andy alexander
@andyalexander.bsky.social
asst prof in psychological + brain sciences at ucsb
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We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings.
Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...
You can also email [email protected] with CV/questions. Please share!
Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...
You can also email [email protected] with CV/questions. Please share!
February 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings.
Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...
You can also email [email protected] with CV/questions. Please share!
Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...
You can also email [email protected] with CV/questions. Please share!
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Junior scientists 👉 applications are open for our workshop on the mechanistic basis of #cognition. 🧠
🤝 Joint sessions with our #TheoreticalNeuroscience workshop
✈️ Hotel, meals + reasonable travel expenses covered
Apply by May 7 ➡️ janelia.news/CNW26
@michaelreiser.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social
🤝 Joint sessions with our #TheoreticalNeuroscience workshop
✈️ Hotel, meals + reasonable travel expenses covered
Apply by May 7 ➡️ janelia.news/CNW26
@michaelreiser.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Junior scientists 👉 applications are open for our workshop on the mechanistic basis of #cognition. 🧠
🤝 Joint sessions with our #TheoreticalNeuroscience workshop
✈️ Hotel, meals + reasonable travel expenses covered
Apply by May 7 ➡️ janelia.news/CNW26
@michaelreiser.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social
🤝 Joint sessions with our #TheoreticalNeuroscience workshop
✈️ Hotel, meals + reasonable travel expenses covered
Apply by May 7 ➡️ janelia.news/CNW26
@michaelreiser.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social
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hi all - happy to present new work from my laboratory now published in Current Biology - posterior parietal cortex is home to different sub-populations mapping action series versus cross-path structural similarities - congrats to alex johnson and emily xu!
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January 23, 2026 at 5:59 AM
hi all - happy to present new work from my laboratory now published in Current Biology - posterior parietal cortex is home to different sub-populations mapping action series versus cross-path structural similarities - congrats to alex johnson and emily xu!
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Awesome work by Tudor. This is a fun story that started with a fairly unsurprising observation - that motor cortical activity dissipates rapidly after a CPG-driven movement is initiated. The explanation for why is quite surprising though and begets a bunch of interesting new questions.
Very excited to share a new preprint - my first paper in the @mikeeconomo.bsky.social lab where we asked when and why the motor cortex is recruited for movement control:🧠👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.13.699314v1
Dynamic engagement of the motor cortex in controlling movement
Neural circuits do not contribute equally or continuously to behavior. In mice, the motor cortex can be essential or dispensable for movement in different contexts, but how it is dynamically recruited...
www.biorxiv.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Awesome work by Tudor. This is a fun story that started with a fairly unsurprising observation - that motor cortical activity dissipates rapidly after a CPG-driven movement is initiated. The explanation for why is quite surprising though and begets a bunch of interesting new questions.
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📣 Our lab is hiring a full-time RA/lab manager! Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara to study the neural bases of affect-cognition interactions using fMRI and brain stimulation. Great stepping stone to a PhD in cognitive/affective neuro 🧠🐬🏖️ Apply by Jan 22: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03048
Junior Specialist - Lapate Laboratory, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu
January 13, 2026 at 10:23 PM
📣 Our lab is hiring a full-time RA/lab manager! Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara to study the neural bases of affect-cognition interactions using fMRI and brain stimulation. Great stepping stone to a PhD in cognitive/affective neuro 🧠🐬🏖️ Apply by Jan 22: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03048
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AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
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BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.
January 7, 2026 at 11:46 PM
BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.
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Join us Jan 23 for the inaugural CRML Agentic AI Summit at @ucsb.bsky.social.
Researchers, industry, and students exploring how agentic AI drives discovery and real-world impact.
Free to attend, limited space: ml.ucsb.edu/events/summi...
#AgenticAI #ResponsibleAI #AIResearch
Researchers, industry, and students exploring how agentic AI drives discovery and real-world impact.
Free to attend, limited space: ml.ucsb.edu/events/summi...
#AgenticAI #ResponsibleAI #AIResearch
January 6, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Join us Jan 23 for the inaugural CRML Agentic AI Summit at @ucsb.bsky.social.
Researchers, industry, and students exploring how agentic AI drives discovery and real-world impact.
Free to attend, limited space: ml.ucsb.edu/events/summi...
#AgenticAI #ResponsibleAI #AIResearch
Researchers, industry, and students exploring how agentic AI drives discovery and real-world impact.
