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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The model predictions held up against recordings from several brain regions and species. Lovely piece of work from @soledad-gcogno.bsky.social group and the @clopathlab.bsky.social! 💙 @kavlifoundation.org 6/6

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Meaning the average weight between neurons as a function of how far apart they sit in the sequence ordering. It’s that profile rather than the matrix that fingerprints the dynamics, and shapes how the network responds to perturbation. 🧠🤝🧠🤝🧠 5/6

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The team trained recurrent network models to produce a whole repertoire of sequences of activity. Many different connectivity matrices can generate the same sequence, but what they all share is the same CONNECTIVITY PROFILE! 💡 4/6

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A new preprint from the Gonzalo Cogno group on Neural dynamics and computation at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, with Claudia Clopath at Imperial College London, asks a good question. What network structure makes that flexibility possible? 🤔 3/6

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Neural sequences underlie a diversity of brain functions. The variability in their properties is what lets them flexibly support our behaviour and cognition. 2/6 🧠

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What is "a connectivity profile" and why is it important for behaviour and cognition? 🤔 Find out in this short thread about our latest preprint from the @soledad-gcogno.bsky.social group, which you can find here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵 1/6

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Warm congrats to @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social, selected for the @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2026/27 🎆 On November 26 he’s in London asking where our sense of space comes from and what 🍩-shaped #gridcell networks are already doing before we ever explore

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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Out now in @science.org : How does the brain rapidly scan space to guide navigation? We found that the brain’s internal map is continuously retuned from moment to moment, focusing neural activity on what matters most. 🧵1/8 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Adaptive modulation of theta sweeps in the brain’s navigation circuit

Efficient navigation requires prioritizing information from behaviorally relevant locations. In rats, such selective sampling may arise from theta-paced sweeps in grid and place cell populations, whic...

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Abraham Zelalem Vollan @azvollan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Now in Science: How does the brain’s navigation system allocate its limited representational resources during behavior? We found that grid cells sweep toward locations of interest, providing a potential mechanism for allocating spatial attention in the cognitive map.🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This research was made possible by the support of Norges forskningsrad, @erc.europa.eu via #KiloNeurons, @embo.org and @kavlifoundation.org 🧵8/8

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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This work would not have existed without the insight, creativity and persistence of @azvollan.bsky.social , @rjgardner.bsky.social , @mschellenberger.bsky.social , @m-bmoser.bsky.social and the rest of the team at @kavlintnu.bsky.social Proud of you all. 🧵7/8

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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

And if you’d rather watch than read, here’s what the discovery looks like. 🎬 youtu.be/vyFWD6U7Bn8 🧵6/8

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The Brain's Searchlight: A short visual story about a spectacular brain discovery

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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

For the story behind the data, including how we got here, what we think it means, and what it actually felt like to find this, @elmkvist.bsky.social put together this feature: 👉🇬🇧 norwegianscitechnews.com/2026/08/ 🧵4/8

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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The dynamic retuning is reminiscent of active sensing. Rather than pointing to a fixed goal, the brain reallocates its internal spatial scan from moment to moment toward whatever matters most, right now. 🧵3/8

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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

#Gridcells generate rhythmic theta sweeps 🧹 across the brain’s internal map. We show these #sweeps are not rigid - they retune from moment to moment according to behavioral demands. They can narrow and lock onto prey, reverse during backward movement, and persist even during REM sleep. 🧵2/8

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Jo Carpenter @jocarpenter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Moser Group is presenting our work on Wednesday afternoon at #FENS2026! •Mechanism for L-R sweeps •Attention modulation of sweeps •Grid/place remapping rules & dynamics •”Mega torus” as a hi-capacity memory space •Moving the grid bump •Development of tori & rings •RSC/HC pops. in a spatial task

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This research was supported by the Research Council of Norway, including its Centres of Excellence scheme, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship (European Commission), and JSPS KAKENHI (Japan)

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Here is a 3D visualisation of neurons in the brain structure PG in a seven-day-old zebrafish larva. We follow their axons as they project into the fish forebrain, the pallium. The pallium is an ancestral cousin to our human cortex. Video by Mina Koç at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A small fish and a human, hundreds of millions of years apart, build the sensing brain by the same underlying logic. The finding suggests there may be universal rules a brain must follow. Read the popular science story here: norwegianscitechnews.com/2026/07/the-...

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The other road to a mind

A small fish and a human, hundreds of millions of years apart, build the sensing brain by the same underlying logic.

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Read first author @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social's exciting story here: bsky.app/profile/matt...

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Check out @edvardmoser.bsky.social's thread here: bsky.app/profile/edva...

