Kim Kirchberger

Congrats and all the best luck!

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

So much to learn about birdsong

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Three‑row table linking scales: fish, penguin, ant. Each row shows an individual silhouette, a pair‑level interaction image, and the emergent collective - schooling fish, penguin huddle, and an ant raft.

New review in PRX Life, where we propose a tangibility scale for the physics of social interactions, and highlight a few tangible examples - from dead fish “swimming” to efficient schooling, warm penguin huddles, and dry ant rafts.
Written with the brilliant Chantal Nguyen 🐟🐧🐜

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YouTube video by RTK Pasdite - Armin Bahl - Katja Slangewal - Flutura Shabani & Zana Gërxhaliu 08.07.2025

Wednesday evening, we made an appearance on Kosovo TV: youtu.be/sNqkfZerkhQ?...
On Thursday morning, I gave a lecture on flexible behavior and neuromodulation, and now we begin building our behavioral setups.

How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics | Quanta Magazine Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics.

The conceptual consequences of Noether’s theorem are hard to overstate.

I’m thrilled to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. What an honour! Would not have happened without the mentors, postdocs and students who I’ve had the great privilege to learn and collaborate with throughout my career. @uni-konstanz.de @maxplanck.de

First day with @benjulab.bsky.social at Charité, where I'm starting my PhD investigating neural dynamics of the beautiful singer Danionella Cerebrum.

Come visit us at the following talks and posters

Amongst all the rodents, humans and flies we bring the zebratastical fish @bahllab.bsky.social #NWG2025

Opening lecture about axon growth and regeneration by Frank Bradke from @dzne.science #NWG2025

Sledding from the Bahl lab retreat into #NWG2025! Come check out our posters and talks over the next few days. See you there!

The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva!

Correlative light and electron microscopy reveals the fine circuit structure underlying evidence accumulation in larval zebrafish Accumulating information is a critical component of most circuit computations in the brain across species, yet its precise implementation at the synaptic level remains poorly understood. Dissecting su...

We are proud to present our new preprint “Correlative light and electron microscopy reveals the fine circuit structure underlying evidence accumulation in larval zebrafish”, just posted on bioRxiv (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). (1/10)

various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools

📆 updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP:
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is terrifying. I am worried for the non-citizens who will be showing up to the science rallies this week. Please be smart. It’s unlikely institutions will be able to save you.

The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts Collective motion, which is ubiquitous in nature, has traditionally been explained by “self-propelled particle” models from theoretical physics. Here we show, through field, lab, and virtual reality e...

Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)

I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine

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Very cool, all the best! 🕷️

‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.

‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel

In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
#AcademicSky

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

I usually look at the e-mail sender adress. Is it a weird one?

Wish you all a fishy 🐟 Christmas 🎄

The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.

The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

I'm excited to share another project we've been working on: The Transmitter's first book, which includes some of our favorite essays from our first ~9 months. Download a copy here: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...

Happy to have hosted professor Florian Engert from @harvard.edu here at the @unikonstanz.bsky.social who shared his exciting work on analyzing heart rate and attention in larvae to gain new insights into decision-making behavior.

The Cosmos Teems with Complex Organic Molecules | Quanta Magazine Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials.

Everywhere we looked, space seemed to teem with biology’s raw materials. New analyses of comet and asteroid samples, along with computer modeling, suggested that organic compounds arose long before our sun even existed. www.quantamagazine.org/the-cosmos-t...

Wow! Is there a pattern available by any chance? 👀

Picture of a blue and yellow crochet zebrafish

Hard to beat the white elephant gift exchange in the lab this year; anyone else surrounded by amazing students?

The introduction to this article reminds me of the intro to "States of Matter" by Goodstein. Why do so many statistical physicists sound like Dostojewski? Cool topic though, which never dies (therefore resisting the second law).

Neuroscience methods - YouTube Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!

Please like and repost to help us get the word out!

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Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
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