Fine motor skills are important at any age. Over the weekend, I crocheted this alpha motor neuron innervating a muscle.☺️

Our Next Q&A sessions are taking place this week on Tuesday and Wednesday ! Register here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati... #passionforscience #maxplanckschools

Today at #Bernsteinconference is Anna Levina on intrinsic timescales of neural dynamics👏. Timescales can be estimated from any brain signals, spikes, local field potentials, rhythms(?). Longer time-scale dynamics is closer to the critical point, but sometimes having a shorter is useful behaviorally.

Today's highlight of the #Bernsteinconference is Richard Naud on learning. V. interesting!👏 1) bursting spiking can serve as a mechanism of learning, 2) errors are addressed by the neuron that should have been involved in the right choice and not by the neuron that was involved in the wrong choice.

Second day of the workshop "Bridging the species divide: comparative approaches to study neural signatures" at #Bernsteinconference. Yesterday, we listened to talks about theta and alpha, today more alpha and gamma. Exciting!🎉

Interested in #NeuroAI? Max Planck Schools Biomedical AI applications are open until Dec 1. Info: biomedicalai.maxplanckschools.org/4056/applica... If you’re looking at mentors, I think Arno Villringer is worth checking out :)

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Application Process - how to apply to the Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence

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I'm at workshop "Bridging the species divide: comparative approaches to study neural signatures" at #Bernsteinconference organized by Natalie @nschawor.bsky.social and Dennis @neuralnestbird.bsky.social Excited to be here😍 We started with Natalie explaining the challenge. Room 3.101.

On my way to Frankfurt for this year’s #BernsteinConference! 🚆✨ Especially excited to dive into this workshop on neural signatures — looking forward to insightful, fun discussions and connecting with awesome folks in neuroscience! 💡🧠🤓 #Neuroscience #BrainScience

Natalie Schaworonkow@nschawor.bsky.social · 3w ago

currently preparing for a Bernstein pre-conference workshop that I co-organized with @neuralnestbird.bsky.social. we will be looking at different electrophysiological signatures (= 〰️〰️〰️) across species. come by and say hi if you are there. 🙂 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

Greatly enjoyed the Symposium on laminar MEG at #BIOMAG2026 in 北京. 🧲🧠📝 Talks: @danclab.bsky.social @jan-sch.bsky.social Matteo Maspoldi @studenova.bsky.social

I read an old book, but not *really-really* old, from 1934: “The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man” by Dr. Kurt Goldstein. Overlaps quite a lot with current discussions. Read my summary here www.alinastudenova.com/home/blog/bo...

Alina Studenova - the-organism

The discourse in scientific literature changes over time. It happens because new methods become available, new discoveries are made, and new people are coming to the field. Is it so, or is it not? To ...

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#brainrhymes When people think of waves, They think of sinusiod, That typically behaves In up and down phase, From moment it's deployed. The sine is free from flaws, Symmetrical and slick; Its peaks do look like troughs. It happens so because The math performs the trick.

Today I attended the talk by Tommy Clausner on his recent paper on the laminar distribution of visual alpha ERD and gamma ERS. Very cool study🤩👏! Many insights for me! But also, method-wise, interleaved EEG-fMRI is so much better than parallel EEG-fMRI. elifesciences.org/articles/108...

Frequency and laminar profile of feature-specific visual activity revealed by interleaved EEG–fMRI

Combined human laminar EEG–fMRI reveals feature-specific gamma band activity, and dissociates general (lower frequency) from feature-specific (higher frequency) alpha band activity related to superfic...

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How do philosophers and scientists of mind actually work together, and where does the collaboration break down? ISPSM is launching In Conversation, a new online series that aims to bring philosophers and scientists together to work through questions like these. 📅 23 Oct 2026, 1pm BST/8am EDT

The brain is growing from the ectoderm, a superficial layer of the embryo. Later in the development, ectoderm gives rise to the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain (brainstem+cerebellum). It turns out that part of the ectoderm that gives rise to the hindbrain has a different chromatin configuration.

AI psychosis hits the AI field? Folks are talking about an increase in submissions to journals like TMLR and 60K submissions to ICML, especially new single author papers. Any professor will tell you they receive emails from random people describing the "discovery" they've made.

