🧠New preprint! We identify minimal circuit motifs that generate diverse selectivity to support categorization, comparison, and decision-making. Trained RNNs converge on the same motifs, revealing principles that link connectivity to computation. @mpinb.mpg.de www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Structured connectivity for structured sequential computations

Cortical computations emerge from the coordinated activity of recurrent neural circuits and are often described through population dynamics and neuronal selectivity. However, how the backbone of the c...

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Thrilled to announce that together with Klaus Lehnertz and Timo Bröhl, Universitätsklinikum Bonn , Wolfram Barfuss, The University of Bonn and Mehrnaz Anvari, Fraunhofer SCAI we are organizing the XLVII Dynamic Days Europe 2027 in Bonn! #DynamicDaysEurope @mpinb.mpg.de

This week we were at DDays26 in Lisbon- an anazing week of science and friendship! @gayathri-ramesan.bsky.social @koch-lab.bsky.social @akhilesh-nandan.bsky.social & Mohammadreza Bahadorian, Kalel Rossi, Manuel Lourenco @mpinb.mpg.de

Research moves forward through sharing ideas. It was a pleasure to present our work on biological learning and the dynamical basis of robust and flexible computation at KITP, Santa Barbara and Guilin, China, and for the many insightful discussions that followed. @mpinb.mpg.de

New preprint! RNNs solving an interval timing task self-organize near bifurcations, where structured slow transients drive computation. These slow scaffolds predict generalization to unseen intervals and are alone sufficient for timing! @mpinb.mpg.de www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Near-critical slow dynamics enable flexible temporal computations and generalization

Although neural activity often evolves along low-dimensional manifolds, such descriptions do not explain the dynamical mechanisms that generate, constrain, and stabilize computation. Identifying these...

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Four days of truly inspiring and fascinating talks! It was a great honor to co-organize such a special meeting! @mpinb.mpg.de

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 4mo ago

Can't believe #EESOscBio is already over! The past four days were full of insightful talks, engaging posters, and great networking. Huge thanks to the organisers, speakers, and participants for such an inspiring meeting. Hope to see you again soon: www.embl.org/events/

When conference participants take part in a human experiment... How to get a group of humans to spontaneously synchronize their walking behaviours in the absence of "leaders" (watch out for the one who was attempting to cheat the system!) What are the most important cues here? 😏 #EESBioOsc

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 4mo ago

#EESBioOsc has officially begun First talks of the day by Audrey Mat, Theo Geisel and François Schweisguth about biological rhythms, human synchronization and dynamics in the drosophila eye 🧬

Happy to back at #EESBioOsc @events.embl.org , this year as a co-organizer. Today we kicked off with rhythms in the deep sea by A. Mat, the swing feel - T. Geisel, and Drosophila eye development - F. Schweisguth, including an amazing lecture by H. Herzel! @mpinb.mpg.de

We had an amazing pleasure to host Roberto Budzinski, University of Lethbridge, Canada and learn about computations with spatialtemporal dynamics! @mpinb.mpg.de

Proudly presenting a new PhD: Dr. Robert Lott 🎉🍾🎈 #singlecelllearning @mpinb.mpg.de

Learning in single cells is picking up pace!

Sam Gershman@gershbrain.bsky.social · 5mo ago

After several years of work, my lab is starting to put out our first papers on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). Here we show evidence for a form of associative learning in Stentor: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are looking forward to exciting discussions with @ricardsole.bsky.social and learning about cognition spaces!

Ricard Solé@ricardsole.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Glad and excited to talk about "Cognition Spaces: : from individual to collective brains" at the @maxplanck.de Max Planck Institute and discuss about new projects on neuroscience of basal cognition (and beyond) with my dear colleague Aneta Koseska @koseskalab.bsky.social mpinb.mpg.de/en/events/ev...

Join us at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium ‘Biological Oscillators’. Abstract submission extended to January 14th!! #EESBioOsc @events.embl.org @mpinb.mpg.de

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 8mo ago

Abstract submission deadline alert for #EESBioOsc! If you are interested in learning about oscillatory phenomena and biological dynamics across a wide range of fields, you should join the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'Biological oscillators' 📥 Submit abstract by 6 January: https://s.embl.org/ees26-04-bl

Are bacterial spores some kind of travelling neurons? In this @science.org paper the authors show that B. subtilis spores can integrate environmental signals over time and remember transient nutrient pulses. @koseskalab.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.kaitokikuchi.com/assets/pdf/K...

