Kate Jeffery

Cognitive Neurophysiology (CNP) - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences We are now hiring two PhDs and a Post Doc:Deadline 1st of March:https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/294553/phd-research-fellow-in-machine-learning-for-cognitive-neuroscienceDeadline 4th of ...

We have PhD positions and Post Doc positions available! www.med.uio.no/imb/english/... Please apply if you are interested in human invasive intracranial recordings or applied machine learning in a neuroscientific context.

Deadlines 1st of March (Sunday!) and 4th of March.

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Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity
Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays
Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia
Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later

The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA

about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02...

Place cells in CA1 lack topographical organization of firing locations | PNAS Topography is a well-described and well-known concept for cortical organization in primary sensory and motor cortices of mammalian brains. Similar ...

A half-century old question may have its final answer. Using high-resolution #Mini2P microscopes, we find no evidence of local topography in #PlaceCells. Place fields of neighbouring cells are no more similar than those of randomly selected cells. 🧠🗺️ Out now in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Dramatic Glasgow skyline today (taken from the Hamilton Claypits nature reserve which I just discovered today, only 15 min walk from my flat!)

Unweaving the Cognitive Map: A Personal History - PubMed I have been incredibly fortunate to have worked in the field of hippocampal spatial coding during three of its most exciting decades, the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. During this time I had a ringside view of some of the foundational discoveries that were made which have transformed our understanding of …

Not only do I remember it but I have documented it for posterity! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39698925/ (search for your name)

How does the brain replay memories during sleep?
Excited to share our new preprint, the outcome of an extensive effort led by Johannes Niediek, showing that reactivation of human concept neurons reflects memory content rather than event sequence.

My thrill for today - cave wetas, on the Coromandel Peninsula, NZ 😳

Why is it easier for me to log in to my bank account than to freaking Scopus?😡

Are and have been from the get-go. The pollution is rapid and pervasive

Happy to announce the 2nd Hippocampus Green Meeting
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🗓️ May 11–12, 2026
Organized together with Manu Valero, Lisa Roux and Dan Bendor
🎤 Keynotes: Nachum Ulanovsky & György Buzsáki
‼️ Call for abstracts now open
🔗 hippocampusgreen.net/wp/
#HippocampusGreen

It is yeah. But also I find it useful 😶

ChatGPT has started offering me product recommendations- is this new? It feels a little off

This made me laugh way too hard

Best advice is to wear little bells, so the bears know you're coming, and carry bear spray. It also helps to be able to identify scat. Black bear scat has undigested bits of berries and twigs. Grizzly bear scat smells like bear spray and has little bells in it.

London prices are truly insane

do i have this about right?

university admins claim that they know (somehow) that AI is “the future” and that we have to train students to have the skills to work in environments that (will) require AI, but ...

This is brilliant advice

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

Oh wow! What's the paradigm?

Life Sciences PhD studentships available in amazing Glasgow! Deadline Jan 12

General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

So, PayPal is being automatically linked to our FB accounts - I feel we should have been asked if we wanted that? 🤔

O.M.G.

Then - yep

UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’ Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the trip

Are any data protection experts reading this? This seems really unethical to me (use of a passenger manifesto for immigration status assessment):

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Deadline Dec 1!

Is there an age limit? 😬

ChatGPT and me having trust issues

In case you don't know already, the journal Open Mind has a Bluesky account that automatically posts new papers:
@openmindjournal.bsky.social

The journal is diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) thanks to the support of MIT Press, Harvard Library, & MIT Library.

World's largest rays may be diving to extreme depths to build mental maps of vast oceans Many marine species are no strangers to the depths of the oceans. Some animals, like certain sharks, tuna, or turtles, routinely perform extreme dives, whereas for other species, such behavior has…

World's largest rays may be diving to extreme depths to build mental maps of vast oceans

Vivid memories are all over the BBC website front page! It takes just a few minutes to complete our public survey: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...