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Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was great fun talking science to Svilen. Thanks for having me!

Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

14 years ago I went to FENS Forum in Barcelona to attend my very first scientific conference; fast-forward and I'm super excited to present to you part of my fantastic neuroscience research team in Göttingen. Do come by to say Hi and see what we've been up to recently! #fens2026

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Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Really looking forward to our #fens2026 satellite symposium tomorrow!

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Young PI Neuroscience Symposium'26 @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🚨Last week to register!! Noelia Antón Bolaños is one of our amazing keynote speakers. She will tell us all about her journey from Spain to Boston, and starting her lab at @umcutrecht.bsky.social 🛫🌎🛬. Join our @fens.org Satellite event in Barcelona!

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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Among the amazing keynote speakers at the @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social, a Satellite Event of @fens.org in Barcelona, is Noelia Antón Bolaños 🤩. Noelia will tell us about her journey from Spain to Boston, and now to her lab at @umcutrecht.bsky.social. Register! youngpisymposium2026.com

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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

we are proud to be supported by the Association of ERC Grantees for this FENS 2026 Satellite Event in Barcelona 🤩 Register now! 🤝 @obarnstedt.bsky.social for our link to the ERC 🫶

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(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬 @aheadofthenerve.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

New preprint out 🎉 What happens to the hippocampal “place code” when an animal is actively engaged in a task? The answer surprised us (and might surprise you too!). Let's dive in ⬇️ Link: "Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Christine Grienberger @cgrienberger.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🚀 New preprint from the lab! Our first foray into the subiculum uses in vivo whole-cell recordings to show that dendritic plateaus are a prominent, learning-dependent signaling mode of subicular neurons. Feedback is welcome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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NeuroDoWo @neurodowo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🧠The NeuroDoWo is coming to Würzburg The NeuroDoWo is a conference where neuroscience and phd students are brought together! 📍Würzrburg, Germany 🗓️ 8th to 12th June 2026 Stay tuned for speaker announcements, workshops, and registration info #phdlife #neuroscience #wuerzburg #conference #neurodowo

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Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

One more week to apply for this cool collaborative PhD project in Bonn and Göttingen! Are you interested in peeking inside the brain with miniscopes while mice are navigating using olfactory or visuospatial cues to find out how the hippocampus encodes this information and behaviour? Then apply now!

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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

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2025: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience

Enlightening the brain

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Hannah Haberkern @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

📢 Join us, the Haberkern lab, @uni-wuerzburg.de for a postdoc studying neural circuit mechanisms of navigation. You’ll spearheading neurophysiology experiments on our brand new 2P! ⏳ Apply by 28th February 2026 Details: www.haberkernlab.de/docs/ENPostd... #neuroscience #academicjobs #postdoc

On the left, the image shows a schematic of a fly head, ring neurons and EPG neurons together with some calcium imaging frames. On the right is a photo of a fly on a ball in virtual reality and another schematic of a VR system.

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Young PI Neuroscience Symposium'26 @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

📢Are you a young PI or senior postdoc in neuroscience looking to embark on the challenging journey of starting your own lab? 📆Then save July 5, 2026 in your calendar and join us in Barcelona for the second Young PI Symposium. youngpisymposium2026.com

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Young PI Symposium 2026

Visit the post for more.

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Yangfan Peng @yangfanpeng.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

🥳Excited to share our latest human multipatch paper, now out in @natneuro.nature.com 🧠 We studied the cellular and synaptic physiology of human L2–3 pyramidal neurons and identified subtype-specific local connectivity rules across individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Join us: penglab.de

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Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Fully funded PhD position between our lab in Göttingen and @tobiasackels.bsky.social in Bonn! Dual-color imaging 🔬🐁 in freely moving mice, behavioral analysis, olfactory 👃 and spatial coding in #hippocampus... It's a cool project in two fantastic labs. Reach out if interested! 🤙 #neuroskyence

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 26/11/2025

When you join a lab to do some voltage imaging

An old record player set by the side of the road, with a note reading: "does not work but could be fun to fix!"

