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David G. Clark @david-g-clark.bsky.social · 18h

📣 Multiple Flatiron Research Fellow (FRF) postdoc positions are available in my @flatironinstitute.org group! We've never been better positioned to understand how high-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems (neural circuits!) compute. If this is as exciting to you as it is to me, consider applying:

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Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Faculty position opening in computational neuroscience at Duke University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32697

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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · 16/09/2026

Check out my latest work from the Ramirez lab with co-author @rsuthard.bsky.social! It’s got astrocytes—what more do you need!?

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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨 new work from the lab! "Hippocampal astrocytic sequences emerge during learning and memory recall" by @ryguy.io & @rsuthard.bsky.social thank you to the entire team for your camaraderie and for muscling through science together 🧠 -- we welcome all feedback! nature.com/articles/s41...

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Hippocampal astrocytic sequences emerge during learning and memory recall

Nature Neuroscience - Senne, Suthard and colleagues show that dorsal hippocampal astrocytes display time-compressed calcium-event sequences after foot shock and upon context re-exposure, and that...

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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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(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬 @aheadofthenerve.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hi friends & colleagues! I’m on the hunt for a tenure-track home! I’m a BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 scholar studying learning & memory at the intersection of experimental neuroscience, theory, & machine learning/AI. I’d love to connect & would appreciate help spreading the word! web.mit.edu/hsw/www/

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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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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If there are any PhD hopefuls on here, I wanted to share a few thoughts on your timeline for the upcoming admissions cycle, with apps due starting mid-November. What should you be doing right now? ✔️ Generating a list of schools ✔️ Reaching out to possible recommenders 🧵!

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Princeton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We'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

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Kenji Lee @kenjilee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Has anyone compared Anipose to DANNCE for freely moving mouse behavioral classification? I can’t find any direct comparisons.

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Melanie Tschiersch @mtschiersch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Our paper "Redundant prefrontal hemispheres adapt storage strategy to working memory demands" is finally out in Nature Communications! We combined bilateral PFC recordings, modeling and human data to ask: How do the hemispheres work together to store information?1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Redundant prefrontal hemispheres adapt storage strategy to working memory demands - Nature Communications

Neural mechanisms underlying spatial working memory are not fully understood. In this manuscript, simultaneous bilateral monkey recordings and attractor networks show how weakly coupled, redundant pre...

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Adrian Roggenbach @a-roggenbach.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

⚠️PREPRINT ALERT⚠️ How can we better understand distributed brain activity across temporal and spatial scales? In this collaborative project, we combined ultra-flexible electrodes with two-photon imaging to illuminate brain-wide neural dynamics. Link: doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 1/8

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Selmaan Chettih @selmaan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Check these three faculty searches at Yale and join me in New Haven! 1. Experimental neuroscience apply.interfolio.com/190736 2. Computational/Theoretical neuroscience apply.interfolio.com/190740 3. The (new!) Center for Neuroethology and Physiological Plasticity apply.interfolio.com/191722

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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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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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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

preprint🚨 ✨A Stickiness Response System in Rats tinyurl.com/4wnu88v9 What underlies that sticky, icky feeling? Sticky sensing is surprisingly underexplored. we investigated its neural and behavioural basis Congrats to Sandra, @simonerencken.bsky.social @jasmine-stone.bsky.social Adam, Tom & Pam! 👏

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hombrecerebro.bsky.social @hombrecerebro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Harvard Neurobiology + Kempner are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in computational neuroscience. The search is broad; researchers combining computational and experimental work (including nonhuman-primate research) should apply! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16615

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Assistant Professor of Neurobiology

The Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University invite applications for a tenure tra...

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David G. Clark @david-g-clark.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This September, I will join the @flatironinstitute.org Center for Computational Neuroscience as a Group Leader, where I will launch the High-Dimensional Dynamics & Computation Group. Information for postdocs and grad students is forthcoming. I am grateful to my mentors who made this possible!

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Kenji Lee @kenjilee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Go David!!! Cannot recommend more highly!!! My biggest regret is not paying more attention in math classes if only for the opportunity to work with you!

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Jennifer Bussell PhD @jenbussell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

How does the brain represent the value of knowledge? In our paper--out now at Nature Neuroscience--we identify a representation of intrinsic information value within neural population structures in the orbitofrontal cortex in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02377-y #neuroskyence 🧠🧪 (1/8)

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Representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Mice are motivated to seek information of no extrinsic value. Recording neural activity in orbitofrontal cortex reveals a representation of the value of information that is distinct from the value of ...

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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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Satpreet (Sat) Singh @satpreetsingh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How do you "see" with electric eyes? How does collective behavior emerge from individual interactions? Nocturnal weakly electric fish evolved to do this, but studying naturalistic social behavior is very hard. Our solution? Virtual 'fish' 🤖🐟⚡ 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2511.08436

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Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If an action results in error, each neuron requires an individualized teaching signal that guides change in its output. This is the credit assignment problem of learning. Are there neurons in the brain that can compute such a sophisticated teaching signal? Yes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Climbing fibers encode the gradient of a loss function for the cerebellum

Neurons in the brain are often many synapses away from motoneurons, yet if a movement results in error, each distant neuron needs a teacher that considers its specific contribution to production of th...

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Board passed the resolution.

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Kenji Lee @kenjilee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Dragging Science’s EIC for using an LLM as a search engine just tells me you’ve never heard of PageRank.

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Albit Caban @albitc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Every day, our brains arbitrate between competing memories and motivations. This ability allows us to flexibly adapt our behavior as the world around us changes. But how does the brain actually do it? Our new study sheds light on this! www.cell.com/current-biol...

