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Alexander Ecker @aecker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Had a great time with the team at our workshop at Schneefernerhaus on the Zugspitze last week! Great science and team discussions including three new people, alumni and special guests. Thanks everyone!

Sunrise on Zugspitze - Höllental and Jubiläumsgrat

Early morning hikers at the Zugsitze peak

Team photo at Schneefernerhaus at 2650 m above sea level

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Thomas Zenkel @thomaszen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

📣 Our paper introducing openretina, a collaborative framework for retina modelling across datasets and species, is now published as an eLife Reviewed Preprint. Paper: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Code: github.com/open-retina/... Docs: open-retina.org

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Timo Lüddecke @timojl.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🚀 Introducing LiDeRe: a lightweight readout that turns frozen vision backbones (e.g. DINOv3) into strong dense predictors. A tiny head → semantic segmentation, detection, pose, contour. Often beats SoTA methods with a fraction of the trainable parameters. At #CVPR2026, poster session 1 on Friday.

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Alexander Ecker @aecker.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

A nice and fun small workshop on NeuroAI. Looking forward to it!

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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🧠Introducing OmniMouse: One of the largest datasets in neuroscience along with a systematic study of scaling properties of brain models Co-led by 🤩 K. Willeke, @pollytur.bsky.social and @alexrgil14.bsky.social Models trained on up to 3M neurons, >150B tokens

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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🚀 OmniMouse is at ICLR: Poster: Friday, April 24, 3:15PM, P3-#1808 📄 Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=mEw4lhAn0F 📝 Blog: tinyurl.com/7bjyrhk8 📊 Data: tinyurl.com/2txa9b6t 💻 Code: github.com/enigma-brain/omnimouse 🤗 Model: hf.co/the-enigma-project/omnimouse 🤗 Data: tinyurl.com/bp685dv9

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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Early career researcher: Are you thinking about writing an ERC , Emmy Noether Proposal, or Lower Saxony AI Group application, and are you interested to work with us at @uni-goettingen.de and @goettingen-campus.de

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Information Event on Funding Programs - Georg-August-University Göttingen

Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen

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Alexander Ecker @aecker.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

If you recently finished your PhD in ML for life science and are looking for a new job early next year, please apply! Göttingen is a lovely town and a great scientific environment.

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Alexander Ecker @aecker.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🛫 On my way to San Diego for #NeurIPS. Touch base if you want to meet up and chat about neuroAI, postdoc opportunities in Germany or just hang out!

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Timo Lüddecke @timojl.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

📣 Paper alert: We present dense attentive probing (DeAP), a method to measure the representation quality of various vision backbones for dense prediction tasks. It uses small, parameter-efficient readouts with learnable masks to generate dense predictions from backbone features of any size.

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pollytur.bsky.social @pollytur.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I‘m at NeurIPS Mexico and happy to chat about comp neuro, video understanding, multimodal and foundational models If you are in San Diego - check out our posters together with Nina, Finn, Chase and more members of @aecker.bsky.social and @sinzlab.bsky.social More about the papers in the thread ⬇️

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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🔬 Exciting PostDoc Opportunity! 🐁🧠 We - the @sinzlab.bsky.social (sinzlab.org) and @trose-neuro.bsky.social (troselab.de) Labs - are seeking an experimental postdoc to work at @unibonn.bsky.social with cutting-edge miniature 2-photon microscopy and gaze tracking in freely behaving mice.

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Alexander Ecker @aecker.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Deadline for applying with us at #ELLISPhD program is in 10 days (Oct 31). We're looking for highly motivated people working at the interface of machine learning and neuroscience.

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Alexander Ecker @aecker.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

If you're interested in doing your PhD with us, please apply via the ELLIS PhD program! We're looking for talented people interested in the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience.

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Alexander Ecker @aecker.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

📢 We have an opening for a tenure track assistant professor position (W1 t.t. W2) in AI in our CS dept @uni-goettingen.de, Germany. ⏰ Application deadline: Sept 19 🗣️ Please share! uni-goettingen.de/en/697924.html

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W1-TT-W2 Artificial Intelligence - Georg-August-University Göttingen

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Kaja Wierucka @kajawierucka.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

📢 Fully-funded PhD opportunity! Explore the links between social & communication networks in ring-tailed lemurs! Exciting fieldwork, interdisciplinary team, and innovative technologies! Apply now and join @primatenzentrum.bsky.social & @unigoettingen.bsky.social for this cutting-edge research!

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 14/04/2025

A Perspective from the Ecker lab discusses the progress and challenges of using computer vision approaches for behavior studies of primates in natural environments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Alexander Ecker @aecker.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

📣 Now out in Nature Communications as part of the MICrONS package: Our study on excitatory morphological cell types in mouse visual cortex led by Marissa Weis. We describe a set of principles that capture the morphological diversity excitatory neurons. A thread: (1/12) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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An unsupervised map of excitatory neuron dendritic morphology in the mouse visual cortex - Nature Communications

Excitatory neurons in the neocortex exhibit considerable morphological diversity, yet their organizational principles remain a subject of ongoing research. Here, the authors use unsupervised learning ...

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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

SFB Paper Alert! That’s teamwork: 14 SFB members across nine projects put together a perspective paper on “Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild”, which was published in @naturemethods.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild - Nature Methods

In this Perspective, Vogg et al. discuss the progress and challenges of using computer vision approaches in the behavioral analysis of primates in their natural environment.

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Alexander Ecker @aecker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hello, world! I’m moving here from the X sphere, hoping to find a nicer environment 🙂

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