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This is absolutely crazy. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

New preprint from the lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Discovering macroscale functional organization on the structure of brain-like recurrent neural networks

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training. I found this document to be a really useful starting point: code.claude.com/docs/en/best... My wife's company has started training their employees in these methods, and I am going to get my lab trainingas well. If anyone knows of any good resources, please post them! 8/8

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Aurora over Swedish Forest apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap22032...

👇New biosketch requirement update. “After evaluating the number and types of recent technical inquiries we received to both the SciENcv and eRA Service Desks, we recognize the difficulties these issues have had on the community’s ability to comply with the original timeline of January 25, 2026.” 👇

Congress toyed with the idea of explicitly prohibiting multi-year funding of NIH grants - which severely cut down the number of awards last year - but in the end, it didn't go through. Expect paylines to be only moderately better this year. www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/n...

NIH receives a 0.9% increase in the appropriation bill the House and Senate voted that now awaits the President's signature. Below inflation - but better than the 40% decrease the President's budget requested. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

I've been on the internet since the 90s and this remains one of the very best things I've encountered here. Thanks @mastroianni.bsky.social for all your writing but especially this, you beautiful bouncing baby bog boy. "So you wanna de-bog yourself" www.experimental-history.com/p/so-you-wan...

It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:

Repeatable, low-drift recordings in behaving non-human primates using flexible microelectrodes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper from the lab: "Asynchronous firing and off states in working memory maintenance" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

made a trip to Cerebral Brewing which has perhaps the best named beer for a neuroscientist #neuroskyence

🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine

Some funding good news for a change (from AAAS policy alert) The House and Senate released a final version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Of importance to the research community, the bill prohibits the DOD from imposing a 15% cap on indirect costs to institutions of higher education.

For you NIH folks, two interesting announcements. 1) no more LOIs. 2) No more needing permission to apply with a budget of over $500K per year. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Thoughtful review with some good recent historical perspective on the ongoing paradigm shift that is radically changing the way we think about what brain areas do. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

new paper in TICS officially out today. great learning from and writing with Anastasia, and super cool cover art from Prof. Pinar Yoldas. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Our new paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com How do large-scale brain networks route information about where/what to attend at fast timescales? High-frequency bursts facilitate fast communication for human spatial attention www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bluesky running neck and neck with truth social www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

Very sad analysis of the science funding situation in the US right now www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NIH shake-up to grant decision-making draws concerns of political meddling | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto. I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.

October and November NIH grant submission deadlines will be extended. Study sections scheduled between October 1 and November 14 have been cancelled and will be rescheduled. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I got a similar message. My study section is being rescheduled for 2 partial days in January. Only 1/3 of grants will be discussed.

Is there a competition going on about who is going to screw science the most?

Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao. #neuroskyence bit.ly/47MXYLH

A very nice summary of our article medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...

🚨🧠🚨 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.