⏰ Deadline extended! Submit to @natureportfolio.nature.com’s Loops Collection on circuits, feedback & cortical-subcortical loops, guest-edited by @talking-bat.bsky.social, Markus Rothermel & @stefanieliebe.bsky.social 📅 New deadline: May 19, 2026 🔗 www.nature.com/collections/... Submit now! 🧠🔁

👶 An artificial baby learns to speak A simulated child and a domestic environment like in a computer game: these are the research foundations of the group led by Prof. Jochen Triesch at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) @goetheuni.bsky.social Read the whole story 👉 bit.ly/4pgsfKO

🚨🔄 New LOOPs webinar alert!! We’re excited to host our February webinar featuring Prof. Dr Jochen Triesch as he shares insights on Predictive Coding Light. Join us for an engaging discussion on predictive coding 🧠✨ 🗓️ February 11th, 2026 ⏰ 15:30h CET 📍 Register: crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

Have you signed up for our January webinar yet? Join the discussion as Shizuko Hiryu explores Active Sensing in Bats 🦇🧠 Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

🎉 New Year New LOOPs webinar Join us for our January webinar with Shizuko Hiryu from @doshishauniversity.bsky.social and see how bats “see” with sound and how their biological sonar inspires both biology and engineering. 🦇🧠 🗓️ January 21st ⏰ 10:30 AM CET 📍 Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

📣New Paper Out! Our Loopie ➰ Josephine Ansorge shows that two distinct S1 layer 6 corticothalamic pathways differentially regulate POm and VPM activity in a context-dependant manner during whisker sensing in awake mice. 🧠🔁🐭 💡 #LOOPs #Neuroscience #SystemsNeuroscience #BrainCircuits #SPP2411

Have you registered yet? 👀 @agreco.bsky.social will unpack how predictive processing shapes vision in brains & machines this Wednesday at 4pm CET🧠🤖 Don’t miss it!! Sign up 👉 www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

📣Join our last 2025 edition of the LOOPs Webinar 🧠➰ This month @agreco.bsky.social will explore how predictive processing shapes vision in both brains and AI - what models like PredNet reveal (and miss), and how new recurrent architectures combine feedback and variability for more robust perception.

Sending huge congratulations to Julio Hechavarría @talking-bat.bsky.social on delivering his very first inaugural lecture today at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! What an exciting start of a new a chapter filled with great ideas, strong science, and bat-driven brainloop insights! 👨🏻‍🏫🦇🧠 #SPP #Neuro

‼️LOOPs webinar today! Have you registered yet? Join us to hear Johannes Letzkus talk about “Top down control of neocortical threat memory” at 4pm CET on Crowdcast. 🧠🔁 🔗 www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi... #LOOPs #Neuro #SPP

🧠✨ Big news! Huge congratulations to Livia De Hoz @liviadehoz.bsky.social on becoming Associate Professor at PDN @universitypress.cambridge.org Wishing Livia an exciting new chapter filled with inspiration, great collaborations, and many breakthroughs ahead ✨ #SPP #Loops #Neuro #Cambridge

Big milestone for the #LOOPs community! Tong Zhang (Hafed Lab) just became the first LOOPs PhD graduate 🎉 Her thesis reveals how the brain links foveal + peripheral vision across saccades including prediction errors in the superior colliculus. Congrats, Tong! 🙌 🔗 hafedlab.org/2025/08/14/t...

📣Join our next LOOPs Webinar 🧠➰ This month, Johannes Letzkus will discuss how layer 1 of the neocortex integrates experience and sensation during perception. #Neurosceince #brainloops #LOOPswebinars #SensingLoops

📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce… 🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉 The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!

#WWNwebinar Alert! This Oct, in collab with WiNRepo @winrepo.bsky.social, #WorldWomenNeuro will discuss the ongoing underrepresentation of women as invited conference speakers and panelists — and how we can change that. 👉 Oct 23, 6:00 PM CECT (Zoom) Register: https://shorturl.at/1wExg

Thank you so much, @ycabral.bsky.social, for such an insightful session on auditory neural entrainment! 🧠🎶 It was a fantastic way to kick off LOOPs after the summer break. 🙌 Stay tuned for our next speaker coming up next month; more exciting neuroscience ahead! 🔄✨ #LOOPsWebinar #SPP #Neuro

Looking forward to discussing our results on neural and behavioral entrainment to auditory rhythms and tACS. See you today at 4 PM CEST.

