Tom Baden
@neurofishh.bsky.social
NeuroProf@Sussex, UK.
Vision, Evolution, Computation
Open Science
www.badenlab.org
Vision, Evolution, Computation
Open Science
www.badenlab.org
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
@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
Now online! Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background
Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background
Vertebrate eyes first evolved in water, where spectral content rapidly fades with distance. Zebrafish exploit this loss by antagonizing cone signals to suppress the background, pointing to distance estimation—rather than color—as an ancestral cone function.
dlvr.it
November 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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
@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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The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Prieto Godino Lab | Cellular and molecular bases of neural circuit and behavioural evolution
www.crick.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Very excited about our new preprint, led by @gkafetzis.bsky.social /w @mikebok.bsky.social & @denilsson.bsky.social. We suggest that the vertebrate 'duplex' retina emerged from interconnecting two ancient median-eye microcircuits. Say goodbye to the 'simplex' retina - it probably never existed!
September 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Very excited about our new preprint, led by @gkafetzis.bsky.social /w @mikebok.bsky.social & @denilsson.bsky.social. We suggest that the vertebrate 'duplex' retina emerged from interconnecting two ancient median-eye microcircuits. Say goodbye to the 'simplex' retina - it probably never existed!
feed getting too political? just learnt that you can block some words/names strategically, using settings/moderation… instant improvement
August 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
feed getting too political? just learnt that you can block some words/names strategically, using settings/moderation… instant improvement
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Now recruiting for two positions in my lab:
Postdoc in computational analysis of ancient human genomes www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Bioarchaeology staff scientist supporting human aDNA projects www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Background: sites.google.com/view/skoglun...
Applications welcome!
Postdoc in computational analysis of ancient human genomes www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Bioarchaeology staff scientist supporting human aDNA projects www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Background: sites.google.com/view/skoglun...
Applications welcome!
Skoglund Lab - Ancient Genomics
Skoglund lab
sites.google.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Now recruiting for two positions in my lab:
Postdoc in computational analysis of ancient human genomes www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Bioarchaeology staff scientist supporting human aDNA projects www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Background: sites.google.com/view/skoglun...
Applications welcome!
Postdoc in computational analysis of ancient human genomes www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Bioarchaeology staff scientist supporting human aDNA projects www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Background: sites.google.com/view/skoglun...
Applications welcome!
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Thank you @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @martajhill.bsky.social for highlighting our work!
Some parts of the Drosophila olfactory circuit have evolved more than others, according to a new comparison of two fruit fly species’ connectomes.
By @martajhill.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/c...
By @martajhill.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/c...
Cross-species connectome comparison shows uneven olfactory circuit evolution in flies
The findings start to reveal evolutionary changes that may have helped two species develop different olfactory preferences and adapt to their particular environments.
www.thetransmitter.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thank you @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @martajhill.bsky.social for highlighting our work!
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Assistant Director vacancy alert!
Apply for this newly created position within the Trust. Responsibilities include leading on specific large grant schemes, representing the Trust externally and managing key areas of policy development.
Interested? Learn more: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/current...
Apply for this newly created position within the Trust. Responsibilities include leading on specific large grant schemes, representing the Trust externally and managing key areas of policy development.
Interested? Learn more: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/current...
August 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Assistant Director vacancy alert!
Apply for this newly created position within the Trust. Responsibilities include leading on specific large grant schemes, representing the Trust externally and managing key areas of policy development.
Interested? Learn more: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/current...
Apply for this newly created position within the Trust. Responsibilities include leading on specific large grant schemes, representing the Trust externally and managing key areas of policy development.
Interested? Learn more: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/current...
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How do brain circuits evolve? We started looking for some answers by using synapse-resolution cross-species comparative connectomics on an entire olfactory circuit 👇
bit.ly/44aVm9E
bit.ly/44aVm9E
June 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Sussex Visions is back!
Tune in on June 26th and onwards, see details below
Tune in on June 26th and onwards, see details below
The Sussex Vision Talk series is back! Join us to hear about all things vision, from retina to brain, from invertebrates to human.
www.youtube.com/@badenlab615...
