Zurna Ahmed 🏳️‍🌈

Do you want to learn more about when, why, and how we are curious? Ask our PhDs at the Night of Science!
#ndwgoe
@uni-goettingen.de @ndw-goe.bsky.social

Get to know our PhDs and research projects during #NightofScience at @uni-goettingen.de on June 21st.
You will find us at at Central Lecture Hall Building (ZHG), upper foyer.
We have a lot of knowledge for curious little explorers (more advanced ones are welcome too)!

First Generation Academics. Wie das Elternhaus Karrierewege junger Wissenschaftler*innen beeinflusst YouTube video by Göttingen Cognition & Behavior Research

🎓 Was bedeutet es, als Erste*r in der Familie den Weg in die Wissenschaft zu gehen?

Unsere Podiumsdiskussion „First Generation Academics“ vom 12.3.2025 zeigt, mit welchen Hürden viele im Uni-Alltag kämpfen und wie man zwischen zwei Welten lebt.

Jetzt online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOtp...

How Do We Learn Language?

Ever wonder how babies learn language? We've got answers! Join us for a fascinating chat with Prof. Nivedita Mani @nivimani.bsky.social from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, as we uncover the secrets of infant language acquisition.

🔗 youtu.be/M57a0VelgY8

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨

A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore:

🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques)
💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making
🤝 Spontaneous social behavior

⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️

Had the honor to be invited as a discussant to the panel “First Generation Academics”. Extremely happy we are starting to talk about invisible hurdles and challenges, most of which don’t need to be one if there would be more transparency.
Excited to see things changing in the right direction.

Es diskutieren (1/2):
Zurna Ahmed (@zurna.bsky.social), Postdoc @unigoettingen.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social

Ann-Kristin Kolwes, Erste Generation Promotion Mentoring +“,Universität zu Köln

Britta Korkowsky, ehemalige Mitarbeiterin „Brückenschlag für Promovierende“, Uni Göttingen

Am 12.3. schließen wir unsere Podiumsdiskussionsreihe "Interaktion neu Denken" mit einer Veranstaltung zum Thema First Generation Academics. Wir wollen darüber sprechen, wieso das Elternhaus wissenschaftliche Karrierewege beeinflusst.

Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen - Eintritt frei

Sensorimotor environment but not task rule reconfigures population dynamics in rhesus monkey posterior parietal cortex - Nature Communications Context-dependent mapping of sensory input onto motor output is key for goal-directed behavior. Here, the authors show that the brain achieves this mapping with or without reconfiguring parietal senso...

Hello BlueSky! Happy to share our latest work by Hao Guo, Shengbing Kuang, and Alexander Gail published today in @naturecomms.bsky.social:
"Sensorimotor environment but not task rule reconfigures population dynamics in rhesus monkey posterior parietal cortex" 1/3 s.gwdg.de/cn7VpU

An exciting retreat at the historic observatory lies behind us. Three days of scientific discussions and talks. Special thanks to our friends Elad Schneidman and Noam Dotam, for making the journey from Israel to Göttingen even in these difficult times. It was good to have you with us!

Es war ein spannendes Wochenende auf der Ideenexpo
in Hannover. Vielen Danke den vielen Kolleginnen und Kollegen von @primatecognition.bsky.social, DPZ und Uni Göttingen und vor allem den vielen Besucherinnen und Besuchern für die spannenden Gespräche und interessierten Fragen.

Und als Weltpremiere gibt es auch noch das neue Modell unseres Exploration Rooms

Wir präsentieren unsere Interaktion plattform, an der Ihr Euch auch selbst ausprobieren könnt.

Position- and scale-invariant object-centered spatial localization in monkey frontoparietal cortex dynamically adapts to cognitive demand - Nature Communications The neural basis of spatial localization is poorly understood. Here the authors showed that when planning a reach towards an object, neural coding in the frontoparietal network dynamically changes bet...

Ready for the weekend but you don't know yet what to do? We have two recommendations today.
If you like to read, here is a new SFB study from the lab of Alexander Gail on the neural coding of positions in space, out now in #Nature_Communications:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This amazing panel will be kicking off the NCM meeting today organized by our very own @irenelacal.bsky.social (who happens to be one of the NCM award winners as well) 😍. Very excited!

Photo of cherry blossom with a logo of Society for Social Neuroscience. A banner reads "Watch out for: Poster Session 2, board #6 Change in the foraging strategies in freely moving rhesus monkey dyads"

Tomorrow, I'm presenting my poster at #S4SN2024 by @s4sn.bsky.social

If everything goes well, I'll be showing a video of freely moving monkeys foraging together.

Special thanks to @zurna.bsky.social and I. Lacal for this collaboration opportunity!