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Michael Bok

@mikebok

Researcher @LundVision interested in the evolution of vision in invertebrates. Middling photographer. 🐘@[email protected] 🟦@mikebok.bsky.social

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It is exceedingly unlikely that this is visible to anything in a natural light environment. Black light photos of animals are fun, but extremely misleading to the public and to researchers unspecialized in sensory ecology. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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Hi neuro people: What is the current though on cephalization in bilaterians? Was there probably a significant CNS in urbilateria, or did brains evolve more than once in the major bilaterian lineages?

Hi neuro people:  What is the current though on cephalization in bilaterians?  Was there probably a significant CNS in urbilateria, or did brains evolve more than once in the major bilaterian lineages?
Visual Insect Neuroeth. @insect-vision.bsky.social (@insectvision) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are excited to offer a DAAD Rise internship this coming summer (~May-August) for NA/UK/IRE undergraduate students! Interested in insect vision👀, quantitative behaviour🧮, and movement tracking🦋? Get in touch with us and/or apply here: rise-germany.de/offer/offers/d…

We are excited to offer a DAAD Rise internship this coming summer (~May-August) for NA/UK/IRE undergraduate students! Interested in insect vision👀, quantitative behaviour🧮, and movement tracking🦋? Get in touch with us and/or apply here: rise-germany.de/offer/offers/d…
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I am thrilled to announce publication of a new paper led by Seth Frazer, showing we can accurately predict opsin phenotypes from their gene sequences academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

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My collaborator, Anders Garm, is advertising a 2 year postdoc position in Copenhagen working on our awesome project with googly-eyed alciopid polychaetes. Applications are due 15 Dec! Apply here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…

My collaborator, Anders Garm, is advertising a 2 year postdoc position in Copenhagen working on our awesome project with googly-eyed alciopid polychaetes.   

Applications are due 15 Dec! 

Apply here:
 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…
Ecology of Vision (@ecologyofvision) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨PhD siren #2!🚨A 4 year PhD project based in Exeter with Martin Stevens in collaboration with us taking a deep dive into the visually-guided colour change behaviour of chameleon prawns🦐Funded by SWBio DTP to start in Sept 2025! Apply here: swbio.ac.uk/animal-behavio…

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Hyperspectral Imager paper out! High sensitivity UV to nearIR, radiance & reflectance, runs from a smartphone. Build the system for about $450 from 3D printed parts & off-the-shelf components. Paper: doi.org/10.1186/s12915… Intro video: youtube.com/watch?v=9q8lyU…

Georgios Kafetzis (@geor_kafetzis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

👁️The retina — strikingly conserved across vertebrates, but an oddity among bilaterians! So how did it evolve? With Michael Bok, Tom Baden and Dan-Eric Nilsson, we argue that retinal complexity may 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

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Most bilaterians keep photoreceptor types separate. But vertebrate eyes are a mash-up: 🪡Ciliary (rods & cones) and 💈Rhabdomeric (ganglion, amacrine, horizontal) …all packed into a multilayered circuit. 2/n

Most bilaterians keep photoreceptor types separate. But vertebrate eyes are a mash-up:

🪡Ciliary (rods & cones) and
💈Rhabdomeric (ganglion, amacrine, horizontal)
…all packed into a multilayered circuit.

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