Ellen Lesser

UW neurobiologist & commute ambassador, thinkin' about how flies fly

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

Check out our investigation into how the nervous system is wired to coordinate movement! Working on the FANC dataset has been both inspiring and humbling in the best ways, and I'm honored to be part of the team 🙂

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

Yes! Come say hi tomorrow!

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

I liked this book too much to recommend. I felt like I was holding my breath through the entire book, fully suspended in the text. Hoping to see Labutat's previous books translated into English now that everyone is picking up this one

[Sweta Agrawal @hokuba]

One of the coolest things about Drosophila is that over its life it has 2 different bodies: squishy larva & spindly adult. In a preprint review @casa_tuthill & I explore proprioceptive control of these 2 forms & speculate what a comparison might reveal

https://t.co/d04znz0mvG

[Journal of Experimental Biology @J_Exp_Biol]

. @LN_lesser reports on @AbelCorver and co's recent @CurrentBiology paper showing that even though each stage of #spiderweb construction is made up of similar sets of manoeuvres, the probability that one move will follow another is different for each stage
https://t.co/Ynw9J3kFjM

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

@CaluLab_Bmore @BacharachSam Congratulations @BacharachSam !!!

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

Eagerly awaiting the US release of quentin dupieux's new movie.......

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

We're looking forward to it!
1:30 PST, zoom link: https://t.co/6DppYG4AKZ

[Tahra Eissa @EissaTahra]

University of Washington friends, I'm giving a seminar talk tomorrow! Stop by and learn about how we estimate rare events!

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

Some big-eyed spiders use senses other than vision to actively catch prey in the dark!

Learning about them definitely did not prompt any nightmares
https://t.co/xi7mrYVHl4

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

Moonlighting as an engineer for some virtual after-school science - now I understand why real bridges need such strong tape!

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

very well-put & important thread - feels like the word "inclusive" often means something more like "wanting to appear inclusive without doing the work" - spoiler alert this thread gives some steps for ~doing the work~!

[Evyn (he/him) @EvynDickinson]

Happy #LGBTQSTEMDay ! Friendly reminder to graduate school programs that if your health insurance doesn’t cover trans-related health care, your program is NOT inclusive … 1/n

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

Incredible trailer for the new Katamari game, I assume

[Mahjabin Noroozi @Mahjabinno]

This is the most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using x-ray, NMR and cryoelectron microscopy datasets.

“Cellular landscape cross-section through a eukaryotic cell.”
- by Evan Ingersoll and Gael McGill.

https://t.co/YERCmdIJXH

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

UW Neuroscience community: make sure to tune in today at the weekly seminar for the first installment of Be Boundless Seminars to hear about exciting research from UW senior scientists, acting instructors, and postdocs! featuring @irinakitop and @touchyourbrain

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

For further reading after you've checkout the Charles H. Turner bio in Science today, I recommend his fantastic papers! His writing is magical to read knowing that his ideas came from his intuition and experiments, not the current dogma. https://t.co/111ACPA7XZ

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

Commentary on a nice set of experiments examining wasp fight etiquette!

[Journal of Experimental Biology @J_Exp_Biol]

https://t.co/4LEiQU7JB3
@LN_lesser reports on Tibbetts and colleagues' recent @CurrentBiology paper showing that combative paper wasps learn about their peers and adapt their behavior in response to what they see

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

Thank you @EdwinLindo for a compelling talk today to the UW neuro grad program! & thank you to the 2nd yrs for organizing a retreat that encourages us to start this year w/ a common critical framework for talking about racism & addressing systemic obstacles to equity & inclusion

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

Anyone have tips for dealing with microscope eyepiece mask fog? 🔬😷🌫️

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

delighted to learn that adopting @skbrannoch 's food means expanding my newly carnivorous diet. safe travels to alaska!

[Ellen Lesser @LN_lesser]

here's a little summary of new research on our bat-eat-bug world!

[Journal of Experimental Biology @J_Exp_Biol]

https://t.co/LsykWvZsYP
@LN_lesser reports on Geipel and colleagues' recent @RSocPublishing paper where they used toy crickets to reveal that whispering katydids give themselves away to Micronycteris microtis bats by moving

[Sweta Agrawal @hokuba]

It is with great pleasure that I reduce years of work in the @casa_tuthill lab to a few tweets. How do neural circuits transform sensory info from limb proprioceptors? Whats their effect on motor control? We explore these questions in our new preprint: https://t.co/DLUvM6GVWM 1/n