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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

📢 To everyone on the job market who has a vision for neuroscience applied to biomedical applications & technological innovation: The Duke Department of Biomedical Engineering announces a tenure-track faculty job search in neural engineering, broadly defined! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32784

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Duke Institute for Brain Sciences @dukebrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So thrilled to see this. Congrats to Felipe de Brigard! Among the many hats he wears are core member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and DGS of its Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program for PhD students. Way to go Felipe! 🙌 @felipedebrigard.bsky.social today.duke.edu/2026/09/duke...

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John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚨Postdoc hiring alert! 🚨 Applications for the Flatiron Research Fellows 2027 cohort at the Center for Computational Neuroscience are now live: apply.interfolio.com/193800. Come work with us!

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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Duke Institute for Brain Sciences @dukebrain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Kevin LaBar for his appointment as Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke! We look forward to Kevin's leadership of the CCN, a center in DIBS focused on studies of the mind and its neural foundations. scholars.duke.edu/person/klabar

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Monosov Lab @monosovlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1/11 How does the brain make the heart skip a beat? New preprint: a prefrontal→hypothalamus circuit that controls heart rate. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thanks to the generosity of the Bezos Family Foundation, @basicsci.fredhutch.org is excited to announce a new search to recruit a Bezos Family Distinguished Scholar : apply.interfolio.com/193655

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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New tenure-track faculty position at Duke! The Neurobiology department is looking for a computational neuroscientist. Join a highly collaborative & interdisciplinary community. My time at Duke has been amazing so far & we would love the opportunity to collaborate with you! Applications due Dec 1.

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Duke University, Neurobiology

Job #AJO32697, Tenure Track Assistant Professor - AI/ML Neurobiology, Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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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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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New frontrunner for the Barry Kidston chemistry innovation medal

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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Rewatching S5 of Mad Men and while Peggy overall steals the show, drunk Peggy is about the best thing ever televised. @jefftobias.bsky.social

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I fear that placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality, or treating dimensionality as an end-all quantification of some aspect of neural computation, may lead us down the wrong path, writes @mattperich.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...

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Dimensionality—neuroscience’s red herring?

Placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality may lead neuroscience down the wrong path.

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Has anyone taught a course of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision (w/ emphasis on the neuro side)? Would you be able and willing to share your slides etc. to help me develop a course?

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Kristy Ainslie's Lab @kristy-ainslie-lab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Pls Repost! I've set up a central resource of post doc opportunities for BME and related areas: 📌 For PIs & Lab Leaders: Submit your open postdoc positions here: go.unc.edu/BME-PD-Form 🔎 For Trainees & Job Seekers, browse current postdoc opportunities: go.unc.edu/BME-PD-Posti...

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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

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Director of the Center for Mind and Brain & Professor of Psychology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Yasmine El-Shamayleh @elshamayleh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excited to share the lab’s first publication, co-led by talented postdoc Chuyi Su @chuyisu.bsky.social We leveraged cell type-specific optogenetics in the macaque cerebral cortex to elucidate the role of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in visual form processing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Optotagging in primate cortex uncovers excitatory and inhibitory neuron specializations in form vision - Nature Communications

This study leverages cell type-specific optogenetics in the monkey cerebral cortex to elucidate the unique functional contributions of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in visual form processing. The ...

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Hiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Most basic science departments at UCSF are having faculty searches this year. Biochemistry & Biophysics, Microbiology & Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and more. We're looking for new and exciting science and nice people. You'll find them all at aprecruit.ucsf.edu

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Welcome - AP Recruit

University of California, San Francisco Online Faculty Recruitment

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Amanda Randles 🧪⚛️ 👩‍🔬 @profamandarandles.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🧪It was great talking with fellow Duke alum Katy Hansell about the future of digital twins and what they could mean for proactive healthcare. We covered HARVEY, AI, wearables, and where this technology is headed. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4RL...

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The Future of Medicine: How Digital Twins Can Predict Your Health

YouTube video by Katy Hansell: The Impact Whisperer® podcast

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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Now out at PNAS! The final version includes a smart analysis suggested by a reviewer showing that biomarkers collected in blood track our neural population metrics. A very exciting connection between basic neurophys and translational approaches. Congrats to all! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A smaller thing relative to the rest of Dolly Parton's generous philanthropy, but she was also involved in the Make a Wish Foundation. Giving her time, not just money. My daughter's best friend met Dolly through that program a few years ago - spent the day with her. What a soul. ❤️

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 24/08/2026

What is the causal relationship between microsaccadic #eye movements & peripheral #visual sensitivity? This study shows that the motor preparation of #microsaccades causally impacts peripheral sensitivity, informing the basis of visual perception & cognition @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4wNcM7A

Foveal retinal image stabilization allows exquisite control over microsaccade directions. Four monkeys fixated a small spot in anticipation of an extrafoveal visual stimulus onset. During fixation, the authors forced a tiny, but constant, visual error between the displayed spot location (white in the magnified inset) and the instantaneous eye position (magenta). Across trials, the visual error could be in different directions relative to the direction of the upcoming extrafoveal stimulus. Bottom left: Distributions of microsaccade directions (relative to the direction of the upcoming extrafoveal visual stimulus) for all movements occurring during retinal image stabilization (colored histograms). Data across all sessions and monkeys are shown. Bottom right: Microsaccade amplitudes (on a log-polar scale) as a function of microsaccade directions in the different foveal retinal image stabilization conditions (z-axis indicates microsaccade counts per shown bin).

