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Research on emotions and motivated behaviour in #zebrafish and #Danionella @tu-braunschweig.de

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Fish and chips sheet into the light @daniodanionella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New work on the dorsomedial pallium in goldfish from Sevilla: "A distributed pallial circuit links sensory and bodily representations to aversive motivational value in the goldfish dorsomedial pallium", see www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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A distributed pallial circuit links sensory and bodily representations to aversive motivational value in the goldfish dorsomedial pallium
Understanding how neural circuits transform sensory and bodily signals into motivational states and adaptive behavior is a central problem in neuroscience. In teleost fish, the dorsomedial telencephal...
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Matt Lovett-Barron @mlovettbarron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our lab's latest paper on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now published www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is the work of a great team in the lab - led by Jo-Hsien Yu, with Geoff Meyerhof, Jimjohn Milan, and Julia Napoli @nature.com @danionella.bsky.social
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Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The first Danionella paper from the lab. Danionella cerebrum is transparent, so you can see all of the internal organs. But what sensory information are the organs sending to the brain? In our new preprint, Emily Bayer wanted to find out. 1/4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Misha Ahrens @mishaahrens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Whole-body cellular activity imaging in zebrafish, headed by Virginie Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social - new paper is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Imaging cellular activity across all organs reveals body-wide circuits - Nature
An imaging system developed to record cellular activity throughout the whole body of zebrafish captures cellular organ dynamics and identifies multiple distributed circuits.
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Marco Podobnik @mpodobnik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our @natrevgenet.nature.com article out now. This is a hymn to danionin fishes, with sections on phylogeny, reproduction, immunity, morphology, regeneration and behaviour. rdcu.be/CntbxvfZsUba
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Xinwei Wang @xinwei-wang.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Happy to be part of this primer. This little transparent fish opens up incredible opportunities for neuroscience research.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 24/06/2026
The once-obscure Danionella fish takes center stage as a model research organism in a major new project funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Learn more: scim.ag/3QFj4XM
How AI, $1 billion, and a transparent fish could transform neuroscience
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Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I am excited to announce the latest paper from our lab, published in Science ! In this study, we show that thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain process sensory information hierarchically across topographically organized forebrain circuits.
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Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits
Thalamocortical projections shape the functional regionalization and parallel sensory computations across the mammalian cortex. However, the principles of thalamocortical computations in non-mammalian...
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Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🧠 A new paper from our lab is out! In this study, we explore how dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) circuits modulate forebrain activity and behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Topographically organized dorsal raphe activity modulates forebrain sensory-motor representations and contributes to defensive behaviors - Nature Communications
Functional heterogeneity of dorsal raphe nucleus is not fully understood. Here authors show topographically organized sensory and locomotor responses from the zebrafish dorsal raphe and its forebrain ...
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Alex Eve @amjeve.uk · 18/06/2026
Journal impact factors were released yesterday. In our latest @dev-journal.bsky.social Editorial, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social and I discuss how we are all architects of impact, highlighting that measuring the influence and support journals provide goes beyond a single number. doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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The elephant in the room: impact factor
Summary: This Editorial offers an honest look at impact factor trends in developmental biology, explains how Development serves its community, and makes the case that sustaining developmental biology ...
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Animal models continue to be critical to our understanding of complex biological and medical concepts. To learn more about the ethics and safeguards in place for responsible animal research, read this open-access article on the topic: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The continued importance of animals in biomedical research - Lab Animal
In the rapidly evolving field of biomedical research, the role of animal models has long been a topic of scientific and ethical debate. However, despite advancements in alternative modeling approaches...
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Progression without progress
Progress in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific discovery has made it increasingly realistic to envision automated “end-to-end science” (ETES) systems: integrated pipelines t...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social. AI is now offering neuroscience the same deal. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...
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Can AI do neuroscience without understanding?
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Elisabeth Knust -- former director at the @mpi-cbg.de -- acknowledges the "priviledge to do curiosity-driven science" in her acceptance speech for the Klaus Sander lifetime award of the @gfeev.bsky.social at #gfe2026 in @unipotsdam.bsky.social. Congratulations!
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Benjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Online viewer: atlas.danionella.org/cerebrum Atlas data repository: gin.g-node.org/danionella/d... Code: gin.g-node.org/danionella/K... @danionella.bsky.social
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Danionella c. Brain Atlas
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Benjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Tiny, transparent, and now charted! Our brain atlas of adult Danionella cerebrum includes >200 annotated regions, 29 whole-brain in situs, and male/female reference volumes – openly available, versioned and extendable. Work by @nkadobyansky.bsky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Bahl Lab @bahllab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
New paper out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🥳 Congratulations to our PhD student Katja for her inspiring work just published in Nature Communications on how the larval zebrafish brain processes multiple visual features. Check out a short summary of the work here: tinyurl.com/yzv4ct9k
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Benjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Marco Podobnik @mpodobnik.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Beautiful work led by Yansong (Kevin) Lu on skeletal muscle growth in zebrafish, giant danio, Danionella cerebrum, and killifish. HCR, new image analysis tool, scRNA-seq, and CRISPR. New international collaborations between Uni Melbourne, NCVC/Osaka, Stanford & ARMI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New morphometric analysis tool developed by Lu et al. applied to skeletal muscle cross-sections of four different juvenile teleost fish species. Main finding: Mosaic hyperplasia, i.e., the addition of new myofibers in the deep myotome, is near-zero in the small Danionella but dramatically enhanced in the giant danio relative to the intermediate grower zebrafish, establishing this mode of hyperplasia as a main driver of skeletal muscle growth in differently sized fishes.