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The prelimbic cortex arbitrates memory-guided conflict resolution

Caban-Murillo et al. show that, during approach-avoidance conflict, prelimbic cortex ensembles are recruited to represent reward and punishment through distinct network patterns. Both ensembles are ne...

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Liset M. de la Prida @lmprida.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Come find us at #FENS2026 in Barcelona with @melisa-mc.bsky.social , Teresa and Violeta. Three posters, three views of hippocampal dynamics, from brain excitability to inhibitory circuits and ripple waveforms. 🧠 @fens.org @cncajal-csic.bsky.social

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Kenji Lee @kenjilee.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Adding to all the takes on this, something that is missed and why I don't think AI will progress beyond research assistant in neuroscience is so much of the work is embodied. Not just in that "an LLM doesn't have a body" but so much of the knowledge is only gained through embodiment.

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735

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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Very excited for our new paper, now out in @cellcellpress.bsky.social! /🧵 The protein Tau forms intracellular toxic tangles in neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and Tauopathies. Tau pathology slowly spreads from cell-to-cell but the mechanisms are not clear /1 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Arc mediates intercellular tau transmission via extracellular vesicles

Tau pathology spreads cell to cell, but the mechanisms of intercellular tau transmission remain unclear. We find that the neuronal gene Arc is critica…

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Jacob Zavatone-Veth @jzv.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If you're interested in doing theory work in New York, I will be recruiting for multiple graduate student and postdoctoral positions; please get in touch if interested (at jzavatoneveth@rockefeller.edu), and stay tuned for an official posting.

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Jacob Zavatone-Veth @jzv.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Tremendously excited to announce that I will be joining @rockefeller.edu as an Assistant Professor and Head of Lab starting in January 2027! My group will be broadly focused on theoretical neuroscience, and mathematical problems in neural computation in the large.

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Emily Bruce @brucelab.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My friend's NSF CAREER received the highest possible score (Excellent, Excellent, Excellent: High Priority) and it was rejected today. This would have been my friend's first extramural award, 5 years after starting their lab, exactly when grant $ is make or break for an Assistant Professor's career.

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Zhiwen Ye @zhiwenneuron.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

1/ Complex behavior demands the sequential coordination of hundreds of muscle groups. The body is mapped topographically in the brain, but does neural activity actually propagate across these maps to organize sequential action? Our new paper in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🧵

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The Neural Control & Computation Lab is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow to investigate the neural basis of learning, flexible neural computation, and skilled movement control using large-scale electrophysiology from single-neuron populations in non-human primates 🧠🐒 www.ncclab.ca/join-the-lab

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Will Giardino @willgiardino.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The Giardino Lab at Stanford is hiring a full-time post-bacc Research Assistant! If you know someone who is passionate about research and want to work at the intersection of stress, addiction, and sleep/wake neurobiology, have them apply here. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc...

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Rudebeck Lab @rudebecklab.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

New from the lab: Fred Stoll & Neelima Valluru looked at how neural activity in frontal ctx tracks deliberative decision making. In a trial they found that activity flips between the options. When this flip happens it reshapes the neural geometry of option attributes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Dynamic geometry remapping of neural activity within frontal and subcortical areas during decision-making

Decision-making involves dynamic evaluation of competing options. Recording 16,495 neurons across nine frontal and subcortical areas in macaques revealed brain-wide fluctuations between encoding the a...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Applications are now open for our fall science reporting internship! This is an excellent opportunity for a beginning science journalist to report and write about the fast-moving field of neuroscience. Apply now: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/simonsfounda... #neuroskyence

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Science Reporting Intern, The Transmitter

POSITION SUMMARY The Transmitter offers up-to-date news and analysis of neuroscience and is dedicated to helping scientists at all career stages stay current and build connections. Our award-winning n...

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Many of the scientific questions we're interested in tackling require studying learning over long periods of time across the brain. This is challenging – which is why we're excited to say we've been developing a system for chronic wireless recording using long Neuropixels probes in macaque monkeys.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 11/06/2026

Neuroscientist here, who has talked about the US losing science ground to other countries: The biggest problem for generating future cures for brain diseases is the ongoing utter destruction of US basic neuroscience. It’s not about regulation.

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Brian DePasquale @briandepasquale.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

🚨 New preprint from the lab! 🚨 We introduce BiXformer, a bidirectional cross-attention transformer for disentangling inter-regional neural dynamics. Recordings from multiple regions superimpose feedforward & feedback signals 🔁, offset in time, making it difficult to tease these signals apart. 🧠 🔁

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Kristin Branson @kristinmbranson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Agentic coding is genuinely useful now, and there are some impressive reports of AI agents doing science. But how well and how reliably can they handle tasks scientists actually want to hand off, ones that bottleneck progress? How do we even measure that?? New paper🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2606.07718 1/10

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A case study of evaluating AI agents on a neuroscience data-to-discovery pipeline

Agentic AI tools offer a promising path to automating software development bottlenecks in scientific research pipelines, particularly for stages that take domain experts days to months to build, where...

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Flavio Martinelli @flavioh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

NEW PAPER. Why do larger networks train better? "Because they contain more candidate *sub*networks that can learn the task" → lottery tickets This popular explanation uses an appealing but misleading metaphor🧵 We propose an intuitive alternative grounded in theory: escape dimensions

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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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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · 30/05/2026

Move over, GLM-HMM—there’s a new hidden Markov model in town. In our new preprint, we introduce the DDM-HMM: a model that jointly infers latent decision states from reaction times and choices. Using 24-hour behavioral data from rats, we found that evidence accumulation changes with time of day!

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