Some oscillations have an asymmetric shape (or non-zero mean). Their troughs are peakier than peaks (or the other way round). These oscillations, when modulated in amplitude (literally always), will have their modulation "copied" in the lower-frequency signal. Here's simulated example. #brainmovies

currently preparing for a Bernstein pre-conference workshop that I co-organized with @neuralnestbird.bsky.social. we will be looking at different electrophysiological signatures (= 〰️〰️〰️) across species. come by and say hi if you are there. 🙂 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

📢 A great opportunity for candidates interested in cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging methods, and translational neuroscience 🧠 IMPRS CoNI is now accepting applications for its 5th cohort! 👇

IMPRS CoNI@imprsconi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Call for Applications! Interested in the brain 🧠 & in doing a #PhD 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 in Cognitive NeuroImaging with our research partners @mpicbs.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social? 📅 Apply by 2 Nov 2026 shortlink.win/1y98h We look forward to your application! 😀

Absolute beta power is different between patients with Parkinson's disease and healthy controls, but not periodic beta power. Turned out what is different between patients and controls is the aperiodic offset and slope. Nice!👏 Lesson from that: always plot the full spectra and actually look at it.

Brain Communications@braincomms.bsky.social · 3w ago

Norouzi et al. studied periodic and aperiodic resting-state features in Parkinson’s patients across six EEG and MEG datasets, finding elevated alpha power, slower alpha peak frequency, and higher aperiodic offset and exponent. Read it at 👉https://buff.ly/ouVad3F #neuroscience #braincommunications

More data to enable more discoveries in the fight against Parkinson's disease. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @crchum.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social

Version 2.0 of #OpenNeuro multi-subject, multi-modal (sMRI+fMRI+MEG+EEG) face-processing dataset now available, thanks to @dcdace.bsky.social, with changes listed here: openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...

Preprint with a survey among the biomedical community about preprint use. Fun!😃 Some thoughts are similar to mine. Would be even more fun to see the facts. For instance, 38.8% reported in free-text comments that preprints negatively impacted researchers' careers. Is it merely perceived, or actual?

Neuroskeptic@neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 3w ago

"To navigate the absence of formal peer review, scholars report a heavy reliance on author reputation as a primary heuristic for evaluating a preprint's credibility" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A lot of interesting comments in this survey (which is itself a preprint)!

The 2026 Berlin Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Society opened today, September 14, and runs through September 17, 2026, in a new setting: for the first time, the summer school takes place in BIFOLD's own premises. @tuberlin.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

Our graduate school IMPRS CoNI is calling for applications at imprs-coni.mpg.de/90532/call-f.... If you are interested in doing a PhD with me within the scope of ERC CoG BALANG (cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...), let us talk about your application to the school.

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#brainrhymes You say norepinephrine or noradrenaline, It doesn’t really matter in Roman or in Greek. It’s crucial for alertness and sleep, and reckoning, Or when, in case of danger, an action needs to spring.

New paper alert: “Stimulus-driven selection precedes and dominates top-down attentional control: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence” is out now in NeuroImage! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... 1/5

Consciousness is defined differently: embodied, narrative, perceptual, or executive. This paper says it's not one but a mixture, and it's context-dependent and possibly diverges across paradigms. Nice!👍 But the ground assumption is that regions specialize, e.g., insula=bodily processing. Well, maybe

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4w ago

What is it like to be a blob? A distributed, decentred and context-sensitive neurobiology of consciousness https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.02.745341v1

Very happy to share our new results: cardiac activity around feedback dynamically reflects expectations. Led by Maria Azanova, with Alina @studenova.bsky.social , Esra Al, Vadim Nikulin and Arno Villringer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Individual heartbeats track distinct prediction processes during human probabilistic learning

Heart rate continuously adjusts to accommodate perception and action, and these shifts are frequently explained through predictive processes. Yet direct evidence that interbeat intervals exhibit grade...

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New round of applications for Max Planck School of Cognition has started. Besides Q&A sessions, applicants may ask for an assessment of their application (CV and motivational letter) by one of the current students (me, for example😊). We are always happy to help! Request this via application portal.

Max Planck School of Cognition@mps-cognition.bsky.social · 4w ago

Still time to register for one of our first Q&As on Wednesday this week about the application requirements! #passionforscience #maxplanckschools

Fun little game in which a human life is randomly drawn for you. I ended up a girl, born in the Yangtze Basin in 670 CE. Died in infancy at 6 months 🥲 anyhumanever.com

Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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