14 years ago I went to FENS Forum in Barcelona to attend my very first scientific conference; fast-forward and I'm super excited to present to you part of my fantastic neuroscience research team in Göttingen. Do come by to say Hi and see what we've been up to recently! #fens2026

Really looking forward to our #fens2026 satellite symposium tomorrow!

Young PI Neuroscience Symposium'26@young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social · last mo.

Our @fens.org Satellite meeting is tomorrow! #FENS2026 Check out our updated program👇 youngpisymposium2026.com/program/ We are all super excited to have everyone joining! Safe travels everyone 🚅 ✈️ 🚲 See you in Barcelona 🔆😎

🚨Last week to register!! Noelia Antón Bolaños is one of our amazing keynote speakers. She will tell us all about her journey from Spain to Boston, and starting her lab at @umcutrecht.bsky.social 🛫🌎🛬. Join our @fens.org Satellite event in Barcelona!

Among the amazing keynote speakers at the @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social, a Satellite Event of @fens.org in Barcelona, is Noelia Antón Bolaños 🤩. Noelia will tell us about her journey from Spain to Boston, and now to her lab at @umcutrecht.bsky.social. Register! youngpisymposium2026.com

we are proud to be supported by the Association of ERC Grantees for this FENS 2026 Satellite Event in Barcelona 🤩 Register now! 🤝 @obarnstedt.bsky.social for our link to the ERC 🫶

Matthew L. Kraushar@matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 7mo ago

yo 🦋 NEURO SKY 📣 the website is live and registration open for the Young PI Symposium 2026 - the day prior to FENS Barcelona! @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social navigate challenges, sharpen leadership skills, make a roadmap together for generations of neuroscientists! youngpisymposium2026.com

New preprint out 🎉 What happens to the hippocampal “place code” when an animal is actively engaged in a task? The answer surprised us (and might surprise you too!). Let's dive in ⬇️ Link: "Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚀 New preprint from the lab! Our first foray into the subiculum uses in vivo whole-cell recordings to show that dendritic plateaus are a prominent, learning-dependent signaling mode of subicular neurons. Feedback is welcome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧠The NeuroDoWo is coming to Würzburg The NeuroDoWo is a conference where neuroscience and phd students are brought together! 📍Würzrburg, Germany 🗓️ 8th to 12th June 2026 Stay tuned for speaker announcements, workshops, and registration info #phdlife #neuroscience #wuerzburg #conference #neurodowo

One more week to apply for this cool collaborative PhD project in Bonn and Göttingen! Are you interested in peeking inside the brain with miniscopes while mice are navigating using olfactory or visuospatial cues to find out how the hippocampus encodes this information and behaviour? Then apply now!

Tobias Ackels@tobiasackels.bsky.social · 8mo ago

PhD position in systems neuroscience! Excited to start a new DFG-funded project together with @obarnstedt.bsky.social to study olfactory–spatial coding in CA1. 🔬 Dual-colour miniscope Ca2+ imaging 🐭 Freely moving behaviour & optogenetics ⏳ Start: April 2026 | Deadline: 31.01.2026 More info below ⬇️

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

2025: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience

Enlightening the brain

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Very cool paper from @jangrundemann.bsky.social lab! Axon initial segment dynamics during associative fear learning | Nature Neuroscience share.google/GH5iaWUINB5w...

Axon initial segment dynamics during associative fear learning - Nature Neuroscience

Benoit, Ganea et al. show that changes in axon initial segment (AIS) length in the prefrontal cortex of mice accompany fear learning and extinction, revealing AIS plasticity as a key feature of neuron...

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📢 Join us, the Haberkern lab, @uni-wuerzburg.de for a postdoc studying neural circuit mechanisms of navigation. You’ll spearheading neurophysiology experiments on our brand new 2P! ⏳ Apply by 28th February 2026 Details: www.haberkernlab.de/docs/ENPostd... #neuroscience #academicjobs #postdoc

📢Are you a young PI or senior postdoc in neuroscience looking to embark on the challenging journey of starting your own lab? 📆Then save July 5, 2026 in your calendar and join us in Barcelona for the second Young PI Symposium. youngpisymposium2026.com

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🥳Excited to share our latest human multipatch paper, now out in @natneuro.nature.com 🧠 We studied the cellular and synaptic physiology of human L2–3 pyramidal neurons and identified subtype-specific local connectivity rules across individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Join us: penglab.de

