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Philipp Sterzer @psterzer.bsky.social · 1d

Please share: Postdoc position available in a new collaborative SNSF project with @georgkeller.bsky.social at @fmiscience.bsky.social using a cross-species approach in humans and mice to investigate the cortical circuit mechanisms underlying schizophrenia. Apply at karriere.upk.ch/Postdoctoral...

Stellenangebot Postdoctoral Researcher (PostDoc m/f) 100% Translational Psychiatry Lab for 2 Years bei Universitäre Psychiatrische Kliniken Basel UPK

Forschung in Klinik für Erwachsene (UPKE)

karriere.upk.ch

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NeuroLeyla @neuroleyla.bsky.social · 2d

New paper out with David Pascucci! We hash out our opposing views on the probabilistic nature of perception and cognition are probabilistic. It was a very rewarding undertaking: the challenge of disagreement coupled with the satisfaction some consensus. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Probabilistic processing: Possible, probable, or preposterous? A dialectical essay

Does the brain operate probabilistically, or are probabilistic models merely useful tools for approximating brain function? This dialectical essay add…

www.sciencedirect.com

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NeuroLeyla @neuroleyla.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you for reading the piece. What’s odd is it isn’t/wasn’t actually traumatic but it is a reference point in my life.

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NeuroLeyla @neuroleyla.bsky.social · 21d

Here’s a first person account of the 1997 military coup that erupted in Freetown, Sierra Leone. I’m grateful to the Michigan Quarterly Review for publishing my essay and letting me share it with you. Now available to read in full:
llouedkhen.github.io/Blue%20Skies...

llouedkhen.github.io

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Rubén Moreno-Bote @morenobote.bsky.social · Sep 12

📷PhD Position in Computational Neuroscience and AI, Moreno-Bote Lab, Barcelona.

1 fully funded PhD position is available. Deadline November 2025. See post below.

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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259...

I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, Tenure-Track

The Department of Psychology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ, plans to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, with a start date of September 1, 2026. We seek a candidate...

jobs.rutgers.edu

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · Sep 7

Our neuroscience department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience who works in "areas such as artificial intelligence, convolutional neural networks, reinforcement learning, decision making, memory, computational modeling, cognitive and neural processing".

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...

american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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NeuroLeyla @neuroleyla.bsky.social · Aug 28

Me too!

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NeuroLeyla @neuroleyla.bsky.social · Aug 28

What in the PLUR is this story??? www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company

Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA

www.theguardian.com

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NeuroLeyla @neuroleyla.bsky.social · Jul 29

Our new preprint is out!
People made risky decisions about pain for others. They were more cautious, more generous, and systematically overestimated others' pain. In the brain, pain risk tracked with responses in the dorsal striatum, with a higher response for others' han to one's self.

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jul 25

Pain Expectations: the neural representations of predicted pain in self and others https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.666065v1

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Nadia Steiber 〽️ @nadiasteiber.bsky.social · Jul 18

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods

Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

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NeuroLeyla @neuroleyla.bsky.social · Jul 18

Good! fMRIpower has been offline for a while I think, so it’s good to have a replacement.

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NeuroLeyla @neuroleyla.bsky.social · Jul 18

Yes, same…

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NeuroLeyla @neuroleyla.bsky.social · Jul 4

Hmm the nerd is strong in this one, thank you for the interesting read. Also did not know Zohran was Ismaili (not that it matters.)

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NeuroLeyla @neuroleyla.bsky.social · Jun 23

How exciting!!!

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Jun 23

The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Jun 23

Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]

GitHub - spm/spm-python: The Python interface to SPM

The Python interface to SPM. Contribute to spm/spm-python development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚨 CE PhD/Postdoc Opportunity!

Prof. Charley Wu and the Human & Machine Cognition Lab are looking for PhDs & Postdoc to join their ERC project "C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture" at TU Darmstadt.

3 PhD positions: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

Three PhD positions -- ERC Project

Three PhD positions -- ERC Project posted on June 10, 2025 We are currently seeking highly motivated individuals to fill three PhD positi...

hmc-lab.com

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · Jun 7

👀 The whole brain 7T "natural scenes dataset" now has mental imagery data!

NSD-Imagery: A Benchmark Dataset for Extending fMRI Vision Decoding Methods to Mental Imagery

Conference paper:
goo.gl/scholar/wPx1HJ

Dataset:
naturalscenesdataset.org

CVPR Poster NSD-Imagery: A Benchmark Dataset for Extending fMRI Vision Decoding Methods to Mental ImageryCVPR 2025

cvpr.thecvf.com

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Jun 3

CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost.
cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪

Dog-sled going past the Le Château Montebello.

Main public room in Le Château Montebello decorated for Christmas. The building is the world's largest "log cabin".

Le Château Montebello is situated on the banks of the Ottawa river, separating Quebec and Ontario.

Group photo the school of 2018 at the Winter school on the Neuroscience of Consciousness

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simine vazire @simine.com · May 23

Please spread the word!

Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks.
If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply!

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Call for Volunteers: Psychological Science REPEAT Network

Are you passionate about ensuring the reproducibility of scientific research? The journal Psychological Science is looking for volunteers to join REPEAT—our new network of computational reproducibilit...

www.psychologicalscience.org

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Andrey Chetverikov @achetverikov.bsky.social · May 9

I just learned that there is an open postdoc position for AI in Psychology with us. The deadline is in two days, but if you are interested and willing to write a quick proposal, let me know. Potential topics: comp. modeling of VWM/perception, brain decoding.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (276920) | University of Bergen

Job title: LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (276920), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, May 11, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · Feb 20

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

forms.gle

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · Apr 24

15 positions of Fellow in AI in Paris (teaching + research positions)

Required field(s) of studies: mathematics, computer science, physics, astrophysics, chemistry, life sciences, cognitive sciences, etc.

prairie-institute.fr/fellow-in-ar...

JOB OFFERS: 15 positions of Fellow in Artificial Intelligence (M/F) - Prairie

at PSL University funded by IA-Cluster PR[AI]RIE-PSAI Working environment and context PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres) is a global university that brings together all areas of knowledge and creativity in the sciences, economics and social sciences, humanities, engineering and the arts. It comprises eleven institutions: Collège de France, Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique - PSL,

prairie-institute.fr

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James Pang @jchrispang.bsky.social · Apr 17

We are hiring!

@aurinaarn.bsky.social and I are jointly looking for a talented Postdoc in Systems and Comp Neuro at Monash (AUS).

If you like neuroimaging 🧠, comp models 💻, genetics 🧬, brain disorders 🤕, and/or evolution 🐵🐭, this could be the job for you!!

careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

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NeuroLeyla @neuroleyla.bsky.social · Apr 17

In honor of the upcoming SBDM conference in Lyon (sbdm2025.github.io) I wish to share the glory of 2023's conference webpage, and its illustration of Paris:
sbdm2023.sciencesconf.org (I have nothing to do with the organization or anything, btw).

12th Symposium on The Biology of Decision Making 2025 - Lyon

SBDM-2025

sbdm2025.github.io

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