2022 New Model Organism Consortium (NeMOC) series is here! A great lineup; a menagerie of creatures. Sign up: addevent.com/calendar/ko319… Shoutout to Colombian artist Joe Echeverri (instagram.com/iam_mrjoe/) for the beautiful illustrations & co-founders @David_L_Stern Leslie Vosshall PhD

Bikini Bottom’s Newest Resident @trevorwardill Flavie Bidel UMN CBS

The first preprint from our foray into the octopus visual system! 🐙🧠👁️ Led by Mea (josc) 🐙 , in collaboration with Adam C. Miller and Andrew Kern, we made a cell type map of the octopus optic lobe. 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our paper on cell types of the octopus visual system is now out Current Biology! We're excited for the new directions this will open up in understanding how the octopus brain processes visual information. Great work team! cell.com/current-biolog…

Oh dang! Our new manuscript looking at retina neurogenesis in squid is out today in Current Biology. Congratulations to co-first authors Francesca Napoli and Christina Daly and the rest of the lab who contributed! @Kyle_Mac1 doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Our story about small RNAs in big brains 🐙🧠 is now out in Science Advances. A long 🧵 below ( grab a coffee!) :

"But we implore colleagues in the wider science ecosystem to resist the temptation to push for quick returns" In praise of research in fundamental biology nature.com/articles/d4158…

Very excited to share our new preprint on visual processing in the octopus! Led by Judit Pungor judit, together with Mea (josc) 🐙 and Angelique Allen, we measured the functional organization of visual responses in the octopus brain. 🐙👁️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

Over eight years, Janelia’s FlyLight Project Team and collaborators dissected, labeled, and imaged the neurons of more than 74,000 fruit fly brains, taken from more than 5,000 different genetically modified fly strains. 🧵 (1/9) 🔗 janelia.org/news/janelia-r…

Where do new senses come from? In paired studies, we explore the structural basis of sensory receptor evolution in octopus and squid. @CoreyAHallard Wendy Valencia @RyanHibbs10 nature - nature.com/articles/s4158… - nature.com/articles/s4158…

So excited to share that we've been able to generate knockout lines in the bobtail squid Euprymna berryi! The albinos are nearly transparent, which enables in vivo neural activity recording. Now out in Current Biology authors.elsevier.com/c/1hHXf_LsQSPr…

For the first time, scientists have analysed the connectome for part of the brain in the common octopus that’s involved in acquiring long-term memories. elifesciences.org/articles/84257…

We are looking for two postdocs to join our lab to work on NIH and NSF funded projects related to structure/function of neurogenesis and neural circuits in the nudibranch Berghia using scRNAseq and EM connectomics. sites.google.com/a/umass.edu/ka…

Reminder- there is still time to apply for the announced PhD positions in #Cephalopod neuroscience and #Drosophila models of cognitive diseases! sprecherlab.com please RT

Exciting news! We just published an opinion piece delving into the enigmatic inner lives of cephalopods. What do we truly understand about their subjective experiences? 🐙🦑🧠 Nicola Clayton academic.oup.com/icb/advance-ar…