📣The Laboratory of Biological Psychology is hiring! 📣 We are looking for a full-time lab tech to help us in the daily operation of the lab. Friendly & inclusive work environment guaranteed! Check here for more details: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... ⏰Apply by May 27th.

Congratulations to @ozgesungur.bsky.social & Emilie Bartsoen for this achievement! Dr. Özge Sungur was nominated IBNS Fellow for her contribution to the Society and to the field of behavioral neuroscience, while Emilie Bartsoen is the new Trainee Representative 🎉. Thanks @ibnsconnect.bsky.social!

Great poster sessions at the joint DGBP and AGNP meeting in Berlin. Thanks to all poster presenters representing @wohrlab.bsky.social: Alper Demir, Nadine Faesel, @gnade-aaron.bsky.social, Lars Tacken, @bvdvoort.bsky.social, @tianhuawang.bsky.social, and Maria Willadsen. You did a great job!

Big news! Our WöhrLab team members received an impressive number of awards recently! Thanks to @ebbsociety.bsky.social, @neurowissg.bsky.social & @fens.org, @liviadicrescenzo.bsky.social, Sara Mejía Chávez, @tianhuawang.bsky.social & @fjrsousa.bsky.social will be able to attend #FENS2026! Congrats🎉

Second great news of the day: Dr. Theresa Kisko received a Early Career Achievement award from @ibnsconnect.bsky.social! And @fjrsousa.bsky.social won a second travel award this year to attend #IBNSSouthAfrica! Congrats 🎉

HIRING a Post Doctoral Fellow to work with us! In collaboration with Andrea Escelsior. Required skills: - Systems neuroscience, translational psychiatry - In vivo calcium imaging (e.g., fiber photometry, miniscope) - Optogenetics and/or circuit manipulation Contract length: 2-4 years

🚀 We are hiring: a PhD position is available in my lab (gozzilab.it) at @iitalk.bsky.social, Italy. Project: large-scale brain network mapping in behaving mice using functional ultrasound imaging (FUSI). 📅 Deadline: March 31 🔗 tinyurl.com/4jtetxa9 Reshares appreciated 😊

Thanks @ebbsociety.bsky.social for this amazing opportunity! It’s a pleasure for me to share my work at such international conference. #FENS2026

I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been awarded a #MargueriteMarieDelacroix research grant to continue studying ASD-related biological mechanisms in a new mouse model. I’m deeply grateful for the renewed support and looking forward to starting this new project. Stay tuned for the results!

Starting 2026 at the Wöhrlab’s New Year Dinner!🎄 Grateful for this team and excited for all the science ahead.

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

📢 new paper alert! Check it out below 👇🏼

Konrad Danielewski has just started our first @deeplabcut.bsky.social workshop at COS!

Great poster presentation on placebo effects in a rat model for depression by Dr. Nadine Faesel at the @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social retreat. Congrats, Nadine! It was an inspiring retreat. A big thanks to @ulrikebingel.bsky.social and team.

Just attended another interesting meeting organized by #StichtingMarguerite-MarieDelacroix. Very intriguing talks and discussions. I’m very glad to be part of this! Thanks to the organizing committee and scientific board, and for the inspiring words by Prof. Dr. Rudy Van Coster.

programme of the 4th USV conference has been published. if you registered, you should have received an email for the conference (zoom) link. i am so excited to listen about these thrilling studies and to learn about different software assessing USV patterns. #USVConference

I feel honored for the opportunity to present our recent work on the role of serotonin in regulating ultrasonic vocalizations in mice and rats across development at the 4th Ultrasonic Vocalization Conference tomorrow (online): ultrasonicvocalizations.net

I will talk about our recent publication on tame mice 🐭 and hamsters 🐹 tomorrow at the USV conference (online) ultrasonicvocalizations.net

There is always a bit of time for fun! Last week we had a LBP social event with a customised quiz about our colleagues and faculty, pizza and..

🧠 How do emotion and memory shape behavior? Join live webinar with Dr. Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social l & Dr. Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social(European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen) 🗓️ November 13th | 14:00 CET 👉 Clickto register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents is growing, rapidly – and actually a lot faster than I manage to post about it. Nine new manuscripts got accepted since my last post. Quite impressive work. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Thrilled to have spent the last few days at the last CRC 393 Scientific Retreat in Dresden! Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by my poster and shared their insights. What a great time we all spent together! www.SFB-TRR393.de #ScientificMeeting #TrajectoriesOfAffectiveDisorders #CRC393

Call for Symposia: Göttingen Meeting 2027 Time to take the opportunity and help to shape the Scientific Program 2027 by submitting your proposal until: 17 February 2026 Further information can be found here: web.nwg-info.de/de/conferenc...

It’s that time of the year again: LBP retreat! Rudi D’Hooge and @markuswohr.bsky.social labs gathered together for 2 full days of science. A special thank you to Dr. Elodie Ey for bringing her expertise on animal research to this event!

Welcome in our group, Henry!

Fabrice de Chaumont et al. showcase how the integration of ultrasound recording and behavioral analysis can provide novel insight into mouse social behavior, linking ultrasonic calling to urination behavior. Another great contribution to our special issue: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Perfect combination: Good weather, beautiful mountains, and awesome science – retreat of the @dfg.de-funded RTG2271 Breaking Expectations. Thanks to @parnian-saberi.bsky.social from the @wohrlab.bsky.social for her inspiring talk on serotonin and expectancy violations.

