Science doesn’t need to go according to plan; it just needs to lead to a discovery. If doesn’t have to be done alone or together with a buddy; there just needs to be a discovery. It doesn’t need to happen fast or slow; just as long as there’s a discovery, then everybody is happy.

Happiness is highly linked to how focused you are on what you're doing. A wandering mind is an unhappy mind.

Connectomes, connectomes, connectomes: @MertErginkaya and I wrote a @CurrentBiology dispatch about the FANC fly VNC connectome papers from the @casa_tuthill and @darbly labs in @Nature, and discuss how connectomes change the way we analyze circuits for behavior. Link below ⬇️

Excited to announce I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in July 2024! @cwru

Biggest medical discoveries of the week (🧵) 1. Why do some people get bitten by mosquitoes but others don't? It turns out that mosquitoes use three signals to pick their hosts: CO2 from breath, human odour, and the infrared radiation emitted by skin (nature.com/articles/s41586-0…)

The remarkable wings of Ryothemis fuliginosa, the butterfly dragonfly. While most of the time they look a dark black, they shimmer with iridescence when viewed from above. Males display this iridescence to eachother when fighting.

Thrilled to share our new paper on Dance🕺 in @CurrentBiology! We find that music🎶 and partner💃 driven synchronies unfold independently, even when they occur simultaneously. How? Thanks to a spatial, geometric organization. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.0… 1/n - More details below 👇

Can we...just accept that we suck at this? I want to tell you a story that has made me kinda hopeless about Twitter's ability to affect positive things happening, and it starts with this tweet from Hillary Clinton. x.com/HillaryClinton/status/…

New publication coming out of my collaboration with all these lovely people! @McGregorLab @maikekittelmann @Lauren_hSR @alexbuffry @ravindra_pn doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-0…

A pelecinid wasp from Los Quetzales National Park, Costa Rica. I'd love to know what's happening to that long metasoma in flight and the way it affects the flight dynamics.

The Ancient Greeks had two words for time: 1. Chronos = sequential, quantitative time 2. Kairos = fluctuating, qualitative time Here's why you need to understand kairos...

Our fly pupae say happy holidays with their Calcium.

This is one of the best videos to ever exist for entrepreneurs, creators... I think about it often. In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited a NYU music production class to critique student songs. At the beginning you could see student "Maggie Rogers" drenched with the absolute terror of sharing this with him. Pharrell is there just trying to keep his excitement in. The guy couldn’t wait to tell her this song is the bee’s knees. After he listened to a song called “Alaska”, he explained why “I have zero, zero, zero notes for that:” 24 hours later, someone posted the clip to Reddit. It blew up and the rest is history. Grammy nominated, millions of followers etc. And Maggie responded to the Reddit thread (i'll share screenshot in the next tweet). This story I find so cool because it inspires other artists to share what they got. We all can all connect with the fear of showing our work. It ain't easy. And to have a unique POV like Maggie. Easy to copy, harder to have something unique. I’ve got a bunch of designs, creations that have never seen the light of day. This video inspires me to publish more. My point of sharing this video: Publish your art anonymously. Or publish your art proudly as yourself. Bonus points if it's one of a kind work. But publish your darn art. This is your new week's energy. This is your 2024 energy. Go get 'em. -- If you enjoyed this, go listen to some Maggie Rogers. And thank you to Pharrell for being so supportive to an up and comer. And go follow me for more stories like this @gregisenberg, so you get more of it in your feed I share stories about internet communities, free startup ideas and more. (link in bio for more info about me)

WOWWWWWWW LOOOOOOOK at this AMAZING HAWK MOTH and his FLUFFLY POKÉMON TAIL! 😍😍

Snipe fly, Rhagionidae. Blue background, yellow proboscis in the blur and green eyes. What a combination 🥰 Photographed with the new @laowa_lens Aurogon at 10:1. There are a few details about this picture on Laowa’s YouTube channel. For the masterclass series I made a video that explains a bit about the Aurogon. Have fun watching. #aurogon #snipefly #schnepfenfliege #rhagionidae #diptera #insects #macrophotography #microscopes #entomology #fliege #fly #eyes

Tiger beetle, Cicindela hybrida. New photo of this beetle after over 4.5 years. Even if you sometimes don’t realize it, you gain a lot of experience over time; a lot of things are unconscious and are implemented automatically. As the last picture I will show you the “old” photo which was taken over 4.5 years ago. The difference is huge, and the development is rather slow and gradual. Of course it’s a matter of taste, but I think you always develop in the direction that you like. #cicindelahybrida #sandlaufkäfer #dünensandlaufkäfer #tigerbeetle #beetle #käfer #coleoptera #insects #portrait #porträt

Check out the new Netflix series „Life on our planet“! From executive producer Steven Spielberg and the Emmy Award-Winning creators of „Our Planet“, narrated by Morgan Freeman. I had the honor of working on this great project. Nine of my 3D stacks are shown in the third episode. Two of them even move. Unfortunately I can't show you any videos due to exclusive rights. netflix.com/de/title/8021384…

Male jewel damselflies (Heliocypha perforata) don't chase other males away. Instead they show-off to one another, holding out iridescent wing-spots in unusual flight patterns. Some 1000 fps footage of these interactions below.

Look out for the hindwings being held out forward as a display

Sleeping Blue-bum Bees! 🐝😴 Here are the SPECTACULAR Northern Blue Banded Bees (Amegilla walkeri) roosting from my video the other day! 💙 Males group together to roost at night on a small exposed stick like this. If a predator was to walk up the branch and shake it they would all disperse! 🐝 These native bees are so special and are such important warriors everyday in pollinating and keeping our eco-systems healthy! 🌼🌳 Have you ever been lucky enough to find these bees roosting in your yard? The genus can be found Australia wide with multiple species!