How is the ON and OFF pathway split in the visual system? 🤔 The textbook standard, that bipolar cells are separated simply by the glutamate receptors they express, might be due for an update....a short 🧵

We received the sad news that my emeritus colleague Peter Detwiler passed away at his home in Prague last week. nbio.uw.edu/people/entry... Peter was an amazing scientist, builder, and artist, who was always very modest about his accomplishments. And he was very kind. A quick example...

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...

Understanding the retina is crucial for decoding how visual information is processed. However, decades of data and models remain scattered across labs and approaches. We introduce openretina to unify retinal system identification. (2/9)

Try it out and help us improve the accessibility of retinal datasets and models together. A team effort with: @thomaszen.bsky.social @dgonschorek.bsky.social @lhoefling.bsky.social @teuler.bsky.social @bethgelab.bsky.social #openscience #computationalneuroscience (9/9)

Stand Up for Science! Fort Collins, Colorado

A sampling of the great sings I saw at #StandUpForScience @standupforscience.bsky.social Chicago today. Thanks to all the organizers and participants.

In today's episode, we check in on the Stand Up for Science rallies that spread to 32 cities. Listen here 🎧: buff.ly/YgplAQ4

My speech from #Chicago #StandUpforScience rally today. I wanted to write something that was about why I support science, not as a scientist myself, but as a citizen. This is dedicated to a dear relative, an arborist for the #NationalParkService. 🧵Photos from the rally in Chicago today by Mike Yen.

Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Exciting new partnership in AI & Life Sciences announced today in Brussels

Hallo Bluesky! Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!

🧠 Wonderful speaker in the Neurocolloquium on Jan 23, at 4.15pm: Emilie Macé, Prof in the EXC Cluster Multiscale Bioimaging in Göttingen on how "Visual objects refine the encoding of head direction", live & in Zoom Host: Robert Ohlendorf @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social Sign up forms.gle/RoxUFPrj6Dyr...

Our paper on how the neuromodulator nitric oxide modulates a subset of mouse retinal ganglion cells is finally published in @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Great work by @dgonschorek.bsky.social together with the lab of @oliviermarre.bsky.social and @matigoldin.bsky.social, ...

Apply for your participation in the Systems Vision Science Summer School and Symposium 2025: summerschool.lizhaoping.org/application/ Application deadline is March 31, 2025. Experimental vision researchers, vision theorists, engineers and computer scientists should not miss this unique event!

Congratulations to the 2024 #HannaGrayFellows. I'd like to give a particular shout out to Jared Tangeman, who will be working with us to figure out how salamanders regenerate their retinas following injury.

Spherical code of retinal orientation-selectivity enables decoding in ensembled and retinotopic operation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.08.631850v1

Amazing!! So well deserved 🎈🚀🍀💛

Neurons of the retina are fed by a network of vessels. Here all capillaries of a tiny volume are traced and measured revealing density, width, branch structure and depth. @flaumeye.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social doi.org/10.1167/iovs.65.14.3

Prof. Matthis Synofzik, Leiter der Sektion "Translationale #Genomik #neurodegenerativer Erkrankungen", im Interview mit dem Deutschlandfunk über maßgeschneiderte #RNA-Therapien bei seltenen Erbkrankheiten 👉 www.deutschlandfunk.de/neue-therapien-rna-medikamente-auf-dem-vormarsch-dlf-7a6bf950-100.html

📢 Great speaker in our Neurocolloquium on Dec 12, 4.15pm: Lisa Genzel from the Donders Institute at Radboud University will talk about "Hippocampal Ripple Diversity and #Neural Plasticity: Insights into Semantic #Memory Formation", live in Tübingen & in Zoom 👉Sign up: forms.gle/Q39M1AgHUBrH...

Interested in interneurons? Retina? Electrical coupling? Check out my first senior author paper which just went online www.cell.com/iscience/ful... (Find a short summary a little bit further down my timeline)

The first visual synapse, so rods and rod bipolar cells! Encoding single photon signals at the physical limits of detection.

There’s actually at least 12 types of paper in neuroscience (stolen from X), who knew?

I will talk about our efforts to train biophysically detailed neuron models at the CMC Learning Club today (2pm CET). Zoom link sent upon empty email to [email protected]. Thanks a lot @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social for organizing this!

Happy Friday science lovers! I’m Mia (@Science_Miathod on Twitter) and I’ll be your host for today. I’m a first-year PhD student at UC Davis and just finished my MSc in Ecology. My specialty is disease ecology and conservation. Come learn about disease, deserts, and more!

Excited to share my new #preprint with @neurofishh.bsky.social and @teuler.bsky.social If you want to know more about cones and behaviour 🐟... 👇🏻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New @bioRxiv #preprint with @chiarafornetto.bsky.social and @teuler.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint!

The retina provides pretty pictures even when antibodies misbehave. I'm calling this one "bipolars in a starry sky".

And not because the retina is particularly simple: It consists of at least 100 cell types and uses just about every neurotransmitter known to man. Interesting questions: What made this progress possible and how can we extend the lessons to other parts of the brain?

Our paper on the role of amacrine cells in retinal color processing is out in Cell Reports. Work by two very talented students - Marili Korympidou & Sarah Strauss - great collaboration with @annaintegrated.bsky.social, Katrin Franke & @celltypist.bsky.social at U Tübingen doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...