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Elliot H Smith, PhD

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Human neuronal computations during cognition, seizures, brain stimulation, etc… @ Utah. Www.neurosmiths.org

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Lea Duncker @leaduncker.bsky.social · 21h
If you are an undergraduate student interested in computational and systems neuroscience research, this is your chance to attend #COSYNE27 !!! Apply here for our undergrad travel grant tinyurl.com/cos27ugtravel deadline is Oct 30 (and if you are not an undergraduate, please help to spread the word!)
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Cosyne 2027 Undergraduate Travel Grant Program
This is the application form for the Cosyne 2027 Undergraduate Travel Grant Program. The deadline to apply is October 30th 2026.
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump's effort to rebrand AI as SI doesn't go far enough. It should be called Super Human Intelligence Technology. We'd get more accurate news headlines, like: "Under Trump, Government Turns to SHIT" or "SHIT Heads Visit White House"
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RLDM @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 👀
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University of Utah Neurosurgery @uofuneurosurgery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NeuralRNN: a unified framework for recurrent neural network methods in cognitive neuroscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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maria ruz @mruz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are hiring a postdoc and a predoc to do research (EEG, fMRI, MVPA, RSA) on expectation and attention at the wpd.ugr.es/~humneuro/ in beautiful Granada @cimcyc.bsky.social ! People with interest + relevant experience please reach us at mruz@ugr.es #NeuroJobs #AcademicJobs #CogNeuro #GranadaSpain
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Human Neuroscience Lab – University of Granada
Our lab is located at the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center. Here we have access to several behavioral testing rooms, a 3T Siemens Magnetic Resonance Imaging facility with compatible EEG and EyeLink Eyetracker, high-density EEG recording devices, and a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation device with a robotic assistant and neuronavigator.​
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Ignacio Saez, PhD @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📣 We're hiring! The Saez Lab at Mount Sinai is seeking a postdoctoral researcher with experience in intracranial recordings, electrophysiology, BCIs, mood disorders, and/or computational modeling, to explore the neural basis of human cognition. 🗓️ Apply by September 30, 2026. Please share widely!
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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Apparently the lesson of the digital sphinx by @tuthill.bsky.social & @bingbrunton.bsky.social has already been forgotten. The fly isn’t “playing Doom”. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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The digital sphinx: Can a worm brain control a fly body?
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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I expect to recruit a PhD student this cycle! The Control and Decision Making Lab at WashU studies control, effort, and decision making, combining behavioral experiments with modeling and neuroimaging. If that sounds cool, check out our work: cdmlab.wustl.edu. How to apply: psych.washu.edu/apply
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Control and Decision Making Lab
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 14/09/2026
A paper in Nature #Neuroscience describes a single brain implant that can simultaneously decode speech and gestures in people with paralysis. The findings represent a step towards brain–computer interfaces that enable more natural communication for people with paralysis. go.nature.com/4Ac8BVt 🧪
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Simultaneous speech and gesture decoding for multimodal communication in paralysis - Nature Neuroscience
Brosler et al. develop a brain–computer interface that simultaneously decodes speech and gestures from a single cortical implant to animate a virtual avatar, providing a step toward more flexible communication for people with paralysis.
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New paper from the Neurosurgery Research Team at BCM! “Neural geometry in the human hippocampus enables generalization across spatial position and gaze” led by @assiachericoni.bsky.social! 🧵 www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
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Neural geometry in the human hippocampus enables generalization across spatial position and gaze
Chericoni et al. show that neurons in the human hippocampus track the positions of multiple agents in a simple pursuit-based video game. They identified place codes for each agent and for gaze. The co...
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ida Henrietta Hyde was born #OTD in 1857. She invented a micro-electrode capable of stimulating and monitoring electrical activity in cells. Later in this thread there will be an amazing story about an octopus and Kaiser Wilhelm II. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🐙 Image: American Physiological Society
Black and white photo of Ida Henrietta Hyde in a lab or lecturing demonstration surgery. She wears a long black dress with billowy sleeves and her hair pulled up. There are shelves or benches behind her.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Agreed. Also as a community we need to (re)normalize asking critical questions at talks, conferences, random convos. Asking about scientific rigor sometimes takes a backseat to social considerations, esp when someone's charismatic or overconfident (student or prof). Ask kindly/thoughtfully, but ask.
