Yesterday Checker Tobi (KiKA) filmed part of a big special episode about AI with us. Does AI make us dumb? 🤖🧠 @romy-lorenz.bsky.social checked Tobi's brain activity via fMRI. Behind-the-scenes photos below - can't wait to watch on Sept 15 at 8pm on KiKA! #CheckerTobi #AI #Neuroscience #fMRI

New EMBO Fellow alert 🔬💡 Jose Javier Vázquez Rodríguez has joined our Neuroscience & Neuroengineering lab, building light-controlled genetic switches — now moving from roundworms to zebrafish for single-neuron control. His story (roach colony included): www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/jose-vazquez...

Annual Health Day at the campus today: Fit and Focused 🎉 Keyboards swapped for bows, pipettes for smoothie straws — plus soccer dart, free bike fittings, gymnastics breaks, and much more ✨ Turns out research runs better with a little movement and a lot of laughter. 💪

Last week's CaCTüS Meet the Campus Get-Together was a wonderful occasion, filled with warm introductions from our 12 interns and plenty of great conversations! We thank the Hanrieder Foundation for Excellence for making the supporting program of CaCTüS possible through the Hanrieder Impact Fund.

🎙️ New Code of the Mind episode! Hebb proposed a theory for how neuronal connections change with experience — and how we might think. What fires together, wires together — learn about the story behind the catchphrase. 🔗 www.tuebingen.mpg.de/291307/Hebb.... … or on your favorite podcast platform!

🌵 We are thrilled to announce that CaCTüS has officially kicked off with 12 interns from: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Georgia, India, Nigeria, Syria, Serbia and Turkey. More about the CaCTüS internship: www.projects.tuebingen.mpg.de

🎙️ Episode 1 of our new podcast on the history of computational neuroscience is live — about the one and only Valentino Braitenberg. Timed with our ongoing Braitenberg Symposium 🧠 🎧Up now here: www.tuebingen.mpg.de/290502/Brait... On Spotify etc: coming this week! #neuroscience #podcast #scihist

We are delighted to welcome Bruno from Argentina to our institute this summer 🌵. He will join the Developmental Computational Psychiatry lab (University Hospital Tübingen), as part of the CaCTüS Internship Program. We very much look forward to meeting him soon! www.projects.tuebingen.mpg.de

🎉 Jose Javier Vázquez Rodríguez is joining us this July as an EMBO fellow! He'll use light to control gene expression in zebrafish and combine that with the RoLiLab's imaging to see what individual neurons do. 🧠🐟 Excited to have him on board! 👏 #Zebrafish #Optogenetics #GeneticCodeExpansion

Can we learn more from fMRI? 🧠 🎥 Robert Ohlendorf talks about his current research in this short excerpt from our new video portrait. 🔗Full video: youtu.be/ml8uwd70dS8 #Neuroscience #fMRI #BrainImaging #MolecularImaging

An unlikely lab member with a ‘dogtorate’ in morale management: Meet Zazil, the rescue dog in the Translational Sensory and Circadian Neuroscience lab. She taught everyone a thing or two about resilience and persistence. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... #LabCulture #LabLife #WorkCulture

We are delighted to welcome Aya Shabbar from Syria to our institute this summer 🌵. She will join the Computational Neuroscience lab as part of the CaCTüS Internship Program www.projects.tuebingen.mpg.de. We very much look forward to meeting her soon! About Aya: www.linkedin.com/in/ayashabbar/

We are delighted to welcome Caterina from Argentina to our institute this summer 🌵. She will join the Translational & Circadian Neuroscience lab as part of the CaCTüS Internship Program. We very much look forward to meeting her soon! About Caterina: www.linkedin.com/in/caterina-...

🏅 Lion Schulz from our institute has received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society — for his research on how humans and AI navigate trust, mistrust, and uncertainty. Timely work. Well deserved. Congrats, Lion! 🎉 More: www.tuebingen.mpg.de/lion-schulz Photo: Bettina Ausserhofer / MPG

We are delighted to welcome Mohammed Ouail from Algeria to our institute this summer 🌵. He will join the Computational Neuroscience lab as part of the CaCTüS Internship Program www.projects.tuebingen.mpg.de. We very much look forward to meeting him soon! About him: www.linkedin.com/in/ouail-moh...