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Fish and chips sheet into the light @daniodanionella.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
A multicellular analysis calcium imaging toolbox for ImageJ: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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samuelsy20.bsky.social @samuelsy20.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
In @elife.bsky.social: Pallium-encoded valence-specific chemosensory amplification of eye-body coordination in larval zebrafish doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Pallium-encoded valence-specific chemosensory amplification of eye-body coordination in larval zebrafish
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Don Arnold @don-b-arnold.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Our latest paper identifying negative valence neurons in the zebrafish pallium is now posted on bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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EMBO Reports @emboreports.org · 03/10/2025
For the love of frontier research, or why Elon’s rockets keep blowing up. The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend. By Nektarios Tavernarakis: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Fish and chips sheet into the light @daniodanionella.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Free #Stoptime #Naoko
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Лебеди СПБ - Пусть танцуют лебеди
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Jun Nagai @junnagai.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Just out in Nature! “The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory.” We identified astrocytic ensembles that link experiences across days to stabilize memory nature.com/articles/s41.... New astrocyte tools are openly available at Addgene: addgene.org/Jun_Nagai/. 1/8
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Giorgio Vallortigara @gvallortigara.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Our paper on #number discrimination in #Danionella is out #zebrafish #numbersense #number_sense #number @mirkuz12 #scott_fraser cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Numerical discrimination in Danionella
The transparent teleost Danionella cerebrum offers unique advantages for neuroscience research, including small size, lifelong cranial transparency, and a simplified brain. Despite its suitability for...
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Vincent Pasque @pasquelab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
It is with profound sadness that I have learned of the passing of my beloved PhD supervisor, John Gurdon. We have lost a true giant, an incredible mentor, kind and generous, whose contributions to science will inspire generations. He changed my life, and the lives of so many others.
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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Fish and chips sheet into the light @daniodanionella.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Remembering Dr. Jane Goodall (1934-2025) janegoodall.org
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Making a Difference with Dr. Jane Goodall.
YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA
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Katrin Vogt @katrinvogt.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
How is valence computed in the brain? Check out our new preprint about a single cell that integrates excitatory and inhibitory input across modalities according to valence and impacts behavioral decisions. An exciting collaboration across many labs. Enjoy reading! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A multisensory, bidirectional, valence encoder guides behavioral decisions
A key function of the brain is to categorize sensory cues as repulsive or attractive and respond accordingly. While we have some understanding of how sensory information is processed in the sensory pe...
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Fish and chips sheet into the light @daniodanionella.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Are you interested and passionate about fish & chips, imaging, coding, and trying to understand how the brain works? Then please come and join us and apply for a fully-funded PhD position in computational neuroscience at the TU Braunschweig or spread the word. Thank you! (PDF tinyurl.com/5n8k97x4)
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Fish and chips sheet into the light @daniodanionella.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
No more great again
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Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts - Big Crime (chicago sound check) - (Official Audio)
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Fish and chips sheet into the light @daniodanionella.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
German neuroscientists, e.g. Hitler appointed Professor Julius Hallervorden, and their research institutions, e.g. the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt (founded in 1914 as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung in Berlin), were not only complicit but also seemingly (1/5)
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight. These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them. www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
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Emotion research has a communication conundrum
In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
In her Perspective, Emilie Snell-Rood discusses the value of basic science, using the Morpho butterfly as an example of how this type of research has driven later innovation & highlights the value of government and institutional support for basic research journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
A photo of six butterflies which depicts the many different colours and patterns of butterflies in the genus Morpho. The top left is Morpho menelaus, the top middle is Morpho helenor, the top right is Morpho cypris. On the bottom left is Morpho rhetenor, the bottom middle is Morpho sulkowskyi, and the bottom right is Morpho hecuba. Photo credit: Emilie Snell-Rood.
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Fish and chips sheet into the light @daniodanionella.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Scientists are rising. Come on everybody and join the resistance. We are all in this together. Love's stronger than hate. Facts triumph over fear. It is enough, however, to do nothing for the old and the new enemies of our (still) open societies to succeed and destroy them. We must stop them.
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‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts
Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/03/2025
When you mess with science, be prepared for a reaction! #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social
Dr. Lucky Tran at the NYC Stand Up For Science rally wearing at mask and holding a sign that says “When you mess with science, be prepared for a reaction!”
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Fish and chips sheet into the light @daniodanionella.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#Danionella in the creature column www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Danionella fishes - Nature Methods
Miniature, transparent Danionella fishes, which are among the smallest living adult vertebrates, allow investigation of general principles of brain-wide neural circuits and evolutionary and developmen...
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Benjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Reintroducing the lab by featuring some recent papers on acoustic communication in the tiny glassfish Danionella cerebrum (@danionella.bsky.social). Antonia Groneberg carefully characterized the ontogeny of their singing in JEB: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... 🧵
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Development of sound production in Danionella cerebrum
Highlighted Article:Danionella cerebrum is one of the smallest vertebrates known to perform acoustic communication: juvenile fish develop their sexually dimorphic ability for sound production.
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