Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 5hWe’re realizing that our communication with him is less like baby talk and more like a transatlantic talkie 020
Reposted by Harrison RitzLucy Ruixi Piao @lucy-ruixi-piao.bsky.social · 14hEEG/fNIRS pipelines can feel like a black box when you’re learning. Chenghao Zhou and I built NeuroCode: it runs your script locally, step by step, and AI explains each step using your actual data. Edit code in plain English; map EEGLAB/Homer3 → MNE. ruixip.github.io/NeuroCode/ 0133
Reposted by Harrison RitzJoshua B. Plotkin @jplotkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Opportunity: Penn MindCORE Fellowship! MindCORE seeks postdoctoral researchers for our Research Fellowship. Housed in Arts & Sciences at Penn, MindCORE is an interdisciplinary effort to understand human intelligence and behavior. Deadline December 1, 2026. mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora... 0149
Reposted by Harrison Ritzqntm @qntm.org · 11/10/2026$2.99 on Kindle for one day only!amazon.comThere Is No Antimemetics Division: A NovelAmazon.com: There Is No Antimemetics Division: A Novel eBook : qntm: Books 512829
Reposted by Harrison RitzJonathan Z Simon @jzsimon.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026#NeuroJobs #ComputationalNeuroscience Faculty position in Computational Neuroscience, Assistant or Associate Professor, at the University of Maryland (please boost): “The Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), invites applications from individuals using […]fediscience.orgOriginal post on fediscience.org 01616
Reposted by Harrison RitzOle Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Exciting Associate Professor opportunity in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, with access to state-of-the-art neuroimaging and stimulation at OHBA/OxCIN: MEG, OPM, 3T/7T MRI, TUS, TMS & more. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSQ831/a...jobs.ac.ukAssociate Professorship of Experimental Psychology at University of OxfordSearching for an academic job? Explore this Associate Professorship of Experimental Psychology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs. 15148
Reposted by Harrison RitzLilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Really looking forward to this workshop on homeostatic control and adaptive behaviour at SAB 26 in Berlin 🚀 wwin-workshop.github.io/sab2026/wwin-workshop.github.ioWanting What is Needed: From Homeostatic Control to Adaptive BehaviorA SAB 2026 workshop bringing together AI, robotics, neuroscience, physiology, ethology, biology and control theory around homeostasis, allostasis and adaptive behavior. 0101
Reposted by Harrison RitzSebastian Speer @sebospeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The Coupled Minds Lab is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027. Our lab studies how conversations shape the way people connect, change their minds, and learn, using fMRI hyperscanning, NLP, and computational modeling. The deadline is December 1, 2026. More info here: coupled-minds.github.iocoupled-minds.github.ioCoupled Minds LabCoupled Minds Lab — social neuroscience of conversation, negotiation, and human–AI interaction. 0137
Reposted by Harrison RitzGaia Molinaro @gaiamolinaro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Our reward function compression work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉 In it, we present and empirically test a computational framework that formalizes the trade-offs between goal flexibility and learning efficiency. @annecollins.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414... 08726
Reposted by Harrison RitzMindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania @pennmindcore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The MindCORE Fellows Application is open! We seek applications from recent PhDs in neuro, psych, ling, philo, comp sci, or other cog sci discipline for our 3-yr postdoc. MindCORE is Penn's interdisciplinary effort to understand human intelligence & behavior. mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora... 12520
Reposted by Harrison RitzRavi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Our 7T Terra.X is still 9 months from delivery , but the first big projects are landing. Fabulous neuroscience meets the RF engineering prowess of the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping @westernu.ca @schulichmeddent.bsky.social news.westernu.ca/2026/10/digi...news.westernu.caWestern neuroscientists developing digital brainWestern University neuroscientists are studying brain in a way that mimics real life by having people play video games inside an fMRI scanner. 0143
Reposted by Harrison RitzMark R. Saddler @msaddler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Pleased to share my new preprint with @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social and Torsten Dau: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... ! It shows that many of the characteristic limits of human hearing emerge from perceptual representations optimized for everyday hearing behavior. [1/6]biorxiv.org 1124
Reposted by Harrison RitzPessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026𝗛𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 New preprint with Andrea Gambarotto. Neuroscience often treats control as a hierarchy: the structures behind a behavior hold a stable rank. We argue this mistakes a configuration for an architecture. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2610.04643 #neuroskyence 39329
Reposted by Harrison RitzDoug Crawford @jdcrawford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Applications open for a CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN NETWORK SCIENCE with @connectedminds.bsky.social at York University Toronto. See: www.yorku.ca/unit/vpf/wp-... 099
