Today is Friday, 13th, and we are missing 13 followers until we reach 1000 😱 Challenge for the end of the week: Can we reach a bluesky community of 1000 neuroethologists!? #Neuroethology 🧠🧪 Please share widely 🫶

Submit to our collection :) This is a fantastic opportunity to publish your work on cortico-subcortical loops

New preprint! We used neuropixels 2.0 in a small microbat (first time as far as I know) to show that: 1) slow and fast spiking neurons in auditory cortex respond differently when bats vocalize. 2) networks of (mostly) fast spiking neurons form right around the time of vocalization.

For decades, imaging has forced the same trade-off: Set a frame rate → sacrifice resolution or field of view to go fast. We break that rule Using an EVENT-BASED CAMERA, we record neural activity without frames. Signals are captured only where and when they occur: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🎉 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...

A “universal” pattern of cortical brain oscillations may be less ubiquitous than previously proposed. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-waves/...

Now out in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals 🐘🦉🐸. Mammalian hearing likely allowed the rapid diversification of their vocalizations. Open access here: doi.org/10.1093/evol... #bioacoustics #animalcommunication

**When are brain waves causal???** #neuroskyence arxiv.org/html/2511.06...

🧠📢 New preprint alert Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵 #neuroskyence #compneurosky

📣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.

This is so cool

Really cool. I wonder how many of these non-spiking neurons exist in the vertebrate brain, although they seem to be more prominent in invertebrates. @earlkmiller.bsky.social maybe these neurons could help understand what oscillations are/aren't doing? (I've been quietly following the discussions)

Textbook neurons are usually spiking. However, there exist plenty of non-spiking neurons whose information transmission is less understood. Shirahata et al. studied Ca-dynamics of non-spiking mechanosensory neurons in crickets that are sensitive to air flow. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Housing non-kin vampire bats evokes vocal convergence, i.e., calls become more similar than before housing the same individuals together. Food-sharing is linked to vocal convergence. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @royalsocietypublishing.org

Our special issue on Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness, coedited with Tecumseh Fitch and Adina Roskies, now online royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)

As a longtime fan of cool papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social, I am really thrilled to see this out! This study sets the stage for understanding the origins of novel (vocal) behaviors. Big shout out to the main architects of this work @xmikezheng20.bsky.social and @cliffscience.bsky.social

Really glad I could contribute to this excellent perspective paper. #Consciousness + #neuroethology + #animal-behavior An interesting mixture for a fun read :)

more orientated towards postdocs & PIs, but some suggestions in this article for starting a academic website: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Humans are able to revise their beliefs, but can other animals do it? Authors showed that 🐵s looking for a reward remained committed to their initial belief when the evidence supporting the alternative was weaker, but they reconsidered when the new info was stronger! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Two weeks left to apply for our graduate school IMPRS-BI and join us as a PhD student! Find out more: imprs-bi.mpg.de

OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at @mpi-nl.bsky.social is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the @dondersinst.bsky.social - www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci

Do flies feel pain? Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social. 🪰⚡👻🎃 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

Our new preprint is out! This time with a focus on prevocal spiking in the AC and how it encodes single and multi-syllabic vocalizations before they occur!

The Tschida Lab is recruiting a new PhD student this cycle! We have ongoing projects related to (1) neural circuits that regulate vocal communication across behavioral contexts and/or development and (2) motor control of different vocalization types. Please RT! Strong neuro background a plus.

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

‼️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...

Neuropixels Ultra! By @steinmetzneuro.bsky.social, who led a big collaboration www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

Glückwunsch zum Buch! 🎉 Wir freuen und auf die bestimmt spannende Lektüre! 📗 :-)

Two weeks are left to apply for a 5 year Postdoc position in #neuroscience, #behavior, #neuroethology in collaboration with @puh23.bsky.social from Flinders University. 🇦🇺🇩🇪🐝 👀

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics is back! Please join us next week for fantastic talks from speakers Rada Mihalcea, Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, and Tamás Faragó @barkslab.bsky.social @radamihalcea.bsky.social 🗓️September 25th 10:00 EST ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com #bioacoustics #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/d41... #bioacoustics

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!!

Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. 👇 New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Team in @currentbiology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1llMH3QW8S...

Nice article about our paper published today in @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface. #bioacoustics www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

A common cross-species atlas of cortical gray matter https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.675002v1

New in #JNeurosci from Adjei et al: Male mice acquire aggressive behaviors after watching peers—not strangers—attack intruders, and this may be mediated by excitatory neurons in a region of the medial amygdala. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1018-25.2025

This is awesome Jerome! Very very happy you got this!

In The Transmitter's reading list, we highlight the most anticipated upcoming neuroscience books and other notable 2025 releases. Featuring titles by @okaysteve.bsky.social, @dr-brein.bsky.social, @nicolecrust.bsky.social,‬ Xiao-Jing Wang and many more. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social bit.ly/45MvK41

During sleep, reuniens theta synchronizes with MEC provoking memory reactivation. rdcu.be/eCMfl

I can only recommend this. Jerome's group is a fantastic hub for insect neuroscience!

For over 5,000 y, chanting has been practiced across many Western and Eastern traditions. Chants share distinctive acoustic traits which have evolved culturally to optimize listener relaxation. 👇 new paper @pnas.org by ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co #bioacoustics www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#JNeurosci: Findings from Gao et al. show that cortico-thalamo-cortical pathways in rats can be activated by selectively targeting excitatory neurons with transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation. ‪@cmu.edu‬ https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2218-24.2025

“This neural configuration before amputation remains after the amputation. And it’s not ‘use it or lose it,’” says John W. Krakauer. By @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/plasticity/a...

We know how visual objects influence spatial tuning in the hippocampus. A new study from @batwoman123.bsky.social shows that auditory objects can be egocentrically or allocentrically encoded in the hippocampus of echolocating bats 🦇. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social

I'm not much online these days (post Twitter era is not the same) but I'd like to announce that I have moved out of Frankfurt to the FU Berlin as full prof on animal behavior. I won't lie. It's sad to leave Frankfurt but I am hyped to be now part of the vibrant Berlin community! Go #Neuroethology

Very glad @susannebabl.bsky.social Ava Kiai decided to take the lead on this review. I think this will be quite useful for everyone interested in bats and vocal production. Check it out!

On my way to #ASSC28! Excited for a week of great science and new connections. Find me on Monday, 16:30–17:30, to talk about #Blindsight, #bodily #rhythms, and #decoding #visual #awareness. P126 – Neurophysiological correlates of consciousness: Insights from Blindsight @assc28.bsky.social