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Vision & Motion. Stability & Plasticity. Professor at University of Bonn. www.troselab.de
pinned post!
BonnBrain 2026 is a go! March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany). Apply now:
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Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts. Keynotes & invited speakers 👇
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The Transmitter
20 days ago
Generative AI systems are being built primarily for entertainment, design and communication, but their potential for neuroscience is vast.
@shahabbakht.bsky.social
explores how this technology could help capture an animal’s ecological experience.
#neuroskyence
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Seeing the world as animals do: How to leverage generative AI for ecological neuroscience
Generative artificial intelligence will offer a new way to see, simulate and hypothesize about how animals experience their worlds. In doing so, it could help bridge the long-standing gap between…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-intelligence/seeing-the-world-as-animals-do-how-to-leverage-generative-ai-for-ecological-neuroscience/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20251218-perspectives-how-to-leverage-generative-AI-ecological-neuroscience-rp
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Carl T. Bergstrom
about 1 month ago
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
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Our paper showing the first ever recordings of spiking activity from neurons in the human lateral geniculate nucleus has just been published in Nature Communications! Congrats to the whole team.
#neuroskyence
@nin-knaw.bsky.social
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social
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Effects of eye closure on the spiking activity of human lateral geniculate neurons - Nature Communications
The LGN is a critical stage between the retina and visual cortex, but the properties of human LGN neurons are not fully understood. Here the authors report that they closely resemble those in monkeys ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65383-x
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Sepiedeh Keshavarzi
about 2 months ago
📢 We are organising the Senses in Motion conference for the third time, and we are now accepting abstracts for posters or talks. Deadline for abstracts: 19 December Conference dates: 18–21 May 2026 Location: Harnack House, Berlin Register via this page👇
sensesinmotion.org
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Looking for a postdoc to understand dynamic vision in action in freely moving mice? Get in touch! This is a
@erc.europa.eu
postdoc in a project between us and
@sinzlab.bsky.social
: miniature 2-photon, rich behavior tracking, and deep learning models linking natural behavior to cortical activity|RT
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For two weeks now,
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
and
@cloudflare.social
have serious doubts about my humanity. While I share the fundamental concern, I have come to appreciate reading preprints on my mac - which is broken for me, currently.
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Samuel Eckmann
about 2 months ago
BTSP in visual cortex
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Leveling up my professorial game with decades-old brain models, rescued from the local school before they hit the bin. 🧠♻️
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Kenneth Harris
about 2 months ago
1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon,
@haydari.bsky.social
,
@jacobmratliff.bsky.social
,
@bio-emergent.bsky.social
,
@carandinilab.net
,
@kevinjmiller.bsky.social
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@neurokim.bsky.social
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Characterizing neuronal population geometry with AI equation discovery
The visual cortex contains millions of neurons, whose combined activity forms a population code representing visual stimuli. There is, however, a discrepancy between our understanding of this code at ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688086v1
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Andrew MacAskill
about 2 months ago
Congrats to Ella for her new paper! She asked a really interesting question about how the brain represents uncertainty during hidden state inference, and in a lovely crossover with theoretical work, she shows that in mice, acetylcholine dynamics play a crucial role.
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Acetylcholine reflects uncertainty during hidden state inference
To act adaptively, animals must infer features of the environment that cannot be observed directly, such as which option is currently rewarding, or which context they are in. These internal estimates,...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688036v1
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A tissue-selective surgical drill bit - interesting engineering. Could be helpful
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Surgify Halo™
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How did I not know about this super-useful site for customized 3D-printable thread adapters? HT to
@leon-kremers.bsky.social
:
brainright.com/adapt-o-matic/
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Jay’s Adapt~O~Matic – BrainRight
https://brainright.com/adapt-o-matic/
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Very sneaky! But appreciated.
#Cosyne2026
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Adrien Peyrache
3 months ago
🚨new paper: the head-direction circuit as a model of primary thalamocortical system. Check this out 👇 kudos to
@adrian-du.bsky.social
for the huge amount of work put into this opinion piece, starting with the beautiful figures comparing the different thalamocortical systems 🤩
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IMPRS for Brain and Behavior
3 months ago
📢Only 4 weeks left to apply! Join our IMPRS for Brain&Behavior to pursue a
#PhD
in
#neuroethology
. Learn how brain circuits are linked to interesting animal behaviors! 📅 Deadline: October 31, 2025 🔗 imprs-brain-behavior.mpg.de
#neuroscience
#neurojobs
#sciencejobs
#PhDOffers
#FundedPhD
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Kris Jensen
4 months ago
I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with
@behrenstimb.bsky.social
on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!
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Tahnée Engelen
4 months ago
Germans speak better Dutch when they’ve consumed alcohol 🍺
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PessoaBrain
4 months ago
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀? Dynamical processing winding through most brain regions. Looks like a must read.
