Drew B Headley
@drewbheadley.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. Of Neuroscience at Rutgers University- Newark.
Applying to graduate school for neuroscience this year? Consider coming to our department, the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers Newark. We are a research focused group with each student fully funded for 5 years. Details here: sasn.rutgers.edu/cmbn-graduat...
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Applying to graduate school for neuroscience this year? Consider coming to our department, the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers Newark. We are a research focused group with each student fully funded for 5 years. Details here: sasn.rutgers.edu/cmbn-graduat...
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Another excellent position at UT Dallas, this time in the Biological Science Dept: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30702 Our Neuroscience and Biological Sciences faculty are closely intertwined and collaborative creating a great place to launch your independent lab!
Open Rank Faculty Position Artificial Intelligence in Biological Sciences
Position DescriptionThe School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) seeks to fill multiple open-rank (Full, Associate, or Assistant Professor) tenured/t...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Another excellent position at UT Dallas, this time in the Biological Science Dept: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30702 Our Neuroscience and Biological Sciences faculty are closely intertwined and collaborative creating a great place to launch your independent lab!
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ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline.
Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
October 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline.
Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
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🚨Another paper alert! 🚨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Do you perform neural implant procedures? Develop new neural implants? Train people to do neural implants? This paper describes our lab’s approach to make custom ~whole-head simulators that can help in those tasks.
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Do you perform neural implant procedures? Develop new neural implants? Train people to do neural implants? This paper describes our lab’s approach to make custom ~whole-head simulators that can help in those tasks.
Customizable artificial simulator for developing, planning, and training personnel on neurophysiology and surgical procedures in non-human primates
Neuroscience researchers often surgically implant hardware into model organisms to measure and manipulate neural activity. Designing and optimizing th…
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October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🚨Another paper alert! 🚨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Do you perform neural implant procedures? Develop new neural implants? Train people to do neural implants? This paper describes our lab’s approach to make custom ~whole-head simulators that can help in those tasks.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Do you perform neural implant procedures? Develop new neural implants? Train people to do neural implants? This paper describes our lab’s approach to make custom ~whole-head simulators that can help in those tasks.
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We’ve recently updated our collaborative open-access book, “Neural Networks in Cognitive Science”, adding a few new authors, chapters, and lots of content.
downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
We’ve recently updated our collaborative open-access book, “Neural Networks in Cognitive Science”, adding a few new authors, chapters, and lots of content.
downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
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My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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Out today at Neuron, our experiments show that frontal cortical representation of economic variables is jointly determined by spatial organization and downstream
connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
October 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Out today at Neuron, our experiments show that frontal cortical representation of economic variables is jointly determined by spatial organization and downstream
connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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I wish we'd still make real-life models of our preferred cellular structures www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/biom...
October 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I wish we'd still make real-life models of our preferred cellular structures www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/biom...
With our mobile Neuropixel rig we can record anywhere in the building. Even the hallway!
October 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
With our mobile Neuropixel rig we can record anywhere in the building. Even the hallway!
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Come be my newest colleague! Scripps neuro is an energetic and supportive department, and uniquely benefits from proximity to our intimidatingly awesome chem and drug discovery programs. Happy to chat about my experiences here so far!
During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost!
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October 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Come be my newest colleague! Scripps neuro is an energetic and supportive department, and uniquely benefits from proximity to our intimidatingly awesome chem and drug discovery programs. Happy to chat about my experiences here so far!
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Hot take…asking whether mechanisms relevant for flies remembering odors aligns with those underlying working memory in primates is silly.
Mushroom bodies and lateral prefrontal cortex aren’t even close to an example of convergent evolution.
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Mushroom bodies and lateral prefrontal cortex aren’t even close to an example of convergent evolution.
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At #BernsteinConference heated debate on WM mechanisms. I love that this is still far to be settled!
trained RNNs from A.Compte aligns with fruitfly direction WM data from K.Nagel: it is persistent.
Large scale recording in macaque V1 in T.Moore Lab: it is not.
#neuroskyence what's your take?
trained RNNs from A.Compte aligns with fruitfly direction WM data from K.Nagel: it is persistent.
Large scale recording in macaque V1 in T.Moore Lab: it is not.
#neuroskyence what's your take?
October 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Hot take…asking whether mechanisms relevant for flies remembering odors aligns with those underlying working memory in primates is silly.
Mushroom bodies and lateral prefrontal cortex aren’t even close to an example of convergent evolution.
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Mushroom bodies and lateral prefrontal cortex aren’t even close to an example of convergent evolution.
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Great body of work led by @ppiantad.bsky.social
First use of PdCO in the wild to perform closed-loop pre-choice modulation 🤩
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
First use of PdCO in the wild to perform closed-loop pre-choice modulation 🤩
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Great body of work led by @ppiantad.bsky.social
First use of PdCO in the wild to perform closed-loop pre-choice modulation 🤩
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
First use of PdCO in the wild to perform closed-loop pre-choice modulation 🤩
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🎇 Excited to finally share JL Romero Sosa’s publication! Results are from single-cell imaging in different subregions of rat frontal cortex during ✨de novo learning. Spoiler: everything is not everywhere all at once www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neural coding of choice and outcome are modulated by uncertainty in orbitofrontal but not secondary motor cortex - Nature Communications
Neural mechanisms underlying flexible learning and decision-making are not fully understood. Using single-cell calcium imaging, authors here found that neurons in orbitofrontal and secondary motor cortex exhibit complementary roles in reward learning, with neurons in the former exerting a sustained role in conditions of uncertainty.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🎇 Excited to finally share JL Romero Sosa’s publication! Results are from single-cell imaging in different subregions of rat frontal cortex during ✨de novo learning. Spoiler: everything is not everywhere all at once www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hi! Does anyone here have experience doing neuropixels recordings from young mice (before p28)? What methods do you use? Headbar + record the same day?
