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Why We Must Act Now in Biomedical Engineering Germany has the opportunity to extend its strength as an engineering powerhouse into medicine and the life sciences. Vasilis Ntziachristos

Germany has the opportunity to extend its strength as an engineering powerhouse into medicine and the life sciences. Vasilis Ntziachristos explains how this can be achieved using three key levers.

A comment by Vasilis Ntziachristos @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social

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Please spread the word🔊My lab is looking to hire two international postdocs. If you want to do comp neuro, combine machine learning and awesome math to understand neural circuit activity, then come work with us! Bonn is such a cool place for neuroscience now, you don't want to miss out.

As of January 1st, I’m tenured 🎉

I’m incredibly grateful to my lab for their ideas and persistence, to my colleagues at @tum.de for such a supportive and stimulating environment, and to my mentors whose guidance continues to shape how I think, teach and lead.

#academia #tenure #neuroskyence 🧪

Gesundheit!: KI-Gehirn-Chip bei Querschnittlähmung - hier anschauen KI-Gehirn-Chip bei Querschnittlähmung: Was bringt ein in das Gehirn implantierter Chip Menschen mit Querschnittlähmung mehr an Lebensqualität und Mobilität?

My highlight of 2025: the first #microelectrode #BCI for spinal cord injury in Europe! 🦾⚡️🧠

🎥 (feature in German)
www.ardmediathek.de/video/gesund...

#SfN25 is drawing to a close. The pace of progress is mind-boggling! I am deeply grateful for the many encounters with friends and colleagues, old and new, and the excitement we shared. A conference is only as good as the people attending. We had a blast! 💥 See you next year! #neuroskyence

📢#Postdoc opportunity in human T cell immunology in the Zielinski lab at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk. @erc.europa.eu

Official announcement coming up soon. DM me if you want to explore the regulation of human tissue resident T cells. #postdoc #immunology

The team will be at #SfN25 in San Diego. Come for a chat at our posters. We have #human #single #units, #microstimulation, #miniscopes and much more! 🧠🧪 #neuroskyence

Ethics of neurotechnology: UNESCO adopts the first global standard in Today UNESCO’s Member States took the final step towards adopting the first global normative framework on the ethics of neurotechnology. The Recommendation, which will enter into force on November 12

The disruptive advances we are seeing in #neurotechnology must be accompanied by ethical frameworks, such as the one adopted yesterday by @unesco.org

www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

Computer Chips in Our Bodies Could Be the Future of Medicine The brain-computer interface is real. It's changing lives—and could soon change the world.

Nice feature in #TIME #magazine about how brain-computer interfaces are about to change our lives #neuroskyence 🧪

time.com/7330887/brai...

We are hiring! 🎓🧫 🧬

#PhD studentship available in #Immunology at #CambridgeUniversity to investigate a new killer function of human T cells.

📅 Application deadline: 3rd December 2025
more information: lnkd.in/dxq6yMay
#findaPhD @ERC_Research

Abendschau: Medizin-HighTech: Vom Hirn direkt zum PC - hier anschauen Ein Computer, direkt am Gehirn angedockt? Für Michael Mehringer eine große Chance und Hoffnung: Er ist der erste europäische Querschnittsgelähmte, dem eine Hirn-Computer-Schnittstelle implantiert wurd...

Here’s the feature separately and in a little longer version www.ardmediathek.de/video/abends...

Our #BCI work was featured in #Tagesthemen, Germany’s most important newscast. Check it out 👇🏻 www.tagesschau.de/tagesthemen/...

Thanks for the feature. We’re very happy to play a part in advancing implanted #BCIs in Europe! 🧠🦾

Brain-computer interface for a patient with quadriplegia A team at the Technical University of Munich’s TUM University Hospital has implanted a brain-computer interface in a patient paralyzed from the neck down.

A big push for #BCI and #neurotechnology in Europe! We implanted our second microelectrode array #BCI @tum.de. Huge thanks to our pioneer and to fantastic colleagues in #Neurosurgery and #Robotics #Machine #Intelligence 🧠🦾🧪 #neuroskyence @neuroengineering.bsky.social
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

Thank you very much for hosting me in Maastricht @cherff.bsky.social and team! It was fun to present our newest on language processing.
And big congrats to Maxime Verwoert on passing her PhD defense! She can now add her name to the wall of fame! #neuroskyence 🧠🧪

New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇

Fantastic news! Congratulations, Jule! 🎉👏🏻

Looking forward to this!
(coming Tuesday)

Exciting new work on cortical visual prosthesis!

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A hardwired neural circuit for temporal difference learning The neurotransmitter dopamine plays a major role in learning by acting as a teaching signal to update the brain's predictions about rewards. A leading theory proposes that this process is analogous to...

Beautiful and clear results showing that temporal difference error calculation is hardwired in the dopamine/striatum mircocircuits: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
from @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

Enjoy your weekend! 🍺🍸🍹🍷You can always blame evolution

„We don’t hire smart people to tell them what to do, we hire them to tell us what to do“

Spot on! That’s how science labs should be run!

Congratulations to all ERC @erc.europa.eu #STG winners @tum.de and around Europe! 🎉👏🏻🧪 Can’t wait to hear about the exciting science you will all be doing!

Oxford Professors Cragg and Walton celebrate publication of new book, The Handbook of Dopamine

We have an exciting new book to announce! www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-...

Congratulations, Julio!

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...

Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world!

🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW

107! 🎉 What a remarkable scientist. What a remarkable person. What a remarkable life!

Screenshot of the top of the article, including the title, authors, and abstract.

What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope!

Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals.

Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Beautiful cover!