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Dr. Jan Zimmermann

@janzimmermann.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Neuroscience at UMN. Circuit enthusiast, organic or silicon(e). Opinions all mine.

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 5h
Please stop telling high school students to cold email university professors. Really, just stop. If you are a high school student looking for research opportunities, search and apply to the myriad of formal training programs that cater specifically to your education level.
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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today I'm releasing the "1000×1000 collection": a unified place to learn about dynamical structure. 1000 simulated time series (1000 samples each) spanning 133 dynamical processes. Have a play? 🐛 #timeseries #dynamicalsystems #complexity #opendata dynamicsandneuralsystems.github.io/1000x1000/
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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are thrilled 🥳 to share that we’re joining forces with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social to establish a joint research unit, @cmc-unit.bsky.social integrating embodied and natural decision making across species! We also have open PhD and postdoc positions (check below for more info) 🎉
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain | doi.org/10.1126/scia... Aquaporins are a key component of the glymphatic system. How are they distributed + how do they relate to brain function and dysfunction? ⤵️
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Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain
Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels support the glymphatic system, a brain-wide pathway that clears cerebral waste products. Here, we use AQP4 gene expression to reconstruct a whole-brain glymphatic-rel...
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you work with international personnel, you may want to comment on this proposed rule change that would put visa holders out of status immediately (instead of after a 60 day grace period) when their employment ends keepthe60days.com
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Keep the 60 Days: H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 & TN grace period
DHS proposes ending the 60-day grace period after a layoff for H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 and TN visa holders. Comment on USCIS-2026-0364 before November 10, 2026.
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Jack Gallant @gallantlab.org · 24/09/2026
Dr. Tianjiao Zhang's landmark study of naturalistic navigation has been accepted in Nature Neuroscience! Encoding models fit 28,134 features to fMRI from a virtual taxi-driving task, revealing 11 distinct cortical regions that transform perception into action. Read the preprint. gallantlab.org
Dr. Tianjiao Zhang's landmark study of naturalistic navigation has been accepted in Nature Neuroscience!
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think this all the time and typically concluded I was just not smart enough but many modern papers do indeed say very little.
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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Preprint 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!
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My two brains
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Elementary Video Game with Sherlock & Watson
ALT: Elementary Video Game with Sherlock & Watson
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No matter how justified, you can’t spend all of your time angry about world events. It’s important to take a step back and focus on the little things around you that will also make you angry. 
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is basically my plan this year too
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Back by popular demand
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What a wonderful study. Huge congratulations to the entire team
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ISMRM @ismrm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We’re excited to introduce Karla Miller, Ph.D., the 2027 Lauterbur Lecturer! Join us in Vancouver for the 2027 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition. LEARN MORE: ow.ly/JzSi50ZMNaX #ISMRM2027 #ISMRM #ISMRT #MRI #MagneticResonance #Radiology #MedicalImaging #MRTechnologists #Radiographer
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don’t post political things often but if you believe that you should defend a musician who does nazi salutes and dresses up in “Jew”face you are an antisemite and I want nothing to do with you. Enough is enough.
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Monosov Lab @monosovlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New preprint! 🧠 How do reward, risk & information preferences relate to psychopathology? How do they vary across decisions about gains vs. losses? 1,954 people! Hundreds of economic choices each + transdiagnostic assessment of mental health symptoms online. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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A dimensional link between gain-loss economic preferences and psychopathology
Human decision-makers differ in how they value and trade off reward, risk, and information when evaluating future gains and losses, and these preferences are central to well-being. However, how multi-...
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m on the faculty job market this fall! 🐦🧠 I’m an NIH K99/R00 awardee studying how the brain learns complex skills, using birdsong to connect molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior & computation. Know of a search where I might fit? Please send it my way & share!
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Drew Schreiner, Ph.D. | Neuroscience of Learning
I use birdsong to understand how the brain learns complex skills across molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior, and computation. On the 2026–27 faculty job market.
