One week left to apply for this job! Two notes: 1) We’re open to a really broad range of research programs. If you’re wondering “is my topic ‘high-level’ enough?” it probably is and you should apply. 2️⃣⬇️

Lindsey Powell@lindseypowell.bsky.social · 3w ago

UCSD Psychology is hiring!! We’re seeking a new assistant professor colleague who studies high-level human cognition, broadly construed. Please share and/or apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04646

What kind of dynamics underlie sequence working memory? In the last project of my PhD we developed and analysed RNNs fitted to multi-session single-unit data of macaques. Now out on: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With @jakhmack.bsky.social and data from Chen et al., Neuron 2024. [1/4]

early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here

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DurstewitzLab@durstewitzlab.bsky.social · yesterday

In our #NeurIPS2026 spotlight “Parallel-in-Time Training of Recurrent Neural Networks for Dynamical Systems (DS) Reconstruction” (preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2605.12683) we speed up training of nonlinear RNNs on time series from chaotic DS by >100x by combining DEER with generalized teacher forcing.

Amazing opportunity to join us at PNI! Love teaching and cog neuro? Join us as a full-time lecturer with access to cutting-edge tech, including OPM MEG and MRI. Please share! #neuroskyence #MRISky #EEG #MEG #NeuroJobs #computationalneuroscience #neuromethods bsky.app/profile/prin...

Princeton Neuroscience Institute@princetonneuro.bsky.social · last wk.

📢 We’re hiring! PNI is seeking a full-time Lecturer in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in computational modeling and human cognitive neuroscience. Priority consideration: Nov. 30 Apply: apply.interfolio.com/193741 #NeuroSkyence #NeuroJobs

Happy to announce that I am searching for for a graduate student, starting Fall 2027. If you want to study the neural mechanisms of reaching and grasping, come join us in the rich environment of the Sensorimotor Superlab. For details: www.pruszynskilab.com/positions.html

A 13,000-pound magnetically shielded room at Wu Tsai Neuro now houses one of the world's most advanced brain-scanning systems: OPM-MEG. @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & Milena Kaestner discuss how it works, its journey to Stanford, & hopes for its future. neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/brain-i...

A brain-imaging ‘Goldilocks’: OPM-MEG unveiled at Koret Human Neurosciences

A dedicated team of staff and faculty, innovative research ideas, and a 13,000-pound magnetically shield

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Our paper is out in Nature Communications! In our messy, noisy world, do you find planning difficult/less worthwhile? It's not just you. As we increased the stochasticity in a planning environment, we found that people spent less effort planning: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cogsci #planning

Really chuffed about this one. It's impt for our efforts to understand neural and computational bases of controlling the contents of WM. It also highlights a control-related signal in the beta band that is NOT "inhibitory" in the way often assumed doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Prioritization in Working Memory Reduces Interference via Beta Band-Linked Stimulus Transformations

We studied the effects of prioritization in a two-step retrocuing task in which male and female humans hold two items in working memory, and the item not cued by the first cue cannot be dropped becaus...

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Faculty position at the University of Toronto 👇 jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Medial PFC interacts with the hippocampus to retrieve context-congruent memories.. but HOW?? was what started this. Simulating mPFC-HIP🧠, we designed an RNN🤖 that retrieves memories similar in context, on top of self-attention. It learns to retrieve like humans faster! arxiv.org/abs/2609.37791

A neural network that maintains and retrieves memories based on context

Every day, people continuously infer situational context and adjust the way they understand and remember the world. Context, signaled by the prefrontal cortex, is known to modulate working memory and ...

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Our multilayer MEG paper is out today in Nature Communications: depth-resolved laminar inference in humans 🧠#neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Multilayer MEG source modelling enables depth-resolved laminar inference in humans - Nature Communications

Researchers developed a multilayer MEG framework that estimates activity across cortical depth non-invasively. Simulations and three human datasets show when reliable laminar inference is possible, en...

