Wolf Huetteroth
@wolfhuette.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Northumbria U, looking at Droso learning, memory, neuropeptides, play.
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Wolf Huetteroth
@wolfhuette.bsky.social
· Feb 10
a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter
ALT: a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter
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Our story about flies on carousels is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! After formally engaging the fantastic @clarahowcroft.bsky.social and integrating helpful reviewer feedback, we present a more concise story with detailed behavioural quantification and cooler videos! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:
"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."
"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."
"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?
It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.
www.construction-physics.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:
"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."
"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."
"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
Side effect of annoying autotranslations: your university speaks Yoda
October 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Side effect of annoying autotranslations: your university speaks Yoda
Great story!
A gut-brain axis for aversive interoception drives innate and anticipatory emesis in Drosophila. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679515v1
October 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Great story!
Thanks @maartenzwart.bsky.social for the invite to talk in St. Andrews in the @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social - it was truly enjoyable! And thanks to your sober judgment I also made it home across the Firth of Forth in time before storm Amy hit!
October 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Thanks @maartenzwart.bsky.social for the invite to talk in St. Andrews in the @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social - it was truly enjoyable! And thanks to your sober judgment I also made it home across the Firth of Forth in time before storm Amy hit!
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Heartwarming to see my city stand up against racism and hate! This is why I love Newcastle!
Newcastle says no to fascism.
The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance.
Newcastle united.
The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance.
Newcastle united.
September 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Heartwarming to see my city stand up against racism and hate! This is why I love Newcastle!
I daresay the same goes for subjective understanding too... "Op de Haare letten!" Key advice at Dutch new years' celebrations...
Researchers in Maastricht have won the Ig Nobel Prize for discovering that alcohol can help when speaking a foreign language – especially with pronunciation.
Ig Nobel Prize: Germans speak better Dutch with a drink - Erasmus Magazine
www.erasmusmagazine.nl
September 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I daresay the same goes for subjective understanding too... "Op de Haare letten!" Key advice at Dutch new years' celebrations...
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A sperm whale surfacing with a giant squid in its mouth.
I love seeing things like this. Reminds me of the raw and beautiful savagery of nature.
I love seeing things like this. Reminds me of the raw and beautiful savagery of nature.
September 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A sperm whale surfacing with a giant squid in its mouth.
I love seeing things like this. Reminds me of the raw and beautiful savagery of nature.
I love seeing things like this. Reminds me of the raw and beautiful savagery of nature.
Leipzig, the current home for the Ukrainian Antonov AN-124 fleet…
September 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Leipzig, the current home for the Ukrainian Antonov AN-124 fleet…
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This is the graph we show whenever someone talks about how back in the old days there weren't (people who are not whoever the person speaking thinks are the default).
Mostly we do this to underscore that a rise in apparent frequency isn't always a rise in real frequency.
Mostly we do this to underscore that a rise in apparent frequency isn't always a rise in real frequency.
September 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is the graph we show whenever someone talks about how back in the old days there weren't (people who are not whoever the person speaking thinks are the default).
Mostly we do this to underscore that a rise in apparent frequency isn't always a rise in real frequency.
Mostly we do this to underscore that a rise in apparent frequency isn't always a rise in real frequency.
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You just finished your PhD and you are looking for a postdoc to study stress-dependent modulation of learning. We are using the powerful fly model to understand the underlying circuits and mechanisms. You can apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoc position (M/F) in Neuroscience, stress modulation of learning (H/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
September 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
You just finished your PhD and you are looking for a postdoc to study stress-dependent modulation of learning. We are using the powerful fly model to understand the underlying circuits and mechanisms. You can apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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My lab cannot afford donating at the moment, so I donated privately. Even if you don’t work on flies we all owe so much to FlyBase. Consider donating, and importantly, let’s strive to make the more official funding bodies aware of how much is at stake.
August 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
My lab cannot afford donating at the moment, so I donated privately. Even if you don’t work on flies we all owe so much to FlyBase. Consider donating, and importantly, let’s strive to make the more official funding bodies aware of how much is at stake.
