We're pleased to announce the 2026 class of our Fellows-to-Faculty program! This fellowship supports talented early-career scientists and their research visions as they transition into tenure-track faculty positions in autism and #neuroscience research. See the new class: https://bit.ly/4yXUjrd

Announcing the Recipients of the 2026 Fellows-to-Faculty Awards

The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the 2026 class of its Fellows-to-Faculty program.

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Looking for women who, over the last 75 years, have worked at the foundations of computationalism in cognitive science. Any (non-usual suspects) recommendations for whose work to look into more?

Check our new work! Studies led brilliantly by @louisakuper.bsky.social. We investigate the parafascicular thalamus as an interface of sensory, attention, and movement signals that guide exploration and cue-related learning.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The parafascicular thalamus steers attention to facilitate learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.18.733204v1

The Neural Control & Computation Lab is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow to investigate the neural basis of learning, flexible neural computation, and skilled movement control using large-scale electrophysiology from single-neuron populations in non-human primates 🧠🐒 www.ncclab.ca/join-the-lab

Last week, we finally submitted my first paper during my PhD (bioRXiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...). The paper is about change-of-mind (COM) behavior. You know when you're taking a test and switch your answer after second-guessing yourself? We studied what happens in the brain at that moment.

I will be in #London & #Oxford next week and will be giving a seminar at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford. This time, I will share new work from our lab @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social 🤓. June 9 | 12-1 pm! 🐾 🐁 🧠 If you are around or would like to meet while I'm here, DM me!

Honored to receive such incredible support as we start the lab. Do check out their video feature that covers the lab and the people who inhabit it 😍🐀! www.murtytrust.org/murty-scienc...

Simons Foundation@simonsfoundation.org · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Fellows-to-Faculty alum @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social on being awarded a Murty Science Fellowship! Joshi’s lab at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social studies how cognitive representations of space interact with ongoing actions: https://bit.ly/48LtnPQ #science #neuroscience

The paper shows that high‑gamma field activity and local spiking are distinct. The “hashy” signal often treated as a proxy for spiking is partly generated by other biophysics like dendritic and network‑level currents, not just summed spikes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Active dissociation of intracortical spiking and high gamma activity - Nature

A brain–machine interface is used in monkeys to investigate the biophysical underpinnings of cortical high gamma-band activity, a signal that is often studied in the context of many brain functions.

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Liked the thoughtful consideration about what we know/don’t know about ripples & manifolds and how individuals cell types might be key in resolving some puzzles. @lmprida.bsky.social also discusses differences in thinking/writing/intuiting in one’s own language which is on point ✅ Check it out!

Paul Middlebrooks@braininspired.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Different neuron types make different ripples through different manifolds. That sounds cool, and Jorge Luis Borges probably already said it... Liset's @lmprida.bsky.social work actually is cool, and I'll let her actually say it (sort of)... braininspired.co/podcast/236/

New preprint out 🚨 “Predictive pursuit emerges in high-dimensional recurrent neural networks”! This was an awesome collaboration with co-first author @fatihdinc.bsky.social , @andyalexander.bsky.social, @xiaoxiao-lin.bsky.social, and May Chen biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/

Preprint alert! We've done the first ever brain recording simultaneously from IT & PMv in two monkeys interacting socially in natural setting! Dynamic tracking of social variables in simultaneous brain recordings of socially interacting monkeys www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint! 🧵🧪🧠 doi.org/10.64898/202... Upshot: somatosensory cortex contains both feedback *and* intended movement signals (a.k.a. corollary discharge). These two signals exist orthogonally in neural space, flexibly allowing both fast state estimation and external perturbation detection. 1/

Our tiny #Celegans astronauts are 30m out from docking with the #ISS! Tune in live here plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi... #CBIOMES #spacebiology #microbiome #wormsinspace 🚀🧪🪱🦠

100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west

Athena Akrami@athenaakrami.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Pasteur Institute of Iran, founded in 1920 now destroyed by Israel-US bombing😞 It played a pivotal role in developing vaccines & public health services, for over a century, now gone😞 A few days ago a pharmaceutical plant was bombed, accused of making anesthetic fentanyl #War #PasteurInstituteIran

Pasteur Institute of Iran, founded in 1920 now destroyed by Israel-US bombing😞 It played a pivotal role in developing vaccines & public health services, for over a century, now gone😞 A few days ago a pharmaceutical plant was bombed, accused of making anesthetic fentanyl #War #PasteurInstituteIran

1/8 New preprint alert! How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain? What could be the functional implications of cardioception? We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.

An amazing opportunity for students to get their foot in the door for neuroscience research! Great to see a program explicitly welcome applicants from community colleges and folks with no prior experience!! www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/03/10/a...

Applications Open for 2026–2027 Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Neuroscience

Applications Open for 2026–2027 Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Neuroscience on Simons Foundation

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Looking forward to being in @bonnbrainconf.bsky.social in less than two weeks. Reach out if you are around and would like to meet up! 🙌 Honored, a little nervous, and mostly very excited to be included in such a cool lineup 🤩 on #learning and #memory 🐀🐾🧠

Why is a cross-species spinal cord taxonomy important? 🧠📈 Join us on March 11 for an interactive webinar on this collaborative effort. RSVP for link: https://alleninstitute.org/events/neuroscience-cell-types-webinars/

#ApplicationsOpen 13th Undergraduate Lecture Series Theme: Dynamical Biology- how processes operate at different scales 📆 Sundays, 03 May - 28 June 2026 📍 NCBS, Bengaluru 🔗Application Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... ⌛Deadline: 23 March 2026

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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🧑‍🔬For International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked some of our early-career researchers what it means to them, to be a woman in STEM. 👇Check out what they have to say! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbA... (Part 1/3) #InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsInScience

International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Part 1

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If anyone would like to mess around with such cool activity bumps then the full dataset is here:) dandiarchive.org/dandiset/000...

We’re hiring a Group Leader! Join us to lead a transformative initiative in human systems neuroscience. Find out more and apply ⤵️ www.sainsburywellcome.org/content/curr...

New paper alert! 🚨 We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales 1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks 2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps. Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP

📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools

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Time Cells in the Human Brain Support Working Memory Maintenance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Time Cells in the Human Brain Support Working Memory Maintenance

Working memory (WM), the active retention of information over short periods, is a fundamental cognitive function, yet its underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. In rodents, cue-selective "time c...

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In 2021, Sama Ahmed received our Fellows-to-Faculty Award to establish his lab at @uwpsychology.bsky.social, where he focuses on the neurobiology of multitasking: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/fellows-to-faculty-awardee-sama-ahmed-studies-the-neuroscience-of-multitasking/ #science #neuroscience

Fellows-to-Faculty Awardee Sama Ahmed Studies the Neuroscience of Multitasking

Simons Foundation Fellows-to-Faculty alumnus Sama Ahmed spoke with the foundation about his experiences with the fellowship.

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Recent review about long-range axons rdcu.be/eXeDG

Long-range axon branching: contributions to brain network plasticity and repair

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Connectome reconstructions across multiple species reveal that the morphology of axonal projections is highly variable, even between neurons of the same location or...

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Thrilled this is out, led by former PD Cameron Ogg (now with her own lab at @rhodescollege.bsky.social!). It was a driven by a desire to see, in real-time, how LC activity/NE release influences downstream targets in behaving animals. SO hard to do, but Cameron did it! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons facilitate orbitofrontal cortex remapping and behavioral flexibility

Ogg et al. use in vivo imaging techniques to record activity in the locus coeruleus (LC) and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) during a reversal learning task in freely moving rodents. They show that man...

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