Larval Zebrafish can perform evidence integration in a visual random dot motion task. Here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We developed an automatic high throughput fitting method for latent variables inference studying different zebrafish larvae developmental stages and larval zebrafish mutants.

Thanks for having us!! Indeed two amazing days of snow, sun and great science!!🪰🐟

How do brains make decisions when faced with multiple, potentially conflicting cues? In our latest preprint, we show how #zebrafish use an additive strategy and process multiple visual features through anatomically distinct parallel pathways tinyurl.com/mvkn8em9 Thread 👇

An exciting study with Roberto Garza and Armin Bahl biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We combine high-throughput behavioral assays in larval zebrafish with drift-diffusion modeling studying integration dynamics across development and a variety of mutants . Give it a read :D

How does the algorithmic implementation of sensorimotor integration change during development and in disease? New paper from the Bahl lab🐟: Developmental and genetic modulation of evidence integration dynamics in zebrafish sensorimotor decision-making www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

In unserer Vortragsreihe #PROSPECTS stellt das Team Karriereförderung diesmal alle Fördermöglichkeiten für Postdocs vor: Mitarbeit in Projekten, Sachbeihilfe mit Eigener Stelle, Walter Benjamin-, Emmy Noether- u. Heisenberg-Programm. Inkl. Tipps zur Antragsvorbereitung. Teilnahme über: sohub.io/5o09

The School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham is recruiting Assistant or Associate Professors (Research & Education). Areas of interest: • Engineering biology • Epigenetics • Mycology • Plant science • RNA biology edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Little smart critters..🪰🐝🐜 Cognitive primitives of the insect brain: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Come be our colleague! The Center for Neural Science at NYU is accepting applications at the Assistant Professor level in computational neuroscience and/or neural engineering apply.interfolio.com/182074

You have until March 3rd to apply for the Cajal summer school on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR at Champalimaud! Come surf and track animals with us 🏄🪰🐟🚶 cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...

Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our Theoretical Biophysics workshop. Topics include active matter, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, development, behavior, evolution + more. ✈️ Meals, hotel & reasonable travel covered 🔗 janelia.news/THB26 @allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social

Our new preprint is out! A state-dependent neural circuit resolves approach–avoidance conflicts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Fantastic work led by Devika Bodas, with key contributions from Marine Balcou, and a great collaboration with Lisa Scheunemann Lab, fearuting Şevval Demirci.

📣 Reminder: Applications to the Advanced Confocal Microscopy Course close by the 22 February! 🗓️ 13-11 April 📍@champalimaudf, Lisbon ✏️ Application deadline: 22 February 2026 ✅ Acceptance notification: 24 February 2026 🔗 fchampalimaud.org/events/advan...

Genuinely delighted about this year’s CASCB Spring Retreat and energized to feel that, as a community, we are exactly where we want and need to be! Huge thanks to all the incredible people, across academic stages, disciplines, and research-supporting roles, who made this retreat such a success!

Behavioral biases drift in individuals. • Drift happens on many timescales • Drift rate depends on genetics and neuromodulators • It might be adaptive for rapidly changing environments elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

A position with prospects! We offer excellent researchers again the possibility to apply for a position as a Leader of a Lise Meitner Research Group in all areas of #science. Applications are possible between February 11th and April 15th, 2026. www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... #lisemeitnergroups

If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date): academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868 An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

Time-Sounds-Memory-Psychophysics in Drosophila? Suewei Lin and colleagues, WTF. I couldnt be more impressed. #myhero www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/en/faculty/p...

Very thankful for this thoughtful dispatch by @shaisrael.bsky.social sky.social and Moshe Parnas about our work. Learning and memory: Forgetting to remember: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social: neuroscientists in the lab of @felsenberg.bsky.social found that in fruit flies, re-tasting a sugar reward can weaken past memories, pointing to new ways to safely update harmful ones. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

Super excited to share that the “sequel” to my PhD research at the Parnas lab has been published as a featured article in Communications Biology! 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Markus Knaden et al. from the Odor-Guided Behavior Group in collab. with @yukoulrich.bsky.social report in PNAS that ozone destroys colony-specific odors causing attacks within the colony – a dramatic example of how human pollution can disrupt social systems in nature. www.ice.mpg.de/530492/PR_Ji...