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Elliot H Smith, PhD @neurosmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NBD! 👀 👀
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Elliot H Smith, PhD @neurosmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
But what are the brain mechanisms?? 🤔🤔🧠🧠
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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
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Jim Heys @jim-heys.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m very excited to share our new paper, led by the very talented Jack Bowler, a postdoc in the lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We all know that the way we learn something matters. But how does a training curriculum actually shape how the brain learns to solve a problem? a 🧵 1/N
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Structured experience shapes strategy learning and neural dynamics in the medial entorhinal cortex - Nature Neuroscience
The authors use recurrent neural networks to predict how structured prior experience shapes neural dynamics as mice learn flexible timing strategies during complex context-dependent behavior.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In this episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @dlevenstein.bsky.social explains how internally generated brain activity during sleep shapes our cognition, and why NeuroAI is such a powerful approach to understanding our brains. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
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What’s the role of spontaneous neural activity during sleep?
Daniel Levenstein explains how internally generated brain activity during sleep shapes our cognition, and why NeuroAI is such a powerful approach.
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Elliot H Smith, PhD @neurosmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We lost a future neurosurgeon and neuroscientist to this country’s cruelty this week.
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Biyu Jade He @biyuhe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📣 My lab at NYU currently has two open post-doc positions. We are interested in understanding perception, thinking, and hallucinations. We employ a range of cutting-edge techniques in human neuroscience (e.g., 7T fMRI, MEG, iEEG/DES) and computational approaches (e.g., DNN modeling).
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Marc Coutanche @marccoutanche.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Cog Neuro/Cog Psych to join us at Rice! Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/192080
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Victoria Bosch @initself.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Are brains and artificial neural networks converging onto universal representations? There is a seductive idea making the rounds in NeuroAI / machine learning: train systems well enough, and they all converge on the same representation of reality (i.e. a unique world model). We have thoughts™ 1/n
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The Umwelt Representation Hypothesis: rethinking Universality
Recent studies reveal striking representational alignment between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and biological brains, leading to proposals that all sufficiently capable systems converge on univer...
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keven-pittsinger.bsky.social @keven-pittsinger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Linux turns 35 today. Here's your cake. Enjoy.
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Elliot H Smith, PhD @neurosmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Nearly a dime a dozen!!
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thread. I have yet to see a proper explanation of how LLMs actually work that is targeted to an informed general audience. So here is an explainer that I put together along with Tim @countzerozzz (inspired by @CIFAR_News LMB discussions).
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Elliot H Smith, PhD @neurosmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New preprint from the lab about time time resolved ensemble computations and geometrical motifs that facilitate rapidly learned inference. skeeprint 🧵: 1/
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Elliot H Smith, PhD @neurosmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Couple of #brains for all my fellow #neurds on here by Gerardo Vargas at Casa de Chihuahua
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Seth Koslov @skoslov.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New preprint! Posterior cingulate is often linked to memory in humans but decisions in monkeys yet there's little consensus about its functional neuroanatomy. We recorded LFPs+single units in humans during matched value and memory based decisions, finding convergence in dorsal, but not ventral, PCC.
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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📣Algorithmic Grammar of Flexible Cognition: A Walk through Latent Operations osf.io/preprints/ps... Flexible behavior moves adaptively btwn cognitive modes. But units of analysis remain representations & few operations. Proposal: formalize open-ended cognition as walk over latent operations 1/n
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Elliot H Smith, PhD @neurosmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
AI carAI!
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Elliot H Smith, PhD @neurosmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Still a big blindspot behind romanticizing science twitter. It was a great way to share science to a broad audience, quickly. However, similarly pernicious algorithmic action at a much smaller scale existed, and persists across social media: the most basic and inflammatory content wins. <300 chars.
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Dirk Gütlin @gutlin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Neural dynamics underlying minute-timescale persistent behaviour in the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neural dynamics underlying minute-timescale persistent behaviour in the human brain - Nature Human Behaviour
Courellis et al. examine how neurons in the human medial frontal cortex and hippocampus persistently represent context.
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Cogan Lab @coganlab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Two new papers from the lab in Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Communications, spanning the neural mechanisms of speech production and new approaches to speech neurotechnology! 🧠 Speech plans → fluent motor sequences 🗣️ Speech BCIs across people Links below 👇 @dukebrain.bsky.social 1/3
Graphic announcing two new Cogan Lab papers. The Nature Human Behaviour paper asks how the brain turns a speech plan into fluent movement, illustrated as planning → articulation → monitoring. The Nature Communications paper asks whether a speech BCI can learn from other people, illustrated by neural activity from two individuals converging on a shared latent representation.
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
All session recordings from #CCN2026 in New York City are now available on YouTube. Thank you again to all speakers, attendees, and sponsors for making this exciting event possible.
