Ole Jensen
@olejensen.bsky.social
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Cognitive neuroscientist investigating the role of brain oscillations.
http://www.neuosc.com
Exciting news from the chairs of Biomag 2026, Prof. Jiahong Gao and Prof. Huan Luo — the conference website is now live:
biomag2026.scimeeting.cn
The meetings take place in Beijing, 23–25 August 2026. Save the date and start thinking about ideas for posters and symposia! Please share with colleagues
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https://biomag2026.scimeeting.cn/
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David Poeppel
2 months ago
CogNeuroLanguage: new by
@lauragwilliams.bsky.social
&
@jeanremiking.bsky.social
(w Alec Marantz & me) shows how the brain maintains-updates continuously unfolding lang hierarchy during comprehension, anchoring ling theories to biological implementation
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#neuroskyence
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Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the human brain | PNAS
Speech comprehension involves transforming an acoustic waveform into meaning. To do so, the human brain generates a hierarchy of features that conv...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422097122
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Decoding performance (MVPA) better for OPM-MEG than SQUID-MEG 😎. The improved spatial specificity of OPM-MEG due to the reduced brain-sensor distance is key. And more sensors (beyond 40) don't improve decoding. Preprint from our recent
@thechbh.bsky.social
study:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Decoding with multivariate pattern analysis is superior for optically pumped magnetometer-based magnetoencephalography compared to superconducting quantum interference device-based systems
Background: Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) has become an increasingly important method for decoding distributed brain activity from neural electrophysiological recordings by leveraging both temp...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.14.681912v1
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Ever wonder how you read so fast? Your brain gets a head start—processing the next word before your eyes move. Our MEG + eye tracking study out in Nature Communications study from
@thechbh.bsky.social
reveals orthographic & semantic previews predicting reading speed
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Fast hierarchical processing of orthographic and semantic parafoveal information during natural reading - Nature Communications
Combining MEG, eye-tracking, and representational similarity analysis, this study shows that readers rapidly and sequentially extract orthographic and semantic information from upcoming words before fixation, supporting efficient reading.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63916-y
2 months ago
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Our new study - pseudoneglect is partly explained by structural hemispheric asymmetries in putamen 👇👇👇
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3 months ago
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In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research
The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661325002402
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In an EEG study spearheaded by Marlena Baldauf, we show that 8-month-old babies’ visual systems resonate at 4Hz (theta rhythm) — unlike adults, who resonate around 10Hz (alpha). 👶🧠 echoes at 4Hz 👩🦰🧠 echoes at ~10Hz Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Infant Brains Tick at 4Hz - Resonance Properties of the Developing Visual System
Neural rhythms of the infant brain are not well understood. Testing the rhythmic properties of the adult visual system with periodic or broadband visual stimulation elicited neural resonance phenomena...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.675068v1
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Important findings from
@katduecker.bsky.social
: faster visual search for a target among distractors predicted by stronger alpha; ie a case where alpha benefits visual processing
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4 months ago
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Deng Pan
4 months ago
🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans. Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
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Join our team! We're looking for a Research Assistant to support OPM-MEG research on reading in children and adults at the Oxford Centre for Human Activity in the Neuronal Oscillations group (
www.neuosc.com
). Deadline 22nd July. For details see
lnkd.in/e2qvCP9b
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St Catz Hosts International Workshop on Next-Generation Brain Imaging - St Catherine's College
In early June, researchers from the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA) ran a highly successful four-day international workshop...
https://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/st-catz-hosts-international-workshop-on-next-generation-brain-imaging/
6 months ago
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In our new MEG/RIFT study from
@thechbh.bsky.social
by
@katduecker.bsky.social
, we show that feature-guidance in visual search alters neuronal excitability in early visual cortex —supporting a priority-map-based attentional mechanism.
rdcu.be/eqFX7
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Guided visual search is associated with target boosting and distractor suppression in early visual cortex
Communications Biology - Magnetoencephalography in human participants paired with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging reveals that excitability in early visual cortex is modulated to boost targets...
https://rdcu.be/eqFX7
6 months ago
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Day 2 of the OPM-FLUX (
www.neuosc.com/fluxtoolkit2...
) toolkit at University of Oxford hosted at St Catz. We have 32 bright participants from 7 countries learning how to apply OPM-MEG in cognitive and clinical neuroscience
7 months ago
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Our latest study on reading using MEG, eyetracking and Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging headed by Yali Pan from
@thechbh.bsky.social
: Parallel and dynamic attention allocation during natural reading
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Parallel and dynamic attention allocation during natural reading
During natural reading, attention constantly shifts across words, yet how linguistic properties (e.g., lexical frequency) impact the allocation of attention remains unclear. In this study, we co-regis...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656336v1
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During saccades, visual objects are first processed in the parafovea, then in the fovea upon fixation. Does this repeated exposure cause repetition suppression or information accumulation? MEG work by Syanah Wynn suggests both as a consequence of neural sharpening.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.16.654463v1
7 months ago
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andrea e. martin
7 months ago
my lab (
lacns.github.io
) at
@mpi-nl.bsky.social
and
@dondersinst.bsky.social
is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an
@erc.europa.eu
Consolidator - come join us! PhD:
www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc:
www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
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Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
https://lacns.github.io
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Ayelet Landau
7 months ago
📣cog neuro postdoc opportunity! Interested in studying attention & exploration w/ cutting edge M/EEG? 🧠care about making vision science a bit more naturalistic? 🌱LandauLab is hiring! We seek resourceful, curious and creative researchers who can join the newly forming London-based
[email protected]
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UCL – 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=14163&nPostingTargetId=34533&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=ext
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Hands-on training at University of Oxford using OPM in cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Deadline 23/05/2025
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7 months ago
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Oscar Ferrante from
@thechbh.bsky.social
and his colleagues Rony Hirschhorn and Alex Lepauvre on Brain Inspired, reflecting on the Cogitate collaboration and the recent Nature paper.