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Looking for a postdoc in comp neuro and human brain imaging? Interested in foraging? Join our international collaboration with Jon Rubin, @jyotikab.bsky.social, & @davidrobbe.bsky.social be.bsky.social to study the neural basis of foraging behavior! cmu.wd115.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

Postdoctoral Research Associate – Cognitive Axon Lab – Dietrich College

The Cognitive Axon Lab, in the Department of Psychology and Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute, seeks applications for a multi-year Postdoctoral Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University. T...

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Pop quiz: What do detailed biophysical modeling, RSA, RNNs, and frequency-specific oscillatory analyses have in common? For the answer, check out our proposal for a @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2027 symposium and vote for it if you feel so inclined! www.cogneurosociety.org/symposium-vo...

📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀

New preprint! Are attentional lapses the result of disengagement or simply response failure? Using EEG, we tested how attention fluctuations impact visual representations in the brain. (1/5) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Degraded neural representations foreshadow failures of sustained attention

Attention prioritizes relevant information from the environment, but does not do so consistently over time. Instead, we sometimes experience poor attentional states which are characterized by a higher...

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2 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights:

Columbia Psychology is hiring for a Cognitive Science/Neuroscience Assistant Professor position as part of our ongoing push to expand our Cognitive research program (including two hires last year). We'll be starting application reviews next week so get materials in asap! apply.interfolio.com/193975

Awesome opportunity!

Lilian Weber@lilweb.bsky.social · 4d ago

✨New PhD Position!✨ Come and work with us on understanding cognition with a mix of cognitive modelling and ultrasound neuromodulation! More info on the lab & position: mic-lab.de/positions/ph... Official job ad: tinyurl.com/miclab-phd 🙏Please RT - deadline is Oct 14 ‼️

I would like to highlight two postdoctoral positions in the project Neuronal Mechanisms of Reading in Children Using OPM-MEG at the University of Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit��� Deadline 30 Sep.

📢 To everyone on the job market who has a vision for neuroscience applied to biomedical applications & technological innovation: The Duke Department of Biomedical Engineering announces a tenure-track faculty job search in neural engineering, broadly defined! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32784

New preprint! 🧠 How do RNNs learn abstract rules from sequences, independent of specific stimuli? By Vezha Boboeva, with Alberto Pezzotta & George Dimitriadis "From sequences to schemas: low-rank recurrent dynamics underlie abstract relational representations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

There are 2 tenure-track searches happening at UT Austin Psychology @utaustin.bsky.social! Dev/Social: apply.interfolio.com/194041 Clinical: apply.interfolio.com/194045 Please apply and be my colleague! Austin is awesome, UT is awesome, and the department is awesome⭐

Happy to have this finally out! TL;DR: The evolution of beliefs over time can be formulated as a dynamical system, and OFC neural activity appears to implement this system with its own dynamics. These emerge without explicit supervision—when animals learn to predict value in simple Pavlovian tasks

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last wk.

Dynamic belief representation and updating through learned attractor-like dynamics in the frontal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.17.752495v1

👉 Tenure-track opening in neuroscience @crchum.bsky.social @umontreal.ca crchum.carrieresante.gouv.qc.ca/poste/profes...

🚨New preprint with Fei Dai, @hanqizhou.bsky.social and @alisongopnik.bsky.social We extend empowerment (control over external states) by turning it inward. *Representational empowerment* asks which representations a learner should acquire and curate to solve future problems arxiv.org/abs/2609.02322

Alison Gopnik@alisongopnik.bsky.social · 4w ago

New paper with really interesting ideas from Fei and Hanqui, empowerment as a way of discovering representations as well as actions

So, does the rate of getting sick increase linearly with daycare size? 🫠

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by David Halpern and Todd Gureckis: Getting blood from a stone: Improving brain–behavior inferences without brain data doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

since I'm getting many pokes about grad school applications, I wanted to re-up some previous public advice on grad school applications. looking back at it a year on, I still think all this is right, but let me update the 'research statement' part to include a bit on genAI:

Tomer Ullman@tomerullman.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* 
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees 
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

The deadline to apply for WTI's Postdoctoral Fellowships is October 1. WTI Fellowships provide a competitive salary, structured mentorship, access to world-class facilities + more. Apply today: apply.interfolio.com/189775 #ScienceAtYale