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CCN 2026 - YouTube
Videos from CCN 2026, held in New York City, USA, August 3-6 2026 For full details of the 2026 program, visit https://2026.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-events/
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Cory Shain @coryshain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Now out in @natcomms.nature.com w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social: across many people (>1k) and tasks (>300), the the brain's language network reliably shows up in the functional connectome (correlated activity in fMRI). 1/
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Title: A language network in the individualized functional connectomes of 1199 human brains doing arbitrary tasks

Abstract: A century and a half of neuroscience has yielded many divergent theories of the neurobiology of language. Two factors that likely contribute to this situation include (a) conceptual disagreement about language and its component processes, and (b) intrinsic inter-individual variability in the topography of language areas. Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of small numbers of intensively scanned individuals have argued that a language-selective brain network emerges bottom-up from correlations (individualized functional connectomics, iFC) in task-free (e.g., rest) or task-regressed activation timecourses. Here we tested this hypothesis at scale and evaluated its practical utility for task-agnostic language localization: we apply iFC separately to each of 1,957 (fMRI) scanning sessions (1...
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Hanlin Zhu @hanlin-zhu.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
ACC as a meta-controller www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neural basis of compositional control - Nature
Behaviour of human participants in a prey-pursuit task reflects dynamic blending of goal-specific control policies, with hippocampus estimating latent states, anterior cingulate cortex orchestrating p...
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Congenital Rubella Syndrome
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Kanaka Rajan @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
(1/8) Our approach for untangling brain-wide interactions is out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! Current-Based Decomposition (CURBD) uses RNNs constrained by real neural data to reveal the input driving neurons, uncovering how brain regions talk to each other. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... 🧵👇
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stefanofusi.bsky.social @stefanofusi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Specialized readouts are also possible when most neurons are not specialized, if you have the right representational geometry. Another great work with D. Salzman's lab: led by Pia O'Neill and @lorenzoposani.com, who did a wonderful job
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Memming Park @memming.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Nothing in neural activity makes sense except in the light of dynamics and cybernetics. #CCN2026 GAC position. sites.google.com/ccneuro.org/...
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Representations or Transformations: What Should Models of Neural Population Activity Explain? Julian Kędys, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Cezary Mazurek, Poznan Supercomputing and Netwo...
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Elliot H Smith, PhD @neurosmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New review paper from the lab around the potential for single neuron responses to brain stimulation for diagnosing and treating drug-resistant epilepsy. Led by @rhiannon-cowan.bsky.social, who just joined bluesky! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Single-neuron responses to neurostimulation: Insights for epilepsy
Invasive neurostimulation has been used in humans to treat and diagnose epilepsy for decades. Despite such ubiquitous probing and recording from the h…
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Elliot H Smith, PhD @neurosmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is cool! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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A hierarchical coordinate system for sequence memory in human entorhinal cortex
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🎉 *extremely* excited to share our human single neuron + movie dataset is out in #ScientificData! 📄 Human neuron activity during an 83-minute movie from 2,286 neurons and 29 patients 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-07955-0 1st public dataset from @humansingleneuron.bsky.social!🧵
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Angela Radulescu @angelaradulescu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Some things get better with age. Like CCN... and Knicks basketball. 🧠🏀 As we return to New York and celebrate 10 years of @cogcompneuro.bsky.social , we'd love to hear your thoughts on how CCN has evolved. Share them in our pre-conference survey: shorturl.at/c19lJ
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Pre-Conference Anniversary CCN Survey
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Casper Kerrén @ckerren.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Excited to finally share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com: Hippocampal ripples initiate cortical dimensionality expansion for memory retrieval www.nature.com/articles/s41... With @s-michelmann.bsky.social and @doellerlab.bsky.social
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Hippocampal ripples initiate cortical dimensionality expansion for memory retrieval - Nature Communications
How past experiences are reconstructed from memory remains unclear. Here the authors used intracranial EEG to show that hippocampal ripples reshape the geometry of cortical representations, supporting...
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Jan R. Wessel @janw.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We're excited to welcome three new post-docs to the lab this month: Dr. Chenye Bao (University of Missouri) Dr. Gizem Filiz (Washington University in St. Louis) Dr. Veronica Zarr (University of Utah) Exciting times ahead!
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Elliot H Smith, PhD @neurosmith.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
PhD student #2 from the Neurosmiths lab successfully defended! Congrats to T Alexander Price, who is headed to neurotech.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It's World Brain Day! We've all got one. Here's a fine example featured in Kaishi Hen, a 1772 anatomical atlas from the dawn of experimental medicine in Japan. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k…
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