Reposted by Benjamin CowleyPrinceton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026🌟 Applications are open! The Princeton Neuroscience Institute invites exceptional postdoctoral researchers to apply for our CV Starr Fellowship, which provides an attractive salary and research funds. 🗓️ Deadline: Nov. 06, 2026 🔗 pni.princeton.edu/apply/postdo... 064
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyBen Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgInferring the evolving objectives that organize animal behaviorUnderstanding how the brain supports flexible, goal-directed behavior is a central aim of neuroscience. Yet such behavior is highly variable and unfolds over long timescales, making it challenging to ... 0366
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyPrinceton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026📢 We’re hiring! PNI is seeking a full-time Lecturer in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in computational modeling and human cognitive neuroscience. Priority consideration: Nov. 30 Apply: apply.interfolio.com/193741 #NeuroSkyence #NeuroJobs 02123
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyAnn Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Preprint time! This is a cool one. Complex systems, be they neural nets, interacting genes, or power grids, can produce diverse dynamics-- things like point attractors, limit cycles, and chaos. The dynamic landscape you get depends on how elements interact. But those interactions can also change! 28125
Benjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026That to me suggests it's just too large. I understand visa issues, etc., but at what point should it splinter? What is the number to cap accepted work? 110
Benjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026That and three locations for Neurips...it feels more like SfN (prelim data, get feedback) than rigorous review. ML conferences have fallen to Goodhart's Law, alas. 160
Reposted by Benjamin CowleySven Dorkenwald @sdorkenw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Applications are now open for the San Juan Winter School 2027 on Connectomics and Brain Simulation! Join us to learn how to analyze and simulate connectomes. sjcabs.com 01921
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyJohn Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026**Second** job in computational/theoretical neuro at @dukemedschool.bsky.social! Really great opportunity, great colleagues. 11812
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyJieyu Zheng @jieyusz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026An acortical mouse — born without hippocampus and most of its neocortex — learns the Manhattan Maze: a 30× improvement in 5 hours, 18 rewards! Now a question for everyone: How can an acortical brain do this? Leave a comment! Preprint w/ @mameister4.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 68928
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyCOSYNE @cosynemeeting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026📢Have work to share with the computational and systems neuroscience community? Abstract submissions for #COSYNE2027 are now open. Deadline: 18 October 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE Submit your abstract: www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su... #Neuroscience 07446
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyMisha Ahrens @mishaahrens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Whole-body cellular activity imaging in zebrafish, headed by Virginie Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social - new paper is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comImaging cellular activity across all organs reveals body-wide circuits - NatureAn imaging system developed to record cellular activity throughout the whole body of zebrafish captures cellular organ dynamics and identifies multiple distributed circuits. 110441
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyMatteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 09/09/2026If you thought "everything is everywhere" in the brain: inactivations reveal a clear distinction of labor. Sensory areas sense, colliculus promotes eligible actions (!), and prefrontal cortex integrates. The role of superior colliculus in a logistic decision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 210532
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyPrinceton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026We're hiring! PNI is recruiting an assistant professor of neuroscience working with non-human primates in any area. Review begins Oct 19: apply.interfolio.com/192521 #NeuroJobs #Neuroskyence 04853
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyEnny van Beest @ennyvb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Textbook: tracking position during navigation is primarily the job of the hippocampus. Recent findings suggest a more complicated story. Recording >20k neurons brainwide, we indeed find spatial representations in every region! With @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and @carandinilab.net 416852
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyJieyu Zheng @jieyusz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026How fast can mice learn complex mazes? With @mameister4.bsky.social we reveal memory, generalization, latent learning, and remote credit assignment of mice in the Manhattan Maze. Do mice born without a cortex or hippocampus have them too? Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgRapid spatial cognition in mice, with and without neocortex and hippocampusRapid learning, memory, and generalization are often attributed to circuits of the neocortex and hippocampus, but their specific role remains unclear. To examine these cognitive abilities together in ... 512848
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyHHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 03/09/2026(1/2) When Janelia set out to map every neuron in the fly brain in 2008, many thought it couldn’t be done. Nearly 20 years later, a complete wiring diagram of the 166,000+ neurons of the adult male fruit fly is helping to reveal the brain’s secrets: bit.ly/4zT7jPf. 13917
