Stephen F. Goodwin

Male CNS Connectome A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system —a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...

www.janelia.org/project-team...

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

Professor Joel Levine Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology The University of Toronto’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is proud to announce that Professor Joel Levine has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the highest h...

Boom, congratulations Joel

Explore neurons that enter/exit the fly central nervous system by body part with this clickable fly!: codex.flywire.ai/app/body_par...

(graphics: @mottcallie.bsky.social‬, tool: Arie Matisliah)

Vector graphics! github.com/wilson-lab/s...

Effector cells in 3D! ng.banc.community/2025a/effere...

NEW: Landmark decision on UK's failure to investigate Russian interference to be handed down tomorrow.

A five-year legal battle in UK and European courts comes to a head: will we finally - learn the truth about the Kremlin & the Brexit vote?

Now that performative wokeness is no longer mainstream they can go back to being publicly evil

A male-essential miRNA is key for avian sex chromosome dosage compensation - Nature Birds have evolved a unique sex chromosome dosage compensation mechanism involving the male-biased microRNA (miR-2954), which is essential for male survival by regulating the expression of dosage-sens...

Our study on a male-essential microRNA and the evolution of other dosage compensation mechanisms in birds is now out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations 🥂

While the world watches Israel's war with Iran, Netanyahu's extremist government continues to starve and massacre Palestinians in Gaza.

Today, Israeli forces again opened fire on people desperately trying to collect food aid, killing dozens. Over 56,000 have been killed so far.

Congratulations 🥂

Congratulations Ben 🥂

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

….form follows function

a design classic ❤️

A Role for Exaptation in Sculpting Sexually Dimorphic Brains from Shared Neural Lineages Sex differences in behaviours arise from variations in female and male nervous systems, yet the cellular and molecular bases of these differences remain poorly defined. Here, we take an unbiased, sing...

New preprint from lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Sexual dimorphism arises not through wholesale transcriptional reprogramming, but via selective sex-specific survival of neurons defined by birth order and shared developmental programs.

A High-Resolution Atlas of the Brain Predicts Lineage and Birth Order Underly Neuronal Identity Gene expression shapes the nervous system at every biological level, from molecular and cellular processes defining neuronal identity and function to systems-level wiring and circuit dynamics underlyi...

New preprint from the lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A molecular atlas of the Drosophila central brain links transcriptional identity to development, anatomy, and behaviour, revealing stable transcription factor codes and a temporal cascade marking birth order.

A virtual fly powered by #AI could help scientists better understand how the nervous system, body & environment work together to control behavior.

Read more: hhmi.news/3Rwop0w

A kitten on the table at a committee meeting, with a bottle of water and a laptop. He looks shocked by the sordid details of graduate admissions to which he is now privy.

Ozzy's first College committee meeting

Congratulations

WTF

Drone photo of Ocean Beach in San Francisco with a group of people gathered in a circle, forming the words "impeach + remove" inside. An upside-down American flag is inside the circle as well.

Drone photo of Ocean Beach in San Francisco with a group of people gathered in a circle, forming the words "impeach + remove" inside. An upside-down American flag is inside the circle as well.

Protesters in San Francisco formed an “Impeach & Remove” human banner on Ocean Beach during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday.

📸: Stephen Lam

Invitation to the Starter Pack for FLY journal Editorial Board
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"he made two and a half billion today, and he made 900 million"
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If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

Beautiful work, very cool

Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system - Nature A connectome of the right optic lobe from a male fruitfly is presented together with an extensive collection of genetic drivers matched to a comprehensive neuron-type catalogue.

I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations 🥂 amazing work

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

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We have open PhD positions in the lab to work in the Neuroscience of #Cephalopods #Cnidaria and #Drosophila-
please RT

www.sprecherlab.com

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work