The final version of our amygdala dopamine paper is out! BLA dopamine dynamically tracks emotional salience and not value or reward prediction error. Congrats to Dr. Megan Brickner!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Basolateral amygdala dopamine transmits emotional salience - Nature Communications

The basolateral amygdala dopamine system has received little attention. Here, authors show that BLA dopamine plays a unique role in learning, by encoding the emotional salience of sensory cues to supp...

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We're hiring! Looking for a postdoc interested in circuit mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease. #postdoc #neuroscience #alzheimers #dementia #neurodegeneration #electrophysiologist #systemsneuroscience #postdocjobs #invivo #mousemodel #newyork www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

My fMRI study from the Mack Lab (@drmack.bsky.social) is now published on JNeuro! Here, we look into how hippocampal subfields flexibly update category knowledge representations in the face of novel exceptions. Check out the article here: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU....

Distinct Hippocampal Subfield Representational Shifts Underlie Category Exception Learning

When we encounter an exception to our prior category knowledge, such as a leaf-like butterfly that perceptually diverges from the butterflies we commonly see, we must update our knowledge to reconcile...

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Hey neuroscientists, do you have a story about a time when journalism has improved your science? If so, I'd love to include it in my next op-ed. 🧠

Several teaching track faculty positions in my department, including for a neuroscience specialist #psychology #neuroscience #highered nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNLV-Externa...

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Founded in 1957, UNLV is a doctoral-degree-granting institution comprised of approximately 34,000 students and more than 4,451 faculty and staff. To date, UNLV has conferred more than 186,000 degrees,...

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The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs

Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Special Issue Call for Submissions to Psych Science: “Advancing Psychological Science using Large Language Models” www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Are brain rhythms a steady hum or a brief buzz? Both. Alpha and beta activity are relatively sustained, helping maintain ongoing brain state, supporting its role in top-down control. Universal rhythmic architecture uncovers two modes of neural dynamics www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Universal rhythmic architecture uncovers two modes of neural dynamics - Nature Communications

Brain oscillations are traditionally regarded as sustained rhythms. Here, the authors show that there are both high and low-rhythmicity bands, characterised by brief bursts, which can signal responses...

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📢 PhD opening in comp. cog. neuro. in Toulouse: thalamo-frontal model of cognitive control. Modelling/EEG experience is welcome but not required. Application deadline: 8 Sept. 2026 Details: sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/eDrkeXfjdW... #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #EEG #neuroskyence #compneurosky

From periodic/aperiodic to static/dynamic: rethinking the decomposition of neural power spectra https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.26.740811v1

McGill social psych is now officially hiring at the assistant prof level, hooray Happy to chat with anyone about the position mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

Check out this thread - and please RT 🙏 Shaked and Itay argue that t-test and LMMs (and their Bayesian parallels) are not adequate for testing chance performance, and suggest alternative, more powerful tests. We hope you will find this useful, especially when studying unconscious processes

@shakedlublinsky.bsky.social · 6d ago

Can we make objective awareness tests more powerful? In our new paper (doi.org/10.1093/nc/n...; Neuroscience of Consciousness), we introduce two tests (frequentist and Bayesian) that outperform commonly used tests, based on extensive simulations and reanalyses of published datasets. (1/9)

How does the brain represent the value of knowledge? In our paper--out now at Nature Neuroscience--we identify a representation of intrinsic information value within neural population structures in the orbitofrontal cortex in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02377-y #neuroskyence 🧠🧪 (1/8)

Representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Mice are motivated to seek information of no extrinsic value. Recording neural activity in orbitofrontal cortex reveals a representation of the value of information that is distinct from the value of ...

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Critical follow up: the lab's pre-print celebration dessert tradition! Leo's dessert of choice was a lemon-y sponge cake with berries and cream. 🍰

Amy Orsborn@neuroamyo.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧠 New preprint alert! 🧠 Leo led the heroic effort to improve how we map connections across large cortical networks in macaques—stably—over weeks to years. The secret sauce: a combo of optogenetics + µECoG + new signal processing to localize stim-driven responses. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1st book review! “Lombrozo unpacks the psychology of explanations in rich detail and sharply analyzes how explaining can help and hinder…The result is a fresh, engrossing take on an important aspect of human behavior.” 😀 www.publishersweekly.com/9780063395008

Why We Ask Why: The Science of Explanation and the Human Drive to Understand by Tania Lombrozo

People explain what they experience, feel, and encounter in order to understand the present and anticipate the future, according...

