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...

@granadalab.bsky.social recently showed how circadian coupling regulates cell growth. In order to regulate the cell on the inside, we should look outside! Great pleasure to write News&Views together with Jae Kyoung Kim! @mpinb.mpg.de www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How cells predict future events? 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Happy birthday, Max Planck! 🎂The physicist, pianist, #NobelPrize winner, #quantum trailblazer & timeless thinker was born #OTD 1858 in Kiel: his discoveries in the field of #physics forever changed how we understand energy & matter!🎉

It is a true honor and privilege to host Vijay Balasubramanian @upenn.edu , a distinguished scholar and a profound intellectual, at our Neuroscience seminar series today. We are enjoying a day of thought-provoking conversations that inspire! @mpinb.mpg.de

Two days filled with exciting discussions and talks on spatial-temporal dynamics in neural networks! @mpinb.mpg.de

We are organizing a conference for young researchers at the intersection between physics & biology: www.embl.org/about/info/c... @embl.org @events.embl.org @intcha.bsky.social Please consider applying/registering -- the deadline is already in one week!

Looking forward to an exciting day at the Kavli institute of Nano Science, Applied Sciences, TU Delft! @mpinb.mpg.de

In chaotic systems, the smallest fluctuations get amplified. As scientist Edward Lorenz put it in the 1960s and 70s, even a seagull flapping its wings might eventually make a big difference to the weather. Here's how scientists came to understand what chaos is, and how to wrangle it: 🧵

“If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off. No matter what they say.” Barbara McClintock Marching on! #EmbraceEquity #IWD @mpinb.mpg.de

Happy to welcome Kalel Rossi, a new postdoc in the group, Prayas Chakrabarty, Master student, and Abbie Chen, student assistant! #CellularComputationsAndLearning @mpinb.mpg.de

🚨🚨Please repost!! 📢📢 Still time to submit short talk abstract for EindPBS2025! Five themes this year: • Mechanobiology • Protein pattern formation • 4D Genome • Stochastic biology • Biohydrodynamics bit.ly/EdinPBS2025

Highly recommend this position! Shervin has been one of the smartest and kindest scientists I’ve collaborated with and he is a great mentor!

Looking forward to the visit and interactions at @ethzurich.bsky.social tomorrow! @mpinb.mpg.de #learningcells