Discovered in the deep: tiny ‘sucker-bum #squid’ with martial arts moves https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/11/pygmy-sucker-squid-species-japanese-coral-reef by Helen Scales

Two new pygmy #squids, #Idiosepius kijimuna and #Kodama jujutsu from the #Ryukyu Islands, #Japan https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-023-04305-1 by Amanda Reid et al., 2023

"The two species of #PygmySquid the size of a fingernail live on Japanese #CoralReefs. Spotting them is a sign of a healthy ecosystem"

Discovered in the deep: tiny ‘sucker-bum squid’ with martial arts moves | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/11/pygmy-sucker-squid-species-japanese-coral-reef

#Squid
#PygmySquid
#Japanese
#Japan
#CoralReef
#HannansPygmySquid

@KateShaw , did you see these?
Look out for teeny tiny pygmy squid attached to blade of sea grass:
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/photos-top-species-discoveries-from-2023/

#newSpecies
#squid
#pygmySquid

Above, my #introduction of interests. Here, who I am, what I do: a neuroscientist at the #MRCLMB and University of Cambridge, UK, studying the neural circuit basis of behavior, originally in #Drosophila but now also in #cephalopods (#pygmysquid #Idiosepius), the lancelet #Amphioxus and other animals. Our main approach: whole brain #connectomics with #vEM (volume electron microscopy) as the basis for computational modeling to guide neuronal activity perturbation and monitoring experiments with #optogenetics and #electrophysiology (#ephys for short).
Once upon a time I founded the #ImageJ -based #TrakEM2 software for image registration and neuronal arbor reconstruction and annotation, which spurred founding the #FijiSc (https://fiji.sc) image processing software, and later the #CATMAID web-based software for #connectomics.
Always open to inquires from prospective students and postdocs, and collaborations.