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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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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🌟 NEW OCTRON RELEASE! 🌟 Want to track your animals using the command line? You can now train models and predict videos with single prompts in a terminal! Ideal for batch jobs, headless servers, and remote machines. Big shout-out to @roald-arboel.com for helping with this release!

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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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Nadia Maria van Eekelen @nadiave.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Yay!!! Congratulations to you again @noralied.bsky.social 🥳 Thank you for being my very first MSc student to supervise. It was such a joy, and I'm super proud of what you achieved ☺️

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Dr. Kakani Katija @kakanikatija.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Midwater worms >> terrestrial worms. 😍 #tomopteris 🦑🧪🌊 #DesigningtheFuture3 @mbarinews.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social

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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

BIG UPDATES! OCTRON now supports the new SAM3 models (alongside SAM2)! We’ve also added a global switch for Detection vs. Segmentation: Use the same annotations to train either lightweight detection or full segmentation models. Plus, we’ve added support for the new YOLO26 models. ⤵️ 1/12

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Ragnhild Irene Jacobsen @rijacobsen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

You can use #OCTRON to track cells too! It took 10 min to annotate multiple cells in 146 frames, 1.5 hrs to train a model with a GPU, and 10 sec to make these predictions. It doesn't get much easier than that⚡️

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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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Nadia Maria van Eekelen @nadiave.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

My first ever paper as a xmas present! 🎄 Check out this amazing pipeline created by @octoscience.bsky.social to track squishy animals 🐙 Very happy I could contribute to this, #OCTRON works great on my gossamer worms! 👇

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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

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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.

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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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Nadia Maria van Eekelen @nadiave.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

And a small milestone for me: I'm supervising my first MSc student! It's great to have you in the lab, @noralied.bsky.social ☺️

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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 🍋

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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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Nadia Maria van Eekelen @nadiave.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Forever sharing every Tomopteris video I come across. They're beautiful, and even though I study them, they still manage to surprise me every time.

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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

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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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Nadia Maria van Eekelen @nadiave.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Rejection tastes better with chocolate. And coffee. And a big layer of mascarpone 🍫 😉

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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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Nadia Maria van Eekelen @nadiave.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I just learned about Hamid Nedari Yeganeh, who makes amazing drawings using only mathematical equations. Now I can't begin to understand how he does this, but I wanted to share this one he made of a gossamer worm. So cool! 🤯

Drawing of a gossamer worm made with mathematical equations, by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Run, don't walk, to see this AMAZING video about the bioluminescent ostracods! As said at the end, "I want people to know about them" A #Crustmas feature related to work of @ostratodd.bsky.social @nikohensley.bsky.social @emilylau.bsky.social @lisayetermesrop.bsky.social @emily-ellis.bsky.social 🧪🦑

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Spectacular crustacean light shows reveal biodiversity on Caribbean reefs

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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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Nadia Maria van Eekelen @nadiave.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The lab where I'm doing my PhD is on BlueSky now too! Follow along for updates about our glowing worms 🌟

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Nadia Maria van Eekelen @nadiave.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hi everyone! I'm Nadia and I'm a PhD student in marine neuroscience at the NTNU in Trondheim. My research is about the bioluminescent communication of marine annelids (specifically Tomopteris) 🪱🌊🧠

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