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edasen.bsky.social
Edanur Şen Atıcı
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PhD candidate | Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN)
Learning & memory in Drosophila

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katrinvogt.bsky.social
Come to Konstanz next summer and learn everything about collective behavior!!!🌅🪰🐜🐟🦗
zamakany.bsky.social Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 8d
Konstanz school of Collective Behavior will take place again from 20th July to 7th August , 2026. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering state of the art research on collective behavior across systems. Application deadline : March 15th
Details here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
edasen.bsky.social
A striking Gothic silhouette: Magdeburg Cathedral ✨
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social
Thrilled to share our new paper!
With @tomtom-auer.bsky.social team, we asked how #evolution reshapes what animals #eat to match their ecological niches. Using pan-neuronal Ca2+ imaging, we show that the changes are in how the brain processes #taste.
Link @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution of taste processing shifts dietary preference - Nature
Calcium imaging of taste neurons and the ventral brain provides insight into evolutionary divergence of food choice in Drosophila species, supporting a role of sensorimotor processing in addition to p...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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viveknityananda.bsky.social
New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?

Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.

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The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees
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October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms
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#neuroscience
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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anitadevineni.bsky.social
Our paper on the counterintuitive effects of activating dopamine "reward" neurons is out now!

Props to all the trainees, especially Fio Lozada-Perdomo and Yuzhen Chen who did most of the work. Yuzhen is applying for PhD programs now and you'd be lucky to get her!

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Dual roles of Drosophila reward-encoding dopamine neurons in regulating innate and learned behaviors
Neuroscience; Behavioral neuroscience
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November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
edasen.bsky.social
Autumn vibes with the scarlet firethorn
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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maxplanck.de
Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨
Black-and-white portrait of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, 1903. She is seated in a chair, wearing a dark dress with a light, patterned collar, resting her head on one hand and looking directly at the camera. public domain Lise Meitner around 1906 in Vienna. She is wearing a long dress and a hat, standing among large plants and looking to the side. public domain
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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glengrambo.bsky.social
Dung beetles know where they want to go. They roll, push or shove their dung ball & every few seconds they stop pushing to climb on top of the ball to make sure they are going in the right direction. This dung beetle male is just climbing down after a look around.
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#insects
This male dung beetle is black and a deep iridescent metallic purple colour. He has just taken a look around from the top of his dung ball to make sure he’s going in the right direction, and is now climbing down to resume pushing! Dung beetles navigate by the sun and stars!
November 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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sciencenews.bsky.social
A Japanese flower smells like injured ants — a morbid perfume that lures hungry, pollinating flies straight to its blooms.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/flower-emits-smell-ant-wounded-flies
This flower smells like injured ants — and flies can’t resist it
A type of Japanese dogsbane releases a scent identical to wounded ants’ distress signal, drawing in scavenging flies that unwittingly pollinate it.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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arthropodlegs.bsky.social
Cool rotifer feeding with it's cilia beating
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November 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
edasen.bsky.social
Johnny Marr live in Munich tonight. What a moment!
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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tuthill.bsky.social
Do flies feel pain?

Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social.

🪰⚡👻🎃

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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pawelburkhardt.bsky.social
First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience

Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E

@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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elife.bsky.social
🌎 Collective intelligence, simplified: homing pigeons refine their routes not through expert leaders or complex learning, but by simply averaging paths across individuals.
A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons
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October 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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BREAKING: Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win the Nobel Prize in medicine for work on peripheral immune tolerance.
The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries about peripheral immune tolerance.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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jefferis.bsky.social
Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....
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 ...
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October 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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beetzjerome.bsky.social
Insect spatial memory is thought to be based on panoramic snapshots that are modelled as retinotopic images. This idea won't allow a distinction of landmarks from the scene. Unexpectedly, our data suggest that 🐝 learn 3D-objects as individual landmarks. #neuroethology
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September 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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merianelion.bsky.social
🚨Preprint🚨
What started as an attempt to compare CT scans of diverse fly brains, ended up a new concept for analysis & segmentation of difficult tomographic data. No ground truths, no training, just maths. This is TopoTome, topological data analysis of 3D images

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Figure showing 3 panels. Panel A: workflow of a classical deep learning model vs TopoTome workflow, with marked differences between the methods, including manual segmentation of images, design and optimization of neural network and data post processing that is needed in deep learning workflow but not in TopoTome. Panel B: core concepts behind TopoTome shown connected by arrows. From left to right, there is a microCT scan of a fly brain (3D reconstruction), a persistence barcode of H2 homologies, an image of how persistent barcodes map to the original CT brain scan, and a segmentation of a CT scan. Panel C shows the concept of cubical complex filtration of 2D and 3D image data.
September 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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katrinvogt.bsky.social
How is valence computed in the brain? Check out our new preprint about a single cell that integrates excitatory and inhibitory input across modalities according to valence and impacts behavioral decisions. An exciting collaboration across many labs. Enjoy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A multisensory, bidirectional, valence encoder guides behavioral decisions
A key function of the brain is to categorize sensory cues as repulsive or attractive and respond accordingly. While we have some understanding of how sensory information is processed in the sensory pe...
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September 27, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD

Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!

This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
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September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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hhmijanelia.bsky.social
🧪 New proteomics research is enabling scientists to decipher how neurotransmitter receptors behave & change as an organism develops, information that could help scientists better understand the formation & function of synapses.➡️ https://hhmi.news/4mFMhMY
Researchers detail how neurotransmitter receptors in the fly brain change during development
New proteomics research is enabling scientists to decipher how neurotransmitter receptors behave and change as an organism develops. The new work could help scientists better understand the formation and function of synapses--the junctions where communi...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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jexpbiol.bsky.social
Pregnant people often struggle to sleep and now it turns out that disrupted sleep extends cockroach pregnancies by reducing the quality of the milk that feeds the developing young so they take longer to grow. Cockroaches need their beauty sleep too!

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A photo of a Pacific beetle mimic cockroach (Diploptera punctata) with her nymphs. Photo credit: Sinead English.
August 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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fatima1amin.bsky.social
🚨🚨My PhD work pre-print🚨🚨
Check it out 👇👇
'Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila'

It's a great collaborative enterprise and can't thank enough to my mentors and collaborators for the kindest efforts...fingers crossed 🤞🤞
July 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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katrinvogt.bsky.social
Fly larvae keep on surprising us - check out this new paper from the Louis lab: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Sensation of electric fields in the Drosophila melanogaster larva.
Such cool little critters 🪰
Sensation of electric fields in the Drosophila melanogaster larva
Tadres et al. show that Drosophila larvae detect electric fields, moving toward the cathode via electrotaxis. Gr66a neurons encode field orientation, revealing a new larval sensory ability and expandi...
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April 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM