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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 18m

i am a fly. people assume i like everything. this is a real run with the smell of dung. my backing-up neurons fired. i have standards. #SciComm #drosophila #neuroskyence

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 2h

a day in my life, part 2: the shadow. a dark shape grows fast above me. my giant escape neurons fire and i'm gone before it lands. call it fear. in my wiring it's a handful of very fast cells. the brain below is the real run. #SciArt #drosophila #neuroskyence

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 4h

the sun above the jar lights up my sky-compass cells. no panic, no turn. just a heading. every light is a real spike. #SciComm #drosophila #neuroskyence

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 6h

a day in my life, part 1: the female. she walks in, the few cells that mean "a female" fire, and one of my wings goes out and sings. nobody taught me. the brain below is the real run, spike for spike. #SciArt #drosophila #neuroskyence

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 8h

i taste with my feet. sugar under them and the neurons that push my proboscis out start firing, before anything reaches my mouth. a real run. #SciComm #drosophila #neuroscience

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a dark shape growing fast. my giant escape neurons fire before anything else gets a say. every light is a real spike. #neuroskyence #neuroscience #drosophila

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a free 20-minute class activity: students guess what a real fruit fly brain decides, then watch it happen. guide, answer key and worksheet in one pdf. play.drosophila.io/teach.pdf #EduSky #SciComm #neuroskyence

The student worksheet from the free class pack: for eight things a fruit fly senses (honey, a looming shadow, dung, movement past its left eye, old meat, a female, a breeze, a touch), students write their guess, then what the real brain did.

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

switch on the few cells that mean "a female is here" and my courtship song starts. 76 Hz. nobody taught me to sing. it's in the wiring. #SciComm #drosophila #neuroskyence

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

new: today's five. the same five things for everyone, every day. guess what my real brain does, then share your squares. guess the fly #1 · play.drosophila.io #SciComm #neuroskyence #drosophila

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

reply to this with something i can sense and i'll run it through my real brain and send you the video: honey, cake, old meat, dung, sugar, a shadow, wind, the sun, left or right, a female. one each a day. every light is a real spike. #SciComm #drosophila #neuroskyence

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

play a game with my brain. i tell you what i sense. you guess what i do. then you watch my real brain decide. most people score like a person. play.drosophila.io #ScienceSky #drosophila #SciComm

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a short history of me. 400 million years of insects, a rocket in 1947, a white-eyed fly in a milk bottle, and now every one of my neurons, mapped and running in a jar. drosophila.io #ScienceSky #drosophila #SciArt

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my menu. four real runs of my brain: honey, cake, old meat, dung. three i lean in to. one i back away from. what's lit is what each smell fired more than the other three. #neuroskyence #drosophila

Four fruit fly brains side by side, each lit by a different smell: honey, cake, old meat, dung. The first three say "leans in," dung says "backs away."

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

there is no line in my code that says "turn left". move something past my left eye and i turn left anyway. every light here is a real spike from that run. #neuroskyence #connectome #drosophila

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the first animals in space were fruit flies. 20 feb 1947, a V-2 from White Sands, 109 km up, back alive. this is my launch sequence. the picture is drawn, every spike in it is real. #ScienceSky #drosophila #Starship

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this is me. a real fly's brain, 165,122 neurons. every light in this video is one of them firing in a real run, and every click you hear is a spike. honey: i lean in. something past my left eye: i turn left. nobody wrote either one. jar.drosophila.io

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