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FlyWire@FlyWireNews
2 Oct 2024
Big news! The fly connectome is featured on the cover of a special edition of Nature.
This is all possible thanks to the collaboration of 292 members of The FlyWire Consortium!
nature.com/immersive/d428…
Check out the thread for an overview of the 9 #flywire papers published today
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FlyWire@FlyWireNews
Oct 29
FlyWire Codex just passed 100,000 users!

Searched from 117 countries and territories, with 5.8M+ queries across 5 fly connectomes. Thank you for exploring.

codex.flywire.ai
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FlyWire@FlyWireNews
Sep 14
Want to build your own fly simulator on the BANC connectome (the full brain + CNS from a female fly, ~160k neurons)? Here's how. 🧵
TLDR point your agent here: docs.google.com/document/d/1pH…
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FlyWire@FlyWireNews
Sep 14
Replying to @FlyWireNews
six legs' motor neurons as gait
- Escape loop: giant fiber → tergotrochanteral jump muscle, the fastest reflex in the fly, end to end in one graph
- Fly-in-a-box: hook a 3D body to the motor neuron output and let brain-side sensory input close the loop
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FlyWire@FlyWireNews
Sep 14
Replying to @FlyWireNews
Let us know what you create!
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FlyWire@FlyWireNews
Sep 13
Never thought we’d live to see a virtual fruit fly aura battle. Generational. Better hit that 35 ms wing song rhythm to win over the fly ladies.
Javi Solís
@javsolgar
Sep 12
Perdóname Dios por lo que voy a hacer
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Alexander Bates@as_bates
Sep 12
Modelling the whole fly brain from just the connectome and thinking that reveals something about fly behaviour, is a bit like modelling traffic flow out of Google maps and thinking you understand the world economy. Not unrelated, but not that close.
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FlyWire@FlyWireNews
Sep 12
Thousands of new visitors and tens of thousands of new searches on codex.flywire.ai, where both male and female fly connectomes are available. Get familiar with the fly brain and show us what you create! whatisabrain.com/fly/#2
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Hakan Yalçınsoy
@hknylcnsy
Sep 10
Meyve sineği beynini TCMB’ye bağladım ve faiz kararını belirlemesini istedim. Sinek, insana göre genelde daha düşük faiz kararı belirledi ve enflasyon oranı benzer çıktı.
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Andrei Apanasik
@a_apanasik
Sep 7
But can it run DOOM?!

Well...actually, yes.
News from Google
@NewsFromGoogle
Sep 3
For the first time, scientists have mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly — a key model organism in science. 🪰

Working alongside HHMI Janelia Research Campus and the scientific community, @GoogleResearch scientists and researchers used of 2D images into 3D neural shapes, reconstructing a record-breaking 166,000+ neurons. This foundational map of the adult male fruit fly brain can help accelerate our understanding of the brain, and is a major milestone in neuroscience.
Vibrant 3D digital reconstruction of a fruit fly brain against a white background, displaying a dense, intricate network of multicolored neural fibers and cell bodies in shades of blue, cyan, orange, and purple.A complex 3D visualization of a fruit fly brain, featuring a dense, symmetrical network of thousands of tiny, multicolored neurons and fine, interconnected fibers in shades of blue, magenta, orange, and green against a solid white background.
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FlyWire@FlyWireNews
Sep 6
Why simply be a connectome when you can also wear one?
Yana Welinder
@yanabana
Sep 6
Scientists mapped 166,000+ neurons in a fruit fly’s nervous system. I saw a dress.

Cascading neural train, a sculpted corset, and orbit-like hips.

My avant-garde muse has a 30-day lifespan and lives on a banana.
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Amy Robinson Sterling
@amyneurons
Sep 4
Step inside a fly and follow sight, walking, steering & grooming circuits! Powered by @FlyWireNews BANC, a wiring map of a fly’s brain and central nervous system published in @Nature this June. Yesterday brought MaleCNS in @CellCellPress from @hhmi_science @GoogleResearch, an inva. Now for comparative connectomics!
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FlyWire@FlyWireNews
Sep 4
Congratulations to our colleagues at @HHMIJanelia @GoogleResearch for expanding the world of connectomics with a second fly CNS, and the first from a male! This will unleash a new world of comparative connectomics.

Explore the new MaleCNS in Codex: codex.flywire.ai/?dataset=mcns
Cell@CellCellPress
Sep 3
New issue is out👉cell.com/cell/current

On the cover: the complete connectome of the male adult D. melanogaster central nervous system. The cover depicts a single representative cell from each of the 11,710 neuron types in the dataset, which contains 166,700 neurons in total.
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FlyWire@FlyWireNews
Sep 3
Have you explored the BANC (Brain and Nerve Cord) Dataset? codex.flywire.ai/?dataset=banc
Publication in @Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…
BANC Wiki: github.com/jasper-tms/the…
Resources for educators (HS/College): FlyWire Academy codex.flywire.ai/academy_home
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FlyWire@FlyWireNews
Jul 30
Last chance to vote in the BRAIN Initiative Photo & Video Contest! 🧠✨

Two BANC visualizations made the finals, including the one below featuring the 1,000 largest neurons in the fruit fly connectome!

See the image and video, then cast your vote: bit.ly/4pIgf5b
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