Weronika Sójka
@wsojka00.bsky.social
Hi 👋 I'm a PhD Student @mpicybernetics.bsky.social and @unituebingen.bsky.social 🇩🇪
📍Andreas Nieder's group
brain 🧠 | numerical cognition 🔢 | monkeys 🐒
📍Andreas Nieder's group
brain 🧠 | numerical cognition 🔢 | monkeys 🐒
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Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
So happy to visit the Long Night of Museums in Munich last weekend! Fantastic outreach by @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social showcasing fieldwork on great apes and other species.
October 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
So happy to visit the Long Night of Museums in Munich last weekend! Fantastic outreach by @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social showcasing fieldwork on great apes and other species.
I’m very glad for events like #SNS2025, which serve as reminders of groundbreaking neuroscientific research, with Tübingen as an important hub. See you next year!
🔵 Tübingen SNS 2025 - That’s a wrap! 🔵
Two inspiring days full of groundbreaking talks and great discussions about systems #neuroscience! 🧠
A huge thank you to all our speakers, presenters, and participants for making #SNS2025 such a success 🙌
See you next year in Tübingen! 💙
📸 Highlights below!
Two inspiring days full of groundbreaking talks and great discussions about systems #neuroscience! 🧠
A huge thank you to all our speakers, presenters, and participants for making #SNS2025 such a success 🙌
See you next year in Tübingen! 💙
📸 Highlights below!
October 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I’m very glad for events like #SNS2025, which serve as reminders of groundbreaking neuroscientific research, with Tübingen as an important hub. See you next year!
Reposted by Weronika Sójka
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Weronika Sójka
Jane Goodall, the famed primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist, has died, according to the institute she founded. She was 91 years old.
This is such a loss everyone and everything on this earth. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
This is such a loss everyone and everything on this earth. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91
Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old.
abcnews.go.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Jane Goodall, the famed primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist, has died, according to the institute she founded. She was 91 years old.
This is such a loss everyone and everything on this earth. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
This is such a loss everyone and everything on this earth. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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"I was thrilled to be on an exchange semester overseas, but I saw it as just a detour from my imagined career path. I didn’t realize I was already pedaling toward a different life—one that would make me reassess how to achieve a fulfilling research career." https://scim.ag/46EZ2kj
September 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"I was thrilled to be on an exchange semester overseas, but I saw it as just a detour from my imagined career path. I didn’t realize I was already pedaling toward a different life—one that would make me reassess how to achieve a fulfilling research career." https://scim.ag/46EZ2kj
A super interesting talk by Hugo Spiers on navigation beyond cities, featuring lots of interesting research questions and fascinating examples. Definitely worth watching! 👀
Hugo Spiers' keynote presentation, Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean, from the 2025 Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference is now live on the CBR YouTube channel. @hugospiers.bsky.social
youtu.be/M35KDgqJI4w?...
youtu.be/M35KDgqJI4w?...
N.E.W. Conference 2025 | Hugo Spiers (Keynote): Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean
YouTube video by Boston University Center for Brain Recovery
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
A super interesting talk by Hugo Spiers on navigation beyond cities, featuring lots of interesting research questions and fascinating examples. Definitely worth watching! 👀
Great paper showing tool use in carrion crows! Congrats Felix!! @mollfw.bsky.social
New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
September 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Great paper showing tool use in carrion crows! Congrats Felix!! @mollfw.bsky.social
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I'm usually not very active here, but good news:
Together with @milliejohnston.bsky.social, our paper on time estimation in #crows got published in @natcomms.nature.com today!
We found crow neurons track time like a stopwatch — without a cortex! 🐦⏱️🧠
#SciComm #Science 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Together with @milliejohnston.bsky.social, our paper on time estimation in #crows got published in @natcomms.nature.com today!
