Tristan M. Stöber
@tristanstoeber.bsky.social
computational neuroscientist | hippocampus, spiking neural networks, epilepsy, plasticity | Think@Ruhr fellow at Ruhr Uni Bochum, Machine Learning Instructor at University Hospital Frankfurt
Are you an international researcher looking to establish yourself in Germany? The Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft funds 50% of a 6-year Tenure Track Professorship, easing the hiring process for universities. You must have lived abroad for the last three years. If you're in Neuro or AI, reach out! Link⬇️
WSW | Tenure Track Professorship
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July 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Are you an international researcher looking to establish yourself in Germany? The Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft funds 50% of a 6-year Tenure Track Professorship, easing the hiring process for universities. You must have lived abroad for the last three years. If you're in Neuro or AI, reach out! Link⬇️
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1/12 How do animals build an internal map? In our new paper, we tracked thousands of mouse CA1 neurons over days/weeks as they learned a VR navigation task. @nspruston.bsky.social & co-1st author @johanwinn.bsky.social
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_4...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_4...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus
YouTube video by Weinan Sun
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February 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
1/12 How do animals build an internal map? In our new paper, we tracked thousands of mouse CA1 neurons over days/weeks as they learned a VR navigation task. @nspruston.bsky.social & co-1st author @johanwinn.bsky.social
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_4...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_4...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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OnlyFans: Diese Plattform hat die Erotikbranche auf den Kopf gestellt
Die Social Media Plattform OnlyFans hat die Erotikbranche in den vergangenen Jahren völlig auf den Kopf gestellt. Denn sie hat das geschafft, was eigentlich als unmöglich galt: eine Monetarisierung fü...
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March 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Das unfassbare Business von OnlyFans ... Fanastisches Erklärvideo von @carlottaroch.bsky.social von @faznet.bsky.social
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www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
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Ich habe noch nie einen US-Präsidenten gesehen, der den Staatspräsidenten eines anderen Landes so respektlos behandelt. Donald Trump ist seines Amtes unwürdig – und unsere Welt in großer Gefahr. Wir erleben eine Zeitenwende in dunkle Zeiten.
February 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Ich habe noch nie einen US-Präsidenten gesehen, der den Staatspräsidenten eines anderen Landes so respektlos behandelt. Donald Trump ist seines Amtes unwürdig – und unsere Welt in großer Gefahr. Wir erleben eine Zeitenwende in dunkle Zeiten.
Thanks @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social for organizing this conference - bringing so many inspiring people together! I hope I can make it.
Very happy to announce the "Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference 2025: Hippocampal–Cortical Circuits: From structure to computation", on 28 - 29 April 2025 at the Paris Brain Institute.
You are welcome to register and join us!
www.paris-circuits.eu
You are welcome to register and join us!
www.paris-circuits.eu
Paris Circuit Dynamics
This two-day conference will bring together leading experts from the Paris region and abroad to discuss the dynamics and neural coding in hippocampal and cortical circuits.
The program will focus on ...
www.paris-circuits.eu
February 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Thanks @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social for organizing this conference - bringing so many inspiring people together! I hope I can make it.
Ein Blick in die Vergangenheit mit großer Relevanz für die Gegenwart!
radioWissen: Anatomie des autoritären Charakters - Was macht Menschen zu Faschisten?
Episode webpage: www.br.de/mediathek/po...
radioWissen: Anatomie des autoritären Charakters - Was macht Menschen zu Faschisten?
Episode webpage: www.br.de/mediathek/po...
Anatomie des autoritären Charakters - Was macht Menschen zu Faschisten? - radioWissen | BR Podcast
Was macht Menschen anfällig für rechtsradikale Ideologien? Diese Frage stellten sich schon Denker der Frankfurter Schule wie Erich Fromm, und Theodor W. Adorno. Mit Psychoanalyse und Marx entwickelten...
www.br.de
February 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Ein Blick in die Vergangenheit mit großer Relevanz für die Gegenwart!
radioWissen: Anatomie des autoritären Charakters - Was macht Menschen zu Faschisten?
