My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...

Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology

The Carleton Psychology Department is seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Developmental Psychology (preferably with a focus on social, personality, and/or identity de...

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"Dr. Fauci is a symbol of scientific integrity who brought calm, science-based facts during the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic and other health crises. I can't believe what these people are doing to him. Credible scientists will always treat him as a hero." - anonymous NIHer

For neuroethologists everywhere and those at #ICN2026 at University of British Columbia, Canada, this week, don't miss JEB's Neuroethology subject collection for all of the most exciting recent developments journals.biologists.com/jeb/collecti...

New preprint led by @rgast.bsky.social- part 1 of Richard's ongoing effort to make a better firing rate model: developing mean-field models that can be fit to biological data to capture both the dynamics of neural populations and the underlying physiological heterogeneity that sculpt those dynamics.

Richard Gast@rgast.bsky.social · last wk.

The Ott-Antonsen ansatz revolutionized our understanding of coupled oscillator systems with heterogeneous oscillators. We developed a multi-ensemble method that increases the applicability of the OA ansatz to empirical data substantially arxiv.org/abs/2607.09516, as we demonstrate on neural data.

omg we live in an inferno

Theo@theopriestley.net · last wk.

Fucking hell as if receiving automated rejection letters for jobs wasn't bad enough.

And no school has to cut those scholarships. None of those state laws or executive orders hold up if they fight.

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last wk.

“A database of more than 38,000 scholarships maintained by the National Scholarship Providers Association shows the number of grants with women-specific eligibility criteria has declined 19% since 2023,” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

***New preprint from the lab*** showing “Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits”. In sleep we show spiking sequences in V1 (sensory neocortex!) that represent information that has not been directly experienced www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @bndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits

To make flexible decisions, the brain needs to make inferences between events that were not directly experienced together. In sharp-wave ripple (SWR) events, during periods of rest and sleep, spiking ...

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Protip: review the paper, not the authors. A paper is not a grant proposal and you don't need to critique the PI, just the work. It's actually easy to not mention the authors at all. Instead of "the authors should...", just say "the work should address..." or "the paper would be improved by..."

Piali Sengupta@senguptalab.bsky.social · last wk.

If you don't like a paper, it is obviously totally fine to point out the issues. But please do NOT make egregious and unpleasant comments about the first author's qualifications. A first author who is usually a trainee. Beyond inappropriate and unprofessional.

Two-photon calcium imaging. What makes for good data? How can we optimize experiments to get good data? New post labrigger.com/blog/2026/07... and new free web apps from @filip-tomaska.bsky.social (1/8)

lol holy shit this author has no fucks left to give and is spot on www.science.org/content/blog...

This all happened in October, amid the govt shutdown. Trump weaponized the budget in a bid to force Democrats to cave in the funding debate, and my amazing fab colleague @lazarogamio.bsky.social helped show this nationally www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Targets Democratic Districts by Halting Billions During Shutdown

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

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....appalled, but sadly not surprised

Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is insane www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

my first response was wtf. but then my second was oh it's procedural memory, nvm. HM improved at procedural tasks repeated across days, he just couldn't remember why it seemed to getting easier

Neuroskeptic@neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Replay occurs in the dorsal striatum during offline consolidation of a procedural memory in mice" - even with total hippocampal lesions pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42493550/ It looks like memory replay is a general capability of the brain - not a special feature of the hippocampus!

Happy to say our head-direction-cell-in-3D is finally out! doi.org/10.1038/s420... Confirms that the brain's compass uses a dual-axis rule (like an iphone does) to maintain a constant estimate of horizontal heading even when the head is not horizontal. Blogpost explanation here: shorturl.at/9VdGM

did last year and can vouch that it was fun! :D

Ali Mohebi@mohebial.bsky.social · 2w ago

📢 Applications are now open for Season 2 of Brain Talks on the Isthmus (2026–2027)! Please consider applying, encouraging others to apply, and sharing this! Season 1 was fun :) Application Deadline: August 15, 2026 More Info and Application Form: mohebi-associates.org/brain-talks

omfg. read it and weep

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 2w ago

A couple paid more than $800,000 for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died, and it wasn’t made public. An exclusive from us and @science.org.

