Scientists discover the secret behind the shrew’s amazing ability to shrink their brains 🧠 The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition. Find the 5-letter word 👇 Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...

🔵Tübingen SNS 2025🔵 Registration is still open for the #SNS2025 event on 6-7 October! Join us for plenary lectures 🗣️, poster sessions📊and social events 👥 about system neuroscience!🧠 Registration at meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025

Thrilled to share this work, long time in the making! Carried through creatively by @siddjakes.bsky.social after initial design & piloting by @trackingskills.bsky.social, with help from @trackingactions.bsky.social. Modeling in collaboration with Massimo Vergassola & Nicola Rigolli.

Strengthening European Ties: Institut de la Vision in Paris visits the IOR in Tübingen. This meeting was the first of its kind between the 2 internationally renowned institutes in vision and ophthalmology. @unituebingen.bsky.social @tueneurocampus.bsky.social www.eye-tuebingen.de?tx_news_pi1%...

If you submitted a paper to #ICML2025 and want to know how well your score compares overall, here is a good resource to keep track of your chances of getting it accepted this year. Fingers crossed for everyone! papercopilot.com/statistics/i...

Thus new review by Jennifer Hoy (University of Nevada) and Karl Farrow (NERF) takes a deep dive into the role of the superior colliculus. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00052-1 Beautifully illustrated by Pia Rachedi + open access @farrowlab.bsky.social

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 We’ve just launched openretina, an open-source framework for collaborative retina modeling across datasets and species. A 🧵👇 (1/9)

𝗡𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 Excellent short piece about causation in the brain by @neurograce.bsky.social In a complex system talking about necessary and sufficient is not productive. www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Seeking input: A standardized nomenclature for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina A number of us have been working on a proposal to bring various disconnected naming systems for the vertebrate rods and cones across species into alignment. The basic proposal looks like this:

The results in a publication of an important scientific collaboration between IOR in Tübingen and the IdV in Paris! With the first detailed analysis of the modulatory effects of nitric oxide on retinal ganglion cells. @unituebingen.bsky.social @tueneurocampus.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

I've added a new summary to the top of the Kickstarter, thanks to the advice of the excellent @matthewkressel.net. I think what I'm seeing right now is that I may need to clarify the importance of what's been happening in neuroscience. Refining the message! www.kickstarter.com/projects/454...

Our paper on how the neuromodulator nitric oxide modulates a subset of mouse retinal ganglion cells is finally published in @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Great work by @dgonschorek.bsky.social together with the lab of @oliviermarre.bsky.social and @matigoldin.bsky.social, ...