Michael Bok

@mikebok

Researcher @LundVision interested in the evolution of vision in invertebrates. Middling photographer. 🐘@mikebok@ecoevo.social 🟦@mikebok.bsky.social

Lund, Sweden michaelbok.com Joined November 2009

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Michael Bok @mikebok Apr 11, 2024

The @lunduniversity press office made a great video about our recent paper on the amazing eyes of alciopid polychaetes!

youtu.be/CHPFe4rBIMc?si…

@Biology_LU @LundVision

Michael Bok @mikebok Mar 27, 2025

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.

Michael Bok @mikebok Nov 14, 2024

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…

Michael Bok @mikebok Oct 23, 2024

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.

votesaveamerica.com

Michael Bok @mikebok Sep 6, 2024

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?