Jonas Wietek

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YouTube video by Weizmann Institute of Science Bat Island: The New Era of Science

Neuroscience projects last several years, and you are usually a bit jaded by the time you wrap it up. Not this one– spending several months on an island in the middle of nowhere, away from all the craziness of the world reminds you how beautiful the world really is.

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Head-direction cells as a neural compass in bats navigating outdoors on a remote oceanic island Animals and humans rely on their navigation skills to survive. However, spatial neurons in the brain’s “navigation circuit” had not previously been studied under real-world conditions. We conducted an...

Awesome work from great people that spend a while on a remote and tiny Island to do this!

Congratulations to everyone involved @shakedpa.bsky.social @ray-neuro.bsky.social 🧠🧪💐🥳🔬🦇

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https://ntc.columbia.edu/dendritic-integration-2025/

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Runway ride

Nice work from my colleagues.

Congratulations 🎉🔬🧪🧠

As seen recently in a prestigous journal again... it is called HoechSt staining not HoeScht! Or use DAPI 😅

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

High-throughput synaptic connectivity mapping using in vivo two-photon holographic optogenetics and compressive sensing - Nature Neuroscience Using two-photon optogenetics, electrical recordings and sparse signal reconstruction, the authors demonstrate in vivo synaptic connectivity mapping in the mouse visual cortex.

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Emiliani Lab

Risk reshapes amygdala representation of choice Modifying behavior in response to changing environmental conditions is a crucial adaptive function. This capacity is exemplified when animals curtail pursuit of a valued outcome that risks being punis...

for anyone interested in the amygdala and risky decision-making, check out our new preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

amygdala neurons track reward-seeking actions, and punishment risk dramatically alters this function. lots of other (BLA-accumbens!) data included.

You are more than welcome. I also stopped to trust any other opsin 😉😅

Conferencing

I'm glad that most academic institutions are on Bluesky now, so we can get the press releases I used to love on Twitter that are like "Congratulations to this year's Nobel Prize winner _______, who once used our third-floor bathroom."

a cartoon of a boy and a girl dancing on a wooden floor . ALT: a cartoon of a boy and a girl dancing on a wooden floor .

Congratulations to everyone involved!

Great body of work led by @ppiantad.bsky.social

First use of PdCO in the wild to perform closed-loop pre-choice modulation 🤩

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🚨Big News🚨

The application for my continued employment for the next 10 months has been submitted.😅

#loveacademia
#science
#IchBinHanna
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Patch Clamp <-> Ca2+ imaging, by age, I'd say.

For those who are still searching

Frittierter Nudelteig!

Looking out of a tunnel

There is always light...

Broad-spectrum synthetic carbohydrate receptors (SCRs) inhibit viral entry across multiple virus families Synthetic carbohydrate receptors prevent viral infections by binding to conserved enveloped virus glycans on viral surfaces.

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Holy canelloni

Congratulations 🎉

More data!

Old doggo on a chair

How your email finds me

Me, sitting in a chair looking unto the Atlantic Ocean

How your email finds me!

Sunrise after getting up

Happy weekend, you all!

Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).

Led by the awesome @dzelmanoff.bsky.social

Oxytocin shapes both mouse mom and pup behavior Distressed pups emit distinct cries for help, which depend on oxytocin neurons in their hypothalamus.

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