🎉 Congratulations to Peter Kappeler (@kirindy.bsky.social) on receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Antananarivo! Honoring an outstanding scientific career, commitment to Madagascar and support for early career researchers. We are proud to have him as part of our SFB family!

Join our SFB 1528 today at 3 PM at the @primatenzentrum.bsky.social in Göttingen: Sanja Bauer Mikulovic (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Magdeburg) will speak about Neural Mechanisms Underlying Helping in Mice (for details -> www.uni-goettingen.de/de/686255.html)

Don't miss it! Submit your abstract for our Satellite Symposium on Computational Neuroscience to celebrate 20 years Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen! Deadline for your abstracts is August 17! Participation is free! Join us in Göttingen on Oct 15!

Fresh in eLife: Dyadic Interaction Platform: A novel tool to study transparent social interactions Happy to share this truely collaborative work of 20 SFB members: core experimental platform enables real-time, face-to-face social interaction with precise experimental control doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

🚨 Abstract Deadline approaching! Submit your contribution to the Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity and Interaction by August 1st! 📍 Göttingen, Oct 13–15, 2025 🎟️ Participation is free, but registration required All details & submission portal: events.gwdg.de/e/goettingen... See you in Göttingen!

We congratulate all newly elected members of the Leopoldina on this well-deserved recognition! We are especially happy for @stefantreue.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social, @sfb1528.bsky.social) who has now joined Germany’s National Academy of Sciences. 🍾 Congratulations! 🎆 @uni-goettingen.de

Join us tomorrow, July 15th, for the last talk in our SFB Lecture Series before the start of the summer break. At 10 AM, we have the pleasure to host Joah Madden from the University @exeter.ac.uk. The lecture is organised by @kirindy.bsky.social Venue: Lecture hall @primatenzentrum.bsky.social

Congratulations to our vice-speaker @anne-schacht.bsky.social & our associated member @marcellawoud.bsky.social (@uni-goettingen.de) on being elected to the Göttingen Academy of Sciences! We warmly congratulate them on this great recognition! 👏🎉

Join us in Göttingen for the First Interdisciplinary Göttingen Cognition Forum 2025: Curiosity & Interaction Oct 13-15, 2025, Alte Mensa in Göttingen Info and registration: events.gwdg.de/e/goettingen... Participation is free! Abstracts due: August 1st, 2025! Please share!

🔎 Forschung virtuell erleben! Bei der #Nacht-des-Wissens könnt Ihr mit unserer Virtuellen Tour Labore, Feldstationen und Freilandforschung entdecken – und gleichzeitig erfahren, wie wir an neuer Wissenschaftskommunikation arbeiten. 📍 Theologicum, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2 📅 21.6., ab 17 Uhr

🧠 Affen-Intelligenz testen? 🐒 Bei der Nacht des Wissens könnt Ihr erleben, wie wir im Senegal forschen, wie soziale Beziehungen bei Pavianen entschlüsselt werden – und wie knifflig IQ-Tests für Affen sind 📍 ZHG, 1. Stock, Ausstellung des @primatenzentrum.bsky.social 📅 Samstag, 21.6., ab 17 Uhr

🎉 Congrats to Abhi Dwarakanath (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social; #ENI_Göttingen) on receiving the William James Prize by ASSC! He was honored for his work investigating conscious perception during multistable phenomena. Proud to have him as an associated member of SFB 1528! www.dpz.eu/en/public-en...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch liebe @violapriesemann.bsky.social für diese hochverdiente Anerkennung durch die #ALLEA! Wir freuen uns, dass Du auch bei unserem SFB eine wichtige Rolle spielst!

Compete or cooperate? Decide in real time At the Night of Science, experience our Dyadic Interaction Platform and see how social decisions unfold On a transparent screen, you and a partner react, adapt – and influence each other. June 21 | ZHG @uni-goettingen.de; @primatenzentrum.bsky.social

Was passiert hier – Torjubel? Gewichtheben? Im Dunkeln tasten? Nein – das sind 3D-Bewegungsdaten unseres Exploration Rooms (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) Probiert selbst aus bei der Nacht des Wissens der @unigoettingen.bsky.social am 21.6. und erfahrt, wie wir soziale Interaktionen erforschen

Wir freuen uns darauf, wieder bei der Nacht des Wissens dabei zu sein! Unseren SFB 1528 und viele weitere spannende Präsentationen unserer Kollegen am Campus findet Ihr im 1. Stock des ZHG und im Erdgeschoss des Theologicum - am Platz der Göttinger Sieben. Kommt vorbei und lernt uns kennen!

