Vanessa Penna Goncalves (she/her)
@vanspidergirl.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow at Macquarie University
Behavioral Ecologist
#spiders #brains #neuroscience
Behavioral Ecologist
#spiders #brains #neuroscience
Reposted by Vanessa Penna Goncalves (she/her)
Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....
Male CNS Connectome
A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system —a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...
www.janelia.org
October 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....
🕷️ I just talked to ABC Sydney Radio about the social spiders 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks ABC live Radio Sydney for the talk!
Thanks ABC live Radio Sydney for the talk!
September 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
🕷️ I just talked to ABC Sydney Radio about the social spiders 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks ABC live Radio Sydney for the talk!
Thanks ABC live Radio Sydney for the talk!
Wear it Purple!
Raising awareness about the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ communities! 💜💜💜💜
#macquarieuniversity
Raising awareness about the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ communities! 💜💜💜💜
#macquarieuniversity
August 29, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Wear it Purple!
Raising awareness about the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ communities! 💜💜💜💜
#macquarieuniversity
Raising awareness about the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ communities! 💜💜💜💜
#macquarieuniversity
✨ It’s published! ✨
🕷️ Social spiders have bigger brains… but only in the right places! Our new study shows that in social huntsman spiders, regions for memory & vision processing are proportionally larger, supporting group living.
Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🕷️ Social spiders have bigger brains… but only in the right places! Our new study shows that in social huntsman spiders, regions for memory & vision processing are proportionally larger, supporting group living.
Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis
Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Soc...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
✨ It’s published! ✨
🕷️ Social spiders have bigger brains… but only in the right places! Our new study shows that in social huntsman spiders, regions for memory & vision processing are proportionally larger, supporting group living.
Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🕷️ Social spiders have bigger brains… but only in the right places! Our new study shows that in social huntsman spiders, regions for memory & vision processing are proportionally larger, supporting group living.
Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...