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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Please do not boycott reviewing for the NIH. Help the SROs and other staff who are doing their part to get grants funded. And help the applicants - your peers and most importantly, young investigators - who deserve experienced reviewers.

I’m hiring a research tech to join my lab! Anyone interested can reach out to me for more information. This is a good opportunity for someone looking to expand their research skills prior to graduate school. mcw.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

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Science peeps! Excited to share first of two preprints just uploaded. This one concerns a person who hears sounds when she moves her eyes! We could actually record these sounds and verify they were connected to eye movements 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you're interested in emerging ideas in neural interfaces, I humbly suggest my lab's latest: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Neural interfaces create dynamic interactions between the brain & devices. This means mean we need new engineering approaches beyond typical ML to "decode" a static brain

Our NIAAA funded Post-DoctT32 has received its NoA (non competing renewal). Are you looking for a post-doc and interested in joining our amazing center? If so, reach out! Here is a convenient form that you can use to upload CV and a cover letter! unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I am currently recruiting a PhD student to work on our "Motor complexity and aging" project funded by the @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

More new results, this time from the amazing Lily Kramer! 🎉 “Sequential experience reshapes population representations in visual cortex” doi.org/10.64898/202... Visual experience unfolds in time. We asked how temporal structure reshapes population activity in visual cortex. 🧪🧵1/

I’m excited to share my newest work with @benhayden.bsky.social, and the work I’m most proud of to date, on characterizing semantic coding in single-neuron hippocampal activity in patients with autism during natural language comprehension! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Meet Sarah Heilbronner, a neuroanatomist building wiring diagrams to understand the structure of pathways in the brain. 🧠#AskaNeuroscientist @srheilbronner.bsky.social

New lab paper! 🧠 Human hippocampal & MTL theta activity is linked to eye movements, but only during memory-guided navigation. Theta is also strongest during longer, more exploratory eye movements. plos.io/4dwJhR8 Huge congrats to Humza & team! 👏

very fun, rejuvenating (…hopeful?) story by Brian Howe “At least in the Triangle, college radio is the crux of the local community, and I think it can be a resistant tool within universities, or at least that’s how a lot of my friends have approached it.”

To accommodate applicants and PIs attending Cosyne, we’ve extended the MCN application deadline to Sunday, Mar 22. Please repost.

I wrote about Best Picture Oscar winner One Battle After Another open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

Join our next Computational and Digital Health Seminar with Dan Ma on Quantitative MRI and Physics-informed Pan-Contrast AI. Register here: duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Amazing, glad the @rolfslab.bsky.social did this, and so well! One of those expts I've been doing informally with my own afterimages for years and always meant to study in detail - as I'm sure is the case for a lot of vision researchers. Hope we hear more about it next summer at Eye Movements GRC!

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

Neuroscientist who is great with new media and cares about scientific rigor? DM me. We want to hire someone like you (part time).

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End of week mental reset

breaking: science corp gets to do more science science.xyz/news/series-c/

Can electrical microstimulation be used to steer cortical population activity on- and off-manifold? Our new preprint says yes — using data-driven control in macaque PFC. Joint work with @gbarzon.bsky.social, Anandita De, Isaac Moran, Conner Carnahan, and Luca Mazzucato.

🪄Using my CA girl powers to summon up some sunny weather for the inaugural Neuroscience of Social Behavior GRC! Welcome attendees!