Mateusz Kostecki

Postdoc at Jekely Lab, Heidelberg Uni |
Running Nencki Open Lab project |
All opinions are someone else's

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We are happy to announce the first workshop in our new series: Back to Basics!

The goal of this series is to take a fresh look at the basic assumptions held in our field.

In the first workshop, we will ask the most fundamental question: What is a neuron?

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On this graph we also see that animals spend less time close to bright shapes less when "Kikki" goes on repeat from a speaker, suggesting that this sound indeed is for some reason stressful for them. Mystery solved? Or am I missing something?

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Am I right that this paper just shows that 1) chicks have a basic preference for round shapes, 2) this preference disappears when a stress-evoking sound is being played in the background?

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Here we can see that this "innate" preference is visible when sound "Bubba" is playing in the background, but disappears when the sound is "Kikki".

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There is just one week left to apply!

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Especially as a page before we learn that in fact there were actually people who strongly opposed those idiotism back in the day as well.

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What irritates me a lot in Cobbs' biography of Crick is that every time any appaling views of him are mentioned, we are spoon-fed an assurance that it was TYPICAL OF THE ERA, this paragraph being probably the most absurd case.

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Join us on the first edition of our Walking Book Club in Heidelberg! We meet on Saturday, Jan 31st at 11 AM to talk about The Party, a book by Tessa Hadley, @ powerful story about attention, power and sisterhood!

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The deadline for registration is tomorrow!

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Unbelievable. The Holocaust museum LA *apologized* for sharing a general anti-genocide post, because it might be “misinterpreted” to include Palestinians.

Palestinians are so dehumanized that they’re excluded from “never again,” apparently their genocide is the exception.

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@michalys @grok @piersmorgan Darling, you are not showing any data. Look at official Israeli data https://t.co/KhQBXlMCUj, you will see how much food entered Gaza in last three months : )

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@michalys @grok @piersmorgan It feels like talking to a high school boy. No, Hamas is of course a terrorist organisation responsible for horrible things, and at the same time Israeli war crimes have no justification. You don't starve children, period. It is amazing how nationalism blinds people.

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@michalys @grok @piersmorgan It is amazing how your mind is unable to accept the truth. Israel is committing war crimes on a large scale, come to terms with that and do something about it; anything less makes you complicit.

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The deadline is today!

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Why is behaviour so variable? How can we interpret our chaotic results, and what do they tell us about the function of the brain?
Join us in Buenos Aires on Aug 9th to discuss the complexity, context-dependence, and robustness of behaviour on our Workshop of Ideas!

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

.@WHO’s staff residence in Deir al Balah, #Gaza, was attacked three times today as well as its main warehouse.

Israeli military entered the premises, forcing women and children to evacuate on foot toward Al-Mawasi amid active conflict. Male staff and family members were handcuffed, stripped, interrogated on the spot and screened at gunpoint.

Two WHO staff and two family members were detained. Three were later released, while one staff remains in detention.

32 WHO staff and family members were evacuated to the WHO office once access became possible.

WHO demands the immediate release of the detained staff and protection of all its staff.

The latest evacuation order in Deir al Balah has affected several WHO premises, compromising our ability to operate in Gaza and pushing the health system further towards collapse.

WHO’s main warehouse located in Deir al Balah is within the evacuation zone, and was damaged yesterday when an attack caused explosions and a fire inside.

With the main warehouse nonfunctional and the majority of medical supplies in Gaza depleted, WHO is severely constrained in adequately supporting hospitals, emergency medical teams and health partners, already critically short on medicines, fuel, and equipment.

WHO urgently calls on Member States to help ensure a sustained and regular flow of medical supplies into Gaza.

As the lead agency for health, compromising WHO’s operations is crippling the entire health response in Gaza.

A ceasefire is not just necessary, it is overdue.

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We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.

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Oh, I have been to so many of those lectures.

(To Rest Our Minds and Bodies by Harriet Armstrong).

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These are us and our deeds.

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And this is our organizational team - @Matildede_, Klara Finta, @l_petrucco, @mtkostecki, Anna Chrzanowska and @_NataliaKras!