Jacopo Razzauti
@jacoporazzauti.bsky.social
PhD student at the Rockefeller University
Our preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required.
It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)
Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required.
It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)
FERAL: A Video-Understanding System for Direct Video-to-Behavior Mapping
Animal behavior unfolds continuously in time, yet quantitative analyses often require segmenting it into discrete, interpretable states. Although manual annotation can achieve this, it remains slow, s...
www.biorxiv.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Our preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required.
It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)
Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required.
It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)
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#sfn2025 three fun posters from us today: theory work by @rgast.bsky.social on the effects of neural heterogeneity on computation, a hippocampus+feeding collab with @liye-tsri.bsky.social , and LLMs for pose interpretation in rehabilitation data with @peabody124.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
#sfn2025 three fun posters from us today: theory work by @rgast.bsky.social on the effects of neural heterogeneity on computation, a hippocampus+feeding collab with @liye-tsri.bsky.social , and LLMs for pose interpretation in rehabilitation data with @peabody124.bsky.social
#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai
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Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito
A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell
types and widespread co-expres...
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right?
Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>
Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>
October 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right?
Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>
Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>
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New
@currentbiology.bsky.social paper from @leslievosshall.bsky.social&@leahhouri.bsky.social: FEMALE mosquitoes control mating, not males, by special genital movement. No elongation = no mating! Plus: male asian tiger mosquitoes can bypass the yellow fever mosquito female control shorturl.at/tsIWH
@currentbiology.bsky.social paper from @leslievosshall.bsky.social&@leahhouri.bsky.social: FEMALE mosquitoes control mating, not males, by special genital movement. No elongation = no mating! Plus: male asian tiger mosquitoes can bypass the yellow fever mosquito female control shorturl.at/tsIWH
A rapidly evolving female-controlled lock-and-key mechanism determines Aedes mosquito mating success
Houri-Zeevi et al. uncover a lock-and-key mating system in mosquitoes, where females
control mating through genital responses to rapidly evolving male structures. Males
of the invasive Asian tiger mos...
www.cell.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
New
@currentbiology.bsky.social paper from @leslievosshall.bsky.social&@leahhouri.bsky.social: FEMALE mosquitoes control mating, not males, by special genital movement. No elongation = no mating! Plus: male asian tiger mosquitoes can bypass the yellow fever mosquito female control shorturl.at/tsIWH
@currentbiology.bsky.social paper from @leslievosshall.bsky.social&@leahhouri.bsky.social: FEMALE mosquitoes control mating, not males, by special genital movement. No elongation = no mating! Plus: male asian tiger mosquitoes can bypass the yellow fever mosquito female control shorturl.at/tsIWH
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A paper in Nature presents a suite of previously unknown features belonging to the oldest known fossil bird, Archaeopteryx. Analysis of the Chicago Archaeopteryx shows new information about the skeleton, soft tissues and plumage of this iconic taxon. go.nature.com/4jNZIJg #Paleosky 🧪
May 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A paper in Nature presents a suite of previously unknown features belonging to the oldest known fossil bird, Archaeopteryx. Analysis of the Chicago Archaeopteryx shows new information about the skeleton, soft tissues and plumage of this iconic taxon. go.nature.com/4jNZIJg #Paleosky 🧪
The Rockefeller Uni ducklings are back!
May 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The Rockefeller Uni ducklings are back!
Goldfinch in Central Park
April 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Goldfinch in Central Park
Golden-crowned kinglet in Central Park (by Turtle Pond)
April 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Golden-crowned kinglet in Central Park (by Turtle Pond)
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My BFFL Marco Gallio, @mlcapek.bsky.social, and colleagues just dropped an absolute banger of a paper in @nature.com! The Evanston flylords reveal the molecular and neuronal basis of thermal niche adaptation in drosophilid flies. A must-read! 🔥🔥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution of temperature preference in flies of the genus Drosophila - Nature
A study using flies of the genus Drosophila adapted to life in diverse thermal environments shows how evolution has shaped temperature preference by acting on both molecular heat receptors and th...
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My BFFL Marco Gallio, @mlcapek.bsky.social, and colleagues just dropped an absolute banger of a paper in @nature.com! The Evanston flylords reveal the molecular and neuronal basis of thermal niche adaptation in drosophilid flies. A must-read! 🔥🔥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research.
Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n
March 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research.
Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n
Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n
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Excited to share our new preprint: How does the fly mushroom body support odour categorisation and discrimination? 🧠✨ Dive into Ivy Chan's @ivychanchiwai.bsky.social findings on how neural circuits enable complex olfactory processing in flies. Check it out here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Odour representations supporting ethology-relevant categorisation and discrimination in the Drosophila mushroom body
Neural representations of sensory stimuli serve multiple distinct purposes, from the rapid recognition of familiar environments, to the precise identification of individual salient cues. In the insect...
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January 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Excited to share our new preprint: How does the fly mushroom body support odour categorisation and discrimination? 🧠✨ Dive into Ivy Chan's @ivychanchiwai.bsky.social findings on how neural circuits enable complex olfactory processing in flies. Check it out here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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AT LAST OUR PEER-REVIEWED PRE-PRINT IS PUBLISHED
We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances
Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances
Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans
Mosquitoes enhance sensitivity to human body heat by a sensory compensation mechanism when their sense of smell is disrupted.
www.science.org
January 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
AT LAST OUR PEER-REVIEWED PRE-PRINT IS PUBLISHED
We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances
Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances
Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
So cool to see this finally out!
🦟 Pestered by mosquitoes? Fear not—grapefruit might hold the key! 🍊In our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social, led by Merybeth Triana and Felipe Andreazza, we explore how nootkatone, a compound derived from grapefruit, affects mosquitoes. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
December 4, 2024 at 3:41 AM
So cool to see this finally out!
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I have made the mosquito neurobiology and ecology starter pack - please add a comment if you want to be included!
go.bsky.app/5BNKUSK
go.bsky.app/5BNKUSK
November 23, 2024 at 3:27 AM
I have made the mosquito neurobiology and ecology starter pack - please add a comment if you want to be included!
go.bsky.app/5BNKUSK
go.bsky.app/5BNKUSK