We invite to our SFB Lecture on May 22nd at 3 PM by Ahmed El Hady (@zamakany.bsky.social; Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz (@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social): "Integration from trained to natural behaviors" Join us in the lecture hall @primatenzentrum.bsky.social!

🎓 Was bedeutet es, als Erste*r in der Familie den Weg in die Wissenschaft zu gehen? Unsere Podiumsdiskussion „First Generation Academics“ vom 12.3.2025 zeigt, mit welchen Hürden viele im Uni-Alltag kämpfen und wie man zwischen zwei Welten lebt. Jetzt online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOtp...

* Bridging the Gender Data Gap in Mental Health * - This Summer School focuses on bridging the gender data gap in preclinical and clinical research, with an emphasis on mental health and neuroscience. >>> Please share! :-) www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/de/female-br...

Great to see the final version of this work led by @mbagheri.bsky.social and with @marcellawoud.bsky.social now out online in the Journal of Emotion and Psychopathology! emotionandpsychopathology.org/journal/arti...

Would be happy to support an @hfspo.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship application , if you have a bold idea bridging animal foraging theory and experiments , get in touch 🙌🏾🙌🏾

We can tell you one thing for sure: NEVER miss a talk by @richardvogg.bsky.social - our king of Science Slamming 🏆 Just watch one of his slams (www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rUh...) to know how much fun this will be :-). Definitely a must see!

Congratulations to Julia Fischer (@julxf.bsky.social @primatecognition.bsky.social Entry in the Golden Book of the City of Mainz at the start of her endowed professorship at the @unimainz.bsky.social! 👏 Her lecture series starts today at 6.15 PM www.stiftung-jgsp.uni-mainz.de/vorlesungsre...

Heute startet die Reihe Chalk Talks ins Sommersemester. Hier geht es zum Programm: www.forum-wissen.de/series/chalk...

📽️ Wer unsere Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "Neurodivergenz - Wenn Hürden nicht offensichtlich sind" verpasst hat oder nochmal anschauen möchte, kann dies nun tun: ➡️ s.gwdg.de/oHcDjM Die Veranstaltung war Teil unserer Reihe "Interaktion neu Denken" über eine vielfältigere Wissenschaftskultur.

❤️ What is Love? ❤️ Is there one true answer to this question? Our colleague @anne-schacht.bsky.social ( @unigoettingen.bsky.social @primatecognition.bsky.social) answers this important question submitted by kids to the @forumwissen.bsky.social. ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SMD...

New study feat Peter Marschik & Dajie Zhang: How do play contexts shape infant vocalizations? Book-sharing vs toy play vs rattle-shaking 📚 Book-sharing stands out ✓ More caregiver speech @ 4mo ✓ More vocal turn-taking @ 9 mo ✓ Infant vocalize differences across contexts by 12 mo ➡️ s.gwdg.de/l1Z8Wg

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology. We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions. 4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply! tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

www.dpz.eu/en/public-en... ⬅️ Here you can find more information about the study by @lukasamn.bsky.social, Virginia Casasnovas, and Alexander Gail. (2/2)

We diversify our social media activities. Follow us now also on LinkedIn and learn more about our activities, our research, collaborations and possibilties to join us! www.linkedin.com/company/sfb1...

SFB Paper Alert! That’s teamwork: 14 SFB members across nine projects put together a perspective paper on “Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild”, which was published in @naturemethods.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in an Emmy Noether Group on “Methods in AI”? Discover opportunities at the @thegoecampus.bsky.social! Join the online info event by the Campus Institute Data Science to learn more & connect: 📅 April 23, 5 PM 🔗 www.uni-goettingen.de/en/696563.html #AI #EmmyNoether #DataScience #Göttingen

Julia Fischer (@julxf.bsky.social; @primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a field assistant to work at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal to study the behaviour of Guinea baboons in their natural habitat. Paid position, run-time at least 15 months, starting Nov 2025 s.gwdg.de/ZzyGjT