Fully funded PhD position between our lab in Göttingen and @tobiasackels.bsky.social in Bonn! Dual-color imaging 🔬🐁 in freely moving mice, behavioral analysis, olfactory 👃 and spatial coding in #hippocampus... It's a cool project in two fantastic labs. Reach out if interested! 🤙 #neuroskyence

Tobias Ackels@tobiasackels.bsky.social · 8mo ago

PhD position in systems neuroscience! Excited to start a new DFG-funded project together with @obarnstedt.bsky.social to study olfactory–spatial coding in CA1. 🔬 Dual-colour miniscope Ca2+ imaging 🐭 Freely moving behaviour & optogenetics ⏳ Start: April 2026 | Deadline: 31.01.2026 More info below ⬇️

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A great intro to academic conferencing. Not sure how I missed this one. scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...

Getting the most of out a scientific conference

A slightly unconventional guide to your first time

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Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...

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🧠 How do emotion and memory shape behavior? Join live webinar with Dr. Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social l & Dr. Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social(European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen) 🗓️ November 13th | 14:00 CET 👉 Clickto register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Another big piece of work from our lab is out on bioRxiv. Learn about the role of PSD-95 for hunting behavior in mice here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PSD-95 drives binocular vision maturation critical for predation

Postsynaptic density protein 95 (PSD-95) is a signalling scaffold within the postsynaptic density of excitatory synapses which drives silent synapse maturation during critical periods (CP). Binoculari...

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One more week left to apply for this 4-year full-time TECHNICAL ASSISTANT position at the EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE GÖTTINGEN!

Oliver Barnstedt@obarnstedt.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our lab at the European Neuroscience Institute in Göttingen is looking for a highly skilled and motivated TECHNICAL ASSISTANT. Are you proficient in histological and wet lab techniques and lab management? Then come apply for our position (4 years contract)! umg.recruiting-portal.com/r/z004xflh7r...

Congrats to lead authors @alexattinger.bsky.social and Tony Drinnenberg and all our amazing collaborators! Check out the thread below for new work from the lab on plasticity, cortex and spatial representations for navigation!

Alex@alexattinger.bsky.social · 10mo ago

How does the brain balance learning new things without overwriting what it already knows? Our new paper tackles this long-standing stability–plasticity dilemma during active navigation. With Tony Drinnenberg from the Deisseroth Lab (@deisseroth.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

doi.org/10.1126/scie... This seems rad: overexpressing FruM in a set of proboscis-motorneuron-projecting neurons makes melanogaster males add food-sharing to their courtship repertoire. It is fascinating to see evolutionary shifts in behavior be tied so concretely to shifts in brain development!

Cross-species implementation of an innate courtship behavior by manipulation of the sex-determinant gene

In accepting a courting male, Drosophila subobscura females require nuptial gift giving in which a male gives regurgitated crop contents to her mouth to mouth. No similar behavior is found in D. melan...

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The connectome of the entire male Drosophila central nervous system is out!! Acquired using FIB-SEM @ 8x8x8nm, we aligned 7.5 mio 2D images aligned into one seamless 3D volume, which was used to segment & proofread neurons and synapses. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our lab at the European Neuroscience Institute in Göttingen is looking for a highly skilled and motivated TECHNICAL ASSISTANT. Are you proficient in histological and wet lab techniques and lab management? Then come apply for our position (4 years contract)! umg.recruiting-portal.com/r/z004xflh7r...

Happy to share that I just started a W2 professorship at the University of Bremen! Yay tenure! While I already start teaching now, the lab will stay in Freiburg until May while we get things ready. Super excited about this new chapter! We’re also hiring! Please get in touch if you’re interested!

I’m pleased to share our new paper, “Hippocampal ripple diversity organizes neuronal reactivation dynamics in the offline brain”, out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social ! With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics

Congratulations Dr Anggi Hapsari and Dr Oliver Barnstedt at our Campus on their new ERC Starting Grants! Good luck with #ERCStG research #SaLtedPeat and #LearnMamBo! Find out more: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #Ecology #UniGoettingen & #Neuroscience #MBExC #UMG Thanks to @erc.europa.eu

We are super excited that our project ***LearnMamBo*** Neuronal Dynamics of Learning and Memory in the Mammillary Body gets an #ercstartinggrant @erc.europa.eu – we will dissect the associated circuits supporting episodic memory – REACH OUT if interested in joining this project!

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There is some confusion about whether or not we understand LLMs. The answer is yes and no, but mostly no. It's a complicated enough question that it seemed like it needed an article. www.verysane.ai/p/do-we-unde...

Do we understand how neural networks work?

Yes and no.

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