📣 Our paper introducing openretina, a collaborative framework for retina modelling across datasets and species, is now published as an eLife Reviewed Preprint. Paper: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Code: github.com/open-retina/... Docs: open-retina.org

..and of course, thanks to the whole Eyewire II core team, who have been building and managing the resource! Some are here: @simoneebert.bsky.social @katrinfranke.bsky.social @hzwei.dev @amysterling.bsky.social @gregschwartznu.bsky.social @philipp.hertie.ai @teuler.bsky.social @eyewire.bsky.social

Meet Eyewire II: a new connectomic resource for the mouse retina. ~1 mm² of retina at nanometer resolution, with synapses and circuits of ca. 100,000 neurons, plus visual responses from the ~400 neurons shown in the video! Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... Data: eyewire.ai 🧠📈 🧠💻🧪 #VisionScience

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...

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 es...

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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

ELLIS@ellis.eu · 2y ago

EMBL & ELLIS deepen partnership to drive #AI in European #LifeSciences. 🤝 We aim to unlock new insights, train the next gen of AI researchers, & develop innovative solutions for human & planetary health. Read the full article here: ellis.eu/news/embl-an...

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.

HHMI@hhmi-science.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists!

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 🎈🚀🍀💛

Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis@trackingactions.bsky.social · 2y ago

💜 so, so proud of my former PhD student @stes.bsky.social, who started his independent group last spring in Munich, for being awarded the *Young Scientist of the Year 2024* in Germany! 🇩🇪 Truly well deserved!! #neuroskyence #AI www.academics.de/koepfe/steff...

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

Neue Therapien: RNA-Medikamente auf dem Vormarsch

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📢 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 interneuron of the mouse visual system is tailored to the natural environment through morphology and electrical coupling

Biological sciences; Neuroscience; Cellular neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience

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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 virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org. Thanks a lot @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social for organizing this!

Shervin Safavi@neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 2y ago

In our next Learning Club @ CMC lab (Nov 28, Thursday, 2 PM CET), @deismic.bsky.social will tell us about his recent work (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link request@cmclab.org to get the link!

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!