Episode webpage: www.br.de/mediathek/po...
radioWissen: Anatomie des autoritären Charakters - Was macht Menschen zu Faschisten?
Episode webpage: www.br.de/mediathek/po...
Noch nicht im Amt und schon untergräbt Friedrich Merz das Vertrauen in den Rechtsstaat. Das geht ja gut los.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Haftbefehl gegen Netanjahu: Merz sagt Netanjahu Deutschlandbesuch ohne Verhaftung zu
Friedrich Merz hat Israels Premier eine sichere Reise nach Deutschland garantiert. Dafür werde man "Mittel und Wege" finden, trotz des internationalen Haftbefehls.
www.zeit.de
February 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Noch nicht im Amt und schon untergräbt Friedrich Merz das Vertrauen in den Rechtsstaat. Das geht ja gut los.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Wenn Staaten sich nicht an Spielregeln halten, ist unsere Weltordnung in Gefahr. Doch Professor Kai Ambos zeigt dass das internationale Recht besser ist als sein Ruf.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BTS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BTS...
Völker(straf)recht in Bedrängnis: Was bleibt von der Weltfriedensordnung?
YouTube video by PTGFrankfurt
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January 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Wenn Staaten sich nicht an Spielregeln halten, ist unsere Weltordnung in Gefahr. Doch Professor Kai Ambos zeigt dass das internationale Recht besser ist als sein Ruf.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BTS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BTS...
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GEM 2025 - Call for abstracts now open! Visit for2812.rub.de/gem2025 for more information. Submit talks, posters, or symposia by 15.03.2025
#gem2025 #generativeepisodicmemory #episodicmemory #memory #philosophyofmind #computationalneuroscience #neuroscience #neuroscienceconference #callforabstracts
#gem2025 #generativeepisodicmemory #episodicmemory #memory #philosophyofmind #computationalneuroscience #neuroscience #neuroscienceconference #callforabstracts
December 2, 2024 at 3:12 PM
GEM 2025 - Call for abstracts now open! Visit for2812.rub.de/gem2025 for more information. Submit talks, posters, or symposia by 15.03.2025
#gem2025 #generativeepisodicmemory #episodicmemory #memory #philosophyofmind #computationalneuroscience #neuroscience #neuroscienceconference #callforabstracts
#gem2025 #generativeepisodicmemory #episodicmemory #memory #philosophyofmind #computationalneuroscience #neuroscience #neuroscienceconference #callforabstracts
Intruiging indeed. Thanks @gershbrain.bsky.social for putting these findings in perspective.
Another fascinating study from the Yasuda lab:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CaMKII inhibition immediately after training impairs memory transiently. Memory recovers a day later!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CaMKII inhibition immediately after training impairs memory transiently. Memory recovers a day later!
Formation of long-term memory without short-term memory revealed by CaMKII inhibition - Nature Neuroscience
Inhibiting CaMKII impairs short-term memory (STM) in mice during an avoidance task but does not affect long-term memory (LTM). This suggests that STM and LTM are processed differently, with CaMKII cri...
www.nature.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Intruiging indeed. Thanks @gershbrain.bsky.social for putting these findings in perspective.
Warmly recommended. 👍
Applications for Women in Memory Research 2025 (WiMR2025) are now open. If you're masters degree is coming to an end, or you have just graduated, and are considering whether or not to continue with a PhD, this program is for you.
