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Horst Obenhaus

@octoscience.bsky.social
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PostDoc at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU Trondheim. Whitman Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA. I am studying sleep in octopuses and cuttlefish. 🐙

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napari @napari.org · 26/09/2026
🚀 napari is hiring Remote Developers-in-Residence! Join us to build the future of interactive n-dimensional data visualization in Python. 💻 60% Dev / 20% Maintenance / 20% Community & Outreach ⏱️ Contract, 14–35 hrs/wk 🌍 Global 100% Remote Learn more and apply today: napari.org/island-dispa...
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We’re hiring Developers-in-Residence! — napari blog documentation
Organization: napari (a NumFOCUS Sponsored Project) Position Type: Independent contractor agreement. Global, 100% Remote. Duration: One year, possibility to extend. Commitment: 0.4 to 1.0 FTE…
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Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Masa's paper is out in Hippocampus. The left-right alternation of hippocampal theta sequences at T-maze choice points, much loved as a 'planning' signal, falls straight out of MEC dynamics. Well done @masahironakano.bsky.social, fun project with @clopathlab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/hipo.70131
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Estibaliz Gómez de Mariscal, PhD @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🤹 How can you now use this new knowledge? Together with the ReScale4DL user-friendly framework, we provide systematic guidelines for selecting an image resolution that balances accuracy, throughput, and cost.
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Brittany Sutherland @sutherlandbl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is just astonishingly cute.
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(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬 @aheadofthenerve.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hi friends & colleagues! I’m on the hunt for a tenure-track home! I’m a BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 scholar studying learning & memory at the intersection of experimental neuroscience, theory, & machine learning/AI. I’d love to connect & would appreciate help spreading the word! web.mit.edu/hsw/www/
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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Are virtual flies playing Beat Saber? SM64? Doom? No. The new fly connectome is an incredible achievement! Less is going on in the sim videos than it seems. I'm stoked to see people engage with neuroscience though. My breakdown: www.neuroai.science/p/are-flies-...
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Are flies playing Beat Saber?
What a time to be alive!
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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
it turned out to be an incredible school, a masterclass in pedagogy, organization and (research) software developing. so glad I heard about the Prague edition in time, will be pointing people to it in random contexts #aspp2026
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napari @napari.org · 26/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 napari 0.9.0 is out! 🚨🚨🚨 This is a huge release for us and for our community, with over 30 people contributing new features, improvements, and bug fixes in the 6 weeks since 0.8.0! Release notes here: napari.org/stable/relea... and some highlights in the thread below! 👇
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napari 0.9.0
Tue, Aug 25, 2026 We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.9.0! napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python. It’s designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing l...
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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Pharmacobehavioral space of MoSeq syllables significantly overlaps with scalar locomotion features www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yes please.
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Jonas Wietek @jwietek.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
light-activated tetanus neurotoxin (LATeNT) by the @aliceyting.bsky.social lab. Includes a comparison with the light-switchable PdCO (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), showing a long lasting inhibition for 1h hour post illumination. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Light-activated tetanus neurotoxin for conditional proteolysis and inducible synaptic inhibition in vivo - Nature Methods
LATeNT is a light-activatable form of tetanus neurotoxin that can be used for spatiotemporally precise inhibition of exocytosis in neurons and other cells. It can inhibit synaptic transmission in vivo...
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Rune W. Berg @runewberg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Nordic Neuroscience Meeting 2027 in Iceland! June 14-16, 2027 Call for symposia, see details below
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
High Axial Resolution Is Necessary for Quantitative Two-Photon Calcium Imaging of Neuronal Populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Kari Hoffman @karihoffman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
📣New paper! How does the sleeping brain help us to integrate new experiences while managing memories from the past? For his PhD work, @sabbaspoor.bsky.social recorded hippocampal ensembles in freely moving monkeys and found something unexpected. 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧠📈👩‍🔬#OpenAccess
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Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques - Nature Neuroscience
In macaques, old memories, relative to new ones, are supported by more stable and interconnected cell assemblies. New-biased and old-biased assemblies reactivate during overnight sleep and can sometim...
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In honor of Ed Kravitz, with support from the Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social, this scholarship supports students attending research training courses at the MBL. The Grass Foundation will match your contribution. internationalsocietyofneuroethology.growthzoneapp.com/ap/contribut...
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Pacific Optica @pacificoptica.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Check out this compact 920 nm ultrafast fs laser for 2p imaging of GCaMP, etc.. Mounted on its side like this, it takes up very little space on the table. That's the Axon 920, generously loaned to the course thanks to @ewadorotaz.bsky.social and others at Coherent. It's what we use on our own rigs.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This looks pretty fantastic. Master's level - transitioning into PhD. The headline got me "Imagine building 3D microscopes right by the beach!" Research Fellowship in Bioimaging at the Quantitative BioImaging Lab (QBI), CCMAR Algarve, Portugal, IMAGINE project ccmar.ualg.pt/en/job/ccmar...
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CCMAR/BINCGAM/10/2026 | Research Fellowship | Bioimaging | 1 Vacancy
Research Fellowship – 1 VacancyWithin the project - IMAGINEProject Refº: HORIZON-INFRA-2022-TECH-01-101094250Ref.
