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Vincent Bonin @boninlab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Last chance to apply. Unfortunately, this opportunity is limited to junior postdoctoral fellows and senior PhD students.

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

New work out today by a collaborative team including @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social! 🙌 Introducing #JAXLEY, a differentiable simulator that brings biophysically detailed neural models into the realm of large‑scale, machine‑learning‑powered optimization. doi.org/10.1038/s41592-025-02895-w

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Pedro J. Goncalves @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Super excited about this work led by the one and only @deismic.bsky.social!

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

One week left to apply for the NERF/VIB-KU Leuven Center For Brain & Disease Research international PhD Call 2026! Learn more about the projects & teams and apply now: cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Applications are now open for the NERF/VIB-KU Leuven Center For Brain & Disease Research joint PhD Call 2026! 📅 Application deadline: 20 November 2025 📍 Start date: Autumn 2026 🔗 Learn more about the projects & teams and apply now: cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Which small midbrain structure plays a surprisingly central role in how animals see, decide, and act, and has been the star of multiple recent papers from @farrowlab.bsky.social and @boninlab.bsky.social? That's right, the superior colliculus! blog.vib.be/meet-the-superior-colli…

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

📢 New paper out in Nature! The Hoekstra lab at Harvard and @farrowlab.bsky.social lab at NERF reveal how a brain switch is tuned by evolution to control freezing vs fleeing in two sister species of deer mice. 👏 Huge congratulations to the entire team tinyurl.com/3at3zvby

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

New from the Urban Lab: PyfUS! An open-source Python toolkit for analyzing whole-brain fUS data—now with single-voxel clustering for fine-scale insights. Just published in Neurocomputing. 🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2025.130899 🛠️ Code: github.com/OpenfUS/PyfUS

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

In a new essay in The Transmitter, @farrowlab.bsky.social and katjareinhard.bsky.social‬ make the case for evolutionary thinking in systems neuroscience. Comparative approaches = deeper insight into brain function. tinyurl.com/33sebnf7 ✨ Artwork by Eoin Ryan

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Systems and circuit neuroscience need an evolutionary perspective

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, neuroscientists must frame their research through an evolutionary lens.

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Clément Brunner @clembrunner.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

We map brain-wide functions of awake mice at the single-voxel scale ! Introducing PyfUS our brand new, ground-setting, open-source software for analysing brain-wide functional ultrasound imaging datasets. Now in #Neurocomputing @sciencedirect.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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FarrowLab @farrowlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Excited to see this out! 🎉 Congratulations to the fantastic @nkkuhn.bsky.social for leading the way, with key contributions from Chen Li and @boninlab.bsky.social. Thanks also to: @nerflabs.bsky.social, @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social, @viblifesciences.bsky.social, and KU Leuven. tinyurl.com/3rfe6f2k

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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

New research from the @farrowlab.bsky.social and @boninlab.bsky.social at NERF out in @currentbiology.bsky.social reveals how the intricate dendritic architecture of midbrain neurons helps detect and compute critical motion cues. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Latest paper from the @alanurban.bsky.social‬ lab shows functional ultrasound (fUS) imaging reliably tracks neuronal activity with good spatial precision! 🎯 Congrats to the team! 👏 direct.mit.edu/imag/article/doi/10.…

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Last Friday, we celebrated Art & Neuroscience with great talks, posters, workshops, and lots of connection at the yearly NERF retreat. Special thanks to the @boninlab.bsky.social‬ for organizing, and to everyone who joined in on the fun! 🧠✨

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🎨 Painted faces 🐁 Tickling experiments 🙋🏻‍♀️ Thought-provoking questions Where else but at the NERF retreat? 🤩

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Exciting news: @boninlab.bsky.social‬ & @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social with ‪@franckp.bsky.social‬ receive SFARI funding to study how early synaptic development in SYNGAP1 mutants shapes brain circuits & behavior in autism. 👏 tinyurl.com/54ywzxm9

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Hayden, Karthik & Nastya from the @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social lab joined the #SBI Hackathon in Tübingen in March, contributing to the open-source SBI package. Nastya gave a lightning talk on multifidelity inference for computationally expensive simulators. A great week of science & collaboration!

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Simone Marcigaglia on defending his PhD today! 👏 🎓 Simone developed a novel microfluidic catheter aimed at bypassing the blood-brain barrier, an ambitious and much-needed approach that would fill an existing gap in the market for intracerebral infusions.

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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

With beautiful illustration of calcium imaging of human cortical neurons in visual cortex of awake transplanted mice by @benvermaercke.bsky.social @boninlab.bsky.social

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🎶 Throwback to Quiz Night two weeks ago! Our NERF delegation may not have made it to the podium, but team spirit (and Disney knowledge!) was strong 💪 Big thanks to the PhD Association for organizing such a fun night. We're already looking forward to the next edition!

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

In a series of recent studies, the Urban lab shows how it's pushing the boundaries of functional ultrasound (fUS), with: 👉 AI-powered navigation tools with micrometer precision 👉 3D vascular mapping 👉 ultra-sensitive activity analysis blog.vib.be/peering-into-the-brain-…

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Thus new review by Jennifer Hoy (University of Nevada) and Karl Farrow (NERF) takes a deep dive into the role of the superior colliculus. www.cell.com/current-biology/fullte… Beautifully illustrated by Pia Rachedi + open access @farrowlab.bsky.social

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

New work co-led by @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social introduces a powerful new approach to model conditional distributions of neural and behavioral data using masked variational autoencoders. Congratulations to @auschulz.bsky.social‬ et al. www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/…

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

As part of #NEUROGATE, the Haesler lab is helping develop a holographic endoscope for high-resolution, deep-brain imaging. Supported by a €2.5M EIC grant, this ultra-thin fiber technology could transform neuroscience & neurotech. nerf.be/en/news#/new...

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Belated congratulations to our newest Dr. Lies Deceuninck! 🙌 🎓

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Clément Brunner @clembrunner.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

🚀New from Urban Lab in #eNeuro @sfnjournals.bsky.social We used spatiotemporal clustering of single fUS voxels to map visual activity in awake mice. This high-resolution method precisely separates signals, revealing fine-grained activity patterns like never before🧠✨ tinyurl.com/47t27c7k

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Spatiotemporal Clustering of Functional Ultrasound Signals at the Single-Voxel Level

Functional ultrasound (fUS) imaging is a well-established neuroimaging technology that offers high spatiotemporal resolution and a large field of view. Typical strategies for analysing fUS data compri...

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

What a week for the @boninlab.bsky.social! Celebrating the publication of two papers and now the news of an FWO project grant, enabling more exciting science over the next four years. Congratulations Vincent Bonin and Asli Ayaz. 👏

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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Two new studies from the @boninlab.bsky.social reveal the complexity of the brain’s visual processing network and how it adapts to different states of arousal and behavior. 👁️ 🧠 Congratulations to @xuhan87.bsky.social, Karolina Socha, and the rest of the team. 🙌 nerf.be/en/news#/new...

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Clément Brunner @clembrunner.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Very nice talk given today @nerflabs.bsky.social by Robert Olhendorf from @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social about brand new tools for whole-brain molecular hemodynamic imaging 🤩 Very exciting work !

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