Katja Reinhard
@katjareinhard.bsky.social
Group leader at SISSA (IT) - fascinated by neural circuits and behaviour, mostly vision related www.reinhardlab.org / salsa & forró dancer / mountain lover / former NERF (BE) and CIN (DE)
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One week left to apply for the NERF/VIB-KU Leuven Center For Brain & Disease Research international PhD Call 2026!
Learn more about the projects & teams and apply now: https://cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026
Learn more about the projects & teams and apply now: https://cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
One week left to apply for the NERF/VIB-KU Leuven Center For Brain & Disease Research international PhD Call 2026!
Learn more about the projects & teams and apply now: https://cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026
Learn more about the projects & teams and apply now: https://cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026
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You are a postdoc looking for an opportunity to present your latest work and discuss with leaders in the field? Apply to the early career scientists seminar series @ircm.bsky.social ! If selected, we pay for your expenses to come spend a day with us and give a seminar! www.ircm.qc.ca/en/news-deta...
Call for applications: A fifth edition for the Early-Career Scientist Seminar Series
www.ircm.qc.ca
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
You are a postdoc looking for an opportunity to present your latest work and discuss with leaders in the field? Apply to the early career scientists seminar series @ircm.bsky.social ! If selected, we pay for your expenses to come spend a day with us and give a seminar! www.ircm.qc.ca/en/news-deta...
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It's time for the second workshop this autumn - this time, you will have an opportunity to learn animal pose estimation with Deeplabcut! Workshop will be held Nov 20-21st in Heidelberg and is free of charge. More info on our webpage!
October 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It's time for the second workshop this autumn - this time, you will have an opportunity to learn animal pose estimation with Deeplabcut! Workshop will be held Nov 20-21st in Heidelberg and is free of charge. More info on our webpage!
Very proud of Po-Yu Liao and Cinar Ilhan who beautifully presented their PhD progress reports today! I'm very happy to have you in the lab and about your exciting research!
October 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Very proud of Po-Yu Liao and Cinar Ilhan who beautifully presented their PhD progress reports today! I'm very happy to have you in the lab and about your exciting research!
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Apply now to become a speaker at our Institute! We invite excellent postdocs in neuroscience, ecology and other fields related to our research to apply for our Emerging Scientist Talk Series. Apply by October 24: www.bi.mpg.de/ess
@chr-mayer.bsky.social @fleyes.bsky.social @michaelahau.bsky.social
@chr-mayer.bsky.social @fleyes.bsky.social @michaelahau.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Apply now to become a speaker at our Institute! We invite excellent postdocs in neuroscience, ecology and other fields related to our research to apply for our Emerging Scientist Talk Series. Apply by October 24: www.bi.mpg.de/ess
@chr-mayer.bsky.social @fleyes.bsky.social @michaelahau.bsky.social
@chr-mayer.bsky.social @fleyes.bsky.social @michaelahau.bsky.social
mouse neuro people who use or consider using neuropixels and/or miniscopes: if there was an implant light enough to do both at the same time (+ maybe optic fiber) in a freely moving mouse, would it advance your research? would you use it?
please comment or send me a message!
please comment or send me a message!
September 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
mouse neuro people who use or consider using neuropixels and/or miniscopes: if there was an implant light enough to do both at the same time (+ maybe optic fiber) in a freely moving mouse, would it advance your research? would you use it?
please comment or send me a message!
please comment or send me a message!
Excellent end to the Italian Congress for Neuroscience (SINS) - our postdoc Lucia Zanetti chairing a fascinating session on the retina & beyond together with @serenariccitelli.bsky.social! Well done & thanks to the speakers Stefano Di Marco, @santiagorompani.bsky.social, Norma Kühn & Max Joesch
September 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Excellent end to the Italian Congress for Neuroscience (SINS) - our postdoc Lucia Zanetti chairing a fascinating session on the retina & beyond together with @serenariccitelli.bsky.social! Well done & thanks to the speakers Stefano Di Marco, @santiagorompani.bsky.social, Norma Kühn & Max Joesch
who came up with the Europass format? it's one of the worst types of CV to read - feels crowded but at the same time it takes a lot of space. the sections make sense (mostly) but the formatting, fonts, uppercase, bold etc. is terrible. and that's what we suggest/force people to use...