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8 months ago
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And a wonderful podcast on Brain Inspired by the excellent postdocs/PhDs from the COGITATE team (
@arc-cogitate.bsky.social
) reflecting on their experience of being part of the adversarial collaboration on consciousness
braininspired.co/podcast/211/
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8 months ago
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Interesting and timely editorial in Nature on the importance of adversarial collaborations
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Make science more collegial: why the time for ‘adversarial collaboration’ has come
Bringing together proponents of rival theories to test their ideas against each other can advance science — but only if all sides can accept that they might be wrong.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01379-3?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAYnJpZBExMldXRmI2VlIyZXVwaDgzRwEe3Jnfx5P1jBth57CjsAjl2cKuO29boR3xnQDMea_GTH11jvvgWOfpYn82Tow_aem_9buQTK59VfIAky8RimHScg
8 months ago
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George O’Neill
8 months ago
The 2025 edition of MEG UKI will be hosted by UCL 16-18th July. This year we include a multimodal day on naturalistic neuroscience! Abstract submission is also now open.
meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/
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MEG-UKI 2025 | UCL London | 16–18 July – MEG UKI
https://meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/
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Laura Dugué
8 months ago
Researchers in France are working on creating a french network of researchers to organize interaction, communication and training in
#Computational_Neuroscience
. If you are a CompNeuro working in France, consider joining, and registering to our mailing list:
listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/subscrib...
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rt_neurocomp - réseau français de neurosciences computationnelles - subscribe
https://listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/subscribe/rt_neurocomp
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ARC-COGITATE
8 months ago
Our
@nature.com
paper is out! Bringing together 2 major theories of consciousness - Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) - in an unprecedented collaboration. Here’s the story of how we advanced theory testing in neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Yamil Vidal
8 months ago
I'm so happy for the friends I made working on this project, and proud of the work we have put together
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Rony
8 months ago
I lost count of how many times I said, “I’ll believe it when I see it", and here we are. It's been a privilege to be part of
@arc-cogitate.bsky.social
and to learn from such brilliant people (especially grateful to
@liadmudrik.bsky.social
for the opportunity to join this massive project)
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Sylvain Baillet
8 months ago
The 1st major study from
@arc-cogitate.bsky.social
is out today in
@nature.com
—a landmark collaboration testing theories of consciousness through rigorous, preregistered science. Data & tools shared openly. Contributed from
@mcgillumedia.bsky.social
@theneuro.bsky.social
nature.com/articles/s41...
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Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness - Nature
Multimodal results (iEEG, fMRI and MEG) of predictions from integrated information theory and global neuronal workspace theory align with some predictions of both theories on visual consciou...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08888-1
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ARC-COGITATE
8 months ago
We’re grateful for the ongoing support from @anilkseth - in particular for his generous and nuanced recent article in
@nautil.us
: “Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness”
nautil.us/inside-the-b...
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Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness
The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself
https://nautil.us/inside-the-big-bet-on-consciousness-1207750/
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
8 months ago
What is consciousness? A global team of researchers, including Chair of Translation Cognitive Neuroscience Professor Ole Jensen, put two top theories to the test. Find out how they fared:
buff.ly/5IU1BH0
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ARC-COGITATE
8 months ago
Consciousness remains a profound scientific challenge. But progress requires not just defending theories — it requires testing them boldly. We hope this collaboration inspires others to embrace the spirit of open, critical, shared theory development.. 🧠🚀 🔗
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness - Nature
Multimodal results (iEEG, fMRI and MEG) of predictions from integrated information theory and global neuronal workspace theory align with some predictions of both theories on visual consciou...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08888-1
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Liad Mudrik
8 months ago
Quite a moment! HUGE thanks to all the outstanding Cogitate people who have been working on this so intensely for the last seven (!!) years. And a very big thanks also to the consciousness community; we couldn’t have done it without the support - and the criticism - we received. >>
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Anil Seth
8 months ago
"Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness." Some cogitations on the
#COGITATE
adversarial collaboration, the first results from which appeared yesterday in
@nature.com
nautil.us/inside-the-b...
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Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness
The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself
https://nautil.us/inside-the-big-bet-on-consciousness-1207750/
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Dennis A.
