Thrilled to share that our work on neural circuits and economic decision-making is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social . Huge thanks to @camillopadoasch.bsky.social and @xjwanglab for this journey.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
06.02.2026 01:33 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Dear #Dendrites afficionados, due to popular demand we have extended the deadline for abstract submission by a few more days. Don’t miss the opportunity to join us for another amazing meeting on Dendrites in the beautiful Greek island of Crete!
Apply here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-den...
05.02.2026 06:53 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Information Event on Funding Programs - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
Early career researcher: Are you thinking about writing an ERC , Emmy Noether Proposal, or Lower Saxony AI Group application, and are you interested to work with us at @uni-goettingen.de and @goettingen-campus.de
04.02.2026 16:33 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Attention-like regulation of theta sweeps in the brain's spatial navigation circuit
Spatial attention supports navigation by prioritizing information from selected locations. A candidate neural mechanism is provided by theta-paced sweeps in grid- and place-cell population activity, which sample nearby space in a left-right-alternating pattern coordinated by parasubicular direction signals. During exploration, this alternation promotes uniform spatial coverage, but whether sweeps can be flexibly tuned to locations of particular interest remains unclear. Using large-scale Neuropixels recordings in freely-behaving rats, we show that sweeps and direction signals are rapidly and dynamically modulated: they track moving targets during pursuit, precede orienting responses during immobility, and reverse during backward locomotion — without prior spatial learning. Similar modulation occurs during REM sleep. Canonical head-direction signals remain head-aligned. These findings identify sweeps as a flexible, attention-like mechanism for selectively sampling allocentric cognitive maps. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. European Research Council, Synergy Grant 951319 (EIM) The Research Council of Norway, Centre of Neural Computation 223262 (EIM, MBM), Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex 332640 (EIM, MBM), National Infrastructure grant (NORBRAIN, 295721 and 350201) The Kavli Foundation, https://ror.org/00kztt736 Ministry of Science and Education, Norway (EIM, MBM) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences; NTNU, Norway (AZV)
The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal!
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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28.01.2026 10:03 — 👍 181 🔁 62 💬 4 📌 10
Why emotion research is stuck—and how to move it forward
Studying how organisms infer indirect threats and understand changing contexts can establish a common framework that bridges species and levels of analysis.
My perspective in @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why emotion research feels stuck and how we might move forward—by focusing on how the brain uses internal brain models to shape emotional processing across species. www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/why-...
26.01.2026 11:18 — 👍 68 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 2
All theory is wrong until verified by data. Greatly indebted to @mhyaghoubi.bsky.social, @markbrandonlab.bsky.social, @douglasresearch.bsky.social for finding the hippocampus encoding reward prediction! Grateful to my advisor @cpehlevan.bsky.social, @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social.
#RL #hippocampus
19.01.2026 09:32 — 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
Really important for Science in the US
Spread, and do!
18.01.2026 02:22 — 👍 59 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0
Step into a Europe-wide community of neuroscience leaders. Junior & mid-career group leaders: apply by 30 Jan to become a FENS-Kavli Network Scholar and connect, collaborate, and contribute to shaping neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur
12.01.2026 07:25 — 👍 14 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
In 2026, Valentin Braitenberg would have celebrated his 100th birthday.
To commemorate this occasion, the Bernstein Network will present the next Valentin Braitenberg Award during the #BernsteinConference 2026.
Nominations are open until April 30 👉 bernstein-network.de/en/network/a...
14.01.2026 08:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
20 Years of Modeling the Brain
At Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, scientists have spent the past two decades using computational models to predict neural behavior
It is gratifying to see the growing appreciation of theoretical and computational neuroscience over the years. A deep understanding of the brain undoubtedly requires close collaborations between experimentalists and theorists. magazine.columbia.edu/article/20-y...
13.01.2026 00:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Please spread the word🔊My lab is looking to hire two international postdocs. If you want to do comp neuro, combine machine learning and awesome math to understand neural circuit activity, then come work with us! Bonn is such a cool place for neuroscience now, you don't want to miss out.
