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

Hi, we will have three NeuroAI postdoc openings (3 years each, fully funded) to work with Sebastian Musslick (@musslick.bsky.social), Pascal Nieters and myself on task-switching, replay, and visual information routing. Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!

Our new paper is out! When navigating through an environment, how do we combine our general sense of direction with known landmark states? To explore this, @denislan.bsky.social used a task that allowed subjects (or neural networks) to choose either their next action or next state at each step.

Some similarities matter, others don’t—a great Labatut book with a yellow cover means books by Labatut are good, not yellow books are good. Factorized representations support such selective generalization. Check out our study on select. gen. by Sam HallMcMaster in collab with @gershbrain.bsky.social

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

People keep citing “move 37” as proof of deep learning creativity. Are there other examples? Or is this just one compelling anecdote that distorts perception? Honest question, although I’ve yet to personally experience LLMs do anything that is even remotely similar.

For any postdocs who are are looking to transition to independence and might be keen to join us here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social, King's Prize fellowship applications are open (deadline 27 Nov) 👇 See link for details, and feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/119505-...

This is great! I just taught a course for psych students in which we covered transformers and it was difficult to find accessible material about transformers. Bonus points for not focussing on key / query / value vectors, which confuse most people w/o tech background. Thanks for writing it!

JOB ALERT 🚀 I am looking for a clinical psychologist to supervise my clinical team at uni hamburg. Please dm me if you have any questions and please share! Ich suche eine Forschungsambulanzleitung (E14, entfristet) an der Uni Hamburg. Job Ad: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

Are you at #CPconf2025 and interested in inference and generalization? @luiantaverra.bsky.social will present on aversive learning and avoidance, and how these are impacted by anxiety P1.67 I will present a poster on the role of internalizing psychopathology in contextual inference P1.72

🥳 Welcome Neele and may the force be with you !

Need an ultra-fast online tool to sketch something in the middle of your meeting or an idea that you have? Try Draw Draw Draw!: ozika.github.io/drawdrawdraw/ I often want to sketch something, but most sites want one to register, no time, just Draw Draw Draw!

Also note that Anika's been on a media spree sharing our research. Catch her for instance on BBC4 live tonight at 6:10pm, or listen in on this NPR podcast: www.npr.org/2025/06/27/1...

Super happy to see our latest work out in @plosbiology.org : N2 sleep during short naps increased the likelihood of insight in a decision task. The steepness of the spectral slope best predicted insight, beyond sleep stages alone. With dream team @maritpetzka.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social

That "Aha!" moment... Can sleep facilitate memory reorganization? @nicoschuck.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @maritpetzka.bsky.social &co reveal that N2 #sleep (but not N1) increases likelihood of having an 'aha' moment about a previous #DecisionMaking task @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k8F2v3

New research adds to a growing list of apparent cognitive benefits of napping. Experiments showed people who took short power naps were more likely to discover a simple but hidden solution to a problem they'd been working on.

Excited to share our latest work spearheaded by @anikaloewe.bsky.social & @maritpetzka.bsky.social. 20 min naps increased the chance to solve an insight task if sleep reached N2 stage; but the EEG spectral slope was the best predictor of insight dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... #compneuro #psychscisky

The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

What is on your mind when you are about to fall asleep? Help us unravel the diverse ways humans experience this mysterious transition! Please share your unique experiences by filling up this short online questionnaire: redcap.link/DriftingMinds

8/ Additionally, when re-using the sample simulation published in the TDLM methods paper, we found that replay was simulated with 2000 reactivations per minute! When simulating with more realistic 15 events per minute, even the sample code fails to reach significance.

preprint alert 🚨 1/ Can we accurately detect sequential replay in humans using Temporally Delayed Linear Modelling (#TDLM)? In our recent study, we could not find any replay and decided to dig deeper by running a hybrid simulation with surprising results. Link to preprint & details below 👇

I made this wonderful map of the brain with Sora that I think also solves the issue that the cerebellum is overlooked @actlab.bsky.social #RLDM2025

On my way to #RLDM2025 @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social and looking forward to amazing science and meeting friends and colleagues! Lab presentations start tonight with @noahedrich.bsky.social presenting a poster (68). I'll give a talk tmrw morning (rm. B102) followed by posters (85 & 90) on Friday.

Humans can apply solutions of past problems to new problems. @gershbrain.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social &co reveal the neural correlates of #generalization and show that humans apply past policies in a reward-sensitive manner that leads to high performance @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3SJPMof

One way to tackle a new task is to reuse solutions from the past. Check out Sam Hall-McMaster's latest finding that strategy reuse is accompanied by neural reactivation of prior solutions @plosbiology.org Collab w/ M Tomov & @gershbrain.bsky.social #neuroskyence journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Looking forward to NEUROCOG in Brussels!

NEUROCOG 2025 is taking place in Brussels Nov 17–18! The theme: AI and the Human Brain 🤖 🧠 We’re thrilled to welcome 6 amazing invited speakers: @evfedorenko.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @jeffreybowers.bsky.social, @irisgroen.bsky.social & @mtoneva.bsky.social

Looking forward to our workshop at RLDM!

Join us for a workshop featuring talks by this stellar group of speakers: @marcelomattar.bsky.social , Christina Maher, @alanajaskir.bsky.social , @actlab.bsky.social , @iancballard.bsky.social, Karyna Mishchanchuk, @nicoschuck.bsky.social

Excited to share our upcoming workshop on neuroscience, reinforcement learning, and decision making at RLDM 2025 in Dublin, Ireland — June 11–14! Check out the terrific speaker lineup: 🔗 sites.google.com/view/neurorl... Co-organized with @angelaradulescu.bsky.social @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social

A detailed schedule for CCN2025 is available on our website now, including the specific keynotes / GACs / community events taking place: 2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-... The early bird registration deadline is coming up this Friday (23rd May)!

Very important work by @hashimsat.bsky.social showing a lack of effects of trait anxiety/internalizing on learning rates in change point tasks.

Impressive study from Richard Morris's group: Hippocampal reactivation of planned trajectories is required for effective goal choice in an allocentric memory task #hippocampus #neuroskyence #navigation #memory #planning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/427...

🎉 First preprint from my PhD! #excited We suggest that sport & exercise psych should adopt formal decision models to study how high-stakes contexts and self-regulatory demands shape the explore-exploit trade-off. w/ @nicoschuck.bsky.social @wanjawolff.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Registrations for the Symposium for the Biology of decision making (SBDM) in Lyon 2025 are finally open! sbdm2025.github.io Please spread the message!

Surprised that it has been 2 hours and no one has suggested ChatGPT yet