Time to get working on your symposium proposals! 📣 Roll call -Who's coming to Cape town? -Who needs speaker suggestions for a panel? -Who'd like to join a panel (especially trainees!) @mfendt.bsky.social @dr-stan.bsky.social @nicoleferrara.bsky.social @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social

Super-inspiring evening lecture by Onur Güntürkin on cognition and brains in birds. 🦜🧠

Kingfisher day... #Birds 🪶

We are excited to invite all behavioral neuroscientists to the 35th Annual IBNS Meeting at Cape Town, South Africa June 23-27, 2026! Call for Symposia / Satellite Proposals Deadline: Tuesday, October 28, 2025 More information can be found at ibnsconnect.org/meetings

Our group member Laura successfully defended her master thesis on the effects of material immune activation and peripubertal stress on social cognition in 🐭.

Red-footed falcon. #Birds 🪶

Want to organize a symposium at IBNS 2026 in Cape Town? Now is your chance — call for proposals is open! @ibnsconnect.bsky.social www.ibnsconnect.org/2026-call-fo...

The German government is investing €120 million in expanding the German Center for Mental Health (DZPG). Glad to join Thomas Nickl-Jockschat @jockschat.bsky.social and Daniela Dieterich with our project on cognitive flexibility and uncertainty in mental health. www.dzpg.org/aktuelles/pr...

Golden oriole #Birds 🪶

Dieser riesige Betonklotz mitten auf einer Radwegkreuzung sagt eigentlich alles, was man zur Radinfrastruktur in Magdeburg wissen muss.

Call for Symposia / Satellite Proposals, Annual Meeting of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS, @ibnsconnect.bsky.social), June 23-27, 2025, Cape Town, South Africa. www.ibnsconnect.org/2026-call-fo... #IBNS2026

Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

Exciting talk of my Magdeburg colleague Anne Albrecht on the role of NPY in fear learning at the Neuropeptide Conference in Innsbruck.

Impressive Viktor Mutt Prize Lecture by Tomas Hökfelt, 85 years old, at the NPY/Galanin Meeting in Innsbruck, Austria.

A new manuscript with my friend and collaborator Yasu on the neural pathways involved in alarm pheromone-induced behavior. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Get ready for IBNS 2026 in Cape Town! Save the date — and consider submitting a symposium proposal! @ibnsconnect.bsky.social #IBNS

Black-legged kittiwake #Birds 🪶

More Norwegian #Birds 🪶 Golden plover, bar-tailed godwit, long-tailed jaeger and Eurasian dotterel.

Some more birds from Norway... Black gullemot, redpoll, redshank and wheatear. #Birds 🪶

Red-throated loon. #birds

Fear ourside the box. Important insights in the neural pathways mediating the what and where of a predator threat in the keynote lecture of Nelson Canteras. @ibnsconnect.bsky.social #IBNSconnect #IBNS2025

Fascinating local keynote lecture by Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social at the IBNS meeting in in Tromso. @IBNSconnect #IBNSconnect #IBNS2025

Opening lecture of the IBNS meeting in Tromso by Karen Bales. @IBNSconnect #IBNSconnect #IBNS2025

SQUEEEEEE!!!

Eagle-owl. Lifer. #Birds

Red-backed shrike, oystercatcher & common tern. #birds

Beach Boys Leader Brian Wilson, Rest in Peace.

Only 2 weeks to go until the IBNS meeting in Tromso!!! @ibnsconnect.bsky.social #IBNSconnect #IBNS2025

You like behavioral neuroscience? Time to register for IBNS @ibnsconnect.bsky.social meeting in Tromsø (June 24-29, 2025)! www.ibnsconnect.org/annual-meeting

Wheatear, serin, peregrine falcon & pied flycatcher. #Birds 🪶

Falcon day: peregrine falcon, kestrel, hobby. #Birds 🪶

Well this doesn’t seem to be getting better anytime soon 🤷🏻‍♀️

You like behavioral neuroscience? Time to register for IBNS @ibnsconnect.bsky.social meeting in Tromsø (June 24-29, 2025)! www.ibnsconnect.org/annual-meeting

Annual Meeting of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS), June 24-29, in Tromso, Norway. @ibnsconnect.bsky.social

Today's shot. #Bischoffsee, #birding. Kestrel, whimbrel, reed bunting and yellow wagtail.

Breaking News: HeroRAT #Ronin Breaks Guinness World Records® title! Find out more: guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2025/4/... #MADay2025 #MineAwarenessDay #WorldRatDay #GWR #HeroRATs

Fascinating Otto Creutzfeldt lecture by Iain Couzin @icouzin.bsky.social on geometric principles of spatial decion making. Göttingen Neuroscience Conference @neurowissg.bsky.social

Excellent Norbert Elsner Lecture by Rui Costa @ruimcosta.bsky.social, Göttingen Meeting of @neurowissg.bsky.social

"Nasal orexin rescues cognitive deficits induced by simulated chronic jetlag in mice." Our manuscript is now published in the current issue of NPP @npp-journal.bsky.social Great work by MD student Julius Duske and master student Nicole D'Souza. Thank you. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting talk of my former colleague Susanne Schmid on hyperreactivity in ASD. Göttingen Neuroscience Conference of @neurowissg.bsky.social

Fascinating evening keynote lecture by Richard Alan Anderson, Caltech, at the Göttingen Conference of the NWG @neurowissg.bsky.social

Frank Bradke in the first plenary lecture of the Göttingen Conference oc the German Neuroscience Society.

A rousing inaugural lecture by Thomas Nickl-Jockschat @jockschat.bsky.social, with an intro by Ted Abel @tedabelneuro.bsky.social. #UMMD

Some shots of today: teal, goosander, oystercatcher and shoveler.

Fascinating talk by Christian Büchel @christianbuchel.bsky.social at the LIN.

Our group member Aditi successfully defended her master thesis on the effects of Western diet and enriched environment on social cognition in mice. Congratulation!

Some shots from the NABU Stunde der Wintervögel.

Ein verschneiter Winter könnte auch für Radfahrer so schön sein... A snowy winter could also be so beautiful for cyclists...