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Anna Hobbiss

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Drosophila Neuroscientist in Lisbon. I watch fly muscles do surprising things.

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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · Dec 11

The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging.

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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · Dec 11

Are you aware of our #Drosophila #art gallery?
droso4public.wordpress.com/fly-art/

Fly art

The idea behind this page is to provide a platform where to collate any arty imagery, sculptures or poetry inspired by Drosophila or flies in the wider sense. This will hopefully bring some joy as …

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Anna Hobbiss @annahobbiss.bsky.social · Dec 9

Thanks!! The DJ/VJ project is still ongoing 😄

Anna Hobbiss @annahobbiss.bsky.social · Dec 4

It might be! Are they twitches of the tarsi correlated in all the legs? If so then yes, the leg heart will be what's causing it (check out figure 2 of the Biorxiv where we describe twitches caused by the heart pumping).

Anna Hobbiss @annahobbiss.bsky.social · Dec 2

Thanks Dr Hobbiss 😄

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Anna Hobbiss @annahobbiss.bsky.social · Dec 2

Thanks! The synchronisation is indeed a really striking and interesting feature 🙂

Anna Hobbiss @annahobbiss.bsky.social · Dec 2

So happy that this long and winding story I've been chasing as part of two great teams, the @moitalab.bsky.social and @cmendeslab.bsky.social, is out now in BioRXiv! Take a look to see what surprising things fly muscles do when they're standing still.

Moita Lab @moitalab.bsky.social · Dec 2

Thrilled to present our latest BioRXiv on brain/body interactions during defensive freezing behaviour! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). You might think that a frozen animal has, well, frozen muscle activity, right? Wrong! Underneath the still surface of a fly, something in the legs is beating… 🧵

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