Zero-Noise Lab
@zeronoiselab.bsky.social
Lab @ ESI Frankfurt. We believe the brain is noise-free. Or mostly-noise-free-ish. And that if we stare at behaving brains long enough, it will ALL MAKE SENSE.
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Inferring internal states across mice and monkeys using facial features - Nature Communications
Here, the authors created a virtual reality task for monkeys and mice to explore if internal states like attention are similar across species. Their facial expressions during the task were similar, su...
www.nature.com
Now out in @natcomms.nature.com: Mice and monkeys spontaneously shift through comparable cognitive states - and it's written all over their faces! (1/7)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Absolutely love this work - and the article communicating it! 🤩🤩
Our new study featured in The Transmitter by @lauren-schneider.com! 🎉 Big thanks to @zeronoiselab.bsky.social and @computingnature.bsky.social for their comments on the work.
Facial movements reflect a mouse’s decision-making patterns independent of their chosen action during a foraging task, per a new study.
By @lauren-schneider.com
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/motor-behavi...
By @lauren-schneider.com
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/motor-behavi...
October 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Absolutely love this work - and the article communicating it! 🤩🤩
Super excited for this collab! Reusable probe implants for all! 😁✊️
As part of an open source community, we’re proud to work with @3dneuro.bsky.social to distribute their 𝗥𝟮 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 ⚙️🧠
This metal implantation system lets you 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 & 𝗿𝗲𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲𝘀, making ephys recordings more accessible and sustainable 🌱
Source, docs and store below 👇
#OpenEphys
This metal implantation system lets you 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 & 𝗿𝗲𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲𝘀, making ephys recordings more accessible and sustainable 🌱
Source, docs and store below 👇
#OpenEphys
R2 System — Open Ephys
The R2 System is an open-source silicon probe implantation system developed by 3D Neuro based on designs from the Buzsáki lab. This system enables probe Recovery and Reuse, maximizing their value.
open-ephys.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Super excited for this collab! Reusable probe implants for all! 😁✊️
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Check out @catrinahacker.bsky.social's #CCN2025 poster this afternoon!
We've long worked with spikes. Here we ask: would we have made the same inferences about memory with the signals often recorded in human neurosci (iEEG, LFPs)? The answer surprised me. Not only yes! but with 3-fold *less* data.
We've long worked with spikes. Here we ask: would we have made the same inferences about memory with the signals often recorded in human neurosci (iEEG, LFPs)? The answer surprised me. Not only yes! but with 3-fold *less* data.
At #ccn2025 and interested in bridging animal and human neuroscience?
Stop by B121 this afternoon to see our investigation of the neural representations in spikes and field potentials and our surprising result that sometimes field potentials are better!
2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=t...
🧠📈
Stop by B121 this afternoon to see our investigation of the neural representations in spikes and field potentials and our surprising result that sometimes field potentials are better!
2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=t...
🧠📈
Poster Presentation
2025.ccneuro.org
August 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Check out @catrinahacker.bsky.social's #CCN2025 poster this afternoon!
We've long worked with spikes. Here we ask: would we have made the same inferences about memory with the signals often recorded in human neurosci (iEEG, LFPs)? The answer surprised me. Not only yes! but with 3-fold *less* data.
We've long worked with spikes. Here we ask: would we have made the same inferences about memory with the signals often recorded in human neurosci (iEEG, LFPs)? The answer surprised me. Not only yes! but with 3-fold *less* data.
Aaaand we have our final line-up for ESI-SyNC 2025! Check it out! :)
Join us for two exciting days of figuring out what altered states of consciousness do to your brain!
More info:
esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/
Go register (100 Euro, free for junior researchers):
survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/18...
Join us for two exciting days of figuring out what altered states of consciousness do to your brain!
More info:
esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/
Go register (100 Euro, free for junior researchers):
survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/18...
August 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Aaaand we have our final line-up for ESI-SyNC 2025! Check it out! :)
Join us for two exciting days of figuring out what altered states of consciousness do to your brain!
