Philosophy colleagues: Disciplines are different but the argument "It is difficult to imagine..." should be abolished. Difficult to whom? I've read enough examples that were simply not difficult at all. (mere mortal here btw) Okay, I'll make enemies of most of my philosophy friends and colleagues.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Theory of mind and embodied cognition: a comparative perspective Antonella Tramacere at the meeting of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science

Those of us still using anatomical masks for nucleus accumbens core and shell in humans, time to stop with that practice. In humans it appears to be a gradient, not sharply delimited areas. 💥

The CIMCYC is recruiting a #postdoctoral researcher with experience in the field of the psychology of disinformation! Job description, responsibilities, and desired experience and training at the link 👇 cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language: tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-... Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth. w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

"Evolution produces sufficient rather than optimal adaptations." - so true and so annoying

This is the key. Evolution doesn't optimise individual components or subsystems for some specific task under some specific conditions *because it's trying to optimise the whole system over all possible environments*

Neuroscience and Philosophy Salon umd.zoom.us/my/luizpesso...

Happing in an hour and a half, join the discussion today!

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8586

Here's a link to the paper: Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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.

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀? Dynamical processing winding through most brain regions. Looks like a must read. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence

Preprint - Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The UVA Clinical Psychology area is hiring! We're looking for someone whose research is at the intersection of youth mental health and digital technology. I love my colleagues and Charlottesville and would love to have you as a colleague! Please RT apply.interfolio.com/172895

This Friday: yes, we need conceptual thinking in neuroscience. Join the discussion!

We're going to see a lot of bullshit in the coming days and weeks about "causes of autism", and most will be based on flawed, over-interpreted observational studies (1/n)

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆: 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Excellent review paper about reactive and anticipatory processes. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

“If everything is everywhere, why have distinct areas? Here we show that the function of a brain area is more related to how different types of information are combined (formatted) in neural representations than merely whether that information is present.”

I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them. Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316

Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social‬ are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Predictions feel safe. But 8m into 2025, some of The Economist’s most confident forecasts are already wobbling. Why? Because the world is not linear. It’s a tangled web of feedback loops, emergent patterns & path dependencies. #Complexity isn’t optional. manlius.substack.com/p/the-past-t...

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 Static networks are good but how about their dynamics? (after all nothing is static in the brain) They cycle according to this study. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #neuroskyence

Large-scale network experts: what do people make of the Control B network by Yeo? We find that it associates with Default A a lot (also Default B and C). Isn't Control B actually default mode? thanks #neuroskyence

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺? Implications for reinforcement learning. Very interesting paper. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroskyence

Consciousness/Emergence People: check out this hybrid workshop hosted by Sussex next Wednesday, September 10th www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re... I will be speaking in the afternoon session (starting at 7 am Pacific time) on “The Importance of Boundaries” (abstract in thread) #philsky #neuroskyence

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

Our target discussion article out in Cognitive Neuroscience! It will be followed by peer commentary and our responses. If you would like to write a commentary, please reach out to the journal! 1/18 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @cibaker.bsky.social @susanwardle.bsky.social

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 – 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 Special issue of 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨, supported by @amstatnews.bsky.social ASA Sections on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) and Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE) Submission details: tinyurl.com/47enwhwz

Adventures in AI land 🤣

Conventional analysis of cause/effect systems, designed to determine how outputs are generated as a function of input, is futile and misleading when applied to closed-loop systems. -- Henry H. Yin (2024)

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁? Don't miss the Neuroscience and Philosophy Salon. Earl Miller and team will discuss recent paper and we'll have plenty of discussion. Open to all. Sept 12, noon EST-US umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #neuroskyence @earlkmiller.bsky.social

Universal Learning of Nonlinear Dynamics One more cool paper on this. This one is mathematical but a nice overview of existing methods for mere mortals. arxiv.org/abs/2508.11990 #ComplexSystems

𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗠𝗥𝗜 What are good masks or parcellations that allow one to determine the network label of subcortical ROIs too? #neuroskyence @lucinauddin.bsky.social @bttyeo.bsky.social

a seemingly general electrophysiological phenomenon: once you have to process stimuli, low-frequency rhythms disappear, spectrum becomes flatter & sometimes an increase in broadband gamma activity. we also found this for visual memory encoding in #iEEG data: doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2404-24.2025

Are there good neuro/neuroimaging journals that still accept brief communications, i.e., short papers focused on 1-2 results? Interesting results but not "major impact". #neuroskyence

Did you know that chemosensitive motile E. coli can efficiently explore nontrivial mazes in times much shorter than a no-memory (Markovian) walk would predict, and can collectively escape from a fractal topology? Now you do. Amazing! #ComplexSystems 🦠🧪🌐💡 journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...

𝗥𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗙𝗖 Looking for the coolest recent results about this, what's fascinating to be covered in class or include in a review? For example, I like findings that OFC cells respond all along a trajectory/maze that will lead (eventually) to reward. #neuroskyence

𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 by Earl K Miller, Scott L Brincat, Jefferson E Roy This promises to be a must read One day we should create an online journal club to just read these kinds of papers! #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Sharing given the useful references (400+). Haven't checked the content. arxiv.org/abs/2508.08548

Position open for a neuroimaging focused postdoc to come work with us in Sydney Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions about it :) usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)? Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? [email protected]

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝘁, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? What are the most developed frameworks of the brain basis of motivation? Older ideas, new ideas, etc. #neuroskyence

When you stimulate cortex, what gets activated almost simultaneously (if not earlier) with other cortical sites? Yes, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗺𝘂𝘀 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-... #FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀? New approach: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #complexsystems

Wonderful essay on brain metaphors