ResearchHub Foundation(@ResearchHubF):The fly connectome took years of electron microscopy, two years of error correction, and volunteers around the world doing the proofreading. The Princeton team released it openly while it was still in progress. The grant described a wiring diagram for neuroscience. Interestingly, someone wired the dopamine circuit to a trading account and open sourced the whole thing. Taken on its own, a fly trading bitcoin is not a scientific result. The implication: a complete brain is now something that can be downloaded, run, and rewired over a weekend. That is what defaulting to open science gets you. Open data, open code, open discussion - released early rather than at publication.

2026.09.11 13:00

The fly connectome took years of electron microscopy, two years of error correction, and volunteers around the world doing the proofreading. The Princeton team released it openly while it was still in progress. The grant described a wiring diagram for neuroscience. Interestingly, someone wired the dopamine circuit to a trading account and open sourced the whole thing. Taken on its own, a fly trading bitcoin is not a scientific result. The implication: a complete brain is now something that can be downloaded, run, and rewired over a weekend. That is what defaulting to open science gets you. Open data, open code, open discussion - released early rather than at publication.

Alex Wormuth@wormuth

2026.09.10 11:34

I gave the fly brain $100 to trade bitcoin. Dopamine neurons are stimulated when the fly makes profit. Neuron activity controls buy/sell decisions and makes trades on coinbase. Will the fly get rich?