🧠🎶 Reminder! It’s TODAY!! The LOOPs webinar is today at 4 PM CEST! Join @ycabral.bsky.social for Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment. Join us: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi... #LOOPsWebinar #Neuroscience #AuditoryPerception #SPP

What an amazing few days at the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat!! Inspiring talks, discussions, and advice on science, careers, and life all shared in a supportive atmosphere. Huge thanks to @laurabusse.bsky.social, @stefanieliebe.bsky.social, and the organizing committee for this wonderful event!

Inspiring Career Session and Discussion at the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat! Kristine Krug and @katrinfranke.bsky.social shared motivating reflections on decision-making, research, and life in science followed by a great discussion on career paths and growth. 🧠💬✨ #SPP #FB1233 #WomenInSTEM

‼️It’s happening! We’re officially kickstarting the joint SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat! So wonderful to see all the inspiring PhDs, PIs, and beyond coming together to connect, share, and support each other. 💬✨ Here’s to a retreat full of inspiration, collaboration, and connection! #SPPXSFB #Neuro

LOOPs webinar is back after the summer break! 🔄🎉 Don’t miss @ycabral.bsky.social on Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment uncovering how neural oscillations shape auditory perception.🧠🎶 🗓️ Oct 8th, 2025 🕓 4 PM CEST 📍 Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

Hello Frankfurt 🇩🇪 - We are excited to share the latest result from our group and collaborators at @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social 🚀🧠 #BernsteinConference Thanks to @brainloops.bsky.social, @ekfstiftung.bsky.social and @cherish-msca.bsky.social for supporting these projects and our scholars.

If you are interested in 🧠 LOOPS this is for YOU. We are curating an article collection on cortico-subcortical interactions in the vertebrate brain. Participating journals include @commsbio.nature.com @natneuro.nature.com @natcomms.nature.com & SciRep. We look fwd to your contributions!!

🌀 Join the Loop! 🌀 Submit to @natureportfolio.nature.com’s Loops Collection on circuits, feedback & cycles, guest-edited by our own Loops crew @talking-bat.bsky.social , Markus Rothermal & @stefanieliebe.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 ‼️ 🔗 www.nature.com/collections/... Submit now! 🧠🔁

Looking to improve the quality of your scientific figures? Attend this upcoming webinar to learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator and how you can leverage it to build high-quality scientific figures from raw data. Register today! 🔗 vist.ly/45tdm

BonnBrain 2026 is a go! March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany). Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts. Keynotes & invited speakers 👇

🧠🔄 #NeuroThursday Loops paper! 💡 @hunglo.bsky.social, Friedrich Johenning & team show that during binge feeding, OT GABA neurons silence piriform cortex → flavors fade, fullness lags and eating continues! Who knew smell circuits could fuel overeating? 🐭🧋 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

👨‍🏫🧠🦇 Bat-tastic news! Huge congratulations to our LOOPie 🔄 Julio Hechavarria @talking-bat.bsky.social on starting his Professorship at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social 🚀 Wishing you much success, inspiration and fullfilment ahead✨ #SPP2411 #Loops #DFG #brainloops #Neuroscience

I'm more than psyched to share that my PhD paper is now out in Neuron! It's also my first paper as both first author and corresponding author, which means even more to me! Thank my partner Chi-Chieh for her contribution to the most adorable ever graphic abstract 🥰

Two #LMU projects receive ERC #ProofOfConcept Grants! 🌿 Silke Robatzek is pursuing a novel approach in plant protection strategies. 🧠 @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social optimizes deep brain stimulation with functional markers. #LMU #ERC #ResearchInThePractice Read more here: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 The SPP Women’s Retreat is officially on and this year, we’re teaming up with the amazing women of SFB1233 for a joint retreat! 💬✨ We’re grateful to @stefanieliebe.bsky.social and @laurabusse.bsky.social for helping bring this collaboration to life! #WomenInScience #Neuro #spp