More info:
esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/
Go register (100 Euro, free for junior researchers):
survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/18...
Join us for two exciting days of figuring out what altered states of consciousness do to your brain!
More info:
esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/
Go register (100 Euro, free for junior researchers):
survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/18...
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I have the pleasure of speaking at ESI-SyNC this year about the neurophenomenology of breathwork and DMT 🧠✨
Do come if you can!
Do come if you can!
What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation.
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August 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I have the pleasure of speaking at ESI-SyNC this year about the neurophenomenology of breathwork and DMT 🧠✨
Do come if you can!
Do come if you can!
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Does sensitivity to acute pain correlate with mental health?
In our new paper led by @rebeccaboe.bsky.social & @francescafardo.bsky.social we analyzed thermal pain thresholds in 565 adults and found no link to mental health symptoms.
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1061...
In our new paper led by @rebeccaboe.bsky.social & @francescafardo.bsky.social we analyzed thermal pain thresholds in 565 adults and found no link to mental health symptoms.
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1061...
No evidence for a link between mental health symptoms and pain thresholds
Previous studies have suggested associations between pain perception and psychological factors such as mood, distress, fatigue, and quality of life. However, these factors and their relationship to...
www.tandfonline.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Does sensitivity to acute pain correlate with mental health?
In our new paper led by @rebeccaboe.bsky.social & @francescafardo.bsky.social we analyzed thermal pain thresholds in 565 adults and found no link to mental health symptoms.
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1061...
In our new paper led by @rebeccaboe.bsky.social & @francescafardo.bsky.social we analyzed thermal pain thresholds in 565 adults and found no link to mental health symptoms.
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1061...
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Delighted to be back to Ernst Strüngmann Institute to learn and present at what should be an amazing meeting on psychedelics and consciousness
www.esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/
www.esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/
August 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Delighted to be back to Ernst Strüngmann Institute to learn and present at what should be an amazing meeting on psychedelics and consciousness
www.esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/
www.esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/
What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation.
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July 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation.
(1/2)
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“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Small contribution in this piece by @frosas.bsky.social and colleagues on how we need both types of research culture in neuroscience.
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Small contribution in this piece by @frosas.bsky.social and colleagues on how we need both types of research culture in neuroscience.
#neuroskyence
July 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Small contribution in this piece by @frosas.bsky.social and colleagues on how we need both types of research culture in neuroscience.
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Small contribution in this piece by @frosas.bsky.social and colleagues on how we need both types of research culture in neuroscience.
#neuroskyence
Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour.
Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time:
'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.'
Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time:
'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.'
Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making
Studies of perceptual decision-making typically present the same stimulus repeatedly over the course of an experimental session but ignore the order o…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour.
Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time:
'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.'
Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time:
'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.'
Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A study of rhesus macaques in July found that those who communicated more clearly with their facial expressions made better leaders: phys.org/news/2024-07...
Couldn't help but think of how this guy must be a great leader.
Couldn't help but think of how this guy must be a great leader.
December 11, 2024 at 8:54 PM
A study of rhesus macaques in July found that those who communicated more clearly with their facial expressions made better leaders: phys.org/news/2024-07...
Couldn't help but think of how this guy must be a great leader.
Couldn't help but think of how this guy must be a great leader.
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As highlighted by @altmetric.com, #Bluesky keeps trending up, regularly beating #X/Twitter for research sharing, all with just 36M users compared to X's claimed 600M. Imagine achieving that without the spam and toxic mess. Honestly, what are you waiting for?
#ResearchSky #AcademicSky #SocialMedia
#ResearchSky #AcademicSky #SocialMedia
The trend is still in Bluesky's favour. X is still larger but very regularly Bluesky easily eclipses it in terms of research being shared.
Linda Yaccarino claimed X had 600m users in April. Bluesky has 36m accounts created in total.
Linda Yaccarino claimed X had 600m users in April. Bluesky has 36m accounts created in total.
