Connectomes, connectomes, connectomes: Mert Erginkaya and I wrote a Current Biology dispatch about the FANC fly VNC connectome papers from the @casa_tuthill and Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social labs in nature, and discuss how connectomes change the way we analyze circuits for behavior. Link below ⬇️

We are excited to share educational materials designed to bring FlyWire into classrooms! We have designed interactive lessons to be used by high school and college teachers, instructors, or scientists doing outreach. Check it out: codex.flywire.ai/academy_home Image by Perception

Frameless exhibition London The storm on the Sea of Galilee

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

Big news! The fly connectome is featured on the cover of a special edition of Nature. This is all possible thanks to the collaboration of 292 members of The FlyWire Consortium! nature.com/immersive/d428… Check out the thread for an overview of the 9 #flywire papers published today

Zoom into the #flywire fly brain courtesy of another of Philipp Schlegel's (Fly Connectome Dept of Zoology @MRC_LMB) amazing 3D sequences. Then read his piece on the flyconnecto.me blog to find out more about how the #connectome became a reality flyconnecto.me/2024/10/02/fly….

What an amazing time for neuroscience!! We are proud to be part of this great adventure. Philip Shiu Andrew Seeds Gabriella Sterne, Ph.D. FlyWire

Congratulations to Research Scientist Igor Siwanowicz: 1 honorable mention & 2 images of distinction in the 2024 #NikonSmallWorld competition! Antenna of a mole crab(L), aster anther cross section w/pollen grains(Top R) & floret of common chicory w/pollen grains Nikon Small World

Registration is now open for our Workshop. Please apply here: sites.google.com/view/crete-fly…. Deadline November 30th.

I digested two nature papers from Carolina Rezaval and @MikeCrickmore about flexible integration and decision-making in Drosophila courtship and mating. Out came this dispatch for Current Biology: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCED_LsQSQE… Enjoy reading!

Hmm... Airbnb got HUGE PRESS about a free week for displaced LA fire residents. Our application was DENIED for not being in a mandatory evacuation zone. What?!? Don't know a single Palisadian who has successfully claimed. Calling BS on their "lifeline." Fix this Brian Chesky

Testing out DeepSeek-R1's ability to do "science" in one-shot. I asked it to critique my 2017 R01 proposal which was scored Impact 26, 10% percentile, and funded by NINDS. (I wrote the proposal, I have the rights to share it with anyone or anything). I uploaded a PDF of my

Dr. Yasmín Pedrogo, Dean of Academic Affairs, announced the appointment of Dr. Andrew Seeds as the new Director of the Institute of Neurobiology yesterday! Congratulations, and best wishes for the future to Dr. Seeds! Andrew Seeds, Yasmin Pedrogo

Honored to begin as Director Institute of Neurobiology - UPR, Recinto de Ciencias Médicas UPR. After disasters, pandemic & cuts, we’re rebuilding—expanding into computational neuroscience & ramping up conferences/courses. We’ll seek partners & donors; reach out to join us! Stay tuned for more.

My TEDx talk just came out! “How flies can help us build better robots and AI” youtube.com/watch?v=kFV6NC… Thanks again to the fantastic organizers TEDxArendal Special thanks to the people in my laboratory at EPFL past and present without whom none of this would be possible

NeuroBoricuas organized a visit for UPR Bayamón students to the Institute of Neurobiology, where they explored Neuroscience and discussed shared facilities and equipment. 🔬🧠 #NeuroBoricuas #Neuroscience #NeurosciencePuertoRico Institute of Neurobiology - UPR Andrew Seeds Yasmin Pedrogo

The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva: Multimodal social context modulates behavior in larval Drosophila doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Exciting news - Drs. Andrew Seeds, Sebastian Seung, and Stefanie Hampel just received Simons Foundation and NSF awards to launch the San Juan School on Connectomics in 2026. Stay tuned - it's happening!! 🎉🧠🔥

Congratulations to the Seeds/Hampel Lab on their new manuscript on BioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live and free to use and explore. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators janelia.org/project-team/f….