würzburg to visit the university where I studied and fell in love with Drosophila!!! It was exciting to present the newest work from the lab and meet lots of old friends and new friends! @uni-wuerzburg.de @silkesachse.bsky.social
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Vincent Croset @vincentcroset.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
👋 Happy Friday! Here is the first preprint from the lab, starring Sophie Waldron and Yixin (Demi) Liu! We present a single-nucleus atlas of peptidergic neurons from the Drosophila brain, which we use to identify changes in gene expression under protein deprivation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Neuropeptide distribution across peptidergic clusters in the Drosophila brain
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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 18/06/2026
Bees adjust how much they eat to avoid over-consuming certain nutrients 🐝 The new research also shows that honeybees make a specialist 'baby food' that gives their larvae a better-balanced diet 👇
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Bees avoid “too much of a good thing” by balancing nutrients in pollen
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.
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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This Lego model of a biological lab from Chu-Cheng Lin in Cambridge is currently on LEGO IDEAS platform at voting stage. If you'd like to help move it towards a real model to help demystify biology labs, you can also become a supporter.
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Biological Laboratory | LEGO® Ideas
This is a two-floor realistic Biological Laboratory building. In this design, I try to tell stories about biologists, introduce biology concepts to general publ…
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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We’re recruiting! Exciting opportunities in our lab supported by a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award. • Postdoctoral researchers • Research assistant/PhD students Join us to study how neural circuits drive decision-making. Deadline 26/04 Learn more and Apply here: rezavallab.org
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Emily Behrman @emilylbehrman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We’re hiring a lab manager! Looking for someone organized, detail-oriented, and highly motivated to help keep research running smoothly and support a collaborative team. Please share! searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/851...
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Laboratory Manager
The Laboratory Manager provides operational and technical support for a research laboratory focused on evolutionary genetics and the molecular mechanisms underlying adaptation. The lab uses integrativ...
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Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
So so well-deserved! Congratulations Carolina!!
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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Proud to share that our team made the local news. A big congratulations to Erin, Megan, and everyone on the team who made it happen.Thanks to Ben Hopkins and Artyom Kopp for the Preview piece. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-03...
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New research reveals how development and sex shape the brain |
Two companion studies, published in Cell Genomics, reveal how brain development lays the foundation for both shared and sex-specific circuits, redefining how neural diversity arises. A preview
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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The School of Biosciences @unibirmingham.bsky.social is recruiting five Assistant/Associate Professors working across a range of areas, including neuroscience. Join a vibrant interdisciplinary research environment. Deadline: 14 April 2026 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Assistant or Associate Professor (Research and Education) - School of Biosciences - 107106 - Grade 8 or 9
Evidence of a developing track record in publishing work of high academic quality and impact is essential, as is an emerging portfolio (or clear potential) of external research funding. Applicants mus...
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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The registration is open! Junior #Drosophila PIs, join us for inspiring scientific discussion, contribute a talk and listen to our keynote speaker, Eugenia Chiappe. We meet in Palmela, Portugal from June 1st to 3rd. Register soon as spots are limited! congressos.mundiconvenius.pt/geral/inseri...
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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our new preprint is out! A state-dependent neural circuit resolves approach–avoidance conflicts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Fantastic work led by Devika Bodas, with key contributions from Marine Balcou, and a great collaboration with Lisa Scheunemann Lab, fearuting Şevval Demirci.
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Casey Schneider-Mizell @csdashm.com · 01/02/2026
This video on Avatar 2/3 reignited this feeling: youtu.be/ueJTdtmZ5R4?.... Weta Workshop wanted to transfer actor faces to CGI Na'vi faces, which have different facial structure. So they built an anatomically inspired facial muscle model and fit it using gaussian splat meshes from video.
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VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 211 Ft. Joe Letteri
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Chris J Dallmann @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Wonderful team effort with @jan-ache.bsky.social, Fathima Iqbal, @sirinlieb.bsky.social, @merterginkaya.bsky.social, @sanderliessem.bsky.social, and others. Thanks to @erc.europa.eu #HorizonEurope #MSCA and @dfg.de for funding.
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Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Thrilled to start 2026 with our latest preprint, in which we dive into a dedicated forward-walking circuit in the fly brain: doi.org/10.64898/202.... This effort was spearheaded by the fantastic @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social with help from a bunch of talented people in the lab.