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Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice
Until recently, it has been possible to examine activity in the brain globally through regional averaging or locally at cellular resolution. These studies characterized regions as functionally homogen...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667641v1
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BonnBrain 2026 is a go! March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany). Apply now:
www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts. Keynotes & invited speakers 👇
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The Transmitter
4 months ago
“Competent prose generated by a machine, I’ve come to realize, might not be what science actually needs.” ? By Tim Requarth
#neuroskyence
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From bench to bot: Why AI-powered writing may not deliver on its promise
Efficiency isn’t everything. The cognitive work of struggling with prose may be a crucial part of what drives scientific progress.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-to-bot/from-bench-to-bot-why-ai-powered-writing-may-not-deliver-on-its-promise/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250902-perspectives-bench-to-bot-why-AI-powered-writing-may-not-deliver
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Craig Kaplan
4 months ago
Look at this crazy thing!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w
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Matteo Carandini
4 months ago
The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory
@intlbrainlab.bsky.social
are out today! A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
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A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature
The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09235-0
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Open Ephys
4 months ago
pyPhotometry v2 is now in our store!
🚀 ⚡Output current of the 2 onboard LED drivers increased to 300 mA 🔦🔦 2 alternative LED digital output channels to trigger external optical hardware that have integrated LED drivers 🔌Additional connections to the pyBoard for expansion
#OpenEphys
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pyPhotometry V2 — Open Ephys
SKU: OEPS-8011 pyPhotometry is an open source system for fiber photometry data acquisition . Version 2 includes: 2x Analog inputs for photometry signals. The system supports time-division mul...
https://open-ephys.org/pycontrol/oeps-8011
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Bence Ölveczky
4 months ago
Wrote a eulogy for the yellow letters in my office window.
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My Lab Displayed A Message of Solidarity on Our Windows. Harvard Took It Down. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
If we continue down this path, we risk not only Harvard’s future as an institution of free inquiry and expression but also its integrity and trustworthiness.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/25/olveczky-harvard-blm-sign/
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Heather Randell
5 months ago
This, from
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
, perfectly sums up the quandary that educators find ourselves in: “AI hollows out the foundation of learning because it strips you, gets rid of the mistakes, it gets rid of the opportunities for serendipity.” Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Is Fueling a ‘Poverty of Imagination.’ Here’s How We Can Fix It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opinion/ai-college-classrooms-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk8.jXdL.KzVN73bWctZU&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Nature
5 months ago
Nature research paper: In situ light-field imaging of octopus locomotion reveals simplified control
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In situ light-field imaging of octopus locomotion reveals simplified control - Nature
Using an advanced imaging system called EyeRIS, locomotion in deep-sea octopuses could be studied, revealing simplified crawling patterns that could inspire the design of robots.
https://go.nature.com/47iyg2M
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Blake Richards
6 months ago
1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction. But... 🧠📈 🧪
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Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors
Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.02.616378v3.abstract
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Laura Busse
6 months ago
Seeing the world through the lens of oscillations - we are delighted to share our new paper where we demonstrate that anatomically resolved oscillatory bursts reveal dynamic motifs of thalamocortical activity during naturalistic stimulus viewing (
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Angelo Forli
6 months ago
Our study is out in Nature! Using wireless Neuropixels we recorded hippocampal activity in freely flying bats and uncovered replay and theta(less) sweeps, revealing striking differences from classic rodent models. 👉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying bats - Nature
Nature - Replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying bats
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09341-z
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The Transmitter
6 months ago
Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate science, reduce costs and increase the value of investments. But to date, the field hasn't placed equal emphasis on the reuse side of the data-sharing equation, writes
@bendichter.com
#neuroskyence
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Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments.
Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. New tools that make open data easier to use—and new…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/open-neuroscience-and-data-sharing/neurosciences-open-data-revolution-is-just-getting-started/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250707-perspectives-open-data-revolution
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The Transmitter
6 months ago
Check out our recently updated calendar, featuring the top neuroscience meetings and events through June 2026.
www.thetransmitter.org/events/?utm_...
Are you organizing a neuroscience conference? Share it with us at
[email protected]
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Events
https://www.thetransmitter.org/events/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250707-events-promo
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Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
6 months ago
The dynamics and geometry of choice in the premotor cortex 🧠 Nature 2025
#neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The dynamics and geometry of choice in the premotor cortex - Nature
A population code for the dynamics of choice formation in the primate premotor cortex is revealed, with diverse single-neuron tuning to a shared decision variable.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09199-1
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Dinu F Albeanu
6 months ago
...all due to passion and the enthusiasm of the wonderful TAs and lecturers that make TENSS happen (only some with handles here):
@pgupta-cshl.bsky.social
@open-ephys.org
@antblot.bsky.social
@brunopichler.bsky.social
@mtkostecki.bsky.social
@neuroetho.bsky.social
@alecamera.bsky.social
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Thiago Carvalho
7 months ago
'(...) there is no established resource for group leaders to improve their lab culture with concrete action points for implementation. Here, we introduce the SAFE Labs Handbook: a collection of thirty “commitments” which can be verifiably actioned without requiring institutional support.'
