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Speaking with Wolf Huetteroth about his seminal paper in Current Biology showing fly play-like behaviour.Triphan, T., Ferreira, C. H., & Huetteroth, W. (2025). Play-like behavior exhibited by the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster. Current Biology, 35(5), 1145-1155.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.025Wolf Huetteroth is an Associate Professor at the School of Geography and Natural Sciences at Northumbria University. For more

Speaking with Professor Mikko Juusola about his new study in Nature Communications.Mansour, N., Takalo, J., Kemppainen, J., Bridges, A. D., MaBouDi, H., Asgar Bohra, A., Anielska, K., Vasas, V., Robert, T., Yi Bu, B., Shukla, S., Zhou, Y., Kittelmann, M., Ouwendijk, J., Mantell, J., Lawson, M., de Polavieja, G., Duke, E., Lazar, A. A., … Juusola, M. (2026). Synaptic high-frequency jumping synchronises vision to high-speed behaviour. Nature Communications, 17(1), 3863.

Speaking with Andrew Lin about his two new papers in The Journal of PhysiologyBergmann, Gregor A., Melissa W. Tan, Katie Greenin-Whitehead, Philippe J. Fischer, Thomas C. Cozens, and Andrew C. Lin. 2026. “Conflicting Adaptations in an Inhibitory Feedback Circuit.” The Journal of Physiology 604(7): 3005–31. doi:10.1113/JP290394.Greenin-Whitehead, Katie, Eyal Rozenfeld, Anthony Moreno-Sanchez, Melissa W. Tan, Kurtulus Kullu, Jessica Ausborn, Moshe Parnas, and Andrew C. Lin. “Ectopic Sodium Channel

Speaking with Professor James Marshall about his two sister studies in eLife.MaBouDi, HaDi, Mark Roper, Marie-Geneviève Guiraud, Mikko Juusola, Lars Chittka, and James AR Marshall. “A Neuromorphic Model of Active Vision Shows How Spatiotemporal Encoding in Lobula Neurons Can Aid Pattern Recognition in Bees.” eLife 14 (July 2025): e89929. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.89929.MaBouDi, HaDi, Jasmin Richter, Marie-Geneviève Guiraud, Mark Roper, James AR Marshall, and Lars Chittka. “Active Vision of Bees

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