Fly neuro PIs (old-hand or soon-to-be)! Registration for the Crete Workshop on Neural Circuits & Behavior of Drosophila is now open: sites.google.com/view/crete-f... Deadline: Nov 30th.

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For more details, check out how hunger recruits a parallel circuit encoding alcohol reward www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Hunger can make us drink more - but can it affect how much we prefer alcohol? Kavin Nunez, Lewis Sherer et al discovered in flies 🪰, a single neuron with octopamine (the analog of norepinephrine) becomes more active with hunger and speeds the switch from alcohol aversion to seeking 🧠. /3

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Will Labour next week in the budget tell us sad stories about "difficult decisions" and how there's "no money left?" Or will this Labour Government challenge the broken economic thinking that has lead us to this place? And tax the assets of multimillionaires & billionaires? 👀

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The trade unions resisting a political donations cap in the UK are ragged-trousered philanthropists. Thanks to their delusion that a system allowing limitless donations enhances their power, they're in danger of handing the country to the far-right parties that billionaires support. Burnham must act

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