Kim Kirchberger
@kimkirchberger.bsky.social
PhD student with @benjulab.bsky.social interested in the singing fish Danionella cerebrum and circuits
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New review in PRX Life, where we propose a tangibility scale for the physics of social interactions, and highlight a few tangible examples - from dead fish “swimming” to efficient schooling, warm penguin huddles, and dry ant rafts.
Written with the brilliant Chantal Nguyen 🐟🐧🐜
tinyurl.com/naet5tdh
Written with the brilliant Chantal Nguyen 🐟🐧🐜
tinyurl.com/naet5tdh
July 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
New review in PRX Life, where we propose a tangibility scale for the physics of social interactions, and highlight a few tangible examples - from dead fish “swimming” to efficient schooling, warm penguin huddles, and dry ant rafts.
Written with the brilliant Chantal Nguyen 🐟🐧🐜
tinyurl.com/naet5tdh
Written with the brilliant Chantal Nguyen 🐟🐧🐜
tinyurl.com/naet5tdh
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Wednesday evening, we made an appearance on Kosovo TV: youtu.be/sNqkfZerkhQ?...
On Thursday morning, I gave a lecture on flexible behavior and neuromodulation, and now we begin building our behavioral setups.
On Thursday morning, I gave a lecture on flexible behavior and neuromodulation, and now we begin building our behavioral setups.
Pasdite - Armin Bahl - Katja Slangewal - Flutura Shabani & Zana Gërxhaliu 08.07.2025
YouTube video by RTK
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July 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Wednesday evening, we made an appearance on Kosovo TV: youtu.be/sNqkfZerkhQ?...
On Thursday morning, I gave a lecture on flexible behavior and neuromodulation, and now we begin building our behavioral setups.
On Thursday morning, I gave a lecture on flexible behavior and neuromodulation, and now we begin building our behavioral setups.
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The conceptual consequences of Noether’s theorem are hard to overstate.
How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics | Quanta Magazine
Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics.
www.quantamagazine.org
May 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The conceptual consequences of Noether’s theorem are hard to overstate.
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I’m thrilled to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. What an honour! Would not have happened without the mentors, postdocs and students who I’ve had the great privilege to learn and collaborate with throughout my career. @uni-konstanz.de @maxplanck.de
We are pleased to announce the 90 outstanding researchers from across the world who have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society this year. The group includes trailblazers from AI and electron microscopy to global health and neuroscience. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/news/2025/05...
Exceptional scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society | Royal Society
Over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.
royalsociety.org
May 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I’m thrilled to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. What an honour! Would not have happened without the mentors, postdocs and students who I’ve had the great privilege to learn and collaborate with throughout my career. @uni-konstanz.de @maxplanck.de
First day with @benjulab.bsky.social at Charité, where I'm starting my PhD investigating neural dynamics of the beautiful singer Danionella Cerebrum.
May 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
First day with @benjulab.bsky.social at Charité, where I'm starting my PhD investigating neural dynamics of the beautiful singer Danionella Cerebrum.
Amongst all the rodents, humans and flies we bring the zebratastical fish @bahllab.bsky.social #NWG2025
March 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Amongst all the rodents, humans and flies we bring the zebratastical fish @bahllab.bsky.social #NWG2025
Opening lecture about axon growth and regeneration by Frank Bradke from @dzne.science #NWG2025
March 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Opening lecture about axon growth and regeneration by Frank Bradke from @dzne.science #NWG2025
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The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva!
March 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva!
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We are proud to present our new preprint “Correlative light and electron microscopy reveals the fine circuit structure underlying evidence accumulation in larval zebrafish”, just posted on bioRxiv (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). (1/10)
Correlative light and electron microscopy reveals the fine circuit structure underlying evidence accumulation in larval zebrafish
Accumulating information is a critical component of most circuit computations in the brain across species, yet its precise implementation at the synaptic level remains poorly understood. Dissecting su...
www.biorxiv.org
March 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We are proud to present our new preprint “Correlative light and electron microscopy reveals the fine circuit structure underlying evidence accumulation in larval zebrafish”, just posted on bioRxiv (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). (1/10)
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📆 updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP:
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
docs.google.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📆 updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP:
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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This is terrifying. I am worried for the non-citizens who will be showing up to the science rallies this week. Please be smart. It’s unlikely institutions will be able to save you.
March 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is terrifying. I am worried for the non-citizens who will be showing up to the science rallies this week. Please be smart. It’s unlikely institutions will be able to save you.
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Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts
Collective motion, which is ubiquitous in nature, has traditionally been explained by “self-propelled particle” models from theoretical physics. Here we show, through field, lab, and virtual reality e...
www.science.org
February 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
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I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
1/n
February 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
1/n
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
1/n
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‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
www.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Wish you all a fishy 🐟 Christmas 🎄
The best time of the year is here and we are already celebrating. Happy holidays from the Bahl Lab! 🥳
December 24, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Wish you all a fishy 🐟 Christmas 🎄
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The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 22, 2024 at 7:01 PM
The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
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I'm excited to share another project we've been working on: The Transmitter's first book, which includes some of our favorite essays from our first ~9 months. Download a copy here: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...
December 18, 2024 at 5:32 PM
I'm excited to share another project we've been working on: The Transmitter's first book, which includes some of our favorite essays from our first ~9 months. Download a copy here: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...
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Happy to have hosted professor Florian Engert from @harvard.edu here at the @unikonstanz.bsky.social who shared his exciting work on analyzing heart rate and attention in larvae to gain new insights into decision-making behavior.
December 18, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Happy to have hosted professor Florian Engert from @harvard.edu here at the @unikonstanz.bsky.social who shared his exciting work on analyzing heart rate and attention in larvae to gain new insights into decision-making behavior.
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Everywhere we looked, space seemed to teem with biology’s raw materials. New analyses of comet and asteroid samples, along with computer modeling, suggested that organic compounds arose long before our sun even existed. www.quantamagazine.org/the-cosmos-t...
The Cosmos Teems with Complex Organic Molecules | Quanta Magazine
Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 17, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Everywhere we looked, space seemed to teem with biology’s raw materials. New analyses of comet and asteroid samples, along with computer modeling, suggested that organic compounds arose long before our sun even existed. www.quantamagazine.org/the-cosmos-t...
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Hard to beat the white elephant gift exchange in the lab this year; anyone else surrounded by amazing students?
December 17, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Hard to beat the white elephant gift exchange in the lab this year; anyone else surrounded by amazing students?
The introduction to this article reminds me of the intro to "States of Matter" by Goodstein. Why do so many statistical physicists sound like Dostojewski? Cool topic though, which never dies (therefore resisting the second law).
The second law of thermodynamics states that a quantity called entropy is on the rise, indicating that the universe is predisposed to disorder. But the idea of entropy is evolving. www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine
Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world th...
www.quantamagazine.org
December 16, 2024 at 10:43 AM
The introduction to this article reminds me of the intro to "States of Matter" by Goodstein. Why do so many statistical physicists sound like Dostojewski? Cool topic though, which never dies (therefore resisting the second law).
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Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
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Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Neuroscience methods - YouTube
Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...
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December 13, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
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Celebrated our first #Labsgiving! We are thankful for being able to bring together such an international and diverse group of people whose cooking creativity made this event possible!
December 4, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Celebrated our first #Labsgiving! We are thankful for being able to bring together such an international and diverse group of people whose cooking creativity made this event possible!