Talks will be live-streamed (and stored) on YouTube, hope to see many of you there. Details on each talk coming soon.
www.youtube.com/@badenlab615...
Talks will be live-streamed (and stored) on YouTube, hope to see many of you there. Details on each talk coming soon.
June 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Sussex Visions is back!
Tune in on June 26th and onwards, see details below
Tune in on June 26th and onwards, see details below
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Check out our latest issue! www.cell.com/current-biol...
On the cover: The anole lizard by Dario Tommasini and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
On the cover: The anole lizard by Dario Tommasini and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
May 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Check out our latest issue! www.cell.com/current-biol...
On the cover: The anole lizard by Dario Tommasini and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
On the cover: The anole lizard by Dario Tommasini and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
Our proposal for a ‘universal’ nomenclature for rod and cone types based on their evolutionary lineages that will equally apply to all vertebrate species is now out! Have a look and please consider adopting the system :)
May 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Our proposal for a ‘universal’ nomenclature for rod and cone types based on their evolutionary lineages that will equally apply to all vertebrate species is now out! Have a look and please consider adopting the system :)
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🙏 Thanks to
@naturemethods.bsky.social, @ritastrack.bsky.social, the reviewers, and the awesome bioimage analysis community.
We can't wait to see what you build with BiaPy! 🚀🧠
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#BiaPy #BioimageAnalysis #DeepLearning
@naturemethods.bsky.social, @ritastrack.bsky.social, the reviewers, and the awesome bioimage analysis community.
We can't wait to see what you build with BiaPy! 🚀🧠
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#BiaPy #BioimageAnalysis #DeepLearning
BiaPy: accessible deep learning on bioimages - Nature Methods
Nature Methods - BiaPy: accessible deep learning on bioimages
www.nature.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🙏 Thanks to
@naturemethods.bsky.social, @ritastrack.bsky.social, the reviewers, and the awesome bioimage analysis community.
We can't wait to see what you build with BiaPy! 🚀🧠
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#BiaPy #BioimageAnalysis #DeepLearning
@naturemethods.bsky.social, @ritastrack.bsky.social, the reviewers, and the awesome bioimage analysis community.
We can't wait to see what you build with BiaPy! 🚀🧠
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#BiaPy #BioimageAnalysis #DeepLearning
loving the cheeky 3D printed mask to allow local optogenetic stimulation of different body segments in these teeny maggots :). Also looks very scifi
Delighted to share a new preprint from the lab exploring the links between morphology and behaviour: using a novel method we map the sensory inputs that trigger an evolutionarily conserved adaptive postural behaviour (self-righting) in the Drosophila larva 👉🏼 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
loving the cheeky 3D printed mask to allow local optogenetic stimulation of different body segments in these teeny maggots :). Also looks very scifi
Reposted by Tom Baden
Delighted to share a new preprint from the lab exploring the links between morphology and behaviour: using a novel method we map the sensory inputs that trigger an evolutionarily conserved adaptive postural behaviour (self-righting) in the Drosophila larva 👉🏼 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Delighted to share a new preprint from the lab exploring the links between morphology and behaviour: using a novel method we map the sensory inputs that trigger an evolutionarily conserved adaptive postural behaviour (self-righting) in the Drosophila larva 👉🏼 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The International Society for Neuroethology has a grant for disadvantaged scientists investigating the mechanisms of animal behaviour. Apply for funds to help overcome any barriers you face!
Membership fees can be included in your application.
Details here: www.neuroethology.org/diversity-aw...
Membership fees can be included in your application.
Details here: www.neuroethology.org/diversity-aw...
April 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The International Society for Neuroethology has a grant for disadvantaged scientists investigating the mechanisms of animal behaviour. Apply for funds to help overcome any barriers you face!
Membership fees can be included in your application.
Details here: www.neuroethology.org/diversity-aw...
Membership fees can be included in your application.
Details here: www.neuroethology.org/diversity-aw...
