Michael Orger
@daniobrain.bsky.social
Neuroscience Group Leader at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Zebrafish behavior and brain-wide imaging. Also some Danionella and Devario. Might post about music and Rubik's cubes.
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Very excited to share this thread on our recent paper! We show how Zebrafish integrate visual navigation signals in aligned topographic maps. Full thread below🧵
(1/n) We are excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications, by Hagar Lavian (@hlavian.bsky.social) and team, revealing how the zebrafish brain integrates visual navigation signals! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Visual motion and landmark position align with heading direction in the zebrafish interpeduncular nucleus - Nature Communications
How are various visual signals integrated in the vertebrate brain for navigation? Here authors show that different spatial signals are topographically organized and align to one another in the zebrafi...
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Very excited to share this thread on our recent paper! We show how Zebrafish integrate visual navigation signals in aligned topographic maps. Full thread below🧵
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🧠 Applications for the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP) @champalimaudf.bsky.social open until 31 January 2026.
☀️ Join our vibrant and international research community in sunny Lisbon!
🔗 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
☀️ Join our vibrant and international research community in sunny Lisbon!
🔗 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
December 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🧠 Applications for the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP) @champalimaudf.bsky.social open until 31 January 2026.
☀️ Join our vibrant and international research community in sunny Lisbon!
🔗 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
☀️ Join our vibrant and international research community in sunny Lisbon!
🔗 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
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Scientists around former IMP group leader David Keays (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social show that #pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear. Their discovery was now published in the journal @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain
How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Scientists around former IMP group leader David Keays (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social show that #pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear. Their discovery was now published in the journal @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
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🎉 Excited to share our new preprint presenting a complete de novo assembly of the zebrafish genome; a major advance for zebrafish genomics and research! 🧬
Full paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@zebrafishrock.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @modelzebrafish.bsky.social
Full paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@zebrafishrock.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @modelzebrafish.bsky.social
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November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🎉 Excited to share our new preprint presenting a complete de novo assembly of the zebrafish genome; a major advance for zebrafish genomics and research! 🧬
Full paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@zebrafishrock.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @modelzebrafish.bsky.social
Full paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@zebrafishrock.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @modelzebrafish.bsky.social
I’m honored to be named a 2025 @simonsfoundation.org Pivot Fellow! This support will allow me to build expertise in dynamical systems and control theory with mentorship from Guillaume Hennequin (@GJEHennequin on X).
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/s...
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/s...
Simons Foundation Announces Fourth Class of Pivot Fellows
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the fourth class of its Pivot Fellowship.
www.simonsfoundation.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’m honored to be named a 2025 @simonsfoundation.org Pivot Fellow! This support will allow me to build expertise in dynamical systems and control theory with mentorship from Guillaume Hennequin (@GJEHennequin on X).
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/s...
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/s...
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🧠In this essay Carlos Ribeiro and Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, @champalimaudf.bsky.social, explore the brain-body interactions.
🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two.
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...
🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two.
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🧠In this essay Carlos Ribeiro and Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, @champalimaudf.bsky.social, explore the brain-body interactions.
🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two.
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...
🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two.
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...
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🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation.
🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...
🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
The effect of time of day on exam pass rate in this study is quite dramatic. Consider that Edexcel runs some UK international exams as early as 7:30 a.m., which is even outside the range plotted in this study!
Timing matters! Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @ercgrantees.bsky.social on Austrian TV #ORF2 today to contextualise new research from Carmelo Vicario and team (Univ. of Messina) on the timing of exams.
on.orf.at/video/142925...
Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
on.orf.at/video/142925...
Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
Innere Uhr zählt: Chronobiologin über Prüfungsleistung - Aktuell nach eins vom 24.09.2025
Eine italienische Studie mit über 100.000 mündlichen Prüfungen zeigt: Zwischen 11 und 13 Uhr sind Studierende am leistungsfähigsten. Chronobiologin Kristin Teßmar-Raible erläuterte im Studio, wie die ...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The effect of time of day on exam pass rate in this study is quite dramatic. Consider that Edexcel runs some UK international exams as early as 7:30 a.m., which is even outside the range plotted in this study!