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Clara Howcroft Ferreira @clarahowcroft.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Happy New Year from seasonally beautiful Newcastle-upon-Tyne! Get in touch if you are interested in our #PhDstudentship to research the neurobiological basis of social behaviour and its dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster. Deadline for applications: 23rd January.
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Johannes Felsenberg @felsenberg.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Carolin Warnecke together with Hanna, Dennis, Bene & Kerstin from my lab show that re-exposure to reward diminishes multiple associated olfactory memories. We’re hiring 2 postdocs—DM/email me for details. #Postdoc #Hiring www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Re-exposure to reward re-evaluates related memories
To adapt behavior in changing environments, animals must continuously re-evaluate previously learned associations. This flexibility of memory systems …
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Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
How do animals channel sensory information into motor pathways to generate flexible behavioral output? Excited to share a new preprint addressing this question by leveraging the new #maleCNS connectome, behavioral experiments, and in-vivo recordings: doi.org/10.64898/202.... A long🧵...
Landing and takeoff sensorimotor pathways illustrated alongside fly drawings showing behavioral responses.
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Richard Benton @bentonlab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Deadline for this post-doc position in my lab extended to Jan 11th!
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Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Happy to share our current opinion on the insulin and octopamine systems and their role in shaping neuronal circuits, energy homeostasis, and behavior in #Drosophila, other insects, and 🧑‍🦱.
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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....
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Male CNS Connectome
A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system —a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...
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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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Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Couldn’t be more excited about this paradigm shifting result.
Person standing in a park with a stroller while enjoying a tasty Dürüm.
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Gizem Özdil @gzmozd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🪰 How do dozens of tiny fly muscles cooperate to move a leg? We’re excited to share the first 3D, data-driven musculoskeletal model of Drosophila legs based on Hill-type muscles, running in OpenSim and MuJoCo simulation environments. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06426
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
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Harvard University lays off fly database team
The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.
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Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Preprint Alert! Walking mostly feels natural and easy to us - but the neuronal control of walking is actually incredibly complex. We leveraged the fruit fly as a genetically tractable animal model with a compact nervous system to ask how the brain controls walking direction: tinyurl.com/flywalk. 🧵..
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a baby wearing a black space racer shirt
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
This isn't a coincidence, IMO. The fly community is generally super rigorous - because there are so many tools and techniques available, people expect you to really nail things in order to get published (and keep getting funded)
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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
We're hiring! Two exciting opportunities in our Lab @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come work with us on decision-making and neural circuits in Drosophila. Please share! Senior Research Technician + Postdoctoral Research Fellow Deadline: 10 July More info here: www.rezavallab.org
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Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Very happy to share that the awesome @merterginkaya.bsky.social was awarded a @dfg.de #WalterBenjamin scholarship for his postdoc project on mechanisms for action-selection in visual sensorimotor pathways. The more Mert the better. 🎉
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Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
It’s a wrap for the 2025 Crete Fly Circuits meeting! Huge thanks to our friends at the OAC for hosting us, our fantastic speakers for sharing their latest and greatest unpublished works, and to Eugenia, Marion, Nilay, and Richard for the fun we had organizing this. See you all in 2027!
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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
New preprint from lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Sexual dimorphism arises not through wholesale transcriptional reprogramming, but via selective sex-specific survival of neurons defined by birth order and shared developmental programs.
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A Role for Exaptation in Sculpting Sexually Dimorphic Brains from Shared Neural Lineages
Sex differences in behaviours arise from variations in female and male nervous systems, yet the cellular and molecular bases of these differences remain poorly defined. Here, we take an unbiased, sing...
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Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The sky knows what’s up. Happy #pridemonth! 🌈
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Jan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Very happy that we were able to contribute a few recordings from our favorite #insulin producing cells to this great story from @buelowlab.bsky.social!
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Salil Bidaye @salilbidaye.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Hey spinal/ventral nerve cord folks. we’re organizing this cross species “cords” meeting @hhmijanelia.bsky.social . Hurry up and upload your abstracts. As a trainee these were my favorite meetings (small and focused) where I got the most useful feedback. DM in case of any Qs.
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