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Evan D Vickers

@evandvickers1.bsky.social
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PhD Neuroscientist, Research Associate / Post-Doc at the Institute of Neuroscience (ION), University of Oregon (UO), Eugene, OR evandvickersphdneuroscientist.com mccormicklab.org orcid.org/0000-0002-7053-4740

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly... #neuroscience
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Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings | Quanta Magazine
Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.
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Lukas Groschner @lukasgroschner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Single-neuron computations depend on the subcellular distribution and voltage sensitivity of ion channels. | @pnas.org #HorizonEU @erc.europa.eu (1/5) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Distribution and voltage dependence of ion channels shape single-neuron computations | PNAS
Voltage-gated ion channels do not distribute evenly in the plasma membrane of a neuron; they localize to distinct domains where they govern the exc...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Granule cells may allow the brain to simultaneously generalize across tasks—avoiding the need to learn each new challenge from scratch—while still capturing what makes each situation distinct. #neuroskyence By Holly Barker www.thetransmitter.org/cerebellum/c...
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Cerebellum discerns similar actions by reorienting activity
The findings provide a new perspective on how granule cells in the cerebellum help to generalize across tasks.
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Howdy! 🤠 We’re hiring two research technicians to study sensory physiology, feeding behavior, and body-weight regulation using slice electrophysiology and viral-mediated circuit manipulations. No prior ephys experience needed, we’ll train you! Please reach out if interested 😊
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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just came across this interesting list my @markhisted.org so I thought I'd share it. Thanks Mark for putting it together! (disclosure: contains me) go.bsky.app/RnPdB5N
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Krissy Lyon @krissylyon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Super excited to share that I will start my lab at University of Oregon in Fall 2027! We will study astrocyte-neuron interactions in neurodevelopment and related disorders. Grateful to all my mentors and colleagues! I couldn’t be happier to return to the PNW! ion.uoregon.edu/research/fac...
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1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰 @bradleyclover.com · 14/09/2026
If you find yourself in the central city you should pop by City hall to look at caked up Sasquatch.
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Takuya Sasatani @takuyasasatani.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Miniscope Zero, the first fully wireless Miniscope, is on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Wireless power + data enable neural recordings in enclosed mazes, 3D environments & from two animals at once! @miniscope.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.64898/202... Wiki: miniscope.org/wiki/Minisco...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Convergence and function of distinct corticocortical and transthalamic synapses across sensory processing hierarchies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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COSYNE @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
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Aran Nayebi @anayebi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
CMU is hiring an Assistant Professor in NeuroAI! Come join our awesome NeuroAI community 🧠🤖: apply.interfolio.com/189268
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The brain does not turn up the volume on important sounds. It sharpens their timing. By synchronizing neurons to a shared rhythm, attention to a location makes the signal cleaner, not louder. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroscience
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Traveling waves are not just neurons firing. They are also waves of inputs. How quickly that input moves determines how strongly neurons respond, because leaky integration depends on timing as much as total input. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1... #neuroscience
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Traveling waves along the cortical depth reflect structured synaptic inputs
Traveling waves (TWs) are widely observed in the brain and are thought to play multiple functional roles, yet what LFP traveling waves represent remains unclear. Using translaminar recordings in macaq...
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Jieyu Zheng @jieyusz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An 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...
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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
everyone is going insane for this but it's a slop machine. the first character i rolled was a child who died in 5th century BCE Iran and the site generated me a picture of "his home" which had drainpipes and telephone wires. fuck this.
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 03/09/2026
Ah, and we'll be hiring soon at all levels :)) so don't hesitate to check our research and reach out if it sounds interesting Jbarbosa.org
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Lucia Peixoto @sciencenlucia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New preprint 🧵 Why do so many autistic kids struggle to fall asleep? We studied the brain's molecular "sleepiness" signal in mice with a mutation in Shank3, a leading autism gene, and found it works very differently than it should.
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Evan D Vickers @evandvickers1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today's harvest
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hiring 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.ch
EPFL AI Center and Swiss AI Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowships
The 3rd call is now open with a submission deadline on 9 November 2026 17:00 (CET).
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We're currently hiring a new director for the renowned UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. The director will be appointed as a Professor in our psychology department: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07814
recruit.ucdavis.edu
Director of the Center for Mind and Brain & Professor of Psychology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Evan D Vickers @evandvickers1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Yesterday's harvest
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Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What regulates the urge to sleep? William Joo and colleagues identified brain regions that reflect how long mice have been awake. Strikingly, inhibiting one of these regions reduces sleep by 70%, without the major behavioral deficits associated with sleep deprivation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Wake-activated neuronal populations that regulate sleep drive - Nature
Whole-brain activity mapping, targeted cell manipulations and electrophysiology in mice identify wake-activated neuronal populations that are crucial for sleep drive and can persistently red...
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Just accepted the 2nd study section invitation for this autumn/winter. If you can serve on study section, please accept when asked. The SROs and the POs are working so hard to get good science funded.
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UM-MIND - Institute for Neuroscience Discovery @um-mind.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
UM-MIND is hiring! We are recruiting several tenure-track neuroscience faculty members, preferably at the Assistant Professor level, to join our institute at the University of Maryland School of Medicine here in Baltimore, MD. Learn more here: umb.taleo.net/careersectio... @medschool.umaryland.edu
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Assistant Professor, University of Maryland – Medicine Institute for Neuroscience Discovery (UM-MIND)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yale Neuroscience is hiring another computational neuroscience position this year! Please share with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the position, or growing neuro-AI community at Yale/WTI!
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Excited to release the newest preprint from the lab into the wild. Super proud of @ninaluong.bsky.social, who did 99% of the experiments in this beast of a paper. Want to know more about some novel RGC subtypes? Buckle up! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9
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A pooled genetic approach provides multimodal access to uncharacterized retinal ganglion cell subtypes
Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the sole output neurons of the retina, responsible for transmitting visual information to the brain. Recent transcriptomic studies have revealed extensive molecular d...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Experience-dependent interneuron plasticity may represent a convergent circuit mechanism for these neurodevelopmental risk genes that reflects a shared genetic architecture, a new study suggests. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/los...
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Neurodevelopmental conditions may share faulty plasticity
Restoring expression of an experience-dependent interneuron plasticity gene aids memory and cuts seizures in CNTNAP2 knockout mice, a new study shows.
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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you’re interested to do an interdisciplinary co-mentored, field transition, or open ended theory/computation postdoc at WTI, please get in touch!
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Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Graffiti spotted from the last day of the inimitable Lloyd Center Mall, as found on the Instagram account “jol.e.ne” @greatdismal.bsky.social
screenshot photo from the Instagram account “jol.e.ne” of a portion of the mostly empty Lloyd Center Mall taken on the last day it was open. We see in the left background a glass storefront window with the suggestion of a snowman left over from Christmastime. In the foreground someone has graffitied on a pillar,