Do you have #ADHD or #autism? We're running a short, anonymous survey on interoception. It takes just 15–20 minutes, and your input would mean a lot. 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Happening today! Explore strategies for fostering inclusivity in neuroscience & discover opportunities to get involved with programs like Project SHORT in this upcoming webinar with Maria Luisa Valle, PhD, Taissa Lytchenko, Su Jin Kim, and Lydia Gordon-Fennell. 🔗 bit.ly/4hX7TBp #NeuroSky

Jetzt bewerben für #EmmyNoether-Gruppen zum Thema #KI-Methoden: DFG fordert besonders qualifizierte Wissenschaftler*innen in frühen Karrierephasen #ERC im Forschungsfeld #KünstlicheIntelligenz auf. Bewerbungsfrist: 11.06. / Online-Talk zum Emmy Noether-Programm am 28.04.: www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

New paper in @naturecomms.bsky.social from @raymundobaez.bsky.social’s group @primatenzentrum.bsky.social shows primate amygdala neurons flexibly encode reward probability & magnitude. Some signal probability alone, others combine both into value and risk signals for decision-making s.gwdg.de/qsx23R

Don't miss this entertaining and fascinating episode of the @neuroandbeyond.bsky.social podcast with our SFB PI @nivimani.bsky.social. Nivi delves into her research on how babies learn language through interaction, attention and motivation.

looking for ECRs to join the ProcB preprint team! You'll gain editorial/review training by screening BioRxiv submissions for suitable work, and help broaden the journal’s content and author diversity more info in the thread below and via royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/preprints 🧪 #EcoECRcareer

Had the honor to be invited as a discussant to the panel “First Generation Academics”. Extremely happy we are starting to talk about invisible hurdles and challenges, most of which don’t need to be one if there would be more transparency. Excited to see things changing in the right direction.

New paper by Elisabeth Lindner from the lab of SFB PI Alex Gail (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social): Action-effect latencies reduce the sense of agency, but do not affect perceived loudness. Challenges the idea that auditory sensory attenuation is a necessary consequence of action-effect prediction

The Leopoldina published a working paper on demographic change and ageing. The team includes SFB PI Julia Fischer (@julxf.bsky.social; @primatecognition.bsky.social; @primatenzentrum.bsky.social) and proposes to address demographic change across all policy areas to develop sustainable solutions

In unserer letzten Podiumsdiskussion ging es am 12.3. um "First Generation Academics – Wie das Elternhaus die Karrierewege junger Wissenschaftlerinnen beeinflusst". Unser Panel diskutierte mit viel Fachwissen und persönlichen Einblicken über finanzielle Hürden, Selbstzweifel ... (1/3)

And happy to share another SFB paper from the lab of Jan Gläscher at the UKE in Hamburg!

Heute, um 17 Uhr endet in der alten Mensa unsere Reihe über Wege zu einer diverseren Wissenschaft. Wir freuen uns auf eine spannende Podiumsdiskussion & Publikumsfragen zu "First Generation Academics - Wieso das Elternhaus die Karrierewege junger Wissenschaftler*innen beeinflusst" Eintritt frei!

How can we define local learning goals in neural networks? A @pnas.org paper by Michael Wibral, @violapriesemann.bsky.social et al introduces infomorphic networks: a framework to describe local learning objectives using information theory, bridging theoretical neuroscience and AI. s.gwdg.de/1prly8

Happy to distribute this paper alert from our former PhD student @williamohearn.bsky.social! Congratulations on the publication of this paper, Will!

Am 12.3. schließen wir unsere Podiumsdiskussionsreihe "Interaktion neu Denken" mit einer Veranstaltung zum Thema First Generation Academics. Wir wollen darüber sprechen, wieso das Elternhaus wissenschaftliche Karrierewege beeinflusst. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen - Eintritt frei

Curious about the learning processes behind controlling neuroprostheses? In a recent interview on the RBB radio program "Die Profis," Alexander Gail discusses these mechanisms and highlights findings from our latest paper. Listen to the full interview in German here: www.radioeins.de/programm/sen...

Wer gestern Abend in der Alten Mensa der @unigoettingen.bsky.social dabei war, weiß, dass wir sehr kurzfristig krankheitsbedingt umdisponieren mussten. Statt einer Podiumsdiskussion gab es ein Podiumsgespräch mit Andrea Löther (@gesis.org) und Elena Everding (@elenaeverding.bsky.social) (1/2)