Do you want to know if birds can use hair-like feathers as high-frequency sound receptors during echolocation? Join our team as PhD student or postdoc and find out! ⬇️ www.bi.mpg.de/2809383/job_...

Our new paper is now out in @commsbio.nature.com. We recorded in the auditory cortex of actively vocalizing bats and find that neurons encode class and temporal structure of vocalizations before they are produced. 🎤🦇🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Neurons in the bat auditory cortex encode class and complexity of future vocalizations - Communications Biology

Neurons in the bat auditory cortex encode upcoming vocalizations before they are emitted, distinguishing call category and temporal structure. These findings reveal predictive, vocalization-specific s...

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We are inviting applications of motivated pre-doctoral researchers to join an exciting, HFSP-funded projct. 🧪🐦 🧠 @mpiforbi.bsky.social @hfspo.bsky.social FindAPhD.com share.google/eCgiK7GdjoQD...

PhD Programmes, Research Projects & Studentships in the UK & Europe

FindAPhD is a comprehensive guide to PhD studentships and postgraduate research degrees

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My newly funded project is now featured on the FU department website! We explore multisensory processing and decision making in bats through a combination of behavioral experiments in the field and neural recordings in the lab 🌿🦇🧠 So excited to get started! www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/news/_2026/2...

Neues Forschungsprojekt untersucht, wie Fruchtfledermäuse Geräusche und Gerüche kombinieren

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Our paper “Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness” is out in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. Together with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni, we suggest bringing Tinbergen’s framework into consciousness research.

Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Understanding consciousness remains a significant challenge in science. What distinguishes conscious beings from unconscious systems, such as organoids, artificial intelligence or other non-sentient e...

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Sending huge congratulations to Julio Hechavarría @talking-bat.bsky.social on delivering his very first inaugural lecture today at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! What an exciting start of a new a chapter filled with great ideas, strong science, and bat-driven brainloop insights! 👨🏻‍🏫🦇🧠 #SPP #Neuro

Our new paper is now in BioRxiv ☺️ See how the auditory cortex encodes vocalizations before the bat produces them 📣🦇🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Dennis Röhrig!

Neurons in the bat auditory cortex encode class and complexity of future vocalizations

Vocal production is a complex behavior across the animal kingdom that relies on coordinated motor and auditory networks. However, the contribution of sensory areas in vocal control remains poorly unde...

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Last week, I moved from Frankfurt to Berlin and started my new postdoc position at Freie Uni with @talking-bat.bsky.social and @ycabral.bsky.social 🥳 I am super excited to set up our new lab for more work on bats and their brain+behavior! 🦇🧠🧠

New paper out! We found that in pipistrelle bats, social vocalizations carry a stronger phylogenetic signal than echolocation calls, suggesting the former evolve more slowly, while the latter remains flexible and shaped by the environment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are you interested in bat vocalizations and the neural circuits that give rise to their emission?🦇🎶🧠 We reviewed the recent literature on neural activity underlying echolocation and communication calls across multiple bat species in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

From student to researcher, a #career in #science can come with a high price tag. @drcraigmc.bsky.social explores how wealth shapes opportunity in #STEM and proposes structural changes to support #equity and inclusion. 🧪 plos.io/4edGlY4

Ever wondered how baby bats learn to sing? 🦇🎶 Turns out, their moms support their practice! Our study shows that maternal feedback leads to: More vocal practice Higher song syllable versatility More mature song syllables 🔗https://elifesciences.org/articles/99474 elifesciences.org/digests/9947...

#Hippocampus & PFC interact to support spatial #WorkingMemory, but are dHPC & vHPC functionally redundant in this? @susannebabl.bsky.social @torfisigurdsson.bsky.social show that both regions contribute differentially to spatial WM & coding of spatial info by PFC @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4cXyddO

The last part of my PhD with @torfisigurdsson.bsky.social is now published in @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... We looked at the interaction of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex during spatial working memory when mice were navigating a T-maze, using ephys and optogenetics 🧠🐭

The dorsal and ventral hippocampus contribute differentially to spatial working memory and spatial coding in the prefrontal cortex

The hippocampus and prefrontal cortex interact to support spatial working memory, but are the dorsal and ventral hippocampus functionally redundant in this context? This study shows that both hippocam...

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In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

‘Natural Neuroscience,’ an excerpt

In his new book, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.

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