Gabriela Iwama
@gabrielaiwama.bsky.social
PhD student at University of Tübingen. Trying to understand how the brain integrates multiple sources of uncertainty to form a decision. 🧠
gabrielaiwama.github.io
gabrielaiwama.github.io
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Our paper showing the first ever recordings of spiking activity from neurons in the human lateral geniculate nucleus has just been published in Nature Communications! Congrats to the whole team. #neuroskyence @nin-knaw.bsky.social @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Effects of eye closure on the spiking activity of human lateral geniculate neurons - Nature Communications
The LGN is a critical stage between the retina and visual cortex, but the properties of human LGN neurons are not fully understood. Here the authors report that they closely resemble those in monkeys ...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Our paper showing the first ever recordings of spiking activity from neurons in the human lateral geniculate nucleus has just been published in Nature Communications! Congrats to the whole team. #neuroskyence @nin-knaw.bsky.social @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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📆Save the date: new lecture series
[1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.
[1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📆Save the date: new lecture series
[1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.
[1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.
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🦖🐬🧪An incredible "fossil brain" of a fossil fur seal (Thalassoleon macnallyae) from the Pliocene Purisima Formation near Santa Cruz. This incredible specimen preserves a cranial endocast with exquisite detail. Read more about fossil fur seals on my blog: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
October 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🦖🐬🧪An incredible "fossil brain" of a fossil fur seal (Thalassoleon macnallyae) from the Pliocene Purisima Formation near Santa Cruz. This incredible specimen preserves a cranial endocast with exquisite detail. Read more about fossil fur seals on my blog: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur...
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏
ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution
ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution
posted on October 16, 2025
We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual for a ful...
hmc-lab.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur...
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏
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🚨 PhD/Postdoc alert 👇
If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at [email protected] :)
Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.
If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at [email protected] :)
Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.
🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
October 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🚨 PhD/Postdoc alert 👇
If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at [email protected] :)
Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.
If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at [email protected] :)
Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.
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We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.
September 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.
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Our #sEEG study is now published in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eIkoG! 🧠
Key finding: We discovered neural evidence accumulation for visual perception that's independent of report preparation—recorded from >3000 channels across 3 experiments!
#Neuroscience #Consciousness #OpenAccess
Key finding: We discovered neural evidence accumulation for visual perception that's independent of report preparation—recorded from >3000 channels across 3 experiments!
#Neuroscience #Consciousness #OpenAccess
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our #sEEG study is now published in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eIkoG! 🧠
Key finding: We discovered neural evidence accumulation for visual perception that's independent of report preparation—recorded from >3000 channels across 3 experiments!
#Neuroscience #Consciousness #OpenAccess
Key finding: We discovered neural evidence accumulation for visual perception that's independent of report preparation—recorded from >3000 channels across 3 experiments!
#Neuroscience #Consciousness #OpenAccess
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How does the brain decide? 🧠
Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc.
After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up.
rdcu.be/eGUrv
Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc.
After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up.
rdcu.be/eGUrv
Transitions in dynamical regime and neural mode during perceptual decisions - Nature
Simultaneous recordings were made of hundreds of neurons in the rat frontal cortex and striatum, showing that decision commitment involves a rapid, coordinated transition in dynamical regime and neura...
www.nature.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
How does the brain decide? 🧠
Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc.
After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up.
rdcu.be/eGUrv
Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc.
After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up.
rdcu.be/eGUrv
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The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today!
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature
The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today!
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🔵Tübingen SNS 2025🔵
Registration is still open for the #SNS2025 event on 6-7 October!
Join us for plenary lectures 🗣️, poster sessions📊and social events 👥 about system neuroscience!🧠
Registration at meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025
Registration is still open for the #SNS2025 event on 6-7 October!
Join us for plenary lectures 🗣️, poster sessions📊and social events 👥 about system neuroscience!🧠
Registration at meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025
August 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
🔵Tübingen SNS 2025🔵
Registration is still open for the #SNS2025 event on 6-7 October!
Join us for plenary lectures 🗣️, poster sessions📊and social events 👥 about system neuroscience!🧠
Registration at meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025
Registration is still open for the #SNS2025 event on 6-7 October!
Join us for plenary lectures 🗣️, poster sessions📊and social events 👥 about system neuroscience!🧠
Registration at meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025
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🧠 Last week to sign up for NeNa 2025 in Heidelberg!
The registration covers transport from Tübingen, accommodations, and all meals. Sign up here: nenaconference.github.io
We look forward to meeting you in October!
#NeNa2025 #Heidelberg #Tuebingen #Neuroscience #PhD
The registration covers transport from Tübingen, accommodations, and all meals. Sign up here: nenaconference.github.io
We look forward to meeting you in October!
#NeNa2025 #Heidelberg #Tuebingen #Neuroscience #PhD
August 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
🧠 Last week to sign up for NeNa 2025 in Heidelberg!
The registration covers transport from Tübingen, accommodations, and all meals. Sign up here: nenaconference.github.io
We look forward to meeting you in October!
#NeNa2025 #Heidelberg #Tuebingen #Neuroscience #PhD
The registration covers transport from Tübingen, accommodations, and all meals. Sign up here: nenaconference.github.io
We look forward to meeting you in October!
#NeNa2025 #Heidelberg #Tuebingen #Neuroscience #PhD
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🧠 Let’s talk brains at NeNa 2025 in Heidelberg!
Registration includes transport from Tübingen, accommodation, and meals. Don’t miss out: nenaconference.github.io
#NeNa2025 #Tübingen #Neuroscience #Heidelberg
Registration includes transport from Tübingen, accommodation, and meals. Don’t miss out: nenaconference.github.io
#NeNa2025 #Tübingen #Neuroscience #Heidelberg
August 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
🧠 Let’s talk brains at NeNa 2025 in Heidelberg!