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A great intro to academic conferencing. Not sure how I missed this one. scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...

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Getting the most of out a scientific conference

A slightly unconventional guide to your first time

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Ruka Yu @rukayu1204.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

🧠 How do emotion and memory shape behavior? Join live webinar with Dr. Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social l & Dr. Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social(European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen) 🗓️ November 13th | 14:00 CET 👉 Clickto register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

One more week left to apply for this 4-year full-time TECHNICAL ASSISTANT position at the EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE GÖTTINGEN!

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Lisa Giocomo @lgiocomo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Congrats to lead authors @alexattinger.bsky.social and Tony Drinnenberg and all our amazing collaborators! Check out the thread below for new work from the lab on plasticity, cortex and spatial representations for navigation!

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

doi.org/10.1126/scie... This seems rad: overexpressing FruM in a set of proboscis-motorneuron-projecting neurons makes melanogaster males add food-sharing to their courtship repertoire. It is fascinating to see evolutionary shifts in behavior be tied so concretely to shifts in brain development!

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Cross-species implementation of an innate courtship behavior by manipulation of the sex-determinant gene

In accepting a courting male, Drosophila subobscura females require nuptial gift giving in which a male gives regurgitated crop contents to her mouth to mouth. No similar behavior is found in D. melan...

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Stephan Preibisch @preibischs.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The connectome of the entire male Drosophila central nervous system is out!! Acquired using FIB-SEM @ 8x8x8nm, we aligned 7.5 mio 2D images aligned into one seamless 3D volume, which was used to segment & proofread neurons and synapses. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Our lab at the European Neuroscience Institute in Göttingen is looking for a highly skilled and motivated TECHNICAL ASSISTANT. Are you proficient in histological and wet lab techniques and lab management? Then come apply for our position (4 years contract)! umg.recruiting-portal.com/r/z004xflh7r...

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European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen (ENI) -- Technical Assistant (f/m/d)

Technical Assistant (f/m/d)

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Julia Veit @juliaveit.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Happy to share that I just started a W2 professorship at the University of Bremen! Yay tenure! While I already start teaching now, the lab will stay in Freiburg until May while we get things ready. Super excited about this new chapter! We’re also hiring! Please get in touch if you’re interested!

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Manfredi Castelli @manfredic.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I’m pleased to share our new paper, “Hippocampal ripple diversity organizes neuronal reactivation dynamics in the offline brain”, out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social ! With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics

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Göttingen Campus @goettingen-campus.de · 04/09/2025

Congratulations Dr Anggi Hapsari and Dr Oliver Barnstedt at our Campus on their new ERC Starting Grants! Good luck with #ERCStG research #SaLtedPeat and #LearnMamBo! Find out more: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #Ecology #UniGoettingen & #Neuroscience #MBExC #UMG Thanks to @erc.europa.eu

Photograph shows Dr Anggi Hapsari in an image from her own collection.

Photo shows Dr Oliver Barnstedt with thanks to Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie / Robin Ritter for this image.

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Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

We are super excited that our project ***LearnMamBo*** Neuronal Dynamics of Learning and Memory in the Mammillary Body gets an #ercstartinggrant @erc.europa.eu – we will dissect the associated circuits supporting episodic memory – REACH OUT if interested in joining this project!

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a man wearing a hat and a suit says mambo no. 5 .

ALT: a man wearing a hat and a suit says mambo no. 5 .

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Very Sane AI Newsletter @verysane.ai · 14/08/2025

There is some confusion about whether or not we understand LLMs. The answer is yes and no, but mostly no. It's a complicated enough question that it seemed like it needed an article. www.verysane.ai/p/do-we-unde...

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Do we understand how neural networks work?

Yes and no.

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fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🚨🚨My PhD work pre-print🚨🚨 Check it out 👇👇 'Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila' It's a great collaborative enterprise and can't thank enough to my mentors and collaborators for the kindest efforts...fingers crossed 🤞🤞

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Francesco Battaglia @battaglialab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

@guidomeijer.com has #neuropixels preprocessing worked out for you!

