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Weronika Sójka @wsojka00.bsky.social · 1d

I’m very glad for events like #SNS2025, which serve as reminders of groundbreaking neuroscientific research, with Tübingen as an important hub. See you next year!

Tübingen SNS 2025 @snstuebingen.bsky.social · 1d

🔵 Tübingen SNS 2025 - That’s a wrap! 🔵

Two inspiring days full of groundbreaking talks and great discussions about systems #neuroscience! 🧠

A huge thank you to all our speakers, presenters, and participants for making #SNS2025 such a success 🙌

See you next year in Tübingen! 💙

📸 Highlights below!

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Tübingen SNS 2025 @snstuebingen.bsky.social · 1d

🔵 Tübingen SNS 2025 - That’s a wrap! 🔵

Two inspiring days full of groundbreaking talks and great discussions about systems #neuroscience! 🧠

A huge thank you to all our speakers, presenters, and participants for making #SNS2025 such a success 🙌

See you next year in Tübingen! 💙

📸 Highlights below!

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Tübingen SNS 2025 @snstuebingen.bsky.social · 2d

Second (second day) talk session of #SNS2025

#neuroskyence #systemneuroscience

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 8d

Jane Goodall, the famed primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist, has died, according to the institute she founded. She was 91 years old.

This is such a loss everyone and everything on this earth. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91

Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old.

abcnews.go.com

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Science Magazine @science.org · 24d

"I was thrilled to be on an exchange semester overseas, but I saw it as just a detour from my imagined career path. I didn’t realize I was already pedaling toward a different life—one that would make me reassess how to achieve a fulfilling research career." https://scim.ag/46EZ2kj

An illustration of a man walking out of a dark, paper-filled world into a bright, colorful one, with text: I thought science hinged on prestige. Moving abroad made me reassess my priorities

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Weronika Sójka @wsojka00.bsky.social · 27d

A super interesting talk by Hugo Spiers on navigation beyond cities, featuring lots of interesting research questions and fascinating examples. Definitely worth watching! 👀

Swathi Kiran@Center for Brain Recovery at BU @swathikiran.bsky.social · 29d

Hugo Spiers' keynote presentation, Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean, from the 2025 Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference is now live on the CBR YouTube channel. @hugospiers.bsky.social
youtu.be/M35KDgqJI4w?...

N.E.W. Conference 2025 | Hugo Spiers (Keynote): Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean

YouTube video by Boston University Center for Brain Recovery

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Weronika Sójka @wsojka00.bsky.social · 28d

Great paper showing tool use in carrion crows! Congrats Felix!! @mollfw.bsky.social

Felix W. Moll @mollfw.bsky.social · 28d

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇

www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Felix W. Moll @mollfw.bsky.social · 28d

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇

www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 29d

A soft robotic device could democratize emergency intubation outside of hospitals, an experimental therapy for mature scars is safe in humans in a phase 1 trial, and more in this week's issue of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine. https://scim.ag/47GNz5T

The cover image shows a cynomolgus macaque, a nonhuman primate often used in vaccine studies due to their evolutionary relatedness to humans.

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Swathi Kiran@Center for Brain Recovery at BU @swathikiran.bsky.social · 29d

Hugo Spiers' keynote presentation, Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean, from the 2025 Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference is now live on the CBR YouTube channel. @hugospiers.bsky.social
youtu.be/M35KDgqJI4w?...

N.E.W. Conference 2025 | Hugo Spiers (Keynote): Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean

YouTube video by Boston University Center for Brain Recovery

youtu.be

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Maximilian E. Kirschhock @crowbrain.bsky.social · 29d

I'm usually not very active here, but good news:
Together with @milliejohnston.bsky.social, our paper on time estimation in #crows got published in @natcomms.nature.com today!
We found crow neurons track time like a stopwatch — without a cortex! 🐦⏱️🧠
#SciComm #Science 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A neuronal correlate for time interval estimation in the crow’s telencephalon - Nature Communications

It is unknown how birds estimate time using brains organized differently from mammals. Here, the authors show that neurons in the crow NCL encode duration categories, supporting abstract, cue-independ...

www.nature.com

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Andreas Bartels @andreas-bartels.bsky.social · Sep 8

Excited about our new study out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social !
See our lab for detailed thread at @vision-cognition.bsky.social

New York Times piece about it:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...

