🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.

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generating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...

Longitudinal measures of monkey brain structure and activity through adolescence predict cognitive maturation @cconstan.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

auditory tau-rhythm with a cool waveform, oscillating at 10 Hz, recorded with intracranial electrodes. 🧠〰️🙂

The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

Ok Mamdani won. Can we now reopen the government, please?

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

A sad day for Neuroscience in the Netherlands.

New paper from the lab: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A brief thread (1/10)

The brain is the stupidest object in the universe. Every misunderstanding and bad idea in history came from a brain. Before brains, no one was wrong about anything.

"Alberto Martín-Martín says that he is sympathetic to the aims of GScholarLens. But he is not sure that the tool achieves its goal [...]. Simply assigning different weights to study authors isn’t enough to capture the nuances of their contributions". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Senior Lecturer Position in Computational Neuroscience at Vanderbilt. Please disseminate. apply.interfolio.com/173997

Are you looking to do independent research related to machine learning and/or data science? Want to get some teaching experience too? Apply to be a faculty fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University! Positions are for two years. apply.interfolio.com/174686

Vanderbilt is not rejecting the Compact on higher education.

Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com @qedscience.bsky.social

Pine plantations burn more severely & recover more slowly than other vegetation types. This is observed using the forest map (L) or the forest inventory (R), Spain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/10/16/p... 🧪🌎🔥🍁🌳🔥 wildfire @jappliedecology.bsky.social

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Study section would have wrapped up this week. No idea when it will restart after the government shutdown.

Faculty colleagues, please let your students know about our PhD program in Developmental and Brain Sciences at UMass Boston! Online info session coming up on 10/22 at 4.30 pm. Applications are due 12/1/25 www.umb.edu/academics/pr... #devpsych #devsky #AcademicSky

Precision Neuroscience published their high-density ECoG in Nature Biomed. Eng. The startup shows a 1,024-channel grid implanted through a cortical slit in pigs, and intraoperative neural recordings and stimulation in five humans at sub-mm resolution. #neuroskyence @precisionneuro.bsky.social

US government shutdown

In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular: The joy. One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...

is anyone working on cortical waves (traveling, rotational, etc) looking for a faculty position? we'll soon be hiring in Korea, at our center where multiple labs (ephys, optical imaging, human neuroimaging) are interested in collaborating w/ theoreticians pls DM/email for informal inquiries 🧠📈 🧠💻

Poorly conceived, vaguely worded, abruptly imposed. There is going to be a total mess in the landscape of H1 visa holders, including foreign postdocs and professors in the US.

Open positions in Vanderbilt BME!

Five year outcomes for Vercise deep brain stimulation (DBS) in Parkinson's disease are in, and they look very good. Specific features: independent control of each contact, rechargeable batteries, directional leads to steer current and MRI compatibility. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

I wouldn't really call this good news, but better than the alternative of NIH not spending its appropriated budget

New (methods) preprint from the lab! NERV: A Comprehensive Framework for Rapid, Reproducible, and Hardware-Synchronized Neuroscience Experiment Design and Execution (1/10) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Need to control visual similarity in your experiments? A new open database by Robbins and colleagues @michaelhout.bsky.social @haywardgodwin.bsky.social, published in #psynomBRM, maps similarity among 1,200 objects in 20 categories using MDS—validated & ready to use.

Very timely and insightful OpEd by Prof. Cory Miller on WSJ. It lays out an important point - Advanced AI cannot be developed in a vacuum without understanding the sophisticated machines we have in our brains. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

I had never heard of Niche before. But if it ranks Vanderbilt in the top 10 universities in the US, it must be legit. www.niche.com/colleges/sea...

Public service announcement: Turn off generative AI features in Adobe Acrobat helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/usin...

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?”

Very true

NIH extramural funds dispensed through June this year lag last year's tally by $5b and growing www.aamc.org/about-us/mis...

Any thoughts on journals that publish reviews in neuroscience that don't cost 4K?

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

Suspension of all grants to UCLA www.latimes.com/california/s...

Christos lab, summer 2025 edition. Wonderful group to work with.

I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)? Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? [email protected]

But, importantly, it concludes with While traditional animal models continue to be important to advancing scientific knowledge, NIH recognizes that prioritizing new and emerging human-based technologies can offer unique strengths... 2/3

1. NIH won't review proposals "substantially developed" by AI 2. Max of 6 submissions/year as PI

This person is my hero: "however, there is evidence that the use of AI tools has enabled Principal Investigators to submit more than 40 distinct applications in a single application submission round" grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

A discussion of the use of animals in research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvk... 1/n (Warning: Rant coming)

The NIH grant funding mechanism is a total mess right now

If all new R grants are converted to RF1's, then NIH will fund one fifth as many groups from the pool of pending grants... Making the payline something like 2-3%.

NIH must spend their appropriation or they will violate the Impoundment Control Act and get criticized broadly by Congress and others. I have some data that NIH will be converting the vast majority of grants from one year awards with noncomp renewals to five year awards. 1/

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