Darinka Truebutschek

Just started migration to the blue side. If you are also already there, come find me under "darinkat" or drop your handle here, so we can reconnect :)

Thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded an ERC grant #ERCCoG to work on disentangling memory and prediction. I’m super grateful to my lab members, collaborators, and mentors! If you’re looking for a PhD/postdoc position, stay tuned! @ERC_Research @MaastrichtU @maastricht_fpn

@auksz @ERC_Research @MaastrichtU @maastricht_fpn So very well deserved! Excited for the years to come!

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht…

Dutch word of the day: De knuddel - I love it.

I would have loved to have done a PhD with Rosanne. This is an amazing opportunity!

This important lecture provides a clear and compelling analysis - based on several truly depressing cases. Deserves to be watched and shared. We can and must do better. #t=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">media.ccc.de/v/eh22-84-the-…

youtube.com/watch?v=n5nEd6… Important topic

Bundesforschungsminister @cem_oezdemir hat eine klare Empfehlung an eine zukünftige deutsche Regierung. Denn das BMBF ist ein #Zukunftsministerium. #Koalitionsverhandlungen #KI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Quantenforschung #Supercomputing #Zukunftstechnologien #Forschungspolitik

This World View by Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela discusses from a personal perspective the challenges of being an academic and a mother, pointing out ways in which academia can become more family-friendly. nature.com/articles/s4156…

At 9 a.m. on the 22nd January 2024 my phone rang. We were told that the masses they had found the previous day were unequivocally cancer. It was the call no-one ever wants to receive. Liz was admitted to LGI that evening. At this time a year ago, she was sat on the floor next to her hospital bed, unable to process what was happening. She was just 16 and her world had fallen apart. As I tried to be positive and tell us all that 90% of teenagers with cancer survive. I had no idea that the worst was yet to come. Liz survived just 10 months. She died aged just 17. She was diagnosed with Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumour - a rare and aggressive sarcoma with only a 15% five year survival rate. Too rare for pharmaceutical companies to invest in research for, with no central source of information, we and her doctors hunted for a needle in a haystack trying to save her. We lost Liz eight weeks ago, our hearts are broken but our fight has just begun. We have started ‘The Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumour Charity’ - more research could have saved Liz, we can’t stand by and watch that happen to others. We will be the only charity in the world solely dedicated to supporting families and funding research into DSRCT, but we need your help. If you can please donate - small amounts add up, it doesn’t need to be a lot. If you can’t please tell others about Liz’s story or think about fundraising for us. It is not ok that in 2025 teenagers are dying from cancers that have not been researched due to a lack of funding. We can’t save Liz, our hearts will always be broken, but with your help we can change the future for others: justgiving.com/crowdfunding/v… You can find more information about Liz’s story and see the incredible photographs she took on her instagram @lizhatton_photography If you like her photographs, 12 are currently up for auction to raise funds for research. Hers start at lot 235. Why not take a look? easyliveauction.com/catalogue/c811… Liz worshipped her little brother Mateo and he worshipped her. Please, if you can, help other siblings have longer together.

More evidence that working memory is not persistent activity. Instead, it is dynamic on/off states with short-term synaptic plasticity. Intermittent rate coding and cue-specific ensembles support working memory nature.com/articles/s4158… #neuroscience

Go apply to work with Paul. I would in a heartbeat ...

This is one not to miss. Still time to sign up for today's session.

We grieve the passing of Dr. Yves Frégnac. Yves has shaped the study of cortical processing and plasticity. He heralded interdisciplinarity and was one of the founding fathers of our institute. Our thoughts go to his family and to his friends in the community and beyond. pic.twitter.com/BGE4QGcg8g

New priprint! When I started my PhD (ages ago), I ran what I thought was a pilot for several iconic memory experiments down the line. This was interesting because iconic memory is (allegedly) linked to rich perceptual experience, and so I had many questions. 1/🧵

I'm leaving @ESI_Frankfurt. I’ll miss the huge group of kind smart hardworking 95% who make it so promising. But relieved to leave the handful of people whose behavior does not meet minimal standards of morality. In admin & senior science, a few truly *appalling* people. 🧵 soon.

Does encoding the present compete with predicting the future? In 3 behavioral studies, we find that encoding and prediction are coupled, not competitive! Proud of @CraigPoskanzer & @hannahtstoll for leading this work w/ Raheema Javid & Edoardo Spolaore! osf.io/preprints/psya…

It’s time to work WITH memory! New work from our lab is out: Extra temporary subspace is necessary for information exchange or asynchronous programming. Mental programming of spatial sequences in working memory in the macaque frontal cortex | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Mark your 📆! On Sept. 30, 6 p.m. CET, our #GrowingUpinAcademia-series will feature Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, #ResearchDirector at @CNRS and @NeuroSpin_91. Sign up for the online talk to learn about her journey in #academia: ae.mpg.de/growingup @maxplanckcareer @ArcCogitate