New manuscript from the lab! "Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening" Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Zebra finches can not only distinguish the full range of their species’ vocalizations but also organize them by meaning—similar to what humans do, according to a new study in Science. https://scim.ag/4psyElY

A HUGE THANKS to everyone who replied to this request! I'm blown away by the response and am so grateful. I now have a great library of images to both examine and use in my presentations. 🧪 Read on if you want to learn a bit more about my research... #EastCoastKin

uv is now stable enough that I'm switching my course over to using it. No more conda, we will create a generation of uv evangelicals

is anyone working on cortical waves (traveling, rotational, etc) looking for a faculty position? we'll soon be hiring in Korea, at our center where multiple labs (ephys, optical imaging, human neuroimaging) are interested in collaborating w/ theoreticians pls DM/email for informal inquiries 🧠📈 🧠💻

I once saw a (very interesting) talk about sleep in which the speaker started by saying that we don't really know how to define sleep, and then proceeded to operationalize sleep in flies as basically periods when they are still for a long time. This got me thinking...

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning? Read on to find out more! 🧵

The NSF GRFP is an amazing opportunity for students in the first two years of a PhD or those applying to a PhD right now. Below, check out our special episode with advice for both applicants and those who write letters of support!! 🧐 Please help us spread the word 📢

New funding opportunity from the BRAIN Initiative! Applications due Oct 28! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

WE ARE HIRING!! Official posting coming soon for a tenure track assistant professor job in Psychology at George Mason University. Focus on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and AI. I’m chairing the search committee, so DMs and emails welcome.

Cristina is fantastic. Highly recommend!

Job post alert!👩‍🔬 Postdoctoral fellow in CompNeuro/ML in the Artificial and Biological Computation lab at NYU (csavin.wixsite.com/savinlab). Exciting opening in the Data and Theory team in the new Simons Collaboration in Ecological Neuroscience! www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s... #neuroskyence

🐀 ultrasonic vocalizations be wildin' 🐀 @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social etc al. use @openacousticdevices.info to study how striped mice use USVs in the wild, new in @currentbiology.bsky.social See graphical abstract for summary of results (does the work for us 😇) 👇 #bioacoustics #prattle 💬

In this sense, the normative theory / optimization framework is less of a theory itself, but a epistemological tool to organize our knowledege about why certain "solution" exists in the brain.

And then he wrote: "Hence, the study of the behavior of an adaptive system like the human mind is not *a logical study of optimization* but an *empirical study of the side conditions* that place limits on the approach to the optimum".

We're hiring Flatiron Research Fellows & Software Fellows at the @flatironinstitute.org CCA. These independent postdoc positions offer outstanding opportunities for collaboration, computation, and scientific growth in NYC: apply.interfolio.com/173402 apply.interfolio.com/173403

It's also definitely the case that "is movement optimal?" is a pretty useless scientific question (neuroscience went through this with "is the brain Bayesian?"). But identifying the biologically relevant conditions under which specific movement patterns would be optimal still seems useful I think

🌆🐀Scientific American article about the project we're starting on NYC rats!! scientificamerican.com/article/scie... w/ Emily Mackevicius, Dima Batenkov, @zamakany.bsky.social, @basisresearch.bsky.social Seeking collaborators and funders 🐀🌆

Penn State Psychology is Hiring! Full-time Assistant Professor of Quantitative/Computational Psychology. The position is co-funded by @ssripennstate.bsky.social Questions can be sent to: [email protected]. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

I've only read the abstract and I already know this paper is so very correct 👀

Didn’t want to hijack someone else’s thread, but also: what’s the alternative? Sure, evolution produces sufficient not optimal solutions. Cool. How do we model that? Or if you don’t care about modeling, what predictions does that make that we can test experimentally?

🪰 How do dozens of tiny fly muscles cooperate to move a leg? We’re excited to share the first 3D, data-driven musculoskeletal model of Drosophila legs based on Hill-type muscles, running in OpenSim and MuJoCo simulation environments. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06426

🚨 The call for demos is still open, the deadline is tomorrow! If you have a tool for visualizing large-scale data, pipelines for training foundation models, or BCI demos, we want to see it! Submission is only 500 words, and it's a great opportunity to showcase your work.