Does anyone have recommendations for neuroscience books or other non-fiction available on Audible? I enjoyed listening to Elusive Cures (read by the author @nicolecrust.bsky.social) and Innate (from @wiringthebrain.bsky.social), and I was wondering what other good audiobooks are out there?
August 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Does anyone have recommendations for neuroscience books or other non-fiction available on Audible? I enjoyed listening to Elusive Cures (read by the author @nicolecrust.bsky.social) and Innate (from @wiringthebrain.bsky.social), and I was wondering what other good audiobooks are out there?
I'm enjoying revisiting Marina Herlop's 2022 Pripyat LP. Here is the gorgeous opening track Abans Abans with a video featuring snails, stalactites and alpacas and her unique approach to vocals and piano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3_t...
Marina Herlop - abans abans
YouTube video by Marina Herlop
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August 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I'm enjoying revisiting Marina Herlop's 2022 Pripyat LP. Here is the gorgeous opening track Abans Abans with a video featuring snails, stalactites and alpacas and her unique approach to vocals and piano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3_t...
RIP Brian Wilson (1942-2025), one of the greatest innovators who helped build popular music into an enduring art form, and a kind and humble person. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S22a...
Surf's Up
YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic
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June 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
RIP Brian Wilson (1942-2025), one of the greatest innovators who helped build popular music into an enduring art form, and a kind and humble person. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S22a...
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It took us many years to improve idtracker.ai in both accuracy and tracking time. Here it is.
June 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It took us many years to improve idtracker.ai in both accuracy and tracking time. Here it is.
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If you're planning a course with mathematical methods content, or use such methods in your own work, please take a look at "Mathematics in Biology", by Meister, Lee, and Portugues, published at MIT Press. 1/2 @portugueslab.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204940...
Mathematics in Biology
Biology has turned into a quantitative science. The core problems in the life sciences today involve complex systems that require mathematical expression, ye...
mitpress.mit.edu
May 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
If you're planning a course with mathematical methods content, or use such methods in your own work, please take a look at "Mathematics in Biology", by Meister, Lee, and Portugues, published at MIT Press. 1/2 @portugueslab.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204940...
Greatly deserved! Congratulations!
🏆We are delighted to congratulate Dr Greg Jefferis who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society!
Read our news item: bit.ly/3H4rCCk
@mrclmb.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
Read our news item: bit.ly/3H4rCCk
@mrclmb.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
May 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Greatly deserved! Congratulations!
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Unforgettable trip to Lisbon! Packed with amazing food, wine, science, art, sightseeing, and a healthy dose of exercise! Huge thanks to my hosts @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social at Champalimaud and Razmik Panossian at the Gulbenkian Foundation for the warm welcome.
May 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Unforgettable trip to Lisbon! Packed with amazing food, wine, science, art, sightseeing, and a healthy dose of exercise! Huge thanks to my hosts @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social at Champalimaud and Razmik Panossian at the Gulbenkian Foundation for the warm welcome.
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A review emphasizes the advantages of using zebrafish in research, outlines key differences in experimental approaches, and offers guidelines for designing studies in a way that enhances experimental rigor and reproducibility. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Zebrafishology, study design guidelines for rigorous and reproducible data using zebrafish - Communications Biology
A review emphasizes the advantages of using zebrafish in research, outlines key differences in experimental approaches, and offers guidelines for designing studies in a way that enhances experimental ...
www.nature.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A review emphasizes the advantages of using zebrafish in research, outlines key differences in experimental approaches, and offers guidelines for designing studies in a way that enhances experimental rigor and reproducibility. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching.
A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀
github.com/danionella/w...
A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀
github.com/danionella/w...
May 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching.
