This work builds on exciting new studies in invertebrates asking similar questions—now with unprecedented access to neural circuits.

I hope it adds to the growing research reshaping how we see the tiny, yet vital, organisms that share our planet.

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My thesis work is out! 🪰

We often link pain to mammals—sometimes exclusively humans—but what about flies?

Thanks to @tuthill.bsky.social for supporting a funky, fun project, and to @NIH & @hhmi.org for funding over the past half decade!

Welp, antifa did it. They finally burned Portland to the ground. Nothing but smoke left.

Excited to announce our new pre-print (www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...)!

This collaborative work (co-led by Adriane Otopalik and Gerry Rubin) examines how neuronal circuits regulate social behaviors, like courtship🫶 and aggression🥊, across sexes. #neuroscience #Drosophila #WomenInSTEM 🧪1/

What a time to be alive

Agrawal lab logo. A fly in the UBC colors, with dots framing its body.

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

Systemic protections and guardrails are essential to a functioning society. Nature understands this even if oligarchs don't.

West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH The Trump administration's cuts to NIOSH have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S.

West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH

Puss Moth on Wisteria.

A marvel of our Naturehood. 🌟

#TeamMoth #NatureWithin

A single neuron (white) shown with 5,600 of the axons (blue) that connect to it. The synapses that make these connections are shown in green. The cell body (central core) of the neuron is about 14 micrometers across.

In Science, researchers detail a nanoscale-resolution reconstruction of a millimeter-scale fragment of human cerebral cortex, giving an unprecedented view into the structural organization of brain tissue at the supracellular, cellular, and subcellular levels. scim.ag/3FvpAKy #BrainAwarenessWeek

I’m absolutely going to do this because I still have a bone to pick with a LOT of you.

Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.

Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

Zoogle! Our new tool from @arcadiascience for picking research organisms. Even if you’re not a scientist, you should care that we spend >$50B/yr on clinical trials based on organismal models (>90% failure rate). Read more about Zoogle here: arcadiascience.com/blog/zoogle

I deeply enjoyed getting to talk about Gila monster venom in a lecture about incretins and GLP-1 receptor agonists! 👹

HHMI kills program aimed at boosting inclusivity in STEM education “Inclusive excellence” program had committed $60 million to 104 institutions

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US

gosh it’s so much nicer here…