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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience

The study of foraging is central to a renewed interest in naturalistic behavior in neuroscience. Applying a foraging framework grounded in behavioral …

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.

I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 2d

🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation.

🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...

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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 6d

Two-year postdoc w/ Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science! Scholars in all areas of #philsci, inclusive of philosophical approaches to logic&math, are eligible. This is understood broadly to include issues in the history&practice of particular sciences.Deadline 5 Dec 2025.
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Two-Year Post-Doctoral Associate, Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota - PhilJobs:JFP

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 3d

🎲 Neurohumanities Booster Session 🧠
Neurology Through the Artist's Lens: Gamifying Visual Arts to Enhance Preclinical Neuroscience Education with Tammy Kaplan, MD and Christine Bentley, PhD

Held on zoom with @neurohumanitiesn.bsky.social!
Register here:
harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social · 3d

Check it out!

SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 3d

🧠 Phil & Neuro Salon: 10.23.25 at 12pm EST 🧠
Held on zoom and open to all!
Register for the talk here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social · 3d

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 5d

We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall has died.

She was truly a beacon of light in this world.

I had the good fortune of seeing her speak shortly before COVID arrived. She showed such warmth, compassion, integrity, and intelligence.

Jane, the animals thank you for your selfless work.

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Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91

"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...

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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 9d

Watch Randall Beer (Indiana University) give his talk titled 'Dynamical Systems for the Philosopher of Neuroscience' at DSPN this past week!

Special thank you to Marica Bernstein for recording! 🧠 🌀 Follow the link to our website to watch 👀

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DSPN at the Gulf | SPAN

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 8d

Missed the SPAN sesh at DSPNW? Now you can watch Randy Beer’s talk on the SPAN website! 🥳

SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 9d

Watch Randall Beer (Indiana University) give his talk titled 'Dynamical Systems for the Philosopher of Neuroscience' at DSPN this past week!

Special thank you to Marica Bernstein for recording! 🧠 🌀 Follow the link to our website to watch 👀

www.philandneuro.com/gulf

DSPN at the Gulf | SPAN

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 8d

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 12d

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 14d

1/5 How does the brain turn the low-dimensional, universal grid cell metric into the rich, diverse codes needed for memory in hippocampal place cells? 🧵
Preprint link 👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Functional independence of entorhinal grid cell modules enables remapping in hippocampal place cells

A systems-level understanding of cortical computation requires insight into how neural codes are transformed across distinct brain circuits. In the mammalian cortex, one of the few systems where such ...

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Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 14d

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 16d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

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David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social · 15d

Crock Bots is right there!!

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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 15d

New preprint! How can you remember an image you saw once, even after seeing thousands of them? We find a role for humble mid-level visual cortex in high-capacity, one-shot learning. doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.22.677855 🧵🧪1/

Neuronal signatures of successful one-shot memory in mid-level visual cortex

High-capacity, one-shot visual recognition memory challenges theories of learning and neural coding because it requires rapid, robust, and durable representations. Most studies have focused on the hip...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15d

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 16d

New publication forthcoming in BBS, co-authored with John Krakauer: a commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's groundbreaking target article.

We critique widespread assumptions in cognitive neuroscience about the role of internal models in implicit cognition. (1/7)

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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 16d

New manuscript from the lab!

"Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening"

Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening

Participants in conversations need to associate words their speakers but also retain those words general meanings. For example, someone talking about their hand is not referring to the other speakers ...

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · Apr 20

is anyone working on cortical waves (traveling, rotational, etc) looking for a faculty position? we'll soon be hiring in Korea, at our center where multiple labs (ephys, optical imaging, human neuroimaging) are interested in collaborating w/ theoreticians

pls DM/email for informal inquiries

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Malcolm Campbell @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social · 19d

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?

Read on to find out more! 🧵

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David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social · 19d

Ok this is fucking awesome

Valentin Schmutz @bio-emergent.bsky.social · 19d

🎉 "High-dimensional neuronal activity from low-dimensional latent dynamics: a solvable model" will be presented as an oral at #NeurIPS2025 🎉

Feeling very grateful that reviewers and chairs appreciated concise mathematical explanations, in this age of big models.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 19d

Western Philosophy Department is hiring!

www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

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Thomas Luo @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social · 21d

How does the brain decide? 🧠

Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc.

After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up.

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Transitions in dynamical regime and neural mode during perceptual decisions - Nature

Simultaneous recordings were made of hundreds of neurons in the rat frontal cortex and striatum, showing that decision commitment involves a rapid, coordinated transition in dynamical regime and neura...

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