Do Bugs Have Brains?

[@neurotransmissions]

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[@warpstar4282]

What the hell is that ugly haircut

[@DrawCuriosity]

It was so much fun to work on this collaboration together - thank you for having me on and talking bug brains with me! 🐞

[@Wise4HarvestTime]

Pretty amazingly long hair. I like it!

[@vericak4868]

Is that braid real???😱😱😱😻😻😻

[@Upper_echelon_exotics]

timothèe chalamet ikr! That’s the real question! Lol

[@Lightning_Lance]

how did I not even notice that?

[@JohnDRambo]

I think its hot..

[@anyarasan8529]

I dont think so

[@artificial_rock_flavoring]

@@JohnDRambo what

[@loukeeyscott5724]

i’m watching this because i just called a bug a “dumb ass.” then i wondered & here’s your glorious video

[@Bob-mc2jn]

A fly went into my billy and drowned 😑

[@ARTexplains]

I initially read this title as "Do brains have bugs?"

[@ProfessorPolitics]

ARTexplains Science and History the answer to that is, unfortunately, a lot more horrifying.

[@neurotransmissions]

Sometimes! :O

[@VivaCristoRei9]

Neuro Transmissions wait, what!?

[@bossoholic]

2:13 She's soo happy :)

[@CityBeautiful]

Nice collaboration!

[@neurotransmissions]

Thanks so much! :)

[@KhAnubis]

1:04 To be honest, I can completely relate.

[@ProfessorPolitics]

This was really cool! It always blows my mind that fruit flys are such a good model for understanding our own brains.

[@neurotransmissions]

I know! They’re so small and simple, but their brains are still incredibly complex! It makes you wonder how we’ll ever get to understand our brains!

[@DSMWannabeLinguist]

Ganglia is a personal favourite word of mine, so any excuse to hear that again gets a thumbs up from me. Super interesting, it was great fun watching your two respective study fields come together. Well done, ladies!

[@neurotransmissions]

It is a fun word, isn't it? Ganglia, ganglia, ganglia, ganglia...

[@ImGoingSupersonic]

Ok, are those braids fake? Or like fluffed out crazy style to look massive. So cool !

[@Socratica]

Love to see you two together!! Wonder twins activate - form of smart videos!!!

[@neurotransmissions]

Brains!...Bugs!...with our powers combined....

[@yokobluu]

Her long braid was constantly distracting me 0_0

[@mike.likes.science]

👋🏾Hi Inés. Hi Alie! Great video! Very informative. I have 1 question and 1 observation: 1) Nice visual pun at 3:10. 60% of genes/jeans 😄 2) Have you seen the Pickle Rick Episode of Rick and Morty?

[@neurotransmissions]

We have! We're recent Rick and Morty fans!

[@animestar9069]

Fun fact, I'm here because of Rick and Morty pickle Rick, in which he controls a cockroach by it's brain... But yah, just checking if bugs even have brains. Fun fact, you can't find pictures of bug brains taken out. Only drawings.

[@sandrofischer3959]

this video is so cool, thank you both and also every person who helped gathering information to this knowledge

[@ataraxia7439]

It always feels counter intuitive how much of brains is just managing movement and basic functions even if it makes sense in hindsight

[@2300Kenzie]

Excellent presentation. It gives me a whole new perspective on pesticides (which was one of my fields of research). Unfortunately you have burdened me with new questions that forces me to do some additional reading. Inés is a brilliant communicator and the two of you make a great pair. I enjoyed this video very much. Thank you.

[@neurotransmissions]

Thanks so much! Pesticides sounds like a fascinating field to study. What are you looking into in particular?

[@2300Kenzie]

I developed an enzyme based biosensor for organophosphates. At the time I was working toward a PhD in toxicology and also studied other pesticides & their mechanisms. Once I got to enjoy the failure of a shipping package containing a vial of DFP which has a distinctive pleasant smell. Of course it was on a Friday afternoon and I was alone. I figured that my increased salivation was psychosomatic, but then I felt some perioral paresthesia so I closed up the lab and spent Fri evening in the local ER wondering if the symptoms would increase or not. Fortunately they didn't. Overall I worked with OPs for about 20 months. Since that time I have chronic headaches. That's when I started reading more about neurology. I appreciate your work.

[@2300Kenzie]

I would also suggest that some insecticides could be a tool for your experimental design. They have very specific & well defined actions which might be useful.

[@neurotransmissions]

Wow, that sounds...intense. Headaches are no fun, but I'm glad that nothing worse happened!

[@2300Kenzie]

Gracias, amiga. I would find your perspectives on Temple Grandin's work interesting if there is a point where your two fields approach each other. As an animal/bio/physiology guy, I think she has great messages for the masses. However it might be too general gene expressionny and not close enough to your biochemical level to find that nexus.

[@theburtons49]

I have a question for you Guys, I am being pestered at the moment by these very very small flying insects not much bigger than the end of a needle. But if I try to kill them they are so quick and try to avoid me at all costs. Which tells me 1.They no they are in danger . 2.They must feel pain and know if they dont avoid me there going to die. 3.Their life must be worth living for them or otherwise they wouldnt try to avoid being killed. 4.So they have plans a life worth living and maybe they fear death like humans. 5. Finally my last question is if they have brains and a life worth living does microbes even smaller than them have brains too? Thank you 2.