Free to attend, limited space: ml.ucsb.edu/events/summi...
#AgenticAI #ResponsibleAI #AIResearch
Any other UC folks encountering extensive red tape when purchasing from IMEC? UCSB says a clause in the purchase agreement requires a special exception from UCOP - is that the case for others? It's been almost 2.5 months since we began an order for more probes and we are still stuck at the uni...
December 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Any other UC folks encountering extensive red tape when purchasing from IMEC? UCSB says a clause in the purchase agreement requires a special exception from UCOP - is that the case for others? It's been almost 2.5 months since we began an order for more probes and we are still stuck at the uni...
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New preprint from the lab!
A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use a novel task in mice, cortex-wide imaging and optogenetics, NPX recording and modelling to reveal a circuit mechanism that transforms abstract decisions to spatial actions.
A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use a novel task in mice, cortex-wide imaging and optogenetics, NPX recording and modelling to reveal a circuit mechanism that transforms abstract decisions to spatial actions.
A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions
Flexible behaviour requires transforming abstract cognitive representations, such as value preferences, into concrete motor actions. During economic decision-making, individuals evaluate options to gu...
www.biorxiv.org
December 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
New preprint from the lab!
A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use a novel task in mice, cortex-wide imaging and optogenetics, NPX recording and modelling to reveal a circuit mechanism that transforms abstract decisions to spatial actions.
A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use a novel task in mice, cortex-wide imaging and optogenetics, NPX recording and modelling to reveal a circuit mechanism that transforms abstract decisions to spatial actions.
Lazy but I can't find it and am sure it exists - can someone point me to a paper showing representational drift in *freely moving* animals where *parietal cortex hasn't been sucked out?*
December 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Lazy but I can't find it and am sure it exists - can someone point me to a paper showing representational drift in *freely moving* animals where *parietal cortex hasn't been sucked out?*
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Drosophila maintain a consistent navigational goal angle for days to weeks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693277v1
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Drosophila maintain a consistent navigational goal angle for days to weeks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693277v1
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Neuro grad students! Applications for the 6th annual - Rising Stars in Neuroscience - due Jan 9!
Don’t miss this chance to present research, sharpen science communication skills and connect with peers & faculty. Plus you’ll get to experience stunning Utah!
medicine.utah.edu/neurobiology...
Don’t miss this chance to present research, sharpen science communication skills and connect with peers & faculty. Plus you’ll get to experience stunning Utah!
medicine.utah.edu/neurobiology...
December 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Neuro grad students! Applications for the 6th annual - Rising Stars in Neuroscience - due Jan 9!
Don’t miss this chance to present research, sharpen science communication skills and connect with peers & faculty. Plus you’ll get to experience stunning Utah!
medicine.utah.edu/neurobiology...
Don’t miss this chance to present research, sharpen science communication skills and connect with peers & faculty. Plus you’ll get to experience stunning Utah!
medicine.utah.edu/neurobiology...
Keinath lab already absolutely killing it (as expected)
Excited to share the first peer-reviewed work from the lab (what a moment)! We have two papers to share. First, some work on heading integration in humans.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Rotating visual spaces induce behavioral biases consistent with recalibrated heading integration in humans
Neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience; Computer simulation
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December 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Keinath lab already absolutely killing it (as expected)
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Another new paper from the lab: Predictive theories like the SR imply that navigators who navigate differently should have cognitive maps which differ in predictable ways. Here we show that this holds in mouse hippocampal CA1.
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Environmental representations in mouse hippocampal CA1 reflect the predictive structure of navigation
Predictive theories of cognitive mapping propose that these representations encode the predictive relationships among contents as experienced by the n…
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December 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Another new paper from the lab: Predictive theories like the SR imply that navigators who navigate differently should have cognitive maps which differ in predictable ways. Here we show that this holds in mouse hippocampal CA1.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Can your AI beat a mouse? This is happening Sunday! robustforaging.github.io NeurIPS workshop 11 to 2 California time on Zoom!
@mbeyeler.bsky.social
@sinzlab.bsky.social
@ninamiolane.bsky.social
@crisniell.bsky.social
@mariusschneider.bsky.social
J. Canzano, Y. Hou, J. Peng, et al.
#NeurIPS2025
@mbeyeler.bsky.social
@sinzlab.bsky.social
@ninamiolane.bsky.social
@crisniell.bsky.social
@mariusschneider.bsky.social
J. Canzano, Y. Hou, J. Peng, et al.
#NeurIPS2025
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Can your AI beat a mouse? This is happening Sunday! robustforaging.github.io NeurIPS workshop 11 to 2 California time on Zoom!