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#wimr2025 #gem2025 #STEMwomen
for2812.rub.de/wimr2025
#wimr2025 #gem2025 #STEMwomen
December 6, 2024 at 7:10 AM
Warmly recommended. 👍
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For the Blueskyers interested in #NeuroAI 🧠🤖,
I created a starter pack! Please comment on this if you are not on the list and working in this field 🙂
go.bsky.app/CscFTAr
I created a starter pack! Please comment on this if you are not on the list and working in this field 🙂
go.bsky.app/CscFTAr
October 17, 2024 at 8:04 PM
For the Blueskyers interested in #NeuroAI 🧠🤖,
I created a starter pack! Please comment on this if you are not on the list and working in this field 🙂
go.bsky.app/CscFTAr
I created a starter pack! Please comment on this if you are not on the list and working in this field 🙂
go.bsky.app/CscFTAr
Sounds highly relevant! Looking forward to read it.
I'm happy to share our Review article, "Cognitive Maps and Schizophrenia", synthesising evidence for representation-level abnormalities in the condition, and proposing directions for future work. Out now in Trends in Cognitive Science.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 19, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Sounds highly relevant! Looking forward to read it.
Nice! Thanks for sharing @hugospiers.bsky.social
Wow one of the best videos of basic hippocampal anatomy for the human brain.
Very helpful for those curious to see where memories for events and episodes are first stored in the brain:
Very helpful for those curious to see where memories for events and episodes are first stored in the brain:
Fantastic explanation of the anatomy of the human #Hippocampus! Great video and visualizations!👌 #neuroscience #PsychSciSky vimeo.com/323365182
November 17, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Nice! Thanks for sharing @hugospiers.bsky.social
🍾I have been selected select as an Academy Fellow by the Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe University Frankfurt. Ja Mann! 💫 Time to celebrate. Looking forward to inspiring discussions with all fellows and members of the academy 🧠 🤓
March 5, 2024 at 11:51 AM
🍾I have been selected select as an Academy Fellow by the Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe University Frankfurt. Ja Mann! 💫 Time to celebrate. Looking forward to inspiring discussions with all fellows and members of the academy 🧠 🤓
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Der starke Rückgang bei der Industrie zeigt den dringenden Handlungsbedarf: die Strategien und Konzepte aus dem Jahr 2023 müssen sich ab 2024 in Investitionen für einen klimaneutralen Industriestandort übersetzen. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
Treibhausgas-Emissionen überraschend deutlich gesunken
Die Treibhausgas-Emissionen in Deutschland sind unerwartet deutlich zurückgegangen. Das zeigt eine vorläufige Auswertung der Denkfabrik Agora Energiewende. Das ist aber nur teilweise eine gute Nachr...
www.tagesschau.de
January 4, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Der starke Rückgang bei der Industrie zeigt den dringenden Handlungsbedarf: die Strategien und Konzepte aus dem Jahr 2023 müssen sich ab 2024 in Investitionen für einen klimaneutralen Industriestandort übersetzen. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
Seit dem menschenverachteten Angriff der Hamas am 7.10. und der rücksichtslos martialischen Antwort Israels, kommt endlich Bewegung in die deutsche Gesellschaft: 1) Kritik an 🇮🇱 ist nicht automatisch Antisemitismus, 2) 🇩🇪 darf nicht schweigen. Thank you Masha Gessen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHcz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHcz...
Conversation with Masha Gessen, recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize 2023
Recording of the conversation with Masha Gessen, recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize 2023 - Dember 18th, 2023 in Berlin.With- Masha Gessen, journalist and w...
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December 23, 2023 at 10:27 AM
Seit dem menschenverachteten Angriff der Hamas am 7.10. und der rücksichtslos martialischen Antwort Israels, kommt endlich Bewegung in die deutsche Gesellschaft: 1) Kritik an 🇮🇱 ist nicht automatisch Antisemitismus, 2) 🇩🇪 darf nicht schweigen. Thank you Masha Gessen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHcz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHcz...
Is there some recent comparison of OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's current Bard? Due to recent slowdown of GPT-4, I tried Bard today again and I am surprised about the massive improvement in quality and speed.
November 24, 2023 at 12:27 PM
Is there some recent comparison of OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's current Bard? Due to recent slowdown of GPT-4, I tried Bard today again and I am surprised about the massive improvement in quality and speed.
