Just had an amazing visit to the Institute for Machine-Brain Interfacing Technology (IMBIT) at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in the beautiful city of Freiburg. Great to meet Thomas Stieglitz and the team of Project Move2Treat -
I am totally pumped about this new work . "Task-trained RNNs" are a powerful and influential framework in neuroscience, but have lacked a firm theoretical footing. This work provides one, and makes direct contact with the classical theory of random RNNs:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Background picture of Copenhagen's medieval harbor with the following text: Postdoc in Copenhagen: Studying Bradykinesia in Parkinson's Disease with MRI. Join the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance for a 2-years postdoc on unpacking Bradykinesia ("slowness of movement") in Parkinson's disease with MRI. Good opportunities for prolongation. Sounds interesting? See the ad with further details on our website: www.drcmr.dk
📢 Hiring! We need your enthusiasm at the @drcmr-mri.bsky.social for a 2-year postdoc in studying Bradykinesia (“slowness of movement”) in Parkinson’s disease with MRI.
Project is funded by @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social
Great lab in the most liveable city in the world – apply!
tinyurl.com/bradyPostDoc
Excited to start teaching the PhD course on theoretical neuroscience next week. Books arrived!
@beatolab.bsky.social Hi Marco, we have now uploaded a revised preprint that includes the methods section. Please find it here - Enjoy 😅
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
What does the spinal cord actually do? Most textbooks draw the spinal cord as a relay station- but it is much more than that. The spinal cord is not a cable — it's a computer.
The human spinal cord contains 1 billion neurons that generate almost all bodily movements. Cortex has about 16 billion.
Sayre's law: "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low."
Via @serge.belongie.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%2...
The exciting time of the year, when the Brain Prize winners are announced, is coming up soon!
The announcement of The Brain Prize 2026 will take place on 5th March at 4pm CET on our website brainprize.org
The world’s largest neuroscience research prize is awarded yearly by the Lundbeck Foundation.
Want to come do a postdoc with us?
We’re interested in how sensorimotor function is carried out by the cells and circuits of the spinal cord. We have an awesome team, lots of cool techniques, and we’re open to new ideas/approaches/connections. Get in touch!
Rune W. Berg (@runewberg.bsky.social) has now been formally accepted into the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences (danaak.dk). Congrats!
@runewberg.bsky.social
Svend Brinkmann- delivering the keynote talk for the Neurograd 2026
Neurograd 2026 Prize ceremony for the winners of top 3 best talks: 1) Yasemin Ronahi Kucuk 2) Alberte W. Jurgensen Breum 3) Marc Klee Olsen. Congrats!
And the best poster presentations: 1) Jamila Probst S. H. Lilja, 2) Lara Kristin Sach, 3) Samuel Ovrom- Congrats!
Key note by Svend Brinkmann
Nanna MacAulay is introducing todays agenda
View of venue from a hotel room
Time for a visit to the outdoor spa
NeuroGrads' yearly winter school 2026 kicks off on the second day
Alzheimers? Here's a solution if you're a mouse. 😅 ...and potentially if you're a human. 🤞
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Congrats Ariel and the team! Looking forward to reading this!
New PhD-course!
Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience - Understanding Cognition
Venue: University of Copenhagen
Length: 8 Wks, March 2-May 1st
Registration before 1 February 2026
lnkd.in/ea63A59B
Organizers: Rasmus Herlo (@rasherlo.bsky.social) and Rune W. Berg
@naddenmark.bsky.social
Fascinating documentary about artificial general intelligence and the development of AlphaFold, the software for determining protein structure from amino acid sequences.
youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ?...
Presenting this work on MONDAY afternoon, board V9
See you there?
"Neural topologies that orchestrates locomotion"
Yes it’s coming later 😅
Thanks Micah 😊
New preprint:
Neural manifolds that orchestrate walking and stopping
Here we develop a new theory for neural generation of walking and how it can stop- Next we test the theory using Neuropixels probes in the lumber spinal cord of freely moving rats. See more:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
thank you Ariel -
Wonderful to see this important paper come out yesterday- Congrats Lahiru, Nick, and Chethan @chethanp.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Computational Neuroscience Workshop announcement:
August 11-14, 2025
Venue: Ebberup, DENMARK
Registration is open!
neuroscienceacademydenmark.dk/event/comput...
Congrats Jaspreet! This is an excellent and interesting paper.
Animal roles in medical discoveries 🙌
