Together with Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio, we contributed a review about complex neural processing across phyla - and how this allows adaptions to a dynamic environment. Enjoy reading!

Amazing new setup for tracking and imaging all kinds of little critters 🪱🧸🐛 rdcu.be/fjWfS

Amazing news! The company of biologists @biologists.bsky.social has decided to support our upcoming meeting! We now only have a couple of spots left for the upcoming JEDI #Drosophila meeting. 📍Palmela, Portugal 📅 June 1st to 3rd Register: congressos.mundiconvenius.pt/geral/inseri...

Congratulations!!! Such cool larvae 😉

Here is a banger! Our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social is out! We have used museomics to sequence a 45yr old specimen of Drosophila enhydrobia, a rare and most unusual fly whose larvae are aquatic(!) and predatory(!). Very cool, big success. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Abstract submission deadline extended to May 30th! If you're a postdoc in the job market, in or out of Germany, but want everyone to know about what you've done and are scheming to do, come to Heidelberg! 🐟🧪

Did you know 2026 SfN Awards and Prizes recipients are honored at #SfN26? Your nomination could provide a colleague, friend, or peer with visibility, networking opportunities, and recognition in the neuroscience community. Submit your nomination now. 🔗 vist.ly/42fa2 #neurosky

NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ

Join us in celebrating #HHMIInvestigators Olga Boudker, William Jacobs (Emeriti), Michael Shadlen, Kim Orth & @leslievosshall.bsky.social (also HHMI VP & Chief Scientific Officer), all elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for their leadership & excellence in science! bit.ly/4vQerd2

The fly at the Great Wall!

I am very excited to be part of the "Asia Pacific Drosophila Neurobiology Conference" #APDNC in Shenzhen, China🪰and honoured to be able to present the recent work from our lab🙃

To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides: gershmanlab.com/lectures.html I'll continue to update these as I improve them.

The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t. ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what they mean for applicants. 🔗 link.europa.eu/xF7kjc

PLS RT📣 Two Postdoc jobs at #mpaib with Serena Ding on collective behavior of worms (Never seen a "wormuration"? That's them in green) 🪱 social dynamics of collective dispersal: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/2... 🪱 sensory ecology of worm towers: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/7...

New @currentbiology.bsky.social paper from Dr. Leila Elabbady on neural circuits that transform a touch stimulus into spatially targeted grooming. Leila discovered a leg somatotopic map and used it to infer tactile receptive fields in the fly VNC connectome. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mvu83QW8S...

I don’t know if you saw the MASSIVE news announced by @erc.europa.eu today: from now on, if you get a B at step 1 you are eligible to apply at N+3(!!!) years. Say you got a B in STG2026 step 1, you thought you could apply in STG2028, but no: only in STG2029! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🐟

We are excited to share that this work has now been published in Nature Neuroscience. The study was co-supervised by @shyshoham.bsky.social and involved a fantastic team of postdocs: Mursel Karadas, @jonvgill.bsky.social and Sebastian Ceballo. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing support for our Centre for Collective Behaviour!!🎉

Hans-Werner Hector + Rector Katharina Holzinger signed a new funding agreement for #UniKonstanz. The Hector Stiftung fosters cutting-edge research and enables the university to implement new developments regarding teaching, internationalization and transfer. https://t1p.de/sse8i @cbehav.bsky.social​

⏳ Two weeks left to send us your Satellite Workshop proposals for the #BernsteinConference 2026! 🗓️ Deadline: April 29, 15:00 CEST More info 👉 bit.ly/40HybkI #BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw

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Applications are open for the Lake Conference on Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology - co-hosted with Circuit Neuroscience Basel! 🗓️ Oct. 25-29, 2026 📍 Seattle, WA 🧠 All career stages welcomed. 🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/events/lake-conference-comparative-and-evolutionary-neurobiology-2026/

Are you a computational scientist? Within 7 years of your PhD? Come join us at Lund University! We have two new positions as assistant professor! Deadline: 25th of May. The advert is broad, but this is your chance to push computational neuroscience in a fantastic place! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Rockefeller scientists, including @danielkronauer.bsky.social, Vanessa Ruta, Winrich Freiwald, Priya Rajasethupathy, and @erichjarvis.bsky.social, are learning what drives social behavior, and also trying to explain what happens when those roots falter. 🔗: https://bit.ly/47J2Q5h