September 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
who came up with the Europass format? it's one of the worst types of CV to read - feels crowded but at the same time it takes a lot of space. the sections make sense (mostly) but the formatting, fonts, uppercase, bold etc. is terrible. and that's what we suggest/force people to use...
Finally it's out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... How flexible are essential innate behaviours and their underlying neural circuits? @felixbaier.bsky.social & I, with Hopi Hoekstra and @farrowlab.bsky.social, addressed this by studying the #evolution of threat avoidance in Peromyscus mice.
The neural basis of species-specific defensive behaviour in Peromyscus mice - Nature
Visual threat triggers contrasting freeze and escape defensive responses in two species of deer mice as a result of different activation thresholds downstream of the superior colliculus in the do...
www.nature.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Finally it's out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... How flexible are essential innate behaviours and their underlying neural circuits? @felixbaier.bsky.social & I, with Hopi Hoekstra and @farrowlab.bsky.social, addressed this by studying the #evolution of threat avoidance in Peromyscus mice.
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🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!
We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
July 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!
We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
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🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨
The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(🧵 1/10)
The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(🧵 1/10)
May 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨
The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(🧵 1/10)
The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(🧵 1/10)
Beyond the Lab Workshop - Naturalistic Approaches in Neuroscience! join us in Montevideo, Uruguay, 20-25 October sites.google.com/view/beyondt...
beyondthelabworkshop
October 20-25th, 2025
Montevideo, Uruguay
sites.google.com
July 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Beyond the Lab Workshop - Naturalistic Approaches in Neuroscience! join us in Montevideo, Uruguay, 20-25 October sites.google.com/view/beyondt...
Karl @farrowlab.bsky.social and I wrote a little opinion piece on the importance of comparative neuroscience
To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
Systems and circuit neuroscience need an evolutionary perspective
To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, neuroscientists must frame their research through an evolutionary lens.
www.thetransmitter.org
July 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Karl @farrowlab.bsky.social and I wrote a little opinion piece on the importance of comparative neuroscience
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Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
europa.eu
June 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
Now with correct link: Preprint on how to create an equitable and healthy lab environment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ! During the SAFE Labs workshop 2024 we came up with concrete action points, summarised in these guidelines for Lab Handbooks github.com/SAFE-Labs-Do...
The SAFE Labs Handbook: community-driven commitments for group leaders to improve lab culture
Creating positive and equitable lab environments has become a growing priority for the scientific community and funders of scientific research. Research institutions typically respond to this need by ...
www.biorxiv.org
May 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Now with correct link: Preprint on how to create an equitable and healthy lab environment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ! During the SAFE Labs workshop 2024 we came up with concrete action points, summarised in these guidelines for Lab Handbooks github.com/SAFE-Labs-Do...
Preprint on how to create an equitable and healthy lab environment doi.org/10.1101/2025...! During the SAFE Labs workshop 2024 we came up with concrete action points, summarised in these guidelines for Lab Handbooks github.com/SAFE-Labs-Do...
May 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Preprint on how to create an equitable and healthy lab environment doi.org/10.1101/2025...! During the SAFE Labs workshop 2024 we came up with concrete action points, summarised in these guidelines for Lab Handbooks github.com/SAFE-Labs-Do...
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We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology
Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.
www.kuleuven.be
May 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Still openings, check it out!
🧠Job Opening!🧠
We are opening 2️⃣! positions
– bioinformatics / molecular biology –
in a project studying how temporal patterns set up connectivity in human brain tissue.
@institutimagine.bsky.social.
Full details below, contact me for details if interested.
And please retweet (re-bluesky?)!
We are opening 2️⃣! positions
– bioinformatics / molecular biology –
in a project studying how temporal patterns set up connectivity in human brain tissue.
@institutimagine.bsky.social.
Full details below, contact me for details if interested.
And please retweet (re-bluesky?)!
May 28, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Still openings, check it out!