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyReyes-Lamothe lab @reyes-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026We’re hiring! The Biology department at McGill is hiring a tenure-track professor in Quantitative Cell Biology. We’re looking for an outstanding researcher and educator to join our community. Deadline: October 9 Info & application: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree... Please share!mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor in Quantitative Cell Biology - Department of BiologyPlease refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ... 15663
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyJoao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 03/09/2026I can finally tell the world that i was selected for an ERC stg 🤯 Maybe this what people mean when they say they are "humbled by" but I am at peak imposter syndrome, and I really mean it: 1/ 291459
Reposted by Benjamin CowleySamantha Butler @samanthabutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Please spread the news - the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA is hiring. This is an open rank search for all and any amazing neuroscientists! Please apply here by Nov 15th, first review end of October : recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11296recruit.apo.ucla.eduOpen-rank tenure-track faculty positionUniversity of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now! 07066
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyMarc Coutanche @marccoutanche.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Cog Neuro/Cog Psych to join us at Rice! Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/192080apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 24642
Reposted by Benjamin CowleySonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591apol-recruit.ucsd.eduAssistant Professor of Developmental BiologyUniversity of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now! 3150129
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyTal Golan @talgolanneuro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026How can we design experiments that make computational models disagree? One section of our new @natrevneuro.nature.com Review with @kriegeskorte.bsky.social and @heikoschuett.bsky.social examines studies that used stimulus sets designed to elicit distinct predictions from competing models. 1/16 114156
Benjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026There is another position for a wet lab faculty (multi-systems biology), so glass half full! 010
Benjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026CSHL is hiring a new BioAI faculty member, part of a multi-year hiring process for the Foundations of the Future. We need to fill a new BioAI building, come join! www.cshl.edu/about-us/car... 02610
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyMartin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Hiring postdocs @EPFL: please reach out and/or apply to the AI Center fellowship www.epfl.ch/research/fun.... My #NeuroAI group is excited about testing and building models of brain and behavior, from sensory through language to cognition, and from healthy to dysfunction (treatment)! 🧠🤖🧪epfl.chEPFL AI Center and Swiss AI Initiative Postdoctoral FellowshipsThe 3rd call is now open with a submission deadline on 9 November 2026 17:00 (CET). 0158
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyThe Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 29/08/2026The Ferrier Medal and Lecture 2027 is awarded to Professor Kenneth Daniel Harris for his contributions to neuroscience by unifying experimental neurophysiology with advanced analytical methods and for pioneering methods that allow recording from thousands of neurons. #RSMedals bit.ly/4qCJZRo 47219
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyPatrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 22/08/2026How has neuroscience changed in the past 10 years? I reread The Future of the Brain, a 2014 compilation of essays from neuroscientists, to see if we accomplished what we said we would. Atlases! Connectomes! Whole brain simulations! TL;DR: we did pretty well! www.neuroai.science/p/the-future...neuroai.scienceThe Future of the Brain, past and presentReflecting on a decade of neuroscience advancements 14311
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyKanaka Rajan @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026(1/8) Our approach for untangling brain-wide interactions is out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! Current-Based Decomposition (CURBD) uses RNNs constrained by real neural data to reveal the input driving neurons, uncovering how brain regions talk to each other. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... 🧵👇 211939
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyCris Niell @crisniell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Very happy to share our new review on visual computation in the cephalopod brain, with @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social, out now! We discuss exciting recent advances in understanding how the radically different brain of cephalopods processes the visual scene. 🐙🔬👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 211142
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyDan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobsaprecruit.berkeley.eduAssistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of NeuroscienceUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 09193
Benjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Makes sense! I was wondering if someone on the team was passionate about that movie. I've also seen The Matrix, Mad Max, and Sherlock in other animal studies! 000
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyThomas Zenkel @thomaszen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026📣 Our paper introducing openretina, a collaborative framework for retina modelling across datasets and species, is now published as an eLife Reviewed Preprint. Paper: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Code: github.com/open-retina/... Docs: open-retina.org 12911