Serotonin deficiency in the brain leads to deficits in mother-offspring interaction, maternal affiliation, and social adjustment. Can this be rescued by early social enrichment? New study led by @tianhuawang.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social. Thanks to all collaborators. doi.org/10.1016/j.pn...

Wöhr Lab at @ibnsconnect.bsky.social having great time sharing exciting science and enjoying the amazing landscape. Now ready to bring new ideas and inspiration back to the lab 💪🏼 @ozgesungur.bsky.social @Theresa Kisko @tianhuawang.bsky.social

Grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the ‪@eraneuron.bsky.social‬ MINERVA consortium on microglia/neuron crosstalk in autism – @leuvenbrainins.bsky.social‬, with amazing collaborators: Tarja Malm, Carsten Culmsee, Judith Alferink, Laura Ricceri! Exciting meeting @unimarburg.bsky.social!

Inspiring ‪@eraneuron.bsky.social‬ MINERVA meeting @unimarburg.bsky.social‬ with great presentations by Carsten Wotjak from @boehringerglobal.bsky.social‬ and Theresa Kisko from @wohrlab.bsky.social (KU Leuven). Thanks to Carsten Culmsee for making this happen!

Can we study placebo effects in rodents? At the @sipsplacebo.bsky.social‬ ECR Summer School in Kraków, Poland, I was proposing that we can do so by using ultrasonic vocalizations as a key element of the anticipatory response. Thanks for the great round table discussions, ‪@sfb-trr-289.bsky.social‬!

On Sunday morning, we continued with great impulse talks on topics like placebo effects in animals and special populations as well as open-label placebos. Thanks to all speakers: @markuswohr.bsky.social, Lene Vase, and Julia Haas!

Tomorrow tuesday afternoon at @vssmtg.bsky.social , our poster about what it takes for the brain and AI models to process the valence of complex and ambiguous social scenes

Theresa Kisko & Fábio Sousa had such a great visit to the IGBMC in Strasbourg to work hard on our exciting collaboration using the Live Rat Tracker with Dr Elodie Ey! The trip was supported by FWO/TOURNESOL mobility grant awarded to Dr Elodie Ey and Dr Theresa Kisko.

Excited to study brain evo-devo in cephalopods? We are looking for a postdoc to join our team to understand how octopus manages to grow a large brain 🐙

Good news! First publication available! Behavioural Brain Research special issue on "Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents": The study reports on a cooperatively breeding mouse that shows flexible use of its vocal repertoire according to social context: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

My lab @kinshiplab.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc 🚨 with Sept start date Preference for in-vivo ephys / circuits experience / interest in applying quantitative methods to natural social behaviour. Funding & visa fees for 1-yr with possible extension. Send me your CV & visit kinshiplab.org

Great stories told on thriving in Brain Science in Africa and the rest of the world as women @network-alba.bsky.social

International Winter Neuroscience Conference in Sölden, AT: Very much enjoyed our joint social behavior symposium and learnt a lot from @eknapska.bsky.social, @labpapaleo.bsky.social, and @valeriagazzola.bsky.social. Amazing work on emotion recognition, social learning, and pro-social behavior.

Postdoc opportunity in the heart of Europe! Check out the flyer below. Join our team on an international project with Anthony Holtmaat exploring synaptic plasticity and specificity in cortical and thalamocortical circuits.

After 4 years, TEATIME is wrapping up! Join our final #conference to explore lab animal monitoring with experts in biomedicine, #behavior & #data. 🔗 Program & registration: cost-teatime.org/events/the-teatime-journey-shaping-the-future-of-lab-animal-monitoring/ @costprogramme.bsky.social

🧠On #WorldAutismAwarenessDay we highlight the role of animal research in understanding autism spectrum disorder and developing treatments #AutismAwareness #LightItUpBlue #AnimalResearch @autismspeaks.org

🚀 Episode 1 is out! Making the jump from postdoc to PI can feel overwhelming. In this episode of the ALBA-IBRO Diversity Podcast, we talk about fears, uncertainties, and the power of community in navigating this transition. 🎧 Listen now: www.alba.network/diversity-podcast2 youtu.be/O56ejPncoEU?...

PhD position available! Join our team at @dondersinst.bsky.social / @radboudumc.bsky.social in Nijmegen (NL) for four-year PhD project on detection of stress signals in the workplace, within the DESTRESS consortium: www.radboudumc.nl/en/vacancies...

Are you at #NWG2025 in Göttingen? Join us for our symposium on sensory symptoms in #autism! @neurowissg.bsky.social

Welcome Sara! Looking forward to exploring new ideas together!

Chelsea Hayen, a PhD student in the lab of @estherkli.bsky.social, studies how early-life stress shapes the emotional circuits of the brain 🤯🧠 (1/5)

🧠 #BrainAwarenessWeek aan het #LeuvenBrainInstitute 💡Gisteren werden leerlingen van het Sint-Pieterscollege Leuven ondergedompeld in de wondere wereld van het brein 🔬Lezingen door @lucasmergan.bsky.social & @eliskbv.bsky.social, demo’s door @cbdresearch.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social

What a great start of 2025! Great talks, fruitful scientific discussions and a lot of fun during our visit of the Zhang Lab at Peking University. Our joint global PhD student Elisabeth S. and all other team members from KU Leuven and Universität Marburg very much enjoyed the trip to Shenzhen, China.