Excited to announce our new pre-print (www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...)!

This collaborative work (co-led by Adriane Otopalik and Gerry Rubin) examines how neuronal circuits regulate social behaviors, like courtship🫶 and aggression🥊, across sexes. #neuroscience #Drosophila #WomenInSTEM 🧪1/

Networks of sexually dimorphic neurons that regulate social behaviors in Drosophila Neural mechanisms underlying sexually dimorphic social behaviors remain enigmatic in most species. In Drosophila , sexually dimorphic P1/pC1x neurons have been described as a site of sensory integrati...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧠 A new wiring diagram of the 166,000+ neurons in the brain & nerve cord of a male fruit fly is a key tool in uncovering how the brain enables complex behavior—information that could ultimately help scientists better understand what causes different diseases ➡️ https://hhmi.news/4o3EJnk

Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle):

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

H/t @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

Drosophila Genetic Database The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

The Flybase grant at Harvard has been canceled by Trump. Bloomington and Cambridge canceled too. Flybase is on life support. Please donate to keep it alive.

Excited to have this paper out (rdcu.be/d0T3Y)! In it, we focused on how flies know what to attend to in a complex environment (like below)?

We uncovered neuronal pathways through which social states (like aggression 🥊) modulate visual processing in #Drosophila. #WomenInSTEM #neuroscience 🧪 1/

evolbrain.bsky.social‬ I would like to join.

Lena Riabinina (@lenariab.bsky.social) Bees, flies, mosquitoes, neurons, ecology and genetics. @Lena_Riab on Twitter. Associate Professor at Durham Biology in the UK. Head of @InsectNeuroLab.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👩‍💻🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤯🦟🪰🐝👁️👄🧠👃🥀🌻🌸🏖️🌊

lenariab.bsky.social can you add me to the Insect Sensory Neuro? Thanks!