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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!🥂
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D.
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Beautiful work in this paper. I think anatomy is often under-appreciated. I'm glad to see things like this
#neurosicence
🧪🧠 An opposing molecular gradient axis underlies primate cortical organization | Science
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An opposing molecular gradient axis underlies primate cortical organization
The principles organizing cellular diversity and connectivity in primate brains remain elusive. By integrating spatial transcriptomics, magnetic resonance imaging, and retrograde labeling in marmosets...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea2673
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megan peters 🧠
about 1 month ago
bump for visibility!
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau
about 2 months ago
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
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6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561
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Vinny Costa
2 months ago
What?!!!!! They are ending continuous submission?
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-064: Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy and End of Continuous Submission
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy and End of Continuous Submission NOT-OD-26-064. NIH
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-26-064.html
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Constantinople lab
2 months ago
Thrilled to share our new paper, which shows that the relative timing of cholinergic and dopamine release dynamically gates whether dopamine acts as an RPE for in vivo plasticity and reinforcement learning.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Acetylcholine demixes heterogeneous dopamine signals for learning and moving
Nature Neuroscience - Jang et al. measured dopamine and acetylcholine release in the striatum of rats performing a decision-making task and found that the relative timing of cholinergic and...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02227-x.epdf?sharing_token=A381CAlAnIRJBODuL-yPRNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OC3rXlFW58DrJ2kzezlHt7_VZRr1kz9ZpB6He68KpSxccZoqYSN8FPevDB6Zt6K7RBgpaFnYCXtvKTxYkOPpoosjt6i1Kknh2OfwTbaXSxX_A9OVNz3DlK0ig7gMRr9rI%3D
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I-75 Scientist
3 months ago
I'm sure folks have thoughts.....
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-047: Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on a Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2027-2031
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on a Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Fis...
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-26-047.html
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Vinny Costa
3 months ago
FFS
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Jeremy Berg
3 months ago
9/25
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Pascal Mamassian
3 months ago
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
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Open Rank Faculty Cluster Hire Search for the New Department of Cognitive Science at Bocconi - Bocconi University
https://www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-and-research/faculty/faculty-recruiting/open-rank-faculty-cluster-hire-search-new-department-cognitive-science-bocconi
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Max Kozlov
3 months ago
The impact is already hitting science agencies hard. The NIH—the world's largest public biomedical research funder—has had to rely on leftover stopgap funds. New grant awards have slowed to a trickle — exacerbating the effects of a record-long shutdown in October. (h/t
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
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Steve W. C. Chang
3 months ago
Very excited to share a Special Collection at the Journal of Neuroscience (
@sfnjournals.bsky.social
) - Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research. This issue includes some of the latest perspectives on social neuroscience research. Please check it out!👇
www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8
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The Journal of Neuroscience: 46 (8)
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8
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Bita Moghaddam
3 months ago
NIMH is being “rebranded” to “NIH innovates”
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Come be our colleague! The Center for Neural Science at NYU is accepting applications at the Assistant Professor level in computational neuroscience and/or neural engineering
apply.interfolio.com/182074
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Constantinople lab
3 months ago
NYU's Center for Neural Science is seeking a faculty candidate that would be jointly appointed with our Tandon School of Engineering. We are looking for post-doc applicants with neuroengineering or computational backgrounds.
apply.interfolio.com/182074
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PLOS Biology
3 months ago
Attentional resources vary rhythmically, but what about susceptibility to
#
[email protected]
&co show that theta & alpha phases modulate sensitivity & distractor impact, revealing rhythm-specific mechanisms shaping
#attention
& distractability
@plosbiology.org
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plos.io/4tU0vh4
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SueYeon Chung
4 months ago
Our paper is out in
@natneuro.nature.com
!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks.
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
@flatironinstitute.org
@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social
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Bita Moghaddam
4 months ago
Don’t get me started on the hypocrisy of this organization aligning with the current NIH/HHS “leaders”: kill all the animals you want to eat more and more animal flesh and fat but it is unethical to use animals for life saving medical research
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Vinny Costa
4 months ago
This is a catastrophic unforced error. It was quite something to hear
@ohsunews.bsky.social
President Shereef Elnahal equate the shambolic lies of fringe groups (“others”) with the heartfelt & credible testimony of the scientists & veterinarians in his employ. “Teammates” don’t support rivals.
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Dr Alison Weiss
4 months ago
Take action TODAY. Provide public comment in writing by emailing
[email protected]
by THIS FRIDAY, Feb. 6 at noon PT. Include “For public comment” in the subject line. The battles are local AND national. All NHP researchers in the USA are at risk next.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Constantinople lab
4 months ago
Our lab will be boycotting biotech vendors that have contracts with ICE (e.g., Fisher, Agilent), and telling them why. If you google “vendorname usa spending”, 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
4 months 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 🔗:
vist.ly/4prsr
#neurosky
#academicchatter
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Grace Lindsay
4 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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. 🧠 💪
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Erin Reed
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
6 months 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)
6 months ago
📣We 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
7 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 – and, consequently, pref...
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613%2825%2900287-6
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PLOS Biology
7 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
7 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
7 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
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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 🏳️🌈🧂
7 months ago
baxterlab.myspreadshop.com/funding+for+...
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Mens T-Shirt | Baxter Lab
Funding for Basic Science? ⭐ basic science, funding ❗ brooklyn science
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The Transmitter
7 months ago
Dutch lawmakers have approved the phase-out of primate research at one of Europe’s 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
7 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
8 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
8 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
8 months ago
I’m hiring at all levels and accepting graduate students through Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Reach out if you’re interested in joining a collaborative, fun, creative, and supportive team in beautiful Vancouver! 🏔️ ⛷️ 🏖️ 🌆
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SfN Journals
9 months ago
Back by popular demand: supplemental material.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors#suppl
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Jeremy Berg
9 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
9 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
9 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
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Alik Widge
9 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
9 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
9 months ago
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COSYNE
9 months ago
#Cosyne2026
is now open for business! Show us what you got both for the main meeting & workshop proposals 🧠🥳🧠🥳🧠
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