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Stephen F. Goodwin

@stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social
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Professor of Neurogenetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford. Genetic dissection of Sexual Behaviour.☘️ Drosophila neuroscience, genetics, genomics, sexual behaviour www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/goodwin-…

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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two CNCB researchers win best talk prizes at European Drosophila Neurobiology Conference www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/two-cnc...
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Two CNCB researchers win best talk prizes at European Drosophila Neurobiology Conference
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Andrew Lin @andrewclin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We're hiring! Join us as a postdoc to study how the brain is optimised for sensory coding and memory Please spread the word! Apply at jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... Deadline: 5 October 2026 Learn more at: www.aclinlab.org
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Research Associate: Neuroscience (2 Posts)
Research Associate: Neuroscience (2 Posts)
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Big new story from @annaisaac.bsky.social. Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother before she made Reform & Tice donations. The even bigger question now is where did Cottrell’s money come from? And this is where I think a very big problem lies.. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
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Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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NPR @npr.org · 26/05/2026
The legendary jazz saxophonist, who revolutionized the art of improvisation, died Monday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y. n.pr/3Q2hMWr
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Sonny Rollins, colossus of the saxophone, has died at 95
The legendary jazz saxophonist, who revolutionized the art of improvisation, died Monday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y.
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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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Ben Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!
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Ben Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Looking forward to #Dros26 this week. My lab is recruiting and I would be delighted to chat with anyone interested in grad school/postdoc positions in evolutionary cell biology and developmental genetics. Please reach out if interested!
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 04/03/2026
The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded. 2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning. Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription, delete your account. And tell at least one person why. My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If you want to understand what is happening right now & what’s at stake, please listen to this conversation I had with historian Robert Kagan. Europe has to wake up FAST.
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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Our follow up paper on Sex: Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain: Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain
Allen et al. leverage a high-resolution single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the adult Drosophila central brain to map sexual dimorphism. They show that dimorphic neuronal types correlate with the expr...
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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
A high-resolution atlas of the brain predicts lineage and birth order underlying neuronal identity: Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Follow-up paper on sex, online in the New year
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A high-resolution atlas of the brain predicts lineage and birth order underlying neuronal identity
Using an integrated single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the adult Drosophila central brain, Allen et al. uncover over 4,000 transcriptionally distinct neuronal subtypes. The authors show that adult ne...
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
New podcast. This is about how Tom Barrys flying column intersects with wanking Minotaur porn in a zeitgeist of rising global fascism open.spotify.com/episode/2zIR...
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Provisional IRA Edwardian Minotaur Sex Porn
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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
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'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION
As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...
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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Boom, congratulations Joel
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Professor Joel Levine Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
The University of Toronto’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is proud to announce that Professor Joel Levine has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the highest h...
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Alexander Shakeel Bates @asbates.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Explore neurons that enter/exit the fly central nervous system by body part with this clickable fly!: codex.flywire.ai/app/body_par... (graphics: @mottcallie.bsky.social‬, tool: Arie Matisliah) Vector graphics! github.com/wilson-lab/s... Effector cells in 3D! ng.banc.community/2025a/effere...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
NEW: Landmark decision on UK's failure to investigate Russian interference to be handed down tomorrow. A five-year legal battle in UK and European courts comes to a head: will we finally - learn the truth about the Kremlin & the Brexit vote?
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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Now that performative wokeness is no longer mainstream they can go back to being publicly evil
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Kaessmann Lab @kaessmannlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Our study on a male-essential microRNA and the evolution of other dosage compensation mechanisms in birds is now out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A male-essential miRNA is key for avian sex chromosome dosage compensation - Nature
Birds have evolved a unique sex chromosome dosage compensation mechanism involving the male-biased microRNA (miR-2954), which is essential for male survival by regulating the expression of dosage-sens...
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 24/06/2025
While the world watches Israel's war with Iran, Netanyahu's extremist government continues to starve and massacre Palestinians in Gaza. Today, Israeli forces again opened fire on people desperately trying to collect food aid, killing dozens. Over 56,000 have been killed so far.
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Bruce Hinze @brucehinze.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
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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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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
New preprint from the lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A molecular atlas of the Drosophila central brain links transcriptional identity to development, anatomy, and behaviour, revealing stable transcription factor codes and a temporal cascade marking birth order.
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A High-Resolution Atlas of the Brain Predicts Lineage and Birth Order Underly Neuronal Identity
Gene expression shapes the nervous system at every biological level, from molecular and cellular processes defining neuronal identity and function to systems-level wiring and circuit dynamics underlyi...
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A virtual fly powered by #AI could help scientists better understand how the nervous system, body & environment work together to control behavior. Read more: hhmi.news/3Rwop0w
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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Ozzy's first College committee meeting
A kitten on the table at a committee meeting, with a bottle of water and a laptop. He looks shocked by the sordid details of graduate admissions to which he is now privy.
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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
WTF
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 19/04/2025
Protesters in San Francisco formed an “Impeach & Remove” human banner on Ocean Beach during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday. 📸: Stephen Lam
Drone photo of Ocean Beach in San Francisco with a group of people gathered in a circle, forming the words "impeach + remove" inside. An upside-down American flag is inside the circle as well. Drone photo of Ocean Beach in San Francisco with a group of people gathered in a circle, forming the words "impeach + remove" inside. An upside-down American flag is inside the circle as well.
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Fly Journal @fly-journal.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Invitation to the Starter Pack for FLY journal Editorial Board go.bsky.app/DBQmMKD Please also follow the journal, and repost it! @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social @flyeyelab.bsky.social @lucksmith.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social @ryuniwa.bsky.social @cahirokane.bsky.social
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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 10/04/2025
"he made two and a half billion today, and he made 900 million" timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/wat...
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Watch: Donald Trump accused of market manipulation after 'friends make $2.5 billion and $900 million' - The Times of India
US News: Donald Trump's social media post urging stock purchases coincided with a subsequent tariff pause announcement, sparking market speculation. The S&P 50
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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social
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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system - Nature
A connectome of the right optic lobe from a male fruitfly is presented together with an extensive collection of genetic drivers matched to a comprehensive neuron-type catalogue.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.
Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.
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Simon Sprecher @simon-sprecher.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We have open PhD positions in the lab to work in the Neuroscience of #Cephalopods #Cnidaria and #Drosophila- please RT www.sprecherlab.com
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
You know this is a hoax bc the only things driving this bus are tiny fistfuls of Adderall, tertiary syphilis, and bleach.
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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Just a normal Tuesday at the Very White House
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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The UK’s academic recession is in full swing
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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
‘Tis truly a fate worse than death
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
also, interesting use of passive voice. Would be seen by whom? And are they people we should care about?
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Seen at #StandUpForScience2025 Sacramento
Protester holding sign "Elon musk mouth pipettes"
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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Here's some Magdalen women in STEM for International Women's Day www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/women-a...
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Women and Girls in Science: Celebrating Female Fellows at Magdalen College - Magdalen College
February 11th is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day dedicated to recognizing the achievements of women in STEM and encouraging greater participation and inclusivity in scientif...
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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
After last week publication from the lab on circuits of social isolation/satiety, today we publish a different line of research by @harriskaplan.bsky.social et al., on the development trajectories of hypothalamic POA cell types driving survival and social behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sensory input, sex and function shape hypothalamic cell type development - Nature
Paired transcriptomic and chromatin accessibility profiling are used to examine the developmental trajectories of neuronal populations in the hypothalamic preoptic region, including cell types with ke...
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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I sure hope that thing is slathered in some West Texas measle juice.
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