Dominic Gonschorek

Rare seasonal brain shrinkage in shrews is driven by water loss, not cell death Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel’s phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. A study...

Scientists discover the secret behind the shrew’s amazing ability to shrink their brains 🧠

The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition.

Find the 5-letter word 👇

Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al

www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...

01.09.2025 20:41 — 👍 44    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 3

🔵Tübingen SNS 2025🔵

Registration is still open for the #SNS2025 event on 6-7 October!

Join us for plenary lectures 🗣️, poster sessions📊and social events 👥 about system neuroscience!🧠

Registration at meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025

29.08.2025 07:53 — 👍 13    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

Mice navigate scent trails using predictive policies Animals actively sense their environment to extract features of interest to guide behaviors. For mammals, odors are prominent environmental features which are sampled by active modulation of sniffing ...

Thrilled to share this work, long time in the making! Carried through creatively by @siddjakes.bsky.social after initial design & piloting by @trackingskills.bsky.social, with help from @trackingactions.bsky.social. Modeling in collaboration with Massimo Vergassola & Nicola Rigolli.

01.09.2025 19:06 — 👍 125    🔁 42    💬 1    📌 2

Cool to see you @kayson.bsky.social in good company :)

10.06.2025 09:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Strengthening European Ties: Institut de la Vision in Paris visits the Institute of Ophthalmic Research in Tübingen This meeting marked the first of its kind between the two institutions.

Strengthening European Ties: Institut de la Vision in Paris visits the IOR in Tübingen. This meeting was the first of its kind between the 2 internationally renowned institutes in vision and ophthalmology.
@unituebingen.bsky.social @tueneurocampus.bsky.social

www.eye-tuebingen.de?tx_news_pi1%...

04.04.2025 09:22 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

ICML 2025 Statistics - Paper Copilot

If you submitted a paper to #ICML2025 and want to know how well your score compares overall, here is a good resource to keep track of your chances of getting it accepted this year. Fingers crossed for everyone!
papercopilot.com/statistics/i...

25.03.2025 13:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thus new review by Jennifer Hoy (University of Nevada) and Karl Farrow (NERF) takes a deep dive into the role of the superior colliculus.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00052-1

Beautifully illustrated by Pia Rachedi + open access

@farrowlab.bsky.social

18.03.2025 07:48 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
We’ve just launched openretina, an open-source framework for collaborative retina modeling across datasets and species.
A 🧵👇 (1/9)

14.03.2025 09:41 — 👍 38    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 1

Claims of necessity, sufficiency don’t work well for studies of complex systems Early studies on necessary and sufficient neural populations were done on simple invertebrate circuits. Does this logic work for complex outputs?

𝗡𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
Excellent short piece about causation in the brain by @neurograce.bsky.social
In a complex system talking about necessary and sufficient is not productive.

www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

09.02.2025 16:48 — 👍 91    🔁 27    💬 8    📌 0

Seeking input: A standardized nomenclature
for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina

A number of us have been working on a proposal to bring various disconnected naming systems for the vertebrate rods and cones across species into alignment. The basic proposal looks like this:

05.02.2025 15:34 — 👍 21    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 3

Nitric oxide modulates contrast suppression in a subset of mouse retinal ganglion cells Nitric oxide is a type-selective neuromodulator affecting the temporal, but not the spatial response kinetics of a specific subset of mouse retinal ganglion cells.

The results in a publication of an important scientific collaboration between IOR in Tübingen and the IdV in Paris! With the first detailed analysis of the modulatory effects of nitric oxide on retinal ganglion cells.
@unituebingen.bsky.social @tueneurocampus.bsky.social

👉 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

21.01.2025 18:17 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

AI: How We Got Here—A Neuroscience Perspective A deep dive into the research of neuroscientists, who have uncovered a stunning way of interpreting AI progress

I've added a new summary to the top of the Kickstarter, thanks to the advice of the excellent @matthewkressel.net. I think what I'm seeing right now is that I may need to clarify the importance of what's been happening in neuroscience. Refining the message!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/454...

20.01.2025 19:38 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Our paper on how the neuromodulator nitric oxide modulates a subset of mouse retinal ganglion cells is finally published in @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Great work by @dgonschorek.bsky.social together with the lab of @oliviermarre.bsky.social and @matigoldin.bsky.social, ...

10.01.2025 15:16 — 👍 26    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

Could you add me as well please? :)

05.12.2024 09:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0