New paper in Current Biology from the Hikosaka lab and @nienborglab.bsky.social at the NEI, collaborating with us. First author Xuefei Yu @xuefeiyu.bsky.social applied a host of optogenetic techniques to dissect out the functions of a pathway from frontal cortex to brainstem in behaving primates.

Look who's finally on Bluesky! Welcome Hendrikje (and lab). @nienborglab.bsky.social Let's get her follower count up. 🙂

If you're (1) into nhp neurophysiology and/or biological motor control, (2) a foreign big shot and (3) interested in moving here, please reach out -- this new program looks extremely attractive (min. $8M over 8y)! www.uwo.ca/research/can...

Seriously. This is gross.

Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

NHP neuroscience faculty position ALERT!!!

🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗​​https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455 #Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd

Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

Where are you on this scale? I'd say I'm a 2.

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Evidence for corollary discharge projections sent out from motor nuclei in primates! A rare find. The pathway targets cerebellar areas, likely for horizontal eye movement control. Great work @bohlen.bsky.social and Paul May and colleagues!

who wants to come to Korea to do some blindsight NHP fMRI?

I feel like a lot of young scientists in our field don't know about Neurotree. It's a fascinating resource and it's up to all of us to keep it up to date. Check it out if you haven't seen it before! And update it for yourself and others as career stages change. 🤓

🚨 THRILLED to share Northeastern University is hiring a new Director for our human Siemens Prisma 3T MRI Center (Associate or Full Professor levels) who will join us as faculty in our Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please share widely! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Not directly related to @neurograce.bsky.social’s comment here but to the thread: I am baffled by the number of people who seem to think the claim is that all brain computation is low-d vs. the *emprical* finding that task-related neural activity is (linear) low-d in many (not all) cases.

Come on Konrad, why do you cave so easily? Here, let me try it for you: 1. Spikes are (to good approximation) the only events that matter. 2. Extracellular fields are one way by which spikes interact with each other. 1/2

For those in the early stages of their careers—who have not yet served on an NIH study section or held an R01-equivalent PI role—register as an Early Career Reviewer. More information is available on the CSR website: public.csr.nih.gov/ForReviewers...

Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?) www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Siembra NC has a map with credible reports of ICE activity in the Triangle (and Charlotte). It initially loads Charlotte but you can scroll east. Scary but important information ojonc.org

The fight has come to NC, and it just hit close to home. Our daughter teaches in Durham public schools and she said almost all of the Latinx kids are not in school today. ICE is targeting everyone who "looks Hispanic", citizen or not. I am even more angry today-kids need to go to school!

Heads up, Raleigh area www.wral.com/news/local/f...

We have two SfN presentations this morning, featuring star grad student 1st authors Grace DiRisio and Sylvia Durian. Cheng Xue is an author on both & not only is he an incredible scientist, he's also an incredible advertiser/communicator; check out his cartoons! x.com/_chengxue/st...

Good morning #SfN25! Looking for some posters to see this afternoon? Check out two by our lab: GG15 and HH1 🧠🧪👩🏻‍🔬

Do you have questions about how to use neuropixels in NHPs? Want to learn about how to record simultaneously from a crap-load of probes? Come stop by the Neuropixels booth (#3731) today from 3-4pm, where I'll be serving as an "expert"! #SfN25 #SfN2025

FOMO FOMO FOMO enjoy the rain in San Diego everyone 😈 jk hope you all have a good SfN. Enviously, all us homebodies holding down the fort.

NEW: ‘Unlawful coercion’: Trump can’t withhold funds or demand payment from UC, federal judge rules. The judge has previously sided with UC scholars several times since June in halting Trump’s termination of science and health research funding. The latest ruling is arguably the most sweeping yet.

This world is grossing me out www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Have it on my turntable right now - so good.

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

I'm on the academic job market! I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics. A few highlights of my research areas are:

Motor control friends. I have an optotrak. It used to be $50k. I will never use it. Anyone need one?

NCM is proud to offer meeting support awards for #NCMKobe26 again this year! The first round of applications are due Dec 1 and more information can be found on the website. Please share with others in your community so we can support as many people as possible. ncm-society.org/dive...

The psychology program at NYU Abu Dhabi has open rank open area positions in cognition-perception-cogneuro. Wonderful colleagues, excellent research infrastructure (incl MRI, MEG, EEG), close ties to NYU New York. Superfast growing part of the research world apply.interfolio.com/175417 #neuroskyence

Yep me tonight

They're close. Put them over the top!

This is such a well-written piece by Xiao-Jing. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the latest ideas about population coding in the brain, mice vs monkeys, sensory vs prefrontal areas, and distributed processing vs functional specialization. Very accessible to non-experts.

Looking for a PhD program where you can study vision from different perspectives (computer vision, visual neuroscience, visual perception, image processing)? Consider applying to NYU! visionscience.com/pipermail/vi...

Deadline for applications- November 1st!

The UNC Department of Biology is seeking a Director of Biology Teaching Labs, a key leadership role overseeing our undergraduate laboratory program. 1/n Learn more and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

Please repost!!: We are searching for new AI-Bio faculty at Duke to be part of a new Discovery AI center. Looking for faculty who focus on pushing boundaries in ML model development in a highly interactive environment. DEADLINE for applications- Nov 1st!! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428

Anna is a treasure, cool to get this opportunity

Senior Lecturer Position in Computational Neuroscience at Vanderbilt. Please disseminate. apply.interfolio.com/173997

While we're gutting our science...

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Strange thing that's fun: if you're watching a TV show, during the end credits, stop randomly and pick a name you've never heard of. Google them. So many stories of show business, sad, boring, or incredible. Example from tonight - I'd never heard of Mimi Schir. Led to this, ikar.org/events/mimi-...

The six faculty positions open at UNC Biology also include 2 openings for Teaching Assistant Professors or Teaching Associate Professors. We seek instructors with expertise from any area of biology 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

From Monkey Brains to Human Meaning In this new Nature Communications study, Hartle, Kishida, Sands, Montague, and colleagues recorded neurochemical activity from the caudate nucleus of patients with Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery. As the…

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...