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🌟 Exciting News! 🌟

The SPP Women’s Retreat is officially on and this year, we’re teaming up with the amazing women of SFB1233 for a joint retreat! 💬✨

We’re grateful to @stefanieliebe.bsky.social and @laurabusse.bsky.social for helping bring this collaboration to life!

#WomenInScience #Neuro #spp

Conveying tactile object characteristics through customized intracortical microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex - Nature Communications In this study, three individuals with tetraplegia designed vivid, reliable and object-appropriate sensations with a variety of tactile characteristics using self-selected stimulus parameters that stim...

🧠🔄 #NeuroThursday

What if you could design how touch feels in your brain?

Ceci Verbaarschot & @corticalbionics.bsky.social team show that people can recreate textures like soft fur or cold metal via brain stimulation and recognize objects by sensation
Check out ⬇️

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 NeNa 2025 registrations are OPEN! Don’t miss your spot — sign up now: nenaconference.github.io

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Thank you for our sponsors: @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social‬, @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social‬, @mpicybernetics.bsky.social‬, and Centre for Integrative Neuroscience
#NeNa2025 #Heidelberg

☀️ Summer Break!

Loops webinars are on pause for August & September

We’ll be back in October with more Loops, insights, and sharp sessions.

Enjoy your summer! 💙

#LoopsWebinars #SummerBreak #SeeYouInOctober #spp #neuro

Screenshot from the paper linked in the second post, containing the following information: “Open access, Published: 01 July 2025, Oropouche virus infects human trophoblasts and placenta explants; Christina J. Megli, Rebecca K. Zack, Jackson J. McGaughey, Ryan M. Hoehl, Taylor Snisky, Amy L. Hartman & Cynthia M. McMillen; Nature Communications volume 16, Article number: 6040 (2025)”

Using human cell cultures, #organoids, & placental explants, researchers at Pitt & @mageewomens.bsky.social have obtained the first scientific evidence explaining how #Oropouche virus may pass from mother to fetus and cause adverse pregnancy outcomes. 🧪

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

Thanks to @roselynechauvin.bsky.social for a fascinating talk!!

Missed it? Don’t worry it’s still up on our website along with previous webinars.

🔗 You can check out the recordings here:

www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

🚨‼️ TODAY: LOOPs Webinar Reminder ‼️🚨

Don’t miss TODAY’s webinar by @roselynechauvin.bsky.social on how high-res neuroimaging reveals reversible changes in motor circuits during arm immobilization 🧠💪

🗓️ July 9th, 2025 (Today!!)
🕓 4 PM CEST
📍 Watch here 👉 www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries Nature Communications - The neural processes involved in memory formation for realistic experiences remain poorly understood. Here, the authors found that ripple-like activity in the human...

🧠🔄 #NeuroThursday

@martamasilva.bsky.social & team show that during movie watching, hippocampal ripples track event boundaries while cortical ripples predict recall, helping turn experience into memory.

Turning life into memory? Your ripples are working overtime 🧠💥 Check out ⬇️

🔗 rdcu.be/euBzh

The dynamics and geometry of choice in the premotor cortex - Nature A population code for the dynamics of choice formation in the primate premotor cortex is revealed, with diverse single-neuron tuning to a shared decision variable.

The dynamics and geometry of choice in the premotor cortex 🧠

Nature 2025
#neuroskyence

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

Open Positions If our research profile evoked your interest of working with us on the spatial memory of honeybees, then you are warmly welcommed to contact us.  ​ What we offer ​We offer the infrastructure of...

I am looking for a Postdoc and a PhD student who want to study the neuronal mechanisms of the bee's waggle dance. 🐝 More details can be found on our webpage:

www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...

Looking forward to talk about my latest research findings at the LOOPS webinar

🔄‼️ LOOPs Webinar Alert

Upcoming: Mapping Motor Plasticity

Join @roselynechauvin.bsky.social as she shows how high-res neuroimaging reveals reversible changes in the cortico-subcortical motor circuit during arm immobilization 🧠💪

📅 July 9th, 2025
🕓 4pm CEST
🔗 crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

PhD position — Rademaker lab

Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add

Distinct dendritic integration strategies control dynamics of inhibition in the neocortex Morabito et al. observed that different neocortical interneuron (IN) populations display distinct dendritic properties by varying synaptic receptor composition and input location. These IN-specific dendritic properties enhance synaptic efficiency but are tailored to different temporal processing modes. In the visual cortex, this mechanism supports the distinct dynamics of PV- and SST-INs.

Online now:

Human CLOCK enhances neocortical function - Nature Neuroscience Regulation of gene expression is a facet of human brain specialization. Here, the authors show that human-like expression of the CLOCK gene in the mouse neocortex enhances cognitive flexibility and ne...

Human-like expression of the CLOCK gene in mouse neocortex enhances cognitive flexibility and neural connectivity, suggesting an evolutionary gain of function in neocortical development that may have contributed to human cognitive specialization

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

Cyborg tadpoles! Stretchy implantable neuroelectronics that grow with the brain. You gotta love it! 🧪🧠 #neuroskyence

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

Olfaction geeks, come to Cambridge next month for a 30yrs old cross-disciplinary smell chat from philosophy to clinics to circuits 🧠👃
Headliner @dattalab.bsky.social on his lab's brand new olfactory maps study
Networking lunches, fancy College dinner, student discount, plenty of coffee. Go register!

