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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 2h

Their paper looked cool though
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Intermittent rate coding and cue-specific ensembles support working memory - Nature

By recording large populations of neurons in behaving monkeys using newly developed silicon probes, we show that intermittent periods of memorandum-specific spiking coexist with synaptic mechanisms to support working memory. 

www.nature.com

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Quentin Perrenoud @q-perrenoud.bsky.social · 5h

(1/8) My latest study is out in @nature.com ! Kudos to coauthors especially @jess-cardin.bsky.social and to @kavliatyale.bsky.social and @wutsaiyale.bsky.social for support. We find that gamma power in mouse visual cortex is caused by brief events of visual processing www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Flexible perceptual encoding by discrete gamma events - Nature

Using a new analytical method for tracking gamma band events in mouse visual cortex, flexible encoding of visual information according to behavioural context is shown.

www.nature.com

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 9h

Come do a postdoc at the Wu Tsai Institute!

WTI fellows have freedom to work with anyone at the institute, and preference is given to applicants who want to work on interdisciplinary projects with multiple faculty mentors.

If you’re interested to work with me, please reach out!

Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers!

WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...

Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525

#KnowTogether

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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 5d

📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?

Two calls are open:

Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review

🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities

#KnowTogether

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 12h

Think you’re totally right that tasks often have verbal labels (eg subjs will subvocalize during task switching)

Would be surprised if they are core to the format of task reps though (eg animals have tasks)

But I also bet that these LLM have rich non-verbal reps, and cool approach for ML agents!

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 1d

Cool, makes sense.

Do you think language plays a similar role in PFC? People have argued that cog maps / grid cells play a similar role

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 1d

A friend got us ‘We All Play’ by Julie Flett — stunningly beautiful picture book

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Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social · 1d

The human-neuroscience N2pc marker of covert and internal attention co-occurs with spatial biases in microsaccades, 200-300 ms after prompted to shift attention. (How) are these empirical phenomena related? Check it out in the latest work led by @baiweiliu.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Microsaccades strongly modulate but do not directly cause the EEG N2pc marker of spatial attention

Researchers often study human attention using microsaccades and the N2pc EEG marker, but it is unclear to what extent microsaccades contribute to N2pc. This study shows that microsaccades modulate N2p...

doi.org

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 1d

Cool project!

Do you think language training is important for this, or are these just the biggest models?

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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 2d

Very excited to share that our work (together with co-first author Shanka Subhra Mondal and @neuroai.bsky.social ) on a brain-inspired architecture for planning with LLMs is now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread below)

A brain-inspired agentic architecture to improve planning with LLMs - Nature Communications

Multi-step planning is a challenge for LLMs. Here, the authors introduce a brain-inspired Modular Agentic Planner that decomposes planning into specialized LLM modules, improving performance across tasks and highlighting the value of cognitive neuroscience for LLM design.

www.nature.com

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 2d

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience

Principles for proper peer review

jocnf.pubpub.org

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 1d

what a throwback!

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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · 2d

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓

The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠

Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

codec lab

codec-lab.github.io

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 4d

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brain-inspired agentic architecture to improve planning with LLMs - Nature Communications

Multi-step planning is a challenge for LLMs. Here, the authors introduce a brain-inspired Modular Agentic Planner that decomposes planning into specialized LLM modules, improving performance across tasks and highlighting the value of cognitive neuroscience for LLM design.

www.nature.com

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 3d

Cool stuff! Thank you ☺️

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 4d

The weak stance of RL is RL as amortization, leveraging offline computation to generate a policy or value that is hard to compute just from test-time samples

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 4d

At my uni there was a challenge where you had to drink one of every beverage in the cafeteria and then run to to the other cafeteria

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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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Kunal Jha @kjha02.bsky.social · 5d

Forget modeling every belief and goal! What if we represented people as following simple scripts instead (i.e "cross the crosswalk")?

Our new paper shows AI which models others’ minds as Python code 💻 can quickly and accurately predict human behavior!

shorturl.at/siUYI%F0%9F%...

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 5d

Cool work!

What exactly was the process-level insight from this method?

Eg re: reasons to abandon think-aloud, Isn’t it possible that people don’t have introspection into their decision process, but their responses are still predictive of their subsequent choices?

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Jeff Markowitz @vulcnethologist.bsky.social · 6d

Our first preprint has been accepted for publication www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... !!
tldr: @ezeyulu00.bsky.social , @amartyapradhan.bsky.social , @dkoveal.bsky.social and I developed a method using injectable nanoparticles to turn mice into…constellations in motion. 🧵⤵️

High-resolution in vivo kinematic tracking with customized injectable fluorescent nanoparticles

Injectable fluorescent nanoparticles were used to track positions on and inside of freely moving animals at high resolution.

www.science.org

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 6d

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting!

If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch.

www.ncclab.ca

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 6d

Apply multiple times under different names to increase your chances of getting into Sam’s lab.

Awesome scientist, awesome mentor

Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 7d

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats!

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 7d

hear me out: breath mints for babies

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