Neuroscientist at University of Washington studying proprioception and motor control. Promoting the people and work in my lab (www.tuthill.casa). Also pursuing a snow fly side habit (www.snowflyproject.org).https://bsky.app/profile/tuthill.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/tuthill.bsky.social/post/3mwttdv34nc23two new preprints from Wangchu Xiang (@darbly.bsky.social, Ginty labs) about connectomic reconstruction from electron microscopy of somatosensory afferents and projection neurons in the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.27.754843v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.27.754691v101 Oct 2026 21:44 +0000at://did:plc:2lez2ks3ux5nhwko6fso7tym/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwttdv34nc23https://bsky.app/profile/tuthill.bsky.social/post/3mwg7shmoyk2kThe legend Heiner Römer, who was among the first to do intracellular electrophysiological recordings in the field. His work showed that auditory tuning curves measured in the lab poorly predict communication outdoors. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00612036 At the sensory ecology course in Lund.26 Sep 2026 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:2lez2ks3ux5nhwko6fso7tym/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwg7shmoyk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/tuthill.bsky.social/post/3mwg75e2irc2bthis story about @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social captures science at its best: a scrappy team, a homemade microscope in a motel room, working under funding duress, pursuing a fundamental question about the evolution of photosynthetic organelles. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html26 Sep 2026 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:2lez2ks3ux5nhwko6fso7tym/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwg75e2irc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/tuthill.bsky.social/post/3mvpzoukjwk27supposedly, NIH study section members can still submit grants a couple weeks late if the panel meets within four weeks of the deadline. but the language is vaguely ominous. has anyone actually done this successfully? http://grants.nih.gov/grants-process/submit/submission-policies/late-policy17 Sep 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:2lez2ks3ux5nhwko6fso7tym/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpzoukjwk27https://bsky.app/profile/tuthill.bsky.social/post/3mvnqe7x6rs2zWe just updated our preprint. A few new analyses, but biggest change is a much larger, well-curated, freely available dataset: 3D keypoints from 75 flies across a range of behaviors (including courtship), ~24h of tracked video at 800 Hz. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.03.722293v2 [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Sep 2026 18:10 +0000at://did:plc:2lez2ks3ux5nhwko6fso7tym/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvnqe7x6rs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/tuthill.bsky.social/post/3mviqk7vyws2da good summary of how we got here and what it means. i would add is that everyone who works with the fly connectome datasets knows that they all far from "complete". each one, though monumental, has major reconstruction/annotation issues, not to mention the lack of a peripheral nervous system. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Sep 2026 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:2lez2ks3ux5nhwko6fso7tym/app.bsky.feed.post/3mviqk7vyws2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/tuthill.bsky.social/post/3mviklt7bfc2sThe sphinxes are multiplying! I can't believe our preprint didn't solve this issue. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Sep 2026 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:2lez2ks3ux5nhwko6fso7tym/app.bsky.feed.post/3mviklt7bfc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/tuthill.bsky.social/post/3mupf6l4mxk27New oldest insect! 24 legs, lived 324 million years ago, in present-day Texas https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10961-204 Sep 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:2lez2ks3ux5nhwko6fso7tym/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupf6l4mxk27https://bsky.app/profile/tuthill.bsky.social/post/3mukd6iagbc2wA working scientist in the Massachusetts state legislature. Congrats to @benforward3.bsky.social! [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 16:11 +0000at://did:plc:2lez2ks3ux5nhwko6fso7tym/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukd6iagbc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/tuthill.bsky.social/post/3muk45tzwk22blongtime reader, first time writer to @lrb.co.uk https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n16/letters02 Sep 2026 14:05 +0000at://did:plc:2lez2ks3ux5nhwko6fso7tym/app.bsky.feed.post/3muk45tzwk22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/tuthill.bsky.social/post/3mpjidocwts2fMy department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/18773530 Jun 2026 17:05 +0000at://did:plc:2lez2ks3ux5nhwko6fso7tym/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpjidocwts2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/tuthill.bsky.social/post/3mtc5md7odk2aOur digital sphinx, a cautionary tale about the interpretation of connectome-body models, is now a reviewed preprint at @elife.bsky.social. We are grateful to the reviewers for engaging seriously with what we hope is a useful (if absurd) demonstration. https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/111516 [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Aug 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:2lez2ks3ux5nhwko6fso7tym/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtc5md7odk2a