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John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New opening for a Data Scientist with strong knowledge of electrophysiology data at the Raynor Cerebellum Project. Innovative research environment with a focus on real-world impact.

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Team | RCP

Meet our RCP Governing Board, Foundation Staff, and Funder.

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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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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Didi vs mouse She's great at finding and playing with them, but that's it 💃

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

7 clinical trials, all in China Meanwhile our politicians are fighting over Fauci's diary

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There are a few more places at the European Summer School on Eye Movements (ESSEM) in London 7th-12th September 2026! Apply now at essem2026.org #ESSEM2026 #theeyeshaveit #eyemovements

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ESSEM 2026 – Summer School

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Rob Hatch-Miller @robhatchmiller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My new documentary short film Changes: The Story Of Sugar is out today! Watch the live premiere at 9a pacific/noon Eastern on YouTube with a Bob Mould Q&A afterward! youtu.be/Vl_vt9HTW4I?...

The rise and fall and reunion of Bob Mould’s 1990s post-Hüsker Dü alt rock band Sugar, now on YouTube.

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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Whether or not you're intrigued by the insula, a timely thread on the importance of experimental model selection

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Mike Tadross @miketadross.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

1/6 Opioids trigger a dopamine surge that can create dangerous reward associations—yet that same dopamine signal may help shape central pain perception. Can the dopamine surge and reward associations be separated? Our recent Nature study says yes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Rob Hatch-Miller @robhatchmiller.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you missed the news, I’ve directed a 20 minute short documentary about Bob Mould’s band Sugar & it’s coming out next week! Edited by my Other Music & Elephant 6 colleague Greg King, interviews with Bob & bandmates David Barbe & Malcolm Travis and tons of amazing archival. youtu.be/Vl_vt9HTW4I?...

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Sugar - Changes: The Story of Sugar

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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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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

😍🎉Olivia Tremor Control release! The long-awaited 3rd album, "The Same Place" is finally ready. Release date Oct 23, 2026. They're accepting pre-order now. Thanks to MLE for the good news! elephant6.com

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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Happy birthday Brenda!! 108 🥲

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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

All I want to do is listen to Fugazi all the time

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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Now out at PNAS - congratulations to Ramanujan Srinath and the team! Ram's ability and willingness to connect all these data, models, and ideas has changed my thinking/interpretation of many findings. I suspect I will keep learning from this study for a long time. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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The structure of correlated variability reflects task-relevant information in sensory neurons | PNAS

Shared trial-to-trial variability across sensory neurons is reliably reduced when perceptual performance improves, yet this variability is low dime...

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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality. But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵 1/

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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

After our cable's been down for weeks, it's back just in time for extra time, go

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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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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Anything with Marty Feldman, but this is so short and well delivered it kills me every time youtu.be/AS1HIThPcz8?...

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WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN THE BATHROOM DAY AND NIGHT?

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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If you haven't yet commented on the proposed OMB regulations on federal grants, it's not too late! You still have about 2 weeks (by July 13). I finally had a lull in work and did it today. Many guides have been posted on Bsky, here's a good one. Submit here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

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Vanessa Briscoe Hay @pylongurl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Pylon Reenactment Society’s shows this weekend. Dexfest in Carrboro, NC at Cat’s Cradle. Individual tickets now available catscradle.com/event/dex-fe... Athfest in Athens, GA at Dead Beat Club Clubcrawl wristbands: www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/... or $10 at the door if space allows.

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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Congratulations to fantastic postdoc Ramanujan Srinath and former star tech Martyna Czarnik on their new paper on the neural basis of flexible generalization in Nature Communications today! 🥳 Stable readout of visual representations mediates flexible generalization www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

official ad to follow soon but heads up: 1-2 postdocs slots in my lab, hopefully w/fall start! reposts welcome, details to follow. babies! word learning! cognitive & linguistic skills! #CogSciSky #DevPsychSky 🐦🐦 (lab info: bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/prospectives) also recruiting grads this fall!

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Amanda Randles 🧪⚛️ 👩‍🔬 @profamandarandles.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Weather forecasting transformed how we respond to storms. What if we could do the same for human health? Looking forward to my #ISC26 keynote on HPC for vascular digital twins, chronophysiomics, and the path toward forecasting disease before symptoms appear.

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Adam Hantman @adamhantman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The lab has been at full capacity, but with team members moving to their next career steps, we have open postdoc positions.

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