Do You See the Same Colors That I Do?

www.nytimes.com

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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thumbs are cool and all, but have you ever thought about how important thumbnails are? They just might have been the key to rodents' evolutionary success. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Anderson Feijó examining rodents in the collections of the Field Museum. CREDIT: Field Museum

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · Sep 7

To brighten up your Sunday, let me introduce you to Stenokranio Boldi, an early amphibian recently discovered in Germany. This is the only image we have to know what it looked like:

Rendering of ancient amphibian Stenokranio Boldi. It looks funny: has a flat, rounded head, with a huge smiley mouth.

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Nature @nature.com · Sep 5

The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle

go.nature.com/47mxGkM

Ant queens produce sons of two distinct species

The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle about a missing population of another ant species.

go.nature.com

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · Sep 1

Scientists discover the secret behind the shrew’s amazing ability to shrink their brains 🧠

The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition.

Find the 5-letter word 👇

Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al

www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...

Rare seasonal brain shrinkage in shrews is driven by water loss, not cell death

Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel’s phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. A study...

www.ab.mpg.de

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Dea Ptah @deaptah.bsky.social · Aug 28

Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.

Arches national park, a full moon shines through the opening of red rock like the iris of an eye.

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 27

Big-eyed species are especially vulnerable to the effects of light pollution, a citizen-science effort shows

go.nature.com/4mXMkTX

Bright city lights make birds around the world sing longer

Big-eyed species are especially vulnerable to the effects of light pollution, a citizen-science effort shows.

go.nature.com

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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 18

"For half an hour, I vented everything I had been holding in for months … my supervisor … then calmly offered a line I’ll never forget: 'You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.' That one sentence landed softly, but it cracked something open." https://scim.ag/4lt1Ru0

An illustration of a man riding a bike surrounded by wheels and other bike parts, with text: How a Ph.D. is like riding a bike

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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · Aug 6

Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.

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Matt Perich @mattperich.bsky.social · Jul 29

Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world!

🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW

A neural manifold view of the brain - Nature Neuroscience

Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed how neural population activity underlying behavior can be well described by topological objects called neural manifolds. Understanding how nature, nurture...

www.nature.com

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Siegellab @siegellab.bsky.social · Jul 9

📢 Exciting News!

Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium #SNS2025 will happen on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October! 🎉

Plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events with leading experts in the field 🧠

registration 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025

See you there! 👋

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Ghazaleh Tabatabai @ghtabatabai.bsky.social · Feb 20

Tübingen 20 Feb 2025
#aufstehenfuerdemokratie

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Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · Feb 12

So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩

Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...

Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/

MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration

We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Felix W. Moll @mollfw.bsky.social · Feb 10

Now published in JCN: "Exploring Anatomical Links Between the Crow's Nidopallium Caudolaterale and Its Song System"

In crows (which are songbirds!), we show that the song system is paralleled by the 'general motor system' (cf. Feenders, 2008; Farries, 2001).

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Exploring Anatomical Links Between the Crow's Nidopallium Caudolaterale and Its Song System

The crow's nidopallium caudolaterale (NCL) projects densely to the dorsal intermediate arcopallium (AID) and the striatum, paralleling important song system pathways. Connections from the magnocellul...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jan 9

Much can be said about what a species ate based on the form of their teeth.

Using a tooth microwear approach, researchers in Science find that a narrow diet was not responsible for the extinction of short-faced kangaroos.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4aiqdCQ

An eastern gray kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) grazes in Yuraygir National Park, New South Wales, Australia. It has long been thought that short-faced kangaroos became extinct in the late Pleistocene because they were specialist browsers, in contrast to long-faced grazing kangaroos, which still thrive today. However, dental microwear patterns show that most Pleistocene kangaroos actually had broad diets—an adaptation to climate-driven fluctuations in vegetation.

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