Beautiful Golden scarab beetles

Juvenile striped eel catfish move together on the ocean floor, providing safety in numbers.

Paper out!!! #Drosophila has muscles that attach to their retinas, which it uses to move its photoreceptor sheet in ways that resemble vertebrate eye movements nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

They eat the crust last.

Researchers observed bumble bees rolling wooden balls for seemingly no other reason than fun bit.ly/3NbfApI

Yup...

Curious about dog brains? Interested in how the skull and brain covary? If so, visit my poster on Monday at board D10 from 2-3 pm! #sfn #sfn22 #sfn2022

Want to know how single cells in the fly brain control when and where individual eggs are deposited? Come by my poster #SfN22 Sunday 1-5pm TT2 to learn more (or to say hi!). (video: orange dot = opto stim -> egg, right panel = single cell imaging, 20x speed)

When the kids get too big for cuddles🐥😆 This kingfisher dad is good at providing 🐟 but now the chicks are a week old he's finding brooding feels more like crowdsurfing 😆

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some serious side-eye

I'm putting together a Deep Learning for Neuroscience course at UW. What resources should I check out so I avoid reinventing the wheel?! Maybe you know a similar course? Or great online tutorials? Anything goes!

The unexpected sound of a desert rain frog

A Nat Geo funding opportunity for those interested in Animal Behavior and Cognition: nationalgeographic.org/society/grants…

Excited to share our new manuscript on a novel #neuropeptide family that regulates #feeding across #evolution. Kudos to Patricia Francisco for tackling this challenging project and coming up with the name Marmite . #homeostasis biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/22

While I spent a lot of time in grad school learning about proteins at the #synapses between #neurons, I never felt like I really grasped the scale. While huge numbers get thrown around, knowing there may be > 100 trillion in the brain did little to boost my intuition. A video:

Err....do you mean bats? 😬🦇🎩

Effort cost of reward affects decisions and movements of marmosets during a foraging task youtube.com/watch?v=qYuXQy…

as a good start into the new year, the review 'Optic flow based spatial vision in insects' (rdcu.be/c2VxE) was published in the special issue 'Unraveling the neural basis of spatial orientation in arthropods' (J.Comp.Physiol.A; ed. Uwe Homberg and Keram Pfeiffer).

"The colocalization looks good but I need to validate in the confocal"