My new preprint attempts to explain the function of interneuron diversity in the fly visual system. The answer (or at least the beginning of it) falls in your lap once you have the connectome. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How does computation in the brain evolve? In a new review I argue that studying retinal circuits across species may just hold some key answers: shorturl.at/wFMT9

Hear ye!🔔 🔔 Applications are open to postdocs for Princeton's postdoc symposium TigerBrain! Come to PNI to talk about your work and meet our awesome faculty! @yelzebub and I would love to meet you! Apps due 8/15 forms.gle/8zEyzfJwZcDzPH… Plz RT🙌

Job alert! PhD student and postDoc positions in zebrafish social circuits and/or neurogenetics. 🐟🔬🧬🧠🧪🤯🥳 Are you interested in the neuronal control of animal behavior? Apply to join us in beautiful Lausanne / spread the word! fens.org/careers/job-ma… fens.org/careers/job-ma…

Nature research paper: AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data go.nature.com/3SmkYdy

Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly’s neurons in exquisite detail go.nature.com/4dx4qY7

A historic milestone for neuroscience! It's been a fantastic journey for the #FlyWire Consortium. This special edition of Nature showcases the power of open science, with nine papers that not only describe the fly connectome, but also make discoveries using it.

Come join us!

On the #ClearAndVivid podcast, @AlanAlda speaks with professor Mala Murthy about her research mapping an entire fruit fly brain to better understand diseases of the human brain. Listen in: bit.ly/4hE50pS

Nature research paper: Transcriptomic neuron types vary topographically in function and morphology go.nature.com/41dlBLo

This is Eric Kandel. He's a professor at Columbia, Jewish, and Nobel laureate for his work on the biological basis of memory. When he was 8, his family fled Vienna when the Nazis took over. And now we are defunding his lab in the name of fighting antisemitism.

Excited to share new work from my lab, where we image visual brain areas in behaving zebrafish larvae to see how sensory information is converted into hunting, freezing, or escape behaviors; pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Opinion | Columbia, Harvard, Princeton chairs on academic freedom "We call on universities to pursue two goals simultaneously: resisting inappropriate governmental intrusion, and implementing rigorous internal reform. (Full text in comments.) bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/opi…

Happy to share a new review I wrote with Lindy McBride for Current Biology! If you’ve ever wondered about the source of your stank or just want to learn why humans smell weird (it's true!), then this review is for you! 👃🧪🤔 doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

New op-ed in nature: The Trump administration's assault on freedoms and the rule of law is an existential threat to US science. We urge scientists to speak out in defense of freedoms, not just funding. With Andrea Liu Penn and Sidney Nagel of The University of Chicago nature.com/articles/d4158…

Latest from my lab: we identify and characterize the function of binocular neurons zebrafish larvae use to hunt prey; sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. Congrats to Richard Tian, Gewei Yan and Tommy Lam Thomas Ka Chung Lam!

New preprint on nest building in a shell-dwelling cichlid fish. Work by Swantje Grätsch and our tireless cichlid team. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Introducing The BANC (Brain and Nerve Cord) connectome preprint! Thanks to all who helped make this synapse-resolution map of an adult fruit fly central nervous system possible! Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… The BANC is publicly available in Codex: codex.flywire.ai/banc

A wealth of connections, now in the BANC! Congrats to this international consortium for a massive new data release shedding light on brain-body interactions.