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neuro grad student at uw with sama ahmed & john tuthill he/him

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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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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/09/2026
It has been an excellent 48 hours for Schadenfreude, @natashalennard.bsky.social buff.ly/hDB3iA4
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kyle thieringer @kylethieringer.com · 03/08/2026
😮‍💨💨😤🫁
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The Stranger @thestranger.com · 28/07/2026
After Sunday's mass shooting at Seattle Center, Eva Walker writes a letter to her two-year-old daughter about raising a child in a country where gun violence has become a part of everyday life.
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Dear Hendrix - The Stranger
Dear Hendrix, It’s 4 a.m., and I can’t sleep. Soon, I’ll have to walk out of our apartment door and head to the KEXP radio station, where I do my daily Early Show. It’s Monday morning after a long wee...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy 100th birthday Sir Attenborough!
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New @currentbiology.bsky.social paper from Dr. Leila Elabbady on neural circuits that transform a touch stimulus into spatially targeted grooming. Leila discovered a leg somatotopic map and used it to infer tactile receptive fields in the fly VNC connectome. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mvu83QW8S...
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Sometimes failed experiments reveal gaps in how we are thinking about a problem, and digging into why an experiment didn't work can lead to discovery. This new preprint by Anne Sustar, in collaboration with Dion Dickman's lab, is one of those gratifying instances.🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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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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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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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Mohammad Hosseini @mhmdhsini.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Iranians are experiencing a collective trauma. Thousands have been killed/injured in recent events, the economy is crippled & the threat of a wider conflict is real. This is especially difficult for those living in Iran, as many have lost (or fear losing) loved ones. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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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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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I often think about Zohran Mamdani saying “to get to any of us, you’re gonna have to go through all of us.”
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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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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/tuesday-november-11th-we-cave
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 05/11/2025
NEW: Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a former Navy helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor, will become New Jersey's next governor, The Associated Press reports. to.pbs.org/4paXpT5
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/11/2025
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
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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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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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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
So proud of Jess Jones, an HHMI Gilliam Fellow, for defending her PhD today in @tuthill.bsky.social's lab! Jess was one of my lab's 1st hires in 2018. She was also 1st author of one of our first papers: elifesciences.org/articles/57258. I wouldn’t be where I am today without her contributions.
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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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kyle thieringer @kylethieringer.com · 04/08/2025
More Steve Flurkel !!
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Graduate student @kylethieringer.com and I wrote a dispatch about a new @currentbiology.bsky.social paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) describing a proprioceptive neural circuit that helps the fly visual system identify (and ignore) its own legs. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...
cartoon of a fly cleaning its eyes
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Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 05/03/2025
I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research. Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n
Photos of Aedes aegypti female (left) and male (right). Numbers indicate location of collected tissues (listed in legend boxes). Photos by Alex Wild.
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Matt Collie @mottcallie.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Happy Friday! The female adult fly brain-and-nerve-cord (BANC) connectome is now LIVE! Explore the data here: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
settling back into Edinburgh after a great USA trip for the 2025 somatosensory rat module with another outstanding group of students, faculty, course managers & directors @nsb-mbl.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social & bonus visit to the Dulac lab @dulaclab.bsky.social
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
We're thrilled to announce the largest private gift in our 137-year history: a $25 million unrestricted donation from MBL Whitman Scientist Mark Terasaki. His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬 Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m
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MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory
Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis scummis@mbl.edu; 973.800.4119
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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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kyle thieringer @kylethieringer.com · 27/07/2025
8 weeks in the hole! Oh how I love these people ❤️
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Anna Gillespie @akgillespie.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Amidst everything, the lab's first preprint is out! It's just a methods paper, no scientific results (yet!), but it's still great to see it all pulled together. We hope that these open-source behavioral tools will be useful for others!
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Embodiment is the concept that the function of the brain is inexorably shaped by the body, a lens that is often neglected when neuroscientists study specific brain subsystems, write @bingbrunton.bsky.social and @tuthill.bsky.social. #neuroskyence #neuroai www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...
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Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment
Brain function is inexorably shaped by the body. Embracing this will benefit computational models of real brain function and the design of ANNs.
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Using high-speed video and neural networks, researchers have compared hunting behaviours across five species of larval fish. The study uncovers both shared strategies and striking differences in how fish move, see, and strike during prey capture. buff.ly/T2o9JJp #EvoBio
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But I think it’s more important than ever, writes @tuthill.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
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Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning
As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever.
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Adam Blake @ajblake05.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Our new paper is now out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social!!! We had all sorts of fun generating LED stimuli for mosquitos to investigate their visual preferences in the presence of different odors. The paper is open access and available here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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kyle thieringer @kylethieringer.com · 27/06/2025
Tried patching some neurons in the habenula today… When we got there we noticed these beautiful cilia waving around coming off ependymal cells lining the third ventricle. Bonkers
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025
Upper Manhattan about to call private security on the rest of the city lol
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
a former governor scion of a political dynasty losing to a 33 year old is a world historic crashout
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The kind of timeline synchronicity you wait your whole life for.
Two posts in a row. The first quotes JD Vance as saying in the past "we had dumb presidents". The next post quotes Trump who misspelled his own damn name as Donakd J Trump with a k i stead of an l in his first name.
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Nick Jourjine @nickjourjine.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc‬! 10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁 paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx #bioacoustics #neuroskyence 1/8
Graphical abstract for "Vocal communication is seasonal in social groups of wild, free-living house mice."

