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Group leader @ MDC
https://www.mdc-berlin.de/zampieri
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Ale Santuz
2 days ago
I'll be teaching in a 2-day course at
#GhentUniversity
: From
#EMG
signals to
#musclesynergies
: Theory, methodology, and R workflows Open to PhD candidates, researchers, professionals. With
@musclesynergies.bsky.social
hands-on! 7-8 Sept 2026 Free, limited seats
event.ugent.be/registration...
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EARA
6 days ago
Researchers from
@helmholtzhzi.bsky.social
and
@mdc-berlin.bsky.social
, an EARA member, have created the first detailed map of the proteins that are involved in initiating
#pain
in
#mice
neurones, helping to identify potential therapeutic approaches for chronic pain. 🔗
www.eara.eu/news/mice-st...
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EARA | News - Mice study unveils how neurones trigger pain
A study in Germany has created the first detailed map of the proteins that are involved in initiating pain in neurones, helping to identify potential therapeutic approaches for chronic pain. …
https://www.eara.eu/news/mice-study-unveils-how-neurones-trigger-pain
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Ale Santuz
8 days ago
If you're attending
#NCMKobe26
, come and join me for some talks on
#proprioception
, the
#Moon
and
#musclesynergies
today and tomorrow!
@ncmsociety.bsky.social
@mdc-berlin.bsky.social
@musclesynergies.bsky.social
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Ariel Levine
9 days ago
📣 Exciting news: my lab is moving to the Krembil Institute at the University of Toronto’s University Health Network in Fall 2026. We’ll be recruiting for all roles, so reach out if you’re interesting in joining us to study spinal circuits for sensorimotor control
www.levine-lab.org
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Sarah Ross
13 days ago
We’re hiring! The University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a tenure-track faculty member in pain research to join the Department of Neurobiology and the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research—an outstanding and highly collaborative community. Please share. More here:
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Manx Neurobiologist
17 days ago
@mdc-berlin.bsky.social
Excited to see our paper with Sam
@amapruns.bsky.social
and Fabian Coscia now published.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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European Space Agency
23 days ago
✅
#Artemis
II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗
www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour...
@exploration.esa.int
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Katie Mack
29 days ago
If you'd like to follow along with the
#Artemis
II launch, NASA has a live blog here:
www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
and you can watch the official broadcast on the NASA site here:
plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi...
or on YouTube here:
www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...
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LIVE: Artemis II Launch Day Updates - NASA
Live updates for launch of NASA's Artemis II test flight will be published on this page. NASA’s launch broadcast coverage is airing on NASA+, Amazon Prime,
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/
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Stéphanie C Koch
about 1 month ago
We have FIVE GTA PhD Studentships available at UCL Life Sciences. See here for a chance to work in the Medawar Pain and Somatosensory Labs on the influence of early life experience on lifelong pain vulnerability:
bit.ly/4bDLg4Z
Deadline 23rd April- repost widely!
@ucllifesciences.bsky.social
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FindAPhD : Biosciences Graduate Training Assistant PhD Studentships at University College London
Apply for a PhD: Biosciences Graduate Training Assistant PhD Studentships at University College London
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/program/biosciences-graduate-training-assistant-phd-studentships/?i274p7079&openWithFirefox=true
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EARA
about 1 month ago
In a
@fens.org
article, based on an interview with
@tvvde.bsky.social
, neuroscientists Michelle Monje and Frank Winkler, the 2025 Brain Prize winners, made clear that animal research remains essential to their work. 🔗
www.eara.eu/news/brain-p...
#AnimalResearch
#Brain
#BrainPrize
#neuroscience
#mice
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EARA | News - Brain Prize winners assert animal research as irreplaceable
2025 Brain Prize winners, Michelle Monje of Stanford Medicine and Frank Winkler of Heidelberg University Hospital, made clear that animal research remains essential to their work. In an FENS…
https://www.eara.eu/news/brain-prize-winners-assert-animal-research-as-irreplaceable
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Sarah Ruediger
about 1 month ago
We have an exciting PhD student opening for a collaboration between @Ernesto Ciabatti combining next-gen viral tracing tools & in vivo systems methods to decipher the structure & function of locus coeruleus arousal circuits 🐭🧠 UK home students only. Interested? Please get in touch!
bit.ly/4bSXeXv
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FindAPhD : Biosciences Graduate Training Assistant PhD Studentships at University College London
Apply for a PhD: Biosciences Graduate Training Assistant PhD Studentships at University College London
https://bit.ly/4bSXeXv
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Carl Zimmer
about 1 month ago
China could be the world’s biggest public funder of science within two years
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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China could be the world’s biggest public funder of science within two years
Forecast by science-policy researchers raises questions about where the epicentre of global research will shift to in the coming decade.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00618-5
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Laia Caudet-Segarra
about 1 month ago
Happy to share that our work with Kevin Sangster and Artur Kania, is finally out!
