Are bacterial spores some kind of travelling neurons? In this @science.org paper the authors show that B. subtilis spores can integrate environmental signals over time and remember transient nutrient pulses. @koseskalab.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.kaitokikuchi.com/assets/pdf/K...

🔬📊 PhD (100%) – Statistics & ML for self-driving microscopy Joint PhD with David Ginsbourger (Stats) & Pertz Lab (Cell Biology). Gaussian Processes, Bayesian design, active learning on live-cell experiments. ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... #PhD #Statistics #MachineLearning #Bayesian

Beautiful work by @pauformosa.bsky.social 's group, demonstrating the existence of ghost attractors 👻not only in simulations but also experimentally! 🫶💪

wow... crawling motility in Asgard #archaea!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... look at these crazy moves!! Let's face it, what these cells want for Christmas is #cilia... the best type of motility appendage...

It is a proud moment for the lab to see @koch-lab.bsky.social take the next big step in his career! We were truly fortunate to have him in the lab for three years, and we’ll miss him, but we’re even more thrilled to watch this well-deserved achievement unfold!

Unlike current AI systems, animals can quickly and flexibly adapt to changing environments. This is the topic of our new perspective in Nature MI (rdcu.be/eSeif), where we relate dynamical and plasticity mechanisms in the brain to in-context and continual learning in AI. #NeuroAI

How “intelligent” is a slime mold? When it solves mazes, it might not be thinking:it’s obeying physics. Our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531 @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨

What if we could chart all cell types across the tree of life? In @nature.com, @arnausebe.bsky.social and colls launch the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, a global effort to map eukaryotic cell diversity using single-cell & genomic data. drive.google.com/file/d/1G4zZ... @crg.eu @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social

🚨 Late preprint alert! Why do biological process rates scale nonlinearly with temperature, deviating from the straight line on an Arrhenius plot? The key may lie in their inherent complexity! More in thread and here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Now our researchers have used whole-body high-speed imaging to examine the wave behaviour and the effects of various physical and biological manipulations. Their results reveal an unprecedented wave structure. news.exeter.ac.uk/uncategorize...

Huge congratulations to this year's winners of the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine: Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi! 🏆The trio's groundbreaking work on peripheral immune tolerance is paving the way for crucial new treatments for cancer & autoimmunity. 🧬

We hosted Reyk Börner today, a postdoc at Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht. He gave a very insightful talk on tipping points in climate, drawing a parallel to metastability in neural systems! @mpinb.mpg.de #theory #dynamicalsystems

thanks @aria-research.bsky.social for highlighting our research on the computational capabilities of single-celled organisms! #protists Watch this space for more exciting developments @lsiexeter.bsky.social

Today and tomorrow we are celebrating the highly impressive career and contribution to Nonlinear Dynamics of Ulrike Feudel, a brilliant scientist and a truly admirable individual! You are and will remain an inspiration, particularly for women in complex science and beyond! #WomenInSTEM

We are ready for the Open Day tomorrow @mpinb.mpg.de ! We will show how learning without brain is possible, you can meet our ciliated friends under the microscope or calculate pi by throwing toothpicks! We are there from 10am-4pm! Looking forward to a science Saturday! 🤓

@embl.org Heidelberg is looking for a new Head of Scientific Instrumentation! This is an exciting opportunity at the interface between scientific research and technology development, overseeing our mechanical and electronic workshops! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

The final version of our review on biological filaments is out in Philtrans A (w/@jcammann.bsky.social Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer & Marco Mazza) - we have 417 references! Enjoy :) doi.org/10.1098/rsta... (see also other articles in this special issue on biological fluid dynamics) #biophysics

Our paper presents a mathematical and computational analysis of different circuits implemented by means of gene network motifs, including the problem of mass-spaced learning that was recently shown to be present in non-neural cells @koseskalab.bsky.social @jgojalvo.bsky.social

The 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships applications are open, offering early-career scholars intellectual freedom, transdisciplinary collaboration with leading researchers, and a competitive salary with research and collaboration funds. Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Join us on Spetember 20th to learn, among other things, what single cells are capable of, see our ciliated lab mates under the microscope and do some fun math experiments! 🤓🤓🤓 www.behaviorbrainbonn.de

A wonderful talk on a topic very close to our hearts 😊 and a day filled with insigthfull discussions with @mariannebauer.bsky.social from TU Delft! Many thanks Marianne! @mpinb.mpg.de

Complex behaviour is not limited to animals! Here we map the entire spectrum of waveforms dynamics on a quadriflagellate single cell with 4x 70um (!) #cilia, to a low dimensional behavioural manifold with surprising structure! #protistsonsky All revealed in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025...