Registration includes transport from Tübingen, accommodation, and meals. Don’t miss out: nenaconference.github.io
#NeNa2025 #Tübingen #Neuroscience #Heidelberg
Registration includes transport from Tübingen, accommodation, and meals. Don’t miss out: nenaconference.github.io
#NeNa2025 #Tübingen #Neuroscience #Heidelberg
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🔵 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2025 is here! 🔵
#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠
Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/
#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠
Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/
July 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
🔵 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2025 is here! 🔵
#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠
Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/
#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠
Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/
Loved the science, loved the illustrations!
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
July 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Loved the science, loved the illustrations!
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@natrevneuro.nature.com just published a beautiful cover for the issue that includes the recent review on analogies in the visual system of vertebrates and invertebrates (@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social). Read it here doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Science and Art, what could be better?
Science and Art, what could be better?
July 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
@natrevneuro.nature.com just published a beautiful cover for the issue that includes the recent review on analogies in the visual system of vertebrates and invertebrates (@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social). Read it here doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Science and Art, what could be better?
Science and Art, what could be better?
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🚨 NeNa 2025 registrations are OPEN! Don’t miss your spot — sign up now: nenaconference.github.io
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Thank you for our sponsors: @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social, @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social, @mpicybernetics.bsky.social, and Centre for Integrative Neuroscience
#NeNa2025 #Heidelberg
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Thank you for our sponsors: @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social, @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social, @mpicybernetics.bsky.social, and Centre for Integrative Neuroscience
#NeNa2025 #Heidelberg
July 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🚨 NeNa 2025 registrations are OPEN! Don’t miss your spot — sign up now: nenaconference.github.io
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Thank you for our sponsors: @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social, @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social, @mpicybernetics.bsky.social, and Centre for Integrative Neuroscience
#NeNa2025 #Heidelberg
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Thank you for our sponsors: @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social, @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social, @mpicybernetics.bsky.social, and Centre for Integrative Neuroscience
#NeNa2025 #Heidelberg
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What does it mean when I read IRL as inverse reinforcement learning instead of in real life?
July 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
What does it mean when I read IRL as inverse reinforcement learning instead of in real life?
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How does the brain sample the #visual environment in space and time? @iraposo.bsky.social &co show that two distinct temporal patterns (rhythmic oscillations & aperiodic timescales) predict attention-guided behavior @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ThTKVy
July 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
How does the brain sample the #visual environment in space and time? @iraposo.bsky.social &co show that two distinct temporal patterns (rhythmic oscillations & aperiodic timescales) predict attention-guided behavior @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ThTKVy
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Right now, *at this very moment* in Los Angeles, armed, masked federal agents are demanding passports from people with brown skin and kidnapping them off of the street when they fail to produce one. The victims are being collected at Dodger Stadium, parking lot E.
This is happening, right now.
This is happening, right now.
June 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Right now, *at this very moment* in Los Angeles, armed, masked federal agents are demanding passports from people with brown skin and kidnapping them off of the street when they fail to produce one. The victims are being collected at Dodger Stadium, parking lot E.
This is happening, right now.
This is happening, right now.
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New poster for the local pre- #cogsci2025 workshop I am organizing at @unituebingen.bsky.social with generous support from @ml4science.bsky.social Please share widely! Accepted Cogsci papers are not required to present a talk/poster! Also feel free to just come and checkout some cool research!
June 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
New poster for the local pre- #cogsci2025 workshop I am organizing at @unituebingen.bsky.social with generous support from @ml4science.bsky.social Please share widely! Accepted Cogsci papers are not required to present a talk/poster! Also feel free to just come and checkout some cool research!
Reposted by Gabriela Iwama
In these tumultuous times, still happy to report a scientific achievement: our preprint on affordance perception was just published in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Using behavior, fMRI and deep network analyses, we report two key findings. To recapitulate (preprint 🧵lost on other place):
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Using behavior, fMRI and deep network analyses, we report two key findings. To recapitulate (preprint 🧵lost on other place):
Representation of locomotive action affordances in human behavior, brains, and deep neural networks | PNAS
To decide how to move around the world, we must determine which locomotive actions
(e.g., walking, swimming, or climbing) are afforded by the immed...
www.pnas.org
June 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
In these tumultuous times, still happy to report a scientific achievement: our preprint on affordance perception was just published in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Using behavior, fMRI and deep network analyses, we report two key findings. To recapitulate (preprint 🧵lost on other place):
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Using behavior, fMRI and deep network analyses, we report two key findings. To recapitulate (preprint 🧵lost on other place):
Reposted by Gabriela Iwama
🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀
I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales
👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....
I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales
👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....
June 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀
I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales
👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....
I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales
👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....
Reposted by Gabriela Iwama
We are bringing together neuroscience, reinforcement learning, and decision making at @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025 #NeuroAI #DecisionMaking
Excited to share our upcoming workshop on neuroscience, reinforcement learning, and decision making at RLDM 2025 in Dublin, Ireland — June 11–14!
Check out the terrific speaker lineup:
🔗 sites.google.com/view/neurorl...
Co-organized with @angelaradulescu.bsky.social
@rldmdublin2025.bsky.social
Check out the terrific speaker lineup:
🔗 sites.google.com/view/neurorl...
Co-organized with @angelaradulescu.bsky.social
@rldmdublin2025.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
We are bringing together neuroscience, reinforcement learning, and decision making at @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025 #NeuroAI #DecisionMaking