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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Updated lab website with the amazing people I get to work with and some exciting projects underway izquierdolab.com
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Izquierdo Lab — Alicia Izquierdo, UCLA Department of Psychology
The Izquierdo Lab at UCLA studies the brain mechanisms of flexible reward learning and value-based decision making, with a focus on frontocortical circuits.
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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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Bing Wen Brunton @bingbrunton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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DPZ Deutsches Primatenzentrum @primatenzentrum.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Exklusive Einblicke statt Hörsaal: 🙋🥼✨ Mit ihrem Professor und Institutsdirektor Prof. Dr. Stefan Treue konnten 30 Studierende der Universität Göttingen das DPZ besuchen und Einblicke in die neuropsychologische Forschung erhalten. Vielen Dank für euren Besuch – wir freuen uns auf ein Wiedersehen!
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wow
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Ian Shih @shihyyi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our SORDINO paper is available @natneuro.nature.com. I hope it will prove useful to the fMRI community. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our earlier digest: bsky.app/profile/shih... News & Views by @shemesh-lab.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Use SORDINO in your lab: camri.org/SORDINO
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For those in the back
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Adam Carter @carterlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excited to share our new Cell Reports paper on paratenial thalamus (PT), which identifies a molecular marker for PT, and shows how PT interacts with the medial prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, and basolateral amygdala, all done by my grad student Nigel Dao: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dolphins are known to "pass around" pufferfish, lightly envenoming themselves with its narcotic-like tetrodotoxin Debate continues on whether this constitutes animal recreational drug use, but I want to ask a DIFFERENT question: What's up with the pufferfish's skeleton?
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Puffer Fish Swimming
Alt: Puffer Fish Swimming: a spherical fish with angry looking eyes, a beak-like mouth, and spikes extending in all directions. The belly is cream colored, the back is a dull yellow-brown.
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Erin Rich @erinlrich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey, we’ve been studying mnemonic chunking in🐒! With @fkchiang89.bsky.social Here’s the rundown: 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Compression as a neural mechanism of mnemonic chunking in prefrontal cortex
Chiang and Rich show that macaques spontaneously chunk spatial targets in a self-ordered working memory task. dlPFC neurons compress chunked targets into lower-dimensional representations that are shi...
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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 03/09/2026
#SpikingNeuralNetwork people - this year's SNUFA workshop is live! Talks by: ⭐ Eugene Izhikevich ⭐ @giuliadangelo.bsky.social ⭐ Mihai Petrovici ⭐ Susanne Schreiber Submit your abstracts by Sept 25th. Registration is open! More info at: snufa.net/2026/ cc @fzenke.bsky.social @albada.bsky.social
Picture of the SNUFA spiky hedgehog
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Pok pok pok. Frontopolar stats can be run on an abacus given its sparse response rate
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 29/08/2026
The 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
A man in a black shirt smiles at the camera in front of a whiteboard covered in scientific notation.
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Tal Golan @talgolanneuro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How 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
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Jean-Paul Noel @jpnoel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
First Noel Lab Pre-print! If you are into "peri-personal space" and feel like we need more single cell recordings, this one is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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An egocentric map prioritizing peri-personal space in the mouse rostro-lateral visual area
All physical interactions between an organism and its environment occur within the space immediately adjacent to and surrounding its body, its peripersonal space (PPS). This space has been extensively...
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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As part of OHBM online meetings next week: "25 years of FSL" Register by Monday. Talks from: Stephen Smith, Frederik Lange, Ludovica Griffanti, Rezvan Farahibozorg, Amy Howard and Hossein Rafipoor, William Clarke, Michiel Cottaar.
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Maybe AI chat bots are such sycophants because when we trained them on stack overflow they felt so incredibly abused that they decided generational change was needed?
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Look who’s here on bsky ;)
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Michael Totty @mictott.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Incredibly proud to share our newest work where we developed a multiscale spatial transcriptomic atlas of the human amygdala using three complementary technologies! 1/12 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Multiscale spatial transcriptomics resolves the cellular and molecular architecture of the human amygdala
The amygdala is a central hub for emotional learning that is dysregulated across numerous psychiatric disorders, yet its molecular architecture in humans remains poorly defined. We here present a spat...
