Erin Rich
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Neuroscientist in New York she/her
https://as.nyu.edu/departments/cns/people/faculty.erin-rich.html
pinned post!
It's official, the Rich lab is now part of the Center for Neural Science at NYU! I'm thrilled to be joining CNS! At the same time, I'll miss my amazing colleagues at Sinai (even though we're not going far). Here's to new adventures in the new year!๐ฅ
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about 1 year ago
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Constantinople lab
6 days ago
Our lab will be boycotting biotech vendors that have contracts with ICE (e.g., Fisher, Agilent), and telling them why. If you google โvendorname usa spendingโ, you can see purchases for specific depts including ICE on
usaspending.gov
. Please talk to your labs and email your vendors!
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Society for Neuroscience
6 days ago
Nonhuman primate neuroscience research remains crucial in advancing scientific discovery. Hear from someone with more than 20 years of experience in this space on how to educate and advocate in this upcoming Meet-the-Expert webinar. Register now ๐:
vist.ly/4prsr
#neurosky
#academicchatter
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Grace Lindsay
12 days ago
The same conservatives pushing to close facilities like this will then go on to ridicule biomedical research done on lower animals as "wasteful and irrelevant to human health". You can't have it both ways.
www.opb.org/article/2026...
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OHSU board contemplates closure of primate research center; its scientists plead for support
Scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center say their work is driving critical medical advances. But leadership at the federal level has questioned the value of the research model, and c...
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/23/ohsu-closure-primate-research-center-scientists-support/
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Matt Crump
14 days ago
I'm very excited to announce that the Psychology Department at Brooklyn College of CUNY is hiring a tenure-track line in Cognitive Neuroscience. Applications are being accepted now, and review will begin on or after February 23rd, please repost!
#PsychSciSky
#neuroskyence
cuny.jobs/brooklyn-ny/...
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Jobs | City University of New York
https://cuny.jobs/brooklyn-ny/assistant-professor-cognitive-neuroscience-psychology/0DCFD9030FEA48A0B8F40D929D5CDAA2/job/
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David Schoppik
16 days ago
House Appropriations minibus bill funding NIH is out now. - $400M increase - Multiyear funding of new awards capped at 2025 levels. - No line item for BRAIN Initiative text here:
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
Screenshots from Dem summary and Sec 240 (multiyear funding text).
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Come join us for 2026 GRC Cognition! Registration is limited, so sign up early. ๐ง ๐ช
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about 1 month ago
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Erin Reed
30 days ago
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
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2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2026-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies
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Steve W. C. Chang
about 1 month ago
We are excited to announce the 2026 GRC Neurobiology of Cognition (7/19-24) in beautiful Waterville Valley, NH! Registration/abstract submission open. Wonderful speakers/program covering cognition across scales & species, incl. AI & neuromodulation!
@desrocherslab.bsky.social
@erinlrich.bsky.social
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Armin Lak
about 1 month ago
New preprint. We show that in addition to reward prediction errors (RPEs), dorsal striatal dopamine signals encode sensory prediction errors (SPEs), the difference between sensory prior & observed stimulus.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Dorsal striatal dopamine integrates sensory and reward prediction errors to guide perceptual decisions
Perceptual decisions are shaped by expectations about sensory stimuli and rewards, learned through sensory and reward prediction errors. Dopamine is known to convey reward prediction errors that shape...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.01.696999v1
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Marc Sommer
about 1 month ago
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.
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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm)
about 2 months ago
๐ฃWe have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University!
healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati...
1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies 2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher Please share widely and reach out for questions!
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Administrative Opportunities
https://healthsci.queensu.ca/administration/qhs-careers/administrative
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Ross Otto
3 months ago
New pontification piece with
@awestbrook.bsky.social
and Jean Daunizeau, just out in TICS: Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly? (or why does it hurt to think) never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience
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Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?
A widespread observation is that people avoid mentally effortful courses of action, and much recent work examining cognitive effort has explained subjective effort evaluation โ and, consequently, pref...
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613%2825%2900287-6
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PLOS Biology
3 months ago
What's the role of
#FrontopolarCortex
(FPC) in evaluating alternative goals?
@markboxf.bsky.social
&co show that FPC activity tracks the value of
#counterfactual
rules via gamma & beta bursts; targeted FPC stimulation alters both neural signals &
#DecisionMaking
@plosbiology.org
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plos.io/4ppd5lL
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NPR
3 months ago
Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants.
n.pr/4pgmAna
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As funding falters, young brain scientists rethink careers in research
Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants.
https://n.pr/4pgmAna
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The Transmitter
3 months ago
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller,
@movshon.bsky.social
and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
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Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of BCIs, ANNs. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk.
https://bit.ly/47MXYLH
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Mark Baxter ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ง
3 months ago
baxterlab.myspreadshop.com/funding+for+...