“I’m pretty sure
we are living in a
William Gibson novel.”
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/08/2026
Great to hear @emilyjacobs.bsky.social talking about her lab's amazing work on precision neuroimaging of women's brains radiolab.org/podcast/this...
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This is Your Brain on Hormones - Transcript
We don’t have hormones, hormones have us.
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Evan D Vickers @evandvickers1.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Happy Swiss National Day!
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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The 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 #NeuroJobs
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Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Kari Hoffman @karihoffman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
📣New paper! How does the sleeping brain help us to integrate new experiences while managing memories from the past? For his PhD work, @sabbaspoor.bsky.social recorded hippocampal ensembles in freely moving monkeys and found something unexpected. 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧠📈👩‍🔬#OpenAccess
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Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques - Nature Neuroscience
In macaques, old memories, relative to new ones, are supported by more stable and interconnected cell assemblies. New-biased and old-biased assemblies reactivate during overnight sleep and can sometim...
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘅: 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 A must read for systems neuroscience. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Neuropixels 1536 Channel Quad Base probe reveals brain-wide communication underlying flexible sensorimotor sequences www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We're super excited to use these models to understand how shifts in neuronal physiology, for example induced by neuromodulators and neuropeptides, can give rise to changes in population dynamics. Stay tuned for follow-up work in the coming weeks! arxiv.org/abs/2607.09516
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A multi-ensemble mean-field reduction method for networks of globally coupled phase oscillators with arbitrary parameter distributions
Understanding the dynamical properties of coupled phase oscillator systems with heterogeneous oscillator frequencies has been a long-standing challenge of complex systems theory. While the seminal wor...
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Evan D Vickers @evandvickers1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Today's harvest.
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is a really interesting and important study: www.nature.com/articles/s41... However, isn't it concerning that sweeping conclusions about functional organization of cortex are being reached on the basis of a single task?
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Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature
Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.
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Evan D Vickers @evandvickers1.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
bluesky
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 13/07/2026
My home institute, @ucleye.bsky.social, is looking for a new Director! www.veredus.co.uk/job/job-1183a/
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Director of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology - REF 1183 | Veredus
University College London Director of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology  Location: London Salary: An attractive remuneration package UCL is a world leading, global university with a community of more...
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Evan D Vickers @evandvickers1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Blackberries and blueberries just after dusk
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Spontaneous eye blinks as temporal markers of internal attention www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 02/07/2026
Peer review, not politics, should guide federal science funding. A proposed OMB rule threatens that principle. Join fellow #Neuroadvocates in standing with the scientific community! Public comments are open through July 13. Add your voice: vist.ly/59usk #neurosky #neuroskyence
Text reads 'Speak Up for Science! A proposed rule threatens federally funded research. Act now.'
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Evan D Vickers @evandvickers1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Sunflower progress
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Jeremiah Cohen @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Excited to move to the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota in the fall. We will continue our work on neuromodulators and behavior. Positions available in the lab. Please get in touch if interested, and share broadly! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/374... hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/374...
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Matt Smear @mattsmear.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I am a neurodivergent neuroscientist. My bipolar brain brings struggle but it also helps me think off-the-map ideas. To help others who are similarly different, I co-founded the Neurodiversity Innovation Center for Excellence in Neuroscience (niceinneuro.org) with Leah Blankenship and Lila Kaye.
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Evan D Vickers @evandvickers1.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Someone got thirsty during our PNW heatwave
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Laura Driscoll @lndriscoll.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
New job posting! If you're interested in working with our group, check it out. 3 year position (with possibility to extend) at >100k. alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
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Open Positions | Allen Institute
Build your career at the Allen Institute. Explore current job openings and find your place in a team driving some of the most ambitious open science in the world.
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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