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Neil Burgess
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UCL prof, not big on social media
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sjblakemore.bsky.social
Many congratulations to @masudhusain.bsky.social for winning the @royalsociety.org book prize for his brilliant book ‘Our brains, our selves’.
Loved the brain-themed dessert
October 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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drrickadams.bsky.social
Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
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).
rb.gy
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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timbale.bsky.social
From the original Swedish researchers.
Paracetamol use during pregnancy not linked to autism, our study of 2.5 million children shows
Our research provides strong evidence against the concerning claims made recently by US president Donald Trump.
theconversation.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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gatsbyucl.bsky.social
🙋Are you interested in bridging theory & experiments?

Applications are now open for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit & SWC joint PhD programme.

Join us and be part of a vibrant research community!

💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

@sainsburywellcome.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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sainsburywellcome.bsky.social
Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme.

Join us in London!

🧠 World-class neuroscience training
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social

Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
September 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
neilburgess10.bsky.social
𝖡𝗋𝗂𝖾𝖿 𝗋𝖾𝗏𝗂𝖾𝗐 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝖣𝖺𝗇 𝖡𝗎𝗌𝗁, 𝗈𝖿 𝗇𝖾𝗎𝗋𝖺𝗅 𝗌𝖾𝗊𝗎𝖾𝗇𝖼𝖾𝗌 𝗂𝗇 𝖿𝗅𝗒𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖻𝖺𝗍𝗌 (𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐚 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐬!) 𝗂𝗇 𝗍𝗐𝗈 𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖾𝗇𝗍 𝗉𝖺𝗉𝖾𝗋𝗌 𝖻𝗒 𝖠𝗇𝗀𝖾𝗅𝗈 𝖥𝗈𝗋𝗅𝗂, 𝖶𝗎𝖽𝗂 𝖥𝖺𝗇, 𝖪𝖾𝗏𝗂𝗇 𝖰𝗂 & 𝖬𝗂𝖼𝗁𝖺𝖾𝗅 𝖸𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗌𝖾𝗏, 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖻𝗒 𝖳𝖺𝗆𝗂𝗋 𝖤𝗅𝗂𝖺𝗏, 𝖲𝗁𝗂𝗋 𝖬𝖺𝗂𝗆𝗈𝗇, 𝖠𝗒𝖾𝗅𝖾𝗍 𝖲𝖺𝗋𝖾𝗅, 𝖲𝗁𝖺𝗄𝖾𝖽 𝖯𝖺𝗅𝗀𝗂, 𝖫𝗂𝗈𝗋𝖺 𝖫𝖺𝗌 & 𝖭𝖺𝖼𝗁𝗎𝗆 𝖴𝗅𝖺𝗇𝗈𝗏𝗌𝗄𝗒: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lpaB3QW8S...
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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mariamaly.bsky.social
We make predictions based on general knowledge and/or specific memories. Different brain areas are active when these distinct predictions are violated – and hippocampus selectively responds to prediction errors based on episodic memory.

Cool work by @chrismbird.bsky.social @ayab.bsky.social et al!
Hippocampal mismatch signals are based on episodic memories and not schematic knowledge | PNAS
Prediction errors drive learning by signaling mismatches between expectations and reality, but the neural systems supporting these computations rem...
www.pnas.org
August 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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imagingneuroucl.bsky.social
🚨 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/...
August 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social
Our paper on foraging is now published in Neuron! Read it here:

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!
Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics
Bukwich and Campbell et al. show that mice integrate elapsed time and reward intake, scaled by a latent patience variable, to decide when to leave virtual “patches.” Frontal cortex ramping activity ma...
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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thmeyer.bsky.social
🚨New Preprint! Training spatial memory for traumatic scenes in #VR reduces intrusive memories. ~10 years in the making, with many great collaborators across 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇩🇪, including C.Brewin, J.King, P.Dibbets, @neilburgess10.bsky.social, @nexh-morina.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.31219/osf... #PsychSciSky
OSF
doi.org
July 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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katejj.bsky.social
Brain/behaviour people - come to beautiful Scotland - we are recruiting in psychology and neuroscience across all grades! Closes May 12. Details below, and please re-post 🙏

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

More about us here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psyc...