Reposted by Harrison RitzLaura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026delighted to share my review article, out now in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! i have been thinking a lot about dynamics lately. this article outlines three key principles - persistence, parallelism, and time-stamped encoding - that support human speech comprehension 🧠✨🌀 07324
Reposted by Harrison RitzThe Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026📣 New preprint from the lab! 🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgAsymmetric Adaptation of Catch-up Saccades with Artificial Central ScotomasIn fully-sighted individuals, pursuit and saccadic eye movements work together to foveate moving targets; pursuit attempts to match target velocity, while catch-up saccades re-align the fovea to the t... 083
Reposted by Harrison RitzKrishn Bera @krishnbera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026How fast we decide reveals how we learn. New in @plos.org #PLoSCompBio : modeling response times alongside choices disentangles working memory, reinforcement learning and cognitive control, and reveals differences in schizophrenia that choices alone missed. 🧵 t.co/BTOgmpd4YHt.cohttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014796 1239
Reposted by Harrison RitzPaul Bays @bayslab.org · 05/10/2026Do the contents of visual #WorkingMemory deteriorate more quickly when more items are being remembered? Seems a straightforward question but we had to bring together 13 studies and >120,000 trials to get definitive answers... doi.org/10.1037/rev0... @ivntmc.bsky.socialdoi.orghttps://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000645 0147
Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think there’s still a thrill for connectionist labs, given how long the road was / how cold the winters were. A key part of the program is finding organizing principles, not just existence proofs. There’s plenty of good work still being done this way, but I think it’s harder to do well with LLMs 1200
Reposted by Harrison RitzJonathan Rittmo @jorittmo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The first paper from my PhD is out in Nature Neuroscience! Aging and Alzheimer's disease reshape how the brain communicates. But not in the same way: aging vs AD related alterations follow two distinct axes of brain organization Paper → www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Alzheimers #Neuroimaging 🧵⬇️ 2378
Reposted by Harrison RitzBen Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New paper from the Neurosurgery research team at BCM! 🧵 "A population code for semantics in human hippocampus" led by Melissa Franch. We recorded hippocampus single neurons while people listened to podcasts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comA population code for semantics in human hippocampus - Nature NeuroscienceFranch et al. show that human hippocampal neurons encode the meanings of the words we hear through distributed, context-sensitive population activity that mirrors some features of large language model... 110132
Reposted by Harrison RitzImaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by ,Margot J. Taylor and Natalie Rhodes: Expanding the toolkit: OPMs for studying the developing brain doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... 0103
Reposted by Harrison RitzLindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One week left to apply for this job! Two notes: 1) We’re open to a really broad range of research programs. If you’re wondering “is my topic ‘high-level’ enough?” it probably is and you should apply. 2️⃣⬇️ 193
Reposted by Harrison RitzMatthijs Pals @matthijspals.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What kind of dynamics underlie sequence working memory? In the last project of my PhD we developed and analysed RNNs fitted to multi-session single-unit data of macaques. Now out on: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With @jakhmack.bsky.social and data from Chen et al., Neuron 2024. [1/4] 14820
Reposted by Harrison Ritzsamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/10/2026early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here 1119058
Reposted by Harrison RitzScully Center @scullycenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Amazing opportunity to join us at PNI! Love teaching and cog neuro? Join us as a full-time lecturer with access to cutting-edge tech, including OPM MEG and MRI. Please share! #neuroskyence #MRISky #EEG #MEG #NeuroJobs #computationalneuroscience #neuromethods bsky.app/profile/prin... 042
Reposted by Harrison RitzAndrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy to announce that I am searching for for a graduate student, starting Fall 2027. If you want to study the neural mechanisms of reaching and grasping, come join us in the rich environment of the Sensorimotor Superlab. For details: www.pruszynskilab.com/positions.html 02622
Reposted by Harrison Ritzstanfordbrain.bsky.social @stanfordbrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A 13,000-pound magnetically shielded room at Wu Tsai Neuro now houses one of the world's most advanced brain-scanning systems: OPM-MEG. @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & Milena Kaestner discuss how it works, its journey to Stanford, & hopes for its future. neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/brain-i...neuroscience.stanford.eduA brain-imaging ‘Goldilocks’: OPM-MEG unveiled at Koret Human NeurosciencesA dedicated team of staff and faculty, innovative research ideas, and a 13,000-pound magnetically shield 0112
