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Card 573 of 9832026-09-12 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-09-12

Ooceraea biroi

ooceraeabiroi.com Observed source
Editorial interest 84/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A scientific simulation gives an ant colony interface to a Drosophila neural graph, using odor-shaped inputs and documented ant-brain facts.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-12 issue.

Field notes

The page separates documented Ooceraea biroi facts from borrowed computational components instead of presenting a fabricated ant connectome. Its model uses a 493-channel odor hash, a smell-oriented ant reference, and a fly-derived KC-to-MBON circuit with depression, a floor, and slow forgetting. Five descending-neuron populations become relabelled role read-outs, while the page explicitly says they are not ant anatomy.

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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.

OpenPublic substance visible
LoginAccess appeared gated
PrettyNotable craft visible
ProPolished or operationally mature
NicheUnusually specific use

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