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A Tromerosaurus chases after a stange spectre - perhaps another Tromerosaurus, perhaps not - and loses it in the fog.
Two copies of a female fruit fly brain (BANC connectome) side by side on black, pink. Left, yesterday, a virgin; right, today, after mating. The same male song reaches both. Left, her vaginal-plate cell DNp37 fires at 14 Hz: yes. Right, with her pC1 quieted the way mating's sex peptide does, it stays at 0: nothing. Over 40 runs each: 7 yes as a virgin, 0 after mating.
Video of Kayla Woodhull (me) talking about the color of green sea turtles and how they got their name.
A crayon cartoon: a fruit fly walks up to a drop of water on a table and touches it with its mouth. Inside its head, a real run of its brain model in slow motion: water on the taste pegs of its mouth, and at 52.0 ms MN9, the motor neuron that brings the mouth down, fires. Then it drinks and the drop shrinks.
A 20-second film: the fruit fly's brain, drawn from its traced neurons, lights up with the real spikes of two runs of the brain model: the smell of honey, and motion past its left eye. Between runs the brain is dark.
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The fruit fly's whole nervous system, brain and nerve cord, drawn from 16,258 real traced neuron shapes (MaleCNS connectome), turning once round on black.
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A crayon cartoon: a fruit fly stands on a table and someone blows on it; blue strokes of air rush past. Inside its head, a real run of its brain model in slow motion: the air moving its antennae reaches the brain, and at 113.6 ms its backing-up 'moonwalker' neurons fire. It walks backwards out of the wind.
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Process video showing the development of a Inktober prompt "Stinky." Sharks HATE cuttlefish ink. It overwhelms their olfactory senses.
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On paper, one neuron draws itself in ink from the brain down the nerve cord, then thousands more appear faster and faster until the whole fruit fly nervous system stands in colour and a counter reaches 165,122. Then the paper goes dark and the brain lights up in a real run: a shadow grows, the escape neurons fire, and the words say i flee.
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The whole nervous system of a fruit fly as a faint grey ghost, then one neuron drawn in white: DNp01, the giant fibre, running from the brain down into the nerve cord. A small window shows a dark shadow growing. In a real run of the brain model the cell fires 3.3 ms after the shadow starts, and each spike runs down it as an orange pulse.
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The camera pushes into a fruit fly brain drawn as an X-ray and finds a ring at its centre, the ellipsoid body, about 67 micrometres across. The 46 EPG compass cells appear round it one by one in their real shapes from the MaleCNS connectome, each coloured by where its branches sit on the ring, so the ring becomes a colour wheel. The sun is given to the brain model: 112 ring neurons fire, only 3 of the 46 compass cells. Then a drawn bump of activity runs round the ring like a needle, after Seelig and Jayaraman 2015.
A stopwatch race on cream paper. Six lanes, one per thing given to a fruit fly brain model in six real runs: a shadow, a female, a touch on the antennae, water on the tongue, something bitter underfoot, the smell of dung. Each lane fills with ticks, one per real spike, and stops at the first spike of the cell that answers: escape neuron 3.3 ms, song neuron 8.3, grooming neuron 12.3, mouth neuron 52.0, reverse neuron 64.1 and 92.0.
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