Tom Baden

Sussex Neuroscience 4-Year Programme PhD at the University of Sussex Join a team of world-leading experts in our high-spec Neuroscience Research Centre whose aim is to understand the nervous system and various neurological disorders.

Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD programme www.sussex.ac.uk/study/phd/de...

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Sussex Visions is back!
Tune in on June 26th and onwards, see details below

Check out our latest issue! www.cell.com/current-biol...

On the cover: The anole lizard by Dario Tommasini and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...

Welcome to the UK!

Our proposal for a ‘universal’ nomenclature for rod and cone types based on their evolutionary lineages that will equally apply to all vertebrate species is now out! Have a look and please consider adopting the system :)

BiaPy: accessible deep learning on bioimages - Nature Methods Nature Methods - BiaPy: accessible deep learning on bioimages

🙏 Thanks to
@naturemethods.bsky.social, @ritastrack.bsky.social, the reviewers, and the awesome bioimage analysis community.
We can't wait to see what you build with BiaPy! 🚀🧠
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#BiaPy #BioimageAnalysis #DeepLearning

loving the cheeky 3D printed mask to allow local optogenetic stimulation of different body segments in these teeny maggots :). Also looks very scifi

Delighted to share a new preprint from the lab exploring the links between morphology and behaviour: using a novel method we map the sensory inputs that trigger an evolutionarily conserved adaptive postural behaviour (self-righting) in the Drosophila larva 👉🏼 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The International Society for Neuroethology has a grant for disadvantaged scientists investigating the mechanisms of animal behaviour. Apply for funds to help overcome any barriers you face!

Membership fees can be included in your application.

Details here: www.neuroethology.org/diversity-aw...

Novel dopaminergic neurotransmission in the Octopus visual system Coleoid cephalopods such as the common octopus have a complex visual system, with a camera-type eye and a large optic lobe, that evolved independently from its counterpart in vertebrates. However, the...

Very excited and proud to finally share this story! 🐙

We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual system…
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system - Nature A connectome of the right optic lobe from a male fruitfly is presented together with an extensive collection of genetic drivers matched to a comprehensive neuron-type catalogue.

I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I just feel the need to emphasise just how hip and happening these worms with big eyes are! They even made it onto TikTok! youtube.com/shorts/t4M4l...

Super excited to have received a @hfspo.bsky.social grant with with @neurofishh.bsky.social for our proposal: Eyes inside out: Visual coding without a multilayered retina in squid and worms.

Our esteemed neighbours at Sussex managed to sling a snail onto the cover of PNAS! Come for the synchrotron data, stay for the multi-neuron simultaneous intracellular recordings. And watch this space for even mooooore neurons in the perhaps not so distant future (ominous chuckle…)

First attempt at 3D re-constructing the #Horizontalcell from my transduced #chick #retina.
Cells can be very dramatic. All you need is a GIF and some Pavarotti notes 🎵

Sample by @neurofishh.bsky.social

Great time for some #FluorescenceFriday.

Registration for ECCN 2025 in Alicante is now open. Do not miss!!! eccn2025.umh.es

@neuroalc.bsky.social @umh.es @csic.es @eurnetbrainevor.bsky.social

An advert for 'seriously remote work' in Antarctica shows a group of king penguins labelled 'today's colleagues'. Photo by Alistair Wilson

Looking for a new work bestie? We have options 🐧

We're looking for boating officers, divers, chefs, technicians, plant operators and more to work with us at British Antarctic Survey research stations.

These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

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UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We’re hiring a new research fellow. Come join us in London to study glial cells in the ageing retina using killifish as a model. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

..., Wei Li, Rob Lucas, Daniel C Osorio, Karthik Shekhar, Dario Tommasini, Takeshi Yoshimatsu

Others involved were (alphabetically): Juan M Angueyra, Jenny M Bosten, Shaun P Collin, Bevil Conway, Fabio Cortesi, Karin Dedek, Thomas Euler, Iñigo Novales Flamarique, Anna Franklin, Silke Haverkamp, Almut Kelber, Stephan CF Neuhauss...

Tagging @corbolab.bsky.social here who took a leading role in making this happen.

The hope is to collect input to help us generate a system that reflects the broadest possible community view at the current time. We would thereafter aim to submit a revised version to a journal for formal consideration

We have written the whole thing up as a short preprint, and we are now inviting community feedback, ideally via the comment function of the preprint server

www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

Seeking input: A standardized nomenclature
for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina

A number of us have been working on a proposal to bring various disconnected naming systems for the vertebrate rods and cones across species into alignment. The basic proposal looks like this:

The beauty of viral transfection in #avianretina 🐔

Here is a transfected #amacrinecell and some #photoreceptors in a cross-section of a #chick #retina.

Great image for #FluorescenceFriday

Sample from
@neurofishh.bsky.social

Green: Viral transfected retina; Red: DAPI for stratification

Nominations for all of our medals and awards are still open. From the world's oldest scientific prize, the Copley Medal, to our brand new Environment Medal and Lecture, these prizes celebrate excellence across the sciences and across the globe. Find out more: royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...

here’s to all the parents whose toddler didn’t get the memo that we are sleeping long today… happy 2025

New paper on spike sorting www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
with Lydia Ellison, Georg Raiser, Alicia Garrido Peña and George Kemenes. TL;DR: SSSort software now handles overlapping spikes in addition to the extreme spike shape changes it was already good at. github.com/grg2rsr/SSSort

Pretty cool what you can do with free tools these days. Live tracking of a frog doing prey capture, using to bonsai-rx.org and sleap.ai