Defne Büyükyazgan @defneb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026My student Aida worked on estimating governing ODEs from LFP data using sciML approaches. She left the lab excited about prospects of scientific machine learning in biology. She is a hard worker and strong problem solver 💻 052 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganTheresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I'm proud to have hosted one of these fantastic students, Aida Abkenova who worked with Defne Buyukyazgan 👩🔬 🧪 🧠 #WomenInSTEM Brown students, faculty deploy data-driven approaches to solve problems in brain science www.brown.edu/news/2026-10...brown.eduBrown students, faculty deploy data-driven approaches to solve problems in brain scienceA distinctive Carney Institute for Brain Science program at Brown University trains quantitatively minded undergraduates to introduce new methods for solving problems in brain science labs. 061 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganJacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Interested in higher-order cognition and PFC: how *does* the PFC build abstract task representations?! Going to @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2027? Vote for our symposium! cogneurosociety.org/symposium-voting-form/ feat. @desrocherslab.bsky.social @lapate.bsky.social @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social ! 03314 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganJohns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Center @jhpsychedelics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We are thrilled to share a major milestone for the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research: Ceyda Sayalı, PhD, has received an R01 award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) — the first R01 awarded to an investigator at our Center. 1101 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganNico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 21/09/20262023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give 210954 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganMark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/09/2026A Cloudflare co-founder launched the company due to OPT. This crushing fee probably means Zatlyn starts Cloudflare or another company elsewhere. Add in all the int’l PhD grads who stay for postdocs, often on OPT. Lots of US Nobel Prizes come that way. This is a stupid and destructive policy 620163 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganWomen in Neuroscience UK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026PCOS isn’t just about cysts. So what’s really happening beneath the surface? 🧠 For PCOS/PMOSAwarenessMonth, we’re unpacking the science behind PMOS and the connection between: 🧬 Metabolism 🧪 Hormones 🩺 Ovarian function 111 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganYale Neuroscience @yaleneuro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The Department of Neuroscience at Yale is hiring faculty members. We have 2 searches: one general (deadline Oct 15), one focused on computational neuroscience (deadline Nov 30). Apply! apply.interfolio.com/190736 & apply.interfolio.com/190740 02619 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganAkram Bakkour @akrambakkour.bsky.social · 08/08/2026📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social led by Seoyoung Lee! Does reward spread across multiple links in memory organized in a cognitive graph? Yes! We see graded spread through a recalled (even if incorrect) learned graph. Reward preserves proximal structure to support decisions.authors.elsevier.comReward selectively preserves relational structure in memoryMemories tend to form networks that reflect relationships between experiences. These networks, or cognitive graphs, have been used to study how struct… 04014 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganDan 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 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/07/2026The Fields Medal, awarded every four years to mathematicians under 40, was given to Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang for their groundbreaking work. Wang is only the third woman to win.washingtonpost.comFor only third time ever, a woman shares math’s top prizeThis year’s Fields Medal honors four mathematicians in their 30s who have made their mark in geometry and physics. 112533 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganSam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The cerebellum plays a role in motor learning and reinforcement learning. But does cerebellar learning generalize to all sorts of tasks? Here we test strong prediction: that cerebellar activity tracks passively learned sensory-sensory associations (statistical learning). See below for the answer! 25316 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganFederation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · 22/07/2026🧠 Hosted by the Neuroscience Society of Turkey alongside the Greek, Slovenian and Serbian Neuroscience Societies, the #FENS Regional Meeting will take place from 26–29 May 2027, offering an exciting opportunity to exchange knowledge and strengthen connections. 🤝 001 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganEric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who wants to innovate at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and machine learning. 📍Munich 📅Flexible start: 10/2026–03/2027 ⏳Full consideration by 14/08/2026 💼Funded for 2 years, extension possible Discover, grow, collaborate, eat cake. 02524 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganJan Drugowitsch @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026🚨 Big news 🚨 After 10 years at Harvard, my lab is moving to Barcelona in Spring 2027 to join @cbc-upf.bsky.social and the Department of Engineering at @upf.edu. 1/4 68818 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Omar Yaghi, a refugee from Jordan took one for the team & won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. "The current state of US science is not so encouraging b/c of the cutting back on grants and a drop in the support from US science agencies that academic researchers rely on." 🧪 archive.today/Ke6wQnature.comNobel-winning chemist leaves US to direct AI materials lab in ChinaOmar Yaghi’s move comes amid cuts to US science and a campaign in China to recruit top international talent. 65331 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganEmre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I am excited to announce the latest paper from our lab, published in Science ! In this study, we show that thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain process sensory information hierarchically across topographically organized forebrain circuits.science.orgHierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuitsThalamocortical projections shape the functional regionalization and parallel sensory computations across the mammalian cortex. However, the principles of thalamocortical computations in non-mammalian... 1311837 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 23/06/2026This is the kind of almost magic-like payoff we get from decades of basic and applied research by thousands of scientists across the globe. This is why we do it. 015447 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganMalcolm Campbell @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Excited to share that I’ll be joining Columbia's Zuckerman Institute as an assistant professor of neuroscience, starting in September! 🧵 159912 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganCaswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Job klaxon 📣 UCL is hiring two NeuroAI / computational neuroscience specialists (Lecturer or Associate Prof) — a big part of the new NeuroAI centre we're growing in Biosciences. Do consider applying if it's relevant to you. JD & details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX021 Happy to take questions. 23422 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganErica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:nature.comHuman learning of noninvasive brain–computer interfaces via manifold geometry - Nature NeuroscienceBusch et al. use nonlinear neural manifolds to help humans gain rapid control over a noninvasive brain–computer interface, allowing them to learn how to play a video game with real-time fMRI neurofeed... 419777 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganHayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · 08/06/2026The Naturalistic Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab is launching at UT Austin and is looking for founding members at all levels, including lab manager, PhD students, and postdocs! #NeuroJobs We will study human brain🧠 and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling. thesonglab.github.io 28949 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganSaige Rutherford, PhD @beingsaige.bsky.social · 30/05/2026@ohbmofficial.bsky.social how should we manage childcare at #OHBM2026? I am assuming it is possible for caregivers to bring young children into the venue without needing a registration? 475 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganScience Magazine @science.org · 04/06/2026The European Union’s push to attract foreign scientific talent has taken a step forward, with applications opening for a new supergrant aimed at “outstanding researchers” from around the world. scim.ag/4x6d1vKscim.agHow Europe hopes to lure foreign researchers with massive new grantsMaria Leptin, president of the European Research Council, on supergrants, AI-generated submissions, and the agency’s future 0468 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganKarandeep(Singh) @kdpsingh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Statistics aka Likelihoodmaxxing 218228 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganOxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN) @oxcin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Huge congratulations to our Global Scholars @arijitbhattacharya.bsky.social and Patrick Filima, who received a @wellcometrust.bsky.social and @globalbioimaging.bsky.social Imaging4All Access Grant to visit Oxford in person! Global Scholars applications are open until June 28th! lnkd.in/dWVi5cwG 031 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganHayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · 22/05/2026🎊New Lab Alert! I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come. thesonglab.github.io I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.thesonglab.github.ioSong Lab 1411838 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganAshwin Srinivasan @ashwinvs.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Excited to share this preprint from my undergrad thesis work! Using a novel paradigm to give participants control over transitions in the environment, we found that control improved memory beyond predictability of transitions and resulted in differences in the shape of within-event memory. 072 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganThomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 13/05/2026We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by... 15412139 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganSebastian Michelmann @s-michelmann.bsky.social · 10/05/2026So excited to see this out today! Huge congrats to @oliviachristiano.bsky.social, who led this project. 03211 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganScience Magazine @science.org · 30/04/2026A gene-therapy approach to thwart the AIDS virus that has long struggled to gain traction may have new momentum after a study found it could “functionally cure” at least some monkeys. scim.ag/4upKfnQscience.orgA novel gene-therapy approach to ‘functionally cure’ HIV succeeds in some monkeysSix animals suppressed AIDS virus after one shot of treatment that makes cell-receptor antibody 0448 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganKenji Lee @kenjilee.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Super excited to (finally!) show our work on identifying cell types! Now in press www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We show how to identify cell types from ephys recordings *without* optotagging. This opens the study of not just individual cell types, but the interacting neural circuit during behavior 512038 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganAkram Bakkour @akrambakkour.bsky.social · 23/04/2026🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 We are seeking a full-time Study Coordinator for a NIMH-funded project that aims to uncover cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying maladaptive food-choice behavior in anorexia nervosa using behavior, eye tracking, fMRI, and computational models. Pls spread the word!uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.comStudy CoordinatorDepartment SSD Institute for Mind and Biology: Staff and Temporary Employees About the Department The Eating Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Univer... 03035 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganMelissa Cooper, PhD @melcooperphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Astrocytes do so much more than any of us thought - they even communicate among specific brain regions across hemispheres! The journey to this paper spanned nearly a decade, but I'm most excited to see what everyone else does with the tools we've built. There's so much for all of us to explore!nature.comAstrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks - NatureCommunication between distant brain regions is mediated by plastic networks of gap junction-coupled astrocytes. 1016475 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganArabs In Neuroscience (AiN) @arabsinneuro.bsky.social · 20/04/2026DEADLINE EXTENDED Apply before 26-April-2026 015 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganNicholas Tolley @ntolley.