It is a true pleasure to take part at this year’s Konstanz school on collective behavior and talk about our theoretical framework of computing with transients. @mpinb.mpg.de

Recurrence condensation during critical transitions in complex systems – In our study published now in Chaos we demonstrate the scaling of #recurrence_plot measures when approaching critical transitions. @aip.bsky.social doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

Time for more "Physics of Behavior" in single-cell settings! @micromotility.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social

Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

Beautiful presentation of the power of physics for understanding behavior from @gjstephens.bsky.social , and a thoroughly insightful chalk-talk on the underlying statistical physics and dynamical systems concepts.

Excited to be part of “Unifying theories in high-dimensional biophyics” symposium @ICTS in Bangalore. Looking forward to learn about novel theoretical descriptions from molecular to behavior of ecologies! @mpinb.mpg.de

This week we had a privilege of hosting Peter Ashwin @exeter.ac.uk who talked about dynamics of RNNs. Thank you for stimulating discussions!

University of Colorado Boulder | Postdoctoral Position in Computational Modeling of Biological Rhythms Application deadline: July 18 #Community #postdoc #biology #sync #computationalmodeling ./12 amahury.github.io/posts/postdo...

An antidote against the current fantasies of #VirtualCells from Jeremy Gunawardena: www.nature.com/articles/nbt... It is indeed true that what a cell is becomes of little importance in the enterprise, though I would argue that this is out of ignorance. A cell is more than the product of GRNs

We had a privilege to have Chittaranjan Hens from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India, visiting for a day and telling us about the origins of instability in dynamical systems on undirected networks! @mpinb.mpg.de

Our new paper is out! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 #criticality #ghostcycles @mpinb.mpg.de

Very exciting work on impossible ecologies! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Hello hello #complexity and #emergence people. I'm getting a complexity+emergence (broadly defined) starter pack going. I've focused on active accounts that often make original posts (not just reposts) and have at least a few thousand followers. Inclusion is not endorsement. go.bsky.app/BLuVyWj

We are at #DDays2025 ! Join us at our 3!! talks on multistability and metastability, today, on Thursday and Friday! @mpinb.mpg.de

Cells use more than signal strength to decide their fate—they "listen" to the tempo of signaling. Check out this work by our Cellular Computations and Learning Lab introducing signaling homeorhesis, a concept where dynamic signal patterns guide cell decisions. #CellSignaling #cellfate

Ciliated teddy bear!

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Pre-print alert 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 We developed the concept of signaling homeorhesis to describe regulation of cell phenotype under dynamic signals, demonstrating that cells actively interpret signals from their environment to determine cell fate! @mpinb.mpg.de www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fascinating science at the @mpinb.mpg.de retreat! Always enthralled by the findings of @jameslightfoot.bsky.social lab!!

Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Wonderful time in Heidelberg w/ @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy + our HFSP team (Thomas Kiørboe & Alastair Simpson) discussing the origins of eukaryotes and their excitable behaviours! can you feel the ⚡⚡⚡in the room?? (funded by @uniheidelberg.bsky.social International Guest Professorship)

“If i have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulder of giants”. Deeply saddened by the loss of a visionary and unique scientist and person, and most greatfull for sharing part of the journey!

Looking forward to learn and discuss about fascinating capabilities of single cells and single-cell organisms! @micromotility.bsky.social and Gaspar, many thanks for the invitation! @mpinb.mpg.de

How did complex cognition evolve from cells to mammalian brains? What are the key evolutionary events that led to intelligent agents? What about the emergence of AI? Check out this superb book by Max Bennett @manlius.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social

We are @SIAMDS25 in Denver! Visit our mini-symposium on the Role of Transient Dynamics and Switching Transitions for Natural Systems today from 5-7pm and tomorrow 8:30-10:30am. @mpinb.mpg.de

How to assemble a complex organism! 😜 #EESTCbio @embldbunit.bsky.social

Also, don’t miss posters 51 and 91 on Tuesday!!

📢 Call for Papers — Special Focus Issue in Chaos 📢 Happy to announce a special issue, celebrating Ljupco Kocarev’s fundamental contributions to nonlinear dynamics! 🗓️ Deadline for submission: September 30, 2025 publishing.aip.org/publications...