Come to MPINB! @mpinb.mpg.de

Thanks Misha for the shout-out!
It has been a truly mind-opening journey. WHOLISTIC is one step towards whole-organism neuroscience and a true physiological observatory - with extensions on the way! I am continually amazed by what the data reveals - so much remains to be discovered and mined.

Application is open! Come join us and our fantastic line-up of speakers next year in March in Bonn!

🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨

It was a good experience to step back and briefly take stock of the amazing progress in connectomics since I started working on this stuff (20 years ago!)

thanks as well to @natrevneuro.nature.com for the constructive editorial interactions.

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Happy to share our publication - Comparative connectomics of two distantly related nematode species reveals patterns of nervous system evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New preprint from @darbly.bsky.social‬ @briandepasquale.bsky.social‬ and my labs! If you love (or hate) mosquitoes, have a look:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We used TEM to describe the circuitry used for CO2 detection by mosquitoes. As usual with mosquitoes, nothing is as expected! 🌬️🦟

@natrevneuro.nature.com just published a beautiful cover for the issue that includes the recent review on analogies in the visual system of vertebrates and invertebrates (@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social). Read it here doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Science and Art, what could be better?

🚀 New Neurovoyagers episode just dropped!
It's been such a great time chatting with ‪@monikakscholz.bsky.social about worms, neural bottlenecks, open science, and the joy of building stuff that works 🧠🔧
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1r2a...

Are you interested in visual systems? How are they similar or different across species? Read the review by Ryosuke @ryosuketanaka.bsky.social and Ruben published today in @natrevneuro.nature.com. It is available here: rdcu.be/enlpC

So great to see this in print! Congratulations to Johannes and team!

Algorithmic dissection of optic flow memory in larval zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.15.648832v1

Come join the Briggman lab in beautiful Bonn to work with a menagerie of animals: axolotls, anableps, danionella, zebrafish, xenopus tropicalus and more! Also, the institute is dog-friendly and sits on a dog park! 🐶

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Starting this summer, and after 11 wonderful years in Munich, the Portugues Lab will be starting a new adventure at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB) (nbb.cornell.edu) at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

A modular multi-color fluorescence microscope for simultaneous tracking of cellular activity and behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.01.646316v1

#Danionella in the creature column www.nature.com/articles/s41...