Reposted by Vanessa StempelJulio Hechavarria @talking-bat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The call for the second funding period of the Priority Programm investigating cortico-subcortical interactions in mammals is now published at the DFG's website. Check it out! I will be the speaker for this second funding period, so in case of questions just reach out :) 041
Reposted by Vanessa StempelAndrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005... 18061
Reposted by Vanessa StempelJieyu Zheng @jieyusz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026How fast can mice learn complex mazes? With @mameister4.bsky.social we reveal memory, generalization, latent learning, and remote credit assignment of mice in the Manhattan Maze. Do mice born without a cortex or hippocampus have them too? Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgRapid spatial cognition in mice, with and without neocortex and hippocampusRapid learning, memory, and generalization are often attributed to circuits of the neocortex and hippocampus, but their specific role remains unclear. To examine these cognitive abilities together in ... 512647
Reposted by Vanessa StempelMax Planck Institute for Brain Research @mpibrain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026From Frankfurt to Oslo – congratulations to all 2026 #KavliPrize Laureates! Our Director Erin Schuman @erin-schuman.bsky.social shares the #Neuroscience Prize with Kelsey Martin, Oswald Steward & Christine Holt. We couldn’t be prouder! 🥂🎉 📷 © Thomas B. Eckhoff / The Kavli Prize @maxplanck.de 081
Reposted by Vanessa StempelMax Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.static.klipy.comALT: 15765
Reposted by Vanessa StempelGraziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 25/08/2026New PNAS paper from our lab! 🪰🐭👩🦰 We developed a toolbox AutoGaitA to compare locomotion across species, revealing conserved velocity gradients and aging effects despite divergent strategies for propulsion. A step toward understanding conserved principles of motor control. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...doi.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 1269
Reposted by Vanessa StempelIvana Jaric @jaricivana.bsky.social · 07/03/2026The SABV Symposium website is live! Check out the great lineup of speakers, abstract submission info, registration details, and highlights from past events 👇 sabvsymposium.org @talliezee.bsky.social @jeffreymogil.bsky.social @nifti12.bsky.social @avstempel.bsky.social @ljiljanamarina.bsky.socialsabvsymposium.orgSABV Symposium 2026Join us in Zurich for the SABV Symposium 2026, June 23-24. Engage with 23 lectures by globally renowned experts from 14 countries. Learn more and register here! 0126
Reposted by Vanessa StempelBenjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 712749
Reposted by Vanessa StempelChristine Grienberger @cgrienberger.bsky.social · 02/03/2026We’re looking for a new Research Tech! Our research tech is heading to graduate school (very exciting!), which means we’re recruiting someone new to join our team. The position involves hands-on neuroscience research in a collaborative environment. brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Bra...brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.comResearch TechnicianResearch Technician position available in the Grienberger lab at Brandeis University. We are a new neuroscience group studying the cellular basis of learning and memory in the mammalian brain. This is... 01821
Reposted by Vanessa StempelAnna Schroeder @annaschroeder.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Looking forward to this symposium and to my first visit to @dandrite.bsky.social next week. See you in Aarhus @avstempel.bsky.social, @fionamuellner.bsky.social and @lukechaosun.bsky.social! 081
Reposted by Vanessa StempelCatherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Ascona meetings on neural circuits are amazing conferences in a beautiful setting in Switzerland spanning all scales from genetics and micro-circuit cracking to high level cognition. Check asconacircuits.org for the 2026 program and register soon, as it typically reaches capacity very quickly 🧠🧪asconacircuits.orgHomeThe Ascona Meetings on Neuronal Circuits 0215
Reposted by Vanessa StempelFelix Baier @felixbaier.bsky.social · 23/07/2025🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️ 26471103
Reposted by Vanessa StempelPetr Znamenskiy @petrznam.bsky.social · 21/07/20251/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgBarcoded Rabies In Situ Connectomics for high-throughput reconstruction of neural circuitsSequencing of oligonucleotide barcodes holds promise as a high-throughput approach for reconstructing synaptic connectivity at scale. Rabies viruses can act as a vehicle for barcode transmission, than... 39440