Out now: new video about AVATars, the molecular "spies" for the brain. This snippet comes from our new video portrait about Robert Ohlendorf's research and the future of brain imaging. Full video: youtu.be/ml8uwd70dS8 #Neuroscience #fMRI #BrainImaging

More news on zebrafish sleep! Read the NY times article about the most recent result of the RoLiLab: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/s...

Fish Sleep a Lot Like Us. (They Even Nap.)

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Myth busting: Does cannabis “delete” your dreams? 💤🌿 We unpack what THC and CBD actually do to REM sleep, dreaming, and dream recall. #Neuroscience #SleepScience #THC #CBD #REMsleep

Curious how AI can help decode the brain? 🧠 We talked to Gabriele Lohmann about the use of AI in neuroscience and brain imaging. 🔗https://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/interview-gl Plus: Catch her talk on May 20: 🎤https://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/einblick #BrainResearch #AI #Neuroscience #MRI

🐟 Fish have sleep phases, too! New article from the RoLiLab: Four distinct sleep states found in larval zebrafish: three with characteristic eye movements, one without. 🔗 www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/fish-sleep-a... #Neuroscience #SleepResearch #Zebrafish

🧠 Mental health disorders often begin during adolescence — and that’s exactly where “Brain Explorer” comes in. Starting May 7, visitors on the MS Wissenschaft can contribute to real brain research through mini-games. 🚢 www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/901245/news_...

Exploring Teenagers' Mental Health Through Brain Games

On the exhibition ship MS Wissenschaft, teenagers can support basic neurobiological research with the “Brain Explorer” app starting May 7

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Are dead brain cells gone forever? 🧠 😵 Here's a new reel with @chiarazanonato.bsky.social for anyone wants to find out! #Neuroscience #Neuroplasticity #BrainHealth

🔬✨ Girls’Day 2026 ✨🔬 From experiments to disscussions and hands-on experience in the precision workshop: Last Thursday, we welcomed a group of curious girls to our institute. A big thank you to everyone who made this day so interesting! #GirlsDay #WomenInScience #STEM #GirlsDay

📌Young researchers took center stage at this year's Poster Day. Countless conversations and not a quiet corner in sight! 🏆 We're thrilled to announce the winners of the Best Poster Award: 🥇 1st prize: Elena Cavani 🥈 2nd prize: Madhushree Pethe and Albina Farkhutdinova Huge congratulations!

Can a device read your thoughts — and help heal your brain? We spoke with Pascal Fries about brain-computer interfaces: how they work, their therapeutic potential, and ethical questions. 📖 www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/bci 🎤 Catch him live on April 29 — details below. #Neuroscience #BCI #Neurotech

🎉 @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social has been awarded the @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de Boost Fund! Moving beyond short-term trials to naturalistic scenarios: Roxana will explore how we decide in changing environments. 🔗 www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/zeraati-tsch... #DecisionMaking #ComputationalNeuroscience

🍷Does alcohol kills brain cells? 🧠 Watch the reel and see what’s really happening in your brain when you empty a glass of wine… @chiarazanonato.bsky.social #BrainMyths #ScienceFacts #Neuroscience #ScienceExplained

Exciting news: Taisuke Eto joins Manuel Spitschan's lab at our MPI as a Humboldt Fellow! 🌟 For two years he'll investigate individual differences in light sensitivity — with implications for sleep disorders and seasonal depression. Welcome! 👋 👉 www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/eto @humboldt-foundation.de

🎙️ New episode of Signals & Synapses! 💤 Sleep is more than passive rest! Join Svenja Brodt & Simon Faßnacht as they explore how sleep strengthens memory and why all-nighters before an exam might backfire. 🎧 www.tuebingen.mpg.de/podcasts-en #SleepScience #Memory #Podcast

Counting down the days until our CaCTüS interns arrive this summer! We are proud to have chosen 12 exceptional candidates from 9 diverse nationalities. Looking forward to an amazing season ahead 🌵🚀.