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tour de force !
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Camillo Padoa-Schioppa @camillopadoasch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New ms! During choice behavior, OFC neurons encode decision input and output, suggesting the presence of a neural decision circuit within this area. Computational models support the hypothesis, but little is known about actual – or at least functional – connectivity in OFC.
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Dr. Amy Orsborn - Fucking legend
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
MSP FTW 🙌
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Looking for a postdoc in motor control / systems neuroscience? I'm seeking candidates to develop a Connected Minds Fellowship proposal with me at York University: $70K/yr for 2 years + benefits, plus an $8.5K/yr research allowance. Deadline: Sept 27, 2026. 🧵
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Kurt Fraser @kurtfraser.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Department of Psychology at University of Minnesota seeks an Assistant Professor working on computational approaches related to cognition and/or perception (broadly). This would be in my area of the department and I’m happy to answer any questions. Posting : hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
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Careers
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Computational Approaches to Perception and/or CognitionDepartment of PsychologyUniversity of Minnesota, College of Liberal ArtsThe Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities announces a search for an outstanding scholar to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position focused on computational approaches to perception and/or cognition. This full-time position in the Department’s Cognitive and Brain Sciences (CAB) Training Program will begin in Fall 2027.Applications are invited from researchers who would extend or complement our historic strengths in combining experimental and computational approaches to perception and cognition. Examples of desired research topics include, but are not limited to, computational approaches in human and/or non-human animal models to study perceptual function and sensory loss, learning, motivation, emotion, and/or higher cognition. While we expect the primary appointment to be in our CAB area, there is  potential for cross-affiliation with other departmental areas.The appointment will be 100%-time over the nine-month academic year (late-August to late-May) and will be made at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor, depending on qualifications and experience and consistent with collegiate and University policy. Salary and start-up packages are competitive. The successful applicant should have and is expected to maintain a strong research program, advise graduate students from a variety of different backgrounds, and teach undergraduate and graduate courses, including core courses within the graduate training program. A strong record of teaching and mentorship is desired. The individual will also be expected to contribute to the service needs of the department, college, university, and profession.A successful candidate's application will demonstrate scholarly distinction, a record of publications, teaching commitment and, if applicable to the research program and the candidate’s career stage, evidence of success in securing and/or pursuing extramural funding.Applicants are invited to review the Workload Principles and Guidelines for Regular Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts, as well as the Standards for Promotion and Tenure in the Department of Psychology.
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We looking for a postdoc with NHP electrophysiology experience to do simultaneous Neuropixel recordings across the corticothalamic motor circuit to better understand the neural control of reaching and grasping. We start looking at applications on August 31st. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Pruszynski Postdoc 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Just had my daily reminder of how wonderful the NIH peeps are who handle all of the work involved in managing grants for those of us out here in extramural land. The NIH staff really are the best humans, working so hard to ensure that the science can continue in incredibly challenging times.
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 17/08/2026
I am proud of this paper. Since it came out in 2022 it has received 0 citations (yes that's a zero). But multiple young scientists have found it useful! (from other labs, so they were not coerced...). Perhaps you will find it useful too? SOME TIPS FOR WRITING SCIENCE doi.org/10.1523/ENEU...
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Some Tips for Writing Science
When preparing a scientific paper, we typically write with coauthors who have different backgrounds and styles, and we target readers who have little time and patience. To help both readers and writer...
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
On fire today ;)
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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Crochet your model species
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
For those who complain about the cost of space exploration ... NASA spent $2.6 billion over 10 years to put a 1 ton nuclear powered mobile science lab on Mars. TSA spent $8 billion in one year alone to keep shampoo off planes.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I am grateful for all those good people who work to make this world better, healthier, happier, more sustainable, just and equitable. I fight with all of my being to be a part of, and support those initiatives.
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