Reposted by Vanessa StempelBenjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching. A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀 github.com/danionella/w... 719354
Reposted by Vanessa StempelEelke Snoeren @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social · 25/04/2025What about visiting a neuroscience conference in Europe this year? There is still time to register for IBNS in Tromsø (June 24th-29th 2025)! Please like and share! For more information: www.ibnsconnect.org/annual-meeting @ibnsconnect.bsky.social #neuroskyence 093
Vanessa Stempel @avstempel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Very happy to announce a workshop I'm co-organising with Marion Silies and @crltt.bsky.social, taking place 2-4 Sept in Ingelheim, Germany! 'Flexibility and robustness of nervous system function', hosted by the Gutenberg Workshops @unimainz.bsky.social & with a fantastic line-up! Details below 🔻 1208
Reposted by Vanessa StempelGraziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Registration started for the Janelia meeting on spinal cord and brainstem circuits for sensorimotor adaptation across species. Spinal cord is more than a hub, it does supercomputing! www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...janelia.orgComputing Cords: Sensorimotor Control by Nerve Cord Circuits Across SpeciesOrganizers Salil Bidaye, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Ansgar Büschges, University of Cologne Graziana Gatto, University of Cologne Abdel El Manira, Karolinska Institutet Julie 12419
Reposted by Vanessa StempelLake Conferences @lakeconferences.bsky.social · 24/01/2025The application deadline for the Sensation and Action conference 2025 is fast approaching! Join us for an exciting set of talks and for a chance to share your ideas: www.lakeconferences.orglakeconferences.orgHome - Lake Conferences 098
Reposted by Vanessa StempelMax Planck Institute for Brain Research @mpibrain.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Congratulations to @mpibrain.bsky.social director Gilles Laurent for being awarded the 2025 Louis-Jeantet prize for Medicine! The @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social recognizes Laurent's pioneering work on the operations of #neurons and dynamics of neuronal networks. More infos 👉 bit.ly/4hqk6iebrain.mpg.deGilles Laurent is awarded the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2025The 2025 Louis-Jeantet Prizes are awarded to Gilles Laurent, director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and to Veit Hornung, professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of ... 16118
Reposted by Vanessa StempelLouis-Jeantet Foundation @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025📢 The Louis-Jeantet Foundation is happy to announce the 2025 #LouisJeantetPrizes, awarded to VEIT HORNUNG @v-hornung.bsky.social @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social and to GILLES LAURENT @ maxplanck.de CONGRATULATIONS!!! 👉 jeantet.ch/en 👇 follow thread 12410
Reposted by Vanessa StempelPhilipp Brand @pbrand.bsky.social · 08/01/2025I'm thrilled to be opening my own lab this Fall at the @maxplanck.de MPI for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The lab is going to investigate the neuronal and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. We are hiring on all levels. Don't hesitate to share widely and reach out if interested. 2114150
Reposted by Vanessa StempelThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social, @avaskham.bsky.social, @claudia-lopez.bsky.social, @shaena.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...thetransmitter.orgThe non-model organism “renaissance” has arrivedMeet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study. 620175
Reposted by Vanessa StempelRory Coleman @rorycoleman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Sharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.nature.comA modular circuit coordinates the diversification of courtship strategies - NaturePeripheral and central circuit adaptations can be flexibly coordinated in Drosophila, and such a modular circuit organization may facilitate the evolution of mate recognition systems by allowing novel... 25716
Reposted by Vanessa StempelSarah Ruediger @ruedigersarah.bsky.social · 07/12/2024New Year, New Challenge? About to finish your PhD or recently graduated? Ready to tackle brain circuits & mouse behavior using Neuropixels/2P imaging, and live in London? We’ve got the postdoc position for you. Apply by Dec 18th before it’s gone! 🧠 #PostdocLife #ScienceJobs 087
