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Stephen F. Goodwin

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Professor of Neurogenetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford. Genetic dissection of Sexual Behaviour.☘️ Drosophila neuroscience, genetics, genomics, sexual behaviour http://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/goodwin-group-1

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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?

21.07.2025 23:14 — 👍 1240    🔁 458    💬 31    📌 35

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

21.07.2025 09:59 — 👍 172    🔁 42    💬 6    📌 1
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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...

16.07.2025 15:23 — 👍 119    🔁 57    💬 10    📌 6

Congratulations 🥂

01.07.2025 22:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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.

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Congratulations 🥂

23.06.2025 16:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Congratulations Ben 🥂

18.06.2025 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

14.06.2025 19:24 — 👍 46496    🔁 9695    💬 403    📌 403

….form follows function

11.06.2025 15:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a design classic ❤️

11.06.2025 12:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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.

09.06.2025 13:12 — 👍 38    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 2
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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.

09.06.2025 13:08 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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

28.04.2025 15:51 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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.

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

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Congratulations

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WTF

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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.

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

19.04.2025 18:28 — 👍 601    🔁 174    💬 14    📌 23

Invitation to the Starter Pack for FLY journal Editorial Board
go.bsky.app/DBQmMKD
Please also follow the journal, and repost it!

@stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social @flyeyelab.bsky.social @lucksmith.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social @ryuniwa.bsky.social @cahirokane.bsky.social

17.04.2025 12:02 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

"he made two and a half billion today, and he made 900 million"
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/wat...

10.04.2025 15:07 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1
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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

10.04.2025 06:06 — 👍 93    🔁 102    💬 0    📌 5

Beautiful work, very cool

03.04.2025 11:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

27.03.2025 22:58 — 👍 215    🔁 79    💬 11    📌 4

Congratulations 🥂 amazing work

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

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

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YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

20.03.2025 01:35 — 👍 63755    🔁 10568    💬 851    📌 593
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You know this is a hoax bc the only things driving this bus are tiny fistfuls of Adderall, tertiary syphilis, and bleach.

16.03.2025 20:39 — 👍 157    🔁 32    💬 2    📌 2
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Just a normal Tuesday at the Very White House

12.03.2025 01:29 — 👍 206    🔁 36    💬 5    📌 4

The UK’s academic recession is in full swing

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BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained on Saturday, is being held at an ICE detention facility.

It doesn't matter what your views on the Middle East or protests on college campuses may be, targeting people like this un-American and authoritarian and must be condemned.

open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

09.03.2025 15:03 — 👍 1042    🔁 296    💬 29    📌 52

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