🔬📊 PhD (100%) – Statistics & ML for self-driving microscopy Joint PhD with David Ginsbourger (Stats) & Pertz Lab (Cell Biology). Gaussian Processes, Bayesian design, active learning on live-cell experiments. ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... #PhD #Statistics #MachineLearning #Bayesian

Uni Bern: PhD Position in Statistics with a focus on Statistical Machine Learning for Self-Driving Microscopy

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Beautiful work by @pauformosa.bsky.social 's group, demonstrating the existence of ghost attractors 👻not only in simulations but also experimentally! 🫶💪

Pau Formosa-Jordan@pauformosa.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Wondering about the dynamics during a developmental transition? Check out our preprint “Time-dependent bistability leads to critical slowing down during floral transition in Arabidopsis”, a very exciting collaboration with the Coupland lab @mpipz.bsky.social doi.org/10.64898/202...

wow... crawling motility in Asgard #archaea!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... look at these crazy moves!! Let's face it, what these cells want for Christmas is #cilia... the best type of motility appendage...

It is a proud moment for the lab to see @koch-lab.bsky.social take the next big step in his career! We were truly fortunate to have him in the lab for three years, and we’ll miss him, but we’re even more thrilled to watch this well-deserved achievement unfold!

Daniel@koch-lab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Seeing your lab name at the door as a new PI for the first time - priceless! 🤩 Excited to join @umanitoba.bsky.social and @stbonifaceresearch.bsky.social as Assistant Professor! 😊

Unlike current AI systems, animals can quickly and flexibly adapt to changing environments. This is the topic of our new perspective in Nature MI (rdcu.be/eSeif), where we relate dynamical and plasticity mechanisms in the brain to in-context and continual learning in AI. #NeuroAI

What neuroscience can tell AI about learning in continuously changing environments

Nature Machine Intelligence - Durstewitz et al. explore what artificial intelligence can learn from the brain’s ability to adjust quickly to changing environments. By linking neuroscience...

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How “intelligent” is a slime mold? When it solves mazes, it might not be thinking:it’s obeying physics. Our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531 @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨

What if we could chart all cell types across the tree of life? In @nature.com, @arnausebe.bsky.social and colls launch the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, a global effort to map eukaryotic cell diversity using single-cell & genomic data. drive.google.com/file/d/1G4zZ... @crg.eu @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social

🚨 Late preprint alert! Why do biological process rates scale nonlinearly with temperature, deviating from the straight line on an Arrhenius plot? The key may lie in their inherent complexity! More in thread and here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Now our researchers have used whole-body high-speed imaging to examine the wave behaviour and the effects of various physical and biological manipulations. Their results reveal an unprecedented wave structure. news.exeter.ac.uk/uncategorize...

How cilia choreograph their “Mexican wave”, enabling marine creatures to swim

New research has unravelled the mystery of how microscopic cilia coordinate to move and propel marine creatures through water. Cilia are tiny, hair-like protrusions found in many organisms, including ...

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Huge congratulations to this year's winners of the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine: Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi! 🏆The trio's groundbreaking work on peripheral immune tolerance is paving the way for crucial new treatments for cancer & autoimmunity. 🧬

Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for immune system research

Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi worked on how the immune system can be prevented from harming the body

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We hosted Reyk Börner today, a postdoc at Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht. He gave a very insightful talk on tipping points in climate, drawing a parallel to metastability in neural systems! @mpinb.mpg.de #theory #dynamicalsystems

thanks @aria-research.bsky.social for highlighting our research on the computational capabilities of single-celled organisms! #protists Watch this space for more exciting developments @lsiexeter.bsky.social

Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA)@aria-research.bsky.social · 10mo ago

👀 Our latest Substack is live – discover: – The launch of Innovator Circles – Insights into the FRO-Founder Residency with @convergentresearch.bsky.social – A Q&A with @micromotility.bsky.social on natural computation in single-celled microorganisms + more ↓ link.aria.org.uk/sepsubstack-bluesky

Today and tomorrow we are celebrating the highly impressive career and contribution to Nonlinear Dynamics of Ulrike Feudel, a brilliant scientist and a truly admirable individual! You are and will remain an inspiration, particularly for women in complex science and beyond! #WomenInSTEM

We are ready for the Open Day tomorrow @mpinb.mpg.de ! We will show how learning without brain is possible, you can meet our ciliated friends under the microscope or calculate pi by throwing toothpicks! We are there from 10am-4pm! Looking forward to a science Saturday! 🤓

@embl.org Heidelberg is looking for a new Head of Scientific Instrumentation! This is an exciting opportunity at the interface between scientific research and technology development, overseeing our mechanical and electronic workshops! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

Head of Scientific Instrumentation Workshops

EMBL is a world leader in scientific research and at the forefront in the development of cutting-edge technologies. It operates across six sites in Heidelberg (headquarters), Barcelona, Cambridge, Gre...

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