Quite Curious is a science communication podcast illuminating findings in biology, neuroscience, cognition, brain studies, aging, and more! Dr. Ariel Frame, PhD, speaks with authors of new and upcoming research about their science.As a neurobiology researcher, Ariel hosts enlightening discussions providing researchers a taste of work they plan to read more about while enabling folks of any vocation to learn about fascinating science.

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Speaking with Professor Mikko Juusola about his new study in Nature Communications.Mansour, N., Takalo, J., Kemppainen, J., Bridges, A. D., MaBouDi, H., Asgar Bohra, A., Anielska, K., Vasas, V., Robert, T., Yi Bu, B., Shukla, S., Zhou, Y., Kittelmann, M., Ouwendijk, J., Mantell, J., Lawson, M., de Polavieja, G., Duke, E., Lazar, A. A., … Juusola, M. (2026). Synaptic high-frequency jumping synchronises vision to high-speed behaviour. Nature Communications, 17(1), 3863. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72509-2" rel="nofollow">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72509-2</a>Professor Mikko Juusola is a Professor in Systems Neuroscience at the School of Biosciences at the University of Sheffield. For more info:Google Scholar: <a href="https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=9XUdVR8AAAAJ" rel="nofollow">https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&amp;user=9XUdVR8AAAAJ</a>Lab Website: <a href="https://cognition.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/people/mikko-juusola" rel="nofollow">https://cognition.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/people/mikko-juusola</a>Heliox AI-generated podcast covering this paper: <a href="https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/why-houseflies-see-faster-than-ai" rel="nofollow">https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/why-houseflies-see-faster-than-ai</a> Recorded on July 16, 2026 Theme Song Provided By <a href="https://freebeats.io" rel="nofollow">https://freebeats.io</a> Produced By White Hot

#3 - Delayed reality? Houseflies suggest less delay than we thought, featuring Mikko Juusola

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Speaking with Andrew Lin about his two new papers in The Journal of PhysiologyBergmann, Gregor A., Melissa W. Tan, Katie Greenin-Whitehead, Philippe J. Fischer, Thomas C. Cozens, and Andrew C. Lin. 2026. “Conflicting Adaptations in an Inhibitory Feedback Circuit.” The Journal of Physiology 604(7): 3005–31. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1113/JP290394" rel="nofollow">10.1113/JP290394</a>.Greenin-Whitehead, Katie, Eyal Rozenfeld, Anthony Moreno-Sanchez, Melissa W. Tan, Kurtulus Kullu, Jessica Ausborn, Moshe Parnas, and Andrew C. Lin. “Ectopic Sodium Channel Expression Decreases Excitability of Drosophila Kenyon Cells.” The Journal of Physiology n/a(n/a). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1113/JP288790" rel="nofollow">10.1113/JP288790</a>.Andrew is a <a href="https://sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/people/academic-staff/andrew-lin" rel="nofollow">senior lecturer at University of Sheffield</a>. For more from Andrew:<a href="https://www.aclinlab.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.aclinlab.org/</a><a href="https://x.com/andrew_c_lin" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/andrew_c_lin</a><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/andrewclin.bsky.social" rel="nofollow">https://bsky.app/profile/andrewclin.bsky.social</a>Recorded on May 15, 2026Theme Song Provided By https://freebeats.io Produced By White Hot

#2 - Deciphering conflict in fly brains & NaChBac technical advice for fly neurobiologists, featuring Andrew Lin

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Speaking with Professor James Marshall about his two sister studies in eLife.MaBouDi, HaDi, Mark Roper, Marie-Geneviève Guiraud, Mikko Juusola, Lars Chittka, and James AR Marshall. “A Neuromorphic Model of Active Vision Shows How Spatiotemporal Encoding in Lobula Neurons Can Aid Pattern Recognition in Bees.” eLife 14 (July 2025): e89929. <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.89929" rel="nofollow">https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.89929</a>.MaBouDi, HaDi, Jasmin Richter, Marie-Geneviève Guiraud, Mark Roper, James AR Marshall, and Lars Chittka. “Active Vision of Bees in a Simple Pattern Discrimination Task.” eLife 14 (April 2025): e106332. <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.106332" rel="nofollow">https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.106332</a>.Professor James Marshall is a <a href="https://sheffield.ac.uk/cs/people/academic/james-marshall" rel="nofollow">Professor in Computer Science</a>, <a href="https://sheffield.ac.uk/machine-intelligence" rel="nofollow">Director of the Centre for Machine Intelligence</a>, and co-founder Founder Science Officer at <a href="https://opteran.com/" rel="nofollow">Opteran Technologies</a>. For more info:https://brainsonboard.co.uk/https://opteran.com/ Recorded on Sept 2, 2025Theme Song Provided By https://freebeats.io Produced By White Hot

#1 - How to see and think like a bee, featuring James Marshall

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Introducing Quite Curious and your host: Dr. Ariel K. Frame, PhD

Introduction to Quite Curious with Ariel Frame

Quite Curious is a science communication podcast illuminating findings in biology, neuroscience, cognition, brain studies, aging, and more! Dr. Ariel Frame, PhD, speaks with authors of new and upcoming research about their science.

As a neurobiology researcher, Ariel hosts enlightening discussions providing researchers a taste of work they plan to read more about while enabling folks of any vocation to learn about fascinating science.