My behavioral neuroscience lab at Northeastern is looking to recruit two new research techs! Job description and link to apply is here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Pre-prints should now look universally gorgeous. Typesetting in the style of nature (or any other journal) is free and a single prompt away.

1/16 It has been a big year in the Williamson Lab. Several projects that have been developing since I started the lab way back in 2019 have now come to fruition, and together they are beginning to define a central theme of our work.

Please share--the Shansky lab is currently recruiting at all levels to work on an NIH-funded project investigating sex differences in the neural circuits that drive defensive behaviors. The official job ad isn't yet up, but interested folks can contact me as instructed here www.shanskylab.com/join

We're hiring a research technicians to work a new NIH-funded project on the emergence of hearing after cochlear gene therapy in congenital deafness. Come join us! massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...

Job opening at MIT for a research methodologist to facilitate open science practices and data management across all areas of neuroscience and cognitive science. PhD and some postdoctoral experience required. Please circulate to your networks. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Neuroscience Research Methodologist

MIT - Neuroscience Research Methodologist - Cambridge MA 02139

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The Amamoto Lab at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, in the heart of Boston, is hiring a lab technician! If you recently graduated (or are about to) with your Bachelor's degree and are interested in retinal degeneration or development, please reach out! Our website: www.amamotolab.com

Amamoto Lab at MEE/HMS

Amamoto Lab, led by Ryoji Amamoto, PhD, at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, studies the molecular mechanisms of retinal degeneration, photoreceptor outer segment development, and ...

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Running a poll, how many papers do you read per week? #neuroskyence

When the paper you think for sure is a hallucination is in fact a real reference

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

Excited to share a new paper from our lab, just in time for Easter, where we characterize how arousal modulates different excitatory cell-types in the auditory cortex! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pupil-linked arousal heterogeneously modulates cell-type–specific sensory processing

Two-photon imaging and pupillometry reveal how arousal modulates excitatory neuron subtypes in auditory cortex.

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Nice work from the Williamson lab!

Ross Williamson@rswilliamson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to share some new work from my lab, where we rigorously characterize differences between L5 and L6b extratelencephalic neurons in the auditory cortex!

Call it #ExplainableAI or just making sense of complexity. We establish a direct link between DNNs fit to #AuditoryCortex and more intuitive subspace models from the 2000s. Congrats @jeremewingert.bsky.social @satyaparida.bsky.social & Sam Norman-Haignere! #NeuroAI #SensoryNeuroscience rdcu.be/e5gLY

Provocative: www.nature.com/articles/nn1... I feel the same way about anesthesia in sensory neuroscience... probably just as many confounds of awake recordings as in anesthetized, just different problems. But less clear than it might seem at first pass about which one is "natural"

In praise of artifice - Nature Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience - In praise of artifice

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New preprint from the lab! 🚀 We find that hippocampal OLM interneurons provide a circuit-level inhibitory feedback signal that dynamically controls when and where behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity can occur. Feedback welcome!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Dendrite-targeting OLM interneurons regulate the formation of learning-related CA1 place cell representations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.21.695825v1

Just in time for Xmas! Check out some new work from my lab looking at noise-invariant representations in excitatory cell-types! Congrats to Tommy Suarez-Omedas! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Canonical cortical architecture supports the emergence of noise-invariant auditory representations

Neurons in the auditory system must represent behaviorally relevant sounds in the presence of background noise (BN) to support noise-invariant perception and behavior. Although primary auditory cortex...

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The most impressive robotics video I've seen in a while: www.pi.website/blog/olympics. I regret that my peak dish-doing/clothes folding years have come before everyone has one of these in their house.

Moravec's Paradox and the Robot Olympics

By fine-tuning our latest model, we were able to solve a series of very difficult manipulation challenge tasks.

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1/4 New preprint! We designed an open-source system for auditory brainstem response (ABR), a research & clinical auditory test. Costs $400 to build (vs $10K to buy a proprietary one) and works great! All open-source if you want to make one for your lab or classroom. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Btw, I still have open positions available for post-docs. Esp if you’re interested in applying modern dimensionality reduction approaches to in vivo Ca2+ imaging or ephys datasets. Please get in touch pierre.apostolides@umich.edu

Our lab is hoping to hire a long-term lab manager / research associate to help with admin tasks and neuroscience experiments (3-year minimum commitment). bilh.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

A real pleasure and honor interviewing @neurozoe.bsky.social. Check out her story!

Stories of WiN@storiesofwin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our latest profile is here! Dr. Zoe Donaldson (@neurozoe.bsky.social) studies the neural circuits that govern social bonding & social loss, and how variations in these circuits shape emotional outcomes. Follow the link to listen! #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon, @haydari.bsky.social, @jacobmratliff.bsky.social, @bio-emergent.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net, @kevinjmiller.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Characterizing neuronal population geometry with AI equation discovery

The visual cortex contains millions of neurons, whose combined activity forms a population code representing visual stimuli. There is, however, a discrepancy between our understanding of this code at ...

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Excited to announce that our latest paper is now out: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... Here we uncover a simple cortical code for loudness and leverage it reverse sound hypersensitivity disorders in mice. #neuroskyence

Cortical PV interneurons regulate loudness perception and sustainably reverse loudness hypersensitivity

Noise damages the cochlea, triggering maladaptive plasticity in the auditory cortex (ACtx) that makes moderate-intensity sounds seem uncomfortably loud. Clayton, Awwad, McGill, et al. show that brief ...

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