Academics: What's a journal in your field that's great? I feel like they are a dwindling breed. Criteria: (1) No APC. Supports green or diamond OA. (2) High-quality and relatively fast peer review. (3) Editors who provide real curational value and exercise purposeful agency in the decision process.

During today's #ICM2026 opening ceremonies, the IMU announced the 2026 Fields Medals recipients: Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman, and Hong Wang Read more: https://bit.ly/4psOJbU

“A New Golden Age, in contrast, is a grab bag of political grievances, half-thought-through justifications for policies the Trump administration was already pursuing, and insinuations that scientific experts are kind of annoying and should learn how to fix car engines.”

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 2w ago

We've now highlighted all our amazing confirmed keynote speakers! Please sign up to our email list as this will be the main way we will communicate. Stay tuned for news about submissions, registration, and lots more! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition #ICOM2027 #philosophysky 🧪

ICOM - International Conference on Memory 2027

The International Conference on Memory 2027, will be held in Glasgow, Scotland between 26 - 30 July 2027.

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"Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19" by @mzinshteyn.bsky.social apnews.com/article/cali...

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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Role of hippocampal dentate granule cells in memory: neuronal birth timing matters www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Role of hippocampal dentate granule cells in memory: neuronal birth timing matters - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Role of hippocampal dentate granule cells in memory: neuronal birth timing matters

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Experimentalists, theorists, and mathematicians are all invited to join us as we identify geometric principles underlying neural computation! NITMB Scientific Focus: Theory and Mathematics in Neuroscience Geometry in Neuroscience workshop travel applications are due 8/21 🔗 👇️

One faculty ad, 200 applicants, 600 papers before the first shortlist. Nobody can read that, so metrics do the reducing — and slowly a committee stops reading at all. An essay on what we lose when judgement is handed to citation counts and h-indices. 🧵 academicrenewal.substack.com/p/when-acade...

When academics stop reading

Metrics can help decide where to look, but they turn dangerous when they replace contact with the work itself.

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Neuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM

Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology

There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in order to speak with any degree of justice about people like Brenda...

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Tracking progress on non-competitive renewals. This is the percentage of non-competitive renewals issued over time for fiscal year 2026 compared with fiscal year 2024. 1/2

Every day, our brains arbitrate between competing memories and motivations. This ability allows us to flexibly adapt our behavior as the world around us changes. But how does the brain actually do it? Our new study sheds light on this! www.cell.com/current-biol...

The prelimbic cortex arbitrates memory-guided conflict resolution

Caban-Murillo et al. show that, during approach-avoidance conflict, prelimbic cortex ensembles are recruited to represent reward and punishment through distinct network patterns. Both ensembles are ne...

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We found that activity covaried with inferred gaze behavior throughout the brain, spanning the cerebral cortex and cerebellum, and involving many regions associated with vision. The eyes were closed and people were sleeping! 4/8

I hope to be there, and hope to see you there!

NSF-Simons NITMB@nitmb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Spark collaboration and innovation at the convergence of mathematical, computational, and experimental approaches in neuroscience! Travel applications for the Data-driven modeling, simulation and inference for neurobiological problems workshop are due July 30th www.nitmb.org/neurobio-pro...

Our new paper is out in @nature.com! We uncovered how a naked mole-rat queen 👑 controls an entire colony: a natural contraceptive scent that suppresses reproduction in other females! A remarkable mammalian parallel to bees and ants! 🐝🐜 @garyrlewin.bsky.social youtu.be/enfv3zJrWKM?...

Naked mole-rats are ruled by a queen: this chemical puts her in power

YouTube video by nature video

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