How do animals avoid getting lost when exploring an environment in complete darkness? By combining computational modeling and experiments in a specialized arena, we found that fruit flies perform local search by carefully measuring how far they walk. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm proud of my former graduate student, Monique Brewster! She is such a good teacher and advisor. It is a privilege to co-teach with her and learn from her some new-to-me best pedagogical practices.

The string-pulling bees are at it again in my lab @QM_SBCS QMUL Psychology

Chauvin is the 7th on-duty cop to be convicted of murder since 2005, out of around 15,000 police killings in that time.

The violence committed by Chauvin is the product of an uncaring and racist system. What he did was just slightly break the rule of suppression that was intended. Justice is too rare so this is a good outcome. But we are being terrorized. Invest in the people, defund the police.

As a Jewish constituent, I am so profoundly grateful to our Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley for these words of solidarity with the people of Palestine, who are facing unending state violence, funded & supported by our own government.

Being a PI seems extremely taxing. Some parts seem great like the science, teaching and mentorship. But the time investment seems all-encompassing. Is it possible to be the PI I would want to be, without so much personal sacrifice, or is it better to do something else?

Palestinian lives matter.

This is disgusting. Bibi created this crisis because he was days away from losing power. Everyone in Israel knows this. Bibi is committing war crimes. And President Biden is cheering him on. Unconscionable.

My friend is putting together a program to bring together a "top-notch" chef & a marine conservation scientist to co-lead a sustainable seafood cooking demo w/a follow-on talk about ocean conservation. Any of you marine conservation scientists interested? You will be paid.

I’m excited to share our new paper on the enchanting cuttlefish! 1st part is perspective on why the cuttlefish is such an exciting model organism. 2nd part is description of embryonic development for our fave - dwarf cuttlefish 🐙✨ anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dv… HHMI American Association for Anatomy

Thrilled to announce I will be joining BioE and Genetics at @Stanfordmed and Stanford Engineering as an Assistant Professor in 2022. My lab will be part of Stanford Bio-X and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network and I look forward to joining such incredible communities of colleagues, trainees and new friends! 1/

Excited to share our new preprint! A brain atlas of the camouflaging dwarf cuttlefish. We used MRI, histology & deep learning to build a 3D brain, full histological atlas, 3D body atlas + beautiful, interactive website to host the data: cuttlebase.org 🐙1/2

📣Part 1 of our quest to better understand the brain was DeepLabCut 🦄. 🔥🦓Now Part 2: Introducing #CEBRA to jointly model neural dynamics & behavior with self-supervised learning. Hypothesis- or data-driven, highly consistent, decodable neural latents arxiv.org/abs/2204.00673 🧵👇

I'm truly humbled and grateful for this new financial support of my lab and so excited about the work that we can do with it. I'll be posting job ads for postdocs and PhD students soon, but please DM me if you or others may be interested in joining! umb.edu/news/detail/co…

A terrible day. Roe was a weak mechanism to protect individual autonomy. Pass a federal law.

MYTH: We don't have a solution to nuclear's "waste problem" REALITY: Nuclear waste isn't a problem. In fact, it’s the best solution we have to meeting our energy needs while protecting the natural environment! Here's what you need to know:

So thrilled to have this project out, after lots of work with a fantastic team! And I am in love with this beautiful illustration of the forest/prairie ecotype inversion, many thanks to the talented Caroline Hu!

Update: I’m officially an Asst Professor! 🤓 Grateful for fantastic colleagues in UW Psychology + UW Biology, looking forward to building the lab and teaching students next week! So excited to begin a new journey at the UW 💜

New profile!! Dr. Z Yan Wang (z yan wang) discusses octopuses, bumblebees, & striving for change as a university professor 🐙🐝 Check out her profile below & listen to the interview on our podcast! #WomenInNeuroscience #WomenInSTEM storiesofwin.org/profiles/2022/…