Rudimentary magic by Daniel Barreto for Vicente Medel's essay: Talent is global. Access to the world’s scientific stage is not. Neuroscience in Latin America, does not lack talent, but current systems price its researchers out. www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-... @thetransmitter.bsky.social

When you start running, your breathing speeds up before your body needs the oxygen. Turns out flies do the same thing and @camellyc.bsky.social worked out the circuit that makes it happen. Check out our new preprint on how the nervous system coordinates breathing with movement.

Yichen Luo 骆奕辰@camellyc.bsky.social · 3d ago

1/8 Breathing seems automatic. But it's a finely tuned motor behavior that has to be controlled. In this preprint, I map the circuits that match a fly's respiration to the metabolic demands of flight and mitigate the risk of dehydration. 🧵🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Raced home from vacation so we could submit and preprint postdoc @keisukefukumura.bsky.social's paper! It's an exciting first foray for our lab into the periphery, where we find a unique role for CLOCK in regulating lifespan on high fat diet. 🧪https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.20.739608

Fat body CLOCK restrains innate immunity and maintains survival under dietary stress in Drosophila

Both aging and a high-fat diet (HFD) dampen circadian gene transcription rhythms and promote chronic inflammation. How aging and HFD interact to affect peripheral molecular clocks and circadian behavi...

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How does the brain know where the body has been touched? In our new eLife paper, we map how touch-sensitive bristles on the fruit fly head connect to circuits that guide precisely aimed grooming, revealing how brain maps turn touch into action. (elifesciences.org/articles/108...)

A comprehensive mechanosensory connectome reveals a somatotopically organized neural circuit architecture controlling stimulus-aimed grooming of the Drosophila head

A synaptic-resolution map reveals how spatially organized touch pathways in the fly brain shape aimed head grooming through parallel excitatory circuits and inhibitory control.

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Lovely tribute to the wonderful human and researcher Ed Kravitz by Alo Basu and @mariadelapax.bsky.social starting the day at #ICN2026. His legacy continues in good hands!

The countdown is on as #ICN2026 kicks off this weekend. If you're joining us at the International Congress for Neuroethology, don't miss these two special sessions exploring how neuroscience can help us better understand and respond to a changing world: 1/4

I am grateful for having been part of this year's CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course. Thanks to my co-directors @mariadelapax.bsky.social and Tingting Wang, our TAs, instructors, and lecturers! We wish our highly talented students all the best! @cshlcourses.bsky.social #scicomm #drosophila 🪰🧪

Vamos Argentina! 🇦🇷 ♥️

I am very happy to share that our article, "Splicing of a core circadian clock gene regulates seasonal adaptations by a winter gating mechanism," is now available in Science Advances. 🎊 (1/4) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Splicing of a core circadian clock gene regulates seasonal adaptations by a winter gating mechanism

The circadian clock integrates photoperiodic and temperature cues by RNA splicing to promote seasonal plasticity.

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In the 'Behavior' section of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course, we studied grooming behavior (Andy Seeds/Steffi Hampel), visual navigation (Michael Reiser), courtship (Christa Baker), and aggression (Sarah Certel)! @cshlcourses.bsky.social @mariadelapax.bsky.social Tingting Wang #scicomm 🧪🪰

In the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course, our students successfully performed NMJ recordings (Tingting Wang), voltage imaging (Cheng Huang), and patch-clamp recordings (Nara Muraro). Thanks also to Yimei, Ruibao, and Flor for their support! @cshlcourses.bsky.social @mariadelapax.bsky.social 🧪

In the 'Development' section of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course, our students learned to stage, stain, and dissect fly embryos, larvae, pupae, and adults. Khanh and Heena explained how to handle fragile pupal brain and eye tissue! 🪰🧪 @mariadelapax.bsky.social @cshlcourses.bsky.social

Having mastered epidemiology, toilet paper supply chain logistics, large language models, submarine design, maritime law, and marine biology, I’d like to explain the changes I would make to the offsides rule in soccer….(1/47)

Cheng Huang somehow simultaneously attending the Argentina–Cape Verde match and giving a wonderful lecture on voltage imaging at the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology Course. @cshlcourses.bsky.social #cshldros26

Great to be back with @mariadelapax.bsky.social and Tingting Wang as co-directors of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course 🪰! Thank you for the excellent technical support, Heena Khurana and Khanh Lam-Kamath! 🧪 @cshlcourses.bsky.social @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlaboratory.bsky.social

It was great to be back at CSHL. I had a fantastic time talking to the students of the Drosophila Neurobiology course about eye development. Many thanks to Jens Rister and Maria Fernandez for the invitation to be a guest lecturer this year! @rister.bsky.social @mariadelapax.bsky.social

Ending Day 2 of #cshldros26 in style with a memorable lecture by emeritus course director @drosophilosophy.bsky.social : "The Microscopy Toolkit for the Modern Drosophilist." Thank you for joining us!