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Exploring Neural Mechanisms Underlying Error-related Impairments in Active Working Memory Suggests an Adaptive Shielding of Contents during Cognitive Control

Exploring Neural Mechanisms Underlying Error-related Impairments in Active Working Memory Suggests an Adaptive Shielding of Contents during Cognitive Control

Abstract. Goal-directed behavior relies on cognitive flexibility—the ability to rapidly adapt ongoing thoughts and behaviors while preserving task-relevant information. The performance monitoring…

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No Evidence of Experimenter Demand Effects in Three Online Psychology Experiments

No Evidence of Experimenter Demand Effects in Three Online Psychology Experiments

Abstract. Experimenter demand effects occur when participants alter their behavior to align with perceived study hypotheses, threatening internal validity. Concern about demand effects is pervasive…

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My postdoc is coming to an end, so I'm looking for work! Let me know if you, or anyone you know, wants to hire a philosopher of biology/cognition with a knack for cross-disciplinary work, a focus on autonomy + agency, and experience writing for the broader public (10+ yrs in sci/tech journalism).

𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘅: 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 A must read for systems neuroscience. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Is the human brain really an optimal template for AI? Probably not. The connectome is a compromise among competing objectives, shaped by evolution, development, and biological constraints. Check this @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social paper www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @brigan.bsky.social

The brain uses a fixed set of building blocks and flexibly recombines them, allowing adapting to new tasks. Learning stabilizes temporal activity but not neuronal selectivity in prefrontal cortex doi.org/10.64898/202... #neuroscience

Learning stabilizes temporal activity but not neuronal selectivity in prefrontal cortex

Intelligent behavior requires neural representations to change with new demands while preserving learned structure. The prefrontal cortex is central to this ability, but the mechanisms are unclear. Here, we tracked medial prefrontal neurons for months as mice learned an association task with successive rule switches. Learning progressively stabilized when individual neurons were active during a trial, but not what task variables they responded to. Neurons repeatedly gained, lost, or changed selectivity even after their activity profile had stabilized. We developed Sparse Tensor Component Analysis to show that, rather than reflecting random drift, dynamic single-neuron selectivity arose through rule-dependent recombination of a fixed set of task representations. Thus, learning established a stable temporal scaffold in the prefrontal cortex within which neurons participated flexibly in different representations. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. European Research Council, https://ror.org/0472cxd90, 758032 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, https://ror.org/018mejw64, JA 1999/6-1, JA 1999/8-1 ONE Munich Strategy Forum, N/A

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Very happy to share that our INNERSPEECH project has been funded by the #ANR! We'll investigate the cognitive and neural bases of inner speech diversity and build a neurocomputational model of how it emerges during development. One PhD and one postdoc position will open soon; stay tuned!

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience byKirti Saluja, Dipanjan Roy and Arpan Banerjee: When the inner clock fades: Interoceptive decline and consolidation of phase resetting in cortical rhythms by cardiac events underlie healthy lifespan aging doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

check out @xannnimal.bsky.social 's powerful new signal extraction method "Foster's Inverse" for removing noise artifacts in MEG and OPM-MEG!! 🧠 preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... code: github.com/xannnimal/fo...

**Four** positions in AI/ML for biology at @dukemedschool.bsky.social, including in Neurobiology. @scottsoderling.bsky.social and David Page are leading a tremendous initiative in Discovery AI. Wonderful colleagues, wonderful place.

AI/ML for Biology - 4 tenure-track assistant professor positions - Durham, North Carolina job with Duke University - Biochemistry & Cell Biology | 12862109

Discovery AI Initiative and Departments of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Integrative Immunobiology, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology

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Excited to share our latest publication, out now in @natcomms.nature.com !🧠🔍 Accumulating virtual rewards enhances both decision-making accuracy and neural value encoding in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex by dynamically shifting a goal-dependent internal reference point. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

We're hiring! Postdoc position to study the neural control of reaching using high-density multi-area electrophysiology. 5 years of funding, great collaborative environment. Please share with anyone who may be interested. For details, see: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pruszynski Postdoc 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...

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We have recently published work in Psych Science and JEP:LMC showing a surprising relationship between initial capture and learned suppression of salient distractors. Ultimately, this has led us to believe that attentional control is much more flexible than often assumed. Read more on my blog!

From Capture to Suppression: How Distraction Shapes Attentional Control

By Nick Gaspelin and Yue Zhang Zhang, Y. & Gaspelin, N. (2026a). From capture to control: Initial capture increases learned suppression. Psychological Science. 37(4), 2…

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If an action results in error, each neuron requires an individualized teaching signal that guides change in its output. This is the credit assignment problem of learning. Are there neurons in the brain that can compute such a sophisticated teaching signal? Yes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Climbing fibers encode the gradient of a loss function for the cerebellum

Neurons in the brain are often many synapses away from motoneurons, yet if a movement results in error, each distant neuron needs a teacher that considers its specific contribution to production of th...

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Pain avoidance can protect us, but in chronic pain, it can become part of the problem. Our new collaborative study reveals altered pain-avoidance learning in CRPS, linked to anxiety and reduced prefrontal alpha activity. doi.org/10.1002/ejp.... #CRPS #PainResearch @crchum.bsky.social