Rune W. Berg

I am totally pumped about this new work . "Task-trained RNNs" are a powerful and influential framework in neuroscience, but have lacked a firm theoretical footing. This work provides one, and makes direct contact with the classical theory of random RNNs:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Background picture of Copenhagen's medieval harbor with the following text: Postdoc in Copenhagen: Studying Bradykinesia in Parkinson's Disease with MRI. Join the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance for a 2-years postdoc on unpacking Bradykinesia ("slowness of movement") in Parkinson's disease with MRI. Good opportunities for prolongation. Sounds interesting? See the ad with further details on our website: www.drcmr.dk

📢 Hiring! We need your enthusiasm at the @drcmr-mri.bsky.social for a 2-year postdoc in studying Bradykinesia (“slowness of movement”) in Parkinson’s disease with MRI.
Project is funded by @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social
Great lab in the most liveable city in the world – apply!
tinyurl.com/bradyPostDoc

Excited to start teaching the PhD course on theoretical neuroscience next week. Books arrived!

www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...

@beatolab.bsky.social Hi Marco, we have now uploaded a revised preprint that includes the methods section. Please find it here - Enjoy 😅
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What does the spinal cord actually do? Most textbooks draw the spinal cord as a relay station- but it is much more than that. The spinal cord is not a cable — it's a computer.

The human spinal cord contains 1 billion neurons that generate almost all bodily movements. Cortex has about 16 billion.

Sayre's law: "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low."

Via @serge.belongie.com

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The exciting time of the year, when the Brain Prize winners are announced, is coming up soon!

The announcement of The Brain Prize 2026 will take place on 5th March at 4pm CET on our website brainprize.org

The world’s largest neuroscience research prize is awarded yearly by the Lundbeck Foundation.

Want to come do a postdoc with us?

We’re interested in how sensorimotor function is carried out by the cells and circuits of the spinal cord. We have an awesome team, lots of cool techniques, and we’re open to new ideas/approaches/connections. Get in touch!

Rune W. Berg (@runewberg.bsky.social) has now been formally accepted into the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences (danaak.dk). Congrats!

@runewberg.bsky.social

Svend Brinkmann- delivering the keynote talk for the Neurograd 2026

Neurograd 2026 Prize ceremony for the winners of top 3 best talks: 1) Yasemin Ronahi Kucuk 2) Alberte W. Jurgensen Breum 3) Marc Klee Olsen. Congrats!

And the best poster presentations: 1) Jamila Probst S. H. Lilja, 2) Lara Kristin Sach, 3) Samuel Ovrom- Congrats!

Key note by Svend Brinkmann

Nanna MacAulay is introducing todays agenda

View of venue from a hotel room

Time for a visit to the outdoor spa

NeuroGrads' yearly winter school 2026 kicks off on the second day

Pharmacologic reversal of advanced Alzheimer’s disease in mice and identification of potential therapeutic nodes in human brain Chaubey et al. demonstrate that restoration of brain resilience reverses advanced disease in two different mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), challenging the century-long dogma of AD irreversib...

Alzheimers? Here's a solution if you're a mouse. 😅 ...and potentially if you're a human. 🤞

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Congrats Ariel and the team! Looking forward to reading this!

New PhD-course!

Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience - Understanding Cognition

Venue: University of Copenhagen
Length: 8 Wks, March 2-May 1st

Registration before 1 February 2026

lnkd.in/ea63A59B

Organizers: Rasmus Herlo (@rasherlo.bsky.social) and Rune W. Berg

@naddenmark.bsky.social

YouTube video by Google DeepMind The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection

Fascinating documentary about artificial general intelligence and the development of AlphaFold, the software for determining protein structure from amino acid sequences.

youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ?...

Presenting this work on MONDAY afternoon, board V9

See you there?

"Neural topologies that orchestrates locomotion"

Yes it’s coming later 😅

Thanks Micah 😊

New preprint:

Neural manifolds that orchestrate walking and stopping

Here we develop a new theory for neural generation of walking and how it can stop- Next we test the theory using Neuropixels probes in the lumber spinal cord of freely moving rats. See more:

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

thank you Ariel -

Spinal interneuron population dynamics underlying flexible pattern generation - Nature Communications The spinal interneuron population dynamics underlying flexible pattern generation remain not fully understood. Here, the authors present that spinal interneuron state space trajectories capture fine-g...

Wonderful to see this important paper come out yesterday- Congrats Lahiru, Nick, and Chethan @chethanp.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A neural manifold view of the brain - Nature Neuroscience Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed how neural population activity underlying behavior can be well described by topological objects called neural manifolds. Understanding how nature, nurture...

New review on neural manifold and population activity in the brain-
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

EMBS IEEE conference kicked off in style with award ceremony #embs #ieee

Computational Neuroscience – NAD Workshop – Neuroscience Academy Denmark Join an immersive four-day workshop bringing together early-career researchers and leading experts in computational neuroscience.

Computational Neuroscience Workshop announcement:
August 11-14, 2025
Venue: Ebberup, DENMARK

Registration is open!
neuroscienceacademydenmark.dk/event/comput...

Congrats Jaspreet! This is an excellent and interesting paper.

Animal roles in medical discoveries 🙌

Computing Cords: Sensorimotor Control by Nerve Cord Circuits Across Species Organizers Salil Bidaye, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Ansgar Büschges, University of Cologne Graziana Gatto, University of Cologne Abdel El Manira, Karolinska Institutet Julie

Registration deadline approaching for:

Computing Cords: Sensorimotor Control by Nerve Cord Circuits Across Species www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Sad news

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence | Science and Cocktails Science and Cocktails platform of science events around the globe, lecture recordings, interviews and podcast series.

Melanie Mitchell is coming to town! Professor at the Santa Fe institute and author of numerous books on AI and complexity science. Can't miss this opportunity:

www.scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/co...