June 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
As highlighted by @altmetric.com, #Bluesky keeps trending up, regularly beating #X/Twitter for research sharing, all with just 36M users compared to X's claimed 600M. Imagine achieving that without the spam and toxic mess. Honestly, what are you waiting for?
#ResearchSky #AcademicSky #SocialMedia
#ResearchSky #AcademicSky #SocialMedia
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Excited to share this project specifying a research direction I think will be particularly fruitful for theory-driven cognitive science that aims to explain natural behavior!
We're calling this direction "Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science"
We're calling this direction "Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science"
June 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Excited to share this project specifying a research direction I think will be particularly fruitful for theory-driven cognitive science that aims to explain natural behavior!
We're calling this direction "Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science"
We're calling this direction "Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science"
Super kick-ass talk by @anna-beyeler.bsky.social on dopamine signalling and anxiety just now at the 12th SBDM (Symposium on the Biology of Decision Making)! 😱🤯🥳
June 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Super kick-ass talk by @anna-beyeler.bsky.social on dopamine signalling and anxiety just now at the 12th SBDM (Symposium on the Biology of Decision Making)! 😱🤯🥳
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The "rubber hand illusion" in mice... @lucestebanez.bsky.social &co use automated videography to show that mice display quantifiable behavioral markers of the embodiment of an #ArtificialLimb, opening the door to future research into human #BodyOwnership disorders @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4jHsESn
June 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Now out in @natcomms.nature.com: Mice and monkeys spontaneously shift through comparable cognitive states - and it's written all over their faces! (1/7)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Inferring internal states across mice and monkeys using facial features - Nature Communications
Here, the authors created a virtual reality task for monkeys and mice to explore if internal states like attention are similar across species. Their facial expressions during the task were similar, su...
www.nature.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Now out in @natcomms.nature.com: Mice and monkeys spontaneously shift through comparable cognitive states - and it's written all over their faces! (1/7)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Eatsalotl and Eatsalitl
One of my axolotls will find and eat any food I give her. The other must be hand fed one morsel at a time, because she only eats things that smack her in the face at the precise moment she was pondering a lil snack anyway.
May 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Eatsalotl and Eatsalitl
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3/5) The real mechanism for credibility in science is simply the test of time:
Can someone reproduce the results?
Do others build on the findings?
Real rigour in science comes from waiting to see whether a result holds and leads to new results.
Period - that's it. It's not peer review.
Can someone reproduce the results?
Do others build on the findings?
Real rigour in science comes from waiting to see whether a result holds and leads to new results.
Period - that's it. It's not peer review.
April 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
3/5) The real mechanism for credibility in science is simply the test of time:
Can someone reproduce the results?
Do others build on the findings?
Real rigour in science comes from waiting to see whether a result holds and leads to new results.
Period - that's it. It's not peer review.
Can someone reproduce the results?
Do others build on the findings?
Real rigour in science comes from waiting to see whether a result holds and leads to new results.
Period - that's it. It's not peer review.
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Study finds that social media posts presenting scientific findings with more uncertainty are significantly less likely to be shared. This creates a challenge, since embracing uncertainty can actually boost accuracy and trust!
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... #ScienceSky #scicomm
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... #ScienceSky #scicomm
Expressions of uncertainty in online science communication hinder information diffusion
Abstract. Despite the importance of transparent communication of uncertainty surrounding scientific findings, there are concerns that communicating uncerta
academic.oup.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Study finds that social media posts presenting scientific findings with more uncertainty are significantly less likely to be shared. This creates a challenge, since embracing uncertainty can actually boost accuracy and trust!
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... #ScienceSky #scicomm
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... #ScienceSky #scicomm
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📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2025 📣
Our first seminar of the year by @damienfarine.bsky.social is coming up fast! 🐦
🎥 Check out this teaser!
📆 Tuesday 29th April 2025 at 2pm GMT
📍 Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z...
💡 Free & open to all – no registration needed!
Our first seminar of the year by @damienfarine.bsky.social is coming up fast! 🐦
🎥 Check out this teaser!
📆 Tuesday 29th April 2025 at 2pm GMT
📍 Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z...
