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Slowly becoming a neuroscientist. EiC
@elife.bsky.social
pinned post!
OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
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Sleep dependent consolidation and replay that doesn’t require the hippocampus? Very beautiful work by Marcus Stephenson-Jones’ lab on sleep driven sequential skill consolidation in the striatum.
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For the 20th consecutive year, Cosyne reviewers have failed. Not a single comparison to Einstein or Newton in the reviews. Not even Darwin.
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This paper I have a conflict on since Mathias now works in my lab, but it is so beautiful, claiming that shape processing in humans is not done like modern neural nets, but instead uses a symbolic representation of a program to generate the shape.
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This paper presents exquisite evidence about specialised vs distributive nature of function subregions in the sensorimotor cortex
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This paper completely nails an age old theory, leading to a clear law describing the strength of conditioned associations.
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I really love this model which brings real mechanistic insight to the barcode data which I had previously found interesting but mysterious!
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Carl T. Bergstrom
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Love this short opinion piece on “mechanical bypass” in analogy to “spiritual bypass”.
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The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves | PNAS
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2518999122
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Can’t wait for Cosyne to continue the tradition of returning reviews on Christmas Eve. Nothing jollier than the anger of a Cosyne reviewer with your mince pie.
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Thanks
@elife.bsky.social
for highlighting the paper with our favourite picture!
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
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Impressive that one of the leading scientific organizations in Europe, the CNRS, has said "good bye" to Web of Science and its pernicious Impact Factors. They are in good company, but that company must grow! Who will be next to wake up?
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eLife
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Oh look we are still having this debate
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Nina 🎄☃️🕊️✨
20 days ago
Relatable Corvid
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Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
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Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
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Daeyeol Lee
22 days ago
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology.
pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
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Jobs | Psychological & Brain Sciences
Tenured/Tenure-track position in Cognitive Psychology Open Date Dec 01, 2025 Salary Range or Pay Grade The expected academic base salary range for this position is $110,000- $144,500 (Assistant Profes...
https://pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
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eLife
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing. 🔗
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
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(and an immigrant)
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Well that's horrid news for a Saturday. He was a magician.
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jonny "saunders"
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How about that elife review model for making what would otherwise be a provocative paper with a good but flawed argument into a genuinely useful discussion about the meaning of its results and implications for the field
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eLife
29 days ago
We have an amazing opportunity for Early-Career Researchers to join our Board of Directors! We're looking for someone with experience in leading
#OpenScience
projects to support and lead eLife in our mission to change research communication. 🔗
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Ben Kanter
27 days ago
Totally agree. I'm glad it's out but had similar concerns as the reviewers (for version 1). Also a great summary here of some of the latest from
@edvardmoser.bsky.social
and
@m-bmoser.bsky.social
's lab! Featuring:
@martipof.bsky.social
@matteoguardamagna.bsky.social
@azvollan.bsky.social
et al
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Dan Goodman
28 days ago
Wow! I have to say that this is where the
@elife.bsky.social
model really shines. Super interesting paper that makes a very strong claim. Reviewers feel interpretation goes beyond what the results show. Paper published with both sides. We all benefit much more than just a publish or reject. Bravo!
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I am really proud that eLife have published this paper. It is a very nice paper, but you need to also read the reviews to understand why! 1/n
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about 1 month ago
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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D.
about 1 month ago
Congrats
@sjo09.bsky.social
! Your trailblazing engram discoveries are unforgettable. So happy that the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize is honoring YOUR Era's tour
@sfn.org
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eLife
about 1 month ago
Going to
#SfN25
this year? Find our Editor-in-Chief, Timothy Behrens, in room 4 for broad discussions on innovations in publishing:
buff.ly/nF33AGT
#OpenScience
#PhDChat
#AcademicSky
#ScholComm
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Athena Akrami
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paper🚨 When we learn a category, do we learn the structure of the world, or just where to draw the line? In a cross-species study, we show that humans, rats & mice adapt optimally to changing sensory statistics, yet rely on fundamentally different learning algorithms.
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Different learning algorithms achieve shared optimal outcomes in humans, rats, and mice
Animals must exploit environmental regularities to make adaptive decisions, yet the learning algorithms that enabels this flexibility remain unclear. A central question across neuroscience, cognitive science, and machine learning, is whether learning relies on generative or discriminative strategies. Generative learners build internal models the sensory world itself, capturing its statistical structure; discriminative learners map stimuli directly onto choices, ignoring input statistics. These strategies rely on fundamentally different internal representations and entail distinct computational trade-offs: generative learning supports flexible generalisation and transfer, whereas discriminative learning is efficient but task-specific. We compared humans, rats, and mice performing the same auditory categorisation task, where category boundaries and rewards were fixed but sensory statistics varied. All species adapted their behaviour near-optimally, consistent with a normative observer constrained by sensory and decision noise. Yet their underlying algorithms diverged: humans predominantly relied on generative representations, mice on discriminative boundary-tracking, and rats spanned both regimes. Crucially, end-point performance concealed these differences, only learning trajectories and trial-to-trial updates revealed the divergence. These results show that similar near-optimal behaviour can mask fundamentally different internal representations, establishing a comparative framework for uncovering the hidden strategies that support statistical learning. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Wellcome Trust, https://ror.org/029chgv08, 219880/Z/19/Z, 225438/Z/22/Z, 219627/Z/19/Z Gatsby Charitable Foundation, GAT3755 UK Research and Innovation, https://ror.org/001aqnf71, EP/Z000599/1
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.30.526119v2.abstract
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Why publish with eLife? · eLife
At eLife we do things differently. We publish every article selected for review as a Reviewed Preprint. Our approach to publishing gives you more control and puts the focus on meaningful engagement wi...
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Look at the cool new
elifesciences.org
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Latest research
eLife works to improve research communication through open science and open technology innovation
https://elifesciences.org
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First ever public presentation of single cell evidence for non-spatial grid cells by Elena Gutierrez, Seb Veselic from Steve Kennerley lab. Steve an I have been dreaming of this moment for nearly 10 years.
#sfn25
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Mathias Sablé-Meyer
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Come join us at
#SfN25
for the minisymposium "Cognitive Maps in the Prefrontal Cortex"! Saturday, Nov 15, 2:00-4:30pm, Room SDCC 6CF
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
We will explore how the PFC represents structured relationships across species and how this supports flexible behavior.
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Saad Jbabdi
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Tim I think it was almost 20 years ago when I heard you said that's how you review a paper!
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Sam Gershman
about 2 months ago
My favorite thing about elife!
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Yes!!!! (Hence the two axes in elife’s assessment).
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eLife
about 2 months ago
Help us challenge the traditional publishing system. Find out why you should send your research to eLife:
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Looks quite good this year :)
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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...
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Opportunity of the year!!!! Whittington lab is live and hiring…
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Super fun New blog post about
@kristorpjensen.bsky.social
awesome preprint.
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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
2 months ago
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...
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Helen Barron
3 months ago
** 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.
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Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu
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Laurence Hunt
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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...
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Development of robust, single-subject markers of predictive inference for computational psychiatry
https://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/graduateschool/mrcdtp/how-to-apply/icase-2026/development-of-robust-single-subject-markers-of-predictive-inference-for-computational-psychiatry
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Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
3 months ago
🙋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...
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Kris Jensen
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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...
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This is one of my favourite things ever. From the awesome
@kristorpjensen.bsky.social
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Awesome 4 year phd in compsys neuro !!
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This is one of my favourite things ever. From the awesome
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