May the Force (4th) be with you ✨

Awesome overview of open-access resources for anyone looking to create beautiful scientific figures and illustrations! 👇

Multimodal alignments of in vivo imaging and spatial biology datasets at cellular resolution www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Postdoc opportunity (4 years, full-time) Join the Ian Duguid lab to study how neural circuits enable flexible motor behaviour. Great fit for systems neuroscientists interested in circuits, behaviour & computation. 📅 Apply by 21 May Check out the SIDB vacancies page for more

Finally online @natmethods.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a fun collaboration with @finkryan.bsky.social @massecklab.bsky.social @tpatriarchi.bsky.social @martinfuhrmann.bsky.social @campbell-lab.bsky.social @jangrundemann.bsky.social 🧪🧠🔬🧬

Risk reshapes amygdala representation of choice: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two-author papers are always special. Using optogenetic stimulation of hippocampal synapses in awake mice and tracking them over approx. 2 weeks, we link synaptic strength, spine volume and their stability. It's confirmed: bigger spines are stronger and more stable 😅

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION! 🚨 We are extending the abstract submission deadline for #NN2026 to April 12, 2026! Information on how to submit your abstract: 🔗 nn2026.uni-bonn.de/en/abstracts #Neuroscience #BrainResearch #UniBonn #CognitiveScience

🚨New paper from the lab🚨 Felix shows that #microglia shape #glioblastoma invasion at the far infiltration zone. Using in vivo #3photon #imaging, he finds dynamic responses & shows that manipulation reduces GB migration & limits #tumormicrotube #plasticity: 📝 doi.org/10.1016/j.im... #Neuroscience🧪

The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

🚨 Deadline Alert: One week left! Submit your abstract for the international symposium "Naturalistic Neuroscience: from perception to action and back" (Bonn, May 28-29, 2026). Register and submit your abstract here: 🔗 www.nn2026.uni-bonn.de/en #Neuroscience #NN2026 #BrainResearch #UniBonn #Neurotech

Congrats to Nala and Naya! Great collaboration with Corentin Le Magueresse 😀 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

It's a wrap! Grateful for this incredible #BonnBrain26 team. Many thanks to our fantastic support crew of the @dzne.science, @mpinb.mpg.de and @unibonn.bsky.social - we could not have done this without you! See you in 2028 for the next edition!

What a fantastic #BonnBrain26! Huge thanks to all our speakers, participants, sponsors and the incredible support team who made it happen. We are already looking forward to seeing you again in spring 2028!

Starting Day 3 with a Keynote Lecture by @paolicellilab.bsky.social. Looking forward to more talks on neuro-glia interactions and neuromodulation, and our last poster session!

Fantastic first day at #BonnBrain26 – Congratulations to @seidlcarina.bsky.social and @martipof.bsky.social for winning the best Young Investigator Talk awards! 👏 Today starts with @edvardmoser.bsky.social's Keynote on Neural Computation of Space.

BonnBrain26 started! Looking forward to great presentations.

Before we get started, a big THANK YOU to our sponsors and exhibitors! #BonnBrain26

Let's go!

We are getting ready! Excited to welcome all BonnBrain participants tomorrow, and looking forward to some great sciencing ahead. 🔬 🧠 🧪 Safe travels & see you in Bonn!

‪Ever wondered how GABAergic interneurons shape cognition? The IN-CODE consortium's latest NeuroView article introduces a "population approach", shifting the focus from individual interneurons to cooperative networks. Dive into the future of interneuron research here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Every talk is a job talk

🧠 Check out this preprint by our postdoc Selin Kenet from her previous work with Thomas Misgeld on neuromyelitis optica! They show that complement-mediated injury directly affects myelin and oligodendrocytes, suggesting that demyelination is not just downstream of astrocyte loss. 🧠

IN-CODE Symposium 2026: “Inhibitory neurons – from synapses & microcircuits to behavior”. Join us in Freiburg, Germany, on October 8–9, 2026!!! Learn more and register here: sfb-trr384.de/symposium/ #neuroscience #interneurons

Excited to share our new paper: We uncover a locus coeruleus→amygdala circuit linking β-adrenergic signaling to transcription regulation in defined amygdala cells during memory reconsolidation—+ stress or elevated noradrenergic signaling at recall can strengthen memory. www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Registration and abstract submission for our symposium Naturalistic Neuroscience – from perception to action and back (University of Bonn 28-29 May 2026) is no open! www.nn2026.uni-bonn.de/en/registrat... #NN2026 @unibonn.bsky.social #naturalisticneuroscience #neuroscience #symposium #cfa

The most sensitive green and red #norepinephrine #sensors engineered to date are out in #naturemethods! Deeply grateful to all our funders and contributors who made this work possible. A true team effort. @erc.europa.eu @snsf.ch doi.org/10.1038/s415...