The abstract has, from top to bottom, a title, four middle image panels, and two bottom text panels.

Image title: "Vocal communication in social groups of wild-free living house mice"

Middle image panels from left to right: (1) An aerial snap shot of the region where the study site is located, an agricultural landscape in rural Switzerland. (2) An image of the study site, a small barn in the forest inhabited by mice. (3) An image of a radio frequency identification (RFID) box used to track mouse social interactions. A mouse is entering the box from the left while another sits outside. (4) A spectrogram showing example vocalizations - one low frequency squeak and one ultrasonic call - recorded from an RFID box.

Bottom panels:
Left: Data Collection 
- 10 years of RFID-based tracking data (from 6,946 mice)
- 15 months of acoustic monitoring (totaling 6,594 hours)
- Machine learning for vocal detection and labeling (CNN)

Right: Key Findings
- Vocalization is seasonal (most in spring and summer)
- Vocalization is associated with the presence of pups
- Vocalization is correlated with social group dynamics
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Big lawsuit filed today defending NSF. It’s a coalition including @aaup.bsky.social , @uaw.org , and @democracyforward.org . See thread🧪
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Nice profile of Tuthill/Collman lab PhD student (soon to be grad 😭) Leila Elabaddy, who apparently "never set out to become a scientist". So happy we managed to con her into it!
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Aakanksha Singhvi @singhvilabglia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Happy to present a single cell atlas of ALL glia, in BOTH sexes of an animal (in vivo validated!)! Fab work by postdoc @glia-maria.bsky.social, team, & collaboration with @manusetty.bsky.social . Find insights into glia, new analytics and ML models, and browse our companion website (wormglia.org)
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React App
Web site created using create-react-app
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
In our latest edition of “This paper changed my life,” Bradley Dickerson discusses how a 1940s fly neuroanatomy paper taught him how to think about circuits and behavior being greater than the sum of their parts. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
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This paper changed my life: Bradley Dickerson on how a 1940s fly neuroanatomy paper influences his research to this day
This classic paper by zoologist John Pringle describes the haltere—a small structure in flies that plays a crucial role in flight control. It taught me to think about circuits and behavior as greater…
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kyle thieringer @kylethieringer.com · 16/06/2025
First 2 weeks done at the NS&B course in woods hole. Made it through the LONG days poking leech neurons thanks to amazing faculty, supportive cohort and pie in the sky. Iykyk. Can’t wait to work on the stomatigastric ganglion next 🦀
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
We’re watching Elon Musk realize the man he did more than anyone to install as President of the United States is now the President of the United States.
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Rich Pang @rkp-science.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
How do we get more neuroscience out of our behavioral data? Excited to share new work with C.A.Baker, M.Murthy and @jpillowtime.bsky.social, where we use natural behavior data to extend predictions from neural recordings about population codes for dynamic social stimuli: tinyurl.com/2d3wwfyf
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Inferring neural population codes for Drosophila acoustic communication | PNAS
Social communication between animals is often mediated by sequences of acoustic signals, sometimes spanning long timescales. How auditory neural ci...
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New preprint from the lab, led by grad student Brandon Pratt, on the encoding properties and sensorimotor function of proprioceptive limit detectors (ie, hair plates) in the fly leg. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pensacola Politics @changethesystem.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Mayor Baraka from Newark, NJ holds a press conference detailing how GEO Group has opened an ICE detention facility without permits or inspections. They can’t even verify if there are detainees inside because GEO Group is refusing to allow city officials inside.
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