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Happy to share a new preprint from the @hnnsolver.bsky.social team!🧠💻🎉 "Uncovering putative neural mechanisms of neurotherapeutic impacts on EEG using the Human Neocortical Neurosolver" 📝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 12311 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganMatthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 16/04/2026The #ERC just announced new rules! erc.europa.eu/news-events/... If you got a B score before, you’re blocked for 2 years (instead of 1). A C score means 3-year exclusion. This applies to the 2027 call for now, but I’d expect this to stick. Important for anyone planning to apply this round!erc.europa.euApplying for an ERC grant in the 2027 competitions: what you need to knowThe ERC plans to launch the grant competitions under its 2027 Work Programme between July 2026 and June 2027, with the calls for proposals introducing several changes to the eligibility rules for appl... 11612 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganAthena Akrami @athenaakrami.bsky.social · 13/04/2026New preprint! 🧠 How do RNNs learn abstract rules from sequences, independent of specific stimuli? By Vezha Boboeva, with Alberto Pezzotta & George Dimitriadis "From sequences to schemas: low-rank recurrent dynamics underlie abstract relational representations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 111137 0
Defne Büyükyazgan @defneb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026celebrate your long distance science best friends 🎈🥳🍾 110 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganConstantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Thrilled to share our new paper, which shows that the relative timing of cholinergic and dopamine release dynamically gates whether dopamine acts as an RPE for in vivo plasticity and reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comAcetylcholine demixes heterogeneous dopamine signals for learning and movingNature Neuroscience - Jang et al. measured dopamine and acetylcholine release in the striatum of rats performing a decision-making task and found that the relative timing of cholinergic and... 215767 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganAlex Williams @itsneuronal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Cosyne invited me to give a long tutorial (4 hours!) on methods to quantify differences high-d neural recordings across animals, brain regions, deep neural nets, etc. The recording is up on youtube. I hope it inspires more research on this fundamental topic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n44x...youtube.comCosyne 2026 - Cosyne Tutorial: Comparative Analysis of Neural Population CodesYouTube video by Cosyne Talks 316156 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganNicholas Tolley @ntolley.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Happy to share a new preprint from my PhD thesis! “A novel framework for expanding RNNs with biophysical detail to solve cognitive tasks” 🧠💻 📝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @jonescompneurolab.bsky.social 15618 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganReza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Today I received a note from a grad student who lives in Tehran. Her note gives you firsthand experience of what it’s like to live in a city that is being bombed, and what it’s like to be young and feel despair about your future. rezashadmehr.blogspot.com/2026/03/hope...rezashadmehr.blogspot.comHopeless in TehranEssays on neuroscience 516774 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganScience Magazine @science.org · 08/03/2026In #ScienceAdvances last year, a special issue on #WomensHealth highlighted a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences. Learn more on #InternationalWomensDay: scim.ag/4b5vlLq 07014 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganOHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · 02/03/2026AI is rapidly changing how we write code — but how should we use it in research? To kick off our 2026 “How-To” we welcome Russ Poldrack (@russpoldrack.org; Stanford University): 🧠 Better Code, Better Science 📅 22 April 2026 🔗 Register: forms.gle/WRUdGQEpd5is... #OHBM #OpenScience 1147 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganEarl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 28/02/2026The brain oscillates and we should figure out why. Development of new analytics will be key: Cross-population amplitude coupling in high-dimensional oscillatory neural time series www.frontiersin.org/journals/com... #neurosciencefrontiersin.orgFrontiers | Cross-population amplitude coupling in high-dimensional oscillatory neural time seriesNeural oscillations have long been considered important markers of interaction across brain regions, yet identifying coordinated oscillatory activity from hi... 0234 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganElizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I've written two @nature.com stories this week looking at whether EU efforts to lure US scientists are working 🧪 They are: the number of US applicants wanting to take up ERC grants has doubled. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comUS applications for prestigious European research grants surgeRush for funds to relocate laboratories to Europe is latest sign of a US brain drain. 34523 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganJens-Bastian Eppler @j-b-eppler.bsky.social · 13/02/2026As promised: a detailed figure-by-figure thread on our @pnas.org paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We use signal correlations and noise correlations in chronic imaging data to show that representational drift is shaped by a balance between Hebbian and stochastic changes. Let’s dive in 👇 🧠🧪 1/9doi.orgRepresentational drift reflects ongoing balancing of stochastic changes by Hebbian learning | PNASRecent evidence indicates that even under stable environmental and behavioral conditions, responses to sensory stimuli undergo continuous reformatt... 1229 0
Reposted by Defne Büyükyazgantafazolisina.bsky.social @tafazolisina.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Thrilled that my paper is out in the @nature.com. We explored how the brain builds complex tasks by compositionally combining simpler sub-task representations. The brain flexibly performs multiple tasks by dynamically reusing neural subspaces for sensory inputs and motor actions rdcu.be/eRVUkrdcu.beBuilding compositional tasks with shared neural subspacesNature - The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations. 413447 0
Reposted by Defne BüyükyazganMohammad Hosseini @mhmdhsini.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Iranians are experiencing a collective trauma. Thousands have been killed/injured in recent events, the economy is crippled & the threat of a wider conflict is real. This is especially difficult for those living in Iran, as many have lost (or fear losing) loved ones. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 16932 0