Reposted by Harrison RitzJordan Lei @jordanlei.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Our paper is out in Nature Communications! In our messy, noisy world, do you find planning difficult/less worthwhile? It's not just you. As we increased the stochasticity in a planning environment, we found that people spent less effort planning: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cogsci #planningnature.comEnvironmental stochasticity reduces human planning effort - Nature CommunicationsThe real world is stochastic, making it difficult to know when planning is worthwhile. Here the authors show that as stochasticity increases, people spend less effort planning and adopt simpler, less ... 26219
Reposted by Harrison RitzBrad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Really chuffed about this one. It's impt for our efforts to understand neural and computational bases of controlling the contents of WM. It also highlights a control-related signal in the beta band that is NOT "inhibitory" in the way often assumed doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...doi.orgPrioritization in Working Memory Reduces Interference via Beta Band-Linked Stimulus TransformationsWe studied the effects of prioritization in a two-step retrocuing task in which male and female humans hold two items in working memory, and the item not cued by the first cue cannot be dropped becaus... 2238
Reposted by Harrison RitzW. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Faculty position at the University of Toronto 👇 jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...jobs.utoronto.caAssistant Professor - Systems NeurophysiologyAssistant Professor - Systems Neurophysiology 02241
Reposted by Harrison RitzHayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Medial PFC interacts with the hippocampus to retrieve context-congruent memories.. but HOW?? was what started this. Simulating mPFC-HIP🧠, we designed an RNN🤖 that retrieves memories similar in context, on top of self-attention. It learns to retrieve like humans faster! arxiv.org/abs/2609.37791arxiv.orgA neural network that maintains and retrieves memories based on contextEvery day, people continuously infer situational context and adjust the way they understand and remember the world. Context, signaled by the prefrontal cortex, is known to modulate working memory and ... 15526
Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s a great example of ‘extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ 020
Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Congrats! And thank you for all this open code, what a great resource. 130
Reposted by Harrison RitzDecision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab @danclab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Our multilayer MEG paper is out today in Nature Communications: depth-resolved laminar inference in humans 🧠#neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comMultilayer MEG source modelling enables depth-resolved laminar inference in humans - Nature CommunicationsResearchers developed a multilayer MEG framework that estimates activity across cortical depth non-invasively. Simulations and three human datasets show when reliable laminar inference is possible, en... 18343
Reposted by Harrison RitzTim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Looking for a postdoc in comp neuro and human brain imaging? Interested in foraging? Join our international collaboration with Jon Rubin, @jyotikab.bsky.social, & @davidrobbe.bsky.social be.bsky.social to study the neural basis of foraging behavior! cmu.wd115.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...cmu.wd115.myworkdayjobs.comPostdoctoral Research Associate – Cognitive Axon Lab – Dietrich CollegeThe Cognitive Axon Lab, in the Department of Psychology and Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute, seeks applications for a multi-year Postdoctoral Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University. T... 02222
Reposted by Harrison RitzDarcy Waller @darcywaller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Pop quiz: What do detailed biophysical modeling, RSA, RNNs, and frequency-specific oscillatory analyses have in common? For the answer, check out our proposal for a @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2027 symposium and vote for it if you feel so inclined! www.cogneurosociety.org/symposium-vo...cogneurosociety.orgSymposium Voting Form - Cognitive Neuroscience Society 1105
Reposted by Harrison RitzRLDM @rldmparis2027.bsky.social · 29/09/2026📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀 07237
Reposted by Harrison RitzAnna Corriveau @annacorriveau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New preprint! Are attentional lapses the result of disengagement or simply response failure? Using EEG, we tested how attention fluctuations impact visual representations in the brain. (1/5) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgDegraded neural representations foreshadow failures of sustained attentionAttention prioritizes relevant information from the environment, but does not do so consistently over time. Instead, we sometimes experience poor attentional states which are characterized by a higher... 56329
Reposted by Harrison RitzAmitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 28/09/20262 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights: 17542
Reposted by Harrison RitzChris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Columbia Psychology is hiring for a Cognitive Science/Neuroscience Assistant Professor position as part of our ongoing push to expand our Cognitive research program (including two hires last year). We'll be starting application reviews next week so get materials in asap! apply.interfolio.com/193975apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 13217