David Schneider

Submissions now accepted for a special issue of the Journal of Vision:

Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection

Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025
Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...

Congratulations Alex!

This is a welcome opportunity for early and mid-career folks committed to equity in STEM: "2030STEM x BWF fellows will reinvent career advancement for individual STEM professionals, and strengthen and accelerate culture change in STEM institutions."

There are a few rodent vocal datasets here from our recent NeurIPS paper: vclbenchmark.flatironinstitute.org

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@ralphpeterson.bsky.social
in case he has posted the larger gerbil data set from here: elifesciences.org/articles/89892

My lab at NYU is hiring a postdoc interested in RNA biology and local translation in neurons following axonal injury/neurodegenerative diseases!! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/165681

Do it. Work with Pierre.

would love to embed some existing *ultrasonic* audio recordings into some pre-trained ANN feature space — anyone know of any *ultrasonic* networks out there? cc @animal-prattle.bsky.social @earthspecies.bsky.social @timsainburg.bsky.social @nicholdav.bsky.social @nickjourjine.bsky.social

FACULTY JOB ALERT! The Albert Einstein Dept of Neuroscience is hiring a new assistant professor in any area of neuroscience! We have funds specifically earmarked for this search. #Neuroscience #AcademicJobs #NeuroSky Job just posted: faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17175/f... Please share widely!!

The McBride Lab at Princeton University seeks a lab technician for mosquito research, starting summer 2025. Candidates need a biology degree and lab experience. Apply at http://mcbridelab.princeton.edu. #job

UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community!
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Chair - Department of Psychiatry - Chapel Hill, North Carolina job with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 863298 The School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks an accomplished and visionary leader..

UNC-CH is searching for a new Chair of Psychiatry.

Please share.

www.nejmcareercenter.org/job/863298/c...

No better way to learn the ropes than joining a brand new lab. And Nick's will be an excellent one! He's combining cutting edge behavior with systems- and circuits-level physiology to tackle big neuroscience questions.

cc soon-to-be graduates looking for post-bac positions.

That drive to fort ransom down the Sheyenne River valley is something special. The cars are def a nice surprise.

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Why can't you tickle yourself? Why do we laugh when tickled but are unable to tickle ourselves? Neuroscience has the answer.

Do you know you can't tickle yourself? Read my latest piece about the weird neuroscience behind this and why our brains love unpredictability.
Learn more www.livescience.com/health/why-c...
Thanks for your time: @kkilteni.bsky.social @davideagleman.bsky.social @schneiderneuro.bsky.social

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar for March 12th, 2025 at 11:00 AM ET From Claudia Wascher: "Unsung songbirds: Vocal communication and cognition in corvids" From Diana Liao: "Exploring auditory responses in the crow with functional ultrasound imaging"

Mark your calendars for a new bridging brain and #bioacoustics seminar!

Join us in two weeks to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of *corvid* vocal behaviors from @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @daliao.bsky.social 🐦‍⬛

🗓️ March 12th @ 11:00 EDT
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

Image of a PhD position advert entitled "PhD studentship in Brain, Brawn, and Bugs: cognitive and physical factors of insect dexterity" with images of a praying mantis and a bumblebee foraging.

🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

And - another personal plug: I am setting up my lab at UW-Madison this summer (herzfeldlab.neuro.wisc.edu). I am looking for people passionate about linking circuit computations to behavior in primates! (6/6)

Compare and contrast the emails from McKnight (left) and Chan-Zuckerberg (right). Proud to be part of the McKnight community.

Sorry to hear this Drew. Hoping for a quick reschedule.

Eight days left to submit your abstract for the 2025 Keystone Symposium on Brain Body Communication at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle! Join us in exploring the latest in interoception research. Please repost, thanks!

Do apply to the Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience: terrific fellowship and scientific community for early career neuroscientists
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Excited to have you here, Erin!

Sensation is dispensable for the maturation of the vestibulo-ocular reflex Vertebrates stabilize gaze using a neural circuit that transforms sensed instability into compensatory counterrotation of the eyes. Sensory feedback tunes this vestibulo-ocular reflex throughout life....

Big paper from @paigel.bsky.social in our lab:

Sensory feedback is always crucial for proper development, right? Wrong!

Crazier still, the motor system is the slowest part of a developing reflex circuit!

Surprises abound in this bluetorial c’mon along….

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Thanks @elife.bsky.social for featuring our work with an eLife digest! elifesciences.org/digests/8989...

An integrated and scalable rodent cage system enabling continuous computer vision-based behavioral analysis and AI-enhanced digital biomarker development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.629281v1

An image of Claude Shannon, holding a wooden mouse in a small maze.

Did you know that Claude Shannon also developed maze solving algorithms?

Which he implemented physically using a wooden mouse named Theseus.

To solve a given maze, on a grid, Theseus used two modes:

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A family of lemurs

📣Senior position announcement: We are searching for an ~Academic Director~ for the Duke Lemur Center. If you or someone you know are qualified, we welcome applications!
See description at link below. Msg me if any Qs. Pls repost! #lemurs #primatology

interdisciplinary.duke.edu/opportunitie...

Research Staff Assistant in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute - Manhattanville, New York, United States Job Type: Support Staff - Non-Union Bargaining Unit: Regular/Temporary: Regular End Date if Temporary: Hours Per Week: 35 Standard Work Schedule: Building: Jerome L. Greene Science Center Salary Range...

Interested in social sensory processing & how it modifies our motivations? Want to gain experience in rodent behavior, circuit mapping, & measuring population dynamics? Love to gain mentoring experience & practice discussing your science? Come work with me (😄) & the Salzman lab! shorturl.at/4mEgj

Vocal Call Locator Benchmark (VCL) for localizing rodent vocalizations from multi-channel audio Understanding the behavioral and neural dynamics of social interactions is a goal of contemporary neuroscience. Many machine learning methods have emerged in recent years to make sense of complex vide...

Excited to share our #NeurIPS2024 paper on deep learning models and benchmark datasets for localizing + attributing vocalizations in social interactions!

Please come visit the poster on Friday 11am-1pm PST in West Ballroom A-D #5406.

Paper link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...