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Mens T-Shirt | Baxter Lab
Funding for Basic Science? โญ basic science, funding โ brooklyn science
https://baxterlab.myspreadshop.com/funding+for+basic+science-A6910f8df7eb2f51f2fe1b7c7?productType=210&sellable=0kBdG85ZolTzpEgBaZ3n-210-7&appearance=258
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The Transmitter
3 months ago
Dutch lawmakers have approved the phase-out of primate research at one of Europeโs biggest facilities. Neuroscientists are worried. By Lauren Schenkman
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
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Nonhuman primate research to lose federal funding at major European facility
The Dutch Senate has ordered the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in the Netherlands to shift its funding away from primate experiments by 2030.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/animal-models/nonhuman-primate-research-to-lose-federal-funding-at-major-european-facility/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20251030-news-nonhuman-primate-lose-federal-funding-european
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Eero Simoncelli
3 months ago
Looking for a PhD program where you can study computational neuroscience? NYU has a fantastic array of researchers covering the field:
groups.google.com/g/systems-ne...
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Doctoral studies in Computational/Theoretical Neuroscience at NYU
https://groups.google.com/g/systems-neuroscience/c/m2NKW7xC1cw
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Steve W. C. Chang
3 months ago
Sharing an amazing postdoc opportunity in Paris in the lab of Julia Sliwa (
@juliasliwa.bsky.social
) in NHP Neuroimaging and Neurophysiology on social vision and cognition! CNRS:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Paris Brain Institute:
offres.institutducerveau-icm.org//fr/jobs/196...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Post-Doctorate in NHP Neuroimaging/Neurophysiology (M/F)
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7225-JULSLI-003/Default.aspx?lang=EN
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Sarah Heilbronner
4 months ago
Suzanne Haber was just elected to the National Academy of Medicine! Her work on the organization of the cortex and basal ganglia has had a huge impact. Please take the opportunity to congratulate her the next time you see her.
www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/u...
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University of Rochester Neurobiologist Suzanne Haber Elected to National Academy of Medicine
An internationally recognized scientist, her work has transformed our understanding of the brain networks that play a central role in many mental health disorders, including obsessive compulsive disor...
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/university-of-rochester-neurobiologist-suzanne-haber-elected-to-national-academy-of-medicine
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Zach Pennington
4 months ago
Iโm hiring at all levels and accepting graduate students through Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Reach out if youโre interested in joining a collaborative, fun, creative, and supportive team in beautiful Vancouver! ๐๏ธ โท๏ธ ๐๏ธ ๐
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SfN Journals
5 months ago
Back by popular demand: supplemental material.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors#suppl
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Jeremy Berg
5 months ago
ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/28/2025-16554/establishing-a-fixed-time-period-of-admission-and-an-extension-of-stay-procedure-for-nonimmigrant#p-11
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Vinny Costa
5 months ago
A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions. Lots of updates from the preprint!
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Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates
Specialized cell types and links to psychiatric disorders are revealed by genetic mapping of primate amygdala neurons.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw1029
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Grace Lindsay
5 months ago
I don't know that it works perfectly, but I have to say that the Asta search tool from
@ai2.bsky.social
is exactly what I want from an AI-powered research search tool for scientists: Describe a style of experiment or work and see if there are papers that have done that.
asta.allen.ai/chat
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Ai2 Asta
https://asta.allen.ai/chat
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Alik Widge
5 months ago
New paper out! A review of prefrontal mechanisms involved in deep brain stimulation, bringing together our work of the past few years and a foreshadow of where we're going next. Plus some cool rodent stuff!
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...
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Prefrontal Network Mechanisms of Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an emerging treatment for otherwise treatment-refractory psychiatric disorders. It can produce remarkable clinical results in expert hands, but has not fared as well in...
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/45/37/e1944242025
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Narayanan Lab
5 months ago
Our issue on Computational Properties of the Prefrontal Cortex is now:
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...
These articles capture some of the incandescence of the CPPC conferences...
narayanan.lab.uiowa.edu/home/cppc2024
cppc.web.ox.ac.uk
accl.psy.vanderbilt.edu/blog/2018/10...
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The Journal of Neuroscience: 45 (37)
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/45/37?current-issue=y
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Constantinople lab
5 months ago
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5 months ago
#Cosyne2026
is now open for business! Show us what you got both for the main meeting & workshop proposals ๐ง ๐ฅณ๐ง ๐ฅณ๐ง
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Jeremy Berg
5 months ago
New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opinion/trump-defunding-medical-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk8.iN9o.HYW2vUoXfu0I&smid=url-share
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Mark Baxter ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ง
6 months ago
A pleasant surprise from the Journal of Neuroscience RE the application of the updated NIH public access policy (authors deposit accepted manuscript in PMC, journal retains license to final copyedited version, no requirement to pay OA fee)
www.jneurosci.org/content/righ...