8 months ago
#consciousness
#neuroscience
#IIT
#GNWT
#CogitateConsortium
One of my favorite subjects to cogitate on. "Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation..."
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Two Theories Face off to Explain the Origins of Consciousness
Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head—and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the oldest questions about existence
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-does-consciousness-come-from-two-neuroscience-theories-go-head-to-head/
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We are proud to have contributed to the Cogitate Consortium - thanks to all the great colleagues involved
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8 months ago
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Reminder on the OPM-FLUX course at Oxford 9-12 June: theory and hands-on training on OPM data analysis for cognitive neuroscience. Deadline 16 May, but sign up before the course gets oversubscribed.
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8 months ago
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We are delighted to announce the first OPM-FLUX toolkit to be held 9th-12th June 2025 at St. Catherine's College at University of Oxford:
neuosc.com/fluxtoolkit2...
9 months ago
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Associate Professorship of Social Psychology at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Job Details
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11 months ago
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Our review out in TiCS spearheaded by Mathilde Bonnefond on the latest ideas on the functional role of alpha oscillations and distractor inhibition - e.g. we highlight that alpha increases might reflect perceptual target load rather than distractor anticipation
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kFXN_V1r-...
about 1 year ago
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Earl K. Miller
about 1 year ago
Aperiodic and oscillatory systems underpinning human domain-general cognition
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroscience
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Aperiodic and oscillatory systems underpinning human domain-general cognition
Domain-general cognitive systems are essential for adaptive human behaviour, supporting various cognitive tasks through flexible neural mechanisms. While fMRI studies link the frontoparietal network a...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.06.606820v3.abstract?ct=
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Interesting work from Ayelet Landau's group on the temporal structure of prosodic units compared across forty languages
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about 1 year ago
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Join us for an immersive learning experience using the FLUX pipeline for MEG data analysis at @TheCHBH, University of Birmingham from June 11th to 14th, 2024. For program details, registration, and to meet our amazing teaching team, please visit
neuosc.com/flux-toolkit
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FLUX Toolkit | Neuronal Oscillation
The FLUX toolkit course focuses on teaching analysis for MEG data applied in clinical and cognitive neuroscience investigations.
https://neuosc.com/flux-toolkit
almost 2 years ago
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Most standard MEG systems have gradiometers rather than magnetometers to suppress distant noise sources. Our team @TheCHBH therefore developed an Optically Pumped Magnetic Gradiometer measuring human brain activity while suppressing e.g. lift artefacts
arxiv.org/abs/2402.10113
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An optically pumped magnetic gradiometer for the detection of...
We realise an intrinsic optically pumped magnetic gradiometer based on non-linear magneto-optical rotation. We show that our sensor can reach a gradiometric sensitivity of 18...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10113
almost 2 years ago
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We are proud to share the 2023 annual report from the Centre for Human Brain Health (@TheCHBH) at @unibirmingham highlighting the research work and activities of our amazing colleagues
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https://birmingham.ac.uk/research/centre-for-human-brain-health/about-the-chbh/chbh-annual-reports.aspx?utm_source=&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=…
almost 2 years ago
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Our team @TheCHBH is proud to contribute to the @ArcCogitate project on the neuronal basis of consciousness - an adversarial collaboration just highlighted in Nature as a science event to watch for in 2024
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The science events to watch for in 2024
Advanced AI tools, Moon missions and ultrafast supercomputers are among the developments set to shape research in the coming year. Advanced AI tools, Moon missions and ultrafast supercomputers are amo...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04044-9
almost 2 years ago
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Feeling very proud that Katharina Duecker has passed her viva with flying colours. She has shown tremendous resilience while navigating through difficult times including the global pandemic and yet produced an excellent and insightful thesis. Happy birthday!!! 🥳🥳🥳
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about 2 years ago
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Join our online workshop: Neuro(AI) for Developmental Research (Friday Dec 8 at 2:45 GMT)!!!
www.eventbrite.com/e/neuroai-fo...
Keynote: @JeanRemiKing Speakers: Jianbo Jiao @vayzenberg90 @EvansonLinnea Organizers:@AnaPesquita @B_Pomiechowska @OleJensenCHBH @BBabylab @TheCHBH @UoB_CDS
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(Neuro)AI for Developmental Research
Join on On-line (Zoom: https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/s/82268687700)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neuroai-for-developmental-research-tickets-772984496437?aff=odsjtwtweet&utm
about 2 years ago
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The University of Birmingham is turning 125 years old - and has made 125 job openings from fellow to chair level. Apply to develop your research e.g. at the Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH):
fellowsandchairs.birmingham.ac.uk
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125 Fellows and Chairs
https://fellowsandchairs.birmingham.ac.uk
about 2 years ago
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Exciting PhD opportunity with excellent advisors
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about 2 years ago
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Exciting opportunity for a permanent research position in the Computation, Cognition and Neurophysiology team led by the excellent Mathilde Bonnefond and Jérémie Mattout at the CRNL (INSERM/CNRS) in Lyon
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about 2 years ago
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PhD opportunity to work on exciting project with excellent PIs @TheCHBH
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about 2 years ago
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