Let us know any way we can help, Staci! Congratulations and good luck!

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Coming to San Diego for SfN and/or APAN? Come check out the intracranial work from the lab (7 posters)! There's a bit of everything this year, so come say hello! #Sfn2025 #Neuroscience #neuroskyence @dukebrain.bsky.social @dukeneurosurgery.bsky.social @dukeengineering.bsky.social

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Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

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Dr. Allie Sinclair, a 2019 DIBS Germinator award winner! Co-advised by @ralisonadcock.bsky.social and Greg Samanez-Larkin at the time, soon to be Asst Prof at Rice. Proud to see it!

New work from Henry Yin and colleagues at Duke indicates we need to reconsider the role of VTA dopamine circuits in behavior! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New in Annual Review of Psychology from Alison Adcock and Jia-Hou Poh!

What a tour de force from the Silver lab!

I wrote a short commentary on Anil Seth's wonderful forthcoming paper in BBS. It is largely inspired by the work of Andy Clark, although some ideas I owe to Ned Block and Dan Dennett (probably not the same ideas!). I highly recommend Anil's paper to anyone interested in consciousness [1/2]

Congratulations Tom! It's great to see a teacher, mentor, and leader of the Duke Neuroscience major honored this way!

New op-ed by DIBS Associate Director Dr. Nicole Schramm-Sapyta on the important role of mental health care in crime prevention: www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...

Duke community: DIBS has announced revival of its seed grant programs with a round of Germinators! These are specifically for grad students and postdocs - they are the PIs of the awards - to propose 1-year, interdisciplinary research projects in the brain sciences. RFP: dibs.duke.edu/2025-germina...

To everyone interested in mental health: why not you?

New funding opportunity from the BRAIN Initiative! Applications due Oct 28! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Congrats to Debbie Silver @debbysilver.bsky.social for her keynote talk at the IBDM - Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille! @ibdm.bsky.social

Duke Cell Biology is hiring in AI/ML! @scottsoderling.bsky.social, @rohitsingh8080.bsky.social, and others are building a very active community around ML for discovery science, and Duke is a great place to be. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30509

Exciting work by PhD student Zac Spalding @zspald.bsky.social and multiple labs across departments at Duke! A combination of human electrophysiology, modeling/decoding, and cognitive concepts to improve BCI for speech in patients. 👏 🧠📈

Of potential interest. Gift link: archive.is/2025.08.20-2...

Duke researchers have uncovered a promising path to potentially treat a family of rare neurodegenerative disease called neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA). 🔗: https://mgm.duke.edu/news/fundamental-cell-molecule-could-help-fight-rare-brain-disorders #AcademicSky #MedSky

Sharing our newest study led by the incredibly talented @federicamosti.bsky.social investigating new molecular mechanisms of human brain development. We discover a human-specific enhancer HAR1984 that influences chromatin looping to promote cortical size and folding! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

This was a fun paper to write, and one that fits nicely with some recent work I've been doing on the role of counterfactual simulation in memory encoding. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to [email protected].

For early career researchers in our community - this is invaluable. Info here: public.csr.nih.gov/ForReviewers...

Ok, reinforcement learning fans: RL is great, but what do we do when there's no obvious reward from the environment? What about perfecting a golf swing or a foxtrot or a musical performance? We may have an answer. A tale of 🐦 🎶 + 🧠. 🧵1/ #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #neuroai #compneuro

Neurobiologist Diego V. Bohórquez, PhD, leads discovery of a gut-brain pathway that helps microbes in the gut nudge the brain to influence appetite and behavior. 🔗 Read more: medschool.duke.edu/stories/newl... #AcademicSky #MedSky #Neuroscience #GutHealth

This week, Jim Zhang (3rd year PhD student, @dukebrain.bsky.social) presented Brooke Staveland’s paper on circuit dynamics of approach-avoidance conflict in humans. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you to our sponsors for MoLA 2026! @simonsfoundation.org, @autismsciencefd.bsky.social, @dukebrain.bsky.social, Marcus Autism Center, and Children's Hospital of Atlanta.

It takes a village and this is mine. I could tell you each of their stories and how they will change this world for the better. Every day is a privilege in science and these people are why.

Very worth bookmarking to keep up with digital advances (computational analyses, AI, digital twin & other modeling) in medicine and basic sciences at Duke. Much of it relevant to brain and behavior!

Lab backpacking trip recently along the AT in NC. It's so nice to get away from it all, together.

DUNE (Duke University Neuroscience Experience) is the summer high school outreach program run by DIBS. Local Durham students do real hands-on research in Duke brain science labs. Thanks to @neurosciencenow.bsky.social for his faculty leadership of it!

Welcome to Dr. Len White, who recently joined Bluesky! Len is an Associate Director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and an amazing neuroanatomist, researcher, & educator.

Dear brain scientists from all over - I welcome you to follow this account to keep up with the great work coming from Duke University researchers in diverse areas of neuroscience, psychology, imaging, medicine, ethics, the mind, behavior and all other things 🧠📈 🧪 ‼️

Nice write-up on this new paper by @sbilbo.bsky.social and colleagues

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Hello world, the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Bluesky account is back! -- Marc Sommer, Director

New in @thetransmitter.bsky.social from Anne West!

I did a podcast interview thingy, in case anyone’s interested: open.substack.com/pub/mindandm...

Our work on decoding speech using high-density micro-scale recordings was published today in Nature Communications! We demonstrate the potential of high-spatial sampling technology for future neural speech prostheses. nature.com/articles/s4146… The thread below outlines our main findings.

I helped do a thing, with some fine folks who may not be here yet? @dukebrain.bsky.social 🧠📈http://view.ouphe.oup.com/?qs=c56ae64d223bfc1599600a787725405af59cd9c8615021760c80190f8cded2d9cfaf5192c2fd3fbabb871ca387791df7305007b96b1d5607a9473adc9c72f8f6274ca03596c5531f

New preprint focused on how the hippocampus interacts with cortical representations to support memory, by an amazing grad student in our lab, Shenyang Huang. Hippocampal functions modulate transfer-appropriate cortical representations supporting subsequent memory osf.io/nkd4h/

Some good news: our R01 has been funded! We will study the interactions between speech production and vWM using intracranial recordings. A big thank you to the whole lab and all of our collaborators. @dukebrain.bsky.social

Nice piece in DukeMag featuring the great neuro work being done at Duke, including our work on speech decoding for neural interfaces: dukemag.duke.edu/stories/defe... @dukebrain.bsky.social

Come join us at Duke! @dukebrain.bsky.social