Andrew C. Halley

biology: embryology, neuroscience, evolution, anthropology

[Andrew C. Halley @evodevoneuro]

Ever wondered how motor cortex is organized in a bat? Hot off the digital press, the first full map of motor cortex in a species of bat, published today in @CurrentBiology. We found evidence that bat motor maps are organized to support flight and echolocation. 🦇🧠

[Andrew C. Halley @evodevoneuro]

@theneedledrop specifically The Lemon of Pink

[allen institute @AllenInstitute]

🧬 Evolution meets neuroscience at #SfN25!

Learn how multi-omics approaches are revealing how evolution acts on cell types, underpinning neural circuitry and behavior changes across diverse species.

📅 Tues., 11/18, 9:30am–12:00pm
📍 Rm 6CF
📲 https://t.co/tZ7H8UTS78

[Adam J Calhoun @neuroecology]

An evolutionary view of the nervous system

[by Paul Cisek, via @andpru]
https://t.co/OSf6adPhmt

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Yes.

Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.

Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

[Brain Evolution News @BrainEvolutionN]

Deep learning provides new view on 300 million years of brain evolution https://t.co/gCAkz5L9NV

[Rodrigo Suárez, PhD @rsuarezsaa]

Interested in complex systems, brain evo-devo, and/or computational approaches to big questions in neuroscience? Check out new opportunities in our lab! 🧠🧬💻🦘🔬🏝️🏄‍♀️😍 Further details and deadlines will be announced soon! #PhD #Postdoc #NeuroJobs

[Feline Lindhout @feline_lindhout]

Why is human brain development, and particularly neuron morphogenesis, so slow and how is this linked to evolution? https://t.co/IcIDmTBXTa
We developed mouse brain organoid methods capturing differences to human and used these to address this. https://t.co/0d14NAugDf
🧵 (1/n)

[Andrew C. Halley @evodevoneuro]

Comparative neuroscience is taking off, glad to see the larger community realizing the potential. Bring it to the @JBJohnstonClub, all the incredible scientists who studied weird brains before it was cool. https://t.co/cBSVf7FXoR

[Andrew C. Halley @evodevoneuro]

Lovely writeup of @cj_charvet and colleagues' work on the Translating Time project, which I've used extensively in my own research, and which I absolutely love. https://t.co/TjEkciVCaj

[Andrew C. Halley @evodevoneuro]

@CarmenFalcone6 Sad to miss it this year, love the picture!

[Ting Xu @TingsterX]

Curious about human brain development through an animal model? 🧠🐒Check out our new preprint on Brain Charts of the Rhesus Macaque Lifespan! We've mapped normative trajectories for macaque brains using 1.5k MRI scans from PRIME-DE and collaborators! https://t.co/qAREofrEpz

[Andrew C. Halley @evodevoneuro]

A tribute to the great Harvey Karten, an absolute giant in comparative neurobiology https://t.co/jnZLDeHcxL

[Nature Africa @natAfrica1]

🧠 Comparing 3D images of living brains reveals limitations of using skull moulds to glean historic capacity for language and learning

Read more: 👇🏻
https://t.co/Bi3KA6hlHc
#NatureAfrica
@JournalofAnat @abalzeau @BeaudetAmelie

[Dr. Daniela Rößler @RoesslerDaniela]

👀👀@jonas_o_wolff invited me to join him in writing a dispatch on the beautiful work on eye evolution in spiders🕷️by @KaylinChong, @Lauren_hSR and co-authors recently published in @CurrentBiology. This was a total pleasure to write!👀👀
https://t.co/g3Rgn4pBHY

[Andrew C. Halley @evodevoneuro]

@markabelan np, love your work!

[fenna krienen @fennamk]

Why are human brains so big and slow (to develop)? Illuminating to work with the brilliant @feline_lindhout @mad_lancaster and Katie Pollard on this perspective on cellular and molecular mechanisms of specializations in human brain development (1/7)
https://t.co/oV7rGWzLiP

[Andrew C. Halley @evodevoneuro]

@chrisXrodgers Marian Diamond and her multi-colored chalk? (Lectures, not conference, but still). I similarly saw Luis Puelles draw a "general vertebrate brain" on a whiteboard, developmental neuromere style, adding sensorimotor loops in sequence from hindbrain up to the cortex. Amazing.

[Andrew C. Halley @evodevoneuro]

@MikeIsaac Top tier Oakland rec, their khao soi is incredible

[Andrew C. Halley @evodevoneuro]

Embryology of the fat-tailed dunnart, with lots of comparisons to eutherians, evidence for forelimb heterochrony similar to other marsupials. Very cool.

[Andrew Pask @AJ_Pask]

Our paper on the embryology of the dunnart is now up! Stunning images of these amazing little animals, helping marsupial conservation efforts!!
https://t.co/Haq3hyGWnA
@AxelHNewton @itiscolossal @BioSci_UniMelb @Jendometrium