10.01.2026 17:39 — 👍 33 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 1
Jeff is an extremely nice and enjoyable person to work with. Highly recommended!
09.01.2026 20:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When and why do modular representations emerge in neural networks?
@stefanofusi.bsky.social and I posted a preprint answering this question last year, and now it has been extensively revised, refocused, and generalized. Read more here: doi.org/10.1101/2024... (1/7)
09.01.2026 19:06 — 👍 76 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 2
The new Cajal Center is opening 8 CSIC permanent research positions (CT, IC & PF levels) via national competitive exams. We welcome candidates eager to shape an ambitious 🧠 research hub in Spain.
🔗 sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/con... 📣
#Neuroscience #CNC #CSIC #ScienceJobs 👇🏼
08.01.2026 06:31 — 👍 19 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
Careers
Careers on Simons Foundation
Joint junior faculty position in Computational Neuroscience, between Ctr for Computational Neuroscience at @flatironinstitute.org and the CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social . Application deadline: 16 Jan 2026!
www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/car...
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
06.01.2026 03:14 — 👍 38 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 1
Very nice work on the role of inhibitory neurons in controlling plasticity.
05.01.2026 15:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
04.01.2026 06:17 — 👍 130 🔁 50 💬 3 📌 3
It’s encouraging to see this thoughtful perspective paper emerge from a Bernstein workshop that brought together researchers from different labs.
02.01.2026 22:34 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
University Assistant/Associate Professor in Control Theory and Systems Biology
Applications are invited for a University Assistant/Associate Professorship in the broad area of Control Theory and Systems Biology. The successful candidate will join the Control Group
We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
03.12.2025 12:19 — 👍 42 🔁 41 💬 0 📌 1
Episode #34 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On balanced neural networks – with Nicolas Brunel
theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn34
Cortical neurons seem to receive about the same amount of excitation and inhibition. One of the founders of this key idea in 1990s explains.
08.11.2025 09:00 — 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Neuroscientist, retinal circuits, neuro development. UC Berkeley
http://fellerlab.squarespace.com/
Postdoctoral researcher at Hillel Adesnik's lab in UC Berkeley. Interested in causally understanding learning and memory
Neuroscience Professor at Mount Sinai, into the science of squad goals.
https://www.wulab.bio/
Neuroscientist at the FMI Basel, investigating memories and how to change them
Cognition, Emotion and Behavior, Goettingen University
Developmental psychologist and psycholinguist rolled into one, with generous servings of mom of two added on.
Group leader @ Uni Göttingen for Computational Cell Analytics. Working on AI for biology and medicine with a focus on microscopy image analysis with deep learning.
https://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~pape41/
Researcher | Professorin |
Complex Systems | Neural Networks | Societal Systems | private opinion here
Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Computer Vision • Scientist at @unigoettingen.bsky.social & MPI-DS • https://eckerlab.org • Co-founder of https://maddox.ai • Dad of three • All things outdoor
Asst. Prof. at the University of Bonn, Germany. Interested in sensory neurophysiology and behaviour with a focus on olfaction
The Department of Neuroscience at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
We aim to conduct high-quality research on brain function, brain diseases, and their treatments.
Learn more here: https://in.ku.dk/
asst prof computational neuroscience UIUC
https://publish.illinois.edu/pospisil-lab/
Neuroscientist at European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen. Group leader researching the neuronal circuitry underlying memory and action. Alumnus Jacobs University, Oxford, DZNE, LIN, OvGU. http://barnstedtlab.com
ORCID: 0000-0001-7924-6043
Japan based neuroscientist, Team Director at RIKEN Center for Brain Science, studying the neural basis of emotional learning & memory, adventure cyclist
Neuroethologist studying spatial navigation in diverse species 🐝🦇🦋. For more infos visit my lab homepage:
https://www.spatial-navigation.com/
Neuroscientist studying thalamic circuits for vision
Neuroscience, NeuroAI | https://kfranke.com/ | Senior Scientist at Stanford working at https://enigmaproject.ai/
Brains, biophysics, behaviour
https://www.groschner-lab.org