@sagnera.bsky.social
We investigated the mechanisms that drive the chronological diversification of spinal neuron subtypes within cardinal classes. 🧵👇 Read it here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Benjamin Judkewitz
about 2 months ago
How do fish localize sound without interaural cues?
@johve.bsky.social
et al. found a behavioral algorithm for directional hearing that predicts behavior from a pressure/motion phase comparison and accounts for how this relationship varies with distance.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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An algorithm underlying directional hearing in fish
Veith et al. show how a fish—Danionella cerebrum—can reliably startle away from sound. It uses the relative phase between particle motion and pressure to infer the direction of sound. This sensorimoto...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00170-3
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Ariel Levine
about 2 months ago
Check out the newest work from our, from Fabricio Nicola
@fabricionicola.bsky.social
on mouse jumping and spinal cell types. Excellent collab with
@vulcnethologist.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Alessandro Prigione
about 2 months ago
Our collaborative work is out now in CELL
@cellpress.bsky.social
We sugggest sildenafil as a repurposable drug for mitochondrial disease. A clinical trial is planned to start later this year. Thanks to collaborators, funders, and patient organizations!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Pluripotent stem-cell-based screening uncovers sildenafil as a mitochondrial disease therapy
Mitochondrial disease encompasses inherited disorders affecting mitochondrial function. A severe and untreatable form of mitochondrial disease is Leig…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742600173X
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Sophie Acton
about 2 months ago
*Recruiting new group leaders* The
@lmcb-ucl.bsky.social
at University College London are looking for outstanding candidates to sponsor for career development fellowships. Fellows would then be assessed for tenured positions at the end of the fellowship term.
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European Space Agency
2 months ago
NASA is targeting 19 February to start the second Wet Dress Rehearsal for the
#ArtemisII
lunar spaceflight.
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NASA Eyes Next Wet Dress Rehearsal for Artemis II - NASA
NASA is targeting Thursday, Feb. 19, as the tanking day for the second wet dress rehearsal ahead of the agency’s Artemis II test flight.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/16/nasa-eyes-next-wet-dress-rehearsal-for-artemis-ii/
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Graziana Gatto
3 months ago
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
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Motor Control Satellite FENS 2026 – Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
https://motor-control-satellite-2026.umh.es/
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Ariel Levine
3 months ago
Want to come do a postdoc with us? We’re interested in how sensorimotor function is carried out by the cells and circuits of the spinal cord. We have an awesome team, lots of cool techniques, and we’re open to new ideas/approaches/connections. Get in touch!
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Ariel Levine
4 months ago
Excited to share
@rbrianroome.bsky.social
‘s beautiful paper on development of the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord
@science.org
This is how the anatomical organization and cell types that process pain, touch, body position and more are laid down.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Ontogeny of the spinal cord dorsal horn
The dorsal horn of the mammalian spinal cord is organized into laminae where each layer is populated by different neuron types, has distinctive circuit connections, and plays specialized roles in beha...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx5781
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Rune W. Berg
4 months ago
New PhD-course! Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience - Understanding Cognition Venue: University of Copenhagen Length: 8 Wks, March 2-May 1st Registration before 1 February 2026
lnkd.in/ea63A59B
Organizers: Rasmus Herlo (
@rasherlo.bsky.social
) and Rune W. Berg
@naddenmark.bsky.social
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Mario Carta
5 months ago
New review out! 🔥🧊 We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
View-only:
rdcu.be/eThU1
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The neuronal circuits and cellular encoding of thermosensation - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The thermosensory system across insects and mammals has shared principles of neuronal wiring and encoding. In this Review, Carta, Vestergaard and Poulet discuss how the nervous systems of insects and ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-025-01001-5
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Ariel Levine
5 months ago
Hello 🇫🇷 I’ll be doing a mini-sabbatical in the lab of the amazing
@clairewyart.bsky.social
at the ICM in Paris. If you study motor control, spinal cord biology, evo/devo of behavior, let me know if you’d like to connect!
