kyle thieringer
@kylethieringer.com
neuro grad student at uw with sama ahmed & john tuthill
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NEW: Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a former Navy helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor, will become New Jersey's next governor, The Associated Press reports. https://to.pbs.org/4paXpT5
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
NEW: Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a former Navy helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor, will become New Jersey's next governor, The Associated Press reports. https://to.pbs.org/4paXpT5
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
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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...
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
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...
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...
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Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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So proud of Jess Jones, an HHMI Gilliam Fellow, for defending her PhD today in @tuthill.bsky.social's lab! Jess was one of my lab's 1st hires in 2018. She was also 1st author of one of our first papers: elifesciences.org/articles/57258. I wouldn’t be where I am today without her contributions.
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
So proud of Jess Jones, an HHMI Gilliam Fellow, for defending her PhD today in @tuthill.bsky.social's lab! Jess was one of my lab's 1st hires in 2018. She was also 1st author of one of our first papers: elifesciences.org/articles/57258. I wouldn’t be where I am today without her contributions.
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FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
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By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
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Harvard University lays off fly database team
The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.
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August 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
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By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
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More Steve Flurkel !!
We need more papers that start with Steve Urkel quotes. Thank you @kylethieringer.com and @tuthill.bsky.social for this wonderful and fun review of our recent paper describing limb feedback in the visual system!
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August 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
More Steve Flurkel !!
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Graduate student @kylethieringer.com and I wrote a dispatch about a new @currentbiology.bsky.social paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) describing a proprioceptive neural circuit that helps the fly visual system identify (and ignore) its own legs.
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August 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Graduate student @kylethieringer.com and I wrote a dispatch about a new @currentbiology.bsky.social paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) describing a proprioceptive neural circuit that helps the fly visual system identify (and ignore) its own legs.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...
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I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research.
Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵
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Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵
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March 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research.
Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Happy Friday! The female adult fly brain-and-nerve-cord (BANC) connectome is now LIVE!
Explore the data here: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Explore the data here: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
a man with a mustache in a blue suit says tiny celebration in front of a group of people
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August 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Happy Friday! The female adult fly brain-and-nerve-cord (BANC) connectome is now LIVE!
Explore the data here: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Explore the data here: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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settling back into Edinburgh after a great USA trip for the 2025 somatosensory rat module with another outstanding group of students, faculty, course managers & directors @nsb-mbl.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social & bonus visit to the Dulac lab @dulaclab.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
settling back into Edinburgh after a great USA trip for the 2025 somatosensory rat module with another outstanding group of students, faculty, course managers & directors @nsb-mbl.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social & bonus visit to the Dulac lab @dulaclab.bsky.social
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We're thrilled to announce the largest private gift in our 137-year history: a $25 million unrestricted donation from MBL Whitman Scientist Mark Terasaki.
His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬
Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m
His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬
Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m
MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory
Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis [email protected]; 973.800.4119
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July 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We're thrilled to announce the largest private gift in our 137-year history: a $25 million unrestricted donation from MBL Whitman Scientist Mark Terasaki.
His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬
Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m
His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬
Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m
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Preprint Alert! Walking mostly feels natural and easy to us - but the neuronal control of walking is actually incredibly complex. We leveraged the fruit fly as a genetically tractable animal model with a compact nervous system to ask how the brain controls walking direction: tinyurl.com/flywalk. 🧵..
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July 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Preprint Alert! Walking mostly feels natural and easy to us - but the neuronal control of walking is actually incredibly complex. We leveraged the fruit fly as a genetically tractable animal model with a compact nervous system to ask how the brain controls walking direction: tinyurl.com/flywalk. 🧵..
8 weeks in the hole!
Oh how I love these people ❤️
Oh how I love these people ❤️
July 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
8 weeks in the hole!
Oh how I love these people ❤️
Oh how I love these people ❤️
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Amidst everything, the lab's first preprint is out! It's just a methods paper, no scientific results (yet!), but it's still great to see it all pulled together. We hope that these open-source behavioral tools will be useful for others!
A Semi-Automated, Parallelized, and Flexible Spatial Navigation Task for Rats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.22.666070v1
July 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Amidst everything, the lab's first preprint is out! It's just a methods paper, no scientific results (yet!), but it's still great to see it all pulled together. We hope that these open-source behavioral tools will be useful for others!
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Embodiment is the concept that the function of the brain is inexorably shaped by the body, a lens that is often neglected when neuroscientists study specific brain subsystems, write @bingbrunton.bsky.social and @tuthill.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence #neuroai
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#neuroskyence #neuroai
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Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment
Brain function is inexorably shaped by the body. Embracing this will benefit computational models of real brain function and the design of ANNs.
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July 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Embodiment is the concept that the function of the brain is inexorably shaped by the body, a lens that is often neglected when neuroscientists study specific brain subsystems, write @bingbrunton.bsky.social and @tuthill.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence #neuroai
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#neuroskyence #neuroai
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Using high-speed video and neural networks, researchers have compared hunting behaviours across five species of larval fish.
The study uncovers both shared strategies and striking differences in how fish move, see, and strike during prey capture.
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#EvoBio
The study uncovers both shared strategies and striking differences in how fish move, see, and strike during prey capture.
buff.ly/T2o9JJp
#EvoBio
July 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Using high-speed video and neural networks, researchers have compared hunting behaviours across five species of larval fish.
The study uncovers both shared strategies and striking differences in how fish move, see, and strike during prey capture.
buff.ly/T2o9JJp
#EvoBio
The study uncovers both shared strategies and striking differences in how fish move, see, and strike during prey capture.
buff.ly/T2o9JJp
#EvoBio
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As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But I think it’s more important than ever, writes @tuthill.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
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#neuroskyence
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Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning
As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever.
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July 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But I think it’s more important than ever, writes @tuthill.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
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Our new paper is now out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social!!! We had all sorts of fun generating LED stimuli for mosquitos to investigate their visual preferences in the presence of different odors. The paper is open access and available here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
July 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Our new paper is now out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social!!! We had all sorts of fun generating LED stimuli for mosquitos to investigate their visual preferences in the presence of different odors. The paper is open access and available here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Tried patching some neurons in the habenula today… When we got there we noticed these beautiful cilia waving around coming off ependymal cells lining the third ventricle. Bonkers
June 27, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Tried patching some neurons in the habenula today… When we got there we noticed these beautiful cilia waving around coming off ependymal cells lining the third ventricle. Bonkers
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Upper Manhattan about to call private security on the rest of the city lol
June 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Upper Manhattan about to call private security on the rest of the city lol
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a former governor scion of a political dynasty losing to a 33 year old is a world historic crashout
June 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
a former governor scion of a political dynasty losing to a 33 year old is a world historic crashout
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The kind of timeline synchronicity you wait your whole life for.
June 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The kind of timeline synchronicity you wait your whole life for.