Davi Bock

network anatomist
also dddavi at bluesky

[Davi Bock @dddavi]

Hard to overstate how pleased I am that the #flywire consortium converted our FAFB ("Full Adult Fly Brain") EM volume into a connectome, and that the resulting science has been (and will be) so impactful. Thanks to everyone involved.

[David Rowland @DavidCRowland]

Here it is! A huge milestone in neuroscience – the complete connectome of the fly brain from the FlyWire team (@FlyWireNews). In this special issue, we have 9 research articles. I’ll try to summarize them in a couple threads starting here 🧵

[University of Vermont @uvmvermont]

UVM will lead a new $19M @NSF project to provide researchers nationwide cutting-edge tools to explore life’s smallest structures in 3D. Led by @UVMLarnerMed's Davi Bock, the project will spur discoveries and advance our understanding of living systems.
https://t.co/aZH10ruA5r

[Alexander Bates @as_bates]

Just published yesterday, the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal enables us to trace sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. https://t.co/19jmEfxEVH #neuroscience @Nature, Video by @quorumetrix, sound on! 1/18

[Sebastian Seung @SebastianSeung]

For over twenty years, many dedicated researchers around the world have worked to realize the dream of connectomics. I'm especially indebted to the talented members of my laboratory, past and present. And I've been lucky to benefit from so many powerful collaborations.

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

This to me signals a serious escalation on the assault on free speech. https://t.co/o66AXklSTr

[Davi Bock @dddavi]

@whatishealth21 yes: https://t.co/YGmaDFJCgM

[Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick]

"The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." 4/4

Howard Zinn, "The Optimism of Uncertainty" (2004)

[Jan M Ache @jan_ache]

Final week to register for the Crete meeting - judging from the people who already signed up, this is shaping up to be a super exciting week for Drosophila circuits enthusiasts.

[Hongkui Zeng @HongkuiZeng]

The BRAIN Initiative has driven unprecedented progress in neuroscience, but a 40% funding cut threatens this momentum. Restoring funding would help solve more mysteries of the brain and developing life-changing treatments. #studyBRAIN https://t.co/TPH6xLlvWk

[Pavan Ramdya @ramdya]

This is a really heroic experiment recording associative learning neurons in the fly brain over two hours while two flies interact with one another. This device and this approach can generally enable many more kinds of social interaction experiments

[Ching-Lung Hsu @hiallen72]

Whole-brain spatial organization of hippocampal single-neuron projectomes https://t.co/OhWZRHzinU

[David A. Markowitz @DavidAMarkowitz]

The $3B Human Genome Project was started under a Republican administration and later acknowledged by the Obama admin to have returned $141 to the economy for every $1 spent. Science has a higher ROI than any other category of government spending.

[Amy Robinson Sterling @amyneurons]

Thanks @dddavi for taking a pic the moment I first saw our cover of @Nature! A magical time to be at @SfNtweets #sfn 2024. To the future!

[Randy Bruno @TheBrunoCortex]

📣NEURO FACULTY JOBS! 🧠

University of Oxford opened *2* positions for Associate Professors of Neuroscience! Come be our colleague!

Applications due: noon, 18 Nov 2024
More info: https://t.co/DYMhhz6COJ

@UniofOxford @OxfordDPAG @OxNeuro @PembrokeOxford @hilda_beastoxf

[Tyler Sloan @quorumetrix]

I've combined some of these together into a new #neuro #visualization "In the eye of a fly":
Using the @FlyWireNews visual system wiring diagram, #Brian2 spiking #neuron simulator, and #blender. Information flow through the chiasms, across a topographic map.

[Davi Bock @dddavi]

@andrewtanyongyi @whatishealth21 thanks!

[Davi Bock @dddavi]

For Reasons it just came to mind that retina great @whatishealth21 Peter Sterling (computer-based volume EM circuit reconstruction in 1984!) was also a Freedom Rider. https://t.co/snfB1KP6li... https://t.co/Dq6f3gGfXG...

[Current Biology @CurrentBiology]

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[Davi Bock @dddavi]

Protists are awesome! Neat to see the biochemical & structural mechanisms for rapid cell shape change start to get worked out. :)

[John Wallingford @jbwallingford]

What. The. Fuck?!? 🤯🤯 https://t.co/dCxvYL3fkB