Dennis Nestvogel
@neuralnestbird.bsky.social
Research Group leader @Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry Systems Neuroscience
*A community benchmark enables high-resolution, cross-lab quantification of mouse social behavior* Introducing HiDRA: 82 supervised classifier heads for 33 dyadic and solitary behaviors. Works out-of-the-box on new data and outperforms video foundation models. neuroethology.github.io/hidra-site/
⏰ There are only a few days left to apply to our open Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2) position in clinical psychiatric research! Apply until October 12th to join us in Munich 🥳
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry@mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social · 2mo ago📣We are hiring: Join our Institute with your own Max Planck Research Group in clinical psychiatry! 🧑🔬This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 12th! You can find all information here: tinyurl.com/jar7evpc
Re-post 🔁 is appreciated! #neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social! If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇
Roxana Zeraati@roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · last mo.Link to ads: Postdoc position: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... PhD position: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... We’re also both at @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social and happy to chat!
Excited to share a collaborative #postdoc opportunity between Florencia Iacaruso’s lab at the @crick.ac.uk & my lab at @uclnpp.bsky.social! We’re looking for a postdoc to study neuromodulatory control of sensorimotor transformations in superior colliculus. bit.ly/ModSC26
Neuromodulatory Control of Sensorimotor Transformations in the Superior Colliculus
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📆 And finally, on October 20th, we are welcoming Dr. Robert Ohlendorf from the @mpicybernetics.bsky.social! 🔗 No registration needed, all information here: www.psych.mpg.de/events/46470...
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 · 2mo agocurrently 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...
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...
Textbook: tracking position during navigation is primarily the job of the hippocampus. Recent findings suggest a more complicated story. Recording >20k neurons brainwide, we indeed find spatial representations in every region! With @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and @carandinilab.net
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2mo agoBrainwide representation of navigation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.29.747979v1
Wenn Mäuse & Primaten sich bewegen, verändert das ihre visuelle Wahrnehmung auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise. Trotzdem folgen ihre visuellen Systeme demselben evolutionären Grundprinzip der Informationsverarbeitung. 🧠 Wie die Unterschiede zustande kommen und was effiziente Kodierung damit zu tun hat:
Neurobiologie: Warum die Gehirne von Maus und Affe denselben Regeln folgen
Wenn Mäuse und Primaten sich bewegen, verändert das ihre visuelle Wahrnehmung auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise. LMU-Forscher zeigen, dass dahinter dasselbe Prinzip steckt.
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📣We are hiring: Join our Institute with your own Max Planck Research Group in clinical psychiatry! 🧑🔬This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 12th! You can find all information here: tinyurl.com/jar7evpc
Excited to share my new paper co-authored with @samplingrage.bsky.social We propose that a shared computational principle governs how both rodents and primates optimize their sensory neurons during locomotion www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Locomotion optimizes sensory representations through a computational principle shared by rodents and primates
Behavior modulates the activity of sensory systems in multiple ways: from gain changes in individual neurons to changing interactions in neural populations. These effects are not universal; while move...
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New preprint from the lab: We reproduced our 2p data in the accumulating towers task with e-phys and found low-dimensional neural manifolds in the frontal cortex that were aligned timepoint-by-timepoint with the hippocampus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The geometry of knowledge in the hippocampal-prefrontal system
Decision making is associated with frontal brain circuits and spatial navigation with the hippocampus. In addition, recent work in spatial decision making tasks found single neurons in both areas enco...
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📢 new preprint from the lab on action-guided memory reactivation lead by the fabulous @julia-sc.bsky.social see thread 👇
Julia Schaefer@julia-sc.bsky.social · 3mo agoEpisodic memory forms through action: gaze shifts sequentially sample experience as it unfolds 👀🏞️ 🧠 But actions may also help organize how the brain reactivates episodic memories! 👀🧠💭 🏞️ Check out our new preprint 👇 doi.org/10.64898/202... 🎉 @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social & Aditya Chowdhury 👇🧵
Now in Science: How does the brain’s navigation system allocate its limited representational resources during behavior? We found that grid cells sweep toward locations of interest, providing a potential mechanism for allocating spatial attention in the cognitive map.🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very happy to share our new review on visual computation in the cephalopod brain, with @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social, out now! We discuss exciting recent advances in understanding how the radically different brain of cephalopods processes the visual scene. 🐙🔬👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An Analysis from @ptrrupprecht.bsky.social et al investigates the behavior of GCaMP8 variants in spike inference using different algorithms. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spike inference from calcium imaging data acquired with GCaMP8 indicators - Nature Methods
In this Analysis, Rupprecht et al. investigate the behavior of GCaMP8 variants in spike inference using several different algorithms. They highlight the role of the indicators’ linearity in the infere...
