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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 22d

Join the symposium for senior trainees & junior group leaders (organised by SWC's Sara Mederos and @sandra-neuro.bsky.social) at the International Winter Neuroscience Conference, Austria, April 2026.

Abstract submission to present your work at the Early Career Symposium closes on 15 Oct

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 14d

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · 14d

Had a great time at the #ERM in Pécs. Got to meet lots of great people from the retina field, and even won the audience vote for best poster!

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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · 19d

Video is calcium activity in one hemisphere of the optic tectum of a 2-week old tadpole, in response to the stimuli shown in the inset. Both played at 5x speed.

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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · 19d

Excited for the European Retina Meeting next week, and to show some of my work on how 🐸 see the world as peacefully filter feeding tadpoles or predatory frogs. Here's a sneak peek at the imaging part, for more info talk to me or see my poster on the baden lab website: badenlab.org/posters/

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Georgios Kafetzis @gkafetzis.bsky.social · 26d

👁️The retina — strikingly conserved across vertebrates, but an oddity among bilaterians!

So how did it evolve?

With @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social, we argue that retinal complexity may 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · 27d

Today, 12th September 5pm GMT+1 (9am US west coast) we’re excited to host Eugenia Chiappe! Tune in at m.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtT...

World Wide Neuro | Sussex Vision Series - 12/09/2025 - Prof. Eugenia Chiappe

YouTube video by BadenLab

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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · Aug 20

This Friday we are excited to host Julie Semmelhack on the Sussex Vision talk series! Looking forward to seeing many of you there!
Tune in here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsqh...

World Wide Neuro | Sussex Vision Series - 22/08/2025 - Prof. Julie Semmelhack

YouTube video by BadenLab

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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · Jul 18

We're aware that these times are difficult to make in some time zones, but we are also limited by speaker time zones/talks bein in-person. Will adjust for the next set of talks wherever possible.

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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · Jul 18

Next Wednesday, 15:00 GMT+1 (3pm UK, 4pm Europe) we have another Sussex Vision talk! Tune in at www.youtube.com/@badenlab615... for Michael Herzog (hosted by Jenny M Bosten). See you there!

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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · Jun 23

This Thursday, 13:00 GMT+1 (1pm UK, 2pm Europe) we have the Sussex Vision series coming back. Tune in at m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... to hear Fabio Cortesi talk about vision in coral reef fishes. See you there!

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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · Jun 4

The Sussex Vision Talk series is back! Join us to hear about all things vision, from retina to brain, from invertebrates to human.
www.youtube.com/@badenlab615...
Talks will be live-streamed (and stored) on YouTube, hope to see many of you there. Details on each talk coming soon.

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Katja Reinhard @katjareinhard.bsky.social · May 30

Now with correct link: Preprint on how to create an equitable and healthy lab environment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ! During the SAFE Labs workshop 2024 we came up with concrete action points, summarised in these guidelines for Lab Handbooks github.com/SAFE-Labs-Do...

The SAFE Labs Handbook: community-driven commitments for group leaders to improve lab culture

Creating positive and equitable lab environments has become a growing priority for the scientific community and funders of scientific research. Research institutions typically respond to this need by ...

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Katja Reinhard @katjareinhard.bsky.social · May 19

New paper on bioRxiv: "Ambient Light Impacts Innate Behaviors of New-World and Old-World Mice" - together with @farrowlab.bsky.social, with data from NERF master students and two of my lab members! A study across 3 species: Mus musculus, Peromyscus maniculatus & P. polionotus doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Ambient Light Impacts Innate Behaviors of New-World and Old-World Mice

Animals encounter predators and prey under diverse lighting conditions that signal different risks and opportunities, yet how ambient illumination shapes innate approach and avoidance behaviors remain...

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Tom Baden @neurofishh.bsky.social · May 8

Our proposal for a ‘universal’ nomenclature for rod and cone types based on their evolutionary lineages that will equally apply to all vertebrate species is now out! Have a look and please consider adopting the system :)

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Kevin Staras @kevinstaras.bsky.social · Feb 28

Looking for a quick way to map the brain of your favourite small animal model?
See our new paper. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/10

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Katja Reinhard @katjareinhard.bsky.social · Feb 14

We had an excellent week at the EMBO Subcortical Circuits Meeting in Assisi. First posters with lab-own data only, presented by the amazing Po-yu Liao and Lucia Zanetti! Great organising by @santiagorompani.bsky.social, Hiroki Asari, Tomomi Shimogori and Judith Hirsch

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Tom Baden @neurofishh.bsky.social · Feb 5

Seeking input: A standardized nomenclature
for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina

A number of us have been working on a proposal to bring various disconnected naming systems for the vertebrate rods and cones across species into alignment. The basic proposal looks like this:

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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · Feb 3

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Pranav Seth @thebuddhabird93.bsky.social · Jan 17

The beauty of viral transfection in #avianretina 🐔

Here is a transfected #amacrinecell and some #photoreceptors in a cross-section of a #chick #retina.

Great image for #FluorescenceFriday

Sample from
@neurofishh.bsky.social

Green: Viral transfected retina; Red: DAPI for stratification

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Dinu F Albeanu @dinanthos.bsky.social · Jan 14

Interested in understanding how things work? In particular the tools you use to study the brain? Join us at TENSS 2025 where we brainstorm ideas, build and debug microscopes, electrophysiology and behavior rigs amidst the picturesque Transylvanian hills! tenss.ro
Apply by: February 16th!

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Katja Reinhard @katjareinhard.bsky.social · Dec 28

Technical assistant position in my lab is open now: www.sissa.it/bandi/selezi... Making viruses, helping with rodents, possibility to do some experiments (behavior, surgery, immunohistochemistry...). Please contact me for a chat before applying! Deadline February 6th
our lab: www.reinhardlab.org

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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · Dec 16

Pretty cool what you can do with free tools these days. Live tracking of a frog doing prey capture, using to bonsai-rx.org and sleap.ai

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Dec 8

The good idea comes when one person feels comfortable enough to say something that might make them look stupid and their friend is open enough to recognize its potential.

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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · Nov 29

And for this #FluorescenceFriday, here’s the sequel. Froglet of the same line from the Sweeney lab.

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