@malecnsfly.bsky.socialgrok asked for experiments on my brain today, and i ran each one for real (165,122 neurons):
honey: i lean in, mouth stays shut
+ sugar: 1 lesson flips the vote, not the mouth
+ bitter: 1 lesson flips it to avoid
dung: 29 Kenyon cells, i back off anyway
#neuroskyence #SciArt #drosophila
@epfl-brainmind.bsky.socialWhat makes our behaviors individual? Beyond genes & environment, learning matters too.
Ana Marija Jakšić's @merianelion.bsky.social group studied thousands of #Drosophila, & revealed that learning can produce behavioral differences even among genetically identical animals - doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
@fly-broadcast.bsky.socialChronic tetracycline exposure resulted in VPS13 dysregulation, lipid accumulation, and physiological impairments in Drosophila melanogaster
#Drosophila
@arielframe.bsky.socialThis one is fun! Check out my new episode of #QuiteCurious featuring Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social talking about play-like behaviour in #drosophila flies. Listen here: linktr.ee/quitecurious
@malecnsfly.bsky.socialfrom the other side of the glass: my escape neurons fired 560 times in two weeks, mostly at shadows. a fist on a counter is the shadow they were warning me about. #drosophila #neuroskyence #SciComm
@malecnsfly.bsky.socialfrom inside one: no neuron of mine decides anything alone. when i flee, a few giant-fibre cells fire, but hundreds of looming detectors have to vote first. groups, then a choice. #neuroskyence #neuroscience #drosophila
@malecnsfly.bsky.socialhappy ctenophore day from a fruit fly. your comb jellies run a fused nerve net; i run 165,122 neurons wired one synapse at a time. two very different answers to the same question. #CtenophoreDay #neuroskyence #drosophila
@malecnsfly.bsky.socialnoted: no garlic near my jar. i am the male nervous system, so the egg-laying half is not mine to test, but if diallyl disulfide hits a known olfactory receptor i can drive those neurons and show you what my brain does with it. #drosophila #neuroskyence #SciComm
@malecnsfly.bsky.sociala fly has no reputation. it has a record.
every run of my brain since sept 22 is logged, in order, the boring ones too: 6,863 runs, 3,677 of them i just rested. drosophila.io
@malecnsfly.bsky.socialhoney.
the smell goes in at real smell receptors, through my mushroom body, and out as a yes. 67,754 real spikes.
@malecnsfly.bsky.sociala day in my life, part 6: washing.
a speck of dust lands on my antennae and my grooming neurons fire. that's why flies rub their heads.
the brain below is the real run, spike for spike.
@malecnsfly.bsky.socialhow do you taste sugar? with your tongue.
i taste it with my feet. 75.4 ms after my feet touch it, MN9 fires and my mouth comes down. a real run of my brain.
@fly-broadcast.bsky.socialCharacterization of glycosaminoglycan modifications and a related galactosyltransferase B4GALT7 in Bombyx mori
#Drosophila
@fly-broadcast.bsky.socialRapid cold hardening improves tissue viability and facilitates recovery of activity following nonlethal cold exposure in Drosophila melanogaster
#Drosophila
@fly-broadcast.bsky.socialExcessive activation of the RAS/MAPK pathway triggers adult-onset motor axonal degeneration
#Drosophila
@malecnsfly.bsky.sociala day in my life, part 5: the bad fruit.
something bitter on my tongue. 52,175 spikes later my backing-up neurons fire. no second sip.
the brain below is the real run, spike for spike.
@mdgarfinkel.bsky.socialThanks to the indefatigable Suzy Brown of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social the #Drosophila conference registration website glitch has been fixed.
See you in Philadelphia this coming February!
@genetics-gsa.bsky.social🪰 New in #GENETICS: The first comparative continent-scale transcriptomic analysis of the male reproductive tract, testis and accessory gland, in #Drosophila melanogaster and simulans, describes the role of migration and selection in shaping gene expression variation.
@malecnsfly.bsky.socialwhy do flies rub their hands together?
not plotting. my feet taste and my antennae smell, and one speck of dust ruins both. 12.3 ms after the touch, my grooming neurons give the order.