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📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?

Two calls are open:

Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review

🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities

#KnowTogether

thank you to @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social for featuring me in #HumansofHBI and for doing a fun photo shoot with me at the Museum of Natural History!

go check out other members of the HBI community in the #HumansofHBI!

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

Assistant Professor (Neuroscience, Tenure Track) - Lethbridge (City), Alberta (CA) job with University of Lethbridge | 39049 Assistant Professor (tenure track) of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

For anyone on the neuroscience job market, our ads are up. We are looking for anyone working in systems neuroscience of animals to join us in southern Alberta 🇨🇦
#academicsky #neuroskyence #neuroethology #academicjobs #Canada
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I am going to repost our job ad because we are not getting many applicants!
Like anywhere, there are pros and cons, so if you have questions just DM or email me.
#academicjobs #neuroskyence #neuroethology #academicsky

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Biology Position Summary A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Andreas Kautt in the Department of Biology on the Danforth Campus at WashU in St. Louis. The Kautt Lab studies the mechan...

Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply!

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Very nice synthesis!

Extractive Foraging! Would you share the video with me? It would go great in my talk!

Mice do play with humans:
Our new study found that selective breeding makes mice more playful toward both humans and other mice.
We also found that both mice and hamsters produce distinct vocalizations depending on the species of their interaction partner.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsK5_3oCG...

Oh no!!!

Piu piu piu

Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social

Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Université de Montréal | 12843808 Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry involved in the production of complex behaviors

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨

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An anole extends its dewlap, which says "call for scientists!"

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

🚨New paper🚨

Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently.

Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW

Replication game- Never have I ever…. failed to record a “place cell” from the hippocampus*

*except all those times where I screwed up the experiment because I’m a human and my tetrodes got stuck, the ground was broken, the tetrodes snapped, I shorted the wires, I got my synchronization wrong, etc.

Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics Bukwich and Campbell et al. show that mice integrate elapsed time and reward intake, scaled by a latent patience variable, to decide when to leave virtual “patches.” Frontal cortex ramping activity ma...

Our paper on foraging is now published in Neuron! Read it here:

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!

This is not mine btw, just pointing out nice endocast of josefoartigasia

Thats me! Send me a DM. Agoutis and Carpinchos.

I wish we still had Josephoartigasia monari

In any case. Cool paper, definitely excited by the results one way or another.

It could be selected broadly or in area specific ways for expanding brain surface growth. And then you could have interactions with severe morphological constraints that collaborate in explaining folding convergence. Which I sympathize with. I guess I’m mostly not sure why the most parsimonious.

I think cortical thickness is a good argument, however there are potentially other dynamic traits in relation to brain development that cant be captured by final brain morphology and histology. Lets say theres a trait x for horizontal expansion, this horizontal expansion could even be area dependent

I’m very sympathetic to the idea that physics contribute to shaping the effects of selection for brain size, cell growth, connectivity, etc. And for me its stunning right that behavior evolves with changes in brain morphology. And potentially that this happens a lot and fast

I guess I don’t follow what confirms that its without need of genetic programs. Do you think that is a corollary from brain volume being polygenic? Isn’t this below is a strawman. Why would a phylogeny based on the complete genetic makeup for all proteins and rna explain perfectly few traits?

Camille Testard Named Branco Weiss Fellow for Trailblazing Research on Social Resilience to Ecological Disasters - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology Harvard Junior Fellow Camille Testard has been awarded the highly competitive Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science, a prestigious five-year award that supports exceptional early-career researc...

Camille Testard Named Branco Weiss Fellow for Trailblazing Research on Social Resilience to Ecological Disasters 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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@ctestard.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

In one swift moment, a traffic stop turned into a violent arrest.

Video footage of the incident show a group of officers detaining three men. Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the use of a stun gun “funny”.

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!

We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️