[@gymleader797]

Another question did the brain grow to match the shape of the head or the head grow to match the shape of the brain?

[@Ironpanda94]

Two of the channel I love the most in the same videos! Great job, thank you all 😊

[@neurotransmissions]

Thanks so much for watching1

[@eddiejaoude]

Really interesting and great collab 👍🤓

[@neurotransmissions]

Thanks so much!!

[@artificial_rock_flavoring]

How those a jumping spiders brain work?

[@Phrenotopia]

Well done you guys! And very interesting!!!

[@neurotransmissions]

A little late on this, but thanks so much! Happy you enjoyed the video! :D

[@rakshithaa6180]

Amazing!!! It’s fascinating !!!! Thank you !

[@atpole818]

Just stumbled on your channel. Great stuff! Subscribing 😊

[@rm18068]

I liked this so much

[@mohamadpirouzfar6056]

Thank you guys. That was helpful

[@darkpassenger2852]

Ines is amazing 😍😍😍😍😍

[@NOOBEPICASSO]

Ines has altered senses, watch her body language. Nice informative video, thank you I enjoyed it. =)

[@sayittomyfaceidareyou8629]

The one on the left is like a Kylie but super smart.

[@wassollderscheiss33]

Today we make a connectome(?) of the fruit fly and tomorrow we will emulate a human. After all, computer science isn't scared of big numbers. 100.000 fold increase is easy enough to do in 10 years. Sounds like a way to superintelligence.

[@ginsr8964]

This makes me learn more about insects..

[@danielcj13]

How can we kill those flies?

[@8DX]

Drosophila? Tagging PZ Myers here! (Oh wait that's not how this website works.) Thanks for the buggy video I mean video on bugs! =8)-DX

[@Phrenotopia]

8DX We could tweet him it or leave a comment on his blog?

[@8DX]

Oh yeah, I could do that (did that - tweeted him a link)! Although I just remembered he actually studies one of the other model organisms - zebrafish - in his lab (mmm, tasty zebrafish brain slices). =8)-DX

[@Phrenotopia]

Yeah, he does, hence the "Pharyngula". But he knows and likes Inès' channel, so he'll appreciate the pointer nonetheless!

[@mebaale]

Informative video. Would have been cooler if Ines's voice could have been a bit louder. Thank you!

[@neurotransmissions]

Yeah, we had a hard time boosting the audio on her end without making the background noises too distracting. I guess that's the issue with filming outdoors. Oh well, live and learn! We'll get it next time! Thanks for watching!

[@assimilation1]

...and I've squished Thousands of them

[@RedStefan]

So an ant hive has more processing power than a human

[@neurotransmissions]

I guess with a hive big enough, you could get enough ant brains to match the size of a human brain. But a hundred thousand ant brains does not a human brain make.

[@enkiimuto1041]

Are they trying to map like that worm with that worm?

[@neurotransmissions]

Exactly! Just like the C. elegans, they're trying to map the fly brain. Micah actually did some video work for OpenWorm, which is one of those organizations working on mapping the C. elegans worm. Thanks for pointing that out!

[@enriqueatentar8876]

That's why they very hard to hit.

[@silentkiller1066]

which insect has 8 brains?

[@DjboiGonnaGetSomeBleach]

A bug's brain Is is made out of corpse

[@roadfleam]

wow

[@ikamy]

I had a question about brain but I couldn't notice your long hair!

[@dawoodbhayat9509]

Is this your real hair?

[@yenisonnava8064]

I like bugs they cute

[@dawoodbhayat9509]

Beautiful

[@rickharold69]

excellent

[@DJDeezyThaTruth]

-Hella old, but that dress that braid lady is wearing is pretty 😆🌺

[@rabdzzthagoat1842]

This felt too scripted

[@KailashKumar-kr7pc]

Her hairs

[@haidershah3554]

in love with you both

[@luizfernandodesa4910]

the amount of ba dum ts is too damn high

[@lilredanguiano45]

Long Hair and Short Hair 😂

[@animestar9069]

Or, if your like me, you'd like to figure out how to upgrade and downgrade the brain... As a population control measure... If there's no one to say it's inhumane, it's not inhumane... Lol ..

[@xXMaGoO316Xx]

Got drunk, watched this, couldn’t understand a thing, learned nothing, I’m out

[@xXMaGoO316Xx]

I’ll be back tomorrow to post my results

[@haidershah3554]

:)

[@penanceii8201]

>Women explaining

[@WS-gw5ms]

Nice video but I am chomping at the bit to take a sythe to her hair.

[@dalebewan]

Noooooo! That's just evil! Her hair is amazing. And besides, when you average the two of them out, they've both got medium length ;)

[@neurotransmissions]

Hahaha, we joked about that too! The hair extremes!

[@nicougrikify]

stop being fake for the camera

[@neurotransmissions]

No.

[@nicougrikify]

@@neurotransmissions nerd

[@ginacarrano50yearsago15]

nicougrikify Pelletier I feel like you have special needs

[@martinleon2high848]

Lol

[@falondonahue8457]

@@nicougrikify They are NOT acting they're telling people facts about insect brains.

[@nicougrikify]

why cant you just talk normally

[@falondonahue8457]

They are talking normally.

[@XxShadow-lv1ll]

.... A fly expert? How is that in any way useful?