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I think the "embodiment" of this connectome is going to be such a hit: For instance take the interactive "body part" maps on Codex, where you can simply click on your favorite external or visceral part and it will show you all of the neurons associated it! codex.flywire.ai/app/body_par...
August 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I think the "embodiment" of this connectome is going to be such a hit: For instance take the interactive "body part" maps on Codex, where you can simply click on your favorite external or visceral part and it will show you all of the neurons associated it! codex.flywire.ai/app/body_par...
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We are looking for 2 postdocs to join my lab at Sussex University in Brighton, UK (South of London, on the sea). One position is for a molecular/cell biologist, the other, for a neurobiologist/behavioural person. Drosophila experience desirable. Flyer w/more info below. Please repost. Thank you!
July 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
We are looking for 2 postdocs to join my lab at Sussex University in Brighton, UK (South of London, on the sea). One position is for a molecular/cell biologist, the other, for a neurobiologist/behavioural person. Drosophila experience desirable. Flyer w/more info below. Please repost. Thank you!
Very cool work!
🚨🚨My PhD work pre-print🚨🚨
Check it out 👇👇
'Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila'
It's a great collaborative enterprise and can't thank enough to my mentors and collaborators for the kindest efforts...fingers crossed 🤞🤞
Check it out 👇👇
'Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila'
It's a great collaborative enterprise and can't thank enough to my mentors and collaborators for the kindest efforts...fingers crossed 🤞🤞
Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.663268v1
July 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Very cool work!
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We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.
More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities
More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities
Opportunities — ASAB
www.asab.org
July 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.
More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities
More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities
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ICYMI: Neuroscientists long ignored variability in animals’ behavior in favor of studying differences across groups. But now researchers are studying the brain differences that underlie that variability.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
#neuroethology
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...
By @avaskham.bsky.social
#neuroethology
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...
Escaping groupthink: What animals’ behavioral quirks reveal about the brain
Neuroscientists have long ignored the variability in animals’ behavioral responses in favor of studying differences across groups. But work on the brain differences that underlie that variability is…
www.thetransmitter.org
July 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
ICYMI: Neuroscientists long ignored variability in animals’ behavior in favor of studying differences across groups. But now researchers are studying the brain differences that underlie that variability.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
#neuroethology
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...
By @avaskham.bsky.social
#neuroethology
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...
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The singularity is awesome
June 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The singularity is awesome
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It is already tomorrow, our first Fly North(East) England meeting at Northumbria University Newcastle! Co-organized with @toraks.bsky.social @dpdoupe.bsky.social. Looking forward to a day of bulding bridges and discussing how to nurture our network.
June 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It is already tomorrow, our first Fly North(East) England meeting at Northumbria University Newcastle! Co-organized with @toraks.bsky.social @dpdoupe.bsky.social. Looking forward to a day of bulding bridges and discussing how to nurture our network.
Room view is pretty neat indeed…
June 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Room view is pretty neat indeed…
I always wanted to visit Knossos! - En route to the #Drosophila Neural Circuits & Behaviour workshop in Crete...
June 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I always wanted to visit Knossos! - En route to the #Drosophila Neural Circuits & Behaviour workshop in Crete...
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New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
This is important. Flybase is an instrumental resource to probably every Drosophilist. Time to give back.
The #Drosophila community can donate to the European side to save FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social at the following link:
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
June 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is important. Flybase is an instrumental resource to probably every Drosophilist. Time to give back.
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Our annual world-wide search for Vice-Chancellor's Fellows in selected subject areas @northumbriauni.bsky.social is now live. These are permanent Assistant/Associate/Full professor positions subject to normal probation criteria but with protected research time during the first three years.
May 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Our annual world-wide search for Vice-Chancellor's Fellows in selected subject areas @northumbriauni.bsky.social is now live. These are permanent Assistant/Associate/Full professor positions subject to normal probation criteria but with protected research time during the first three years.
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PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬
📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy
Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀
🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/...
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it
🌍 Please spread the word!
📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy
Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀
🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/...
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it
🌍 Please spread the word!
May 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬
📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy
Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀
🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/...
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it
🌍 Please spread the word!
📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy
Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀
🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/...
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it
🌍 Please spread the word!