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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 7d

Huge congratulations to this year's winners of the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine: Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi! 🏆The trio's groundbreaking work on peripheral immune tolerance is paving the way for crucial new treatments for cancer & autoimmunity. 🧬

Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for immune system research

Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi worked on how the immune system can be prevented from harming the body

www.theguardian.com

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · 14d

We hosted Reyk Börner today, a postdoc at Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht. He gave a very insightful talk on tipping points in climate, drawing a parallel to metastability in neural systems! @mpinb.mpg.de #theory #dynamicalsystems

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 17d

thanks @aria-research.bsky.social for highlighting our research on the computational capabilities of single-celled organisms! #protists Watch this space for more exciting developments @lsiexeter.bsky.social

Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) @aria-research.bsky.social · 17d

👀 Our latest Substack is live – discover:
– The launch of Innovator Circles
– Insights into the FRO-Founder Residency with @convergentresearch.bsky.social
– A Q&A with @micromotility.bsky.social on natural computation in single-celled microorganisms
+ more ↓

link.aria.org.uk/sepsubstack-bluesky

Innovator Circles, FROs, and a look into biological computation

The latest from ARIA, including our new Innovator Circles initiative, inside Convergent Research's FRO-Founder Residency, and a Q&A with Nature Computes Better Creator Kirsty Wan.

link.aria.org.uk

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · 18d

Today and tomorrow we are celebrating the highly impressive career and contribution to Nonlinear Dynamics of Ulrike Feudel, a brilliant scientist and a truly admirable individual! You are and will remain an inspiration, particularly for women in complex science and beyond! #WomenInSTEM

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · 24d

We are ready for the Open Day tomorrow @mpinb.mpg.de ! We will show how learning without brain is possible, you can meet our ciliated friends under the microscope or calculate pi by throwing toothpicks! We are there from 10am-4pm! Looking forward to a science Saturday! 🤓

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Prevedel Lab @prevedel-lab.bsky.social · Sep 12

@embl.org Heidelberg is looking for a new Head of Scientific Instrumentation! This is an exciting opportunity at the interface between scientific research and technology development, overseeing our mechanical and electronic workshops!
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

Head of Scientific Instrumentation Workshops

EMBL is a world leader in scientific research and at the forefront in the development of cutting-edge technologies. It operates across six sites in Heidelberg (headquarters), Barcelona, Cambridge, Gre...

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · Sep 11

The final version of our review on biological filaments is out in Philtrans A (w/@jcammann.bsky.social Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer & Marco Mazza) - we have 417 references!
Enjoy :)

doi.org/10.1098/rsta...
(see also other articles in this special issue on biological fluid dynamics) #biophysics

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our paper presents a mathematical and computational analysis of different circuits implemented by means of gene network motifs, including the problem of mass-spaced learning that was recently shown to be present in non-neural cells @koseskalab.bsky.social @jgojalvo.bsky.social

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · Sep 9

The 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships applications are open, offering early-career scholars intellectual freedom, transdisciplinary collaboration with leading researchers, and a competitive salary with research and collaboration funds.

Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congrats!!

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Join us on Spetember 20th to learn, among other things, what single cells are capable of, see our ciliated lab mates under the microscope and do some fun math experiments! 🤓🤓🤓

www.behaviorbrainbonn.de

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · Aug 26

A wonderful talk on a topic very close to our hearts 😊 and a day filled with insigthfull discussions with @mariannebauer.bsky.social from TU Delft! Many thanks Marianne!
@mpinb.mpg.de

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · Aug 23

Complex behaviour is not limited to animals! Here we map the entire spectrum of waveforms dynamics on a quadriflagellate single cell with 4x 70um (!) #cilia, to a low dimensional behavioural manifold with surprising structure! #protistsonsky

All revealed in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · Aug 4

It is a true pleasure to take part at this year’s Konstanz school on collective behavior and talk about our theoretical framework of computing with transients.
@mpinb.mpg.de

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Norbert Marwan @pucicu.de · Aug 2

Recurrence condensation during critical transitions in complex systems – In our study published now in Chaos we demonstrate the scaling of #recurrence_plot measures when approaching critical transitions. @aip.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

Recurrence condensation during critical transitions in complex systems

Critical transitions in complex systems pose challenges for the healthy functioning of natural and engineered systems, sometimes with catastrophic outcomes. The

doi.org

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Greg Stephens @gjstephens.bsky.social · Aug 2

Time for more "Physics of Behavior" in single-cell settings! @micromotility.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social

Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · Aug 1

Forgotten studies from the early 20th century are helping scientists probe how and whether individual cells can learn and remember.

What Can a Cell Remember? | Quanta Magazine

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory…

www.quantamagazine.org

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · Feb 24

Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists

Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.

www.thetransmitter.org

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · Jul 30

Beautiful presentation of the power of physics for understanding behavior from @gjstephens.bsky.social , and a thoroughly insightful chalk-talk on the underlying statistical physics and dynamical systems concepts.

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · Jul 28

Excited to be part of “Unifying theories in high-dimensional biophyics” symposium @ICTS in Bangalore. Looking forward to learn about novel theoretical descriptions from molecular to behavior of ecologies! @mpinb.mpg.de

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · Jul 18

This week we had a privilege of hosting Peter Ashwin @exeter.ac.uk who talked about dynamics of RNNs. Thank you for stimulating discussions!

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · Jul 8

University of Colorado Boulder | Postdoctoral Position in Computational Modeling of Biological Rhythms

Application deadline: July 18

#Community #postdoc #biology #sync #computationalmodeling ./12

amahury.github.io/posts/postdo...

University of Colorado Boulder Postdoctoral Position in Computational Modeling of Biological Rhythms

The Peleg Lab at CU Boulder is seeking a creative and curious postdoc to model biological rythms, from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization!

amahury.github.io

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Alfonso Martinez Arias @amartinezarias.bsky.social · Jul 13

An antidote against the current fantasies of #VirtualCells from Jeremy Gunawardena: www.nature.com/articles/nbt... It is indeed true that what a cell is becomes of little importance in the enterprise, though I would argue that this is out of ignorance. A cell is more than the product of GRNs

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · Jul 10

We had a privilege to have Chittaranjan Hens from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India, visiting for a day and telling us about the origins of instability in dynamical systems on undirected networks! @mpinb.mpg.de

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · Jul 8

Our new paper is out!
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
#criticality #ghostcycles @mpinb.mpg.de

koch-lab.bsky.social @koch-lab.bsky.social · Jul 8

Our new paper in #PRE @physreve.bsky.social‬ on how #criticality governs the response of systems with 👻 #dynamics ("ghost cycles") to external inputs compared to #slow-fast systems: journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

Had a great time working with ‪@koseskalab.bsky.social‬ and Ulrike Feudel, TY! 😊

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · Jun 26

Very exciting work on impossible ecologies!
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Pierre Haas @lepuslapis.bsky.social · Jun 26

Sunset at Dynamics Days Europe #DDays2025 in Thessaloniki!

I talked about "Dynamics of small ecological communities" in a great mini-symposium organised by @yumeng0806.bsky.social, Bo-Wei Qin.

My talk included our recent doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2025.101297 @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social.

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