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📣 In meiner Arbeitsgruppe (LMU München) ist eine PhD-Stelle zu besetzen. Gesucht werden motivierte Bewerber:innen mit Interesse an experimenteller kognitiver Neurowissenschaft. Bewerbungsfrist: 10.08.2026. Bewerbungen bitte per Email. Mehr Infos hier: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...
Doktorand / Doktorandin (m/w/d)
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Launch of our brand-new website for 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐎𝐅! 🚀 👉 Explore: deepof.ai
DeepOF � Supervised and Unsupervised Behavioral Analysis
DeepOF: An open-source Python library for mouse behavioral analysis.
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Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse - with @michaelgoard.bsky.social @crisniell.bsky.social @mbeyeler.bsky.social Visual computations that are engaged in ecological contexts: active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception. doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Warum reagieren wir unterschiedlich auf #Stress? Warum sind manche Menschen anfälliger, andere widerstandsfähiger? Darüber spricht Mathias Schmidt @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social im neuen "Ach, Mensch"-Podcast. Eine Hörempfehlung! 🎧 www.mpg.de/26840616/war... @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social
Losing one side of Superior Colliculus is bad, but losing both sides seems fine. Wait, what? Flora & team discovered why: both sides press for contra actions and against inaction, obeying an incredibly simple additive rule. Out today in bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
How do the basal ganglia turn what you see into what you do? New preprint w/ @kenneth-harris.bsky.social, @flickerfusion.bsky.social & @carandinilab.net: we recorded across striatum, GPe & SNr in a Go/NoGo task. Striatum encodes which stimulus, GPe & SNr encode action. 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/8. New preprint! ✨ How spontaneous is spontaneous behavior? 🧠🐭 We found that whole-brain fUSi signals predicted spontaneous behavioral transitions seconds in advance. Inhibiting one node of this transition-prone state, the medial septum, facilitated switching! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Visualizing and Sonifying NeuroData (ViSoND) github.com/Smear-Lab/Vi... is a strategy for observing multiple data streams in video and sound www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... e.g., watch an animal move while you listen to their physiological signals (or vice versa)
New preprint! Follow the thread to find out about the exciting work of an outstanding postdoc in my lab @merylneuro.bsky.social !!!
Meryl Malezieux@merylneuro.bsky.social · 8mo ago1/8 New preprint alert! How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain? What could be the functional implications of cardioception? We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.
1/8 New preprint alert! How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain? What could be the functional implications of cardioception? We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.
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🧠 On April 14th, we will welcome Dr. Rebecca Jordan from the The University of Edinburgh! She will share her research on how the #brain learns to #predict sensory input and integrate #sensorimotor information. 🔗 No registration necessary, all info here: www.psych.mpg.de/seminars
1/8. New preprint! Using fUSi in head-fixed mice🐭, we found that arousal events trigger a brain-wide wave of activity 🌊🧠. Surprisingly, this pattern was preserved during opto manipulations of the locus coeruleus, pointing to a minor role for noradrenergic tone. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New lab paper! 🧠 Human hippocampal & MTL theta activity is linked to eye movements, but only during memory-guided navigation. Theta is also strongest during longer, more exploratory eye movements. plos.io/4dwJhR8 Huge congrats to Humza & team! 👏
Eye movements reflect memory-related theta activity in the human brain
Theta oscillations in the medial temporal lobe support memory, but how they relate to eye and body movements during human navigation is unclear. This study shows that theta power increases during sacc...
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PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 8mo agoHow do MTL theta oscillations relate to eye & body movements during navigation? @suthanalab.bsky.social &co show that #theta power increases during #saccades under memory demands, linking exploratory gaze & planning to memory‑related dynamics during #navigation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dwJhR8
