Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

Our article is out in Annual Review of Vision Science: “Visual Image Reconstruction from Brain Activity via Latent Representation” We trace the path from early brain decoding to modern NeuroAI, highlight progress & pitfalls, and discuss future directions www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I'm now in the alternative universe where "corresponding author" (not just 1st/last author) and officially listed as "invited" talks/lectures matter. Now I have to decide what counts as invited. Like if I ask people if I can give a talk, and they "invite" me to give a talk.

Is anarchist science possible? As an experiment, we got together a large group of computational neuroscientists from around the world to work on a single project without top down direction. Read on to find out what happened. 🤖🧠🧪

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study Tomoya Nakamura's first fMRI project ... in which we hereby release a preprint as a way of pre-registration 🧠📈

I found a delightful new Russian joke today. "Would the people of Russia ever be OK with a female president?" "Yes, but I don't think he's going to transition"

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Prince of Persia was a groundbreaking game for its accurate character movement back in the late 80's. To do this, the creator videotaped his own brother running and jumping on the sidewalk and then did pixel mapping frame by frame as shown here at the Strong Museum of Play

We're going to see a lot of bullshit in the coming days and weeks about "causes of autism", and most will be based on flawed, over-interpreted observational studies (1/n)

I made a calendar reminder a while back for next week titled "Deadline to submit". I do not remember what this is for.

This rule would have meant I couldn't do my Ph.D. in America. I did do it in America. Became a professor. 12 thriving U.S. labs are now headed by trainees from my research lab. Like me, they are all working hard to enrich American knowledge and society. With this self-harming rule, none of that.

incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩

Deadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?! #neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs

Excited to finally have in my hands a copy of our new book Statistics for Psychology Using R: A Linear Models Perspective (written with Alasdair Clarke, not on bsky) !! 📘 www.mheducation.co.uk/statistics-f... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #statistics #statssky @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social #compneuro #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)

Here's the latest installment in my series on neuroscience and the hyperreal. I look at the potential dangers of "walled garden thinking", and why extensible modeling is important. open.substack.com/pub/yohanjoh... #neuroscience

#CCN2025 is over. Over 5 days there were 6 fantastic keynotes, 550 posters, 3 community events, 3 keynote & tutorials, 3 generative adversarial collaborations, 8 Satellite events, 1 community lunch meeting, 1 cross-conference hackathon, 1 competition, coffee all day, stroopwafels on day 1,

I'm not a big poster, but had to share how proud I am of my postdoc, Lauri Gurguryan, for submitting the FIRST paper from my lab 🎉 Here, we ask a classic ? Do short- and long-term memory rely on separate or shared underlying stores Checkout the preprint: bit.ly/3Hyyl83 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

For no reason, I thought now might be a good moment to reshare my 2021 article arguing that the #CCN and #NeuroAI communities can avoid reinventing the wheel by building on existing philosophy of science about scientific progress and explanation. journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.... #CCN2025

Do textures in baby books help or hinder word learning? 🧸 Labs suggest texture can distract, but at home it may boost engagement and repeated reading, supporting babies’ symbolic thinking. @rhulpsychology.bsky.social @nuffieldfoundation.org 🔗 tinyurl.com/3pewsbxc tinyurl.com/2p7jfr57

#CCN2025 looks so good, I am absolutely gutted to miss it! But I am happy that my fantastic PhD student Akilles Rechardt will be presenting our work "Explaining neural mechanisms of age-related dedifferentation in the ventral stream through deep neural networks" (B52, Session B: Wed 13, 1-4pm). 1/3

#CCN2025 looks so good, I am absolutely gutted to miss it! But I am happy that my fantastic PhD student Akilles Rechardt will be presenting our work "Explaining neural mechanisms of age-related dedifferentation in the ventral stream through deep neural networks" (B52, Session B: Wed 13, 1-4pm). 1/3

Really excited for #CCN2025! Come see our poster (A58). We asked people to describe the same pictures with different task instructions and trained a CNN to learn these sentence embeddings. Both networks learned task-relevant visual features that humans also needed for the same tasks!

Excited to share that our lab has three presentations at #CCN2025! Please check out our posters:

CONVERSATIONS ON CONSCIOUSNESS How the CCN Community Can Contribute #CCN2025 on Wednesday 13th (10am 🇪🇺) Livestream link below ➡️ Exploring the possibility of Computational Consciousness Science ➡️ Discussing three Templeton World Charity Foundation Adversarial Collaborations

Then we turned on his minimally invasive brain pace-maker and this happened. Thirty months later, his depression remains in full remission. lnkd.in/gb4WdZMQ lnkd.in/gFZV4zBp #Neuroscience #MentalHealthInnovation #FunctionalMRI #PrecisionMedicine #DepressionResearch #PACE #BrainStimulation

What an amazing demonstration of why Precision Functional Mapping matters 🧠It’s been an honor to support the team in this huge endeavor!

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

New paper day! Whereas earlier studies have shown that human eye movement patterns are influenced by the physical properties of remembered stimuli, we show that they are also influenced by stimulus meaning. h/t to Ali Pexsa (not on bluesky) who led this work. tinyurl.com/4y4aev3a

Happy publication day to first author @ewanmurray.bsky.social! A lot of hard work by Ewan went into this, so it is great to see if fully published. A Meta-analytic Review of the Effectiveness of Spacing and Retrieval Practice for Mathematics Learning #cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence

We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication. At first, what we found was very confusing! But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736 🧵

Good summary of student mental health and the role of universities. Many student-facing colleagues (academic AND admin!) do a heroic job of offering support to students, but we can only do so much to patch the missing investments into professional mental health care. More NHS for adolescents please!

in 2010 scientists who sequenced ozzy's DNA discovered he was literally a drug-doing super mutant and i think thats beautiful rip prince of darkness

the Department of Psychology at the University of Otago is hiring SIX faculty. open area Otago is the second-largest research university in New Zealand, and, among other nice things, is located near some of the best wineries on the planet www.seek.co.nz/job/85709111

Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob... If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🚨Thrilled to share our latest work just published in @nature.com where we looked into the optimal fMRI scan time for brain-wide association studies (BWAS) 🧠⏱️! Full thread below👇:

Excited to share a new preprint w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social! Why are there gradients of plasticity and sparsity along the neocortex–hippocampus hierarchy? We show that brain-like organization of these properties emerges in ANNs that meta-learn layer-wise plasticity and sparsity. bit.ly/4kB1yg5

It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪

1/4) I agree with a lot of this 🧵, and discussed the issues with a journalist from Science yesterday: www.science.org/content/arti... tl;dr: I think that Centaur is fascinating for a number of reasons, but I don't think it's appropriate to frame it as a foundation model of human cognition. 🧠📈 🧪

Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models. See: arxiv.org/abs/2410.20268

Is there real resistance to studying emotions "like any other brain function?" As I pivot my research program into this space and humbly wrap my head around A LOT, I'm sensing that there's a resistance to approaching emotions like we do seeing, remembering and such. Some of that is theoretical. /1

Reposting thread with the more popular hashtag #assc28

Our new study published in TheLancetPsych! We found that pramipexole augmentation substantially reduced depressive symptoms in patients with treatment-resistant depression over 48 weeks of treatment. This is an important advance in how we treat depression! 1/6 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories! rdcu.be/eui9l

Happy to officially join Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences at Osaka University as a Guest Associate Professor from today! #neuroskyence #psychpsysky #compneurosky