Exciting new research published in @currentbiology.bsky.social by our guest scientist and former group leader @jmrko.bsky.social. The study highlights insights from connectomics research in songbirds. „Tunneling neurons“ open new perspectives on how adult neural circuits may regenerate.

🐟+🐚 =🏠 Shell-dwelling cichlids are true underwater architects, instinctively transforming empty snail shells into protective nests. New research shows: They improve with practice, remember what they learned, and adapt to unusual conditions.

🔗 Press release: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2026-04...

The Brain Conference on Neural Foundations of Communication: Integrative Approaches Across Species - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies Location: Heraklion, Crete, Greece Early registration and stipend applications deadline: 7 April 2026 Regular registration and abstract submission deadline (no further stipend applications accepted)…

This conference is going to be so cool! Good science good people good location. Register ASAP! #neuroskyence

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An algorithm underlying directional hearing in fish Veith et al. show how a fish—Danionella cerebrum—can reliably startle away from sound. It uses the relative phase between particle motion and pressure to infer the direction of sound. This sensorimoto...

How do fish localize sound without interaural cues? @johve.bsky.social et al. found a behavioral algorithm for directional hearing that predicts behavior from a pressure/motion phase comparison and accounts for how this relationship varies with distance. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Even innate vocal behaviors can be socially flexible. In zebra finches, replies to contact calls are faster and more reliable when the caller is familiar than when hearing strangers.

🔗 Press release: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2026-03-vallentin
🎬 Video by @cgomez-guzman.bsky.social

Most of us are familiar with the nightingale's song, but did you know there's more to it than just a melody?

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Neuroethology: How the brain controls natural behaviours Neuroethology, the study of the neural mechanisms underlying natural behaviours, has faced challenges due to the complexity of behaviours, limitations in genetic manipulation, and recording constrain…

Only a few days left to register for the India-EMBO Lecture Course on Neurethology meetings.embo.org/event/25-neu... taking place in Pune Dec 7-11, 2025. #EMBOneuroethology
Fantastic speaker line up!
Deadline July 31st.

Group picture of scientists attending the European Birdsong Meeting with greenery and a lake in the background.

Birdsong, brains & sunshine! More than 70 brilliant minds from across the globe flocked to Seewiesen to get inspired by cutting-edge research. From finches to singing mice, vocal research flew high at the European Birdsong Meeting hosted at our Institute.

Fragmented replay of very large environments in the hippocampus of bats Hippocampal replays in bats flying in a 200-m tunnel depict short fragments of long flight trajectories, suggesting constraints on the mechanisms and functions of replay.

Very, very cool paper from @tamir-eliav.bsky.social and the Ulanovsky lab!
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Looking forward to reading the new book by Nachum Ulanovsky! @mitpress.bsky.social