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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A flexible hippocampal population code for experience relative to reward - Nature Neuroscience

Sosa et al. find that hippocampal neural activity in mice encodes both environmental location and experience relative to rewards, spanning distances far from reward, through parallel and flexible popu...

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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation. rdcu.be/el18q A short thread follows for those interested. 1/n

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Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry

Nature - A study shows that loss of memory precision associated with systems consolidation can be explained by neurogenesis-dependent reorganization of engram circuitry within the hippocampus over...

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Impressive study from Richard Morris's group: Hippocampal reactivation of planned trajectories is required for effective goal choice in an allocentric memory task #hippocampus #neuroskyence #navigation #memory #planning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Michael Goard @michaelgoard.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🚨Very excited to share a new paper from our lab in Neuron (@cp-neuron.bsky.social) on the influence of the estrous cycle on structural and functional plasticity in the hippocampus: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thread below 🧠🧪🧵:

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The estrous cycle modulates hippocampal spine dynamics, dendritic processing, and spatial coding

Histological evidence suggests that the estrous cycle exerts a powerful influence on CA1 neurons in the mammalian hippocampus. Decades have passed sin…

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Irina Barnaveli @barnaveliirina.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com, we show how cognitive maps in the hippocampal system could solve the general problem of representing and relating multiple alternative action plans. doi.org/10.1038/s414... With @doellerlab.bsky.social, Patrick Haggard, @vigano.bsky.social, Daniel Reznik

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Takaki Komiyama @takakikomiyama.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Our paper is out in Nature. By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned. Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Motor learning refines thalamic influence on motor cortex - Nature

Imaging and optogenetics in mice provide insight into the interplay between the primary motor cortex and the motor thalamus during learning, showing that thalamic inputs have a key role in the executi...

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Esteban @estebanbt.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Very excited to share the first preprint of my PhD thesis! Together with @tschreiner.bsky.social, we investigated how respiration coordinates signature neural expressions of successful remembering during memory retrieval. 🫁🧠 🧵(1/8)

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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Pleased to share the final published version of @glopez.bsky.social's work in @currentbiology.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Region-specific nucleus accumbens dopamine signals encode distinct aspects of avoidance learning" Congrats, Gaby!!!

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Region-specific nucleus accumbens dopamine signals encode distinct aspects of avoidance learning

Avoidance learning—learning to avoid bad outcomes—is an essential survival behavior. Dopamine signals are widely observed in response to aversive stim…

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Eliezyer de Oliveira @eliezyer.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Does your research involve comparing experimental conditions? Then our latest publication is for you: We developed generalized contrastive PCA (gcPCA), a tool for comparing high-dimensional datasets. 🧠📊 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012747 This tool was born out of necessity, here is the story. 🧵 1/

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Nachum Ulanovsky's book "“Natural Neuroscience” on taking a more ecological approach to neuroscience came out! Nachum is one of the world leaders in studying the brain using bats, and his studies are always incredibly interesting and original. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...

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Natural Neuroscience

Natural neuroscience departs from the classical reductionist approach, which emphasizes control at the expense of natural behaviors, by proposing a shift tow...

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Kepecs Lab @ WashU @kepecslab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

1/ Why do patients with late-stage cancer lose motivation & sink into apathy? 🔥 Our new Science paper shows chronic inflammation activates a cytokine-sensing brain circuit that lowers motivation. Huge team effort: Aelita Zhu, Sarah Starosta, Pignatelli & Janowitz labs! 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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A neuroimmune circuit mediates cancer cachexia-associated apathy

Cachexia, a severe wasting syndrome associated with inflammatory conditions, often leads to multiorgan failure and death. Patients with cachexia experience extreme fatigue, apathy, and clinical depres...

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Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🌈Today was a good day for the lab! 🌈 We celebrated our first lab member's birthday at ENI – Happy Birthday, Xiaoyu! 🎂 We got a grant accepted from @dfg.de 🙏 for a super cool project with @tobiasackels.bsky.social (stay tuned!) and the table for our new 2P has arrived 😀 #neuroskyence

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