Stephen F. Goodwin

“Young people have already concluded that AI is a mistake. Now it is time for the rest of us to see the truth”: former Google and Facebook investor Roger McNamee AKA @moonalice.com on how the industry’s financial problems may undermine the entire economy www.thenerve.news/p/roger-mcna...

Two CNCB researchers win best talk prizes at European Drosophila Neurobiology Conference www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/two-cnc...

We're hiring! Join us as a postdoc to study how the brain is optimised for sensory coding and memory Please spread the word! Apply at jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... Deadline: 5 October 2026 Learn more at: www.aclinlab.org

Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge

Big new story from @annaisaac.bsky.social. Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother before she made Reform & Tice donations. The even bigger question now is where did Cottrell’s money come from? And this is where I think a very big problem lies.. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

The legendary jazz saxophonist, who revolutionized the art of improvisation, died Monday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y. n.pr/3Q2hMWr

Proud to share that our team made the local news. A big congratulations to Erin, Megan, and everyone on the team who made it happen.Thanks to Ben Hopkins and Artyom Kopp for the Preview piece. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-03...

Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!

Looking forward to #Dros26 this week. My lab is recruiting and I would be delighted to chat with anyone interested in grad school/postdoc positions in evolutionary cell biology and developmental genetics. Please reach out if interested!

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded. 2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning. Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription, delete your account. And tell at least one person why. My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you want to understand what is happening right now & what’s at stake, please listen to this conversation I had with historian Robert Kagan. Europe has to wake up FAST.

Our follow up paper on Sex: Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain: Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

A high-resolution atlas of the brain predicts lineage and birth order underlying neuronal identity: Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Follow-up paper on sex, online in the New year

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

New podcast. This is about how Tom Barrys flying column intersects with wanking Minotaur porn in a zeitgeist of rising global fascism open.spotify.com/episode/2zIR...

www.janelia.org/project-team...

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

Boom, congratulations Joel

Explore neurons that enter/exit the fly central nervous system by body part with this clickable fly!: codex.flywire.ai/app/body_par... (graphics: @mottcallie.bsky.social‬, tool: Arie Matisliah) Vector graphics! github.com/wilson-lab/s... Effector cells in 3D! ng.banc.community/2025a/effere...

NEW: Landmark decision on UK's failure to investigate Russian interference to be handed down tomorrow. A five-year legal battle in UK and European courts comes to a head: will we finally - learn the truth about the Kremlin & the Brexit vote?

Now that performative wokeness is no longer mainstream they can go back to being publicly evil

Our study on a male-essential microRNA and the evolution of other dosage compensation mechanisms in birds is now out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

While the world watches Israel's war with Iran, Netanyahu's extremist government continues to starve and massacre Palestinians in Gaza. Today, Israeli forces again opened fire on people desperately trying to collect food aid, killing dozens. Over 56,000 have been killed so far.

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

New preprint from lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Sexual dimorphism arises not through wholesale transcriptional reprogramming, but via selective sex-specific survival of neurons defined by birth order and shared developmental programs.

New preprint from the lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A molecular atlas of the Drosophila central brain links transcriptional identity to development, anatomy, and behaviour, revealing stable transcription factor codes and a temporal cascade marking birth order.

A virtual fly powered by #AI could help scientists better understand how the nervous system, body & environment work together to control behavior. Read more: hhmi.news/3Rwop0w

WTF

Protesters in San Francisco formed an “Impeach & Remove” human banner on Ocean Beach during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday. 📸: Stephen Lam

Invitation to the Starter Pack for FLY journal Editorial Board go.bsky.app/DBQmMKD Please also follow the journal, and repost it! @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social @flyeyelab.bsky.social @lucksmith.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social @ryuniwa.bsky.social @cahirokane.bsky.social

If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

We have open PhD positions in the lab to work in the Neuroscience of #Cephalopods #Cnidaria and #Drosophila- please RT www.sprecherlab.com

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

You know this is a hoax bc the only things driving this bus are tiny fistfuls of Adderall, tertiary syphilis, and bleach.

Just a normal Tuesday at the Very White House

The UK’s academic recession is in full swing

‘Tis truly a fate worse than death

also, interesting use of passive voice. Would be seen by whom? And are they people we should care about?

Seen at #StandUpForScience2025 Sacramento