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
this looks very cool (:
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Oscar Chadney @oscar-chadney.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I’m excited to share our latest preprint, and the main work from my PhD, on the role of the direct entorhinal input in hippocampus CA1 spatial coding. 1/9
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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
During sleep, neurons in the hippocampus 'replay' past activity patterns. This is thought to underlie memory consolidation 🧠 After a busy day, how does the brain sort out what is worth replaying? 🤔 Check out this preprint 📃 from Tirole, Duvelle and Bendor for answers! doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Time, but not reward, shapes replay-based episodic prioritization
Why are some experiences remembered better than others? Leading theories propose that hippocampal replay prioritizes memories for consolidation according to their expected future value. We recorded hi...
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
And remember, you can even annotate 100+ animals or objects in minutes, as demonstrated here: bsky.app/profile/octo...
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Sounds fun but don’t know what OCTRON is? Check out the original thread here: bsky.app/profile/octo...
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
And everything else is, as usual, documented at octron-tracking.github.io/OCTRON-docs/
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Documentation for the OCTRON project
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Python user? We have new notebooks documenting python-first usage here: github.com/OCTRON-track...
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OCTRON-GUI/octron/notebooks at main · OCTRON-tracking/OCTRON-GUI
A pipeline built on napari that enables segmentation, detection, and tracking of animals in behavioral setups. - OCTRON-tracking/OCTRON-GUI
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
To celebrate the new command line functions we added some cool features. You can now create beautiful videos to share, including “tracklets”: stabilized, cropped videos of your animals. Such as this wonderful worm from @marineneurolab.bsky.social
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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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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
you picked a good time to visit! ☀️
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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Representational drift - the change in cells' responses to the same stimulus over time - may be a feature rather than a bug. Thank you to @dianakwon.bsky.social for giving me a chance to talk about this fascinating topic. 🤯 The brain never ceases to amaze!
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A hackathon reveals that disagreement in neuroscience runs deeper than most researchers suspect—even in electrophysiology, a field that prides itself on hard data, write @mattiachini.bsky.social and Gaelle Chapuis. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...
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18 teams analyzed a neuro dataset and got different answers
Disagreement in neuroscience runs deeper than most researchers suspect—even in electrophysiology, a field that prides itself on hard data.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Ultrasensitive voltage imaging reveals distinct electrical microdomains in neurons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Linnéa Gyllingberg @gyllingberg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
What is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? With @lostintheswarm.bsky.social, we show how self-sustained calcium oscillations, diffusion, and mechanics may be enough to coordinate behavior across a single cell with no nervous system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/
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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Our NeuroAI study made it onto the cover of Nature Machine Intelligence ❤️. In it, we demonstrate that a developmentally-inspired visual diet can drastically improve the robustness of ANN-based vision systems. www.nature.com/articles/s42... open access, open code, open weights, open science.
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Peter Godfrey-Smith @petergs.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Plans for next year. Bochum, Germany.
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Aaron Wilber @aaronwilber.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The oscillatory biology of sleep: Linkage to dementia | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The oscillatory biology of sleep: Linkage to dementia
During wakefulness, neuromodulators operate largely independently to support behavior and cognition. By contrast, sleep reorganizes their activity into a coordinated brain rhythm. During sleep, the ma...
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Michael Lin, MD PhD @michaelzlin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Lin Lab is hiring! We're seeking motivated postdocs for projects on voltage imaging and optogenetics in the brain. If you're excited to develop new methods to undersatand and correct brain diseases, working together with other neuroscience labs at Stanford, drop us a line!
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Kenneth Harris @kenneth-harris.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Made possible by • coppaFISH 3D, a new, inexpensive, open-source method for 3d spatial transcriptomics • CASTalign: a tool for human-supervised nonlinear 3d registration www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty1A...
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Demonstration of in vivo to ex vivo registration using CASTalign
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Nora Verlaine @noraverlaine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
American science right now is basically 10,000 of these stories, all with their own heartbreaking specificity Lost careers, lost progress, lost discoveries I feel so sad every day for all we’ve lost and continue to lose 💔
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Benjamin Jarrett @bjmjarrett.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I am hiring a postdoc for a project on herbivory of Rhododendron by insects in North Wales! Genomics expertise required, field experience preferred. Hoping to hire quickly! Bangor is awesome! Get in touch if you want any more details! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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HaDi MaBouDi @maboudi.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I am very pleased to announce our upcoming Theo Murphy meeting at the Royal Society: Nature of Intelligence: Bridging Animal and Artificial Intelligence 21–22 September 2026 - Bristol, UK Registration deadline: 1 July Register here: lnkd.in/eGDAux-M #AI #AnimalCognition #Neuroscience
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wow, congratulations, Adam and team!
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BrainGlobe @brainglobe.info · 13/05/2026
Great writeup from our collaborators at UCL Advanced Research Computing on our joint work to make building novel 3D brain atlases faster, more reproducible, and accessible to more labs. 🧠 www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-res...
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BrainGlobe Template Builder
Atlas building is complex and time-consuming. To help the BrainGlobe team meet growing demand, we streamlined the first stage: generating a high-quality, standardised 3D reference template.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I make 65k a year right before going up to Full Professor please explain to me again how I am an ELITE and do not understand the perils of normal Americans.
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We even use it in systems neuroscience!
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Andrew Bahle @andrewbahle.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Our piece on language-like properties in animal vocal behavior is available today. Check it out! This is an incredibly difficult and thorny topic which is nonetheless of supreme importance and interest imco (in my current opinion)
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is cool. Still have to read it. I wonder, do these concepts transfer to non-vocal, for example, visual signals? I am thinking of my favourite animals (🐙🦑) who display skin patterns on (ultra)short timescales to each other. But to talk about “language” might be too sophisticated here …
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