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Looks quite good this year :)

Want the freedom of a fancy fellowship, but not the year-long wait or arduous application? Come join my lab! Work on neuroscience and AI, explore your creativity, be independent or work closely with me, collaborate widely, and have a lot of fun! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Opportunity of the year!!!! Whittington lab is live and hiring…

Super fun New blog post about @kristorpjensen.bsky.social awesome preprint.

How does the prefrontal cortex plan? New research from @kristorpjensen.bsky.social & colleagues proposes a ‘spacetime attractor’ model, showing that the brain may plan using the same principles it uses to fill in missing information about the present. www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/new...

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet ** Deadline: 2nd December 1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6 2. TUS and TMR in humans: tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj Happy to chat to interested applicants.

Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry? Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital: www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

🙋Are you interested in bridging theory & experiments? Applications are now open for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit & SWC joint PhD programme. Join us and be part of a vibrant research community! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science... @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is one of my favourite things ever. From the awesome @kristorpjensen.bsky.social

Awesome 4 year phd in compsys neuro !!

This is one of my favourite things ever. From the awesome @kristorpjensen.bsky.social

Look at Edinburgh being stunning for British Cognitive Neurosciences

Super fun paper by the awesome Michael Bukwich and team!

This is a cool paper :)

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

What an absolutely extraordinary milestone. Congrats @fmrib-steve.bsky.social @fmrib-karla.bsky.social and everyone else involved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scary. Authors building in hidden instructions for presumed LLM peer reviewers (in white text on white background).

Let's say you have a journal that isn't worried about protecting an impact factor, so it didn't need to package a million results into a single paper (to maximise citation-to-publication ratio). What would you do? Couple of suggestions below. Others very much appreciated!

Or perhaps we could use citations to add evidence to a scientific point?? It is so depressing that even with something as simple as a citation we have confounded the way we communicate science with credit assignment.

Here is your last reminder that the application deadline for Imbizo.Africa is nearing quickly, the 1st of July, in fact tomorrow. Still the place where diversity is at its best in the world! Tell all who need to hear. #africa #neuro

Woohoo! Congrats Steve!!

🥰 Self-supervised, label-free 3D cell imaging is here Congrats to Cyril on this very cool first, first author publication 🏆! This started when he was a bachelor's student (and he's now completing his masters!). And many thanks to my other awesome co-authors🙏 elifesciences.org/articles/99848

This is an excellent step towards transparency but it still hides the majority of reviews. The next (and most important) step is to publish all reviews and get rid of the arbitrary decision.

This is one of the prettiest things I have seen in a long time :)

This is one of the prettiest things I have seen in a long time :)

Two extremely cool papers!

We're proud to share that @mehranahmadlou.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow at SWC, will join @oxforddpag.bsky.social as a Group Leader. His new lab will study the neural basis of flexible behaviour and its relevance for neuropsychiatric disorders. www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...

This is what the science machine does. No massive breakthrough. No single cure. Just lots and lots of cumulative knowledge that makes things better… www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Nice news for ECRs in Europe. Particularly interesting: from 2027 starter grants can be directly after PhD!

Interesting approach where they stick proteins to the grid using magnets

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Very happy to see this message that science publishers are not only a waste of money, but are actually distorting the scientific process itself, slowing down progress. This has been the key argument for me for a while. The waste of resources is bad, but the distortion of science is unforgivable.

💬 “It felt more like a collaboration than an exam.” Victor, Alexandra & Katerina share what it was like publishing their work through eLife’s PRC model, and how it helped them focus on what was possible rather than what was out of reach. #AcademicSky buff.ly/jTfZdpl

Strong endorse!

Does publishing serve science or is science serving publishing? Damian Pattinson and I (@elife.bsky.social) argue scientific publishing has evolved into a system that, rather than facilitate scholarly communication, distorts and dictates it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #OpenScience

V cool work

A must read

This looks important.

This looks important.

Yeah. Papers deemed having “incomplete” or “inadequate” evidence at eLife have been published unchanged elsewhere. Web of Science (WoS) will not index the former (bc WoS claims they are “flawed”) but will index the latter (bc their deficiencies have been magically healed by “peer review”).

🌟 We’re proud to have been named an inaugural winner of the @crossref.bsky.social Metadata Excellence Awards today for our commitment to high-quality metadata in the research we publish. Read more below 👇

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