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Very excited and proud to finally share this story! 🐙
We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual system…
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual system…
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Novel dopaminergic neurotransmission in the Octopus visual system
Coleoid cephalopods such as the common octopus have a complex visual system, with a camera-type eye and a large optic lobe, that evolved independently from its counterpart in vertebrates. However, the...
doi.org
April 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Very excited and proud to finally share this story! 🐙
We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual system…
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual system…
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system - Nature
A connectome of the right optic lobe from a male fruitfly is presented together with an extensive collection of genetic drivers matched to a comprehensive neuron-type catalogue.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I just feel the need to emphasise just how hip and happening these worms with big eyes are! They even made it onto TikTok! youtube.com/shorts/t4M4l...
March 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I just feel the need to emphasise just how hip and happening these worms with big eyes are! They even made it onto TikTok! youtube.com/shorts/t4M4l...
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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.
March 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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.
Our esteemed neighbours at Sussex managed to sling a snail onto the cover of PNAS! Come for the synchrotron data, stay for the multi-neuron simultaneous intracellular recordings. And watch this space for even mooooore neurons in the perhaps not so distant future (ominous chuckle…)
Aw, we got the cover for our new paper on X-ray imaging and atlas building in the snail brain. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Thanks @pnas.org .. and to @sussexneuro.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @ukri.org for funding support #invertebrate #brain #neuroscience THREAD: bsky.app/profile/kevi...
March 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our esteemed neighbours at Sussex managed to sling a snail onto the cover of PNAS! Come for the synchrotron data, stay for the multi-neuron simultaneous intracellular recordings. And watch this space for even mooooore neurons in the perhaps not so distant future (ominous chuckle…)
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First attempt at 3D re-constructing the #Horizontalcell from my transduced #chick #retina.
Cells can be very dramatic. All you need is a GIF and some Pavarotti notes 🎵
Sample by @neurofishh.bsky.social
Great time for some #FluorescenceFriday.
Cells can be very dramatic. All you need is a GIF and some Pavarotti notes 🎵
Sample by @neurofishh.bsky.social
Great time for some #FluorescenceFriday.
February 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
First attempt at 3D re-constructing the #Horizontalcell from my transduced #chick #retina.
Cells can be very dramatic. All you need is a GIF and some Pavarotti notes 🎵
Sample by @neurofishh.bsky.social
Great time for some #FluorescenceFriday.
Cells can be very dramatic. All you need is a GIF and some Pavarotti notes 🎵
Sample by @neurofishh.bsky.social
Great time for some #FluorescenceFriday.
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Registration for ECCN 2025 in Alicante is now open. Do not miss!!! eccn2025.umh.es
@neuroalc.bsky.social @umh.es @csic.es @eurnetbrainevor.bsky.social
@neuroalc.bsky.social @umh.es @csic.es @eurnetbrainevor.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Registration for ECCN 2025 in Alicante is now open. Do not miss!!! eccn2025.umh.es
@neuroalc.bsky.social @umh.es @csic.es @eurnetbrainevor.bsky.social
@neuroalc.bsky.social @umh.es @csic.es @eurnetbrainevor.bsky.social
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Looking for a new work bestie? We have options 🐧
We're looking for boating officers, divers, chefs, technicians, plant operators and more to work with us at British Antarctic Survey research stations.
These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
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We're looking for boating officers, divers, chefs, technicians, plant operators and more to work with us at British Antarctic Survey research stations.
These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
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February 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Looking for a new work bestie? We have options 🐧
We're looking for boating officers, divers, chefs, technicians, plant operators and more to work with us at British Antarctic Survey research stations.
These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
🧵 1/2
We're looking for boating officers, divers, chefs, technicians, plant operators and more to work with us at British Antarctic Survey research stations.
These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
🧵 1/2
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We’re hiring a new research fellow. Come join us in London to study glial cells in the ageing retina using killifish as a model. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We’re hiring a new research fellow. Come join us in London to study glial cells in the ageing retina using killifish as a model. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...