kyle thieringer @kylethieringer.com · 17/09/2026This is awesome! But I’m devastated by no pizza box features in the text 🙃 111
Reposted by kyle thieringerSweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The 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 foundagrawal-lab-workspace.slack.comSlack 88228
Reposted by kyle thieringerThe Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/09/2026It has been an excellent 48 hours for Schadenfreude, @natashalennard.bsky.social buff.ly/hDB3iA4 419643
Reposted by kyle thieringerThe Stranger @thestranger.com · 28/07/2026After 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.thestranger.comDear Hendrix - The StrangerDear 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... 14312
Reposted by kyle thieringerSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I 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. 8265731921
Reposted by kyle thieringerSweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Happy 100th birthday Sir Attenborough! 032
Reposted by kyle thieringerJohn Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 17/04/2026New @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... 35320
Reposted by kyle thieringerJohn Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Sometimes 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... 24617
Reposted by kyle thieringerJohn Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 03/03/2026When 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... 14013
kyle thieringer @kylethieringer.com · 20/02/2026Happy to share work I contributed to during my time in the Murthy lab! now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🎉🥳 www.cell.com/current-biol... 082
Reposted by kyle thieringerWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad 9633119613639
Reposted by kyle thieringerMohammad Hosseini @mhmdhsini.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Iranians 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... 16932
Reposted by kyle thieringerChris J Dallmann @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social · 05/01/2026How 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... 37927
Reposted by kyle thieringerSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/12/2025I often think about Zohran Mamdani saying “to get to any of us, you’re gonna have to go through all of us.” 6608114
Reposted by kyle thieringerJohn Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 09/12/2025How 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... 28637
Reposted by kyle thieringerGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/11/2025www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/tuesday-november-11th-we-cave 333133573799
Reposted by kyle thieringerPBS News @pbsnews.org · 05/11/2025NEW: 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 854382
Reposted by kyle thieringerNBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/11/2025BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC 241179683926
Reposted by kyle thieringerJohn Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Do 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... 17629
Reposted by kyle thieringerSweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 01/10/2025The 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! 1711445
Reposted by kyle thieringerChris J Dallmann @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Now 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... 47230
Reposted by kyle thieringerIshmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 19/09/2025So 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. 2506
Reposted by kyle thieringerThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 13/08/2025FlyBase, 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...thetransmitter.orgHarvard University lays off fly database teamThe layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades. 3123129
Reposted by kyle thieringerJohn Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Graduate 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... 15317
Reposted by kyle thieringerOlivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 05/03/2025I 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 68442
Reposted by kyle thieringerMatt Collie @mottcallie.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Happy 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...media.tenor.coma man with a mustache in a blue suit says tiny celebration in front of a group of peopleALT: a man with a mustache in a blue suit says tiny celebration in front of a group of people 24218
Reposted by kyle thieringerAnn Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 31/07/2025settling 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 181
Reposted by kyle thieringerMarine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 28/07/2025We'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/452WL1mbit.lyMBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological LaboratoryCell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis scummis@mbl.edu; 973.800.4119 212723
Reposted by kyle thieringerJan M. Ache @jan-ache.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Preprint 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. 🧵..media.tenor.coma baby wearing a black space racer shirtALT: a baby wearing a black space racer shirt 14622
kyle thieringer @kylethieringer.com · 27/07/20258 weeks in the hole! Oh how I love these people ❤️ 020
Reposted by kyle thieringerAnna Gillespie @akgillespie.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Amidst 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! 2437
Reposted by kyle thieringerThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Embodiment 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...thetransmitter.orgBreaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodimentBrain function is inexorably shaped by the body. Embracing this will benefit computational models of real brain function and the design of ANNs. 15930
Reposted by kyle thieringereLife @elife.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Using 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 091
Reposted by kyle thieringerThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14/07/2025As 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...thetransmitter.orgFear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burningAs grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever. 2135
Reposted by kyle thieringerAdam Blake @ajblake05.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Our 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/... 23814
kyle thieringer @kylethieringer.com · 27/06/2025Tried 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 010
Reposted by kyle thieringerChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025Upper Manhattan about to call private security on the rest of the city lol 191153167
Reposted by kyle thieringerKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2025a former governor scion of a political dynasty losing to a 33 year old is a world historic crashout 684005354
Reposted by kyle thieringerPhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 23/06/2025The kind of timeline synchronicity you wait your whole life for. 261317282
Reposted by kyle thieringerNick Jourjine @nickjourjine.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Very 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 413948
Reposted by kyle thieringerAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Big lawsuit filed today defending NSF. It’s a coalition including @aaup.bsky.social , @uaw.org , and @democracyforward.org . See thread🧪 125364
Reposted by kyle thieringerJohn Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Nice 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!grad.uw.eduLeila Elabbady 092
Reposted by kyle thieringerAakanksha Singhvi @singhvilabglia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Happy 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)wormglia.orgReact AppWeb site created using create-react-app 34119
Reposted by kyle thieringerThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025In 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...thetransmitter.orgThis paper changed my life: Bradley Dickerson on how a 1940s fly neuroanatomy paper influences his research to this dayThis 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… 2157
kyle thieringer @kylethieringer.com · 16/06/2025First 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 🦀 010
Reposted by kyle thieringerPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025We’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. 1751836
