Re-post 🔁 is appreciated! #neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social!
If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇

Roxana Zeraati@roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · 2w ago

Link to ads: Postdoc position: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... PhD position: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... We’re also both at @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social and happy to chat!

To pursue extended goals, the PFC monitors performance and the value of cognitive control, thus preventing goal abandonment. #AI models struggle with #hallucinations because they lack this monitoring circuit--forcing #engineers to reinvent it as an agent "harness". #Neuroscience

[Hugging Face release] We’re releasing the dataset behind Reason to Play! I’m incredibly proud of our team for reaching this milestone.

BRAIN PEOPLE! 🧠 Activating my network! My unbelievably excellent postdoc, @aliekhlasi.bsky.social will finish with me next August (grant runs out). He's a brilliant expert in all things neuroimaging & computational analysis, ...

Registration and abstract submission are now open for UCL's NeuroAI conference @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social. Talks from: 🟠 Wolfgang Maass 🟣 @apalmigiano.bsky.social 🔵 Ellie Pavlik 🟠 Bernardo Sabatini 🟣 @nskat.bsky.social 🔵 Eleni Vasilaki And more! gordonstreetticketing.com/event/2026/1...

Great summary of our paper with @mark-j-wagner.bsky.social

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last wk.

Cerebellar granule cells, which outnumber all other neurons in the brain combined, help the brain to generalize to new situations and distinguish between contexts simultaneously. By Holly Barker www.thetransmitter.org/cerebellum/c...

I have a postdoc position open in my NeuroAi lab in Vienna 👌👾🧪🧠 And I will be at Bernstein (workshop only), please reach out if you are interested

2023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give

Iva Vukušić@vukusiciva.bsky.social · 3w ago

This ridiculous number of applications is, in my view, the result of 2 nightmare developments happening concurrently 1.the precariousness of the job market for young PhD graduates which then fuels further: 2.the AI tools enabling overproduction of proposals. #Research #ERC #ResearchFunding #Academia

📢Have work to share with the computational and systems neuroscience community? Abstract submissions for #COSYNE2027 are now open. Deadline: 18 October 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE Submit your abstract: www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su... #Neuroscience

I’m on the faculty job market this fall! 🐦🧠 I’m an NIH K99/R00 awardee studying how the brain learns complex skills, using birdsong to connect molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior & computation. Know of a search where I might fit? Please send it my way & share!

Drew Schreiner, Ph.D. | Neuroscience of Learning

I use birdsong to understand how the brain learns complex skills across molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior, and computation. On the 2026–27 faculty job market.

drewschreiner.github.io

If this makes you mad, submit your cognitive science research to @openmindjournal.bsky.social No APCs, no subscription fees. It's funded by university libraries, at low cost.

Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

The cortex and cerebellum split the labor: the cortex provides a stable, general-purpose movement blueprint, while the cerebellum reorients that same blueprint differently for each context Granule cells reorient cortical trajectories to separate contexts www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Granule cells reorient cortical trajectories to separate contexts - Nature

Simultaneous imaging of premotor cortex and cerebellar granule cells in mice learning two skills in parallel shows that trajectories generalize in cortex but coherently reorient apart in granule cells...

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The Ferrier Medal and Lecture 2027 is awarded to Professor Kenneth Daniel Harris for his contributions to neuroscience by unifying experimental neurophysiology with advanced analytical methods and for pioneering methods that allow recording from thousands of neurons. #RSMedals https://bit.ly/4qCJZRo

Oh wow! @thetransmitter.bsky.social amplified recent Bsky chatter about the dire US grant landscape. Thank you, @emilysingerneuro.bsky.social 🙏.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last mo.

Two years into one of the most tumultuous tenures in U.S. federal funding, researchers outline how they are coping with ongoing changes and reflect on the impact these changes are having on the system more broadly. By @emilysingerneuro.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/funding/amid...

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Division of labour: study in Nature shows how the brain continually adapts to novel situations

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How does the brain continually adapt? Fresh in @natureportfolio.nature.com our super exciting collaboration with @mark-j-wagner.bsky.social showing that the cerebellum contextualises cortical dynamics enable multi-task learning: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Granule cells reorient cortical trajectories to separate contexts - Nature

Simultaneous imaging of premotor cortex and cerebellar granule cells in mice learning two skills in parallel shows that trajectories generalize in cortex but coherently reorient apart in granule cells...

nature.com

📢 We are hiring a full professor in "Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems". Come join us at Germany's first and largest cognitive science program. Please share far and wide, and get in touch with any questions. www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...

This is a wrap for #CCN2026! We look forward to meet again in Edinburgh next year!

