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Daniel Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 4h

📈🧠 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 · 4h

📈🧠 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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Mothers in Science @mothersinsci.bsky.social · 4h

Over a third of mothers in STEMM experience maternity bias, and fathers who share caregiving face stigma too. Follow our #BreakTheBiasSTEMM campaign to raise awareness & push for change–so no one has to choose between family or career. #MotherhoodPenalty #WomenInSTEMM #AcademicParents

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MoDI Lab @modilab-surrey.bsky.social · 1d

🚶First up, what is Dyspraxia/DCD? 🚶

Check out this infographic designed by our lab earlier this year to learn more! What fact surprised you the most?

See below or read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/10hQM...

#Dyspraxia/DCD #Research #DyspraxiaAwarenessWeek

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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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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 8d

Charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me

#Archaeology

My photo shows a mosaic fragment from the floor of a Roman villa in Spain, dated AD 100-200s. It depicts a cartoon-like, stylised octopus using red, yellow, white, and black limestone tesserae, against a white background. The front-facing octopus has a large red and white head/body outlined in black. Its yellow circular eyes are outlined in black with a central black dot. Below the head/body are eight writhing tentacles

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 8d

Thinking about which neuroscience conferences to attend in 2026? Check out our recently updated calendar, featuring top neuroscience meetings and events through April 2027.

Are you organizing a conference? Share it with us at [email protected].

www.thetransmitter.org/events/?utm_...

Events

www.thetransmitter.org

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CNS 2026 Annual Meeting @cnsmtg.bsky.social · 25d

#CNS2026 | Call for Young Investigator Award Nominations! Deadline, October 3, 2025

Find out more: cogneurosociety.org/young-invest...

@cnsnews.bsky.social

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Dr Lisa Quadt @lisaquadt.bsky.social · 12d

For a summary, check this out: www.bsms.ac.uk/about/news/2...

More to come out of this data set soon!

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 11d

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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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 12d

Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience.

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Halkes Women+ Faculty Network (Radboud) @halkesnetwork.bsky.social · 13d

Help make science more welcoming!

Join Pauline Gagnon for a hands-on Active Bystander workshop.
📅 Tue Oct 7 | ⏰ 9:00–14:00 | 📍 Huize Heyendael 00.18, Radboud University
🥗 Free lunch!

Open to all. Limited spots; register soon! 👉 www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

Becoming an Active Bystander | Radboud University

On Tuesday October 7, from 9:00 to 14:00, Pauline Gagnon, a retired particle physicist, public speaker and advocate for equity in science, will lead a lively training session on How to become an Activ...

www.ru.nl

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 16d

Happening tomorrow!

Register to hear tips and strategies to promote your work.

🔗 vist.ly/47qm8

#neurosky #neuroskyence

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 19d

Common neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o.

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

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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 19d

Neuromatch Academy 2026 is coming!

✅ Hands-on projects
✅ Global community
✅ Affordable fees

Applications open Feb 2026.

Learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
Sign up for updates: neuromatch.io/mailing-list/

#ComputationalNeuroscience #DeepLearning #ClimateScience #NeuroAI #Neuroscience #AI

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 20d

The CTRL-Labs decoding model paper is out! Saw this presented at Cosyne this year, very cool to see it out.

I would say this is the clearest demonstration of scaling laws in neural decoding to-date.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature

A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.

www.nature.com

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Victoria Southgate @vhsouthgate.bsky.social · 21d

Sharing a preprint laying out a new theory of the origins of self-awareness. In this theory, our human capacity for self-awareness is an emergent phenomenon arising from the interplay between interoception and ostension, during the first year of life 👶. osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Dr Lena Matyjek @lmatyjek.bsky.social · May 27

We're looking for a PhD candidate for a project investigating neural synchrony in #autism at @upf.edu ! 🎓

📍 Location: Barcelona, Spain
📅 Duration: 3–4 years, starting Winter term 2025/26
🔍 About the project & application: See attachment 👇

Please share with anyone interested!

@mrgbcn.bsky.social

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Dr Lena Matyjek @lmatyjek.bsky.social · 21d

I'm so excited to finally share work that’s been a couple of years in the making!
See our new paper on *social interactions in #autism*, co-authored with Isabel Dziobek, @antoniahamilton.bsky.social & @thaliawheatley.bsky.social in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social 🎉
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Social Interaction Style in Autism: A Narrative Review of Social Behaviors and Outcomes in Autistic and Neurotypical Interactions | Autism in Adulthood

Social interaction difficulties are a defining feature of autism. Historically, research has concentrated on comparing the social behaviors of autistic and neurotypical individuals in cross-neurotype ...

www.liebertpub.com

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 21d

What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.

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xavier roberts-gaal @xrg.bsky.social · 23d

We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)

Summary of design and results from our three studies. (A: Design) Each study used a similar experimental design, measuring both positive and negative demand in an online experiment, with three commonly-used task types (dictator game, vignette, intervention). Our experiments had ns ≈ 250 per cell. (B: Results) Observed demand effects were statistically indistinguishable from zero. The plot shows means and 95% confidence intervals for standardized mean differences derived from frequentist analyses of each experiment and an inverse variance-weighted fixed-effect estimator pooling all experiments (solid bars). Prior measurements of experimenter demand from a previous dictator game experiment (de Quidt et al., 2018; standardized mean difference from regression coefficient) and a meta-analysis primarily including small-sample, in-person studies (Coles et al., 2025; Hedge’s g statistic) are also shown for comparison (striped bars). The main text includes Bayesian analyses that quantify our uncertainty.

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Lucia C. Neco (Luba) @luciacneco.bsky.social · 23d

Found a wall full of women philosophers here at @um.es. ✨ Can you name them? #PhilSci #PhilSky #WomenInPhilosophy

Me standing in front of a wall full of women philosophers

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Halkes Women+ Faculty Network (Radboud) @halkesnetwork.bsky.social · 23d

🌍 Join us Tue Oct 7, 9:00–14:00 for a hands-on training with Pauline Gagnon: How to Become an Active Bystander. Learn tools to address bias & make science welcoming to all.

📍 Huize Heyendael 00.18 De Salon
🥗 Free lunch, limited spots; register soon!

www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

Becoming an Active Bystander | Radboud University

On Tuesday October 7, from 9:00 to 14:00, Pauline Gagnon, a retired particle physicist, public speaker and advocate for equity in science, will lead a lively training session on How to become an Activ...

www.ru.nl

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 26d

Check out our new article for young readers (ages 8-15) on heart-brain interactions and interoception! 🧠🫀

I had so much fun co-writing this with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social with the support of @michaelgaebler.com ✍️

👉 Share it widely with curious young minds
Yay for #scicomm ✨

Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 26d

🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds:

Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune!

Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
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The Body’s Band: How Heart and Brain Communicate

Illustration of a person with vitiligo practicing yoga, sitting cross-legged and stretching an arm over their head. In a thought bubble, a smiling brain sings into a microphone and a heart plays a dru...

www.frontiersin.org

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