🎉 Deadline is *tomorrow*! Join the @flatironinstitute.org workshop on pynapple & NeMos @sfn.org this November to analyze and model neural data pynapple: analyze neural time series NeMoS: model neural population dynamics Meals + accommodation included 👉 neurorse.flatironinstitute.org/events/2025/...

⏳ Deadline is next Friday! Apply now to join our #SfN25 workshop on pynapple & nemos. Learn to analyze & model neural data using software developed at @flatironinstitute.org Accommodations + meals included! 👉

Become a Theory Fellow at Janelia. 🔍 Use computation & theory to tackle biological problems. 🖥️ Leverage state-of-the-art computational infrastructure 🤝 Collaborate across scientific disciplines Apply by Nov. 3 @ https://janelia.link/theoryfellowprogram

From hackathon to release: sbi v0.25 is here! 🎉 What happens when dozens of SBI researchers and practitioners collaborate for a week? New inference methods, new documentation, lots of new embedding networks, a bridge to pyro and a bridge between flow matching and score-based methods 🤯 1/7 🧵

Early-life behavior in #SocialMammals is complex and challenging to monitor. This study uses machine vision & continuous #behavior recordings to suggest that early #social interactions may support the emergence of behavioral independence in #gerbil pups @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3JTcAAO

#Cosyne2026 is now open for business! Show us what you got both for the main meeting & workshop proposals 🧠🥳🧠🥳🧠

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Preprint - Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Duke Cell Biology is hiring in AI/ML! @scottsoderling.bsky.social, @rohitsingh8080.bsky.social, and others are building a very active community around ML for discovery science, and Duke is a great place to be. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30509

🧪 Another faculty recruitment!

Duke Cell Biology is hiring in AI/ML! @scottsoderling.bsky.social, @rohitsingh8080.bsky.social, and others are building a very active community around ML for discovery science, and Duke is a great place to be. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30509

This week I’ll be giving a talk at #ibac2025 on first results exploring structure of naked mole-rat songs! If you’re attending, I’d love to connect—whether to chat about our findings or about lab dataset of nearly half a million manually checked vocalizations. Looking forward to meet everyone!

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

The University of Notre Dame is hiring 5 tenure or tenure-track professors in Neuroscience, including Computational Neuroscience, across 4 departments. Come join me at ND! Feel free to reach out with any questions. And please share! apply.interfolio.com/173031

Building a spine is no joke, but thankfully zebrafish have their own clocks to keep the pace. Excited to share our preprint on the role of biological oscillators in coordinating notochord development! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) Additional thread below

Segmentation models may perform poorly when test images belong to a different domain (e.g., a different medical center). We developed a method of adapting the models using a single unlabeled image from the test domain!

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.

What do you all reckon, is the AI bubble about to burst? My ill informed feeling is that we might be close to tapped out with current approaches, and there'll need to be a fundamental new insight to make much progress. It's been 8 years since transformers paper! www.theregister.com/2025/08/25/o...

Ima by honest, little else has made me think LLMs have hit a wall than them going all-in on RL

We’re happy to present @zspald.bsky.social 's work on shared neural representations of speech production across individuals! We find that patient-specific data can be aligned to a shared space that preserves speech information, enabling cross-patient speech BCIs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exciting work by PhD student Zac Spalding @zspald.bsky.social and multiple labs across departments at Duke! A combination of human electrophysiology, modeling/decoding, and cognitive concepts to improve BCI for speech in patients. 👏 🧠📈

The Cullen and Charles Labs (Biomedical Engineering, JHU) are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join a multi-PI collaborative project developing a cerebellar neuroprosthesis to restore gait, tremor, and balance in cerebellar disorders. For details, see: thecullenlab.org/opportunities/

An at-large Swartz Fellowship funded @annedraelos.bsky.social’s transition into neuroscience and my lab at a crucial juncture and helped set the stage for her own faculty position. I’m incredibly grateful. This is a huge loss for theory in neuro.

Apparently the Sloan-Swartz neurotheory postdoc positions are ending. A real loss to the field.