Reposted by Vanessa StempelJustin Blau @justinblau.bsky.social · 04/12/2024We are hiring at NYU! An Assistant Professor position between the Department of Biology and the Center for Neural Science. apply.interfolio.com/160048 Deadline Jan 8th Please re-post / re-Sky / re-Blue...just tell people 05745
Reposted by Vanessa StempelWatanabe Lab @JHU @watanabelab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Excited to share our latest findings, now published @NatureNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41... We found unmyelinated axons exhibit pearls-on-a-string morphology's due to their membrane mechanical properties. Threads will follow! 2023784
Reposted by Vanessa StempelTim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 01/12/2024OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests) 14634205
Reposted by Vanessa StempelKatie Tschida @katietschida.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I'm excited to share recent work led by my PhD student Cassidy Malone, with help from Patryk Ziobro. Given numerous reports that female mice produce USVs during courtship, we tested the idea that female courtship USVs are regulated by estrous state. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.org 12610
Reposted by Vanessa StempelCarmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Neuroscientists! A key message from the ALBA Network Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!! Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience! 🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4 🗓️20 January 2025 17175
Reposted by Vanessa StempelGord Fishell @gordfishell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Excited to publish a broad set of enhancers to target interneuron types in the brain, along with a broad set of collaborators. Part of the BI armamentarium. Together this will help revolutionize the targeting of brain circuits.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.17.603924v2 09727
Reposted by Vanessa StempelDr. Liz Kirby @thekirbylab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Announcing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education. openstax.org/details/book... 20251109
Reposted by Vanessa StempelMatthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 21/09/2024This randomly popped up in my feed, and I've got to share it since it's just such a "never even thought about this" kind of paper: www.cell.com/cell-reports... Neuron membrane capacitance oscillates wildly during the day?! 🧪🧠cell.comDaily oscillations of neuronal membrane capacitanceSeverin et al. describe time-of-day changes in membrane capacitance in excitatory neurons from the visual cortex and hippocampus. Membrane capacitance is usually stable. These daily variations could p... 2214
Reposted by Vanessa StempelEarl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 19/09/2024Did you see this coming? Abstract categorization in a so-called sensorimotor midbrain area. Primate superior colliculus is causally engaged in abstract higher-order cognition www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neurosciencenature.comPrimate superior colliculus is causally engaged in abstract higher-order cognition - Nature NeuroscienceNeuronal recordings show that primate superior colliculus encodes learned abstract visual categories. The authors demonstrate that it plays a causal role in categorization behavior, independent of its... 64717
Reposted by Vanessa StempelLiz Chrastil @chrastil.bsky.social · 16/09/2024A few years ago I was in a position to do something unique in neuroscience. I had been working with the phenomenal @emilyjacobs.bsky.social on menopause and inspired by Laura Pritschet's menstrual study, and I was planning a pregnancy. What if we scanned my brain?? www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comNeuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy - Nature NeuroscienceNeural changes in pregnancy are not well understood. Here Pritschet et al. present an open-access precision brain imaging resource, mapping neuroanatomical change in an individual from preconception t... 69336
Reposted by Vanessa StempelJuan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 09/09/2024A lot of what we do involves producing a sequence of movements, but how the CNS does that remains elusive. A recent @elife.bsky.social paper by Mehrdad Kashefi, @andpru.bsky.social et al provides compellign behavioural evidence that we plan a few movements ahead tinyurl.com/2j22x99n #neuroskyenceelifesciences.orgFuture movement plans interact in sequential arm movements 2117
Vanessa Stempel @avstempel.bsky.social · 08/09/2024Very happy to receive an #ERC starting grant to study brainstem circuits for instinctive behaviours in mice. We're hiring postdocs and PhD students, if you're interested please email me! 0132