💡 Free & open to all – no registration needed!
April 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2025 📣
Our first seminar of the year by @damienfarine.bsky.social is coming up fast! 🐦
🎥 Check out this teaser!
📆 Tuesday 29th April 2025 at 2pm GMT
📍 Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z...
💡 Free & open to all – no registration needed!
Our first seminar of the year by @damienfarine.bsky.social is coming up fast! 🐦
🎥 Check out this teaser!
📆 Tuesday 29th April 2025 at 2pm GMT
📍 Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z...
💡 Free & open to all – no registration needed!
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I highly recommend this inspiring new book by Nahum Ulanovsky! A plea for neuroscientists to embrace “Natural Neuroscience”: use emerging technologies to uncover meaningful behavior and neural representations in free-roaming animals exposed to real-world stimuli.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...
Natural Neuroscience
Natural neuroscience departs from the classical reductionist approach, which emphasizes control at the expense of natural behaviors, by proposing a shift tow...
mitpress.mit.edu
April 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I highly recommend this inspiring new book by Nahum Ulanovsky! A plea for neuroscientists to embrace “Natural Neuroscience”: use emerging technologies to uncover meaningful behavior and neural representations in free-roaming animals exposed to real-world stimuli.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...
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We have something special to share with you - our #Breathwork paper is out in the world! 🌍✨ We explored the mechanisms and effects of Breathwork-induced altered states of consciousness 🌬️🧠
Huge thanks to the wonderful Martha Havenith @zeronoiselab.bsky.social for bringing me into this project 🤗
Huge thanks to the wonderful Martha Havenith @zeronoiselab.bsky.social for bringing me into this project 🤗
Our first paper on altered states of consciousness induced by #breathwork is officially out now! It addresses four big questions: (1) Can simple breathing alter your consciousness? Most definitely! And in very similar ways to psychedelics! (1/4)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Decreased CO2 saturation during circular breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness - Communications Psychology
Circular breathwork induces altered states of consciousness similar to psychedelics, predicted by decreases in CO2 saturation. Acute physiological and psychological dynamics during breathwork in turn ...
www.nature.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We have something special to share with you - our #Breathwork paper is out in the world! 🌍✨ We explored the mechanisms and effects of Breathwork-induced altered states of consciousness 🌬️🧠
Huge thanks to the wonderful Martha Havenith @zeronoiselab.bsky.social for bringing me into this project 🤗
Huge thanks to the wonderful Martha Havenith @zeronoiselab.bsky.social for bringing me into this project 🤗
Our first paper on altered states of consciousness induced by #breathwork is officially out now! It addresses four big questions: (1) Can simple breathing alter your consciousness? Most definitely! And in very similar ways to psychedelics! (1/4)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Decreased CO2 saturation during circular breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness - Communications Psychology
Circular breathwork induces altered states of consciousness similar to psychedelics, predicted by decreases in CO2 saturation. Acute physiological and psychological dynamics during breathwork in turn ...
www.nature.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Our first paper on altered states of consciousness induced by #breathwork is officially out now! It addresses four big questions: (1) Can simple breathing alter your consciousness? Most definitely! And in very similar ways to psychedelics! (1/4)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Neuroethology at #cosyne2025
Beautiful talk by C. Noelle
When animals move naturally vision is just different!
Beautiful talk by C. Noelle
When animals move naturally vision is just different!
March 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Neuroethology at #cosyne2025
Beautiful talk by C. Noelle
When animals move naturally vision is just different!
Beautiful talk by C. Noelle
When animals move naturally vision is just different!
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ICYMI
The earliest studies on necessary and sufficient neural populations were performed on simple invertebrate circuits. @neurograce.bsky.social asks: Does this logic still serve us as we tackle more sophisticated outputs?
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
Claims of necessity, sufficiency don’t work well for studies of complex systems
Early studies on necessary and sufficient neural populations were done on simple invertebrate circuits. Does this logic work for complex outputs?
www.thetransmitter.org
March 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
ICYMI