#neuroskyence #neurojobs
Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283
University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...
www.nature.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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katejj.bsky.social
OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
March 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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sainsburywellcome.bsky.social
Going to #Cosyne2025? Check out our researchers’ posters and talks:

www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

@cosynemeeting.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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zilong-ji.bsky.social
Excited to share our latest paper: “Phase Precession Relative to Turning Angle in Theta-Modulated Head Direction Cells” together with Dr. Eleonora Lomi (co-first author) Prof. @katejj.bsky.social Prof. Anna Mitchell and Prof. @neilburgess10.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/hipo...
Phase Precession Relative to Turning Angle in Theta‐Modulated Head Direction Cells
Grid and place cells typically fire at progressively earlier phases within each cycle of the theta rhythm as rodents run across their firing fields, a phenomenon known as theta phase precession. Here...
doi.org
March 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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masudhusain.bsky.social
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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rosscarroll.bsky.social
When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
chrisbrooke.bsky.social Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · Feb 25
To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."
gsoh31.bsky.social Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Feb 25
Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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zilong-ji.bsky.social
I really enjoyed reading this commentary of our recent paper about modeling left-right sweeps in grid cells: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... from Prof. Michael Hasselmo, Dr. Jennifer Robinson and Dr. Patrick LaChance.
Navigation: Scanning your future path
A new model of how we plan pathways through the world shows that populations of neurons that code our current position, including entorhinal grid cells and head direction cells, could interact to aid ...
www.cell.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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zilong-ji.bsky.social
See here for our paper: www.cell.com/current-biol.... It is a great pleasure to work on this model with Tianhao, Si Wu and @neilburgess10.bsky.social. Also, I highly recommend to first read the experimental paper by @azvollan.bsky.social and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation
Ji, Chu et al. present a network model of direction and grid cells, which generates an internal direction signal comprised of alternating left-right sweeps of encoded location and direction, based on ...
www.cell.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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sarahgarf.bsky.social
The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience is the most wonderful place to work. Supportive, bright colleagues doing incredible research in beautiful Queen Square. Do get in touch if you have any questions. Come join us!

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
January 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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bachynski.bsky.social
“We are deeply concerned about this causal act that toys with the accessibility of publicly funded research, coupled with a range of attacks on the public funding of science… and federal researchers. We see this as the government playing with truth, a 2025 digital equivalent of book burning”
Our published work in a government journal curiously disappeared
Several studies for a CDC journal were purged without explanation before a judge’s order restored them. That's unacceptable.
www.minnpost.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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scurry.bsky.social
An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
An open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values | Reciprocal Space
occamstypewriter.org
February 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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zilong-ji.bsky.social
Very happy to see this out! Based on the microcircuit identified by Vollan et al., we made some interesting predictions about theta sweeps along the parasubiculum-MEC-HPC pathway, especially theta modulated head direction cells which direct the left-right sweeps in downstream grid cells.
neilburgess10.bsky.social Neil Burgess @neilburgess10.bsky.social · Feb 10
Really impressive identification of this functional circuit!

Even better it just needs continuous attractor dynamics & firing rate adaptation (or similar) to work, which also makes some new predictions (model with @zilong-ji.bsky.social, Tianhao Chu, Si Wu)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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edvardmoser.bsky.social
This could be catastrophic. Consequences for US universities (and the world) may be beyond imagination.
February 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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cianodonnell.bsky.social
As a computational neuroscientist I second this.

We can supplement and maybe help accelerate animal research but we will never, ever replace it.
endoeartha.bsky.social eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · Feb 6
organs on chips and computational as replacement for animal research. i want to reiterate that this is not possible for many organs, especially the brain.

she says it will reduce the reproducibility crises, sure if your model keeps saying the same wrong thing, it's very reproducible
February 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM