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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 PhD/Postdoc alert 👇

If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at [email protected] :)

Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.

Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 9d

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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Michael Pereira @meaperei.bsky.social · 9d

Leaky evidence accumulation for near-threshold stimuli in a late-sensory area, even during passive viewing! What a joy to work with @francoisstock.bsky.social! With @nfaivre.bsky.social and many others, including Ramla Msheik for the computational model. #iEEG #consci #neuroskyence

François Stockart @francoisstock.bsky.social · 9d

Our #sEEG study is now published in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eIkoG! 🧠
Key finding: We discovered neural evidence accumulation for visual perception that's independent of report preparation—recorded from >3000 channels across 3 experiments!
#Neuroscience #Consciousness #OpenAccess

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 13d

Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman

Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

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Martin Wiener @martinwiener.bsky.social · 22d

WE ARE HIRING!!

Official posting coming soon for a tenure track assistant professor job in Psychology at George Mason University. Focus on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and AI.

I’m chairing the search committee, so DMs and emails welcome.

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Tal Seidel Malkinson @seideltal.bsky.social · Aug 26

Last days to apply!

Tal Seidel Malkinson @seideltal.bsky.social · Jun 11

🧠New postdoc position - come work with us in France! 🥐👩‍🔬

Two-Year Postdoc Position on the Role of Temporal Integration in Visual Attention Using Human Intracerebral Recordings | EURAXESS euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/351721

📆Starting Date: October 2025
⏱️Application deadline: 31 Aug 2025

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · Aug 8

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Matan Mazor @matanmazor.bsky.social · Jul 23

Confidence in absence as confidence in counterfactual visibility: a CogSci proceedings paper with star MSc student Maya Schipper, is now out on PsyArXiv:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

🧵👇

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Athina Tzovara @athinatzovara.bsky.social · Jul 21

We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs

Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...

Open positions

neuro.inf.unibe.ch

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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · Jul 18

📣 We are hiring! 📣

#BCBL has new PhD positions available for you!

🔸 1 PhD – #Neurolinguistics and #Aphasia Group
🔸 1 PhD – #PerceptualInference Group
🔸 1 PhD – #BrainRhythms and #Cognition Group

The application deadline is soon!

+info 👇

www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-n...

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Michael Pereira @meaperei.bsky.social · Jul 7

Hello ppl at #ASSC2025, we'd love your fb on our work!!
🪧Pauline Laurent's poster (26; doubt in OCD; Mon 12:30)
🪧Shiva Mahdian's poster (210; intracranial NCCs; Tue 4:30)
🪧 @azizac.bsky.social's poster (342; priors & false-alarms; Wed 4:30)
📣My talk on comp. model and intracranial NCCs (Wed 16:10)

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Editors of Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social · Jul 6

Hello world!

The account of the editorial team of Neuroscience of Consciousness is live!

We are the journal of @theassc.bsky.social, and we publish scientific articles on #consciousness 🧠🧪

@ademertzi.bsky.social and @thomasandrillon.bsky.social will be at @assc28.bsky.social if you want to chat!

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Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · Jun 22

Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology

Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations acr...

www.nature.com

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Matthias Guggenmos @mguggenmos.bsky.social · Jun 4

We have a PhD position for an upcoming project in metacognition research in Potsdam / Berlin. A great opportunity for those interested in cognitive modeling of confidence and EEG.

More information at coconeuro.github.io/phd2025

Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates - Thanks!

Computation and Cognition @ HMU Potsdam

coconeuro.github.io

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CuttingEEG @cuttingeeg.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨Registration for #PracticalMEEG 2025 opens June 12th, 2025 at 10am CEST!
📍Aix-en-Provence | Oct 28–31, 2025
🚀Spots go fast—get ready!
💻Pick your toolbox [Brainstorm, FieldTrip, EEGLAB, MNE-python] & join hands-on training, lectures, posters, toolbox bouquet & more
👉 cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...

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Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨PhD position alert!🚨
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

PhD position in biological foundations of neural control

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · Jun 2

Oh wow. Starting grant 0-10 years post PhD from 2027, Consolidator 5-15

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Jun 2

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?

From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:

• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)

More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes

With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

europa.eu

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Michael Pereira @meaperei.bsky.social · Jun 1

6/6 🙏 Huge thanks 🙏 to the patients for their involvement and to the amazing teams at West Virginia University Hospital and EPFL, as well as co-authors including senior authors Ali Rezai and Olaf Blanke.

Link to the article: elifesciences.org/articles/95272

Subcortical correlates of consciousness with human single neuron recordings

Subcortical brain structures contain neurons encoding subjective reports of stimulus detection in human participants, suggesting a role for conscious perception.

elifesciences.org

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Michael Pereira @meaperei.bsky.social · Jun 1

5/6 This points to multiple temporal stages of processing in subcortical circuits during perception.
While we’re cautious not to overclaim, it’s a rare window into how subcortical structures might be involved in perceptual consciousness.

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Michael Pereira @meaperei.bsky.social · Jun 1

4/6 Interestingly, we found a bimodal distribution of neuronal response latencies:
⏱ One early cluster ~ 120–150 ms
⏱ One late cluster ~ 315–330 ms
This was true for both sensory- and perception-selective neurons.

Bimodal distribution of sensory- or perception-selective effects around stimulus onset.

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Michael Pereira @meaperei.bsky.social · Jun 1

3/6 We labeled (putative) single neurons as:
🔹 Sensory-selective — firing changed after stimulus onset.
🔹 Perception-selective — firing differed between detected and missed stimuli.

Firing rate around stimulus onset for a sensory-selective neuron (left) and a perception-selective neuron (right). Insets show action potentials. 'Catch' activity is an estimation of the corresponding activity when no stimulus was presented. Hit: trials for which stimuli were detected. Miss: trials for which stimuli were not detected.

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Michael Pereira @meaperei.bsky.social · Jun 1

2/6 During surgeries, microelectrode recordings guide targeting.

Meanwhile, we estimated patients’ tactile threshold and had them perform a 10-minute detection task. We recorded from the thalamus and subthalamic nucleus, maintaining a detection rate of ~50% using an adaptive procedure.

Firing rates of neurons while the tip of the microelectrode is lowered in the subthalamic nucleus (left) or thalamus (right).

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Michael Pereira @meaperei.bsky.social · Jun 1

1/6 Recording single neurons in subcortical regions of the human 🧠 during cognitive tasks is pretty rare and challenging.

We utilized microelectrode recordings during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgeries to investigate how these neurons may encode tactile perception.

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Michael Pereira @meaperei.bsky.social · Jun 1

New “version of record” in @elife.bsky.social! ‬

We recorded neurons in the thalamus and subthalamic nucleus of humans and found both sensory- and perception-selective neurons with two distinct latencies!

7-year project with @nfaivre.bsky.social + @foscobernasconi.bsky.social.

A short thread 👇

Subcortical correlates of consciousness with human single neuron recordings

Subcortical brain structures contain neurons encoding subjective reports of stimulus detection in human participants, suggesting a role for conscious perception.

elifesciences.org

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Andres Canales-Johnson @canalesjohnson.bsky.social · May 30

I am opening one PhD position at the Neuroscience Center @uhneuro.bsky.social, focusing on large-scale neural interactions in perception and prediction (ECoG/LFPs/MEG) across human and non-human primates using comp. modeling and information theory. contact: www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...

Large-scale interactions in perception and prediction across species | HiLIFE – Helsinki Institute of Life Science | University of Helsinki

Andres Canales-Johnson research group

www.helsinki.fi

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