Lukas Kunz
@lukaskunz.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. at the University of Bonn in Germany. Research focus: neural basis of navigation and memory in humans
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Lukas Kunz
@lukaskunz.bsky.social
· Jan 19
Behavioral investigation of allocentric and egocentric cognitive maps in human spatial memory
Spatial memory is a fundamental cognitive function that enables humans and other species to encode and recall the locations of items in their environments. Humans employ diverse strategies to support ...
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Happy to share our new preprint on cognitive maps and human spatial memory! Led by @lauranett.bsky.social, together with @timaguth.bsky.social and @philippbuchel.bsky.social
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Task for easy re-use: github.com/BonnSpatialM...
Code: github.com/BonnSpatialM...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Task for easy re-use: github.com/BonnSpatialM...
Code: github.com/BonnSpatialM...
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🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
The Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL) is key to human cognition, supporting memory, emotional processing, navigation, and semantic coding. Rare direct human MTL recordings revealed concept cells, which were ...
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island.
doi.org/10.1126/sci...
With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others
doi.org/10.1126/sci...
With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others
October 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island.
doi.org/10.1126/sci...
With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others
doi.org/10.1126/sci...
With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others
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💡 Join the 8th Bonn Brain Conference
March 23–25, 2026 | DZNE Bonn, Germany
Explore the latest in brain states, neural circuits, and behavior — with keynote talks by leading neuroscientists including Cori Bargmann and Edvard Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social
March 23–25, 2026 | DZNE Bonn, Germany
Explore the latest in brain states, neural circuits, and behavior — with keynote talks by leading neuroscientists including Cori Bargmann and Edvard Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
💡 Join the 8th Bonn Brain Conference
March 23–25, 2026 | DZNE Bonn, Germany
Explore the latest in brain states, neural circuits, and behavior — with keynote talks by leading neuroscientists including Cori Bargmann and Edvard Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social
March 23–25, 2026 | DZNE Bonn, Germany
Explore the latest in brain states, neural circuits, and behavior — with keynote talks by leading neuroscientists including Cori Bargmann and Edvard Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social
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We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
October 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
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New preprint from the lab and great work by Fei Wang. We show how subiculum trace vector cells can be modeled consistent with known effects in CA1. Traces are driven by a mismatch learning rule to keep associative memories in line with experience.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dynamic updating of cognitive maps via traces of experience in the subiculum
In the classical view of hippocampal function, the subiculum is assigned the role as the output layer. In spatial paradigms, some subiculum neurons manifest as so-called boundary vector cells (BVCs), ...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
New preprint from the lab and great work by Fei Wang. We show how subiculum trace vector cells can be modeled consistent with known effects in CA1. Traces are driven by a mismatch learning rule to keep associative memories in line with experience.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!
Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/174371
Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/174371
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September 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!
Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/174371
Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/174371
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Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
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September 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
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1/7 New preprint on the role of insular traveling waves in memory and behavior, using depth recordings from neurosurgical patients, with @chenwumd.bsky.social, Sameer Sheth, and Josh Jacobs.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Insular Traveling Waves Link Distributed Neural Dynamics to Human Memory Performance
The insula is a critical brain region that plays a foundational role in adaptive human behaviors, with diverse subregions performing distinct functional roles. However, explaining how these insular su...
www.biorxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
1/7 New preprint on the role of insular traveling waves in memory and behavior, using depth recordings from neurosurgical patients, with @chenwumd.bsky.social, Sameer Sheth, and Josh Jacobs.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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In case you still need a reason to attend the #BernsteinConference, let us remind you of this year's great speaker line-up 🤩
First up is Nobel laureate @edvardmoser.bsky.social!
Be part of the bridge -- registration is open! 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
First up is Nobel laureate @edvardmoser.bsky.social!
Be part of the bridge -- registration is open! 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
July 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
In case you still need a reason to attend the #BernsteinConference, let us remind you of this year's great speaker line-up 🤩
First up is Nobel laureate @edvardmoser.bsky.social!
Be part of the bridge -- registration is open! 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
First up is Nobel laureate @edvardmoser.bsky.social!
Be part of the bridge -- registration is open! 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
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Deadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?!
#neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs
#neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Deadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?!
#neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs
#neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs
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Our new paper, “A neural compass in the human brain during naturalistic human navigation” is out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! First-author @zhenganglu.bsky.social led the charge, with Josh Julian and collaborator @gkaguirre.com.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
August 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Our new paper, “A neural compass in the human brain during naturalistic human navigation” is out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! First-author @zhenganglu.bsky.social led the charge, with Josh Julian and collaborator @gkaguirre.com.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
August 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Excited to share our new paper on theta-phase locking of single neurons during human spatial memory:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With @lukaskunz.bsky.social, Joshua Jacobs, and our colleagues from the University of Freiburg
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With @lukaskunz.bsky.social, Joshua Jacobs, and our colleagues from the University of Freiburg
August 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Excited to share our new paper on theta-phase locking of single neurons during human spatial memory:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With @lukaskunz.bsky.social, Joshua Jacobs, and our colleagues from the University of Freiburg
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With @lukaskunz.bsky.social, Joshua Jacobs, and our colleagues from the University of Freiburg
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Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!
July 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!
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We have an open position for a Scientist I at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Come join our exciting research environment @alleninstitute.org. Please share!
alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
Jobs
We are working to solve the biggest mysteries in bioscience.
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July 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We have an open position for a Scientist I at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Come join our exciting research environment @alleninstitute.org. Please share!
alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
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2 more days to apply! Updated info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1WGEE...
July 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
2 more days to apply! Updated info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1WGEE...
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Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
ki.se
June 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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Calling all Neuroscience postdocs! 🧠 Share your research through SPiNES (Seminars from Postdocs in Neuroscience: Extramural Series) from the NYUGSoM Department of Neuroscience. Applications close 08/20/25. Apply today! 👉 nyumc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#Neuroscience #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity
#Neuroscience #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity
June 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Calling all Neuroscience postdocs! 🧠 Share your research through SPiNES (Seminars from Postdocs in Neuroscience: Extramural Series) from the NYUGSoM Department of Neuroscience. Applications close 08/20/25. Apply today! 👉 nyumc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#Neuroscience #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity
#Neuroscience #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity
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My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature!
When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️
The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar
bit.ly/3HvWSum
When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️
The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar
bit.ly/3HvWSum
June 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature!
When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️
The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar
bit.ly/3HvWSum
When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️
The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar
bit.ly/3HvWSum
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Really nice study led by Claire Lancaster and supported by other brilliant Sussex colleagues - in particular former PhD student Jess Daly. Greebles task is sensitive to subtle perceptual deficits in APOE e4 carriers in mid-life (which get worse with age and number of e4 alleles).
📣 New paper alert- Detrimental gene dose effect of APOE on perceptual discrimination by mid-life. Published in Alzheimer's & Dementia, the Journal of the Alzheimer's Association @samberens.bsky.social @chrismbird.bsky.social alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Perceptual discrimination of complex objects: Apolipoprotein E e4 gene‐dose effects in mid‐life
INTRODUCTION Complex perceptual discrimination is supported by tau-vulnerable regions of the medial temporal lobe (MTL); notably the perirhinal cortex. This research tests whether there is a gene-do...
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Really nice study led by Claire Lancaster and supported by other brilliant Sussex colleagues - in particular former PhD student Jess Daly. Greebles task is sensitive to subtle perceptual deficits in APOE e4 carriers in mid-life (which get worse with age and number of e4 alleles).
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We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈
Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc!
Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?
Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc!
Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?
Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈
Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc!
Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?
Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc!
Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?
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*** ! Closing soon ! Postdoc position available in the lab ***
!! 1 WEEK to go !! postdoc position available in our lab with deadline 3rd June. Do get in touch if you'd like to chat. Details below.
*** Come join us !! We are recruiting !! ***
How does the brain generate beliefs that go beyond direct experience? How do these mechanisms go awry in psychosis?
The Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford are recruiting a new postdoc tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4 to work in mouse models
How does the brain generate beliefs that go beyond direct experience? How do these mechanisms go awry in psychosis?
The Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford are recruiting a new postdoc tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4 to work in mouse models
June 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
*** ! Closing soon ! Postdoc position available in the lab ***
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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«Es ist höchste Zeit, dass wir unsere Institutionen aktiv schützen. ... Und wir müssen voneinander lernen, denn in einigen Universitäten ist bereits an der Tagesordnung, was in anderen noch als Extremfall erscheint.»
www.zeit.de/2025/23/deut...
www.zeit.de/2025/23/deut...
Deutsche Hochschulen: Abwarten ist keine Option
Was die Hochschulen aus der Zerstörung der Wissenschaft in den USA lernen müssen.
www.zeit.de
May 29, 2025 at 5:14 AM
«Es ist höchste Zeit, dass wir unsere Institutionen aktiv schützen. ... Und wir müssen voneinander lernen, denn in einigen Universitäten ist bereits an der Tagesordnung, was in anderen noch als Extremfall erscheint.»
www.zeit.de/2025/23/deut...
www.zeit.de/2025/23/deut...
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All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
May 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!