Latest Past Events

Florian Engert (Harvard University), “Attentional Switching in Larval Zebrafish”

Decision making strategies in the face of conflicting or uncertain sensory input have been successfully described in many different species.  Here we analyze large behavioral datasets of larval zebrafish engaged in a ‘coherent dot’ optomotor assay. We find that animal performance is bimodal and can be separated into two ‘states’, an engaged state where performance

Winter School “Ethics of Neuroscience and AI” 2025

Campus Nord of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin at Ostertag-Haus, Philippstr.12, House 4 10115 Berlin

Science of Intelligence, the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience are happy to invite to the Berlin Winter School "Ethics of Neuroscience and AI" 2025. The Winter School is a five days conference which covers a broad field of topics from philosophical ethics to ethics of research and

Julten Abdelhalim, “Mastering Confident & Quick-Witted Communication in Academia” Workshop

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

In this one-hour workshop, a toolbox of best-practise techniques for confident communication skills will be presented. This will equip attendees with a repertoire of rhetorical tools to communicate confidently and quick-wittedly in stressful situations. Participants will learn strategies to handle challenging questions and optimise their performance during academic debates. Another aim is to tackle dealing