While I am sad to miss #CCN2026 our group will showing the cool stuff that we have been doing in the model-brain alignment space, including a selected talk by Angeliki! See list, including our fun gaming collaboration with the groups of @marcelomattar.bsky.social and @momchiltomov.bsky.social

Yay, the field needs this! Excited to serve as an associate editor!

Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB)@mmb-journal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

Very excited to attend #CCN2026 this week and to present various projects from my lab! Here's a list of our posters and talks in case you'd like to see what we've been up to.

Totally agree with this perspective. We need to consider how intelligence arises in the first place if we want to reproduce it — learning principles are critical.

Vlad Ayzenberg@vayzenb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to share our review in @cp-neuron.bsky.social with @lauriebayet.bsky.social and @mickbonner.bsky.social! We describe how implementing principles from child development can advance the mechanistic plausibility and capacities of AI models We packed A LOT into this review, here's a quick 🧵

Really cool illustration of our paper. @neurosock.bsky.social's great work!

neurosock@neurosock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This recent post by @earlkmiller.bsky.social got my attention. It shows how abstraction could emerge in the primate PFC. The paper is hard, but the main idea can be simplified to low-dims, so I made fun a little animation. A🧵with my toy model and notes: #neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI

I would totally like to second this. Huge congrats to Michał Wójcik who has managed to get this over the line despite the huge challenges!

Seán Froudist-Walsh@seanfw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Great to see Mark Stokes getting acknowledged , and also the author senior authors who stepped in, but I’d like to highlight 1st author Michał Wojcik who completed this excellent work from his PhD under such difficult circumstances. He‘s got more good stuff in the pipeline - one to watch

Our latest story is finally in preprint! 🧠✨ How does the brain solve the (hierarchical) credit assignment problem efficiently? Cell-type-specific cortical feedback holds the key, closely approximating backprop. Paper: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Cell-type-specific cortical feedback coordinates hierarchical credit assignment

Learning is thought to arise from synaptic modifications embedded in brain-wide circuits, yet how such circuits coordinate plasticity to support complex behaviour is not known. Inspired by deep learni...

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Job klaxon 📣 UCL is hiring two NeuroAI / computational neuroscience specialists (Lecturer or Associate Prof) — a big part of the new NeuroAI centre we're growing in Biosciences. Do consider applying if it's relevant to you. JD & details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX021 Happy to take questions.

This has been a super-fun project. Can modern LLMs/LRMs learnto play simple video-games from scratch? Can we outperform existing models of these tasks when predicting fMRI data? In the words of @botoscsabi.bsky.social , "the short answer is yes and yes". If you want the long answer, see below :-)

Botos Csabi@botoscsabi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Jeee 🐦‍⬛ I am very proud of our joint effort with @sreejan.bsky.social on the project "Reason to Play" LRMs show human-like rule discovery, and their hidden states predict human brain activity during gameplay 10x better than previous methods Interactive demo + paper: botcs.github.io/reason-to-pl...

Super proud to have contributed to this amazing team effort, led by @sreejan.bsky.social and @botoscsabi.bsky.social! We asked: Which AI models learn to play video games like humans, comparing both behavior and internal representations. The answer surprised us! Check out our paper and post below

Botos Csabi@botoscsabi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Jeee 🐦‍⬛ I am very proud of our joint effort with @sreejan.bsky.social on the project "Reason to Play" LRMs show human-like rule discovery, and their hidden states predict human brain activity during gameplay 10x better than previous methods Interactive demo + paper: botcs.github.io/reason-to-pl...

Our first endeavour in jointly explaining human brain-behaviour through gameplay! An impressive effort led by @botoscsabi.bsky.social and @sreejan.bsky.social with the help of a team of collaborators! Parer: arxiv.org/abs/2605.08019

Reason to Play: Behavioral and Brain Alignment Between Frontier LRMs and Human Game Learners

Humans rapidly learn abstract knowledge when encountering novel environments and flexibly deploy this knowledge to guide efficient and intelligent action. Can modern AI systems learn and plan in a sim...

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Botos Csabi@botoscsabi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Jeee 🐦‍⬛ I am very proud of our joint effort with @sreejan.bsky.social on the project "Reason to Play" LRMs show human-like rule discovery, and their hidden states predict human brain activity during gameplay 10x better than previous methods Interactive demo + paper: botcs.github.io/reason-to-pl...

New preprint with @sevberg.bsky.social! We map Hopfield-like binary networks onto spiking networks with dendrites … and it works! Same memory capacity, bigger basins of attraction, plus selective recall through dendritic gating, and more. How? Dendrites! See below.