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Amelia Douglass
7 months ago
We are hiring a postdoc to work
@istaresearch.bsky.social
on an
@erc.europa.eu
funded project, investigating the control of behavior and physiology by the hypothalamus. Please apply and share!
ist.ac.at/en/job/postd...
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Postdoc Research Group Douglass
Our Group Our newly established research group at ISTA is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on an ERC-funded project- HypoAdapt. We study how the brain controls bodily responses to environm...
https://ist.ac.at/en/job/postdoc-research-group-douglass/
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Pot of gold somewhere at the Salk 🌈
6 months ago
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Ale Santuz
6 months ago
🔬 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴! I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher (
@mdc-berlin.bsky.social
, Berlin 🇩🇪,
@niccolozampieri.bsky.social
lab) for my
@dfg.de
-funded project on somatosensory feedback and locomotor control. Please repost and DM me if interested!
#locomotion
#proprioception
#neuromechanics
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On November 2nd with
@alesantuz.bsky.social
we will participate to Family Sunday at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden to talk to chidlren and their families about proprioception. Looking forward to it 💥
7 months ago
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Anna Schroeder
7 months ago
📢 🚨 Technical Assistant Opportunity in Neuroscience 📢 🚨 Join us at
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
and support research on how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior! ⏳ Deadline: 15. November 2025 Learn more and apply:
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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James Briscoe
7 months ago
The
@crick.ac.uk
is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
https://www.crick.ac.uk/careers-study/faculty/early-career-group-leaders
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"In an age when government efficiency has been used to justify sharp cuts to scientific funding, the science Nobels offer a case for plodding curiosity: that esoteric, seemingly useless exploration can lay the bricks for a road to places we cannot yet see."🎯
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
7 months ago
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Lena Ting
7 months ago
Our department started a podcast to let people know about our research and the impact that it has on the public! Please have a listen and subscribe to the series! Also available on Apple podcast, Spotify, and Transistor,
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Current Biology
7 months ago
“For Gurdon to continue in biology would be a complete waste of time both for him and for those who would have to teach him” He proved them wrong! RIP John Gurdon
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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John Gurdon
John Gurdon is at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology in Cambridge. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he changed from classics to zoology. Dur...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2803%2900684-5
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Alice Mosberger
7 months ago
How do we facilitate working across institutions and borders to improve sensorimotor research and health? Join us for an evening of discussing the future of technology and collaboration in sensorimotor neuroscience. Made possible by the DWIH, held at NYULH!
www.dwih-newyork.org/en/event/mot...
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Motor Health: Transatlantic Cooperation Strategies and Tech Transfer in Sensorimotor Neuroscience | DWIH New York
https://www.dwih-newyork.org/en/event/motor-health-transatlantic-cooperation-strategies-and-tech-transfer-in-sensorimotor-neuroscience/
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I really like this one 🤓. Work led by Elisa Toscano with invaluable help from many 🙏
@alesantuz.bsky.social
,
@lowensteined.bsky.social
. A spinal circuit for skilled locomotion
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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A spinal circuit for skilled locomotion
Toscano et al. identify glutamatergic Pitx2+ V0 ascending neurons (V0g-aNs) that receive input from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-contacting neurons and target spinal premotor and motor neurons. Eliminati...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901199-6
7 months ago
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Sampurna Chakrabarti
7 months ago
Delighted to be starting a new research group at
@helmholtzhzi.bsky.social
! Happy to chat about working together!
#pain
#infection
#electrophysiology
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/research/...
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Javier Apfeld
7 months ago
New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists. Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro
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Stéphanie C Koch
7 months ago
New preprint out from the lab. We identified three critical windows over which sensorimotor behaviours can be shaped. Altered early experience over these windows changes somatosensory and motor outcomes for life. Tour de force experiments by Laura Andreoli.
