New paper from the lab now out online! @changrun-huang.bsky.social asked whether people use informative pre-cues to up-regulate cognitive control in the spatial Stroop task. Surprisingly, they do not, and we rule out some possible reasons why. Enjoy!
24.02.2026 20:17 — 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/research/research-conducted-at-nimh/scientific-director/office-of-fellowship-and-training/outstanding-scholars-in-neuroscience-award-program
I can highly recommend the NIH Outstanding Scholar in Neuroscience Award Program (nice backronym for OSNAP)! Need to be 2 years before/after PhD, due March 23. Great opportunity to visit and present at NIH and meet some amazing colleagues.
www.nimh.nih.gov/research/res...
Another reminder as we've crossed into the second half of February. There's still time to apply for the Neurobiology Chair position at Duke University! Just send in a letter of interest and CV by Feb 28. Love of Duke basketball is not required.
18.02.2026 06:11 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
The biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now isn’t data or tools, thanks in large part to the BRAIN Initiative.
It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
Last week, Jim Zhang (4th year PhD student,
@DukeBrain
) presented Sina Tafazoli’s paper on building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
👀 check this out
11.02.2026 08:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Super excited for Jorge to join us at Duke. Welcome!!
07.02.2026 00:51 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One day online conference on the ways behavioral and neural sciences can inform peace efforts. Organized by Duke's amazing @felipedebrigard.bsky.social Free! Tomorrow! (Fri Feb 6). To register see link below.
behavioralscientist.org/program-neur...
Great opportunity!!
05.02.2026 18:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Duke Institute for Brain Sciences restarted its Germinator seed grants for PhD students and postdocs this year, after a 4 year hiatus - and we are thrilled to announce the 6 awardees! Congratulations to all. 🧠
dibs.duke.edu/2026-dibs-ge...
My department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social
13.01.2026 01:21 — 👍 23 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 2
Peace, love, and science from our lab to you.
24.12.2025 23:41 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Development of the primate projection-targeting opto methods was supported in part through a DIBS Germinator award to the incredibly talented Dr. Bohlen.
23.12.2025 21:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Beautiful work on a frontal cortex to brainstem pathway in the primate brain, from NEI intramural investigators with help from Martin Bohlen and others in the Sommer Lab at Duke! Optogenetics for projection targeting and causal manipulation, to study visuomotor behavior.
23.12.2025 21:29 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Tomorrow is the last day to apply for SSNAP! Please spread the word! #neuroscience #philosophy #neurophilosophy
22.12.2025 14:24 — 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Many congrats to the newly minted Dr. Maddie Clark!
17.12.2025 20:04 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Two DIBS Network Faculty elected to National Academy of Inventors! Dr. Adam Wax: methods for imaging retinas & tracking biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Arovind Asokan: viral methods for gene therapies incl. for the brain. @dukeubme.bsky.social @dukesurgery.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/DIIBS-NAI
💪🥳
08.12.2025 21:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations Dr. Dodge!! For more information on his work, which focuses on the origins and prevention of aggressive and violent behaviors, here is his DIBS Faculty Network page:
dibs.duke.edu/profile/kenn...
Neuroanatomy with systems neuroscience implications, from Duke Research Scientist Dr. Martin Bohlen (@bohlen.bsky.social) and colleagues. Feedback from motor nuclei to the cerebellum in primates, well situated to provide corollary discharge for calibrating and coordinating eye movements. Beautiful!
01.12.2025 00:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Terrific article on the Duke University Neuroscience Experience (DUNE), a summer program run by DIBS to bring local high school students to campus to conduct research in brain science labs. We're very proud of this program, which just completed its 5th summer!
sites.duke.edu/centerforpat...
Not directly related to @neurograce.bsky.social’s comment here but to the thread: I am baffled by the number of people who seem to think the claim is that all brain computation is low-d vs. the *emprical* finding that task-related neural activity is (linear) low-d in many (not all) cases.
24.11.2025 01:16 — 👍 33 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0Let us know any way we can help, Staci! Congratulations and good luck!
15.11.2025 19:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow!
13.11.2025 17:20 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Coming to San Diego for SfN and/or APAN? Come check out the intracranial work from the lab (7 posters)! There's a bit of everything this year, so come say hello!
#Sfn2025 #Neuroscience #neuroskyence
@dukebrain.bsky.social @dukeneurosurgery.bsky.social @dukeengineering.bsky.social
😻
08.11.2025 07:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
07.11.2025 11:58 — 👍 58 🔁 35 💬 0 📌 2🧠🙌🌴
29.10.2025 02:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dr. Allie Sinclair, a 2019 DIBS Germinator award winner! Co-advised by @ralisonadcock.bsky.social and Greg Samanez-Larkin at the time, soon to be Asst Prof at Rice. Proud to see it!
16.10.2025 22:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New work from Henry Yin and colleagues at Duke indicates we need to reconsider the role of VTA dopamine circuits in behavior!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
