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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 8d

Tenure track faculty position at UNC !!

Jean Cook (DNAtarheel) @dnatarheel.bsky.social · 8d

The link for a junior tenure-track position with UNC-CH Biochemistry and Biophysics is now live. Learn about the search here www.med.unc.edu/biochem/join..., then apply here unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... Help us inspire tomorrow’s discoveries by decoding the molecular basis of life!

UNC Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Our mission is to perform transformative biochemical and biophysical research in an inclusive and stimulating training environment.

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 9d

Rare hard money gig. Emory and ATL neuroscience community are excellent.

Malu Murugan @malu-murugan.bsky.social · 9d

Come be my colleague! Lots of exciting science, fantastic students and supportive colleagues. Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience. share.google/945Jko4W1MTA.... Please feel free to retweet and share widely.

Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience - Atlanta, Georgia job with [email protected] | 675335

Candidate uses experimental approaches to examine any aspect of neural function, including molecular, cellular, systems, or developmental neuroscience

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 9d

“It’s hard to know if I should close down my existing projects and/or redouble my efforts writing new grant applications,” Joshua Jacobs, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, told @thetransmitter.bsky.social.

By Natalia Mesa

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years

But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 14d

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14d

Good time to be slashing science funding to near-zero levels, amirite?

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14d

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 15d

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper

We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...

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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · 15d

Congrats!

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Duke Institute for Brain Sciences @dukebrain.bsky.social · 19d

To everyone interested in mental health: why not you?

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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · 20d

NIMH is looking for a new director - please encourage interested candidates to apply - deadline 10/6/25. Please share!
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 22d

I am leading a workshop tonight for students in my department on how to apply for the NSF GRFP, but have not received answers from NSF to my questions about whether they are still funding applications in neuroscience and cognitive science, etc. If anyone has info please let me know.
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Jenny Saffran @jennysaffran.bsky.social · 22d

Tenure track position in Psychology at UW-Madison — CogSci or comp neurosci with an AI emphasis, broadly construed. Apply!

Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 23d

Come be my colleague! UW-Madison Psychology is hiring! Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an AI emphasis. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · 26d

Bummer!

Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · Sep 7

Yes that has happened to me too - so (a) is not used much in the end

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Scott Soderling @scottsoderling.bsky.social · Sep 7

Duke is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in AI/ML for Biology—joint Discovery AI Initiative × Cell Biology Search. Building models for protein design, single-cell/spatial omics, imaging, proteomics, genomics? Apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30509
#hiring #AIforBio #CompBio

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John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · Sep 7

Duke Cell Biology is hiring in AI/ML! @scottsoderling.bsky.social, @rohitsingh8080.bsky.social, and others are building a very active community around ML for discovery science, and Duke is a great place to be.

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Duke University, Cell Biology/Duke University Medical Center

Job #AJO30509, 24903 Tenure - Track Assistant Professor Position - AI/ML for Biology, Cell Biology/Duke University Medical Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · Sep 7

i have filters set up that sort my email into roughly three categories: a) family/lab - the only people who might need me urgently; b) dept and uni mailing list stuff; c) everything else. In theory I read a) the most often, then c), then b). In practice, what Dan said.

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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · Sep 6

Good good! And working on ensuring reciprocal connections are in the anatomical diagrams in the OUP Neuroscience textbook myself!

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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · Sep 6

Agree, Ben, about connections better than cytoarchitecture, but even connections aren't that meaningful as long as the time windows we use for analysis span the time needed for multiple 2 ms long synapse crossings. Typical analysis windows of 100-500 ms are mismatched to that temporal grain

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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · Sep 5

The larger problem is the textbooks frame things in a "X does Y" kind of way. It's very hard to get people to envision a dynamic, reverberant, reciprocally interconnected system and what that will mean for where signals of different types can be observed...I don't have a good answer for this...

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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yes exactly!

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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · Sep 4

I feel so much better about peer review in the years since @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social was started. Peer reviewers are no longer able to act as de facto censors. Abuses can be more easily shrugged off

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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · Sep 4

Stay strong

Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · Sep 3

Some nice work by Felix Bröhl and Christoph Kayser argues against the saccadic suppression possibility. Not sure if either of them are on here? www.jneurosci.org/content/43/4...

Detection of Spatially Localized Sounds Is Robust to Saccades and Concurrent Eye Movement-Related Eardrum Oscillations (EMREOs)

Hearing is an active process, and recent studies show that even the ear is affected by cognitive states or motor actions. One example are movements of the eardrum induced by saccadic eye movements, kn...

www.jneurosci.org

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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · Sep 3

I certainly think it should be! Will start working on the 8th edition of "Neuroscience" (Oxford) soon and you are def motivating me to put it in :-)

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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · Sep 3

We think the eye movement effect is adaptive - we see it in every normal participant, it's nearly the same in monkeys as humans, and it's just a very clean signal - lovely to work with!

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