How do fish localize sound without interaural cues? @johve.bsky.social et al. found a behavioral algorithm for directional hearing that predicts behavior from a pressure/motion phase comparison and accounts for how this relationship varies with distance. www.cell.com/current-biol...

An algorithm underlying directional hearing in fish

Veith et al. show how a fish—Danionella cerebrum—can reliably startle away from sound. It uses the relative phase between particle motion and pressure to infer the direction of sound. This sensorimoto...

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First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🥳 Congratulations to our PhD student Katja for her inspiring work just published in Nature Communications on how the larval zebrafish brain processes multiple visual features. Check out a short summary of the work here: tinyurl.com/yzv4ct9k

Bahl Lab @bahllab.bsky.social · last yr.

How do brains make decisions when faced with multiple, potentially conflicting cues? In our latest preprint, we show how #zebrafish use an additive strategy and process multiple visual features through anatomically distinct parallel pathways tinyurl.com/mvkn8em9 Thread 👇

So much to learn about birdsong youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo?...

I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

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New review in PRX Life, where we propose a tangibility scale for the physics of social interactions, and highlight a few tangible examples - from dead fish “swimming” to efficient schooling, warm penguin huddles, and dry ant rafts. Written with the brilliant Chantal Nguyen 🐟🐧🐜 tinyurl.com/naet5tdh

Wednesday evening, we made an appearance on Kosovo TV: youtu.be/sNqkfZerkhQ?... On Thursday morning, I gave a lecture on flexible behavior and neuromodulation, and now we begin building our behavioral setups.

Pasdite - Armin Bahl - Katja Slangewal - Flutura Shabani & Zana Gërxhaliu 08.07.2025

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The conceptual consequences of Noether’s theorem are hard to overstate.

How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics | Quanta Magazine

Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics.

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I’m thrilled to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. What an honour! Would not have happened without the mentors, postdocs and students who I’ve had the great privilege to learn and collaborate with throughout my career. @uni-konstanz.de @maxplanck.de

The Royal Society@royalsociety.org · last yr.

We are pleased to announce the 90 outstanding researchers from across the world who have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society this year. The group includes trailblazers from AI and electron microscopy to global health and neuroscience. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/news/2025/05...

First day with @benjulab.bsky.social at Charité, where I'm starting my PhD investigating neural dynamics of the beautiful singer Danionella Cerebrum.

Amongst all the rodents, humans and flies we bring the zebratastical fish @bahllab.bsky.social #NWG2025

Opening lecture about axon growth and regeneration by Frank Bradke from @dzne.science #NWG2025

Sledding from the Bahl lab retreat into #NWG2025! Come check out our posters and talks over the next few days. See you there!

The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last yr.

Multimodal social context modulates behavior in larval Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644986v1

We are proud to present our new preprint “Correlative light and electron microscopy reveals the fine circuit structure underlying evidence accumulation in larval zebrafish”, just posted on bioRxiv (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). (1/10)

Correlative light and electron microscopy reveals the fine circuit structure underlying evidence accumulation in larval zebrafish

Accumulating information is a critical component of most circuit computations in the brain across species, yet its precise implementation at the synaptic level remains poorly understood. Dissecting su...

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📆 updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools

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Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts

Collective motion, which is ubiquitous in nature, has traditionally been explained by “self-propelled particle” models from theoretical physics. Here we show, through field, lab, and virtual reality e...

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Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

Wish you all a fishy 🐟 Christmas 🎄

Bahl Lab @bahllab.bsky.social · 2y ago

The best time of the year is here and we are already celebrating. Happy holidays from the Bahl Lab! 🥳

The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived

Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.

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I'm excited to share another project we've been working on: The Transmitter's first book, which includes some of our favorite essays from our first ~9 months. Download a copy here: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...

The Transmitter books

The Transmitter’s first book, “Thinking about neuroscience: Essays from the field,” features a rich collection of writing from researchers Nicole Rust, Anthony Zador and many more.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 2y ago

These essays offer the neuroscience community a place to explore the culture and practice of the field; to debate major questions; to examine the craft of neuroscience; and to trace its evolution over time. Download the book now: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...

Happy to have hosted professor Florian Engert from @harvard.edu here at the @unikonstanz.bsky.social who shared his exciting work on analyzing heart rate and attention in larvae to gain new insights into decision-making behavior.

Everywhere we looked, space seemed to teem with biology’s raw materials. New analyses of comet and asteroid samples, along with computer modeling, suggested that organic compounds arose long before our sun even existed. www.quantamagazine.org/the-cosmos-t...

The Cosmos Teems with Complex Organic Molecules | Quanta Magazine

Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials.

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Hard to beat the white elephant gift exchange in the lab this year; anyone else surrounded by amazing students?

The introduction to this article reminds me of the intro to "States of Matter" by Goodstein. Why do so many statistical physicists sound like Dostojewski? Cool topic though, which never dies (therefore resisting the second law).

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 2y ago

The second law of thermodynamics states that a quantity called entropy is on the rise, indicating that the universe is predisposed to disorder. But the idea of entropy is evolving. www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

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Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

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Celebrated our first #Labsgiving! We are thankful for being able to bring together such an international and diverse group of people whose cooking creativity made this event possible!