Michael Bok
@mikebok
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Researcher @LundVision interested in the evolution of vision in invertebrates. Middling photographer. 🐘@[email protected] 🟦@mikebok.bsky.social
Lund, Sweden
Joined November 2009
The @lunduniversity press office made a great video about our recent paper on the amazing eyes of alciopid polychaetes!. @Biology_LU @LundVision.
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We will peer across a 500 million year chasm of convergent evolution to discover how high resolution camera eyes in cephalopods and polychetes function without the elaborate local circuitry found in the vertebrate retina.
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Super excited to have received a @HFSP grant with.@NeuroFishh for our proposal - Eyes inside out: Visual coding without a multilayered retina in squid and worms.
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RT @jTroscianko: Hyperspectral Imager paper out! High sensitivity UV to nearIR, radiance & reflectance, runs from a smartphone. Build the….
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RT @EcologyofVision: 🚨PhD siren #2!🚨A 4 year PhD project based in Exeter with @SensoryEcology in collaboration with us taking a deep dive i….
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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:.
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RT @UCSB_OakleyLab: I am thrilled to announce publication of a new paper led by Seth Frazer, showing we can accurately predict opsin phenot….
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Co-published with BGI, GigaScience is an open access and open-data journal that aims to revolutionize reproducibility of analyses, data dissemination, organization, understanding, and use in the...
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RT @insectvision: We are excited to offer a DAAD Rise internship this coming summer (~May-August) for NA/UK/IRE undergraduate students! Int….
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Biennial politics post for US friends: . Please go vote! 🇺🇸. And if you live in a swing state, anything you do besides voting for Harris is voting for Trump. There is nothing important to liberals or progressives that won't be made worse by Trump.
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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?
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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.
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Fluorescence, the optical phenomenon whereby short-wavelength light is absorbed and emitted at longer wavelengths, has been widely described in aqu...
Bats are known for navigating their surroundings by way of echolocation. But a new study reveals some species of these creatures of the night may also glow under ultraviolet light to signal their presence to others. @NewsfromScience.
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Bats are known for navigating their surroundings by way of echolocation. But a new study reveals some species of these creatures of the night may also glow under ultraviolet light to signal their presence to others. @NewsfromScience.
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RT @NatalieHempel: Final session of #icn2024berlin with @mikebok and @meganlinnay presenting fascinating research on invertebrate vision. h….
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It's not over till its over! Come to the last session at #icn2024berlin in Hall B to see my talk about googley-eyed sea worms as well as other exciting talks about mantis shrimp (@judy_chingwen) and jumping spiders (@meganlinnay)! @neuroethology
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RT @anna_stoeckl: James Foster @JJFosterLab is kicking off the Polarisation Vision invited symposium at #icn2024berlin with @gregoeur, taki….
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RT @RSocPublishing: How does conspicuous colouration evolve alongside burrowing behaviour? A new #ProcB paper investigates with crayfish: h….
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