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This means that rather than being built from experience, the brain seems to construct these network geometries first 🍩&⭕ Experience later anchors these brain maps to the external world. 🗺️⚓🌍 (3:5)

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The #Moser researchers recorded thousands of #GridCell neurons in rat pups with #Neuropixels. They found that key navigation network-activity structures - grid cell torus map 🍩 & head direction ring ⭕️ - emerge days before pups open their eyes, ears or start walking. (2:5)

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Are we born with a sense of space? 🧠 A new preprint from the #MoserGroup suggests that the brain’s internal navigation system 🍩 begins forming before young animals actively explore the world. 🧵(1:5) Have a look at the preprint here 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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torsteinslettmoen.bsky.social @torsteinslettmoen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

1/6 Do neighboring #PlaceCells in #Hippocampus CA1 map neighboring locations in space? 🧠🗺️ Is there micro-scale spatial topography in the hippocampus? See our latest paper from @kavlintnu now out in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Place cells in CA1 lack topographical organization of firing locations | PNAS

Topography is a well-described and well-known concept for cortical organization in primary sensory and motor cortices of mammalian brains. Similar ...

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Why does that matter? A distributed map may give the hippocampus enormous flexibility, allowing it to store many distinct memories of different places and experiences without interference 🧠🤝💡

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

It isn’t. Even neurons that are anatomical neighbours can represent completely different locations in space. There is no fine-scale spatial clustering in the brain's CA1. The map is distributed, not topographic.

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

In a new study out in @pnas.org, the #MoserGroup recorded thousands of neurons in the #hippocampus of freely moving mice using #Mini2P and asked a simple question: Is the brain’s internal map laid out in the same orderly way as physical space, where nearby cells represent nearby locations?

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Read more from Edvard Moser here: bsky.app/profile/edva...

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Soledad Gonzalo Cogno @soledad-gcogno.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Applications are now open for the summer school: 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 🧠 Apply before March 15: www.compneuronrsn.org 📍 Located in beautiful Eresfjord 🇳🇴 🗓️ Between July 6-24 Supported by the @kavlifoundation.org In collaboration with @kavlintnu.bsky.social

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Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience

Summer school in Eresfjord, Norway (July 8th - 26th, 2024)

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

How does the 🧠-map choose what to sample? Preprint: #Sweeps in #gridcells act as attention-like signal, dynamically biasing the map towards behaviourally relevant locations. By @mschellenberger.bsky.social @azvollan.bsky.social @m-bmoser.bsky.social @edvardmoser.bsky.social + @rjgardner.bsky.social

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

At nærmere 50 000 stemmer gikk til forskning, viser kraften i kunnskap, samarbeid og utholdenhet. Gratulerer, Magnar – dette inspirerer langt utover Trøndelag 💙

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Hilsen fra @m-bmoser.bsky.social: «At du kan konsentrere deg om effekten av ett gen er utrolig spennende. Dette gjør NTNU stolte - og vi er stolte med NTNU. Supert arbeid!»

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Hilsen fra @edvardmoser.bsky.social: «Dette er fantastisk for oss alle. May-Britt og jeg heier på deg og er stolte over det løftet du har gitt og gir forskningen ved NTNU. Engasjementet ditt inspirerer mange – og det er ekstra gøy at det er forskning som stakk av med flest stemmer!»

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

🎉 Gratulerer til vår kollega Magnar Bjørås, kåret til Årets trønder! Ved Kavli-instituttet er vi stolte over Magnars banebrytende forskning på sjeldne sykdommer som barnedemens - forskning som gir håp der det trengs aller mest. Les saken på NRK:

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Årets trønder og Årets hverdagshelt 2025 er kåret

Hun hjelper barn i konfliktområder, mens han forsker på barnedemens. Fredag blir de hedret i Olavshallen.

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

META2P will bridge neurotech and nanotech to enable high-resolution calcium imaging across multiple brain regions in freely moving animals. This could redefine how we study brain function, behaviour, and disease. 🚀 From MINI2P to META2P – pushing the frontier of in vivo neuroscience imaging.

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🧠🔬 NOK 12M to #META2P from Kavli & SINTEF! Neurophotonics PI @weijianzong.bsky.social at @kavlintnu.bsky.social is together with NorFab #MiNaLab PI Christopher Dirdal at SINTEF awarded NOK 12 million by the Research Council of Norway to develop the next generation of two-photon microscopes (1:2)

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Board chair Bjarne Foss, @m-bmoser.bsky.social @edvardmoser.bsky.social @torgrande.bsky.social HM King Harald V, Secretary General of @nasjonalforeningen.no Bo Gleditsch, Centre Directors @asgeirkf.bsky.social Gøril Rolfseng Grøntvedt and Minister of Research Sigrun Aasland @kd.regjeringen.no

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