The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏 www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer

New preprint out 🎉 What happens to the hippocampal “place code” when an animal is actively engaged in a task? The answer surprised us (and might surprise you too!). Let's dive in ⬇️ Link: "Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Super useful and interesting read on generalization, memory and overfitting, highly recommended!

A simple method to mitigate catastrophic forgetting of academic author names

Publicly wondering if your product might be conscious is good hype @anthropic.com, but poor science. Consciousness attribution should integrate prior expectations with public/shareable facts, not by computational equivalence alone or anecdotes. If that makes us "vulgar behaviorists", we are proud.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date): academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868 An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

The massive surge in #MSCA applications (+60% over last year) is great, but combined with slightly lower funding it has led to a real bloodbath this funding cycle. Hope all the incredibly talented postdocs who didn't get funded this time stay strong.

Google Scholar should have a first and last author filter for profiles so I can stop playing detective looking for that paper from XXX et al.

How the brain's 'memory replay' goes wrong in Alzheimer's disease @ucl press release on @caswell.bsky.social lab new study: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ja...

𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 Giovanni Pezzulo et al introduce hierarchical model of goal attainment in PFC. Looks very impressive. #neuroskyence arxiv.org/abs/2601.189...

Check out the latest from Sam HallMcMaster on the role of entorhinal cortex in factorizing representations and generalization

CCN is wonderful, highly recommended!

🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open! CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.

‪Voxelwise Encoding Models (VEMs) are a great framework for modeling fMRI data, but it can be difficult to implement. We've made VEM accessible by providing software, tutorials and reviews that guide its use an implementation. Get it here: gallantlab.org/blog/2025-12... #neuroscience, #neuroimaging

Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

How do we achieve few-shot generalization? New work led by @fabianrenz.bsky.social dives into the role of replay in learning and using structure to generalize reward. Dream team effort with Shany Grossman @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Peter Dayan & @doellerlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026. 2026.ccneuro.org

Very happy to see this out now in Psychology of Sport & Exercise 🤓 If you’re interested in how the explore–exploit framework helps us study decision-making in sports and exercise, check it out! w/ @nicoschuck.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

👏 Congratulations to @uni-hamburg.de for being rated Germanys most sustainable university. Glad to see that UHH has been committed to lead by example in this important area over the past years. www.uni-hamburg.de/en/newsroom/...

One week left to apply to the Max Planck School of Cognition! I have worked with several grad students from the programme and it's an impressive group of people. Deadline Dec 1st.

🚀 We are hiring! 🚀 🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.

Registration is open. Please spread the word. The preliminary schedule will be up on the site later this month, and we've got an amazing line up!

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Our paper on CSF, BOLD, pupil, and physiological measures in sleep deprivation and recovery sleep is finally out! 🎉 Congrats Zinong! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

great job by @luiantaverra.bsky.social and @fabianrenz.bsky.social writing up this overview of methods and issues in measuring brain plasticity non-invasively in humans!

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

great idea! hope this will spawn some insights and analysis innovations and wish I had the time to take part. but a big bottleneck for the lack of generalizability is still that we are using the wrong localizer tasks. hard to know in MEG whether any signal is non-sensory with such localizers.

Scientists themselves determine what is valued within science. Yet we act as if beholden to external managers, bean-counters who confuse the production of papers with scientific progress. We don't have to find better ways to navigate the prison of metrics-driven scientific assessment.

🚨Job Alert🚨 2 unbefristete Stellen (je 75%, E13) bei uns am Institut für Bewegungswissenschaften - Fokus: Insb. Sozialwissenschaften des Sports/Sportsoziologie & qualitative Methoden Über Verbreitung freue ich mich sehr, Rückfragen gern per DM an mich 🙏 👉 www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

Here is a chance for international undergraduates to come to Hamburg and work with the amazing @elbersgerd.bsky.social

Check out Hashim’s intriguing studies that fail to find correlations between internalizing symptoms and adaptive learning rates when learning under uncertainty.

Excited to announce that this is now out in eLife as a reviewed preprint 🚀 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Huge thanks to the eLife editors, reviewers and our fantastic collaborators: Katharina Wille, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, Matt Nassar, Radoslaw Cichy, Peter Dayan and @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social

The official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online! Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up. pug2026.org @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social

📰 Mit Anne Paulsen von @spiegel.de habe ich über unser @dhprlab.bsky.social, unsere verschiedenen Messmethoden & insbesondere unsere aktuelle #Forschung zu #Langeweile im #Sport gesprochen. Vielleicht sind ja ein paar hilfreiche Tipps dabei 😁 ⬇️ www.spiegel.de/fitness/fitn...

Ein Hinweis für Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger: Am Sonntag ist #Zukunftsentscheid. Die Universität Hamburg weist darauf hin, dass die Erhitzung der Erde schon bis 2050 drei Grad über der vorindustriellen Zeit landen könnte. Ein heute fünfjähriges Kind wird dann 30 Jahre alt.

I am gonna take the option where I get more time to read, understand and write. maybe that AI can go to committee meetings for me?

Great PhD opportunity with a dream team!

Ondrej is a great scientist and mentor - I highly recommend working with him! Truly proud that Ondrej is the first faculty to come from our lab.

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896 I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

New application cycle for graduate students open at the Max Planck School of Cognition, offering fully funded positions, a well structured training programme and lab rotations.

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬: 🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0 🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

I want to do a session on principles of designing scientific figures with my lab. Any recommendation for good online material? #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

👇 #SleepPeeps Please repost to help me spread the word on this study. This is a very big commitment compared to most "online" studies... but I know there are some good participants out there on the interweb who what to help! 🙂👇

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans. Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social #compneuro #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’m recruiting committee members for the Technical Program Committee at #CCN2026. Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐 Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.

Not Yet AlphaFold for the Mind: Evaluating Centaur as a Synthetic Participant arxiv.org/abs/2508.078...

Sad to miss #CCN2025! If you want to hear about we have been up to come check out lab posters generalisation replay @fabianrenz.bsky.social deep credit assignment through gradient descent @ShanyGrossman rewards morphing space @nirmoneta.bsky.social RL gone rouge @elbersgerd.bsky.social