A perfect way to wrap up the workweek: Anna from our research group has just successfully defended her medical doctoral thesis with top honors. Congratulations! And many thanks as well to Nadine for her co-supervision and support throughout the project.

Submit Your Abstract Today! Deadline to submit: Friday, February 20, 2026 11:59PM EST www.ibnsconnect.org/meetings

Come join us in Cape Town, South Africa to talk with behavioral neuroscientists from around the world. Submit your abstracts and register today! Abstract submission closes 2/20/26. ibnsconnect.org/meetings

A new therapeutic angle in schizophrenia? 🧠✨ Explore add-on orexin treatment in our newest publication! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mYPa_3Gir...

Trump is ready to punish the Iranian regime for violently cracking down on the Iranian people. Meanwhile, Trump is violently cracking down on American cities. #Iran #IranianRevolution2026 #Trump #ICE #crackdown #Protest #immigration #Minneapolis #Minnesota #ReneeNicoleGood

Submit Your Abstract Today! Deadline: Friday, February 20, 2026 11:59PM EST Whether you're a member or not, we'd love for you to apply. ibns.memberclicks.net/index.php?op...

Our group at the University of Magdeburg 🇩🇪 is looking for a motivated PhD candidate to study cognitive fleixbility and uncertainty in mice within the DZPG/C-I-R-C (c-i-r-c.de). 🧠🐭 For more information, please see: www.med.ovgu.de/Karriere/Ste... #PhDPosition #BehavioralNeuroscience

Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74

My late departure for work this morning was rewarded with a beautiful sunrise 🌞

Six new members join the ERC Scientific Council: 🔸Michel Campillo 🔸Emmanuelle Charpentier 🔸Kateřina Králová 🔸Susana Narotzky 🔸Karin Roelofs 🔸Eleftheria Zeggini Read more: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Proud to share Mao’s latest publication — another great milestone from our collaboration with Yasushi Kyokawa. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Writing Retreat of the CRC 1436 in Warnemünde, Baltic Sea. Actually, the weather more motivates to write than to hike or even to swim...

We are excited to share our keynote speakers for the 35th Annual IBNS Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa! Join us June 23-27th!

👉 "Neurobiology of Socio-Emotional Dysfunctions" Regensburg, Germany, May 8th to 10th, 2026 www.go.ur.de/neuro-dysfunction

🎉 Big news! The first IBNS 2026 keynote speakers are now announced! More will come... www.ibnsconnect.org/keynotes-2026 @ibnsconnect.bsky.social #IBNS2026

Proud owner of a new conditioning setup. 😀

Last week, 130 researchers of the #SFBTRR393 & invited guests gathered at Kulturrathaus Dresden for an inspiring retreat. 4 days of sharing recent results, discussing new directions, and strengthening collaborations across sites. More & more difficult to get everyone into one photo, but we managed!

Super inspiring talk at the SFB/TRR 393 retreat by Samuel Swidzinski, author of "Winning the War with Bipolar" and the host of the "Winning the War Within" podcast. @trr393.bsky.social

Dresden at night @trr393.bsky.social

Impressive keynote lecture on "Functional and metabolic imaging in major Depression" by Thomas Frodl. @rwth.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social

Delighted to be visiting the SFB/TRR 393 retreat in Dresden. @trr393.bsky.social

Are you a trainee and interested in travel grants to #IBNSSouthAfrica? Prereview applications are now being accepted until Nov 7th! more info www.ibnsconnect.org/travel-awards

Do you have a behavioral neuroscience topic that you want to bring everyone to the table to discuss? Come to #IBNSSouthAfrica submit your symposia by Oct 28th www.ibnsconnect.org/ibns-annual-...

My observation of the day: two tawny owls! 🦉🦉 #Birds 🪶

Time to huddle up with your colleagues and get your symposia together! Submissions due 10/28 #IBNSSouthAfrica info: www.ibnsconnect.org/ibns-annual-...

Interested to apply for a travel grant to visit the IBNS meeting 2026 in Cape Town? 👉🏼 IBNS 2026 Travel Award Pre-Review Program Call for Applications! More information on www.ibnsconnect.org/travel-awards #IBNS2026 @ibnsconnect.bsky.social

IBNS Meeting 2026 in Cape Town Call for Symposia www.ibnsconnect.org/2026-call-fo... #IBNS2026 @ibnsconnect.bsky.social

BREAKING: Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win the Nobel Prize in medicine for work on peripheral immune tolerance.

More information on www.ibnsconnect.org/2026-call-fo... #IBNS2026 @ibnsconnect.bsky.social

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