☀️ The #FENSForum is coming to #Barcelona!

Join us from 4-8 July 2026 as #FENS2026 brings global #BrainScience to the vibrant city of Barcelona, Spain. 🇪🇸

📣 Shout-out to our host, the Spanish Society of #Neuroscience, for making it all possible!

Disuse-driven plasticity in the human thalamus and putamen Using a 2-week arm and hand casting paradigm with daily brain fMRIs, Chauvin et al. observe subcortical plasticity in humans. The disused motor circuit shows increased functional connectivity and the ...

🧠🔄 #NeuroThursday

@roselynechauvin.bsky.social & team use daily fMRI to show that 2 weeks of arm disuse triggers spontaneous “disuse pulses” and boosts connectivity in motor cortex, thalamus and putamen.

Arm in a cast? Your thalamus rewires 🩼🧠 Check out below ⬇️

🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

🧠‼️ It’s today!

LOOPs webinar with @brunoaverbeck.bsky.social kicks off at 4pm CEST diving into how the thalamus evolved to shape behavior across species and development.

Not registered yet? There’s still time 👇
🔗 crowdcast.io/c/loops-seminars-v2

#neuro #LOOPsSeminars #thalamus

🔄‼️ LOOPs Webinar Alert

This week: How did the thalamus evolve to shape behavior?

Join @brunoaverbeck.bsky.social as he explores how the thalamus fits into forebrain networks across evolution and development 🧠

📅 June 11, 2025
🕓 4pm CEST
🔗 crowdcast.io/c/loops-seminars-v2

🚨 LAST CALL to sign up for the #BrainConference! 🚨

🗓️ Register by 21 May 2025 – that's tomorrow! – to join this small-scale conference and explore the biggest questions in #TheoreticalNeuroscience. 🧠

👉 loom.ly/GEOcXkU

@lundbeckfonden.bsky.social @naddenmark.bsky.social

Stereo olfaction underlies stable coding of head direction in blind mice - Nature Communications Stereo olfaction involves comparing odor differences between the two nostrils. Here, using neuronal recordings and a behavioral test, the authors demonstrate that blind mice use stereo olfaction to fo...

🚨new paper alert
Blind mice use stereo olfaction, comparing smells between nostrils, to maintain a stable sense of direction. Blocking this ability disrupts their internal compass.

Kudos to @kasumbisa.bsky.social! Another cool chapter of the Trenholm-Peyrache collab😉

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

Feedback Scales the Spatial Tuning of Cortical Responses during Both Visual Working Memory and Long-Term Memory Perception, working memory, and long-term memory each evoke neural responses in the visual cortex. While previous neuroimaging research on the role of the visual cortex in memory has largely emphasize...

🧠🔄 #NeuroThursday

This week: Memory precision in visual cortex 👀

@robwoodry.bsky.social, @rewaniw.bsky.social, and team show that top-down memory signals are less precise than perception in early visual areas but get sharper with higher task demands.

Check out ⬇️
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...

Feedback Scales the Spatial Tuning of Cortical Responses during Both Visual Working Memory and Long-Term Memory Perception, working memory, and long-term memory each evoke neural responses in the visual cortex. While previous neuroimaging research on the role of the visual cortex in memory has largely emphasize...

🧠🔄 #NeuroThursday

This week: Memory precision in visual cortex 👀

@robwoodry.bsky.social, @rewaniw.bsky.social, and team show that top-down memory signals are less precise than perception in early visual areas but get sharper with higher task demands.

Check out ⬇️
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...

🚨 Did you register yet? If not, do it now!

LOOPs webinar TOMORROW!

🔄‼️ LOOPs Webinar Alert
Can a single neuron hold the concept of a person?

Florian Mormann @unibonn.bsky.social discusses
“Single-neuron correlates of perception & memory in the human medial temporal lobe”

📅 May 14, 2025
🕓 4pm CEST
🔗 crowdcast.io/c/loops-seminars-v2

#Neuroscience #LoopsSeminars

Motor learning refines thalamic influence on motor cortex - Nature Imaging and optogenetics in mice provide insight into the interplay between the primary motor cortex and the motor thalamus during learning, showing that thalamic inputs have a key role in the executi...

🧠🔄 #NeuroThursday

This week: Thalamocortical precision and learning

@takakikomiyama.bsky.social and team reveal how motor learning causes thalamic inputs to M1 to selectively activate neurons involved in learned movements

How does the brain train its own inputs? ⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Walter Benjamin Programme Monday, 26 May 2025, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. CET

#ECR attention! Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme might be a funding option for you? Come and find out in our info talk in our research career series #Prospects (in English). The link to the meeting will be published here:
➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

#WorldWomenNeuro is proud to spotlight the next #GlobalConnectome2025 program selected to be hosted with European Society for Neurochemistry & Hellenic Society for Neuroscience.

Where: Naxos, Greece
Date: May 20, 2025

Stay tuned for more details!

#WWNevents
@ibroorg.bsky.social