🧠🔄 #NeuroThursday What if you could design how touch feels in your brain? Ceci Verbaarschot & @corticalbionics.bsky.social team show that people can recreate textures like soft fur or cold metal via brain stimulation and recognize objects by sensation Check out ⬇️ 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 NeNa 2025 registrations are OPEN! Don’t miss your spot — sign up now: nenaconference.github.io - Thank you for our sponsors: @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social‬, @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social‬, @mpicybernetics.bsky.social‬, and Centre for Integrative Neuroscience #NeNa2025 #Heidelberg

☀️ Summer Break! Loops webinars are on pause for August & September We’ll be back in October with more Loops, insights, and sharp sessions. Enjoy your summer! 💙 #LoopsWebinars #SummerBreak #SeeYouInOctober #spp #neuro

Using human cell cultures, #organoids, & placental explants, researchers at Pitt & @mageewomens.bsky.social have obtained the first scientific evidence explaining how #Oropouche virus may pass from mother to fetus and cause adverse pregnancy outcomes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to @roselynechauvin.bsky.social for a fascinating talk!! Missed it? Don’t worry it’s still up on our website along with previous webinars. 🔗 You can check out the recordings here: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

🚨‼️ TODAY: LOOPs Webinar Reminder ‼️🚨 Don’t miss TODAY’s webinar by @roselynechauvin.bsky.social on how high-res neuroimaging reveals reversible changes in motor circuits during arm immobilization 🧠💪 🗓️ July 9th, 2025 (Today!!) 🕓 4 PM CEST 📍 Watch here 👉 www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

🧠🔄 #NeuroThursday @martamasilva.bsky.social & team show that during movie watching, hippocampal ripples track event boundaries while cortical ripples predict recall, helping turn experience into memory. Turning life into memory? Your ripples are working overtime 🧠💥 Check out ⬇️ 🔗 rdcu.be/euBzh

The dynamics and geometry of choice in the premotor cortex 🧠 Nature 2025 #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am looking for a Postdoc and a PhD student who want to study the neuronal mechanisms of the bee's waggle dance. 🐝 More details can be found on our webpage: www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...

Looking forward to talk about my latest research findings at the LOOPS webinar

🔄‼️ LOOPs Webinar Alert Upcoming: Mapping Motor Plasticity Join @roselynechauvin.bsky.social as she shows how high-res neuroimaging reveals reversible changes in the cortico-subcortical motor circuit during arm immobilization 🧠💪 📅 July 9th, 2025 🕓 4pm CEST 🔗 crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add

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Human-like expression of the CLOCK gene in mouse neocortex enhances cognitive flexibility and neural connectivity, suggesting an evolutionary gain of function in neocortical development that may have contributed to human cognitive specialization www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cyborg tadpoles! Stretchy implantable neuroelectronics that grow with the brain. You gotta love it! 🧪🧠 #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Olfaction geeks, come to Cambridge next month for a 30yrs old cross-disciplinary smell chat from philosophy to clinics to circuits 🧠👃 Headliner @dattalab.bsky.social on his lab's brand new olfactory maps study Networking lunches, fancy College dinner, student discount, plenty of coffee. Go register!

☀️ The #FENSForum is coming to #Barcelona! Join us from 4-8 July 2026 as #FENS2026 brings global #BrainScience to the vibrant city of Barcelona, Spain. 🇪🇸 📣 Shout-out to our host, the Spanish Society of #Neuroscience, for making it all possible!

🧠🔄 #NeuroThursday @roselynechauvin.bsky.social & team use daily fMRI to show that 2 weeks of arm disuse triggers spontaneous “disuse pulses” and boosts connectivity in motor cortex, thalamus and putamen. Arm in a cast? Your thalamus rewires 🩼🧠 Check out below ⬇️ 🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...