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Professor Jeffrey Erlich (jerlich) features on the Scientific Sense podcast this week, in conversation with @GillEapen They discuss decision-making, consciousness, spatial cognition, AI and more. 🎧 Listen at: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pro…

Check out this article in The Conversation, on Mohamady El-Gaby & Tim Behrens’s (University of Oxford & SWC) work revealing how cells form a map of our behavioural structures, enabling us to solve new problems. ⬇️ theconversation.com/how-we-discove…

Final tickets remaining! Join us for a film screening and panel discussion of Headway East London’s The Magic of Chaos, a short documentary about brain injury, community, and new identities. 📅 13 May, 6pm 📍 SWC, London 🎟️ Register eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-screeni…

As part of the SWC Seminar Series, Dr Dominic Evans (Max Planck Society Institute for Brain Research) discusses his work on the cephalopod optic lobe and its role in vision-guided camouflage. sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/cuttlef…

Join us in person or online tomorrow, 15 May, for the next SWC Seminar. With Dr Richard Mooney (Duke University School of Medicine) ‘A synaptic account of birdsong learning’ Register: sainsburywellcome.org/web/events/swc…

🎉Thrilled that the lab’s first paper is out today in nature! Credit to the amazing Francesca Greenstreet, Hernando Martinez and Yvonne Johansson. Thank you to everyone involved in this massive effort! nature.com/articles/s4158…

‘Why Do We Keep Doing Things That Don’t Feel Rewarding?’ New SWC research features in Technology Networks technologynetworks.com/tn/news/why-do…

Listen to M Stephenson-Jones on The Standard's Tech and Science Daily podcast, with rachelle abbott 🎧 He discusses work from his lab, which has uncovered a second learning system in the brain that could help explain how our habits are formed. shows.acast.com/tech-science-d…

We had great fun visiting William Perkin School recently, as part of their annual Founders Day. We explored brain lateralization and hemisphere co-ordination with year 8 students. Find out more about our public engagement activities ⤵️ sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/pu…

Our May newsletter features a roundup of recent SWC research, blogs and events. Including: uncovering a new way the brain learns, upcoming talks, and Q&As on the secrets of smell and camouflage. ⤵️ mailchi.mp/ucl/swc-newsle…

Creativity, neoteny and synaptic density may be what makes us human. In our latest interview, SWC Seminar speaker Dr. Franck Polleux (@zuckermanbrain) traces our cognitive uniqueness from cave art to cortical circuits. Read more: sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/what-ma…

#OnThisDay 2016, the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre officially opened its doors, with the mission to discover how the brain drives behaviour. Warm wishes to all our staff, students, and collaborators from the past 9 years! 🎉 Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit UCL Faculty of Life Sciences Wellcome

We’re delighted to support SWC Research Fellow Svenja Nierwetberg as an ABSW Media Fellow 2025! She’ll spend time working at a UK media organisation this summer, exploring how science stories are shaped and shared. Read more: absw.org.uk/articles/class…

Join us for the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Week at SWC this summer! This event will bring together researchers, developers and users of open-source software for some hands-on training, community-building and hacking. Find out more and apply: neuroinformatics.dev/open-software-…