welp, this is definitely one we're going to need to discuss in lab meeting!

Interested in applying to come to Canada for a fully funded PhD or Postdoc? Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards: nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/canada-i... Reach out if you’re interested in opportunities for using large-scale electrophysiology to understand neural computation and movement.

Preprint updated --> Key new results: we found a brain-behavior correlation between performance on an RL task (under short feedback delays) and short-delay RPE signals in the 'cognitive' cerebellum! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Love it when random but intriguing results in the lab have me tracking down pre-internet periodicals at the library.

Goal selection through the lens of subjective functions: arxiv.org/abs/2512.15948 I welcome any feedback on these preliminary ideas.

How do biological agents learn for the future? Our perspective piece on the value of prospective learning in neuroscience is finally out. This is part of a long running collaboration with @kordinglab.bsky.social & Josh Vogelstein (as well as many other people) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 Final reminder: Your #SfN25 Virtual Component access ends this Sunday, December 21. Take time to explore missed content, rewatch your favorite sessions, and complete those important research conversations before it closes. 🔗 vist.ly/4ik4w #neurosky #neuroskyence

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

Beautiful precision psychiatry work

New paper with Junyi Chu, Tomer Ullman et al showing that kids think more difficulty is more fun! Fun isn't easy: Children selectively manipulate task difficulty when “playing for fun” versus “playing to win”. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Read the whole article for yourself. But, what I see here is the story of someone longing to accept himself – and deeply wanting others to see their own human dignity. Empathy requires projection.

Malo Gusto have yourself a game!

New study challenges the idea of a unified decision network: Neuropixel recordings in primate OFC showed robust encoding during value-based choices but near-silence during perceptual decisions, even when rewards are at stake. #RewardSignals #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How does cortisol tune brain networks to form strong emotional memories? Excited to share new work led by amazing former RA Flory Huang w collabs Rajita Sinha and @toddc.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Your stomach called – your striatum picked up! But does this actually happen in humans? Using simultaneous dopamine PET/fMRI, we show that the gut hormone ghrelin helps the brain adjust motivation to current metabolic need. Here’s what we found👇 Preprint: shorturl.at/pq4A3 #neuroskyence #🩺

Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

weight down, less food consumed, learning normal, but motivation up!

Important Font News! drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/i...

“Findings suggest a major transition in human behaviour from ~500-300ka. Although the behavioural & cognitive changes certainly involved early Neanderthals & other contemporaneous humans, similar developments likely occurred among ancestors of Denisovans in east Eurasia & of H. sapiens in Africa“🔥😯🧪

New paper from Steph. Watch out, she has many more coming. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Alright scientists! It's that time again! Time to sign up for Skype a Scientist's spring semester. Want to get matched with a classroom in 2026? Sign up now 🥰 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thrilled to talk with @neilbedi.bsky.social for this excellent deep dive into an emerging and alarming form of gambling www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

On the Neurology of Apathy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Looks very cool

We will still consider applications submitted today and tomorrow!

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Nature research paper: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain go.nature.com/4839zaL

who wants to come to Korea to do some blindsight NHP fMRI?

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen — Talib Kweli Hieroglyphics Radiohead Tyler Childers Waxahatchee

The basal forebrain plays the cortex like a piano.

Out now in Translational Psychiatry! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Still need to read this in depth but it seems… not great. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nature research paper: Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces go.nature.com/4ocRj3n

Begging PhD programs to agree on a common app with only letters of rec that writers upload once. These inane likert scales when students are applying to 15-20 programs is destroying my soul

#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs. Website: www.pennlinc.io Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir

Meeting of the minds at my mother-in-law's farm this morning.

Another nail in the coffin for PCA? - doesn’t linearize, distorting similarity metrics - is biased by temporal jitter across epochs - may miss important dimensions for transient amplification If you think there is a state space, use a state space model!

“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”

we have PrEP because of these monkey studies. animal welfare in medical research is extremely strictly limited and regulated to ensure ethical use. there is no replacement for these animal models in biomedical research.

"Nice" NIH study sections screw their applicants because of the way NIH calculates percentile. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/n...

If your ultimate inference target is the group level, then what matters is the joint contribution of trial number per condition and participant sample size, not either one in isolation. We explored this point in detail here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very excited to hear about this! We find Bayesian multi-level modeling at the ROI level super helpful (e.g. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... ), will be nice to not have to artificially carve the data into parcels a priori!

And the next step? Full voxel-level modeling. Recent numerical advances cracked the scalability barrier. Voxel-level hierarchical modeling is now feasible, revealing just how punishing traditional multiple-comparison adjustments really are. arxiv.org/abs/2511.12825

Unable to be there, but thrilled that lab grad student Cidney Robertson-Benta is presenting today at the Women+ in Cognitive Control Psychonomics satellite in Denver: sites.google.com/view/wiccmee...

late show musical guest Youtube is a goldmine

Ditto(ish) for our section. Rescheduled from early November to early January!

WILLIAM ANDREW MICHAEL JUNIOR NYLANDER ALTELIUS!!!! @OREO | #LeafsForever