We found crow neurons track time like a stopwatch — without a cortex! 🐦⏱️🧠
#SciComm #Science 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A neuronal correlate for time interval estimation in the crow’s telencephalon - Nature Communications
It is unknown how birds estimate time using brains organized differently from mammals. Here, the authors show that neurons in the crow NCL encode duration categories, supporting abstract, cue-independ...
www.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I'm usually not very active here, but good news:
Together with @milliejohnston.bsky.social, our paper on time estimation in #crows got published in @natcomms.nature.com today!
We found crow neurons track time like a stopwatch — without a cortex! 🐦⏱️🧠
#SciComm #Science 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Together with @milliejohnston.bsky.social, our paper on time estimation in #crows got published in @natcomms.nature.com today!
We found crow neurons track time like a stopwatch — without a cortex! 🐦⏱️🧠
#SciComm #Science 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Excited about our new study out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social !
See our lab for detailed thread at @vision-cognition.bsky.social
New York Times piece about it:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...
See our lab for detailed thread at @vision-cognition.bsky.social
New York Times piece about it:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...
Do You See the Same Colors That I Do?
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Excited about our new study out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social !
See our lab for detailed thread at @vision-cognition.bsky.social
New York Times piece about it:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...
See our lab for detailed thread at @vision-cognition.bsky.social
New York Times piece about it:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...
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To brighten up your Sunday, let me introduce you to Stenokranio Boldi, an early amphibian recently discovered in Germany. This is the only image we have to know what it looked like:
September 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
To brighten up your Sunday, let me introduce you to Stenokranio Boldi, an early amphibian recently discovered in Germany. This is the only image we have to know what it looked like:
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Thumbs are cool and all, but have you ever thought about how important thumbnails are? They just might have been the key to rodents' evolutionary success. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
September 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Thumbs are cool and all, but have you ever thought about how important thumbnails are? They just might have been the key to rodents' evolutionary success. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
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The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle
go.nature.com/47mxGkM
go.nature.com/47mxGkM
Ant queens produce sons of two distinct species
The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle about a missing population of another ant species.
go.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle
go.nature.com/47mxGkM
go.nature.com/47mxGkM
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Scientists discover the secret behind the shrew’s amazing ability to shrink their brains 🧠
The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition.
Find the 5-letter word 👇
Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al
www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...
The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition.
Find the 5-letter word 👇
Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al
www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...
Rare seasonal brain shrinkage in shrews is driven by water loss, not cell death
Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel’s phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. A study...
www.ab.mpg.de
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Scientists discover the secret behind the shrew’s amazing ability to shrink their brains 🧠
The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition.
Find the 5-letter word 👇
Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al
www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...
The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition.
Find the 5-letter word 👇
Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al
www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...
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Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.
August 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.
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Big-eyed species are especially vulnerable to the effects of light pollution, a citizen-science effort shows
go.nature.com/4mXMkTX
go.nature.com/4mXMkTX
Bright city lights make birds around the world sing longer
Big-eyed species are especially vulnerable to the effects of light pollution, a citizen-science effort shows.
go.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Big-eyed species are especially vulnerable to the effects of light pollution, a citizen-science effort shows
go.nature.com/4mXMkTX
go.nature.com/4mXMkTX
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“You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.” 🚲🧪
Read my story in Science Magazine on how I dealt with my "Mid-PhD Crisis".
www.science.org/content/arti...
@science.org
@sciencecareers.bsky.social
#ScienceWorkingLife
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
#ScienceTwitter
Read my story in Science Magazine on how I dealt with my "Mid-PhD Crisis".
www.science.org/content/arti...
@science.org
@sciencecareers.bsky.social
#ScienceWorkingLife
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
#ScienceTwitter
"For half an hour, I vented everything I had been holding in for months … my supervisor … then calmly offered a line I’ll never forget: 'You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.' That one sentence landed softly, but it cracked something open." https://scim.ag/4lt1Ru0
August 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.” 🚲🧪
Read my story in Science Magazine on how I dealt with my "Mid-PhD Crisis".
www.science.org/content/arti...
