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Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US? It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Side effect of annoying autotranslations: your university speaks Yoda

Great story!

Thanks @maartenzwart.bsky.social for the invite to talk in St. Andrews in the @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social - it was truly enjoyable! And thanks to your sober judgment I also made it home across the Firth of Forth in time before storm Amy hit!

Heartwarming to see my city stand up against racism and hate! This is why I love Newcastle!

By any standard, that is a mighty impressive PhD hat! Congratulations!

I daresay the same goes for subjective understanding too... "Op de Haare letten!" Key advice at Dutch new years' celebrations...

A sperm whale surfacing with a giant squid in its mouth.

I love seeing things like this. Reminds me of the raw and beautiful savagery of nature.

Leipzig, the current home for the Ukrainian Antonov AN-124 fleet…

A graph of the US population that is left-handed, by birth year. It drops from about 5% to a low of a little more than 3% from ~1890 to ~1910. It then rises steadily to about 12% around 1950, and stays at 12% out to 2000.

This is the graph we show whenever someone talks about how back in the old days there weren't (people who are not whoever the person speaking thinks are the default).

Mostly we do this to underscore that a rise in apparent frequency isn't always a rise in real frequency.

You just finished your PhD and you are looking for a postdoc to study stress-dependent modulation of learning. We are using the powerful fly model to understand the underlying circuits and mechanisms. You can apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Cool! Gratuliere Oli!

Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane TORONTO - Eyewitnesses today confirmed reports that a pedestrian was walking in the road because a cyclist was riding on the sidewalk because a car was parked in the bike lane.

www.thebeaverton.com/2025/09/pede...

My lab cannot afford donating at the moment, so I donated privately. Even if you don’t work on flies we all owe so much to FlyBase. Consider donating, and importantly, let’s strive to make the more official funding bodies aware of how much is at stake.

Wow! Very cool work!

I think the "embodiment" of this connectome is going to be such a hit: For instance take the interactive "body part" maps on Codex, where you can simply click on your favorite external or visceral part and it will show you all of the neurons associated it! codex.flywire.ai/app/body_par...

We are looking for 2 postdocs to join my lab at Sussex University in Brighton, UK (South of London, on the sea). One position is for a molecular/cell biologist, the other, for a neurobiologist/behavioural person. Drosophila experience desirable. Flyer w/more info below. Please repost. Thank you!

Very cool work!

Can you add me please?

Opportunities — ASAB

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.

More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities

Escaping groupthink: What animals’ behavioral quirks reveal about the brain Neuroscientists have long ignored the variability in animals’ behavioral responses in favor of studying differences across groups. But work on the brain differences that underlie that variability is…

ICYMI: Neuroscientists long ignored variability in animals’ behavior in favor of studying differences across groups. But now researchers are studying the brain differences that underlie that variability.

By @avaskham.bsky.social

#neuroethology

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...

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The singularity is awesome

It is already tomorrow, our first Fly North(East) England meeting at Northumbria University Newcastle! Co-organized with @toraks.bsky.social @dpdoupe.bsky.social. Looking forward to a day of bulding bridges and discussing how to nurture our network.

Room view is pretty neat indeed…

I always wanted to visit Knossos! - En route to the #Drosophila Neural Circuits & Behaviour workshop in Crete...

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

This is important. Flybase is an instrumental resource to probably every Drosophilist. Time to give back.

Our annual world-wide search for Vice-Chancellor's Fellows in selected subject areas @northumbriauni.bsky.social is now live. These are permanent Assistant/Associate/Full professor positions subject to normal probation criteria but with protected research time during the first three years.

PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬
📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy
Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀
🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/...
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it
🌍 Please spread the word!

Is it fly play? Is it fowl play? Great comment on our recent paper by one of the grandmasters of the subject: