Office space an hour before, and an hour after, the deadline for the grant application

Happy Phineas Gage Day.

On this day, in 1848, Phineas Gage involuntarily participated in one of the first human lesion experiments demonstrating the function of frontal lobes in impulse inhibition.

Today,we honor him and others (including animal subjects) and celebrate neuroscientific progress

From Twitter -> BlueSky
From WhatsApp -> Signal
From Spotify -> TIDAL
...next?

In a time, where the fundamental values and social fabric we have taken for granted is being dismantled before our eyes, it can feel somewhat anchoring to just build something concrete.

So today, with help of my friends, we started expanding the bathroom to add a new shower cabin.

The fact that he took time to write me a personal greeting and make an explanatory figure on entanglement (with a pre-emptive car-crash) makes him even more admirable in my book ;)

Luminaries come in many shapes and forms.

Today, I witnessed a (disillusioned) father of stringtheory, Holger Bech, enthusiastically deliver new insights on dark matter in the age of 83, while celebrating the bday of my own personal luminary (my mother)

Curiosity will always bring us all together

What an honor it was to meet and exchange data and ideas with the legendary Prof. Mikoshiba, who discovered the IP3-receptor (Nature 1989) and still is spearheading the many implications for this central protein and its enormous amount of binding partners

Inspiring to see such a lifelong devotion

Very powerful piece of art on Aros in Århus:

Tasmanian artist Lucienne Rickard meticulously drew a series of endangered bird species washed up on the coast. Then, she erased them again to bring attention to loss of species and the biodiversity crisis we are currently facing.

It got under our skin

Recommending this new Netflix documentary (4 episodes of 50min) about how the diet we choose impact the lives we live (health, energy, etc..) and the planet we live on (environment, antibiotics, etc..).

Scientific publication w/ details of the twin study added here:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Gave a special talk this morning. The title: "Neural Representations and Cognitive State-shifts in Health and Disease: identification, predictive power and intervention".

What made it particularly special was that the organizers were my PhD mentors Kenneth Lindegaard Madsen and Ulrik Gether