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Katrin Franke @katrinfranke.bsky.social · 1d

Our review is out 🎉

We discuss how neural computations in the retina shape behavior, continuing the top-down tradition of Lettvin et al.'s classic bug-detector neurons

Check it out 👀 arevie.ws/46HMEjd @annualreviews.bsky.social w/ coauthors @serenariccitelli.bsky.social @annaintegrated.bsky.social

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · 2d

job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃

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Ali Mohebi @mohebial.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to hear the latest science updates from @czimmerman.bsky.social on Monday, 1-2 pm CST. You can join us too—either on Zoom or in person! bit.ly/3VOJrcy

Neuroscience lecture by Dr. Chris Zimmerman on Body-Brain interactions in learning

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations Julia 🎉

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 7d

New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. 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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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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CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social · 8d

Don't miss our posters at #BernsteinConference 😍

Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 8d

If you are @ #BernsteinConference we have 4 posters, thread👇
P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...

Bernstein Conference 2025

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 8d

I hope you aslo enjoyed our workshop ;-) bsky.app/profile/neur...

Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 9d

Very much look forward to our workshop (co-organized with @armanbehrad.bsky.social) today with a great lineup of speakers who combine a wide spectrum of approaches and methods to have a joint definition of brain-behavior state!

bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

#BernsteinConference

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 8d

Know about a fast dynamical similarity analysis. Visit @armanbehrad.bsky.social and @mmdtaha.bsky.social @ P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: bsky.app/profile/arma...

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 8d

Finding brain like features in ANN trained based on homeostatic reinforcement learning; visit @pakhibanchalia.bsky.social and @harikrishna30.bsky.social @ P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 8d

An unsupervised method to find sharp wave-ripples, applied on 6 public datasets with comparable results with supervised methods. Visit @jingjingzhang.bsky.social P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 8d

An unsupervised method to find behaviorally relevant internal states from data. We tested it w/ RNN & monkey data doing cognitive tasks & RNN trained with deep RL on a naturalistic plum tracking task. Visit @armanbehrad.bsky.social @ P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...

Bernstein Conference 2025

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 8d

If you are @ #BernsteinConference we have 4 posters, thread👇
P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...

Bernstein Conference 2025

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 9d

Very much look forward to our workshop (co-organized with @armanbehrad.bsky.social) today with a great lineup of speakers who combine a wide spectrum of approaches and methods to have a joint definition of brain-behavior state!

bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

#BernsteinConference

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CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social · 9d

Don't miss today's workshop by two of our members (@armanbehrad.bsky.social‬ and @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social) on brain state!

bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

#BernsteinConference

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 9d

Very much look forward to our workshop (co-organized with @armanbehrad.bsky.social) today with a great lineup of speakers who combine a wide spectrum of approaches and methods to have a joint definition of brain-behavior state!

bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

#BernsteinConference

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Arman Behrad @armanbehrad.bsky.social · 10d

What defines a brain state? 🧠
If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 10d

This is fantastic work.

Monkeys show the same pattern of “optimistic” exploration in multi-arm bandits www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 10d

New in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.”

Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior.

#cogsci #neuroskyence

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 12d

Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all).

www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...

Title: Understanding Brain-Body Interactions to Advance Brain Health: A Workshop. Photo: picture of a transparent person with brain and nervous system illuminated.

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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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CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social · 13d

Oops, wrong time in the original post! It will be 15:30 CET 😉

CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social · 13d

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Sep 25, Thu, 2pm CET), @dengpan.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ Rushworth lab]. Want to attend, send an empty email to [email protected] to get the link!

Deng Pan @dengpan.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.

Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

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CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social · 13d

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Sep 25, Thu, 2pm CET), @dengpan.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ Rushworth lab]. Want to attend, send an empty email to [email protected] to get the link!

Deng Pan @dengpan.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.

Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

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Zach Rosenthal @zachrosenthal.bsky.social · 14d

Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology

Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature

Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.

www.nature.com

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Dr. Claudia Barth @nifti12.bsky.social · 15d

🚀 Job Opportunity!

Are you passionate about neuroscience, women’s health, and large-scale neuroimaging studies?

I am hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join the @erc.europa.eu project #MappingPerimenopause!

karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan...

Postdoctoral Researcher (d/f/m) in Women’s Brain Health (Neuroimaging)

full-time, part-time | 14.10.2025 | Campus Charité Mitte

karriere.charite.de

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