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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 2h

That person you meet when you attend a scientific conference and want to quickly get breakfast alone before returning to your room to prepare your presentation

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 16h

When you’re editing your draft for the 100th time and thinking “What will the reviewers think of my manuscript?”, remember that they’ll be reading it in this position.

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Daniel Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 19h

One of the most exciting challenges in neuroscience today - if you're looking for a PhD or Postdoc position tackling cutting-edge questions, reach out to @sarangnemo.bsky.social!

Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 19h

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!

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Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 19h

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!

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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 23h

Join OHBM in building a greener future! 🌍 Become our official Sustainability Sponsor and showcase your commitment to eco-friendly initiatives with branded water bottles, refill station signage, and QR codes linking to your sustainability pledge. Let’s make #OHBM2026 the most sustainable yet!
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 2d

Fwd: Fwd: “I hope this email finds you well”

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Markus Butz @markusbutz.bsky.social · 2d

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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 2d

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **

Deadline: 2nd December

1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6

2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj

Happy to chat to interested applicants.

Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu

tinyurl.com

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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · 3d

My blog „The Asymmetric Brain“ on @psychologytoday.com reached 6 million views today, so cool to see how many people are interested in brain asymmetries! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

The Asymmetric Brain

The psychology and neuroscience of left and right

www.psychologytoday.com

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 5d

Still a bit stunned but delighted to receive this from @royalsociety.org

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MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk · 6d

🎓NEW PhD Studentship-Project THREE

🧠Phase-locked stimulation for modulating brain rhythms during wakefulness and sleep in Parkinson’s

⏳Deadline: Tue 2nd Dec 2025, 12:00 midday (BST).

www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/project/phas...

@ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

Supervisors: Prof. Huiling Tan, Dr Shenghong He, and
Prof. Tim Denison FREng.

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MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk · 6d

🎓NEW PhD Studentship-Project FOUR

🧠State-dependent control of hippocampal oscillations for enhancing memory

⏳Deadline: Tue 2nd Dec 2025, 12:00 midday (BST).

www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/project/stat...

@ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Supervisors: Prof. Andrew Sharott, Prof. David Dupret, and Dr Hayriye Cagnan.

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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 8d

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 9d

🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis?

Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.

📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)

#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky

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Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · 12d

Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry?

Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

Development of robust, single-subject markers of predictive inference for computational psychiatry

www.medsci.ox.ac.uk

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Gregor Thut @gregorthut.bsky.social · 11d

Open postdoc position👈
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).

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Markus Butz @markusbutz.bsky.social · 12d

Sounds like a fantastic opening to me! 👩🏻‍🎓🎓😎👍

Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · 12d

Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry?

Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

Development of robust, single-subject markers of predictive inference for computational psychiatry

www.medsci.ox.ac.uk

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Jan R. Wessel @janw.bsky.social · 13d

Big day in the household as my wife Kristi Hendrickson won the Dean's Scholar Award for outstanding tenure package, and I was named Clement T. and Sylvia H. Hanson Family Chair of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Many thanks to the University of Iowa for continuing to support both of us!

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Daniel Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 14d

If you're even remotely interested in stress, pain, or reward, please consider these PhD and postdoc positions advertised by @sirileknes.bsky.social. Great PI, fantastic people, and beautiful surroundings aplenty in Oslo. Deadline in three weeks.

Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 14d

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · Sep 3

Do you remember your first #JNeurosci paper?
Jonas Obleser recalls his first paper from 2007 about functional integration of networks using fMRI in humans and why the paper is special to him.

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Markus Butz @markusbutz.bsky.social · 15d

Or do it for both. 😎🎓🏂⛰️

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 20d

Interested in consciousness? Join the club. And join us tomorrow (noon on Zoom) for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club.
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...

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MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk · 22d

New unit paper on “Thalamo-frontal functional connectivity patterns in Tourette Syndrome: Insights from combined intracranial DBS and EEG recordings”, published in Molecular Psychiatry.

www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/papers/thala...

@mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

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Decision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab @danclab.bsky.social · 21d

🚨Postdoc job offer🚨
Are you interested in beta bursts? Want to help drive methods for laminar inference with MEG? Now hiring a postdoc: run head-cast MEG experiments, help build our laMEG toolbox, and collaborate across Lyon–Marseille–Strasbourg. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Post-doctorate - Beta bursts & laminar MEG (M/F)

emploi.cnrs.fr

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Lea Michel @leacmichel.bsky.social · 24d

Choosing to go by train/ferry to #Flux2025 I emitted SEVEN times less C02 compared to a plane trip.

Air travel is one of the largest contributors to the carbon footprint of research. Researchers, universities and conferences have the responsabilities to create more sustainable alternatives.

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