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As we get ready to start the final day of GEM 2025, here's a few snaps from yesterday's sessions.

Very proud to have presented our work on modeling cognitive maps and episodic memory at the GEM conference today! @for2812.bsky.social

Check out our preprint to learn more about how you can bring together semantic and spatial information with our grid-cell-VSA model arxiv.org/abs/2503.08608

GEM 2025 got off to a great start yesterday.

New paper about processing of episodic prediction errors out from our lab. Nina will also present this research at next week's GEM, organised by @for2812.bsky.social

The program for GEM 2025 is now available as a pdf.
for2812.rub.de/upload/edito...

You get to keep one memory from your personal past. This is the provocative premise from which Chris McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) begins his post at The Memory Palace today. A great read!
#philsky #philscisky

Answer by Maureen van der Grinten en Sjoerd Murris of the @nin-knaw.bsky.social : brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/wat...

Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @dondersinst.bsky.social Brainhelpdesk and we will come up with an #answer!

Bronze sculpture of a man with outstretched hands looking to the sky. Part of a larger ensemble on Husemannplatz, Bochum Photo credit: Sen Cheng

Colourful, abstract graffiti from under the Unibrücke in Bochum. The graffiti here changes frequently. Photo credit: Sen Cheng

A large blue bike frame made out of metal with the tires partially submerged in to the ground in the Bochum town. This instance is outside the Rathaus. Photo credit: Sen Cheng

Graffiti on Unistr. Bochum. Depicting the bust of a girl. One half of her is drawn in black and white with flowing hair, a flower in her mouth, closed eyes. She is well dressed and groomed. The other half is in colour. The girls face is dirty her clothes are old and torn and her hair is messy. Photo credit: Sen Cheng

Registration for GEM 2025 closes soon (30.04.25). Don't forget to register at www.conftool.net/gem2025 and to check out our program at www.conftool.net/gem2025/sess...
While you are in Bochum you can check out some of the city's street art.
@ruhr-uni-bochum.de #gem2025 #episodicmemory

Register here www.conftool.net/gem2025/

cherry blossom close up - April 2025, Bochum

Green trees and lawn in the Bochum Stadt Park

Tall cylindrical building in the middle of Universität Straße, Bochum. With tree lined road in the foreground

Bismarkturm (old cylindrical tower) built on a hill in Bochum's Stadtpark. With trees and lawn in the foreground

Registration for GEM 2025 closes on 30.04.25.
Bochum has a reputation for being grey and dull (due to the coal and steel industry), but in fact it is far from it. Currently the cherry blossoms are in bloom and by June greenery will abound.
Photo credits: @sencheng.bsky.social

The Ruhr university's botanical gardens in fall. Wooden walkway leading through a pond covered in green algae. Orange leaves cover the ground and the walkway leads off in to the distance.

The GEM 2025 program is out and there are a few days left to register. Join us in Bochum from 2nd to 4th June for an excellent line up of talks on episodic memory.
www.conftool.net/gem2025/sess...

Registration deadline: 30.04.2025

(sharing with you some lovely photographs of Bochum)

Just a few more days left to submit your abstracts.
#computationalneuroscience #memory #modelling #STEM

Application deadline is 7 April 2025 👇
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If you want to apply for a early career researcher travel award you will need to have submitted your application and abstract before the deadline!

Deadline notification for submitting abstracts to the conference Generative Episodic Memory (GEM 2025). The deadline is on 15.03.2025 and the conference is 02.-04.06.2025

The deadline to submit abstracts for posters, talks and symposia for GEM 2025 is fast approaching. Have your submissions in by 15.03.2025
The deadline will not be extended!
for2812.rub.de/gem2025
#DFG_for2812 #gem2025 #interdisciplinaryresearch #generative_episodic_memory #memory #neuroscience

Congratulations @katjakleespies.bsky.social !
Katja was a recipient of a Women in Memory Research award in 2023. We are so happy to see her thrive in the memory research community.
#gem2025 #wimr #supportingwomen

Applications are now open! 3-week courses: Comp Neuro and Deep Learning. 2-week courses: NeuroAI and Comp Tools for Climate Science.

🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨

Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!

Applications are due Sunday, March 23.

Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/

#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪

A tour of this fabulous new research building is on the schedule for the WiMR program. Applications should be in by tomorrow. for2812.rub.de/wimr2025. Meet @helenblank.bsky.social at GEM 2025.

For ECRs who need funding!

Just finished a draft of my Models of Memory (grad) course that I'm teaching this spring! Please share/borrow/re-use/follow along as desired, and if you have feedback or suggestions I'd really love to hear (especially while I can still change it)!

All materials are here: github.com/ContextLab/m...

... this was the perfect opportunity to dive deeper into the world of neuroscience. -W. Dziarnowska

Participants of the women in memory research program 2023 with senior researchers P. Hemmer and R. I. Schubotz on a sunny June day. Photo taken on the Mensa terrace with the valley and hills of South Bochum in the background.

Application deadline 15.02.2025.
If you are still on the fence here are some comments shared about last times program:
It was a remarkable experience to dive deeper into the world of neuroscience, receive feedback on my project, and exchange knowledge. - C Ferrandina

The application deadline for our Women in Memory Research program (WiMR 2025) is approaching fast (15.02.2025). If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in the field this maybe the perfect platform. Our researchers are always on the look out for new talent.
#wimr2025 #gem2025 #stem

Image promoting the PS One World Seminar featuring Morgan Barense, scheduled for January 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM ET. Includes headshot of speaker and event details.

Join us on January 22 for the upcoming One World Seminar “Enhancing Real-World Event Memory” presented by Morgan Barense from University of Toronto, Canada. Register for free today! https://buff.ly/4gk1TlH @barense.bsky.social

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📢 Apply now for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London!

You will develop mathematics skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience or #MachineLearning field.

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Please help spread the word!

Help out the FOR 2812 research project by answering @mariusboeltzig.bsky.social survey.

Reminding us of the great work done by the Extinction Learning CRC 1280 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Read all about "Why can you learn about the human brain with pigeons?" in news.rub.de/sites/defaul...
#sfb1280 #extinctionlearning #memoryresearch

I forgot to mention that we only have a limited number of places at our PhD symposium, which are offered on a first come, first served basis. To secure your spot register for #GEM2025 at for2812.rub.de/gem2025.

And just in case it got lost... GEM takes place @ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Headshot of Johannes Mahr. Prof. of philosophy at York University, Canada.

Our PhD symposium at #GEM2025 gives ECR's a chance to network with their peers before the conference begins and everyone gets overwhelmed.
This year Johannes Mahr @jomahr.bsky.social, our keynote speaker, will also be on the panel at the symposium.
#neuroscience #RUB #episodicmemory #ECR

For Sen's @sencheng.bsky.social views on understanding the brain using AI turn to page 34!
news.rub.de/sites/defaul...
#AI #brain