SCIENTISTS SAY MAP. INTERNET SAYS GUY. ✦ LOCAL INSECT HAS MORE CONNECTIONS THAN YOUR LINKEDIN ✦ 166,000+ NEURONS, ZERO JOB OFFERS ✦ THE FLY IS UNEMPLOYED. YOU ARE HERE.
🪰 theflydidit.com

They put a fly on the internet.
The internet has been doing things with it.

Google mapped every wire in a male fruit fly brain — 166,000+ neurons, 125M synapses, every last one — and the timeline treated it like a celebrity had just been born. The paper is in Cell. The résumé, the dating profile, and the GitHub bio are everywhere else. This is the feed.

About this directory

In September 2026, Google Research and HHMI Janelia released MaleCNS v1.0: the complete connectome of an adult male fruit fly's brain and central nervous system — 166,000+ neurons and about 125 million synaptic connections, the largest brain map by number of neurons to date, published as navigable 3D data. The peer-reviewed paper is in Cell. Since then, researchers, developers and AI agents have been posting screenshots of wiring diagrams, cell inventories, and behavioral-hypothesis threads that are weirdly captivating.

This site collects the best of it and sorts by engagement. It is an unofficial, lovingly curated fan directory — every post belongs to its author, and every card links back to the original on X.

Runs on one static HTML file and a JSON file. The fly requires no backend. Follow @theflydidit for commentary.