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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨 WashU is hiring! 🚨 As part of WashU’s +AI Initiative, the search includes tenure-track opportunities in Psychological & Brain Sciences for people who place AI or machine learning at the center of their research. I'm on the committee, so feel free to reach out with questions. Please repost!

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Rules of Life

Recruiting interdisciplinary expertise to explore fundamental questions regarding living systems and the physical world

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Monosov Lab @monosovlab.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Go Julia Pai, Fatih Sogukpinar et al. Heavily revised work on astrocytes role in learning. Incredibly grateful for the team's hard work on this. Extended biology and theory now added! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ventral striatal astrocytes contribute to reinforcement learning

Astrocytes influence synaptic plasticity and neuronal function through astrocytic calcium dynamics (ACD). However, astrocytes’ contribution to cognitive operations like reinforcement learning (RL) rem...

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Yao Chen @yaochen20.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

My department @WashUMedNeuro is recruiting Assistant or Associate Professor of neuroscience. Join us for great science and a collegial environment! facultyopportunities.wustl.edu/Posting/Deta... Please repost.

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Opportunity Details - Faculty Opportunities

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Naoki Hiratani @nhiratani.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Chang Yin will present our work on individual variability in the IBL decision-making task tomorrow morning at #SfN25. Come check out! Nov 18, 2025, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM SDCC Halls B-H, PSTR291.13, CC13. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Naoki Hiratani @nhiratani.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

New preprint on ventral striatum astrocytes and their role in reinforcement learning. Great work by an amazing team!

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Naoki Hiratani @nhiratani.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Application deadline for postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience (CTCN) at WashU is approaching! Feel free to reach out for informal inquiries! ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...

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Postdoc Fellows

The CTCN funds a cohort of outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows to work at the interface between theoretical and experimental labs and help forge new collaborations. Application deadline August 1st, 20…

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Naoki Hiratani @nhiratani.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I’ll be presenting a paper by Ziyan Li (and myself) on “Optimal Task Order for Continual Learning of Multiple Tasks” this afternoon at #ICML (W-811). Feel free to stop by! openreview.net/pdf?id=145So...

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Naoki Hiratani @nhiratani.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

New preprint! Ziyan and I explore how task order impacts continual learning in neural networks and how to optimize it. Our analysis highlights two key principles for better task sequencing. Check it out: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.03350

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Naoki Hiratani @nhiratani.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I’m presenting my work on how task similarity impacts continual learning and interacts with algorithms to mitigate forgetting today at #NeurIPS2024 openreview.net/pdf?id=bE7GW...

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