A Go Fund Me link has been shared to support Adam Kampff's educational organization @noblackboxes.bsky.social - for those who wish to support you can find a link here gofund.me/245cb96ff

Last night Adam Kampff, the glue, the light, the catalyst, the builder, the smile, left us. He and his work transformed the lives of many labs, scientists, students. He inspired and was generous to his last transformation, working tirelessly to set up a foundation to continue the work.Thank you!

Anyone off to #sfn2025? I'll be helping out the folks of the Bonsai Foundation in sharing info about their amazing #OpenScience #opensoftware #openhardware tools for research! Come find us on Booth 3726, in Hall B2, in the Institute & Non-Profit Area #cienciabr @open-neuroscience.com

How did I not know about this super-useful site for customized 3D-printable thread adapters? HT to @leon-kremers.bsky.social : brainright.com/adapt-o-matic/

Excited to share our paper now published in Cell! 'Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background' Huge thanks to @neurofishh.bsky.social & @teuler.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social 👇🏻 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Friday, 31st of October we are excited to host Cristian Gutierrez-Ibanez on the Sussex Vision talk series! Looking forward to seeing many of you there! 4 pm UK 9 am US west coast Tune in here: youtube.com/live/gLwBRWe...

Join the symposium for senior trainees & junior group leaders (organised by SWC's Sara Mederos and @sandra-neuro.bsky.social) at the International Winter Neuroscience Conference, Austria, April 2026. Abstract submission to present your work at the Early Career Symposium closes on 15 Oct

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Had a great time at the #ERM in Pécs. Got to meet lots of great people from the retina field, and even won the audience vote for best poster!

Excited for the European Retina Meeting next week, and to show some of my work on how 🐸 see the world as peacefully filter feeding tadpoles or predatory frogs. Here's a sneak peek at the imaging part, for more info talk to me or see my poster on the baden lab website: badenlab.org/posters/

👁️The retina — strikingly conserved across vertebrates, but an oddity among bilaterians! So how did it evolve? With @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social, we argue that retinal complexity may 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

Today, 12th September 5pm GMT+1 (9am US west coast) we’re excited to host Eugenia Chiappe! Tune in at m.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtT...

This Friday we are excited to host Julie Semmelhack on the Sussex Vision talk series! Looking forward to seeing many of you there! Tune in here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsqh...

Next Wednesday, 15:00 GMT+1 (3pm UK, 4pm Europe) we have another Sussex Vision talk! Tune in at www.youtube.com/@badenlab615... for Michael Herzog (hosted by Jenny M Bosten). See you there!

This Thursday, 13:00 GMT+1 (1pm UK, 2pm Europe) we have the Sussex Vision series coming back. Tune in at m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... to hear Fabio Cortesi talk about vision in coral reef fishes. See you there!

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.

Now with correct link: Preprint on how to create an equitable and healthy lab environment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ! During the SAFE Labs workshop 2024 we came up with concrete action points, summarised in these guidelines for Lab Handbooks github.com/SAFE-Labs-Do...

New paper on bioRxiv: "Ambient Light Impacts Innate Behaviors of New-World and Old-World Mice" - together with @farrowlab.bsky.social, with data from NERF master students and two of my lab members! A study across 3 species: Mus musculus, Peromyscus maniculatus & P. polionotus doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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 :)

Looking for a quick way to map the brain of your favourite small animal model? See our new paper. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/10

We had an excellent week at the EMBO Subcortical Circuits Meeting in Assisi. First posters with lab-own data only, presented by the amazing Po-yu Liao and Lucia Zanetti! Great organising by @santiagorompani.bsky.social, Hiroki Asari, Tomomi Shimogori and Judith Hirsch

Seeking input: A standardized nomenclature for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina A number of us have been working on a proposal to bring various disconnected naming systems for the vertebrate rods and cones across species into alignment. The basic proposal looks like this:

The beauty of viral transfection in #avianretina 🐔 Here is a transfected #amacrinecell and some #photoreceptors in a cross-section of a #chick #retina. Great image for #FluorescenceFriday Sample from @neurofishh.bsky.social Green: Viral transfected retina; Red: DAPI for stratification

Interested in understanding how things work? In particular the tools you use to study the brain? Join us at TENSS 2025 where we brainstorm ideas, build and debug microscopes, electrophysiology and behavior rigs amidst the picturesque Transylvanian hills! tenss.ro Apply by: February 16th!

Technical assistant position in my lab is open now: www.sissa.it/bandi/selezi... Making viruses, helping with rodents, possibility to do some experiments (behavior, surgery, immunohistochemistry...). Please contact me for a chat before applying! Deadline February 6th our lab: www.reinhardlab.org

Pretty cool what you can do with free tools these days. Live tracking of a frog doing prey capture, using to bonsai-rx.org and sleap.ai

The good idea comes when one person feels comfortable enough to say something that might make them look stupid and their friend is open enough to recognize its potential.

And for this #FluorescenceFriday, here’s the sequel. Froglet of the same line from the Sweeney lab.

Please get in touch with me if you're interested in making viruses and participating in other lab tasks and experiments! Let's chat to see if we fit before the official ad goes out next month. We're a friendly, young neuroscience lab at SISSA in Italy www.reinhardlab.org

We are looking for a new lab administrator (based in Brighton, UK). This is a 50% position, and it is largely admin & computer based. It does not necessarily require a science background. Anyone interested please get in contact and/or apply here: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/565750b6...