Jessica Tollkuhn

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Jessica TollkuhnDec 19, 2023
Anne Fausto SterlingDec 17, 2023
Everyone says: plant bird friendly yards. Let the grass grow wild they say. Don't cut it. Let it go to seed. Well not mowing sounds good, and this fall I caught one of my resident song sparrows taking advantage of this advice. Full frame please, to see that grain of grass. #birds #wildlife #ecology
Show threadJessica TollkuhnNov 22, 2023
@schoppik we should all “maintain a high index of clinical suspicion”.
Jessica TollkuhnNov 13, 2023
bioRxivNov 13, 2023
What does the fox (genome) say? A chromosome-level assembly for the gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.08.566296v1?med=mas
Jessica TollkuhnJul 31, 2023
Carl ZimmerJul 30, 2023
Did evolution create a tradeoff between walking upright and childbirth? For my new column I wrote about a new debate about an old ideas. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/science/childbirth-evolution-obstetrical-dilemma.html
An Evolutionary Debate on the Risks of Childbirth

Scientists are revisiting an influential theory that the evolution of big brains made human childbirth risky.

The New York Times
Jessica TollkuhnJun 30, 2023
Albert CardonaJun 30, 2023

The connectome of the adult female fly brain, Drosophila melanogaster:

“Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain” by Dorkenwald et al. 2023 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.27.546656v1

A project that started with Davi Bock and Wei Lee developing the TEMCA for the mouse visual cortex in Clay Reid’s lab (Bock et al. 2011 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09802), then Bock moving to #HHMIJanelia and developing the instrument much further to deliver the #FAFB volume (Zheng et al. 2018 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867418307876 ), and then the Seung, Murthy and Jefferis labs automatically re-registering, segmenting and annotating the whole volume via #FlyWire and more.

Extraordinary!

#Drosophila #connectomics #neuroscience #brain

Show threadJessica TollkuhnJun 30, 2023
@tuthill this is an excellent data point, thank you!
Show threadJessica TollkuhnJun 29, 2023
@sls @schoppik yeah i already suggest alternates. just wondering if i am lazy and it is normal to have 1-2 manuscript reviews on one's plate at all times.
Jessica TollkuhnJun 29, 2023
the real generational divide is hard-copy paper/grant submissions.
Show threadJessica TollkuhnJun 29, 2023
@schoppik I submitted one Friday and got a request for another one Saturday, and then 3 more on Tuesday. All different journals. And I did ad hoc study section today! I think I need to say no to everything for awhile?
Show threadJessica TollkuhnJun 29, 2023
@bahome lol not quite. if that were true i’d have more lab members to help me with them!