@medresfdn.bsky.social
@uclnpp.bsky.social
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David Sussillo
8 months ago
2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀 You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature
A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09255-w
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Rémi Ronzano
8 months ago
Do comparator modules exist within spinal circuits? Here, we show that spinal dI3 neurons integrate multimodal sensory feedback, receive direct efference copy from Renshaw cells, and mediate corrections of ongoing movements. Thank you so much to everyone involved!!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Evidence of spinal cord comparator modules for rapid corrections of movements
Successful movement requires continuous adjustments in response to changes in internal and external environments. To do so, neural circuits continuously compare efference copies of motor commands with sensory input to respond to sensory prediction errors. Some responses need to be very fast and, for limbs, likely occur in as yet undefined spinal cord circuits. Here, we describe spinal circuits involving dI3 neurons, showing that they receive multimodal sensory inputs and direct efferent copies from both Renshaw cells and motor neurons. We further show that they form connections to motor pools, including diverging connections to antagonist motor nuclei. Reducing dI3 neuronal activity diminished stumbling responses, as did disrupting Renshaw cell circuits, providing evidence for a comparator role of dI3 neurons for online corrections. Together, our findings reveal a pivotal role for dI3 neurons functioning as comparators of internal predictions and external sensory feedback to mediate rapid corrections of ongoing movements. ### Competing Interest Statement Robert M. Brownstone is a co-founder and director of Sania Therapeutics Inc. Wellcome Trust, https://ror.org/029chgv08, 221610/Z/20/Z, 227433/Z/23/Z, 225674/Z/22/Z Royal Society, NIF\R1\192316 Canadian Institutes of Health Research, https://ror.org/01gavpb45, PJT 180556, PJT 162357 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, BB/S005943/1
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.27.672590v1
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Claire Wyart
8 months ago
Hey
#motorcontrol
researchers!
@jul-bouvier.bsky.social
, LeMouel & I organize *Searching for principles in Motor Control* Paris Sept 23-24, 25
@sorbonne-universite.fr
@institutducerveau.bsky.social
@neuropsi.bsky.social
: Submit Abstract for Posters by Aug 31!
motorconference.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
9 months ago
Teneurin-3 and latrophilin-2 are required for somatotopic map formation and somatosensory topognosis
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.13.670179v1
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Society for the Neural Control of Movement
9 months ago
Do you know an outstanding early career researcher in the NCM Community? Nominate them for the Early Career Award! Deadline for nominations is Sept 8 and more details can be found on the website -
ncm-society.org/awards/
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Misha Kudryashev
9 months ago
Postdoc program at the MDC in Berlin,
@mdc-berlin.bsky.social
: take a look 👇👇 For this call, collaborative projects between two groups will be funded. Take a look at the call and the groups and drop me an email if interested. Share with colleagues too!
www.mdc-berlin.de/postdocs#t-g...
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Alice Mosberger
10 months ago
🚨🚨🚨 OPEN POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🚨🚨 in my lab! Are you interested in understanding how the brain moves our arms? Reach to your computer and apply!
www.mosbergerlab.com/open-positions
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Open Positions — Mosberger Lab
https://www.mosbergerlab.com/open-positions
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Ale Santuz
9 months ago
Stockholm bound for
#isb2025
! Come and say hi on Tuesday (poster on loss of
#proprioception
) or Wednesday (talk on
#locomotor
modularity in simulated
#hypogravity
)!
#musclesyneRgies
#neuroscience
#biomechanics
#locomotion
@mdc-berlin.bsky.social
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David Sussillo
9 months ago
Open-sourced EMG data plus training/testing scripts to make contact with our results at 100 users for each three tasks (discrete gestures, 1D wrist navigation, and handwriting).
github.com/facebookrese...
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The Transmitter
9 months ago
Embodiment is the concept that the function of the brain is inexorably shaped by the body, a lens that is often neglected when neuroscientists study specific brain subsystems, write
@bingbrunton.bsky.social
and
@tuthill.bsky.social
.
#neuroskyence
#neuroai
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...
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Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment
Brain function is inexorably shaped by the body. Embracing this will benefit computational models of real brain function and the design of ANNs.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/breaking-the-jar-why-neuroai-needs-embodiment/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250721-perspectives-why-NeuroAI-needs-embodiment
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The Transmitter
10 months ago
To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and
@katjareinhard.bsky.social
.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
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Systems and circuit neuroscience need an evolutionary perspective
To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, neuroscientists must frame their research through an evolutionary lens.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neuroscience/systems-and-circuit-neuroscience-need-an-evolutionary-perspective/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250716-perspectives-systems-circuit-neuroscience
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