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Susanne Babl

@susannebabl.bsky.social
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Neuroethologist - bats and brains 🦇🦇🧠 Postdoc at FU Berlin

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Shivani Hariharan @shivanihari.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Very excited to see our preprint out! 🦇 We show that bats time their echolocation calls to brief dips in rhythmic noise, helping them avoid acoustic jamming. Check it out!
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Dr. Susanne Hoffmann @susannehoffmann.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Do you want to know if birds can use hair-like feathers as high-frequency sound receptors during echolocation? Join our team as PhD student or postdoc and find out! ⬇️ www.bi.mpg.de/2809383/job_...
Photo of a bird with large eyes sitting on a rock. The feathers are brown with white spots.
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Susanne Babl @susannebabl.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Our new paper is now out in @commsbio.nature.com. We recorded in the auditory cortex of actively vocalizing bats and find that neurons encode class and temporal structure of vocalizations before they are produced. 🎤🦇🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
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Neurons in the bat auditory cortex encode class and complexity of future vocalizations - Communications Biology
Neurons in the bat auditory cortex encode upcoming vocalizations before they are emitted, distinguishing call category and temporal structure. These findings reveal predictive, vocalization-specific s...
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Dr. Susanne Hoffmann @susannehoffmann.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We are inviting applications of motivated pre-doctoral researchers to join an exciting, HFSP-funded projct. 🧪🐦 🧠 @mpiforbi.bsky.social @hfspo.bsky.social FindAPhD.com share.google/eCgiK7GdjoQD...
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PhD Programmes, Research Projects & Studentships in the UK & Europe
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Susanne Babl @susannebabl.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
My newly funded project is now featured on the FU department website! We explore multisensory processing and decision making in bats through a combination of behavioral experiments in the field and neural recordings in the lab 🌿🦇🧠 So excited to get started! www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/news/_2026/2...
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Neues Forschungsprojekt untersucht, wie Fruchtfledermäuse Geräusche und Gerüche kombinieren
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Yuranny Cabral-Calderin @ycabral.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Our paper “Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness” is out in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. Together with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni, we suggest bringing Tinbergen’s framework into consciousness research.
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Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Understanding consciousness remains a significant challenge in science. What distinguishes conscious beings from unconscious systems, such as organoids, artificial intelligence or other non-sentient e...
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LOOPs_spp2411 @brainloops.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Sending huge congratulations to Julio Hechavarría @talking-bat.bsky.social on delivering his very first inaugural lecture today at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! What an exciting start of a new a chapter filled with great ideas, strong science, and bat-driven brainloop insights! 👨🏻‍🏫🦇🧠 #SPP #Neuro
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Susanne Babl @susannebabl.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Our new paper is now in BioRxiv ☺️ See how the auditory cortex encodes vocalizations before the bat produces them 📣🦇🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Dennis Röhrig!
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Neurons in the bat auditory cortex encode class and complexity of future vocalizations
Vocal production is a complex behavior across the animal kingdom that relies on coordinated motor and auditory networks. However, the contribution of sensory areas in vocal control remains poorly unde...
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Susanne Babl @susannebabl.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Last week, I moved from Frankfurt to Berlin and started my new postdoc position at Freie Uni with @talking-bat.bsky.social and @ycabral.bsky.social 🥳 I am super excited to set up our new lab for more work on bats and their brain+behavior! 🦇🧠🧠
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Mirjam Knörnschild @berlinbatlab.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
New paper out! We found that in pipistrelle bats, social vocalizations carry a stronger phylogenetic signal than echolocation calls, suggesting the former evolve more slowly, while the latter remains flexible and shaped by the environment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Susanne Babl @susannebabl.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Are you interested in bat vocalizations and the neural circuits that give rise to their emission?🦇🎶🧠 We reviewed the recent literature on neural activity underlying echolocation and communication calls across multiple bat species in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 24/06/2025
From student to researcher, a #career in #science can come with a high price tag. @drcraigmc.bsky.social explores how wealth shapes opportunity in #STEM and proposes structural changes to support #equity and inclusion. 🧪 plos.io/4edGlY4
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Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
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Ahana Aurora Fernandez @ahanaaurora.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Ever wondered how baby bats learn to sing? 🦇🎶 Turns out, their moms support their practice! Our study shows that maternal feedback leads to: More vocal practice Higher song syllable versatility More mature song syllables 🔗https://elifesciences.org/articles/99474 elifesciences.org/digests/9947...
Mother-pup pair of the Greater sac-winged bat in their day roost.
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 25/04/2025
#Hippocampus & PFC interact to support spatial #WorkingMemory, but are dHPC & vHPC functionally redundant in this? @susannebabl.bsky.social @torfisigurdsson.bsky.social show that both regions contribute differentially to spatial WM & coding of spatial info by PFC @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4cXyddO
Top left: Schematic of virus injection and optic fiber implantation in dHPC (left) or vHPC (right) with electrodes implanted in the PFC to record neuronal activity during hippocampal silencing. Right: Example coronal sections showing ArchT-GFP expression in dHPC (top) and vHPC (bottom) with optic fiber placements outlined by dashed white lines. Bottom left: Task schematic. In the sample phase (left), mice were guided to enter one of the two goal arms to receive a reward. After a delay phase in the start box (middle), mice could choose between both goal arms but only received a reward in the goal arm opposite to the one visited in sample (right).
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Susanne Babl @susannebabl.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The last part of my PhD with @torfisigurdsson.bsky.social is now published in @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... We looked at the interaction of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex during spatial working memory when mice were navigating a T-maze, using ephys and optogenetics 🧠🐭
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The dorsal and ventral hippocampus contribute differentially to spatial working memory and spatial coding in the prefrontal cortex
The hippocampus and prefrontal cortex interact to support spatial working memory, but are the dorsal and ventral hippocampus functionally redundant in this context? This study shows that both hippocam...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
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‘Natural Neuroscience,’ an excerpt
In his new book, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.
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