A bunch of passionate neuronerds studying the brain origins of reinforcement learning and compulsive behavior at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. Dopamine, serotonin, basal ganglia, PFC, DBS. https://nin.nl/research/researchgroups/willuhn-group/
WilluhnLab
A huge effort and a new take on what constitutes the "feedforward pass" across the visual system. Make sure to check out our new preprint:
Last Call! The individual-abstract deadline for the "Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience" conference in Amsterdam (Sept 7-10, 2026) is tomorrow! Get the latest update on in-vivo neuro-methods from a brilliant lineup of keynote and symposia speakers: monitoringmolecules.org/speakers/. Please repost!
🏆 Congratulations to the Early Career Training Programme awardees for #FENS2026!
🧠 #FENS is excited to share the researchers selected to visit and work in a host laboratory in Spain or Portugal ahead of the #FENSForum.
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@ibroorg.bsky.social @senc-neurociencia.bsky.social
Want your mice to learn your task faster? 🐭 According to this paper giving a huge reward (10x typical size) in a subset of trials strongly shortens training times:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The @thetransmitter.bsky.social featured an awareness campaign by the Oregon Voices for Biomedical Research, alerting to the impact that the closure of the #ONPRC could have on biomedical research, amid negotiations to transform the facility into an animal sanctuary.
🔗 shorturl.at/IGBYA
#NHP #US
If LLMs are increasingly used for data analysis, should we worry that they might encourage p-hacking?
A recent preprint suggests that the answer may be yes, at least in relatively complex analytical pipelines. I share some personal experience here 👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/stefan...
Burnout is a systemic problem, but individuals can take steps to cope with it and pave a path forward
go.nature.com/4u38kku
At #EICSummit2026, Prof. Amunts showcased how the HBP legacy continues through EBRAINS: SpiNNaker, The Virtual Brain, brainfm on JUPITER, NEST Simulator.
From frontier research to lasting impact in neuroscience, healthcare, AI and next-generation computing.
More: ebrains.eu/news-and-eve...
Forth and back
🔥 Our latest work is state of the art 3D pose estimation, with video analysis from a single camera!
🎥 Just train with 3D data, and then only 1 camera is needed! 🖤
Presented this week at #CVPR2026 by lead author Ti Wang! Please repost🩵🙏🏼
xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/
arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755
Video
Standard animal learning studies minimize individual reward magnitudes to maximize the repetitions of reinforced behaviors. We investigated how reward magnitude influences initial learning across five...
Researchers in the US have launched an awareness campaign on billboards, buses across Oregon and social media, alerting the public to the impact that the closure of the Oregon National Primate…
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS
Guido Meijer
EARA
Stefano Palminteri
Nature
Excited about our new preprint: “The illusory simplicity of the feedforward pass: evidence for the dynamical nature of stimulus encoding along the primate ventral stream”
arxiv.org/abs/2604.12825
Work with Sushrut Thorat, Anna Mitola, Paolo Papale, Peter König & Tim Kietzmann
🧵 thread below
Jonas Wietek
EBRAINS
Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis
Representing EBRAINS, Europe's digital research infrastructure for brain research and brain-inspired technologies, Prof. Katrin Amunts, Joint CEO of…
In studying primate vision, a large body of work focuses on the first feedforward sweep. During this initial time window, information is thought to pass through ventral stream regions in a stage-like ...
If LLMs are increasingly used for data analysis, should we worry that they might encourage p-hacking?
A recent preprint, also featured in Science Magazine, suggests that the answer may be yes, at lea...
In the 2027 Work Programme, the ERC's Scientific Council has now decided NOT to change the re-submission restrictions for Starting, Consolidator, Advanced and ERC Plus Grants from those employed over the past years. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
European Research Council (ERC)
The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about the recent announcement on changes to the re-submission rules. The changes, intended to manage the ...
