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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · 8d

We are happy to announce our first workshop in the new academic year! Visit us in Heidelberg on Oct 17th to learn how to Bonsai programming language to collect data, control your experimental environment and run closed-loop paradigms! The workshop is free of charge!

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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · Aug 10

Yesterday we ran our first Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience in Argentina, with fantastic discussions about the sources of variability and robustness in behaviour!

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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · Jul 23

Why is behaviour so variable? How can we interpret our chaotic results, and what do they tell us about the function of the brain?

Join us in Buenos Aires on Aug 9th to discuss the complexity, context-dependence, and robustness of behaviour on our Workshop of Ideas!
nenckiopenlab.org/complexity/

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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · Jul 7

We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.

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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · May 28

Our second Arduino workshop at COS today.

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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · May 27

Today we run the 3D printing workshop with Polbionica and Helpi Optics as a satellite event for Neurons in Action conference at Nencki Institute!

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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · May 23

Today we run our Spectral Data Analysis Workshop with Axel Hutt!

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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · May 12

We would like to remind you that the deadline for @openlabhd.bsky.social Spectral Data Analysis workshop is May 16th! Workshop is organized locally in Heidelberg and is free of charge.

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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · Apr 24

We are super happy to announce the third Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! We will once again look critically at assumptions of modern neuroscience: what does it mean that the brain encodes information? Is this a useful approach, or a metaphor that blurs our vision?

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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · Apr 22

We are super happy to announce the 4th edition of our Optics and Microscopy Workshop that will be held May 9-11 th at Nencki! Join us to learn optics - from basics up to building your fluorescent microscope! More info here -https://nenckiopenlab.org/optics-and-microscopy-workshop-2025/

Optics and Microscopy Workshop 2025

May 9-11th, Nencki Institute We are happy to announce the fourth edition of our Optics and Microscopy Workshop! The workshop will be a thorough, hands – on introduction to optics and microsco…

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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · Apr 14

We are happy to announce a series of Online Bonsai
Workshops! You will have a great opportunity to learn Bonsai: from the basics to its more advanced applications in three parts of our course! More info on the webpage - nenckiopenlab.org/bonsai-online/

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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · Apr 10

More info and registration form: openlabhd.org/2025/04/09/s...

Spectral Analysis of Experimental Data workshop, May 23th

We are happy to announce the next Heidelberg Open Lab Workshop – Spectral Analysis of Experimental Data – that will be conducted by Axel Hutt (INRIA). The spectral analysis of experimen…

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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · Apr 10

We are happy to announce our next workshop - Spectral Anakysis of Experimental Data! Join us on May 23rd to learn the basics of sampling theory, Fourier analysis, wavelets, and more! Link below.

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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · Mar 28

And that was our first Arduino workshop at COS!

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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · Mar 25

We are happy to announce our first workshop - Organizing Scientific Events! Join us on April 7th to learn how to plan your workshop, symposium, or summer school, get funding, promote it, and make it unforgettable! More info and the registration form can be found here - openlabhd.org/2025/03/25/o...

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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · Mar 17

Yes, we will send you a zoom link!

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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · Mar 17

We meet tomorrow, 5:30 PM at COS!

Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · Feb 27

Join us on the kick-off meeting! Learn more about our initiative and join us to create a community of life scientists in Heildeberg to share skills & knowledge!

Heidelberg Open Lab Kick-off Meeting

We are happy to invite you to the first meeting of Heidelberg Open Lab! Heidelberg Open Lab will be a node of the Nencki Open Lab project. It is a grassroots initiative aiming to create local scien…

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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · Mar 12

The first set of Arduino kits arrived at Heidelberg Open Lab!

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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · Mar 12

We are happy to announce a next workshop by @cam-openlab.bsky.social! This time you can learn everything you need to know about electronics to know your equipment better, improve your setup and get a deeper understanding of the processes you are studying! nenckiopenlab.org/electronics-...

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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · Mar 5

We are super happy to present our first preprint - the effect of our Rethinking Naturalistic Behaviour Workshop - where we look more critically at the term "naturalistic behaviour" and point to its vagueness and inconsistency in its use! osf.io/preprints/os...

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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · Feb 27

Join us on the kick-off meeting! Learn more about our initiative and join us to create a community of life scientists in Heildeberg to share skills & knowledge!

Heidelberg Open Lab Kick-off Meeting

We are happy to invite you to the first meeting of Heidelberg Open Lab! Heidelberg Open Lab will be a node of the Nencki Open Lab project. It is a grassroots initiative aiming to create local scien…

openlabhd.org

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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · Feb 24

🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨

Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!

Applications are due Sunday, March 23.

Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/

#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪

Applications are now open! 3-week courses: Comp Neuro and Deep Learning. 2-week courses: NeuroAI and Comp Tools for Climate Science.

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · Feb 24

Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists

Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · Feb 20

There are only 5 days left to apply!

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