Coming up:
SPP 2205 is looking forward to welcoming @pbrand.bsky.social in their colloquium on Apr 23, 2026 (14:00-15:00). For further details and attendance see uni-goettingen.de/de/706145.html
#neuroscience #evolution

Happy to announce that SPP2205 will be present at #FENS2026 with the satellite symposium "Trajectories and drivers of brain evolution through deep time". Registration open as of now:
www.uni-goettingen.de/de/705030.html
#neuroscience #evolution #brain

Summer School 2026 We are pleased to announce the first: Curiosity Summer School 2026 The five-day summer school brings together graduate students and early-career researchers from psychology, behavioral biology, cognit...

Applications open: Curiosity Summer School 2026!
📍 Göttingen
📅 July 20–24
Interdisciplinary school for early-career researchers in psychology, neuroscience & related fields.
✨ Lectures, workshops & hands-on sessions
🎓 Travel grants available
⏳ Deadline: April 15
👉 events.gwdg.de/event/1382/r...

Just a quick reminder...

#CompNeuro Satellite Symposium at the Göttingen Cognition Forum (Oct 14-15), deadline for abstract submission extended to Aug 17. Topics:
• Neural Interfaces
• Cognition, Circuits & Cells
• Neural Circuit #Evolution
events.gwdg.de/event/1099/

The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction Social and physical interactions with the environment shape cognition in humans and non-human animals alike. Und...

Join us in Göttingen for the First Interdisciplinary

Göttingen Cognition Forum 2025: Curiosity & Interaction

Oct 13-15, 2025, Alte Mensa in Göttingen

Info and registration: events.gwdg.de/e/goettingen...

Participation is free!

Abstracts due: August 1st, 2025!

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Want to learn sth about evolutionary factors influencing the balance of power between the sexes? Check out the new study by #DPZ “Beyond the Alpha Male” in today’s Forschung aktuell on #DLF or see www.dpz.eu/en/public-en...

⌛ Two weeks left to submit your poster abstracts and travel grants for the #BernsteinConference 2025!

🗓️ Deadline: July 15

All information 👉 bernstein-netwerk.de/bernstein-co...

Congrats to SPP member Veronica Egger (SPP project @uniregensburg.bsky.social, spokesperson of @modolfor.bsky.social‬) receiving an ERC Advanced Grant! #neuroscience #olfaction

SPP members @crltt.bsky.social & Marion Silies together with @avstempel.bsky.social‬ organize the Gutenberg Workshop “Flexibility & Robustness of Nervous System Function” Sep 2-4, 2025. Details & registration: gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/flexibility-... #neuroscience

Tauben sind viel schlauer als gedacht Ihr Gehirn ist anders aufgebaut als das von Säugern. Trotzdem gibt es Parallelen: Auch Tauben träumen - wahrscheinlich vom Fliegen. Neues aus der Wissenschaft.

Onur Güntürkün & team (SPP2205 project @ruhr-uni-bochum.de) presented their research on pigeons in Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt (Deutschlandfunk) yesterday. Missed it? See
www.deutschlandfunk.de/wie-ticken-t...
#neuroscience

Richa, Häring @mathherring.bsky.social‬ et al uncover that the very proteins transducing sound into neuronal activity in the ear, in embryogenesis coordinate epithelial cell movements. Early in #evolution, mechanotransduction perhaps "listened" to intra-organism forces doi 10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.066