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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.

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George Kafetzis @gkafetzis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! A dive into the deep history of vertebrate vision, together with @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social Photo credit : Vasilis Karkalas

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Tom Baden @neurofishh.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Now out in Cell! Congratulations to all involved, especially @chiarafornetto.bsky.social For a breakdown, see the bluetorial from when we posted the preprint: bsky.app/profile/neur... Funding: @erc.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social @ukri.org @leverhulme.ac.uk @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social

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Michael Bok @mikebok.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Super excited to have received a @hfspo.bsky.social grant with with @neurofishh.bsky.social for our proposal: Eyes inside out: Visual coding without a multilayered retina in squid and worms.

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Tom Baden @neurofishh.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 24/11/2024

I recently went to a talk by Tom Baden (@neurofishh.bsky.social). One of the best I've ever seen. It's a radical reinterpretation of what color vision was initially for. And during questions it covered the roles of the green cone and the UV cones (yep, plural) in mouse vision. youtu.be/gzfiUZ2_5pc

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Ancestral photoreceptor diversity as the basis of visual behaviour

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Tom Baden @neurofishh.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

For today's #fluorescenceFriday, a transgenic Danionella cerebrum, the world's (second) smallest vertebrate (yep, "stout infantfish" are smaller, but no one has made them glow yet!). Picci by our very own @xinwei-wang.bsky.social

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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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

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Pranav Seth @thebuddhabird93.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Let us all be in awe of the anatomical beauty of #avianretina 🐔 Here is a cross-section of a domestic chick #retina displaying some beautiful #bipolarcell and #doublecone markers. Lets do some #FluorescenceFriday Sample from @neurofishh.bsky.social

Green is an ON BC marker; Red is Double Cone marker and blue is our old friend DAPI 🙃

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Chiara Fornetto @chiarafornetto.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Excited to share my new #preprint with @neurofishh.bsky.social and @teuler.bsky.social If you want to know more about cones and behaviour 🐟... 👇🏻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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