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Neuroscientist in New York she/her https://as.nyu.edu/departments/cns/people/faculty.erin-rich.html

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Erin Rich @erinlrich.bsky.social · Jan 2

It's official, the Rich lab is now part of the Center for Neural Science at NYU! I'm thrilled to be joining CNS! At the same time, I'll miss my amazing colleagues at Sinai (even though we're not going far).

Here's to new adventures in the new year!🥂

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Zach Pennington @zachtpennington.bsky.social · 11d

I’m hiring at all levels and accepting graduate students through Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Reach out if you’re interested in joining a collaborative, fun, creative, and supportive team in beautiful Vancouver! 🏔️ ⛷️ 🏖️ 🌆

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · Sep 7

Back by popular demand: supplemental material. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors#suppl

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20d

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS

Comment period ends September 29th

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 23d

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions.

Lots of updates from the preprint!

Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates

Specialized cell types and links to psychiatric disorders are revealed by genetic mapping of primate amygdala neurons.

www.science.org

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 25d

I don't know that it works perfectly, but I have to say that the Asta search tool from @ai2.bsky.social is exactly what I want from an AI-powered research search tool for scientists: Describe a style of experiment or work and see if there are papers that have done that.
asta.allen.ai/chat

Ai2 Asta

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Alik Widge @alikwidge.bsky.social · 29d

New paper out! A review of prefrontal mechanisms involved in deep brain stimulation, bringing together our work of the past few years and a foreshadow of where we're going next. Plus some cool rodent stuff!

www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...

Prefrontal Network Mechanisms of Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an emerging treatment for otherwise treatment-refractory psychiatric disorders. It can produce remarkable clinical results in expert hands, but has not fared as well in...

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Narayanan Lab @narayananlab.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our issue on Computational Properties of the Prefrontal Cortex is now:
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...

These articles capture some of the incandescence of the CPPC conferences...
narayanan.lab.uiowa.edu/home/cppc2024
cppc.web.ox.ac.uk
accl.psy.vanderbilt.edu/blog/2018/10...

The Journal of Neuroscience: 45 (37)

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · Sep 9

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cosynemeeting.bsky.social @cosynemeeting.bsky.social · Sep 9

#Cosyne2026 is now open for business!

Show us what you got both for the main meeting & workshop proposals 🧠🥳🧠🥳🧠

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 24

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.

[Gift Link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · Aug 22

A pleasant surprise from the Journal of Neuroscience RE the application of the updated NIH public access policy (authors deposit accepted manuscript in PMC, journal retains license to final copyedited version, no requirement to pay OA fee) www.jneurosci.org/content/righ...

Rights and Permissions | Journal of Neuroscience

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Aug 21

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Day 21! QUACK-O-GRAM THURSDAY!

For $3 we will hand deliver an "IMPEACH THE QUACK" rubber ducky to your House Representative! (By one of our team members in a duck suit!)

DO IT (AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS)

act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

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Steve W. C. Chang @stevewcchang.bsky.social · Aug 20

Very timely and insightful OpEd by Prof. Cory Miller on WSJ. It lays out an important point - Advanced AI cannot be developed in a vacuum without understanding the sophisticated machines we have in our brains.
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Opinion | The Future of AI Lies in Monkeys, Not Microchips

Neuroscience research on primates will help us learn how to build an efficient thinking machine.

www.wsj.com

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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 20

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · Aug 15

New theory: Categorization is Baked Into the Brain
Categorization is not a late stage of sensory processing but a core computation that begins at the earliest stages, occurring throughout the cortex as predictive feedback shapes feedforward processing.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
#neuroscience

OSF

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Matt Perich @mattperich.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨 I’m excited to say that my CIHR Project Grant was funded! My NHP lab is now full-speed-ahead, and I’m hiring experimentalists (postdoc, PhD student, and/or a tech/manager). We’ll do multi-region ephys during reaching/grasping in macaques, with behavioral and spinal perturbations.

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Aug 11

In standard models of choice, we evaluate each option separately, then compare values. @benhayden.bsky.social explores a @plosbiology.org study showing that #OrbitofrontalCortex compares before evaluating, challenging theories about how we choose 🧪 Paper: plos.io/4mxK3i6 Primer: plos.io/45HPmpC

In evaluation-first choice, the decision-maker combines information across attributes within each option (evaluation) and then takes the results of that evaluation step (abstract values) and compares them (comparison). In comparison-first choice, the decision maker compares each attribute separately for each object and then performs an as-yet-unidentified step to determine which option to choose. Comparison-first choice may be preferred because it avoids a costly or difficult evaluation step.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Aug 8

This Executive Order is a gross overreach of Presidential power and undermines democracy. It steals from taxpayers, will destroy science and the economy, and ultimately, America.

Congress must act now.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Federal Grantmaking Gets a Christofascist Glow-Up

Read my zero star review of the new Executive Order

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Aug 8

When choosing between options with multiple attributes, the #OrbitofrontalCortex (OFC) is thought to integrate across attributes. @erinlrich.bsky.social &co show that OFC neurons encode comparisons between attributes of the same type, rather than integrating values @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4mxK3i6

Top, Left to right: Monkeys initiated a trial by holding a touch-sensitive bar and fixating a central point. Choice options were represented by a pair of colored bars of variable height. The left bar indicated the sweetness of an option and the right bar indicated the probability of receiving it. Monkeys freely viewed the options while holding the touch bar, and reported a choice by releasing the bar while directing gaze to one option. Bottom: Sweetness and probability attributes were represented by colored bars, whose height indicated the value of the attribute. Values varied monotonically in 5 increments. Blue and yellow bar heights directly mapped to the value of the attribute (− = low, + = high). Magenta and green bar heights indirectly mapped to the value of the attribute.

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · Aug 8

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Claudia Clopath Lab @clopathlab.bsky.social · Aug 8

We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · Aug 7

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉

Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020

Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054

Please spread the word!

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Erin Rich @erinlrich.bsky.social · Aug 7

yikes, bad rendering in the thumbnail

Erin Rich @erinlrich.bsky.social · Aug 7

Happy to have some good science news - our new study with @aqperkins.bsky.social is out in @plosbiology.org!

dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Orbitofrontal cortex computes gaze-dependent comparisons between attributes rather than integrated values

When choosing between options with multiple attributes, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is thought to integrate across those attributes, aiding in value comparisons. This study shows in monkeys that OF...

dx.plos.org

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