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Wolf Huetteroth

@wolfhuette.bsky.social

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Associate Prof at Northumbria U, looking at Droso learning, memory, neuropeptides, play.

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Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · Feb 10

Our story about flies on carousels is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! After formally engaging the fantastic @clarahowcroft.bsky.social and integrating helpful reviewer feedback, we present a more concise story with detailed behavioural quantification and cooler videos! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter

ALT: a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter

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Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · 2d

Side effect of annoying autotranslations: your university speaks Yoda

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Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · 2d

Great story!

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 7d

A gut-brain axis for aversive interoception drives innate and anticipatory emesis in Drosophila. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679515v1

Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · 5d

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!

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 11d

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

Ben Dickenson @benjitoon.bsky.social · 11d

Newcastle says no to fascism.

The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance.

Newcastle united.

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Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · 16d

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

Erasmus Magazine @erasmusmagazine.bsky.social · 16d

Researchers in Maastricht have won the Ig Nobel Prize for discovering that alcohol can help when speaking a foreign language – especially with pronunciation.

Ig Nobel Prize: Germans speak better Dutch with a drink - Erasmus Magazine

www.erasmusmagazine.nl

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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 22d

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.

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Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 24d

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.

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.

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Emmanuel Perisse @manuperisse.bsky.social · 24d

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...

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoc position (M/F) in Neuroscience, stress modulation of learning (H/F)

emploi.cnrs.fr

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Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · Sep 4

Cool! Gratuliere Oli!

Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · Sep 4

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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.

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Ana Marija Jakšić @merianelion.bsky.social · Aug 27

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.

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Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · Aug 21

Wow! Very cool work!

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Matt Collie @mottcallie.bsky.social · Aug 1

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...

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · Jul 24

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!

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Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · Jul 11

Very cool work!

fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨🚨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 🤞🤞

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jul 10

Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.663268v1

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Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · Jul 9

Can you add me please?

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ASAB @asab.org · Jul 4

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

Opportunities — ASAB

www.asab.org

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jul 3

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...

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…

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · Jun 28

The singularity is awesome

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Clara Howcroft Ferreira @clarahowcroft.bsky.social · Jun 19

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.

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Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · Jun 15

Room view is pretty neat indeed…

Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · Jun 15

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

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

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