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Neuroscientists @tum.de | Systems, cognitive, computational | Brain-computer interfaces | Translational Neurotechnology 🧠 🇩🇪🇨🇳🇮🇹🇹🇷🇪🇪🇪🇸🇹🇩 www.simonjacob.de
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Jacob Lab @jacob-lab.bsky.social · Oct 15
A big push for #BCI and #neurotechnology in Europe! We implanted our second microelectrode array #BCI @tum.de. Huge thanks to our pioneer and to fantastic colleagues in #Neurosurgery and #Robotics #Machine #Intelligence 🧠🦾🧪 #neuroskyence @neuroengineering.bsky.social
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
Brain-computer interface for a patient with quadriplegia
A team at the Technical University of Munich’s TUM University Hospital has implanted a brain-computer interface in a patient paralyzed from the neck down.
www.tum.de
jacob-lab.bsky.social
The team will be at #SfN25 in San Diego. Come for a chat at our posters. We have #human #single #units, #microstimulation, #miniscopes and much more! 🧠🧪 #neuroskyence
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
Nice feature in #TIME #magazine about how brain-computer interfaces are about to change our lives #neuroskyence 🧪

time.com/7330887/brai...
Computer Chips in Our Bodies Could Be the Future of Medicine
The brain-computer interface is real. It's changing lives—and could soon change the world.
time.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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zielinskilab.bsky.social
We are hiring! 🎓🧫 🧬

#PhD studentship available in #Immunology at #CambridgeUniversity to investigate a new killer function of human T cells.

📅 Application deadline: 3rd December 2025
more information: lnkd.in/dxq6yMay
#findaPhD @ERC_Research
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
Our #BCI work was featured in #Tagesthemen, Germany’s most important newscast. Check it out 👇🏻 www.tagesschau.de/tagesthemen/...
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
Thanks for the feature. We’re very happy to play a part in advancing implanted #BCIs in Europe! 🧠🦾
ieeebrain.bsky.social IEEE Brain @ieeebrain.bsky.social · 29d
A groundbreaking first: Europe’s inaugural #brain–computer interface implant for a #quadriplegic patient marks a leap toward restoring movement and independence, where thoughts alone could one day control digital devices. Get more details at #NeuroNews: https://bit.ly/47hF2o9 #BCI #neurotech
October 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
A big push for #BCI and #neurotechnology in Europe! We implanted our second microelectrode array #BCI @tum.de. Huge thanks to our pioneer and to fantastic colleagues in #Neurosurgery and #Robotics #Machine #Intelligence 🧠🦾🧪 #neuroskyence @neuroengineering.bsky.social
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
Brain-computer interface for a patient with quadriplegia
A team at the Technical University of Munich’s TUM University Hospital has implanted a brain-computer interface in a patient paralyzed from the neck down.
www.tum.de
October 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
Thank you very much for hosting me in Maastricht @cherff.bsky.social and team! It was fun to present our newest on language processing.
And big congrats to Maxime Verwoert on passing her PhD defense! She can now add her name to the wall of fame! #neuroskyence 🧠🧪
October 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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randolph-helfrich.bsky.social
New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
Looking forward to this!
(coming Tuesday)
franziskaknolle.bsky.social Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · Sep 28
If you’re in #Munich 🥨 and curious about decision-making, perception, and cognition through a translational lens, join us for a seminar I’m hosting on Oct 30 with three fantastic speakers: @jkesby.bsky.social (visiting from 🇦🇺), @miguelbengala.bsky.social, and @jacob-lab.bsky.social 🧠💡
September 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
Exciting new work on cortical visual prosthesis!
mbeyeler.bsky.social Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · Sep 27
👁️🧠 New preprint: We demonstrate the first data-driven neural control framework for a visual cortical implant in a blind human!

TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Diagram showing three ways to control brain activity with a visual prosthesis. The goal is to match a desired pattern of brain responses. One method uses a simple one-to-one mapping, another uses an inverse neural network, and a third uses gradient optimization. Each method produces a stimulation pattern, which is tested in both computer simulations and in the brain of a blind participant with an implant. The figure shows that the neural network and gradient methods reproduce the target brain activity more accurately than the simple mapping.
September 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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laklab.bsky.social
Beautiful and clear results showing that temporal difference error calculation is hardwired in the dopamine/striatum mircocircuits: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
from @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social
A hardwired neural circuit for temporal difference learning
The neurotransmitter dopamine plays a major role in learning by acting as a teaching signal to update the brain's predictions about rewards. A leading theory proposes that this process is analogous to...
www.biorxiv.org
September 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
Enjoy your weekend! 🍺🍸🍹🍷You can always blame evolution
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Sep 19
By munching on fermented fruit, chimpanzees consume the equivalent of roughly 1 alcoholic drink per day, new #ScienceAdvances research finds. https://scim.ag/4nIu55z
September 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
„We don’t hire smart people to tell them what to do, we hire them to tell us what to do“

Spot on! That’s how science labs should be run!
erc.europa.eu European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 17
"We don't hire smart people to tell them what to do, we hire them to tell us what to do."

ERC grantee Jan Lagerwall (quoting Steve Jobs), during this morning's #RIDaysEU discussion of how bottom-up funding, supporting investigator-driven frontier research, helps meet future innovation challenges.
September 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
Congratulations to all ERC @erc.europa.eu #STG winners @tum.de and around Europe! 🎉👏🏻🧪 Can’t wait to hear about the exciting science you will all be doing!
September 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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oxforddpag.bsky.social
We have an exciting new book to announce! www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-...
Oxford Professors Cragg and Walton celebrate publication of new book, The Handbook of Dopamine
www.dpag.ox.ac.uk
August 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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mattperich.bsky.social
Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world!

🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
A neural manifold view of the brain - Nature Neuroscience
Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed how neural population activity underlying behavior can be well described by topological objects called neural manifolds. Understanding how nature, nurture...
www.nature.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
107! 🎉 What a remarkable scientist. What a remarkable person. What a remarkable life!
theneuro.bsky.social Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · Jul 15
Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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denisejcai.bsky.social
What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope!

Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals.

Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Screenshot of the top of the article, including the title, authors, and abstract.
July 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
Beautiful cover!
cp-cell.bsky.social Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · Jul 10
The new issue is out 👉https://www.cell.com/cell/current

On the cover, three articles from the Mesoscopic Brain Mapping Consortium published with Neuron and Developmental Cell shed light on the cell type diversity and their connectivity in mouse and primate brains.
July 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
Congratulations to the #Munich Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences class of 2025! A bright future awaits you. We are very proud of what you have achieved! 🧪🧠🎉🥂 #neuroskyence @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @tum.de @mpiforbi.bsky.social @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social @www.helmholtz-munich.de
July 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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lmumuenchen.bsky.social
🚨 Big move for medical research in Germany:
#LMU, @tum.de , their university hospitals & @www.helmholtz-munich.de launch the M1 Munich Medicine Alliance to boost innovation, research & healthcare in Munich. 🔬🚀
🔗 Read more:
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
#M1 #MunichMedicineAlliance
The Foundation Council and Foundation Board of the new alliance (from left to right): Dr. Martin Siess, Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Hofmann, Prof. Dr. Dr. Matthias Tschöp, Prof. Dr. Markus M. Lerch, Prof. Dr. Stephanie E. Combs, Prof. Dr. Thomas Gudermann, Minister of Science Markus Blume, and Prof. Dr. Martin Hrabe de Angelis. © Axel Koenig - StMWK
July 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
Filming in the lab today for a feature on our #BCI work. Scorching hot day! Well done @lauraschiffl.bsky.social and all! ☀️☀️☀️😎🎥
July 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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tum.de
Visit our #UniversityHospital Rechts der Isar and the German Heart Center on #OpenHouse Day on July 5 to gain insight into many areas of #medicine with guided tours, lectures and exhibitions: go.tum.de/788103 🤩

📷E. Totoeva
Modern building facade with large glass fronts, slatted blinds, and metallic elements. In the foreground, stairs and a sculptural metal design feature.
July 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
jacob-lab.bsky.social
Cyborg tadpoles! Stretchy implantable neuroelectronics that grow with the brain. You gotta love it! 🧪🧠 #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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tum.de
We are ranked first in the @timeshighered.bsky.social 2025 University Impact Ranking for #Industry, #Innovation and #Infrastructure, contributing to sustainable innovations – through research, spin-offs, and corporate collaborations: go.tum.de/364093 👏

📷A. Eckert
Ranking: TUM remains global leader in innovation
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) continues to rank first in the "THE University Impact Ranking" category of industry, innovation, and infrastructure.
go.tum.de
June 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM