I got an email update about this from EyeWire. what a fantastic piece of mapping and collaboration. Video give a really nice and quick overview of what it is all about.

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Eyewire’s Mammal Mania! The first mammals lived in the shadows of the massive dinosaurs that ruled their age. However, after the K-ph extinction event that wiped out all non-flying dinos, mammals were ready for their time in the spotlight. The Cenozoic Era, also known as “The Age of Mammals” began 66 million years ago, and continues into the modern day!

Around 6,400 mammalian species exist in today’s world. Mammals come in all shapes and sizes, live on land and in water, and are our neighbors, pets, and even our families! Let’s get wild during Mammal Mania, Eyewire’s week-long competition event, beginning August 17th. See you there!

FlyWire Preprint Paper Employing a technique similar to Eyewire, Seung Lab used AI to generate 3D reconstructions of neurons from a fly brain imaged via ultraresolution electron microscope. The generated cells were then inspected by scientists as well as some of Eyewire’s top citizen scientists, with technological improvements requiring as little as 5-30 minutes to proofread each cell.

This landmark neuroscience dataset is currently under peer review and an early access non-peer-reviewed version called a preprint is available here. If you prefer a video, here is an overview (the 127k proofread neurons have millions of attributes). Also check out the Connectome Awards where KrzysztofKruk and Nseraf both took home gold.

The brain of Drosophila melanogaster may seem tiny, but its >100,000 neurons and tens of millions of synapses enable a fly to see, smell, hear, walk, and, of course, fly. Flies engage in dynamic social interactions, navigate over distances, and form long-term memories. Thanks to the help of an exceptional group of Eyewire Scythes and Mystics who transcended to Flyer status, the first ever whole adult animal brain has been mapped.

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