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Another Tutor Drop!
🌟Meet our MESEC Winter School 2026 Tutor: Angelica Kaufmann!
We are delighted to complete our expert lineup with Angelica!
🏛️Get ready to engage with her work on animal cognition and the varieties of conscious experience. 🐾

🗓️March 22nd–28th @ibroorg.bsky.social

🔊Announcing ANIMUS 2026: a conference dedicated to the applications of TUS in animal models!

Joining us:
- Prof. Dr. Til Ole Bergmann, University Medical Center Mainz
- Dr. Daniel Whitcomb, University of Bristol
- Emma Lescrauwaet, University of Ghent

➡️ Learn more: animus2026.com

Mid-level perceptual features, and not ambiguity, accelerate access to awareness Abstract. Current theoretical accounts of perception and high-level cognition suggest that awareness plays an active role in disambiguating incoming sensor

🚨New paper alert!! 🚨
In this work by Nadav Amir, with Uri Maoz, we fail to find evidence for ambiguous objects emerging slower/faster to awareness, but do find support for more symmetrical stimuli enjoying preferential access
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Now out in iScience: Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations

How does the brain store 'durations' in working memory?

👇👇👇

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Collaborative effort between @brainthemind.bsky.social and MNE-Python/INRIA.

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂

looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.

science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

Submit to our collection :) This is a fantastic opportunity to publish your work on cortico-subcortical loops

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1939

Our special issue on Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness, coedited with Tecumseh Fitch and Adina Roskies, now online royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)

Sending huge congratulations to Julio Hechavarría @talking-bat.bsky.social on delivering his very first inaugural lecture today at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! What an exciting start of a new a chapter filled with great ideas, strong science, and bat-driven brainloop insights! 👨🏻‍🏫🦇🧠

#SPP #Neuro

Thank you :)

Brain structural networks underlying language | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society The unique human ability to process complex language requires the interaction of multiple brain areas located in the inferior frontal and posterior temporal cortex connected by white matter fiber trac...

A very useful review and update on the anatomic infratstructure for language:
"Brain structural networks underlying language" by
Angela Friederici
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

We are looking for an interested student to work with us during an internship on the interplay between implicit timing and hearing for four to six months (full time, including financial compensation) :
brainthemind.com/wp-content/u...

Really glad I could contribute to this excellent perspective paper. #Consciousness + #neuroethology + #animal-behavior An interesting mixture for a fun read :)

The paper is part of the special issue Evolutionary functions of consciousness, with many great papers worth checking out!

Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Understanding consciousness remains a significant challenge in science. What distinguishes conscious beings from unconscious systems, such as organoids, artificial intelligence or other non-sentient e...

Our paper “Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness” is out in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B.

Together with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni, we suggest bringing Tinbergen’s framework into consciousness research.

Congratulations, David! Your guidance and example have influenced so many of us...not just those lucky enough to work closely with you. So well deserved!

Thank you very for the invitation!

schematic of fetal OPM-MEG

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!

Hi, I would like to be added to Zoom link list. Unfortunately I cannot DM you to send my email.

Looking forward to discussing our results on neural and behavioral entrainment to auditory rhythms and tACS. See you today at 4 PM CEST.

LOOPs webinar is back after the summer break! 🔄🎉
Don’t miss @ycabral.bsky.social on Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment uncovering how neural oscillations shape auditory perception.🧠🎶

🗓️ Oct 8th, 2025
🕓 4 PM CEST
📍 Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

Babies’ cries can make humans physically hotter, research finds When in distress, babies produce chaotic wails which have pronounced effects on humans, including changes in facial temperature

Nice article about our paper published today in @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface.

#bioacoustics

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Congratulations Jerome! This is fantastic 👏

Auditory-motor synchronization determines the use of predictions in music perception When listening to music, our brain constantly generates predictions about the timing and pitch of upcoming sounds based on the structure of the music. Individual differences in the ability to make suc...

Our latest preprint! We find that auditory-motor synchronization behavior is related to the weighting of rhythmic versus melodic predictions during music perception, including long-term enculturated predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The University of Notre Dame is hiring 5 tenure or tenure-track professors in Neuroscience, including Computational Neuroscience, across 4 departments.

Come join me at ND! Feel free to reach out with any questions.

And please share!

apply.interfolio.com/173031

Congratulations!

The rig for conducting intracellular recordings from the 🐝🧠 is getting in shape. If you are interested using it here in Würzburg 🇩🇪 contact me. We have an open PhD position expected to be filled until spring 2026.
www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...

#neurethology

Flyer advertising the Max Planck School of Cognition 4-year PhD fellowship programme, with a photograph of prior fellows. Interdisciplinary research, outstanding faculty, fully financed. You can now apply, sign up for the Applicant Support Program, and/or register for a Q & A session, all via the webpage: cognition.maxplanckschools.org

Applications open for fully funded 4-yr positions in the unique interdisciplinary program of the @maxplanck.de School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for science at the forefront of fundamental & applied research, mentored by a network of world renowned researchers.🧪
cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en

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Preprint introducing our whole brain causal connectivity maps in >N80 participants according to single pulse interleaved TMS/fMRI. dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🧠 ⚡ 🔭