A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀
github.com/danionella/w...
A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀
github.com/danionella/w...
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High-resolution phenotypic screen in zebrafish identifies novel regulators of CNS axon diameter growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.29.651302v1
May 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
High-resolution phenotypic screen in zebrafish identifies novel regulators of CNS axon diameter growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.29.651302v1
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The latest paper from the Chiappe lab is out!! Congrats @merterginkaya.bsky.social and everyone involved - now you definitely have to come visit Lisbon so we can celebrate!🥳 @champalimaudr.bsky.social
A competitive disinhibitory network for robust optic flow processing in Drosophila 🧠🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A competitive disinhibitory network for robust optic flow processing in Drosophila - Nature Neuroscience
Navigation relies on detecting left versus right body asymmetries for gaze and course stability. A central three-layer optic flow-sensitive network with competitive lateral disinhibition extracts asym...
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The latest paper from the Chiappe lab is out!! Congrats @merterginkaya.bsky.social and everyone involved - now you definitely have to come visit Lisbon so we can celebrate!🥳 @champalimaudr.bsky.social
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🐠 New pre-print from the lab! 🐠
Neural microexons fine-tune protein function - but how do they impact arousal states and underlying neuronal signaling pathways?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out our latest pre-print by @tahneema.bsky.social et al, @upf.edu @crg.eu. 🧵👇 1/9
Neural microexons fine-tune protein function - but how do they impact arousal states and underlying neuronal signaling pathways?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out our latest pre-print by @tahneema.bsky.social et al, @upf.edu @crg.eu. 🧵👇 1/9
Neural microexons modulate arousal states via cAMP signalling in zebrafish
Arousal states, often dysregulated in neurodevelopmental disorders, shape how organisms perceive and respond to their environment. Here, we show that srrm3, a master regulator of neural microexons, is...
www.biorxiv.org
April 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
🐠 New pre-print from the lab! 🐠
Neural microexons fine-tune protein function - but how do they impact arousal states and underlying neuronal signaling pathways?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out our latest pre-print by @tahneema.bsky.social et al, @upf.edu @crg.eu. 🧵👇 1/9
Neural microexons fine-tune protein function - but how do they impact arousal states and underlying neuronal signaling pathways?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out our latest pre-print by @tahneema.bsky.social et al, @upf.edu @crg.eu. 🧵👇 1/9
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CamI... This Kobaryo DJ set is all you need this weekend.
MEGATON KICK '25 Clip【Kobaryo】
YouTube video by HARDCORE TANO*C
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April 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CamI... This Kobaryo DJ set is all you need this weekend.
Am I the only person who keeps getting caught out by journals putting a 'download whole issue' button exactly where I expect 'download paper' to be
April 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Am I the only person who keeps getting caught out by journals putting a 'download whole issue' button exactly where I expect 'download paper' to be
It is hard to imagine a more prescient compilation than 1992's Artificial Intelligence, not just in terms of the careers of the contributing artists, but how the featured sounds have permeated popular culture over the last 30 years.
April 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It is hard to imagine a more prescient compilation than 1992's Artificial Intelligence, not just in terms of the careers of the contributing artists, but how the featured sounds have permeated popular culture over the last 30 years.
A beautifully curated resource for zebrafish research enabled by NIH funding.
This is an awesome new site for a terrific resource that's taken years to make! Congrats to the great @mauramcgrail.bsky.social for getting this launched.
#zebrafish Our Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource is online!! zebrafishccr.org
Check out what's available, imaging and information, and make a request.
We're so very grateful to the NIH ORIP for supporting this work!
Huge thanks to Parnal Joshi from Iddo Friedberg lab for creating the website!
Check out what's available, imaging and information, and make a request.
We're so very grateful to the NIH ORIP for supporting this work!
Huge thanks to Parnal Joshi from Iddo Friedberg lab for creating the website!
April 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A beautifully curated resource for zebrafish research enabled by NIH funding.