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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · 2d

www.janelia.org/project-team...

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 ...

www.janelia.org

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7d

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

www.thenerve.news

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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · 9d

Boom, congratulations Joel

Professor Joel Levine Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

The University of Toronto’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is proud to announce that Professor Joel Levine has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the highest h...

eeb.utoronto.ca

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Alexander Shakeel Bates @asbates.bsky.social · Aug 7

Explore neurons that enter/exit the fly central nervous system by body part with this clickable fly!: codex.flywire.ai/app/body_par...

(graphics: @mottcallie.bsky.social‬, tool: Arie Matisliah)

Vector graphics! github.com/wilson-lab/s...

Effector cells in 3D! ng.banc.community/2025a/effere...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · Jul 21

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?

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · Jul 21

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

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 21

BP appoints new chair to oversee shift back to fossil fuels

Albert Manifold, ex-boss at buildings material company CRH, to take over from embattled Helge Lund

www.theguardian.com

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Kaessmann Lab @kaessmannlab.bsky.social · Jul 16

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...

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...

www.nature.com

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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congratulations 🥂

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Jun 24

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.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jun 24

BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.

Israeli forces fire on people waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 25, witnesses and hospitals say

Palestinian witnesses say Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza.

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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · Jun 23

Congratulations 🥂

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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · Jun 18

Congratulations Ben 🥂

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Bruce Hinze @brucehinze.bsky.social · Jun 14

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · Jun 11

….form follows function

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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · Jun 11

a design classic ❤️

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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · Jun 9

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.

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...

www.biorxiv.org

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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · Jun 9

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.

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...

www.biorxiv.org

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HHMI @hhmi.org · Apr 28

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

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · May 13

Ozzy's first College committee meeting

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.

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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · Apr 23

Congratulations

Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · Apr 23

WTF

Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · Apr 23

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

www.science.org

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · Apr 19

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

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.

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Fly Journal @fly-journal.bsky.social · Apr 17

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

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · Apr 10

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

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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · Apr 10

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

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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · Apr 3

Beautiful work, very cool

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