Press

2026

“Scientists have managed to compare the fine detail of the brains of male and female flies for the first time, identifying differences they say explain male aggression, courtship and their singing of love songs.”

How the brain of a fly may help explain human behaviour | BBC News, 3 September 2026

“This scientific breakthrough is going to “accelerate our understanding of the brain, and is a major milestone in neuroscience,” noted Google last Thursday. By Tuesday, it was already being trained to play classic video games.’”

Google maps entire brain and central nervous system of adult male fruit fly, software engineers immediately make it run Doom | Tom’s Hardware, 8 September 2026

“A large international research team led by groups at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has reached a major neuroscience milestone by publishing a complete map of every connection between neurons in the central nervous system of an adult fruit fly.”

Scientists mapped every neuron in a fruit fly brain and found a surprise | Science Daily, 10 June 2026

“I used an open-source map of a fruit fly’s brain to vibe code a website called PitchFly. Its headline suggestions were delightfully bananas.”

I Trained a Fly’s Brain to Generate WIRED Story Ideas | Wired, 16 September 2026

2025

“We asked nine neuroscientists how they are using FlyWire data in their labs, how the connectome has transformed the field and what new tools they would like to see in the future.”

One year of FlyWire: How the resource is redefining Drosophila research | The Transmitter, 7 October 2025

2024

“They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates - all this with a brain that’s tinier than a pinhead. Now for the first time scientists researching the brain of a fly have identified the position, shape and connections of every single one of its 130,000 cells and 50 million connections.”

Fly brain breakthrough 'huge leap' to unlock human mind | BBC News, 2 October 2024