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Hiro Namiki @UTRCAST
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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
5 Dec 2025
Neural dynamics and synaptic plasticity in simple networks drive Lévy flight foraging and obstacle avoidance behaviors for bio-inspired autonomous flight sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
29 Jul 2025
Treehoppers' spectacular headgear is both a 'Spidey-sense-like' electrical warning system and a bioelectric cloak phys.org/news/2025-07-treeho… via @physorg_com

Treehoppers' spectacular headgear is both a 'Spidey-sense-like' electrical warning system and a...

From the ultra-high frequency hearing of the Greater Wax Moth to the polarized light-detecting eyes of mantis shrimp, evolution by natural selection has produced a spectacular array of sensory...

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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
21 Jul 2025
Israeli research finds that when plants talk, insects listen reuters.com/science/israeli-…

Israeli research finds that when plants talk, insects listen

There is evidence that plants and insects interact through sound, researchers at Tel Aviv University said on Tuesday, opening a new frontier in the study of acoustic communication in nature.

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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
24 Jun 2025
Lateralised memory networks may explain the use of higher-order visual features in navigating insects | PLOS Computational Biology journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…
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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
11 May 2025
Whole-body physics simulation of fruit fly locomotion Vaxenburg et al., Nature 2025. nature.com/articles/s41586-0… youtu.be/Kz4qi6b4-3U

Whole-body physics simulation of fruit fly locomotion

Nature - A detailed whole-body model of the fruit fly, developed using a physics-based simulation and deep reinforcement learning, accurately replicates real fly behaviour.

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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
5 May 2025
Olfactory projection neuron rewiring in the brain of an ecological specialist: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/fullte…

Olfactory projection neuron rewiring in the brain of an ecological specialist

Dürr et al. develop advanced genetic tools in the host specialist D. sechellia to study its olfactory system neuroanatomy. They show via single-cell labeling, tracing, and quantitative comparison of...

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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
2 May 2025
Stürner et al (2025). Comparative connectomics of Drosophila descending and ascending neurons nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Comparative connectomics of Drosophila descending and ascending neurons

Nature - Three electron microscopy datasets are combined to provide a complete connectomic description of the neural circuitry that makes up the neck connective in Drosophila, including the...

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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
11 Apr 2025
This tracking system could change how we observe insects mid-flight | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…

This tracking system could change how we observe insects mid-flight

Tagging insects with a reflective marker enables high-speed, low- motion blur capture

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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
8 Mar 2025
How flies can help us build better robots and AI | Pavan Ramdya | TEDxAr... youtu.be/kFV6NC-jIK0?feature… via @YouTube

How flies can help us build better robots and AI | Pavan Ramdya |...

The flies in your kitchen may hold the key to exploring the planets...

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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
1 Mar 2025
An updated catalogue of split-GAL4 driver lines for descending neurons in Drosophila melanogaster biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

An updated catalogue of split-GAL4 driver lines for descending neurons in Drosophila melanogaster

Descending neurons (DNs) occupy a key position in the sensorimotor hierarchy, conveying signals from the brain to the rest of the body below the neck. In Drosophila melanogaster flies, approximately...

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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
7 Jan 2025
A fly enters a virtual reality chamber, and insect science may never be the same | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…

A fly enters a virtual reality chamber, and insect science may never be the same

Unusual experiment reveals differences in how humans and bugs respond to the world in motion

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4 Jan 2025
Head-banging bumble bees bite flowers to shake loose more pollen. Learn more: scim.ag/8j0 @NewsfromScience
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30 Oct 2024
Researchers have found a better way to keep track of insects as they buzz around in their natural habitats—using a technique called Fast Lock-On (FLO) tracking, according to a new @SciRobotics study. Learn more in #ScienceAdviser: bit.ly/4hnpWS0 📩 Sign up for the free #newsletter: bit.ly/4f4BGqT
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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
31 May 2024
Jiang, C. et al (2024). Neuromorphic antennal sensory system. Nature Communications, 15(1), 2109. rdcu.be/dJBff
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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
15 May 2024
Tiger beetles fight off bat attacks with ultrasonic mimicry phys.org/news/2024-05-tiger-… via @physorg_com

Tiger beetles fight off bat attacks with ultrasonic mimicry

Bats, as the main predator of night-flying insects, create a selective pressure that has led many of their prey to evolve an early warning system of sorts: ears uniquely tuned to high-frequency bat...

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17 Apr 2024
Nature research paper: Machine learning reveals the control mechanics of an insect wing hinge go.nature.com/4atT0DD

Machine learning reveals the control mechanics of an insect wing hinge

Nature - Measurements of fly muscle activity using a genetically encoded calcium indicator and high-speed imaging of wing movement were used to construct a model of the insect wing hinge and the...

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4 Apr 2024
Automated bioacoustics: Researchers are listening in on insects to better gauge environmental health phys.org/news/2024-04-automa… via @physorg_com

Automated bioacoustics: Researchers are listening in on insects to better gauge environmental health

Recent research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst evaluates how well machine learning can identify different insect species by their sound, from malaria-carrying mosquitoes and grain-h...

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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST
21 Mar 2024
Motor neurons generate pose-targeted movements via proprioceptive sculpting nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Motor neurons generate pose-targeted movements via proprioceptive sculpting

Nature - Single motor neurons in Drosophila are stimulated to show that they direct head movements towards specific postures rather than generating fixed movement vectors, suggesting that the brain...

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HHMI | Janelia@HHMIJanelia
15 Mar 2024
🦟 By infusing a virtual fruit fly with artificial intelligence, @HHMIJanelia and @GoogleDeepMind scientists have created a computerized insect that can walk and fly just like the real thing. 🤖 🔗janelia.org/news/artificial-…
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7 Mar 2024
Our new paper is out today in @Nature , showing that bumblebees possess the cognitive capacity for some of the key ingredients of cumulative culture, previously though to be unique to humans nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone

Nature - Bumblebees can learn how to open a two-step puzzle box by observing another trained bee, indicating that these insects can use social learning to acquire a behaviour too complex to...

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