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyAlana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026🎉 *extremely* excited to share our human single neuron + movie dataset is out in #ScientificData! 📄 Human neuron activity during an 83-minute movie from 2,286 neurons and 29 patients 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-07955-0 1st public dataset from @humansingleneuron.bsky.social!🧵 513937
Benjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I'm curious what the backstory was for choosing this particular movie...better than an oscars award! 110
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyJohn Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026**Four** positions in AI/ML for biology at @dukemedschool.bsky.social, including in Neurobiology. @scottsoderling.bsky.social and David Page are leading a tremendous initiative in Discovery AI. Wonderful colleagues, wonderful place.nature.comAI/ML for Biology - 4 tenure-track assistant professor positions - Durham, North Carolina job with Duke University - Biochemistry & Cell Biology | 12862109Discovery AI Initiative and Departments of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Integrative Immunobiology, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology 11922
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyJohn Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026🚨We’re moving! 🚨 Starting this fall, my lab will be moving to the Center for Neural Science at NYU and the Center for Computational Neuroscience at the @flatironinstitute.org. 1/ 159313
Reposted by Benjamin CowleySpencer LaVere Smith @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse - with @michaelgoard.bsky.social @crisniell.bsky.social @mbeyeler.bsky.social Visual computations that are engaged in ecological contexts: active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception. doi.org/10.1146/annu... 16023
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyMarlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality. But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵 1/ 317854
Benjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026What does the rightmost red dot represent? Autonomous companies? At least the axes were labeled. 130
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyGrace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Updated preprint and code from my lab. If you want to explore more realistic neural dynamics in models that can still perform visual tasks, check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgModeling Dynamical Vision with Biologically Plausible Recurrent Convolutional NetworksConvolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) trained for image recognition have demonstrated remarkable conceptual similarities to the primate ventral visual pathway, but their standard feedforward architectu... 17017
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyWei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18 214984
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyMichelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/arxiv.orgPlaces in the Wild: A Large, High-Resolution RAW Photograph Dataset for Ecologically Valid Vision ResearchLarge image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi... 16632
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyMartin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Two simple ideas for building improved brain encoding models: 1. learn to use representations from all model layers via a gating mechanism + 2. start from natively multimodal features for multimodal predictions. State of the art performance; see mirage-brain.epfl.ch for details #NeuroAI 🧠🤖🧪mirage-brain.epfl.chMIRAGE: Adaptive Multimodal Gating for Whole-Brain fMRI Encoding 0205
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyMatteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 01/06/2026Neuropixels + Optogenetics = Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics. 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors. Today in @natmethods.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... Thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social, @alleninstitute.org, @hhmijanelia.bsky.social & team. 115753
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyMike Zheng @xmikezheng20.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I’m happy to share a protocol we’ve been working on for building modular, synchronized multimodal data acquisition systems for systems neuroscience behavior rigs. @mbd1mbd1.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro...dx.doi.orgA modular toolkit for synchronized multimodal data acquisition in systems neuroscienceA modular toolkit for synchronized multimodal data acquisition in systems neuroscience. Animal behavio. Read full protocol, steps, and materials on protocols.io 1215
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyBrad Hulse @bradkhulse.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Story time friends... Ring attractor networks rely on fine-tuned symmetric connectivity. The fly head direction network has ring attractor dynamics but heterogeneous connectivity. How is this possible? 1/🧵 Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 58830
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyKristin Branson @kristinmbranson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026New preprint with @lingqiz.bsky.social: Neurodata Without Boredom: Benchmarking Agentic AI for Data Reuse arxiv.org/abs/2605.12808 1/10 24718
Reposted by Benjamin CowleyMartin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Finally, today is the day: Josefine Zerbe will present and release our new multi-echo 7T fMRI dataset LAION-fMRI during #VSS2026, with >30 fMRI session per subject and unprecedented stimulus diversity. Come to Talk Room 1 (Scene perception) today at 5:15. Details will follow in a separate thread! 113241