Stephen F. Goodwin
@stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social
Professor of Neurogenetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford. Genetic dissection of Sexual Behaviour.☘️ Drosophila neuroscience, genetics, genomics, sexual behaviour
http://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/goodwin-group-1
http://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/goodwin-group-1
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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...
Provisional IRA Edwardian Minotaur Sex Porn
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September 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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...
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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. 🧵
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www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
…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...
'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION
As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...
www.thenerve.news
October 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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...
…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
Professor Joel Levine Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
The University of Toronto’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is proud to announce that Professor Joel Levine has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the highest h...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Boom, congratulations Joel
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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...
(graphics: @mottcallie.bsky.social, tool: Arie Matisliah)
Vector graphics! github.com/wilson-lab/s...
Effector cells in 3D! ng.banc.community/2025a/effere...
August 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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...
(graphics: @mottcallie.bsky.social, tool: Arie Matisliah)
Vector graphics! github.com/wilson-lab/s...
Effector cells in 3D! ng.banc.community/2025a/effere...
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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?
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?
July 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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?
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?
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Now that performative wokeness is no longer mainstream they can go back to being publicly evil
BP appoints new chair to oversee shift back to fossil fuels
BP appoints new chair to oversee shift back to fossil fuels
Albert Manifold, ex-boss at buildings material company CRH, to take over from embattled Helge Lund
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Now that performative wokeness is no longer mainstream they can go back to being publicly evil
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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...
A male-essential miRNA is key for avian sex chromosome dosage compensation - Nature
Birds have evolved a unique sex chromosome dosage compensation mechanism involving the male-biased microRNA (miR-2954), which is essential for male survival by regulating the expression of dosage-sens...
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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...
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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.
Today, Israeli forces again opened fire on people desperately trying to collect food aid, killing dozens. Over 56,000 have been killed so far.
BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.
Israeli forces fire on people waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 25, witnesses and hospitals say
Palestinian witnesses say Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza.
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June 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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.
Today, Israeli forces again opened fire on people desperately trying to collect food aid, killing dozens. Over 56,000 have been killed so far.
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“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
June 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“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.
A Role for Exaptation in Sculpting Sexually Dimorphic Brains from Shared Neural Lineages
Sex differences in behaviours arise from variations in female and male nervous systems, yet the cellular and molecular bases of these differences remain poorly defined. Here, we take an unbiased, sing...
www.biorxiv.org
June 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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 High-Resolution Atlas of the Brain Predicts Lineage and Birth Order Underly Neuronal Identity
Gene expression shapes the nervous system at every biological level, from molecular and cellular processes defining neuronal identity and function to systems-level wiring and circuit dynamics underlyi...
www.biorxiv.org
June 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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.
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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
Read more: hhmi.news/3Rwop0w
April 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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
Read more: hhmi.news/3Rwop0w
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Ozzy's first College committee meeting
May 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Ozzy's first College committee meeting
WTF
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
WTF
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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
📸: Stephen Lam
April 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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
📸: Stephen Lam
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Invitation to the Starter Pack for FLY journal Editorial Board
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April 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Invitation to the Starter Pack for FLY journal Editorial Board
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"he made two and a half billion today, and he made 900 million"
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April 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"he made two and a half billion today, and he made 900 million"
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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
April 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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
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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...
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system - Nature
A connectome of the right optic lobe from a male fruitfly is presented together with an extensive collection of genetic drivers matched to a comprehensive neuron-type catalogue.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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...
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
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We have open PhD positions in the lab to work in the Neuroscience of #Cephalopods #Cnidaria and #Drosophila-
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March 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We have open PhD positions in the lab to work in the Neuroscience of #Cephalopods #Cnidaria and #Drosophila-
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please RT
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YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
March 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
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You know this is a hoax bc the only things driving this bus are tiny fistfuls of Adderall, tertiary syphilis, and bleach.
March 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
You know this is a hoax bc the only things driving this bus are tiny fistfuls of Adderall, tertiary syphilis, and bleach.
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Just a normal Tuesday at the Very White House
March 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Just a normal Tuesday at the Very White House