@mbeyeler.bsky.social
@sinzlab.bsky.social
@ninamiolane.bsky.social
@crisniell.bsky.social
@mariusschneider.bsky.social
J. Canzano, Y. Hou, J. Peng, et al.
#NeurIPS2025
@mbeyeler.bsky.social
@sinzlab.bsky.social
@ninamiolane.bsky.social
@crisniell.bsky.social
@mariusschneider.bsky.social
J. Canzano, Y. Hou, J. Peng, et al.
#NeurIPS2025
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Had a really nice visit to UCSB, learning about the awesome neuroscience research there and presenting our work on voltage imaging in the molecular cellular and developmental biology seminar series.
Thanks to my host Ikuko Smith, who might have the best office view in all of UC!
Thanks to my host Ikuko Smith, who might have the best office view in all of UC!
December 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Had a really nice visit to UCSB, learning about the awesome neuroscience research there and presenting our work on voltage imaging in the molecular cellular and developmental biology seminar series.
Thanks to my host Ikuko Smith, who might have the best office view in all of UC!
Thanks to my host Ikuko Smith, who might have the best office view in all of UC!
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Also on Sunday Dec 7th, join us for the @neurreps.bsky.social workshop in Upper Level Ballroom 6A.
December 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Also on Sunday Dec 7th, join us for the @neurreps.bsky.social workshop in Upper Level Ballroom 6A.
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Arrived #NeurIPS2025 ☀️
If you're interested in the interplay of Geometry, Topology, Algebra w/ Neuroscience & AI, I'll give 2 talks on Sunday:
🌐11:30am: The Algebra of Spatial Navigation (Groups & grid cells)
🍩1:30pm: Topological Deep Learning (Complexes & Graphs)
More👇
If you're interested in the interplay of Geometry, Topology, Algebra w/ Neuroscience & AI, I'll give 2 talks on Sunday:
🌐11:30am: The Algebra of Spatial Navigation (Groups & grid cells)
🍩1:30pm: Topological Deep Learning (Complexes & Graphs)
More👇
December 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Arrived #NeurIPS2025 ☀️
If you're interested in the interplay of Geometry, Topology, Algebra w/ Neuroscience & AI, I'll give 2 talks on Sunday:
🌐11:30am: The Algebra of Spatial Navigation (Groups & grid cells)
🍩1:30pm: Topological Deep Learning (Complexes & Graphs)
More👇
If you're interested in the interplay of Geometry, Topology, Algebra w/ Neuroscience & AI, I'll give 2 talks on Sunday:
🌐11:30am: The Algebra of Spatial Navigation (Groups & grid cells)
🍩1:30pm: Topological Deep Learning (Complexes & Graphs)
More👇
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🧠📢 New preprint alert
Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
December 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
🧠📢 New preprint alert
Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
Awesome opportunity alert
Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year:
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!
I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!
I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
December 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Awesome opportunity alert
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surprise surprise! it's about the existence of trans people. Another university capitulates to the fascist.
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
surprise surprise! it's about the existence of trans people. Another university capitulates to the fascist.
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I’m also on the job market this year — happy to connect with anyone interested in hippocampal computation, comparative neurophysiology, or collaborative directions
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I’m also on the job market this year — happy to connect with anyone interested in hippocampal computation, comparative neurophysiology, or collaborative directions
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Our new preprint: The primate hippocampus parses experience into event-aligned neural states, creating a temporal scaffold for organizing behavior.
At #SfN25 ? Come chat at my poster — Wednesday AM (PP14; 414.03).
At #SfN25 ? Come chat at my poster — Wednesday AM (PP14; 414.03).
The Primate Hippocampus Constructs a Temporal Scaffold Anchored to Behavioral Events https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.687961v1
November 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Our new preprint: The primate hippocampus parses experience into event-aligned neural states, creating a temporal scaffold for organizing behavior.
At #SfN25 ? Come chat at my poster — Wednesday AM (PP14; 414.03).
At #SfN25 ? Come chat at my poster — Wednesday AM (PP14; 414.03).
I don't want to live in a world where HD cells don't exist
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I don't want to live in a world where HD cells don't exist