We’re recruiting! Exciting opportunities in our lab supported by a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award. • Postdoctoral researchers • Research assistant/PhD students Join us to study how neural circuits drive decision-making. Deadline 26/04 Learn more and Apply here: rezavallab.org

Forschende des Max-Planck-Instituts für chemische Ökologie in Jena identifizieren das erste Brutpheromon bei Ameisen – und beweisen damit, dass Larven die Fortpflanzung der Kolonie aktiv beeinflussen.... weiterlesen

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have identified the first brood pheromone in ants—thereby proving that larvae actively influence the colony’s reproduction.... weiterlesen

🧠 Johannes Kohl | Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize Lecture 🌟 At #FENS2026, join the Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize Lecture by Johannes Kohl, @crick.ac.uk, on 9 July! Meet all the speakers 👉 buff.ly/wQ8V4Ha

Was great to catch up with everybody!! Looking forward to the next meeting and awesome new science 🪰🐝🐭

Auf dem Weg zu früher unabhängiger Forschung? Das Walter Benjamin-Programm bietet optimale Möglichkeiten, ein eigenständiges Profil zu entwickeln - an einer passenden (auch ausländischen) Einrichtung. In unserer Inforeihe #Prospects stellen wir nächste Woche alles Wichtige zu dem Programm vor. 👇

We're hiring! Research Assistant position in our lab @champalimaudf.bsky.social in #Lisbon. Work on #diet - #brain and #microbiome - #metabolism projects using innovative #microscopy, #connectome and #metabolism methods. Start in May. Apply: ribeirolab.org

Really excited to share a new preprint! 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘁 & 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗲? We explore how! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We built Connectome-based Neural Networks (CoNNs) using Drosophila wiring (larva&adult) & compared with random networks with same sparsity.

Honeybee swarms do not come together and fall apart in the same way 🐝 In this new preprint led by Danielle Chase, we report how to trick swarms to repeatedly assemble and disassemble in front of our cameras, while tracking individual bees in 3D! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Lovely NatGeo article by Hannah Nordhaus, featuring plenty of "nature's brightest thinkers", former team members Mathieu Lihoreau and Olli Loukola, plus myself (and with excellent photography by Karine Aigner): www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

After three years , this joint review with my dear friend Emily Jane Dennis is finally in press. The review provides a glimpse on what constitutes an integrative approach to neurobiology of foraging. Out in the next issue of Annual Reviews of Neuroscience. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Another paper from our awesome lab out today @nature.com. Led by 🌟 PD Jihye Yeon with fantastic collaborators. We show how an ionotropic receptor (related to insect sensory IRs) in a single pharyngeal enteric neuron senses ingested salts and protects the worm from high salt stress. rdcu.be/fbd4a

The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

Applications are open for the Junior Theoretical Neuroscientists Workshop which will take place July 21-24, 2026 at the Center for Computational Neuroscience, @flatironinstitute.org Travel, lodging, and meals will be covered for accepted participants. Application deadline: April 15, 2026

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

We are so looking forward to CSHL Neurobiology of Drosophila 2026 🔬 🧠. The new application deadline is April 13th. Come join us! @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlcourses.bsky.social @rister.bsky.social

Excited to share our work exploring how fly larvae flexibly adjust their foraging decisions based on resource quality and valence, shaped by prior experience 🪰🥳! Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out our new preprint and learn about the smart foraging behavior of fly larvae! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Congrats to our research unit member Annika Cichy @cichy1985.bsky.social !🎉 Check out her new publication: www.cell.com/current-biol... A microbiome-derived chemical cue shapes mammalian social behavior via olfaction

Deadline is approaching (April 16th). Send in your applications . All details here: www.janelia.org/you-janelia/... Apply for this workshop at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social intended as a "by the students, for the students" meeting. @janeliaconf.bsky.social

Genome of the Abominable Snowfly uncovers the mysteries of cold tolerance in a winter active insect! New cool (literally) paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social from Marco Gallio, @matthewcapek.bsky.social, @tuthill.bsky.social, myself, and fine colleagues! ⛄ 🦟 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Deeply honoured to have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award to study how competition is encoded in the brain. This builds on the discoveries of outstanding past/present lab members. Grateful to mentors/collaborators/colleagues for their support. We are recruiting postdocs/PhD students.

Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Evolution seems to have repeatedly converged on a similar architecture in the early olfactory system of many animals. We offer an efficient-coding framework to understand this. Out in @pnas.org now! Led by @jzv.bsky.social, driven by Juan Carlos, + help from Farhad. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...