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Nature
7 months ago
A new campaign by the non-profit group Mothers in Science highlights the challenges and experiences that fathers face
https://go.nature.com/3TC3QAs
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Bringing men into conversations about parenting in academia
A new campaign by the non-profit group Mothers in Science highlights the challenges and experiences that fathers face, providing actionable steps to becoming a better parent and ally.
https://go.nature.com/445RaH4
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David
9 months ago
Quantification of the effect of hemodynamic occlusion in two-photon imaging:
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Quantification of hemodynamic occlusion effects in WF and 2P using GFP expression revealed signal changes that were often comparable to those of activity sensors.
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iBehave
8 months ago
🧠 iBehave Seminar Series 2025 – Full Schedule! Explore cutting-edge topics in behavioral & computational neuroscience with leading researchers. 📅 Schedule:
ibehave.nrw/tax-news-and...
📧 Zoom info:
[email protected]
#iBehave
#SeminarSeries2025
#Neuroscience
#BehavioralScience
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iBehave
8 months ago
New
#iBOTS
Workshop "Intro Neural Spike Analysis in Python" 📅June 11-13 Dr. Ole Bialas Open to All
@unibonn.bsky.social
@uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social
@unicologne.bsky.social
@mpinb.mpg.de
@fz-juelich.de
Learn how to process & analyze neural spiking data! Register:
uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
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The New York Times
8 months ago
In
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
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Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
http://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/yale-canada-fascism.html?smid=bsky-nytimes
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iBehave
8 months ago
🔊 Join us for the next
#iBehave
Lecture with Prof. Dr. Silvia Arber (Biozentrum Basel & FMI)
@biozentrum.unibas.ch
🧠 Generating movements with brainstem circuits Host:
@ggatto.bsky.social
@uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social
@unicologne.bsky.social
📍 Biocenter-Room 0.024 📧 Zoom:
[email protected]
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Benjamin Judkewitz
8 months ago
Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching. A collaboration with
@mh123.bsky.social
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Looking forward to tomorrow's talk by
@olveczky.bsky.social
in the context of our
#iBehave
(@ibehave.bsky.social) seminar series. ‼ To all locals: It will be in the lecture hall of Teaching Building A10!
maps.app.goo.gl/BCCnaV7zWa83...
Please contact
[email protected]
for zoom details.
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Ben Kanter
9 months ago
As I transition over to Bluesky I have to plug our new
#book
. If you haven't already, check out the 2nd edition of The
#Hippocampus
Book!
academic.oup.com/book/59509?s...
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The Hippocampus Book
Abstract. The Hippocampus Book investigates the structure, function and pathology of the hippocampus and related cortical areas. It highlights the importan
https://academic.oup.com/book/59509?searchresult=1
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Carles Bosch
8 months ago
#preprint
: We mapped the structure and function of olfactory bulb circuits with in vivo 2-photon microscopy and synchrotron
#Xray
holographic nanotomography.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
@yuxinzhang.bsky.social
@andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social
@apacureanu.bsky.social
@crick.ac.uk
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DER SPIEGEL
9 months ago
Aus Deutschland sprechen sich 110 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler öffentlich für Tierversuche aus. Frank Kirchhoff, Initiator der Aktion, sagt, warum Experimente an Mäusen, Ratten und Fischen immer noch sein müssen.
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Tierversuche: Warum sich 110 Forschende zu den Experimenten bekennen
Aus Deutschland sprechen sich 110 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler öffentlich für Tierversuche aus. Frank Kirchhoff, Initiator der Aktion, sagt, warum Experimente an Mäusen, Ratten und Fischen immer noch sein müssen.
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/tierversuche-warum-sich-110-forschende-zu-den-experimenten-bekennen-a-90a95941-cc6e-45b8-8e25-c2d11115bf34?sara_ref=re-so-bluesky-rss#ref=rss
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Tomás Ryan
9 months ago
Excited to share our new study: "Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses" by
@andreamunozz.bsky.social
,
@aaron-douglas.bsky.social
& team at
@tcddublin.bsky.social
, in collaboration with
@lydialynch.bsky.social
&
@drchristineannd.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses - Nature
Cold-sensitive engrams contribute to learned thermoregulation in mice that are returned to an environment in which they previously experienced a cold challenge, through a network formed betw...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08902-6
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Horst Obenhaus
9 months ago
Really cool video.
@ecomorph.bsky.social
guides us through all eyes in the animal kingdom! Cephalopod (especially squid/cuttlefish) eyes are the most beautiful of course.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjm...
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Every Eye In The Animal Kingdom | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjmQooFiXE
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Fabian Sinz
9 months ago
The MICrONS papers are finally out. Very happy to have been part of this. Joint work of so many labs lead by
@andreastolias.bsky.social
and Xaq Pitkow. Large scale efforts and data resources like these combined with cutting edge AI methods are great avenues to drive neuroscience forward.
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Matthias Klumpp
12 months ago
I am excited to announce our publication of "Syntalos" in
@naturecomms.bsky.social
: A software to easily and reliably record from multi-modal data sources and design closed-loop interventions, with a focus on (neuro)scientific experiments, all while keeping timestamps synchronized! 🧵1/9
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