Elisabeth Knust -- former director at the @mpi-cbg.de -- acknowledges the "priviledge to do curiosity-driven science" in her acceptance speech for the Klaus Sander lifetime award of the @gfeev.bsky.social at #gfe2026 in @unipotsdam.bsky.social. Congratulations!

Online viewer: atlas.danionella.org/cerebrum Atlas data repository: gin.g-node.org/danionella/d... Code: gin.g-node.org/danionella/K... @danionella.bsky.social

Tiny, transparent, and now charted! Our brain atlas of adult Danionella cerebrum includes >200 annotated regions, 29 whole-brain in situs, and male/female reference volumes – openly available, versioned and extendable. Work by @nkadobyansky.bsky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🥳 Congratulations to our PhD student Katja for her inspiring work just published in Nature Communications on how the larval zebrafish brain processes multiple visual features. Check out a short summary of the work here: tinyurl.com/yzv4ct9k

First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Beautiful work led by Yansong (Kevin) Lu on skeletal muscle growth in zebrafish, giant danio, Danionella cerebrum, and killifish. HCR, new image analysis tool, scRNA-seq, and CRISPR. New international collaborations between Uni Melbourne, NCVC/Osaka, Stanford & ARMI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A multicellular analysis calcium imaging toolbox for ImageJ: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

In @elife.bsky.social: Pallium-encoded valence-specific chemosensory amplification of eye-body coordination in larval zebrafish doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Our latest paper identifying negative valence neurons in the zebrafish pallium is now posted on bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For the love of frontier research, or why Elon’s rockets keep blowing up. The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend. By Nektarios Tavernarakis: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Free #Stoptime #Naoko

Just out in Nature! “The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory.” We identified astrocytic ensembles that link experiences across days to stabilize memory nature.com/articles/s41.... New astrocyte tools are openly available at Addgene: addgene.org/Jun_Nagai/. 1/8

Our paper on #number discrimination in #Danionella is out #zebrafish #numbersense #number_sense #number @mirkuz12 #scott_fraser cell.com/iscience/ful...

It is with profound sadness that I have learned of the passing of my beloved PhD supervisor, John Gurdon. We have lost a true giant, an incredible mentor, kind and generous, whose contributions to science will inspire generations. He changed my life, and the lives of so many others.

We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Remembering Dr. Jane Goodall (1934-2025) janegoodall.org

How is valence computed in the brain? Check out our new preprint about a single cell that integrates excitatory and inhibitory input across modalities according to valence and impacts behavioral decisions. An exciting collaboration across many labs. Enjoy reading! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you interested and passionate about fish & chips, imaging, coding, and trying to understand how the brain works? Then please come and join us and apply for a fully-funded PhD position in computational neuroscience at the TU Braunschweig or spread the word. Thank you! (PDF tinyurl.com/5n8k97x4)

No more great again

German neuroscientists, e.g. Hitler appointed Professor Julius Hallervorden, and their research institutions, e.g. the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt (founded in 1914 as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung in Berlin), were not only complicit but also seemingly (1/5)

My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight. These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them. www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

In her Perspective, Emilie Snell-Rood discusses the value of basic science, using the Morpho butterfly as an example of how this type of research has driven later innovation & highlights the value of government and institutional support for basic research journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Scientists are rising. Come on everybody and join the resistance. We are all in this together. Love's stronger than hate. Facts triumph over fear. It is enough, however, to do nothing for the old and the new enemies of our (still) open societies to succeed and destroy them. We must stop them.

When you mess with science, be prepared for a reaction! #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social

#Danionella in the creature column www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reintroducing the lab by featuring some recent papers on acoustic communication in the tiny glassfish Danionella cerebrum (@danionella.bsky.social). Antonia Groneberg carefully characterized the ontogeny of their singing in JEB: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... 🧵