After a long visa delay, I’ve finally arrived in Chicago 🎉 I’ll be here for the year as a visiting fellow hosted by Rodrigo Braga, working on intracranial EEG + precision fMRI to study working memory and cognitive control! Stay tuned! @rodbraga.bsky.social US folks: happy to connect & give talks.

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I may be a *little* biased but this 📘 is GREAT! If you ever found language structure interesting, but were turned off by implausible and overly complicated accounts, this book is 4U: a simple and empirically grounded account of the syntax of natural lgs. A must-read for lang researchers+aficionados!

New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...

In the 2020 Election Project, Meta collaborated w/ academics to study how FB impacts elections. ⬇️ @aanixel.bsky.social, @fassiluisa.bsky.social & I argue that such research collaborations, w/ clear conflicts of interest, should be regulated. Would love to hear thoughts!💬 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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🧠 New paper alert (the 1st one from our new lab)! Led by 1st author & VR wizard @jaquent.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com How do our brains distinguish novel from familiar places as we explore our environments, e.g., a new city? 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵 Thread below with key findings ⬇️

The special issue celebrating John Duncan's retirement is now out! Check out all the gem articles here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10QN6R7VQSM and the editorial (see next figure in the thread for an entertaining analysis) doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Researchers from MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge and University of Cambridge showed that the brain stays in the adolescent phase until our early thirties. Find out more in the BBC article 👉 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl6klez226o

Join us next tuesdsy for this not to be missed free event!

🚨New Results! Really excited to share this work - Feedback doesn’t just signal right or wrong, it reorganizes population geometry of learning targets in vlPFC, moving representations toward future retrieval states. Notably, oscillations (TG-PAC & beta) gate when this transformation occurs. 🧵👇

We are excited to announce #COGNESTIC 2026 @mrccbu.bsky.social in Cambridge, between 14-25 Sep 2026. Our 2-week summer school provides training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

It was a pleasure to help build neuroscience capacity in the middle east. I had so much fun!

Come listen to John Duncan and myself discussing his new book on 25 Nov. So much insight into the human condition. Definitely not an event to miss!

📣 New preprint from the Braga Lab! 📣 The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning? Thread 🧵 ⬇️

If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me! I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that. #psychscisky #neuroskyence

If you are interested in a postdoc fellowship working on concurrent brain stimulation and imaging (e.g. TMS-fMRI doi.org/10.1101/2025...), then check out this unique opportunity and get in touch (deadline for expressions of interest is 13 Oct). cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...

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Support a student to attend #ISNeurotech25 We are looking to support ten more students to attend the Ibn Sina Neurotech school to learn all about fMRI and brain science www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...

Love seeing strong evidence that network borders matter. Matches our weird 2024 finding (doi.org/10.1093/cerc...). Boundaries aren’t just lines. They may be where the action is!

Excellent work!

Heading to Amsterdam for #CCN2025? Come by our posters on Tuesday and Wednesday! 🧠🏘️🧀 Tuesday🗓️ Bassel Arafat & @DiedrichsenJorn 's posters on the Multi-task framework Wednesday🗓️ My poster on task vs. rest fMRI

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

State-of-the-art of using implanted electrodes to stimulate cortical networks

Is the Language of Thought == Language? A Thread 🧵 New Preprint (link: tinyurl.com/LangLOT) with @alexanderfung.bsky.social, Paris Jaggers, Jason Chen, Josh Rule, Yael Benn, @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social, ‪@spiantado.bsky.social‬, Rosemary Varley, @evfedorenko.bsky.social 1/8

Fantastic opportunity for mid-career researchers who would like to relocate their lab to the UK Faraday Discovery fellowships royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

Wowza!

Join us for lots of cool science and fun!

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Can humans use artificial limbs for body augmentation as flexibly as their own hands? 🚨 Our new interdisciplinary study put this question to the test with the Third Thumb (@daniclode.bsky.social), a robotic extra digit you control with your toes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵1/10

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Big year for our lab at #OHBM2025! Thrilled to present an exciting mix of posters, talks, and lots of brainy fun 🧠🤓 Come check us out! We’d love to connect! @cognizelab.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social #OHBM #OHBM2025 #Neuroimaging

Very cool tips that any conference can easily implement

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

Now out with a really cool additional finding: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Neuronal computation in the cerebellum via a vector calculus. Work of Mohammad Amin Fakharian, Alden Shoup, Paul Hage, and Hisham Elseweifi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It's that time of the year again... Applications are open for students and teaching assistants for Introduction to Computational Neuroscience 2025 summer school. Applications are open till May 15th. Apply now and Repost! #ArabCompNeuro25 #neuroscience #education

Finally got around to incorporating all Github feedback on my open access textbook, making around 20 minor improvements, and updating some references. 17 chapters of state of the art stats and methods education, freely available for any course you teach. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

How do cognitive maps fail? And how can this help us understand/treat psychosis? My lab at @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc tinyurl.com/2p935hhz and RA tinyurl.com/3myfpb78 to answer these questions in mouse models. Here's why you might want to join: 🧵

🎉 Congratulations to Manisha Biswas for winning the #SocialSciences category in this year's #DanceYourPhD competition. Watch the entire video on the power of collective synchrony—and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl

An excellent opportunity

PhD position alert! Come work with Inti Brazil and us at @dondersinst.bsky.social: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

New paper! Cognitive independence and interactions between cerebral hemispheres doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #neuroscience

New preprint ✨ w/ @olafhauk.bsky.social and Matt Lambon Ralph @mrccbu.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @gatescambridge.bsky.social The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) seems crucial for both semantic memory and semantic composition. How to make sense of this neuroanatomical alignment? 🧠 🧵

"Identification of human-specific connectivity patterns in temporal & parietal lobes, regions linked to language & social cognition, challenges traditional views that prioritize the prefrontal cortex in defining human cognitive uniqueness." @neuroecologylab.bsky.social in new issue of J. Neurosci.👇🧪

Excited to share new work on the language system! Using a large fMRI dataset (n=772) we comprehensively search for language-selective regions across the brain. w/ Aaron Wright, @benlipkin.bsky.social, and @evfedorenko.bsky.social Link to the preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below!👇🧵

Looking for an exciting fellowship in AI & Neuro, with competitive salary (~£100k)? We got a new position in the lab at Oxford, working with @somnirons.bsky.social and me! 🧪 Our project: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh... General info: encode.pillar.vc #compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

I have just learned about this interesting study which suggests that exaggeration (making causal claims from correlational data) originate from University press releases, not from Journalists. Good news is, toning down claims did not harm news uptake! bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Julia King, chair of the @houseoflords.parliament.uk science committee, has not pulled her punches when writing to ministers on visa barriers to scientists - particularly those early in their careers The UK's strict and expensive immigration policy is "an act of national self-harm" she says