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New research reveals how development and sex shape the brain | Two companion studies, published in Cell Genomics, reveal how brain development lays the foundation for both shared and sex-specific circuits, redefining how neural diversity arises. A preview

Proud to share that our team made the local news. A big congratulations to Erin, Megan, and everyone on the team who made it happen.Thanks to Ben Hopkins and Artyom Kopp for the Preview piece.

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-03...

Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!

Looking forward to #Dros26 this week. My lab is recruiting and I would be delighted to chat with anyone interested in grad school/postdoc positions in evolutionary cell biology and developmental genetics. Please reach out if interested!

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
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My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you want to understand what is happening right now & what’s at stake, please listen to this conversation I had with historian Robert Kagan.

Europe has to wake up FAST.

Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain Allen et al. leverage a high-resolution single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the adult Drosophila central brain to map sexual dimorphism. They show that dimorphic neuronal types correlate with the expr...

Our follow up paper on Sex: Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain: Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

A high-resolution atlas of the brain predicts lineage and birth order underlying neuronal identity Using an integrated single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the adult Drosophila central brain, Allen et al. uncover over 4,000 transcriptionally distinct neuronal subtypes. The authors show that adult ne...

A high-resolution atlas of the brain predicts lineage and birth order underlying neuronal identity: Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Follow-up paper on sex, online in the New year

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Long overdue

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Male CNS Connectome 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 ...

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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...

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

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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...

Boom, congratulations Joel

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...

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?

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

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...

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...

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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.

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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...

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 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...

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 virtual fly powered by #AI could help scientists better understand how the nervous system, body & environment work together to control behavior.

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