Interesting initiative!
The Transmitter (@thetransmitter.bsky.social) has launched as a new publication for neuroscientists! I wrote about being a neuroscience researcher in a world on fire and what we need to do.
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #compneuro #NeuroAI #MLSky
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #compneuro #NeuroAI #MLSky
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
Our planet stands on the brink of irreversible change. Neuroscientists need to do something about it...
When I launched my new lab at New York University in 2022, I decided to apply my expertise in computer vision to an urgent problem far outside the brain: climate change.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 15, 2023 at 4:29 PM
Interesting initiative!
Happy to see our work on estimating causal connectivity from pairwise recordings and widefield opto-stimulation finally published in PLOS Computational Biology. Work lead by Mikkel Lepperød, co-authored by Torkel Hafting, Marianne Fyhn and @kordinglab.bsky.social.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Inferring causal connectivity from pairwise recordings and optogenetics
Author summary Understanding the interactions between neurons is essential for grasping brain function. Neuroscientists often face a challenge when stimulating multiple neurons simultaneously: determi...
journals.plos.org
November 15, 2023 at 2:38 PM
Happy to see our work on estimating causal connectivity from pairwise recordings and widefield opto-stimulation finally published in PLOS Computational Biology. Work lead by Mikkel Lepperød, co-authored by Torkel Hafting, Marianne Fyhn and @kordinglab.bsky.social.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
We have been claiming that weak assembly sequences can cooperate to facilitate reactivation by suppressing strong competitors. Using a non-linear rate model, we demonstrate the feasibility of our claim and characterize corresponding network dynamics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 13, 2023 at 5:22 PM
We have been claiming that weak assembly sequences can cooperate to facilitate reactivation by suppressing strong competitors. Using a non-linear rate model, we demonstrate the feasibility of our claim and characterize corresponding network dynamics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
PhD position: "Computational Modeling of Synaptic Supply Chains“. Anne-Sophie Hafner at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen has a vacant doctoral position in the area of computational and mathematical modeling of synaptic molecular processes to fill as soon as possible.
October 30, 2023 at 1:26 PM
PhD position: "Computational Modeling of Synaptic Supply Chains“. Anne-Sophie Hafner at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen has a vacant doctoral position in the area of computational and mathematical modeling of synaptic molecular processes to fill as soon as possible.
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“When I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective. You see only some pain. You don’t want to see other pain.”
‘I Feel a Human Deterioration’
The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has spent the last few weeks trying to make sense of the violence and loss around him. So far, he can’t.
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2023 at 11:39 AM
“When I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective. You see only some pain. You don’t want to see other pain.”
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Thrilled to share new work w @taylorwwebb.bsky.social Shanka Mondal:
A Prefrontal Cortex-inspired Architecture for Planning in Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
LLMs struggle w multi-step planning.
We propose a solution inspired by brains: planning via recurrent interactions of PFC subregions.
🧵1/n
A Prefrontal Cortex-inspired Architecture for Planning in Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
LLMs struggle w multi-step planning.
We propose a solution inspired by brains: planning via recurrent interactions of PFC subregions.
🧵1/n
October 27, 2023 at 2:40 PM
Thrilled to share new work w @taylorwwebb.bsky.social Shanka Mondal:
A Prefrontal Cortex-inspired Architecture for Planning in Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
LLMs struggle w multi-step planning.
We propose a solution inspired by brains: planning via recurrent interactions of PFC subregions.
🧵1/n
A Prefrontal Cortex-inspired Architecture for Planning in Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
LLMs struggle w multi-step planning.
We propose a solution inspired by brains: planning via recurrent interactions of PFC subregions.
🧵1/n
@serenadudette.bsky.social Happy to see you here! Nice profile pic :)
October 26, 2023 at 4:05 PM
@serenadudette.bsky.social Happy to see you here! Nice profile pic :)