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David G. Clark @david-g-clark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📣 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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Torben Ott @torbenottlab.org · 02/09/2026

#Psilocybin🍄 shifts visual cortex dynamics towards a state of surprise! Thrilled to share our work w/ OpenScope at @alleninstitute.org lead by postdoc @roberto-defilippo.bsky.social. We combined visual change detection w/ Neuropixels recordings in mice to uncover how psilocybin changes circuits 1/

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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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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is wild. >1/2 of HC synapses disappear in artificial hibernation, come back in same/similar locations & memories intact. ~1/2 of engram synapses-between two memory-tagged cells-are clustered on dendrites, those preferentially spared. Not biggest synapses. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This shows the visual abstract and a paragraph from the extended abstract of the linked article.

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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our next profile is here! Dr. Pegah Kassraian (@pegahkf.bsky.social) studies how the brain represents safe and threatening social interactions. Learn more at the link below! #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

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Dr. Pegah Kassraian — Stories of WiN

studies how the brain represents safe and threatening social interactions.

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kriegeskorte.bsky.social @kriegeskorte.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In this podcast interview with speed cuber Sanjay Adireddi, he and I discuss an imaginary research program on how humans solve Rubik's cube... www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1uJ...

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The Computational Basis of Vision | Dr. Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Our latest profile is here! Dr. Lea Duncker (@leaduncker.bsky.social) uses statistical and theoretical approaches to study the neural basis of flexible behavior. Follow the link below to learn more! #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

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Dr. Lea Duncker — Stories of WiN

uses statistical and theoretical approaches to study the neural basis of flexible behavior

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Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Presenting tomorrow at #CCN2026 NYU Unifying Gestalt Principles of Perceptual Organization Through Feedback-Mediated Learned Prior Integration Poster E86 in Poster Session E: Thursday, August 6, 10:30 am 2026.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=f...

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Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Seeking emergency reviewers for #NeurIPS for a couple of papers in my batch that are still awaiting reviews. If interested, please DM me your OpenReview ID.

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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

We're inviting submissions for NeuroXR 2026, a @ieeeismar2026.bsky.social workshop for researchers working across #XR, #neuroscience, #HCI, affective computing, #neuroengineering, rehabilitation, and #AssistiveTech. Deadline: July 5, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE neuroxr-ws.github.io/www/

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Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Jack Gallant on what makes a useful theory: "-Theorists should focus on formulating specific predictions that discriminate their preferred theories from highly-correlated competing theories." Representation of the world in the human brain www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwH...

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Suggestions for researchers working on this problem

Theorists should focus on formulating specific predictions that discriminate their preferred theories from highly-correlated competing theories. In practice this is likely to be extremely difficult in the context of the natural world.
Given the indirect relationship between implemented neural circuits, measurements of those circuits, and computational theories, theorists should work closely with experimentalists to establish valid cross-scale translations and linking theories.
Experimentalists seeking to test some specific theory should always pit multiple competing models against one another. Merely showing that one model accounts for a significant part of the variance is a common strategy, but it is not sufficient.
The very fundamental differences between the architecture of the brain versus the architecture of ANNs or LLMs should be taken into account when comparing results across these two different systems

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

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Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a...

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Tom Baden @neurofishh.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

How is the ON and OFF pathway split in the visual system? 🤔 The textbook standard, that bipolar cells are separated simply by the glutamate receptors they express, might be due for an update....a short 🧵

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Jérôme Lecoq @jeromelecoq.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Have you ever been in an authorship conflict on an academic paper? You're not alone. This thread is for you.

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

authors.elsevier.com/c/1nA3C_KOmx... new paper in Neuron in which we argue that many claims on consciousness in AI & animals etc are inconsistent. they are driven by theories/views that are not really supported by empirical evidence. they confuse subjective experience w/ cognition or perception

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Lynn Sörensen @lynnkasorensen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

There's one week left to apply to become this Fall's BCS Rising Star speaker 🌟 Please make sure to apply if you're a postdoc in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences🧠 Reposts are appreciated! 🪐

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Roxana Zeraati @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Some incredibly exciting news that still feels a bit surreal: I am starting my research group @mpicybernetics.bsky.social! The best part? We are hiring at all levels! Curious about the science we plan to tackle, read along :) #NeuroSky

An illustration of different species, from worms to humans, foraging, indicating the main topic of our research group.

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Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I'm giving a talk today at Vision Science Society #VSS2026 Feedback-Mediated Prior Integration Unifies Gestalt Perceptual Organization 5pm, Room 2 Come for the pretty (familiar!) pictures, stay for a theory of how the brain integrates priors with sensory processing. Another round, Tampa VSS!

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Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

100% minus the fact that Vafa's model mentioned here needed a regularization tweek that a work involving @andreastolias and @suryaganguli.bsky.social fixed.

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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Nadine Dijkstra's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciv....

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Nadine Dijkstra - Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain

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Georg Keller @georgkeller.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Very excited to share new work by Leonardo Lupori. In mice, a single dose of the antipsychotic clozapine results in changes to behavior and cortical activity patterns that remain detectable a week later. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The recording of Mel Goodale's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kThw....

