I am excited to announce the latest paper from our lab, published in Science ! In this study, we show that thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain process sensory information hierarchically across topographically organized forebrain circuits.

Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits

Thalamocortical projections shape the functional regionalization and parallel sensory computations across the mammalian cortex. However, the principles of thalamocortical computations in non-mammalian...

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience@kavlintnu.bsky.social · last mo.

Out now in @science.org by @emreyaksi.bsky.social, Anh-Tuan Trinh and colleagues at the Kavli Institute in Trondheim: Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits doi.org/10.1126/scie...

🧠 A new paper from our lab is out! In this study, we explore how dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) circuits modulate forebrain activity and behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Topographically organized dorsal raphe activity modulates forebrain sensory-motor representations and contributes to defensive behaviors - Nature Communications

Functional heterogeneity of dorsal raphe nucleus is not fully understood. Here authors show topographically organized sensory and locomotor responses from the zebrafish dorsal raphe and its forebrain ...

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Journal impact factors were released yesterday. In our latest @dev-journal.bsky.social Editorial, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social and I discuss how we are all architects of impact, highlighting that measuring the influence and support journals provide goes beyond a single number. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The elephant in the room: impact factor

Summary: This Editorial offers an honest look at impact factor trends in developmental biology, explains how Development serves its community, and makes the case that sustaining developmental biology ...

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Animal models continue to be critical to our understanding of complex biological and medical concepts. To learn more about the ethics and safeguards in place for responsible animal research, read this open-access article on the topic: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NPR@npr.org · 2mo ago

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The goal: to understand how brains control the behavior of an animal or human. n.pr/4vV8dYM

"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Progression without progress

Progress in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific discovery has made it increasingly realistic to envision automated “end-to-end science” (ETES) systems: integrated pipelines t...

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Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social. AI is now offering neuroscience the same deal. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...

Can AI do neuroscience without understanding?

Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal.

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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

Bahl Lab @bahllab.bsky.social · 12mo ago

How do brains make decisions when faced with multiple, potentially conflicting cues? In our latest preprint, we show how #zebrafish use an additive strategy and process multiple visual features through anatomically distinct parallel pathways tinyurl.com/mvkn8em9 Thread 👇

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

Лебеди СПБ - Пусть танцуют лебеди

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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...

Numerical discrimination in Danionella

The transparent teleost Danionella cerebrum offers unique advantages for neuroscience research, including small size, lifelong cranial transparency, and a simplified brain. Despite its suitability for...

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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

Making a Difference with Dr. Jane Goodall.

YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA

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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...

A multisensory, bidirectional, valence encoder guides behavioral decisions

A key function of the brain is to categorize sensory cues as repulsive or attractive and respond accordingly. While we have some understanding of how sensory information is processed in the sensory pe...

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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

Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts - Big Crime (chicago sound check) - (Official Audio)

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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...

Emotion research has a communication conundrum

In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…

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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.

‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts

Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.

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