Nadia Maria van Eekelen

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Happy international women in science day from all of us! 👩‍🔬

#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
#InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience

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@noralied.bsky.social
@nadiave.bsky.social
@rijacobsen.bsky.social

You can use #OCTRON to track cells too!

It took 10 min to annotate multiple cells in 146 frames, 1.5 hrs to train a model with a GPU, and 10 sec to make these predictions. It doesn't get much easier than that⚡️

A translucent tomopteris annelid decorated with five big red baubles, many small yellow string lights and a big yellow star at the tip of its tail, all on a black background. Three wrapped gifts are in the bottom right corner and on the left red text reads "Merry Christmas from the Marine Neuroscience Laboratory"

A Christmas present from us and the rest of the #OCTRON team to you: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🎁

🌟 Our first paper! 🌟

@octoscience.bsky.social has created a complete pipeline that makes tracking weird and wonderful animals a breeze, and we've had a blast testing it on our wriggly worms. Check out this thread to see it in action 👇

#OCTRON

My first ever paper as a xmas present! 🎄

Check out this amazing pipeline created by @octoscience.bsky.social to track squishy animals 🐙

Very happy I could contribute to this, #OCTRON works great on my gossamer worms!

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Two women in orange life vests and hard hats working on securing a plankton net

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We spent a week at Sletvik field station collecting worms! MSc student Amalie from the University of Copenhagen joined and stayed for 3 weeks to work in our lab 🌟

We caught ~60 Tomopteris with R/V Gunnerus during the day and were treated to great views of the northern lights at night

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#WorldMentalHealthDay #bioluminescence

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Celebrating the lab turning 5 years old at the restaurant Troll 🎉

We just published our third major funding application, including the evaluation it received, for the benefit of future applicants 🙌

Because #OpenScience is also about sharing ideas and examples that others can learn from 🌟

www.ogrants.org/grants/jacob...

And a small milestone for me: I'm supervising my first MSc student! It's great to have you in the lab, @noralied.bsky.social ☺️

Happy #InternationalPolychaeteDay! 🌍🪱

To celebrate, here’s a glimpse of the bioluminescence of our gossamer worms! This video was captured in the lab by @nadiave.bsky.social using a monochrome camera — so it's in black and white — but in real life, the worms glow in a stunning bright yellow.

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Are you at the Gordon Research Conference on Neuroethology in Florence later this week? 👀

@nadiave.bsky.social will present a poster supported by a grant from the Tom Wilhelmsen’s Foundation (thank you for the support)!

We celebrated the grant with Nadia’s favourite treat: lemon meringue pie 🍋

Here's the video again but hopefully less blurry! ☺️

I'd never seen so many Tomopteris in one place - absolutely wild

Forever sharing every Tomopteris video I come across. They're beautiful, and even though I study them, they still manage to surprise me every time.

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A woman standing at the front of a lecture hall, giving a presentation. A powerpoint slide is projected on the screen behind her, which contains information about the model organism of her research.

Had a great time presenting at the NTNU-wide symposium "NeuroSYS" last week. A 5-minute datablitz is short, but I hope I made a few people curious about bioluminescent worms! ✨️

@marineneurolab.bsky.social
@kavlintnu.bsky.social #neuroscience #bioluminescence #research

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Rejection tastes better with chocolate. And coffee. And a big layer of mascarpone 🍫 😉

One thing we did last year was to build our lab and in this video made by @nadiave.bsky.social you can see how it all came together!

Our worms naturally live in the deep ocean where sunlight never reaches, so we built a tent where we can house them and do behavioural experiments in total darkness 🌚

Drawing of a gossamer worm made with mathematical equations, by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh

I just learned about Hamid Nedari Yeganeh, who makes amazing drawings using only mathematical equations.

Now I can't begin to understand how he does this, but I wanted to share this one he made of a gossamer worm. So cool! 🤯

Run, don't walk, to see this AMAZING video about the bioluminescent ostracods! As said at the end, "I want people to know about them"

A #Crustmas feature related to work of @ostratodd.bsky.social @nikohensley.bsky.social @emilylau.bsky.social @lisayetermesrop.bsky.social @emily-ellis.bsky.social 🧪🦑

Meet the team at the MNL!

We're a small lab with big ambitions, but also value time off. Because discoveries are made by humans, so you need to put their wellbeing first. Meet our humans below! 👇

Hi 👋 I would love to be added to this list too!

The lab where I'm doing my PhD is on BlueSky now too!

Follow along for updates about our glowing worms 🌟

Hi Steve, I'd love to be added! 😄 thank you

Hi David, I'm new on BlueSky and would love to be added to this list! Thank you

Hi everyone! I'm Nadia and I'm a PhD student in marine neuroscience at the NTNU in Trondheim. My research is about the bioluminescent communication of marine annelids (specifically Tomopteris) 🪱🌊🧠