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Melvyn Goodale - Linking Past and Present Worlds in the Visual Control of Behaviour

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Pierre-Etienne Fiquet @pfiquet.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Applications are now open for our Junior Theoretical Neuroscientists Workshop which will take place July 21 - 24, 2026 at the Center for Computational Neuroscience @flatironinstitute.org Learn more and apply by April 15 at www.simonsfoundation.org/event/jrwork...

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Roozbeh Kiani @roozbehkiani.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

To accommodate applicants and PIs attending Cosyne, we’ve extended the MCN application deadline to Sunday, Mar 22. Please repost.

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Congratulations to Ian Thornton and colleagues who published their Mainz-Linez illusion in i-Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social): the red dots appears to wave left and right when one looks at one of the black dots, but they actually move straight journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I'll be at Cosyne workshops next week (16th and 17th). We are hiring at Astera NeuroAI. If you are at Cosyne workshops next week and want to learn more about this exciting research team we are building at Astera, please DM me or email me at dileep@astera.org

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Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I'm sad to have had to miss #Cosyne2026 last minute for multiple reasons. Do genetically-defined cell populations encode visual information in fundamentally different ways? 2-min video overview + interactive AI Q&A + full poster: toosi.github.io/research/cosyne2026-poster.html

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Benjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The Cowley Group at CSHL has an opening for a bioAI PhD student to start Fall 2026 to work on closed-loop AI models for visual processing (see below). You *must* have a Master's degree in a quant/eng/cs field. www.cshl.edu/phd-program/... Please reach out to me if interested! I'll be at Cosyne.

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Since 1890, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has been a global leader in research and education. The international scientific community at CSHL provides a unique and stimulating atmosphere for doc...

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Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Cool! This is generative inference’s prediction for human perception in this illusion: the squares are no longer squares! Try it for yourself here: huggingface.co/spaces/ttoos...

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Pegah Kassraian @pegahkf.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Hi all! My lab at the University of Bern @unibe.ch 🇨🇭, funded by @snsf.ch, opening in April 2026, is looking for candidates for several fully-funded positions: a postdoctoral scientist, PhD student(s) and a laboratory technician. Please share (and apply)!

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Andrew Saxe @saxelab.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Why don’t neural networks learn all at once, but instead progress from simple to complex solutions? And what does “simple” even mean across different neural network architectures? Sharing our new paper @iclr_conf led by Yedi Zhang with Peter Latham arxiv.org/abs/2512.20607

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A functional influence based circuit motif that constrains the set of plausible algorithms of cortical function www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Apply to work with Jeff. You'll enjoy great science and collaboration with a caring PI.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Hierarchical processing and polarization encoding in the cephalopod visual system www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I will be presenting part of this work in workshop on Interpreting Cognition in Deep Learning Models, CogInterp Unifying Gestalt Principles Through Inference-Time Prior Integration Dec 7th, Room 5AB #NeurIPS2025 @neuripsconf.bsky.social Also, some cool papers!👇 coginterp.github.io/neurips2025/...

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Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Please help me find the answer to this question by reposting or tagging people who might know. What is a proper #?

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Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I guess it’s now well established that locomotion boosts the signal-to-noise ratio of visual cortical responses in mice. Is there any evidence that locomotion also enhances visual recognition performance at the behavioral level?

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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I am impressed by the improvement with Gemini 3 and nano 🍌. I used nano banana to make scientific figures. With 2.5 it was repetitively putting a human brain inside the 🐭 head. Now it draws an accurate mouse brain anatomy even seems to locate correctly the cortical areas. Big jump imo

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Response dynamics in macaque ventral stream recapitulate the visual hierarchy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 12/11/2025

Our lab is looking for a postdoc! We have interesting projects and cutting-edge techniques such as Neuropixels Opto, Light Beads Microscopy and more. We would be delighted to receive your application. Deadline is 25 November 2025. More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/cortexlab/po...

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/11/2025

Project structure for scientific coding projects - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...

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Project structure for scientific coding projects

Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 6, Part 3

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience. Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...). Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3) 🧠🤖

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Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

How does our brain excel at complex object recognition, yet get fooled by simple illusory contours? What unifying principle governs all Gestalt laws of perceptual organization? We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵

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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 21/10/2025

New faculty job opening at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Come be our colleague! Application deadline: November 22 apply.interfolio.com/176153

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Brenden Lake @brendenlake.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Today in Nature Machine Intelligence, Kazuki Irie & I discuss 4 classic challenges for neural nets — systematic generalization, catastrophic forgetting, few-shot learning, & reasoning. We argue there is a unifying fix: the right incentives & practice. rdcu.be/eLRmg

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Jérôme Lecoq @jeromelecoq.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Next week, our usual weekly predictive processing meeting will be a journal club. Hyeyoung Shin will present our recent shared publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Note the different time: Oct 20 at 4PM PST, meeting details : allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co... Open to All!

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Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of sensory inference - Nature Neuroscience

Neurons that respond emergently to illusory contours drive pattern completion in V1. Pattern completion in lower cortical areas may therefore mediate perceptual inference by selectively reinforcing…

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Map of spiking activity underlying change detection in the mouse visual system www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Vision people: what's the best encoding model for V4? I know brainscore has a ranking of trained models, but do we know what best captures tuning to orientation, spatial frequency, and color? Is there a "bank of filters" model that's better than trained ones? #neuroskyence

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