New paper on bioRxiv: "Ambient Light Impacts Innate Behaviors of New-World and Old-World Mice" - together with @farrowlab.bsky.social, with data from NERF master students and two of my lab members! A study across 3 species: Mus musculus, Peromyscus maniculatus & P. polionotus doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Ambient Light Impacts Innate Behaviors of New-World and Old-World Mice
Animals encounter predators and prey under diverse lighting conditions that signal different risks and opportunities, yet how ambient illumination shapes innate approach and avoidance behaviors remain...
doi.org
May 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
New paper on bioRxiv: "Ambient Light Impacts Innate Behaviors of New-World and Old-World Mice" - together with @farrowlab.bsky.social, with data from NERF master students and two of my lab members! A study across 3 species: Mus musculus, Peromyscus maniculatus & P. polionotus doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Explore vision, motor control & predictive processing with a funded PhD @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
Project: Predictive neural representations of dynamic events, supervisor Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social
🧠 Apply by June 5, 2025
🔗 Info: phd.unitn.it/drcimec
#neuroscience #cognitivescience
Project: Predictive neural representations of dynamic events, supervisor Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social
🧠 Apply by June 5, 2025
🔗 Info: phd.unitn.it/drcimec
#neuroscience #cognitivescience
May 12, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Explore vision, motor control & predictive processing with a funded PhD @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
Project: Predictive neural representations of dynamic events, supervisor Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social
🧠 Apply by June 5, 2025
🔗 Info: phd.unitn.it/drcimec
#neuroscience #cognitivescience
Project: Predictive neural representations of dynamic events, supervisor Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social
🧠 Apply by June 5, 2025
🔗 Info: phd.unitn.it/drcimec
#neuroscience #cognitivescience
University of Trieste has its first female rector - Donata Vianelli 👏
May 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
University of Trieste has its first female rector - Donata Vianelli 👏
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🎓 My lab has 2 PhD positions with @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
1️⃣ 🧠 Watch the 🐭 brain in motion, with functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI)
2️⃣🧪 Mess with the 🐭 brain (experimentally) via causal perturbations + imaging
🔬 Neuro/physics/bioengeneering backgrounds welcome
👉Info ▶️https://lnkd.in/dDeTTDj2
1️⃣ 🧠 Watch the 🐭 brain in motion, with functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI)
2️⃣🧪 Mess with the 🐭 brain (experimentally) via causal perturbations + imaging
🔬 Neuro/physics/bioengeneering backgrounds welcome
👉Info ▶️https://lnkd.in/dDeTTDj2
May 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🎓 My lab has 2 PhD positions with @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
1️⃣ 🧠 Watch the 🐭 brain in motion, with functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI)
2️⃣🧪 Mess with the 🐭 brain (experimentally) via causal perturbations + imaging
🔬 Neuro/physics/bioengeneering backgrounds welcome
👉Info ▶️https://lnkd.in/dDeTTDj2
1️⃣ 🧠 Watch the 🐭 brain in motion, with functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI)
2️⃣🧪 Mess with the 🐭 brain (experimentally) via causal perturbations + imaging
🔬 Neuro/physics/bioengeneering backgrounds welcome
👉Info ▶️https://lnkd.in/dDeTTDj2
Lab outing with n=9 (-2 absentees). What an amazing group of people!
April 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Lab outing with n=9 (-2 absentees). What an amazing group of people!
Reposted by Katja Reinhard
Hi, We have new open positions – PhD student and postdocs– experimental or computational– in our research groups at @nerflabs.bsky.social in Leuven Belgium on neural circuit basis of visual behavior/developmental disorders. I am at Cosyne Workshops and happy to discuss opportunities.
March 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Hi, We have new open positions – PhD student and postdocs– experimental or computational– in our research groups at @nerflabs.bsky.social in Leuven Belgium on neural circuit basis of visual behavior/developmental disorders. I am at Cosyne Workshops and happy to discuss opportunities.
Reposted by Katja Reinhard
📢 🚨 Postdoc Opportunity 📢 🚨
Join us at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social to study how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior. The lab uses state-of-the-art neuroscience technologies and offers a supportive environment 🤗!
⏳ Deadline: 15. April 2025
Learn more and apply: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Join us at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social to study how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior. The lab uses state-of-the-art neuroscience technologies and offers a supportive environment 🤗!
⏳ Deadline: 15. April 2025
Learn more and apply: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
March 13, 2025 at 6:20 AM
📢 🚨 Postdoc Opportunity 📢 🚨
Join us at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social to study how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior. The lab uses state-of-the-art neuroscience technologies and offers a supportive environment 🤗!
⏳ Deadline: 15. April 2025
Learn more and apply: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Join us at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social to study how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior. The lab uses state-of-the-art neuroscience technologies and offers a supportive environment 🤗!
⏳ Deadline: 15. April 2025
Learn more and apply: www.fens.org/careers/job-...