Learning in single cells is picking up pace!

Congrats!

We are looking forward to exciting discussions with @ricardsole.bsky.social and learning about cognition spaces!

Join us at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium ‘Biological Oscillators’. Abstract submission extended to January 14th!!
#EESBioOsc @events.embl.org @mpinb.mpg.de

Are bacterial spores some kind of travelling neurons? In this @science.org paper the authors show that B. subtilis spores can integrate environmental signals over time and remember transient nutrient pulses. @koseskalab.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.kaitokikuchi.com/assets/pdf/K...

Uni Bern: PhD Position in Statistics with a focus on Statistical Machine Learning for Self-Driving Microscopy

🔬📊 PhD (100%) – Statistics & ML for self-driving microscopy

Joint PhD with David Ginsbourger (Stats) & Pertz Lab (Cell Biology).
Gaussian Processes, Bayesian design, active learning on live-cell experiments.

ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

#PhD #Statistics #MachineLearning #Bayesian

Beautiful work by @pauformosa.bsky.social 's group, demonstrating the existence of ghost attractors 👻not only in simulations but also experimentally! 🫶💪

wow... crawling motility in Asgard #archaea!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

look at these crazy moves!! Let's face it, what these cells want for Christmas is #cilia... the best type of motility appendage...

We were lucky to have you in the lab, and I’m grateful for all you brought to our work. Wishing you all the success you truly deserve. 👏🎉

It is a proud moment for the lab to see @koch-lab.bsky.social take the next big step in his career! We were truly fortunate to have him in the lab for three years, and we’ll miss him, but we’re even more thrilled to watch this well-deserved achievement unfold!

Congrats Berta!!

congrats!

What neuroscience can tell AI about learning in continuously changing environments Nature Machine Intelligence - Durstewitz et al. explore what artificial intelligence can learn from the brain’s ability to adjust quickly to changing environments. By linking neuroscience...

Unlike current AI systems, animals can quickly and flexibly adapt to changing environments.

This is the topic of our new perspective in Nature MI (rdcu.be/eSeif), where we relate dynamical and plasticity mechanisms in the brain to in-context and continual learning in AI. #NeuroAI

How “intelligent” is a slime mold? When it solves mazes, it might not be thinking:it’s obeying physics. Our new paper with
@jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social

Black-and-white portrait of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, 1903. She is seated in a chair, wearing a dark dress with a light, patterned collar, resting her head on one hand and looking directly at the camera. public domain

Lise Meitner around 1906 in Vienna. She is wearing a long dress and a hat, standing among large plants and looking to the side. public domain

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨

What if we could chart all cell types across the tree of life?
In @nature.com, @arnausebe.bsky.social and colls launch the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, a global effort to map eukaryotic cell diversity using single-cell & genomic data.
drive.google.com/file/d/1G4zZ... @crg.eu @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social

🚨 Late preprint alert!
Why do biological process rates scale nonlinearly with temperature, deviating from the straight line on an Arrhenius plot? The key may lie in their inherent complexity!

More in thread and here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Women in physics must be imaginary?

How cilia choreograph their “Mexican wave”, enabling marine creatures to swim New research has unravelled the mystery of how microscopic cilia coordinate to move and propel marine creatures through water. Cilia are tiny, hair-like protrusions found in many organisms, including ...

Now our researchers have used whole-body high-speed imaging to examine the wave behaviour and the effects of various physical and biological manipulations. Their results reveal an unprecedented wave structure. news.exeter.ac.uk/uncategorize...

Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for immune system research Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi worked on how the immune system can be prevented from harming the body

Huge congratulations to this year's winners of the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine: Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi! 🏆The trio's groundbreaking work on peripheral immune tolerance is paving the way for crucial new treatments for cancer & autoimmunity. 🧬

We hosted Reyk Börner today, a postdoc at Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht. He gave a very insightful talk on tipping points in climate, drawing a parallel to metastability in neural systems! @mpinb.mpg.de #theory #dynamicalsystems

thanks @aria-research.bsky.social for highlighting our research on the computational capabilities of single-celled organisms! #protists Watch this space for more exciting developments @lsiexeter.bsky.social

Today and tomorrow we are celebrating the highly impressive career and contribution to Nonlinear Dynamics of Ulrike Feudel, a brilliant scientist and a truly admirable individual! You are and will remain an inspiration, particularly for women in complex science and beyond! #WomenInSTEM

We are ready for the Open Day tomorrow @mpinb.mpg.de ! We will show how learning without brain is possible, you can meet our ciliated friends under the microscope or calculate pi by throwing toothpicks! We are there from 10am-4pm! Looking forward to a science Saturday! 🤓

Head of Scientific Instrumentation Workshops EMBL is a world leader in scientific research and at the forefront in the development of cutting-edge technologies. It operates across six sites in Heidelberg (headquarters), Barcelona, Cambridge, Gre...

@embl.org Heidelberg is looking for a new Head of Scientific Instrumentation! This is an exciting opportunity at the interface between scientific research and technology development, overseeing our mechanical and electronic workshops!
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

The final version of our review on biological filaments is out in Philtrans A (w/@jcammann.bsky.social Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer & Marco Mazza) - we have 417 references!
Enjoy :)

doi.org/10.1098/rsta...
(see also other articles in this special issue on biological fluid dynamics) #biophysics

Our paper presents a mathematical and computational analysis of different circuits implemented by means of gene network motifs, including the problem of mass-spaced learning that was recently shown to be present in non-neural cells @koseskalab.bsky.social @jgojalvo.bsky.social

The 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships applications are open, offering early-career scholars intellectual freedom, transdisciplinary collaboration with leading researchers, and a competitive salary with research and collaboration funds.

Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Congrats!!

Join us on Spetember 20th to learn, among other things, what single cells are capable of, see our ciliated lab mates under the microscope and do some fun math experiments! 🤓🤓🤓

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