Fruit fly larvae are more social than you think 🐛#UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social researchers discovered that they change their behaviour depending on who’s around - and uncovered the mechanisms behind it. t1p.de/t76uj

The first paper from the lab is now out in Science Advances: Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior in Drosophila www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... We find that fly larvae keep their distance to conspecifics in the absence of food, enjoy reading! @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

The Hector Foundation has honoured #UniKonstanz-based behavioural biologist Iain Couzin with the Hector Award for outstanding scientific achievements and exceptional mentorships in the field of collective behaviour. @cbehav.bsky.social Full story: t1p.de/7yq10

A neuronal population clock for interval timing in Drosophila #Drosophila

Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior in Drosophila #Drosophila

New preprint from our group (collaboration with @sueyeonchung.bsky.social) showing that discriminating odor components within a complex mixture is constrained by neural sensitivity rather than background interference - likely due to sparse representations at the front end.

How does evolution turn a harmless bacterial feeder into an active predator? Our new study led by @marianneroca.bsky.social and published in @pnas.org explores how sensory systems were rewired to enable prey detection and predatory behaviour in nematodes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵below!

Junior scientists 👉 applications are open for our workshop on the mechanistic basis of #cognition. 🧠 🤝 Joint sessions with our #TheoreticalNeuroscience workshop ✈️ Hotel, meals + reasonable travel expenses covered Apply by May 7 ➡️ janelia.news/CNW26 @michaelreiser.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social

Applications will be opening soon for BAMB! 2026 The summer school will take place from 12 - 23 July 2026 www.bambschool.org

Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our hands-on #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop featuring participant talks, tutorials & lively discussions. ✅ No registration fee 🍽️ Meals & hotel covered ✈️ Travel support available Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26 @allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social

Why do some worms graze on bacteria while others hunt and kill? Our study, published today in Nature, reveals how predatory aggression evolved in nematodes. Led by @gunizgozeeren.bsky.social and @leoboeger.bsky.social across the @jameslightfoot.bsky.social and @monikakscholz.bsky.social labs.

Hello, BlueSky! This is the official account for Janelia conferences & workshops. We’ll share calls for applications, deadlines, and meeting updates. Browse meetings & apply: janelia.news/conferences

We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered. For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...

The second paper from the lab is now available on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We discovered that cannibalistic behavior in fly larvae is social-context dependent. Larval groups avoid dead conspecifics; individuals show high attraction. They only do it when no one is watching 😉

Excited to return to Lisbon this June for the epic 3-week Cajal course on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR! 🐀🐟🪰🏃‍♀️🎥🖥📈🧪 Applications are open through Feb 13! Come join us. cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...

We are happy to announce that registration for #DrosoSpain2026 is now open! Please register and submit your abstracts until the 20th of February at: drosospain.umh.es Looking forward to seeing you all in Alicante soon!

🤯🎉 Our study on how early exposure to fatty foods rewires the brain and influences obesity risk has been selected as one of the 12 Max Planck Society Research Highlights of 2025! 🧠✨ So proud to see our team’s work recognised at this level 😊 www.mpg.de/25933453/res...

Thrilled to start 2026 with our latest preprint, in which we dive into a dedicated forward-walking circuit in the fly brain: doi.org/10.64898/202.... This effort was spearheaded by the fantastic @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social with help from a bunch of talented people in the lab.

Happy New Year 2026!!🎉🍾🎊 Off to a new year full of great science!

How do animals channel sensory information into motor pathways to generate flexible behavioral output? Excited to share a new preprint addressing this question by leveraging the new #maleCNS connectome, behavioral experiments, and in-vivo recordings: doi.org/10.64898/202.... A long🧵...

Fly Friends: The Larry Sandler Award recognizes the PhD student with the most amazing these using Drosophila as a model. Just three days left to nominate someone. For more info on the process and the link to nominations, see: genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...

Have a lovely 2nd Sunday of Advent 🕯️🕯️Festive moments with our Lady Imperia! #konstanz

🧠 Applications for the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP) @champalimaudf.bsky.social open until 31 January 2026. ☀️ Join our vibrant and international research community in sunny Lisbon! 🔗 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...

Come to Konstanz next summer and learn everything about collective behavior!!!🌅🪰🐜🐟🦗

🤩 I’m beyond excited to finally share our paper! 🎉 It’s been a long journey and a true team effort. Congratulations to our outstanding first authors, @lcreimon.bsky.social and Ayden Gouveia, and to all of the co-authors who made this possible 🙌! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

It was an honor being interviewed about our new color vision project by the 'Eye on Vision' WYPL Memphis radio show! 🪰👀🧪 @umassboston.bsky.social eyeonvision.blogspot.com/2025/11/hmx-...