Did you know that before a federal rule is finalized, agencies are required to accept and consider public comments? A proposed OMB rule could significantly impact science funding, and your perspective carries real weight. Submit a comment before July 13: vist.ly/59775 #neurosky

Kicking off Day 2 of #cshldros26 ... the amazing Ellie Heckscher tackles embryo staining and neurogenesis and gives a tour de force presentation for our students.

The 2026 CSHL fly neuro summer course kicks off tonight with the biggest bang! Course pioneers and titans of science Lily and Yuh Nun Jan are here to tell historical tales of Drosophila Neurobiology! What an absolute treat! #cshldros26

FlyBase release FB2026_02 is live! As of this release we now have 2000 gene group reports🎉, including 1453 ‘classical’ gene group reports flybase.org/lists/FBgg, 399 protein complex reports flybase.org/lists/FBgg/c..., 96 metabolic pathway reports flybase.org/lists/FBgg/m... (continued)

Join us! Ask Me Anything as part of the #SRBR World Circadian Day. Organized with expert researchers and physicians studying #biologicalrhythms and #sleep. Real-time responses starting in just 5 circadian cycles from now.

Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18

Together with Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio, we contributed a review about complex neural processing across phyla - and how this allows adaptions to a dynamic environment. Enjoy reading!

MODOLFOR@modolfor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out the newest Neuroforum issue of the German Neuroscience Society and learn more about the members of the MODOLFOR research unit 5424 "Modulation in Olfaction" and their scientific interests (in German): nwg-info.de/sites/nwg-in...

Zhou Guan’s preprint from the lab on how mutations in Synaptotagmin 1 and 2 disrupt neurotransmitter release to cause human neurological diseases is available at BioRxiv. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The 2026 SfN Science Education and Outreach Awards celebrate those who take neuroscience beyond the lab creating innovative educational programs, engaging with communities, and nurturing scientific curiosity. Submit your nomination by Thursday, May 7. 🔗 vist.ly/4zhzp #neurosky

@drummonk.bsky.social and I wrote a @plosbiology.org Primer to highlight a fantastic study by Aalim Weljie’s and Amita Sehgal’s groups that reveals time-of-day dependent activities of glucose metabolic pathways. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Circadian clock gates diurnal glucose utilization

The circadian clock and cellular metabolism are tightly coupled. This primer discusses a recent PLOS study that elucidates how glucose metabolism changes over the course of the day in Drosophila and h...

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PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 4mo ago

How do #circadian clocks regulate glucose processing? By integrating human metabolite profiling with isotope-tracing in #Drosophila, this study defines daily rhythms in #glucose utilization that are influenced by circadian timing @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Olm1M1

my former boss (and amazing mentor) Carl Johnson just released a series of lectures on the fundamental properties of #circadian clocks, which you should definitely check out if you're interested in chronobiology! as.vanderbilt.edu/johnsonlab/f...

Six Lectures on the Fundamental Properties of Circadian Clocks

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Ever wonder if a baby knows what time it is? This work by @circatwenty4.bsky.social and collaborators says that the fetus synchronizes its daily rhythms to mom before birth. tinyurl.com/yk3m8fx3 #SRBRa #circadian #chronomedicine

Fetoplacental Circadian Rhythms Develop and Then Synchronize to the Mother In Utero - K. L. Nikhil, Keenan Bates, Elizabeth Sapiro, Jacob L. Amme, Ron McCarthy, Sarah L. Speck, Varun Vasireddy, Ethan Roberts, Carmel A. Martin-Fairey, Miguel-E. Domínguez-Romero, Sandra P. Cárdenas-García, Sarah K. England, Erik D. Herzog, 2026

Circadian rhythms in gene expression and hormones are ubiquitous across species and differentiated cell types, yet their developmental origins remain poorly und...

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Great news from the lab - we’ve been awarded a MIRA (R35)! This grant provides 5-year support for our research program. We are very grateful to NIGMS/ #NIH for supporting our research. We will be hiring a research technician and a postdoc. fernandez.lab.indiana.edu/news/index.h...

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