The Obleser lab will be hiring soon!

New postdoc (fully funded) and
new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded).

Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct.
Watch out for official announcements!
Please be in touch.

auditorycognition.com
obleserlab.com
hoerhanse.de
lemmi.uni-luebeck.de

Be part of the city tour! We are looking for children (ages 4-10) and adults (ages 18-35) to take part in a fun virtual online memory study. The study helps scientists understand how children and adults learn and remember new information. In this study, you will join a live video session with a researcher and then: -Watch short animations of magical cities on a computer -Answer simple questions about what they saw during the tour to cellect coins and clues to rescue a lost animal! Study information: -Meet with a researcher virtually online to play memory games -Three separate sessions, spaced 2-3 days apart -Each session lasts about 45 minutes -Compensated with $35 Amazon gift card after study completion Please fill out the survey using this link to see if you are eligible. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/research-groups/raven/participation/city-tour

Looking for kids (4-10) and adults (18-35) for an online memory study. Don't pass up this chance to tour some adorable magical cities!

Call for Applications - Max Planck Postdoc Program, apply now!

The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏
www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer

Why can’t we remember being toddlers? 🧠
In @time.com, Sarah Power @sarahdpower.bsky.social @lipmpib.bsky.social explains how a specially designed lab helps uncover how memories form in early childhood.

Why You Can’t Remember Being a Toddler This form of amnesia is almost universal, but has long been overlooked.

Why can't you remember being a toddler? Or can you?

Nice feature in Time of our lab's work on infantile amnesia at @tcddublin.bsky.social

Also of the labs of @sarahdpower.bsky.social at MPI Berlin, @franklandlab.bsky.social at Sick Kids, and Nick Turk-Browne at Yale.

time.com/7380496/why-...

Why You Can’t Remember Being a Toddler This form of amnesia is almost universal, but has long been overlooked.

To get a better sense of precisely when #memories are formed and forgotten, Sarah Power @mpib-berlin.bsky.social built a media room where she observed 400 toddlers: "We've been very surprised at their ability to encode and retain these episodic-like memories." time.com/7380496/why-... @time.com

Neuroscience has a species problem If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought, writes @suthanalab.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

A cartoon showing a middle-aged mouse at an office desk, remembering (in a thought bubble) a childhood birthday, with his parent bringing him a cake with a single candle; cartoon glial cells are controlling a cable that links to his early memories. Infantile amnesia is the global loss of episodic and contextual memories formed in early life. Image credit: Birte Doludda

Infantile #amnesia limits our recall of early-life memories, but what is its cellular basis? @tjryan.bsky.social &co reveal that transient #microglial activity during postnatal development regulates infant #memory persistence & retrieval in mice @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4a0SoGH

Do you work or study in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, artificial intelligence, or philosophy?

What does the term 'representation' mean to you?

We invite you to participate in a brief survey on key conceptual questions across fields.

eu.surveymonkey.com/r/VX9GNXM

Babies can categorise objects better at two months than previously known | Newstalk Babies as young as two-months-old can categorise objects in their brains, which is far younger th...

"Babies can categorise objects better at two months than previously known." - Professor Rhodri Cusack from Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and co-author of the research speaks to NewsTalk. Listen to the interview:

ow.ly/MqA650Y8ZbB

@rhodricusack.bsky.social @trinityneuro.bsky.social

1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

A cartoon showing a middle-aged mouse at an office desk, remembering (in a thought bubble) a childhood birthday, with his parent bringing him a cake with a single candle; cartoon glial cells are controlling a cable that links to his early memories. Infantile amnesia is the global loss of episodic and contextual memories formed in early life. Image credit: Birte Doludda

Infantile #amnesia limits our recall of early-life memories, but what is its cellular basis? @tjryan.bsky.social &co reveal that transient #microglial activity during postnatal development regulates infant #memory persistence & retrieval in mice @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4a0SoGH

New paper involving LIP colleague @sarahdpower.bsky.social out now!

Blocking immune cells in the brain can prevent infantile amnesia Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile amnesia") and improves memory in mice, suggesting that microglia may actively manage memory formation and dictate what, and when, we forget.

Blocking microglia activity in young mice prevents infantile amnesia and enhances memory, indicating these brain immune cells play a key role in early memory formation and forgetting. doi.org/hbkphs

Microglial activity during postnatal development is required for infantile amnesia in mice Infantile amnesia limits recall of early-life memories, but its cellular basis is unclear. This study reveals that transient microglial activity during postnatal development regulates infant memory pe...

💡 #ListerFellow @tjryan.bsky.social et al. reveal how microglia immune cells help organise memory engrams during early development. A clue to the mechanisms regulating "infantile amnesia" and why we forget our baby days? @ryanlab.bsky.social

👉 PLOS Biology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

On the move: MRI goes mobile

Our new mobile MRI scanner brings state-of-the-art imaging directly to the field—without compromising data quality! Read more about the 1,5 Tesla and our plans with it: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/newsroom/new...

#Neuroscience #FieldResearch #InnovationInScience #BrainScience #NewYearNewGoals

Thanks Paul!

Thanks Cameron!

End of data collection and the end of my postdoc! Delighted to say I will be starting my own research group at @mpib-berlin.bsky.social in January.

Huge congrats Flavio!

Thanks for the invite and the engaging discussion with a great lab!

International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS) abstract deadline has now been extended to Friday December 12th!

Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research, connect with leading scholars, and experience the unique setting of Panama City. ☀️ 🇵🇦 @infantstudies.bsky.social

Final version published here in @cellpress.bsky.social: Structure

www.cell.com/structure/fu...

We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team!

More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...

Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...

Late breaking abstract at #SfN25 by Dr. Erika Stewart:

LBP032.14 - Microglial plasticity across development mediates infantile amnesia (1 PM - 5 PM Sunday Nov 16).

@sfn.org @tcddublin.bsky.social @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Proud of my first masters student @mfey.bsky.social whose brilliant thesis has been honoured with the CENE Research Prize! Marius is now continuing his academic journey as a PhD student @imprstp.bsky.social and I can’t wait to see all the incredible work he will do next. @lipmpib.bsky.social

Group photo in front of old church in green scenery

The Neuroscience School for Advanced Studies "Brain Plasticity: Neural Basis of Individuality" led by LIP Director Ulman Lindenberger and Tobias Bonhoeffer @mpiforbi.bsky.social has just ended at San Servolo, Venice! #nsas

The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools

Ireland’s first OPM-MEG system launched at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience New wearable scanner a gamechanger for brain research in Ireland

The MEG was featured in the Irish Medical Times, read below:

@redmondoconnell.bsky.social @irishmedicaltimes.bsky.social

www.imt.ie/news/ireland...

#neuroscience #schoolofpsychology #psychology #medicine #MEG