October 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Hi! Does anyone here have experience doing neuropixels recordings from young mice (before p28)? What methods do you use? Headbar + record the same day?
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Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n
September 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n
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Of potential interest to those keen on motor control and/or multi-task networks. Congrats to Elom and Eric.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Motor cortex flexibly deploys a high-dimensional repertoire of subskills
Skilled movement often requires flexibly combining multiple subskills, each requiring dedicated control strategies and underlying computations. How the motor system achieves such versatility remains u...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Of potential interest to those keen on motor control and/or multi-task networks. Congrats to Elom and Eric.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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This is an exquisite demonstration of using intracranial recordings in humans to validate our findings that amygdala neurons encode the value of exploring in NHPs.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration in aversive learning - Nature
Human exploration is driven by two distinct neural mechanisms, a valence-independent rate signal and a valence-dependent global noise signal.
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August 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is an exquisite demonstration of using intracranial recordings in humans to validate our findings that amygdala neurons encode the value of exploring in NHPs.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How can your AI be superhuman if it can't even beat a mouse?Lots of updates for this 2025 NeurIPS competition. Get your submission in! robustforaging.github.io
Nov. 1 is the deadline. Please share widely. @garymarcus.bsky.social @dcower.bsky.social @tyrellturing.bsky.social @rowantmc.bsky.social
Nov. 1 is the deadline. Please share widely. @garymarcus.bsky.social @dcower.bsky.social @tyrellturing.bsky.social @rowantmc.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
How can your AI be superhuman if it can't even beat a mouse?Lots of updates for this 2025 NeurIPS competition. Get your submission in! robustforaging.github.io
Nov. 1 is the deadline. Please share widely. @garymarcus.bsky.social @dcower.bsky.social @tyrellturing.bsky.social @rowantmc.bsky.social
Nov. 1 is the deadline. Please share widely. @garymarcus.bsky.social @dcower.bsky.social @tyrellturing.bsky.social @rowantmc.bsky.social
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Very relevant for the downstream applicability of connectomics research:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
#neuroscience 🧪
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
#neuroscience 🧪
Infrequent strong connections constrain connectomic predictions of neuronal function
Extensive measurements of visual selectivity in the fly optic lobe enable a broad
assessment of connectome-based functional predictions. Strong connections possess
an outsized share of the connectome’...
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August 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Very relevant for the downstream applicability of connectomics research:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
#neuroscience 🧪
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
#neuroscience 🧪
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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...
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...
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August 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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In neuroscience, we often try to understand systems by analyzing their representations — using tools like regression or RSA. But are these analyses biased towards discovering a subset of what a system represents? If you're interested in this question, check out our new commentary! Thread:
![What do representations tell us about a system? Image of a mouse with a scope showing a vector of activity patterns, and a neural network with a vector of unit activity patterns
Common analyses of neural representations: Encoding models (relating activity to task features) drawing of an arrow from a trace saying [on_____on____] to a neuron and spike train. Comparing models via neural predictivity: comparing two neural networks by their R^2 to mouse brain activity. RSA: assessing brain-brain or model-brain correspondence using representational dissimilarity matrices](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e6ewzleebkdi2y2bxhjxoknt/bafkreiav2io2ska33o4kizf57co5bboqyyfdpnozo2gxsicrfr5l7qzjcq@jpeg)
August 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In neuroscience, we often try to understand systems by analyzing their representations — using tools like regression or RSA. But are these analyses biased towards discovering a subset of what a system represents? If you're interested in this question, check out our new commentary! Thread:
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The butterfly-like/four circular labeling in the mediodorsal (top two) and submedius (bottom two) thalamic nuclei when retrograde tracers are infused in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of rats
Bonus: midline labeling are from retrograde tracers placed in the nucleus accumbens (nAc)
Bonus: midline labeling are from retrograde tracers placed in the nucleus accumbens (nAc)
August 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The butterfly-like/four circular labeling in the mediodorsal (top two) and submedius (bottom two) thalamic nuclei when retrograde tracers are infused in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of rats
Bonus: midline labeling are from retrograde tracers placed in the nucleus accumbens (nAc)
Bonus: midline labeling are from retrograde tracers placed in the nucleus accumbens (nAc)
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Examples of epifluorescence vs. confocal images of the BLA and axons leaving the BLA - note the lack of labeling in central amygdala (CeA)
August 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Examples of epifluorescence vs. confocal images of the BLA and axons leaving the BLA - note the lack of labeling in central amygdala (CeA)
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Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide is now a real, live book. My chapter offers an appraisal of philosophy of science in its engagement with applied mathematics. With immense gratitude for the vision and execution of @phieveigl.bsky.social and @adrian-currie.bsky.social sky.social.
Methods in the Philosophy of Science
The last twenty years have seen multiple methodological revolutions in the philosophy of science: There has been increased diversity concerning the questions...
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August 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide is now a real, live book. My chapter offers an appraisal of philosophy of science in its engagement with applied mathematics. With immense gratitude for the vision and execution of @phieveigl.bsky.social and @adrian-currie.bsky.social sky.social.