So great! Mechanical engineers study the physics of elephant whiskers. Unlike mice, elephants don’t whisk. The physics of their whiskers suggests they amplify touch. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

3rd pre-FENS Motor Symposium "The Dynamics of Motor Control: Circuit Interactions in Health and Disease" on July 5th 2026 at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona. Registration and abstract submission are open NOW until March 1st motor-control-satellite-2026.umh.es

Our new preprint is out! A state-dependent neural circuit resolves approach–avoidance conflicts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Fantastic work led by Devika Bodas, with key contributions from Marine Balcou, and a great collaboration with Lisa Scheunemann Lab, fearuting Şevval Demirci.

Please share: I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab in Oslo! For this project, we will investigate the role of striatal interneurons during action selection, using a combination of behavior, in vivo voltage imaging, and slice ephys. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #NeuroJobs #NeuroSkyence

Really nice work from the Holmes lab looking at amygdala astrocytes in fear memory and extinction! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My take on the Defining Cell Types perspective at @thetransmitter.bsky.social

The International Day for Women and Girls in Science is coming up this week on Wednesday February 11th! 🧫 🔬 To celebrate we created a new colouring page! 🧪✍️🎨 Please share this post with any educators or teachers you know! www.thebraincolouringbook.com/printables

On my way back to Germany after two wonderful weeks in Australia. Many thanks for the invitation to the #LMA2026 Team, and my hosts at QBI, UNSW and USYD. Definitely worth the long travel!

Very thankful for this thoughtful dispatch by @shaisrael.bsky.social sky.social and Moshe Parnas about our work. Learning and memory: Forgetting to remember: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Thrilled to share that our first study on the hippocampus’ role in helping behavior in mice is now published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! This work was driven by an amazing team in my lab, and marks an important milestone for more exciting studies to come! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Postdoc position in systems neuroscience! Excited to recruit a postdoc for my lab at the University of Bonn. 🔬 In vivo physiology (Neuropixels, 2P/miniscope) 🐭 Head-fixed & freely moving behaviour 💡 Optogenetics/chemogenetics ⏳ Start: ASAP | Application deadline: 28.02.2026 More info below ⬇️

Another one with our next door colleagues! @marianneroca.bsky.social in @jameslightfoot.bsky.social's group found the IL2 neurons detecting prey (this study) are also sensing octopamine, which we recently found plays an important role in predatory aggression! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Junior scientists 👉 applications are open for our workshop on the mechanistic basis of #cognition. 🧠 🤝 Joint sessions with our #TheoreticalNeuroscience workshop ✈️ Hotel, meals + reasonable travel expenses covered Apply by May 7 ➡️ janelia.news/CNW26 @michaelreiser.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social

One more week to apply for this cool collaborative PhD project in Bonn and Göttingen! Are you interested in peeking inside the brain with miniscopes while mice are navigating using olfactory or visuospatial cues to find out how the hippocampus encodes this information and behaviour? Then apply now!

Excited to share our new preprint! We explore the link between the locus coeruleus (LC) and arousal for astrocytes, pyramidal cells, interneurons in the hippocampus. A fantastic collaboration with @sianduss.bsky.social @bohaceklab.bsky.social, and many others: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/5

Please spread the word🔊My lab is looking to hire two international postdocs. If you want to do comp neuro, combine machine learning and awesome math to understand neural circuit activity, then come work with us! Bonn is such a cool place for neuroscience now, you don't want to miss out.

Delighted to share our first preprint of the year! A project that we're all really proud of in the lab led by @ossamaghenissa.bsky.social with @mathiasgua.bsky.social in which we set out to test the role of basolateral amygdala astrocytes in anxiety behaviour. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧠⚡️💊New @nature.com publication ! Mimicking opioid analgesia in cortical pain circuits We built a brain-behavior framework to decode spontaneous chronic pain in mice—and to biologically mimic morphine with a synthetic opioid gene therapy nature.com/articles/s41... @pennmedicine.bsky.social

New paper out: Axon initial segment dynamics during associative fear learning: Benoit, Chloé Maëlle; Ganea, Dan Alin; Paricio-Montesinos, Ricardo; et al. Nature neuroscience  | Thanks for sharing #dzne #papers

Call for Symposia: Göttingen Meeting 2027 Time to take the opportunity and help to shape the Scientific Program 2027 by submitting your proposal until: 17 February 2026 Further information can be found here: web.nwg-info.de/de/conferenc...

📢 Please help spread the word: We’re hiring a Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs to coordinate our international PhD program, provide guidance & career counseling, lead training programs, collaborate on EDI initiatives, and manage alumni relations. Apply at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Carolin Warnecke together with Hanna, Dennis, Bene & Kerstin from my lab show that re-exposure to reward diminishes multiple associated olfactory memories. We’re hiring 2 postdocs—DM/email me for details. #Postdoc #Hiring www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am excited to share our new paper, where we developed and used a new approach that allows us to dynamically monitor autophagy in the intact mouse brain! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...