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After our cable's been down for weeks, it's back just in time for extra time, go

My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735

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Anything with Marty Feldman, but this is so short and well delivered it kills me every time youtu.be/AS1HIThPcz8?...

If you haven't yet commented on the proposed OMB regulations on federal grants, it's not too late! You still have about 2 weeks (by July 13). I finally had a lull in work and did it today. Many guides have been posted on Bsky, here's a good one. Submit here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Pylon Reenactment Society’s shows this weekend. Dexfest in Carrboro, NC at Cat’s Cradle. Individual tickets now available catscradle.com/event/dex-fe... Athfest in Athens, GA at Dead Beat Club Clubcrawl wristbands: www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/... or $10 at the door if space allows.

Congratulations to fantastic postdoc Ramanujan Srinath and former star tech Martyna Czarnik on their new paper on the neural basis of flexible generalization in Nature Communications today! 🥳 Stable readout of visual representations mediates flexible generalization www.nature.com/articles/s41...

official ad to follow soon but heads up: 1-2 postdocs slots in my lab, hopefully w/fall start! reposts welcome, details to follow. babies! word learning! cognitive & linguistic skills! #CogSciSky #DevPsychSky 🐦🐦 (lab info: bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/prospectives) also recruiting grads this fall!

Weather forecasting transformed how we respond to storms. What if we could do the same for human health? Looking forward to my #ISC26 keynote on HPC for vascular digital twins, chronophysiomics, and the path toward forecasting disease before symptoms appear.

The lab has been at full capacity, but with team members moving to their next career steps, we have open postdoc positions.

NIH announces the creation of the Office of Research Innovation, Validation, and Application (ORIVA) to reduce use of animals in research. dpcpsi.nih.gov/oriva

Many of the scientific questions we're interested in tackling require studying learning over long periods of time across the brain. This is challenging – which is why we're excited to say we've been developing a system for chronic wireless recording using long Neuropixels probes in macaque monkeys.

Wow. $80M annually over two years for internal grants to support the life sciences at JHU. hub.jhu.edu/2026/06/10/l...

We're excited to share our latest profile! Dr. Suzanne Haber studies the circuits underlying reward-based learning & decision making, and how those circuits can be therapeutically targeted to treat disease. Follow the link below to learn more! #WomenInNeuro www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

Dexfest in Chapel Hill Carrboro June 26-28 www.dexfestnc.com

Deeply honored to be named a 2026 Beckman Young Investigator #BYI!🧬 This recognition reflects the creativity and hard work of my incredible lab, and we are so grateful and excited for the Foundation's support as we tackle the next generation of continuous evolution.

RFI: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator to Support More Researchers and Maximize Scientific Productivity and Innovation grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I just completed my service in my NIH study section. Some thoughts - with the disclaimer that these are personal, subjective impressions and do not reflect the opinion of any official body. Other than the one attached to my head. (1/10)

SSNAP always ends with a final conference, open to the public--both in person and online. Here are the zoom links for this afternoon, for those who want to connect. Feel free to share widely! Jorge Morales (Northeastern): duke.zoom.us/j/99919297471 Zoe Drayson (UC Davis): duke.zoom.us/j/91565535456

SOOO excited to share this new story from the lab, in which we identify a functional influenza-induced immune engram with behavioral and immune consequences, along with a potential therapeutic target within the lung-brain axis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Honored to be recognized as part of the inaugural SCW75 by Scientific Computing World — celebrating leaders shaping the future of scientific computing across HPC, AI, simulation and research infrastructure. #SCW75 #ScientificComputing #HPC #AI #ResearchComputing #Simulation

Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand". www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵

the technician position in my lab is now posted! Please pass this along: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

Timely new Gordon Research Conference, organized in part by Vice-Chair and DIBS faculty member Dr. Anne West @ennatsew.bsky.social !

Join us this July for the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Neural Genetics and Epigenetics! Great science and good friends.

Using a detection task with stimuli right at threshold, whole cell recordings in NHP primary visual cortex, and choice probabilities, we demonstrate how internal fluctuations related to anticipation of a stimulus multiplicatively interact with sensory responses.

Kash lab at UNC is hiring a new technician (our current two are off to grad school!!) posting will go live soon, email me CV and names of references if interested.

Thanks to @serenadudette.bsky.social for an amazing visit with the NSB program at @umassamherst.bsky.social! We were so busy with great #keepCA2weird science that I forgot to take photos, so I'll share some of the amazing results that she presented (from PMC12246475 with @neuroerin.bsky.social).

I am looking for a new reserach technician. This is an entry level position ideal for a graudating senior. Please re-post and send candidates my way! [email protected]

Why do our visual systems have “shortcut” connections (V1-V4)? What do they add beyond the classic hierarchical (V1-V2-V3-V4) pathway? 

The lab’s latest study takes activity flow modeling to the next level to answer this question, led by @alextzalav.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n

Preprint alert! We've done the first ever wireless brain recordings from the high-level visual & motor regions (IT/PMv/PFC) in monkeys engaged in natural behaviors as well as during controlled screen-based tasks. Read below for a lay summary and the link for details! 1/8

🧪Join us for a virtual seminar with Pengfei Song, Associate Professor at Duke University. Discover how super-resolution ultrasound is transforming microvascular imaging and advancing disease understanding. April 30 | 3–4 PM | Virtual Register via QR code

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📢‼️🧠 The Duke School of Medicine is searching for a new Chair of Neurology. Letter of Interest and CV due May 22. Come join us in beautiful North Carolina! medschool.duke.edu/about-us/lea...

Fascinating thread by @gordonneuro.bsky.social on a new discovery of functional chain architecture in prefrontal cortex. Evidence presented is very compelling. My take:

For an accessible summary, check out the JHU BME news writeup about this paper! www.bme.jhu.edu/news-events/...

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

Preprint alert! We've done the first ever brain recording simultaneously from IT & PMv in two monkeys interacting socially in natural setting! Dynamic tracking of social variables in simultaneous brain recordings of socially interacting monkeys www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

My daughter has a capstone project (for 8th grade) on mocktails and how they have impacted drinking culture. She put together a survey for this project, if you are so inclined to take it, feel free: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Was in Haneda airport in line to get on my flight home when we felt the earthquake today - rolling and swaying. Last week was at a pre-NCM meeting in the north (Sendai), including excursion to a harbor now under tsunami warning. NCM itself, happening now, is South in Kobe - they all should be safe.

Duke colleagues: is there a new development in your field of brain studies that captivates you, but you feel alone in your excitement? Do you want to grow a community at Duke to explore it? DIBS wants to help you! Announcing the new, 3-yr DIBS Dream Team awards: dibs.duke.edu/request-prop...

If you are an early career NHP researcher (postdoc or asstiant professor) and interested in attending #ACNP2027 please apply. I’ve also rolled off the E&T Committee that reviews these awards and am now an “ambassador” so if anyone wants some advice about applying for travel awards, reach out.

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🐟!JOB ALERT!Duke, Durham, NC!🐟 We are looking for a research tech (our current tech is starting grad school this Fall (Yay!)). The candidate will contribute to our ongoing research projects on tissue morphogenesis using zebrafish. Please RT🙏 www.munjallab.com/join-us

Study section replacement and odd funding trends drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/s...

I am deeply grateful to the Bloomberg Endowment for supporting both our research and broader vision! We hope that our work will contribute to next generation of psychiatry treatments, bci, and ai development.

You can keep track of Artemis II's progress here: artemistracker.com

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