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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Happy summer break! ☀️ After many busy weeks—with @nadiave.bsky.social presenting at Pint of Science in Trondheim and the NWOLife conference in the Netherlands, a field trip to collect more Tomopteris, AND the submission of a paper—we're enjoying some well-deserved time off. Have a great summer! 😃

A woman holding a microphone on a small stage looks up at a projected slide that reads "The hidden language of light in the deep sea". Two audience members are sitting on either side of the photo.

A smiling woman in a yellow life jacket and orange hard-hat standing on board a large boat with a wire going into the fjord. In the background is a green hillside and an overcast sky.

A white plankton net hangs from a wire just above the ocean surface. In the background are green hills and a partly overcast sky.

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's #InternationalPolychaeteDay! We might be biased, but is there any polychaete more beautiful than #Tomopteris? Like this one that we named Tina, filmed under infrared lights 😍

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The gift to science from @octoscience.bsky.social that just keeps on giving: you can now use OCTRON in a terminal! 💪 PS: one of our worms is the model for a brand new feature in post two of this thread 🤩

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Today @noralied.bsky.social became a Master of Science! 🥳🎓🔬 She has optimised immunohistochemistry protocols for detecting key proteins in our favourite worms. Big thanks to @helmlab.bsky.social and @gquattrocolo.bsky.social for examining the thesis!

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Three smiling women standing together in front of a blackboard with chalk drawing of a sunset.

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Remember the #OCTRON preprint we published a couple of months ago? The pipeline just got a lot more powerful 💪🎉

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

A Christmas present from us and the rest of the #OCTRON team to you: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🎁

A translucent tomopteris annelid decorated with five big red baubles, many small yellow string lights and a big yellow star at the tip of its tail, all on a black background. Three wrapped gifts are in the bottom right corner and on the left red text reads "Merry Christmas from the Marine Neuroscience Laboratory"

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

🌟 Our first paper! 🌟 @octoscience.bsky.social has created a complete pipeline that makes tracking weird and wonderful animals a breeze, and we've had a blast testing it on our wriggly worms. Check out this thread to see it in action 👇 #OCTRON

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

We spent a week at Sletvik field station collecting worms! MSc student Amalie from the University of Copenhagen joined and stayed for 3 weeks to work in our lab 🌟 We caught ~60 Tomopteris with R/V Gunnerus during the day and were treated to great views of the northern lights at night

Three smiling women wearing orange life vests and hard hats on the deck of a boat.

Two women in orange life vests and hard hats working on securing a plankton net

A smiling woman in an orange life vest and hard hat holding a red, rectangular piece of equipment. In the background is a fjord and blue sky with the sun covered by a white cloud.

A woman sitting in relative darkness looking up at the sky where green northern lights play.

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Celebrating the lab turning 5 years old at the restaurant Troll 🎉

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

We just published our third major funding application, including the evaluation it received, for the benefit of future applicants 🙌 Because #OpenScience is also about sharing ideas and examples that others can learn from 🌟 www.ogrants.org/grants/jacob...

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Funding application (RCN, 2024): Deciphering bioluminescent communication in marine annelids · Open Grants

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Meet our first MSc student! This is @noralied.bsky.social 🌟 She is in her 5th year studying natural science with teacher education at #NTNU, and for her thesis she will optimize immunohistochemical methods for detecting neurons in marine annelid brains 🧠💪

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Happy #InternationalPolychaeteDay! 🌍🪱 To celebrate, here’s a glimpse of the bioluminescence of our gossamer worms! This video was captured in the lab by @nadiave.bsky.social using a monochrome camera — so it's in black and white — but in real life, the worms glow in a stunning bright yellow.

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Are you at the Gordon Research Conference on Neuroethology in Florence later this week? 👀 @nadiave.bsky.social will present a poster supported by a grant from the Tom Wilhelmsen’s Foundation (thank you for the support)! We celebrated the grant with Nadia’s favourite treat: lemon meringue pie 🍋

Two lemon meringue pies, each on a separate white plate, next to an orchid. White background.

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Nadia Maria van Eekelen @nadiave.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Here's the video again but hopefully less blurry! ☺️ I'd never seen so many Tomopteris in one place - absolutely wild

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

How to make a biologist happy: provide almost 100 specimens of their favourite marine worm (how many do you see in the video?) Big thank you to Snorre Bakke and his students at #NTNU #Ålesund. We had a busy weekend! 🤩

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Nadia Maria van Eekelen @nadiave.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Had a great time presenting at the NTNU-wide symposium "NeuroSYS" last week. A 5-minute datablitz is short, but I hope I made a few people curious about bioluminescent worms! ✨️ @marineneurolab.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social #neuroscience #bioluminescence #research

A woman standing at the front of a lecture hall, giving a presentation. A powerpoint title slide is projected on the screen behind her.

A woman standing at the front of a lecture hall, giving a presentation. A powerpoint slide is projected on the screen behind her, which contains information about the model organism of her research.

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

In keeping with tradition, a big funding rejection (🥲) means it's treat time! More specifically, tiramisu-tower-time 🎉 It's not easy to start something new, but the like-minded people you meet along the way make it worth it. They keep science fun 🎈🌟

Two square tiramisu pieces stacked on top of each other on a white, circular plate. Underneath the plate is a yellow napkin and an abstract patterned tablecloth. At the front of the image there are two pieces of confectionery in yellow and brown wrapping. The background is an abstract, twirling artwork in dark blues and greens.

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

One thing we did last year was to build our lab and in this video made by @nadiave.bsky.social you can see how it all came together! Our worms naturally live in the deep ocean where sunlight never reaches, so we built a tent where we can house them and do behavioural experiments in total darkness 🌚

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Meet the team at the MNL! We're a small lab with big ambitions, but also value time off. Because discoveries are made by humans, so you need to put their wellbeing first. Meet our humans below! 👇

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Marine Neuroscience Laboratory @marineneurolab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

We're a lab dedicated to marine neuroscience, focusing on a little worm that glows to communicate. What does it say with its flashes of light? And what role does its nervous system play? Stay tuned to find out! 🌟🌊🧠

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