We are running more online courses in June - two modules of Bonsai and a webinar on how to approach working with a new model system: calendar and registration on our webpage, nenckiopenlab.org/open-lab-onl...!

Join the summer course on open science run by @cam-openlab.bsky.social - learn how to adopt transparent, reproducible, and collaborative research practices during conceptual discussions and practical workshops! More info here - cambridgeopenlab.org!

There are only 8 days left to apply! Join us in Paris to discuss the basics: what a neuron really is?

Only four days left to apply!

We are happy to announce the first workshop in our new series: Back to Basics! The goal of this series is to take a fresh look at the basic assumptions held in our field. In the first workshop, we will ask the most fundamental question: What is a neuron?

We’re launching Open Lab Online – a series of accessible online workshops and seminars! Help us tailor our programs to your needs by completing our survey. Let us know what skills and knowledge you’d like to develop: forms.gle/aQTU4EkvynEf...

One more week left to apply - fee waivers are also available!

Our next workshop is here! Learn how to design behavioural setups that answer your research questions efficiently. We’ll take you from theory to practice—covering experiment planning, equipment building, and data acquisition!

🌟 Applications are open for the 'Transatlantic Behavioural #Neuroscience School 2026' organised by Nencki Open Lab! 📍 Mikołajki, Poland 🗓️ 11–22 August 2026 Good news: #FENS #TravelGrants and fee waivers are available! 💶 👉 Apply by 15 March 2026: buff.ly/yF1T7r5

We are super happy to announce the fifth edition of our Transatlantic Behavioural Neuroscience School, that will be held Aug 11-22nd in Poland! Join us to learn everything you need to build your behavioural setup with open source tools!

We were extremely saddened to hear about the departure of Adam Kampff. He influenced our work in countless ways—both directly and indirectly—and he will remain a source of inspiration for years to come. Thank you for everything.

Konrad Danielewski has just started our first @deeplabcut.bsky.social workshop at COS!

The deadline for registration is tomorrow!

There’s only one week left to apply for our workshop! Join us in Heidelberg on December 5th to discuss the stories we tell ourselves about our career trajectories and the often-overlooked factors that shape our research decisions!

Arshad Desai and Suckjoon Jun write in their paper about the topic we will discuss in December on our workshop - Why are there neuroscientists? We want to know how the stories we tell ourselves - and others - about our reasons to do science correspond to "real" motives!

We are happy to see in print a paper by @kacperkon.bsky.social and Jagoda Nawrocka that was conceived at the School of Ideas of Neuroscience 2023!

We are happy to announce our next Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience: “Why Are There Neuroscientists?” This time, we’ll gather in the beautiful city of Heidelberg to explore our reasons and motivations for doing research in neuroscience.

It's time for the second workshop this autumn - this time, you will have an opportunity to learn animal pose estimation with Deeplabcut! Workshop will be held Nov 20-21st in Heidelberg and is free of charge. More info on our webpage!

We have also finished our first workshop in Portugal - From keypoints to behavior: hands-on pose estimation and behavior analysis. It was a pleasure, we hope to see you again soon!

We are happy to announce our first workshop in the new academic year! Visit us in Heidelberg on Oct 17th to learn how to Bonsai programming language to collect data, control your experimental environment and run closed-loop paradigms! The workshop is free of charge!

The School of Ideas continues!

School of Ideas in Neuroscience 2025 has started today with a talk by @phaueis.bsky.social!

Transatlantic Behavioural Neuroscience School 2025 is over! Thanks to all our speakers, participants and TAs, and see you next year - in Poland!

The talk by Noel Federman on the non-olfactory signals in olfactory cortex at TBNS 2025!

And so Transatlantic Behavioural Neuroscience School 2025 has started today!

We are pleased to announce our first workshop in Portugal, which will guide you step by step through the process of pose estimation and unsupervised behavior analysis, focusing on two powerful tools: DeepLabCut and Keypoint-MoSeq! @deeplabcut.bsky.social

Why is behaviour so variable? How can we interpret our chaotic results, and what do they tell us about the function of the brain? Join us in Buenos Aires on Aug 9th to discuss the complexity, context-dependence, and robustness of behaviour on our Workshop of Ideas! nenckiopenlab.org/complexity/

The deadline is approaching! We wait for your applications till Monday, July 21st!

We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.

And so our Decoding the Brain workshop is over! Thank you for three days of engaging discussions; we hope that you will come back home with new ideas and new confusions!

And the last day of the workshop - we start by a discussion on representations led by Alfonso Renart!

And in the afternoon session - Mazviita Chirimuuta.

Today we start with a workshop by Romain Brette on neural codes.

And the second session - Farid Zahoun on what we mean when we talk about representations.

Today we have started our Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience - Decoding the brain: from methods to meaning - with a talk by @heikestein.bsky.social!

Today we run our Spectral Data Analysis Workshop with Axel Hutt!

This week we run electronics workshop at NERF, Leuven!

Please DO NOT copy paste answers to our applications questions from ChatGPT. Believe us - fifty other people will do the same trick. And we will have fifty one identical applications to discard.

We would like to remind you that the deadline for @openlabhd.bsky.social Spectral Data Analysis workshop is May 16th! Workshop is organized locally in Heidelberg and is free of charge.

Optics workshop continues!

The deadline for applying to our Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience is Sunday, May 11th - only two days left to apply!

We are starting the fourth edition of Nencki Open Lab Optics and Microscopy course!

And the day two - Arduino, finally.

The Day One of @cam-openlab.bsky.social Electronics for Neuroscience workshop - we have built first circuits and are ready for more!

We will run Part II of our online Bonsai workshop on May 9th! Join us to learn how to control lasers, cameras and more with Arduino and Bonsai! Link: nenckiopenlab.org/bonsai-online/

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲? As argued by John Krakauer et al. most of the time we use "filler" verbs, promissory notes that we hope to "fill with substance" at some later time.

We are super happy to announce the third Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! We will once again look critically at assumptions of modern neuroscience: what does it mean that the brain encodes information? Is this a useful approach, or a metaphor that blurs our vision?

We are super happy to announce the 4th edition of our Optics and Microscopy Workshop that will be held May 9-11 th at Nencki! Join us to learn optics - from basics up to building your fluorescent microscope! More info here -https://nenckiopenlab.org/optics-and-microscopy-workshop-2025/

We are happy to announce a series of Online Bonsai Workshops! You will have a great opportunity to learn Bonsai: from the basics to its more advanced applications in three parts of our course! More info on the webpage - nenckiopenlab.org/bonsai-online/

We are happy to announce our next workshop - Spectral Anakysis of Experimental Data! Join us on May 23rd to learn the basics of sampling theory, Fourier analysis, wavelets, and more! Link below.