🎶🛏️ Call for contributions! The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral). Deadline: Dec 1, 2025. More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk #confmussleep #musicscience

I'm excited to announce the opening of up to 2 PhD positions in mechanical engineering and tactile psychophysics, in close industrial collaboration with a major cosmetics manufacturer. More information: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/09/15/T... Application deadline: 31st Oct. 2025

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The only interdisciplinary conversations worth having

(This is a niche post of interest to a relatively narrow community of scholars.

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Sperber wrote this 22 years ago (when I was starting my studies in CogSci) and these words still ring true www.dan.sperber.fr?p=101

We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc... PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...

Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot: "Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition" (by Balaban & me) relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...

A new study shows a "pivot penalty" where the likelihood of being a "hit" (top 5% of citations in that field) or getting published go down the more that a scientist shifts from their main discipline. I have a few thoughts, some on how this was framed (🧵) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Shifting research focus comes with the risk of reduced impact

An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents shows that the further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be.

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🤔 You’d like to share your research code but not sure how to…? 🔓*Very* excited to finally share this work led by @nicolasrougier.bsky.social in which we propose a practical set of guidelines for opening code. inria.hal.science/hal-04930405...

Our research group is advertising an exciting new PhD position at the intersection of control engineering and neuroscience, aiming to advance our understanding of how humans control the sound of their voice. Position start: Oct. 2025 Deadline: 16 May 2025 neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/04/22/F...

Cool #neuroscience PhD opportunity on the interplay between speech production and perception, with 2 great PIs Anahita Basirat in SCALAB, @univlille.bsky.social (France) and Vitória Piai @dondersinst.bsky.social (The Netherlands) Deadline: 28 March 2025 www.risc.cnrs.fr/echos/2903527

Made a video showcasing resolve.pub which is like "google docs" for technical (ipynb/qmd) documents. The Video walk through how you can share any notebook on github with people who never code.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBmB...

Resolve showcase

YouTube video by Michel's Science Speedrun

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@lnalborczyk.bsky.social is fantastic - anyone interested in voice neuroscience and cognitive modeling please keep tabs !

Ladislas Nalborczyk@lnalborczyk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exciting news! In January 2025, I'll launch my own research team as a CNRS researcher at the LPL (Aix-en-Provence)! 🎉🎉 Our research will dive into the computational and neural bases of inner speech and mental/motor imagery.

In the age of AI, "if we keep rewarding more papers published per year in academia, we’re setting ourselves up for more mediocrity, if not more complete BS". blog.mahabali.me/educational-...

“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.” chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...

The ethical case for resisting AI

I had my moment of reality regarding generative AI in my chemistry and physics classes this past term. I’ve always had the student frustration “I can’t Google your homework problems!” as a point of…

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The outer ear is a mammalian innovation but where did it come from? In our study in Nature, Mathi Thiruppathy and colleagues find that the outer ear arose from modification of an ancestral gill program first originating in marine invertebrates. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

“Masland & Martin (2007, R581) write that “experimental physiologists know all too well that sensory systems are only linear when the experimenter forces them to be so.” ... “forcing” linearity amounts to the selection of experimental conditions that induce more simple behavior” The Brain Abstracted

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

I will buy these headphones

Allen School@uwcse.bsky.social · 2y ago

"We are at a time when hardware and algorithms are coming together to support #AI augmentation." #UWAllen prof @gshyam.bsky.social is developing headphones that enable the wearer to tune in to conversation they want to hear, cut through noise they don't. #ThisIsUW spectrum.ieee.org/noise-cancel...

In a @currentbiology.bsky.social paper earlier this year, led by @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social, we analysed Beethoven’s genome with a polygenic index related to musicality, as a way to communicate limits of genetic predictions at the individual level & the complexity of links between DNA & behaviour:

Notes from Beethoven’s genome

Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.

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!! Job alert !! Our department is anticipating the opening of an exciting new faculty position in Scientific Machine Learning, with a possible focus on neuroscience, for the 2025-2026 academic year. Info: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2024/04/19/f... Deadline: May 2025. Start date: Sept 2025.

Our collaborators at University of Fribourg (CH) are advertising a fantastic CogNeuro PhD position investigating the perception of music during sleep. Björn Rasch and his Cognitive Biopsychology team are awesome (and fun!) scientists ! Highly recommended. Info: www.unifr.ch/psycho/en/de...

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀? Brain signals not as "evoked responses" but as spatiotemporal trajectories. Work by PhD student Joyneel Misra now editorially accepted in eLife but not peer reviewed yet. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nature Causal evidence of a line attractor encoding an affective state www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Causal evidence of a line attractor encoding an affective state - Nature

Single-cell optogenetic stimulation and calcium imaging experiments provide direct evidence of line-attractor dynamics, including functional network connectivity, in the mammalian hypothalamus.

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some cool news - I've started a regular column at The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social First column out now on that most convenient of all the fictions in neuroscience: averaging thetransmitter.org/neural-codin...

Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience

But neurons don’t take averages. This ubiquitous practice hides from us how the brain really works.

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This is super cool... 🧪

John Shirley@johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 2y ago

Marmoset monkeys call each other by name.

Remembering Daniel C. Dennett, a beloved figure at SFI known for his work on consciousness and evolutionary biology. He passed away on April 19 at the age of 82. His contributions to philosophical debates were profound & his legacy will continue to inspire. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

Come work with us in the FEMTO-ST Institute in Besançon !! Our Dept is advertising a fantastic new tenure-track faculty position in AI / data-driven modeling of dynamical systems, and a possible (but not limited) focus on neuroscience neuro-team-femto.github.io/2024/04/19/f...

This is really, really good!

Andrew Perfors@perfors.net · 3y ago

I wrote a blog post. It's about AI, meaning, authenticity, and the creative process: why they matter, and why AI fucks things up. In it, I embrace my inner old man yelling futilely at the clouds. Feel free to share. 😊

We are looking for participants listening to music before sleeping for an online survey. If you are more than 18 and you like to listen music to aid your sleep, click on the link! The survey lasts around 10 minutes. survey.au.dk/LinkCollecto...