@science.org
@sciencecareers.bsky.social
#ScienceWorkingLife
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
#ScienceTwitter
Read my story in Science Magazine on how I dealt with my "Mid-PhD Crisis".
www.science.org/content/arti...
@science.org
@sciencecareers.bsky.social
#ScienceWorkingLife
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
#ScienceTwitter
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Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.
August 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.
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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
🔗: 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
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
🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
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📢 Exciting News!
Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium #SNS2025 will happen on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October! 🎉
Plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events with leading experts in the field 🧠
registration 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025
See you there! 👋
Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium #SNS2025 will happen on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October! 🎉
Plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events with leading experts in the field 🧠
registration 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025
See you there! 👋
July 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
📢 Exciting News!
Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium #SNS2025 will happen on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October! 🎉
Plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events with leading experts in the field 🧠
registration 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025
See you there! 👋
Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium #SNS2025 will happen on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October! 🎉
Plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events with leading experts in the field 🧠
registration 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025
See you there! 👋
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Thank you for your engagement Ghazaleh Tabatabai 🙏 #aufstehenfuerdemokratie
February 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Thank you for your engagement Ghazaleh Tabatabai 🙏 #aufstehenfuerdemokratie
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MacaqueNet, a global community and FAIR database, is now also a @animalecology.bsky.social paper!
Decades of research by 100+ ppl, 5yrs of data cleaning & standardizing, 2 workshops (+1 upcoming Kolkata '25), 4 active projects and counting.
Contibute data, follow the newsletter, make a request!
Decades of research by 100+ ppl, 5yrs of data cleaning & standardizing, 2 workshops (+1 upcoming Kolkata '25), 4 active projects and counting.
Contibute data, follow the newsletter, make a request!
So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration
We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
MacaqueNet, a global community and FAIR database, is now also a @animalecology.bsky.social paper!
Decades of research by 100+ ppl, 5yrs of data cleaning & standardizing, 2 workshops (+1 upcoming Kolkata '25), 4 active projects and counting.
Contibute data, follow the newsletter, make a request!
Decades of research by 100+ ppl, 5yrs of data cleaning & standardizing, 2 workshops (+1 upcoming Kolkata '25), 4 active projects and counting.
Contibute data, follow the newsletter, make a request!
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Now published in JCN: "Exploring Anatomical Links Between the Crow's Nidopallium Caudolaterale and Its Song System"
In crows (which are songbirds!), we show that the song system is paralleled by the 'general motor system' (cf. Feenders, 2008; Farries, 2001).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
In crows (which are songbirds!), we show that the song system is paralleled by the 'general motor system' (cf. Feenders, 2008; Farries, 2001).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Exploring Anatomical Links Between the Crow's Nidopallium Caudolaterale and Its Song System
The crow's nidopallium caudolaterale (NCL) projects densely to the dorsal intermediate arcopallium (AID) and the striatum, paralleling important song system pathways. Connections from the magnocellul...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Now published in JCN: "Exploring Anatomical Links Between the Crow's Nidopallium Caudolaterale and Its Song System"
In crows (which are songbirds!), we show that the song system is paralleled by the 'general motor system' (cf. Feenders, 2008; Farries, 2001).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
In crows (which are songbirds!), we show that the song system is paralleled by the 'general motor system' (cf. Feenders, 2008; Farries, 2001).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Weronika Sójka
Much can be said about what a species ate based on the form of their teeth.
Using a tooth microwear approach, researchers in Science find that a narrow diet was not responsible for the extinction of short-faced kangaroos.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4aiqdCQ
Using a tooth microwear approach, researchers in Science find that a narrow diet was not responsible for the extinction of short-faced kangaroos.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4aiqdCQ
January 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Much can be said about what a species ate based on the form of their teeth.
Using a tooth microwear approach, researchers in Science find that a narrow diet was not responsible for the extinction of short-faced kangaroos.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4aiqdCQ
Using a tooth microwear approach, researchers in Science find that a narrow diet was not responsible for the extinction of short-faced kangaroos.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4aiqdCQ