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IMPRS for Brain and Behavior @imprsbb.bsky.social · 8d

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 13d

Excellent! Will come back!

Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 14d

Was about to suggest BonnBrain! Let me come back to you - I will organize something. We als have fantastic human action segmentation people around.

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 14d

💪 (if only that would be how one spells Ratatouille :) )

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 14d

GPT says: "Rodent Action Tracking Across Tasks: Objects, Utilities, Levers, Locomotion, Interaction, and Exploration — a mouse “kitchen” benchmark for dense, sequential, ethological behavior."

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 14d

...more like a dense foragy/approach-avoidy mix of Josh's FOMO, SWC's AEON, some closed-loop stim control, some risky decision with shelter-seeking /-building, some sequential goal / spatial decision, some digging, some exploring. And yes: difficult. The acronym would have to be RATATOULLIE.

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Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 14d

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 14d

Really not sure what that would be. But fun to think about...

Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 14d

Would be totally up for it! Not easy, though. Social aside (@antihebbiann.bsky.social has that covered), a mouse-kitchen should be dense (many actions per time), rich (max affordances), with interpretable goals, sequential dependencies, ethological grounding, and transferable across labs...

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 14d

nice - did not know this one. Sadly - mouse ego-cams need cables and commutators. So the IntelliMaze RFID gates are an issue (which we currently face ourselves)

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 15d

Germans speak better Dutch when they’ve consumed alcohol 🍺

Erasmus Magazine @erasmusmagazine.bsky.social · 15d

Researchers in Maastricht have won the Ig Nobel Prize for discovering that alcohol can help when speaking a foreign language – especially with pronunciation.

Ig Nobel Prize: Germans speak better Dutch with a drink - Erasmus Magazine

www.erasmusmagazine.nl

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 15d

Our (and others’) unrestrained ego/exo tracking is certainly not at the scale of your human datasets, but it at least begins to approach Meta’s ego-exo4D technically...

Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 15d

Wow - very cool. At some point, we small-animal folks should come together to define what annotated ego/exo benchmark data _we_ want to generate—and how best to share it. What would be the mouse equivalent of the human “kitchen”?

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 23d

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 29d

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀?
Dynamical processing winding through most brain regions.
Looks like a must read.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence

Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice

Until recently, it has been possible to examine activity in the brain globally through regional averaging or locally at cellular resolution. These studies characterized regions as functionally homogen...

www.biorxiv.org

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 29d

Organizers: @sabinekrabbe.bsky.social (Sabine Krabbe), @martinfuhrmann.bsky.social (Martin Fuhrmann), @trose-neuro.bsky.social (Tobias Rose), Bettina Schnell

@bonnbrainconf.bsky.social @dzne.science @mpinb.mpg.de @ibehave.bsky.social

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 29d

@paolicellilab.bsky.social (Rosa Paolicelli)
Rune Enger
Ania Majewska
Long-Jun Wu
@zknight.bsky.social (Zachary Knight)
@dudman.bsky.social (Joshua Dudman)
Sarah Melzer
@crezaval.bsky.social (Carolina Rezaval)
Leonie Welberg

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 29d

Cori Bargmann
@edvardmoser.bsky.social (Edvard Moser)
Dmitriy Aronov
@clopathlab.bsky.social (Claudia Clopath)
@innaslutsky.bsky.social (Inna Slutsky)
Maude Baldwin
@laurabusse.bsky.social (Laura Busse)
@kishoreneuro.bsky.social (Kishore Kuchibhotla)
@portugueslab.bsky.social (Ruben Portugues)

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 29d

BonnBrain 2026 is a go!
March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany).
Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts.

Keynotes & invited speakers 👇

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · Sep 4

Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets

Studies of the early visual system often require characterizing the visual preferences of large populations of neurons. This task typically requires multiple stimuli such as sparse noise and drifting ...

www.biorxiv.org

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Competent prose generated by a machine, I’ve come to realize, might not be what science actually needs.” ?

By Tim Requarth

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...

From bench to bot: Why AI-powered writing may not deliver on its promise

Efficiency isn’t everything. The cognitive work of struggling with prose may be a crucial part of what drives scientific progress.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · Sep 3

Look at this crazy thing!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

www.nature.com

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · Sep 4

Highly recommended - we will recruit

IMPRS for Brain and Behavior @imprsbb.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢Apply now! Join our IMPRS for Brain&Behavior to pursue a #PhD in #neuroethology. Learn how brain circuits are linked to interesting animal behaviors!
📅 Deadline: October 31, 2025
🔗 imprs-brain-behavior.mpg.de
#neuroscience #Neuroskyence #neurojobs #sciencejobs #PhDsky #PhDOffers #FundedPhD

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · Sep 3

The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today!

A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature

The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...

www.nature.com

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · Sep 3

With great concern, also I am observing a widespread migration of otherwise perfectly reasonable people... we need to stop normalizing this!

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