My first janelia conference is over! It was fun to learn about all the new discoveries made with the connectome datasets. Very hopeful and excited about the prospect of comparative connectomics within and across species 🕷️🪲🪰🐜🦟🦋🐝🦗

The Halloween crowd surge in Seoul is the worst peacetime disaster in South Korea since the Sewol ferry sank off the country's southwestern coast in 2014. Like the ferry disaster, the majority of the victims in Seoul appeared to be in their youth. nyti.ms/3TNYUag

Missed the lunar eclipse but it’s still a good morning

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What a result for South Korea 🇰🇷 They fought until the very end. This tournament is one for of twists and turns that continues to give us the gifts that keep giving. #FIFAWorldCup

Merry Christmas 🪰

@debivort is no longer on twitter, but i'll still post it - i joined ben's lab!

im so excited for all the exciting projects that will happen in the Kuan lab!!! congratulations, aaron👏

what will be next?!

Recent literature suggests that unsupervised tissue region identification in spatial omics data requires complex statistical or graph neural network models. However, in our new preprint, we introduce a much simpler approach: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hey Peeps! #Foraging is essentially a fundamental behavior that appears to transcend species. But do we truly know "how" animals do it? I am helping organize an HHMI | Janelia conference to explore some of the big questions in the field of #foraging #neuroscience. Such as: 1/

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Aaron was an amazing mentor, and I had so much fun working with him!!! very excited for his new lab

Thrilled to see this passion project out @nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… Congratulations and thanks to Aaron Kuan (now with a shiny new lab at Yale), Giulio Bondanelli, and all who made possible this work to reveal a connectivity principle that supports decision-making!

My postdoc paper from the Lee Lab on cortical decision-making circuits is out in @nature! nature.com/articles/s4158…. Thanks to Giulio Bondanelli and Stefano Panzeri for heroic circuit modeling and our stellar Harvey lab collaborators! Some new findings since the preprint👇(1/5):

finally...🥁🥁!!

We made a microscope and took this with my phone!🔬 AQLM @openuc2

The fly has a full #connectome, basically a directed + weighted graph. But what are its connection ‘signs’, excitatory/inhibitory? We move towards this answer, predicting transmitters from EM! w/Nils Eckstein, vid Amy Robinson Sterling, 1/n Published Cell: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

This one is very close to my heart, proudly sharing our newest preprint “Comparative connectomics of the descending and ascending neurons of the Drosophila nervous system: stereotypy and sexual dimorphism”. A short summary of this project that was 4 years in the making:

My favourite discovery ever has just come online. Can I please tell you about some seriously wacky molecular biology? The story starts with a reverse transcriptase that SOMEHOW defends bacteria from viruses. (👇 I recommend sound ON for the video 🎹) 1/