1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

Infantile #amnesia limits our recall of early-life memories, but what is its cellular basis? @tjryan.bsky.social &co reveal that transient #microglial activity during postnatal development regulates infant #memory persistence & retrieval in mice @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4a0SoGH

New paper involving LIP colleague @sarahdpower.bsky.social out now!

Blocking microglia activity in young mice prevents infantile amnesia and enhances memory, indicating these brain immune cells play a key role in early memory formation and forgetting. doi.org/hbkphs

💡 #ListerFellow @tjryan.bsky.social et al. reveal how microglia immune cells help organise memory engrams during early development. A clue to the mechanisms regulating "infantile amnesia" and why we forget our baby days? @ryanlab.bsky.social 👉 PLOS Biology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Our new mobile MRI scanner brings state-of-the-art imaging directly to the field—without compromising data quality! Read more about the 1,5 Tesla and our plans with it: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/newsroom/new... #Neuroscience #FieldResearch #InnovationInScience #BrainScience #NewYearNewGoals

End of data collection and the end of my postdoc! Delighted to say I will be starting my own research group at @mpib-berlin.bsky.social in January.

Thanks for the invite and the engaging discussion with a great lab!

International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS) abstract deadline has now been extended to Friday December 12th! Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research, connect with leading scholars, and experience the unique setting of Panama City. ☀️ 🇵🇦 @infantstudies.bsky.social

Final version published here in @cellpress.bsky.social: Structure www.cell.com/structure/fu...

We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team! More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join... Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...

Late breaking abstract at #SfN25 by Dr. Erika Stewart: LBP032.14 - Microglial plasticity across development mediates infantile amnesia (1 PM - 5 PM Sunday Nov 16). @sfn.org @tcddublin.bsky.social @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Proud of my first masters student @mfey.bsky.social whose brilliant thesis has been honoured with the CENE Research Prize! Marius is now continuing his academic journey as a PhD student @imprstp.bsky.social and I can’t wait to see all the incredible work he will do next. @lipmpib.bsky.social

The Neuroscience School for Advanced Studies "Brain Plasticity: Neural Basis of Individuality" led by LIP Director Ulman Lindenberger and Tobias Bonhoeffer @mpiforbi.bsky.social has just ended at San Servolo, Venice! #nsas

The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools

The MEG was featured in the Irish Medical Times, read below: @redmondoconnell.bsky.social @irishmedicaltimes.bsky.social www.imt.ie/news/ireland... #neuroscience #schoolofpsychology #psychology #medicine #MEG

The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting. Our new perspective piece in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, lead by Ryan Lab alumni, Livia Autore. Also with Michael Drew from @utaustin.bsky.social Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Excellent opportunity to work with one of the best @clrar.bsky.social cannot recommend enough!

🌠 The Max Planck Institute for Human Development is taking part in the Long Night of the Sciences on June 28 in Berlin. LIP is involved in many fun activities, some in English. Take a look at the program! www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/seminars-and...

"We cannont make progress in #BrainResearch in Europe unless we allow for the ethical and regulated use of animals." @tjryan.bsky.social 💡 Learn more about the #BOARD25 compaign, led by @eara.eu: eara.eu/board25 🎥 Watch the interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Xr...

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fun time recording with Crowd Science by @BBCWorldService alongside @tjryan.bsky.social Why can't I remember my early childhood? Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... #CrowdScience #BBCScience @lipmpib.bsky.social

Just bumping this up for those who may have missed earlier announcements-- we have a new PI position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health program here at SickKids. Neural and glial mechanisms in cognition.

Interested in curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence? Come work with us at the University of Trier - we have an open PhD position together with @mjgruber.bsky.social (Cardiff, UK) and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Bordeaux, France). Please repost! #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

New feature in Science on our ongoing cross-species research on forgetting during early infant developmen to in humans and mice, with @sarahdpower.bsky.social & @markuswb.bsky.social at MPI Berlin, and Erika Stewart at Trinity College Dublin: www.science.org/content/arti...

Nice article about what LIP colleague @sarahdpower.bsky.social and others are up to! 🧸

Important paper out now in Developmental Review by LIP colleague @zoengo.bsky.social with colleagues @buchberger.bsky.social, Phuc Nguyen, and @markuswb.bsky.social as well as @noranewcombe.bsky.social! Building a cumulative science of memory development

Just out! A cross species review of episodic memory development. I was thrilled to work with a wonderful author team assembled by Freyja Olafsdottir www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Preprint of new review: "Rethinking Memory Impairments: Retrieval Failure" - with @gurcelay.bsky.social, Ralph Miller, & Joaquin Alfei. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Good morning from the MPIB foxes ❄️

New paper by LIP colleague Sarah Power et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🟦🧠

LIP colleague @sarahdpower.bsky.social is looking for student assistants in Berlin: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/1764616/2023... #PsycSciSky #neuroskyence #berlin #students

Using my first blue sky post to share my PhD work with @tjryan.bsky.social is finally out! 🐭 We discovered that male offspring in an immune autism model do not experience infantile amnesia 🧠