Benjamin Judkewitz

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...

How do 🐁deal with complex landscapes? Turns out they learn a lot very quickly. We think they do this by learning a set of repeated sparse paths, which form a type of compressed world model. Joint work with the Hermundstad lab, led by Tzuhsuan Ma and Alison Comrie: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our lab's latest paper on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now published www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is the work of a great team in the lab - led by Jo-Hsien Yu, with Geoff Meyerhof, Jimjohn Milan, and Julia Napoli @nature.com @danionella.bsky.social

I thought I was a quirky little underdog fish with cool tricks, widening the model-organism spectrum. Suddenly, headlines: "Billion Dollar Fish Takes Over" Holy Mackerel! I guess there weren't any smaller fish to fry. Anyway, I'm still the same, still making the case for model diversity.

1/8. New preprint! Using fUSi in head-fixed mice🐭, we found that arousal events trigger a brain-wide wave of activity 🌊🧠. Surprisingly, this pattern was preserved during opto manipulations of the locus coeruleus, pointing to a minor role for noradrenergic tone. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How do fish localize sound without interaural cues? @johve.bsky.social et al. found a behavioral algorithm for directional hearing that predicts behavior from a pressure/motion phase comparison and accounts for how this relationship varies with distance. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Very happy to see this out. 👏 @yinanwan.bsky.social Bogdan Bintu and team. Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis | free link Science www.science.org/eprint/5MHTM...

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

Whole-body Single-cell Spatial transcriptomic atlas of adult Danionella ~1 cm long scRNAseq MERFISH (500-gene) HCR Endothelial cell podxl+ (Fig S8) Vascular vs Visceral mural cell (Fig S10) Peter Reddien lab bioRxiv 2026 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our updated @napari.org video plugin includes a small widget to play videos with sound. github.com/danionella/n...

Congratulations to Urs Lucas Bohm, junior leader a @ipnp.bsky.social, for his latest achievement: he is recipient of the ATIP-Avenir award for his work on spinal cord network contribution to motor behaviors, using voltage imaging techniques in zebrafish! Keep going, Urs! @inserm.fr #motordisease

This is great -- thanks for your efforts and the documentation. We've got it up and running for tERK stains. Some kinks for us work out but running registrations in a few seconds is so very satisfying!

We are releasing a GPU-accelerated oblique interpolation library for oblique plane microscopy (OPM) volume reconstruction. It avoids aliasing and interpolation artifacts caused by rectilinear interpolation approaches. github.com/danionella/o...

Another study to share, led by my grad student Nicole Pranic! Before diving in, I'll add that Nicole (who is clever, tenacious, and interested in neural changes that underlie developmental changes in social behaviors) is looking for a post-doc position! Please RT! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We’re seeking a postdoc/student excited about animal communication, brain-wide circuits, microscopy, singing fish (Danionella), wacky ideas and who likes to: get things done, experiment, analyze, ask, learn, help and cooperate. jlab.berlin

Interested in understanding how things work? In particular the tools you use to study the brain? Join us at TENSS 2025 where we brainstorm ideas, build and debug microscopes, electrophysiology and behavior rigs amidst the picturesque Transylvanian hills! tenss.ro Apply by: February 16th!

If you want to understand the brain, should you work as a neuroscientist in the lab? Or teach the subject for students? Or simply read textbooks and papers while having a normal job? In this blog post, I share some thoughts on this topic. gcamp6f.com/2025/01/08/a...

1/3 How does visual input affect the heading direction (HD) network? In our latest lab preprint, Ryosuke presents "visual landmarks" to larval zebrafish and shows that the HD network tethers to the visual environment. The experiments are again inspired by the beautiful recent work in Drosophila.

job offer! I am looking for a postdoc to join the nascent team. Come work with us to build microscopes and study spinal cord circuits. #ZebrafishCareers

Come join us! Please repost 🙏🏼

High-speed 3D random access two-photon imaging at ≥ 300 kHz – with SPARCLS: opg.optica.org/optica/fullt... By the outstanding @carolineberlage.bsky.social and team, including @urslucasboehm.bsky.social, @andrewplested.bsky.social et al.

by the one and only @urslucasboehm.bsky.social, who just joined bluesky

It's woefully incomplete, but I've made the start of a starter pack for folks interested in microscopy. Suggestions for who else to include (including yourself!) are very welcome. go.bsky.app/SaYfAX3

Just put together the beginnings of a systems & behavior neuro starter pack (focus on rodent work) - obviously a lot of people missing, and most included are in my own little bubble, so if you want to be added do reply here! go.bsky.app/Hxpe53o

Switched waters to Bluesky. Still singing, still transparent, and back to having the smallest vertebrate brain around.

I think science twitter is finally moving here. Welcome everybody! 🧪

Now published as www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re seeking a postdoc/student excited about animal communication, brain-wide circuits, microscopy, singing fish (Danionella), wacky ideas and who likes to: get things done, experiment, analyze, ask, learn, help and cooperate. jlab.berlin