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Rights and Permissions | Journal of Neuroscience
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/rights-permissions
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Colette Delawalla
6 months ago
๐จACTION OF THE DAY๐จ
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Day 21! QUACK-O-GRAM THURSDAY! For $3 we will hand deliver an "IMPEACH THE QUACK" rubber ducky to your House Representative! (By one of our team members in a duck suit!) DO IT (AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS)
act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
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Steve W. C. Chang
6 months ago
Very timely and insightful OpEd by Prof. Cory Miller on WSJ. It lays out an important point - Advanced AI cannot be developed in a vacuum without understanding the sophisticated machines we have in our brains.
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Opinion | The Future of AI Lies in Monkeys, Not Microchips
Neuroscience research on primates will help us learn how to build an efficient thinking machine.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-future-of-ai-lies-in-monkeys-not-microchips-c855aad6?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#comments_sector
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Marla Feller
6 months ago
Come join our new Department of Neuroscience
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
as an Assistant Professor!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041
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Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041
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Earl K. Miller
6 months ago
New theory: Categorization is Baked Into the Brain Categorization is not a late stage of sensory processing but a core computation that begins at the earliest stages, occurring throughout the cortex as predictive feedback shapes feedforward processing.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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OSF
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bu4sn_v1
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Matt Perich
6 months ago
๐จ Iโm excited to say that my CIHR Project Grant was funded! My NHP lab is now full-speed-ahead, and Iโm hiring experimentalists (postdoc, PhD student, and/or a tech/manager). Weโll do multi-region ephys during reaching/grasping in macaques, with behavioral and spinal perturbations.
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience
6 months ago
๐จ Weโre hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience ๐ง Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research ๐ Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available ๐ Permanent, full-time, on-site ๐ Apply now:
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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PLOS Biology
6 months ago
In standard models of choice, we evaluate each option separately, then compare values.
@benhayden.bsky.social
explores a
@plosbiology.org
study showing that
#OrbitofrontalCortex
compares before evaluating, challenging theories about how we choose ๐งช Paper:
plos.io/4mxK3i6
Primer:
plos.io/45HPmpC
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Angie Rasmussen
6 months ago
This Executive Order is a gross overreach of Presidential power and undermines democracy. It steals from taxpayers, will destroy science and the economy, and ultimately, America. Congress must act now.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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Federal Grantmaking Gets a Christofascist Glow-Up
Read my zero star review of the new Executive Order
https://open.substack.com/pub/rasmussenretorts/p/federal-grantmaking-gets-a-christofascist?r=at8ic&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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PLOS Biology
6 months ago
When choosing between options with multiple attributes, the
#OrbitofrontalCortex
(OFC) is thought to integrate across attributes.
@erinlrich.bsky.social
&co show that OFC neurons encode comparisons between attributes of the same type, rather than integrating values
@plosbiology.org
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plos.io/4mxK3i6
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Peter Kok
6 months ago
We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL
@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social
, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on.
#neuroskyence
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL โ University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=15059&nPostingTargetId=36823&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG
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Claudia Clopath Lab
6 months ago
We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Amitai Shenhav
6 months ago
These job ads have now been posted! ๐ Social/Personality:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020
Biological Basis of Behavior:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054
Please spread the word!
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Happy to have some good science news - our new study with
@aqperkins.bsky.social
is out in
@plosbiology.org
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dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Orbitofrontal cortex computes gaze-dependent comparisons between attributes rather than integrated values
When choosing between options with multiple attributes, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is thought to integrate across those attributes, aiding in value comparisons. This study shows in monkeys that OF...
https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003281
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SfN Journals
6 months ago
#JNeurosci
| Hwang, Murray, and colleagues discovered that the orbitofrontal cortex is pivotal to the arousal of the autonomic system in macaque monkeys when they view reward-predictive cues.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0619-25.2025
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Mark Laubach
6 months ago
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
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...
https://american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-Campus-Washington-DC/Assistant-Professor_R2924
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Drug Monkey
6 months ago
This RFI includes a request for input on the notion of peer review compensation. In case you were not motivated to reply on the publishing costs, this is another issue of importance to some.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-138: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs NOT-OD-25-138. NIH
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-138.html
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Jonathan A. Michaels
6 months ago
LLMs are stuck in Plato's Cave "While the Human Connectome Project is busy reconstructing the human brain neuron by neuron, LLMs are trying to skip the neurons all together and reconstruct the mind from the shadow it casts on the Internet."
sergeylevine.substack.com/p/language-m...
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Language Models in Plato's Cave
Why language models succeeded where video models failed, and what that teaches us about AI
https://sergeylevine.substack.com/p/language-models-in-platos-cave
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Mara Breen
6 months ago
Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior
Job no: R-0000002388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Neuroscience and ...
https://mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Assistant-Professor-of-Neuroscience-and-Behavior_R-0000002388
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