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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 4d

📣 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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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 9d

Come be our colleague at EPFL! Several open calls for positions 🧪🧠🤖

* Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1)

* Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

* CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

* Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

Faculty Position in Neuroscience

The School of Life Sciences at EPFL invites applications for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Neuroscience. At EPFL researchers develop and apply innovative technologies to understand br...

www.epfl.ch

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 15d

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

1/n

Assistant Professor

jobs.colorado.edu

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Jan Drugowitsch @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social · 16d

With 'next semester' do you mean spring 2026? Will we miss each other?

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Jan Drugowitsch @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social · 16d

I am exited to visit @informatics.tuwien.ac.at as a Global Fellow from next week to mid-November 🇦🇹. If you're in Vienna and interested in meeting up to chat about science (or just say hi), please reach out - I’d love to connect with new colleagues and collaborators! #AcademicLife #Vienna

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Rubén Moreno-Bote @morenobote.bsky.social · 26d

📷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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Harvard Brain Science Initiative @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social · Sep 3

Underlying “Stay or Go” Choices
@naoshigeuchida.bsky.social
@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social
@malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social

www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...

How Mice Make Foraging Decisions: Uchida Lab Reveals Neural Mechanism Underlying “Stay or Go” Choices - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

In a new study in Neuron (PDF), researchers from Naoshige Uchida’s MCB lab provide an unprecedented look at how the brain makes foraging decisions—choices between sticking with a […]

www.mcb.harvard.edu

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Jan Drugowitsch @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks, Ching-Lung!

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Malcolm Campbell @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

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Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social · Aug 3

How is the nervous system organized to coordinate behavior? To approach this massive question, a team led by @asbates.bsky.social, @jasper-tms.bsky.social, @mindyisminsu.bsky.social, & Helen Yang present the BANC: a Brain and Nerve Cord connectome.

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧪#Neuroskyence

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Alexander Shakeel Bates @asbates.bsky.social · Aug 2

Public access to the first fly connectome that spans the whole CNS - BANC!: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc

Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord)

We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Matt Collie @mottcallie.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy Friday! The female adult fly brain-and-nerve-cord (BANC) connectome is now LIVE!

Explore the data here: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc

Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

a man with a mustache in a blue suit says tiny celebration in front of a group of people

ALT: a man with a mustache in a blue suit says tiny celebration in front of a group of people

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Jan Drugowitsch @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social · Jul 31

Heterogeneous neural tuning is observed all over the brain, but what is it for?

For a potential answer, check out our new pre-print at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1..., and @zachcohen1.bsky.social's post for an overview. #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #compneurosky

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · Jul 8

We have an open PhD position in an exciting @dfg.de - @ageinves.bsky.social project to further develop continuous psychophysics in collaboration with Joan-Lopez Moliner.

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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hi folks — What federally-hosted data sets do you use for your research? Please reply below. I'm especially curious about more obscure .gov data sets that might be research critical for you.

(And I'm interested to hear about data sets in any domain, not just life sciences!)

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Jan Drugowitsch @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social · May 23

Congratulations, Mark! Well deserved.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · May 15

Despite some ups and downs at NIH, we do have an open position for a postbac and are considering candidates.
Our work is at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, and we aim to understand how the brain's densely connected recurrent networks operate. 🧪

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Agostina Palmigiano @apalmigiano.bsky.social · May 3

There are few fully-funded PhD positions left for this year’s Theoretical Neuroscience/ Machine learning program at Gatsby! Apply by May 27 and start in September. Please distribute broadly

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit @gatsbyucl.bsky.social · May 2

📢 We have an opportunity for students to join our PhD programme in Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning this September.

Application deadline is 27 May 2025.

Information & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme

Gatsby Unit PhD programme

Opportunity to join the Gatsby Unit PhD Programme this September, apply by 27 May 2025!

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · Apr 1

Jan Drugowitsch (@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social) and I, with our former postdoc Johannes Bill, have written a review covering the classic work as well as more recent work:
gershmanlab.com/pubs/Gershma...
The last paragraph highlights the prospects for using motion to understand high-level cognition.

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Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 31

Today at #COSYNE2025! Don't miss two workshops led by researchers affiliated with the #KempnerInstitute. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social

@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social @chingfang.bsky.social @satpreetsingh.bsky.social

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Vincent Bonin @boninlab.bsky.social · Mar 31

Hi, We have new open positions – PhD student and postdocs– experimental or computational– in our research groups at @nerflabs.bsky.social in Leuven Belgium on neural circuit basis of visual behavior/developmental disorders. I am at Cosyne Workshops and happy to discuss opportunities.

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Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 29

It’s another big day for the #KempnerInstitute at @CosyneMeeting! Check out our work highlighted in poster session 3 today! #COSYNE2025

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Jan Drugowitsch @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social · Mar 27

If you are attending the #cosyne2025 Workshops, please come join our Navigation under Uncertainty workshop! An exciting topic and a great line-up of speakers - what's more to ask for?

Details below, and at sites.google.com/view/cosyne2...

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Jérémie Barral @barral-lab.bsky.social · Mar 10

Job alert!
Postdoc position in auditory neuroscience.
Funded by the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller.
Work in Paris (France) at @pasteur.fr / @cnrs.fr / Institut de l'Audition.
#neuroscience #hearing #optogenetics

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Alex Williams @itsneuronal.bsky.social · Mar 7

I am gobsmacked that this is the response Columbia leadership went with.

"Legitimate concerns"?!?! Are you kidding me?!?!

This action is illegal. It is being carried out on a transparently fake pretenses. People livelihoods are at risk! WTF are you doing?!?!

president.columbia.edu/news/respond...

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