Jennifer Groh

Tenure track faculty position at UNC !!

Rare hard money gig. Emory and ATL neuroscience community are excellent.

NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.

“It’s hard to know if I should close down my existing projects and/or redouble my efforts writing new grant applications,” Joshua Jacobs, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, told @thetransmitter.bsky.social.

By Natalia Mesa

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Good time to be slashing science funding to near-zero levels, amirite?

Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Congrats!

To everyone interested in mental health: why not you?

NIMH is looking for a new director - please encourage interested candidates to apply - deadline 10/6/25. Please share!
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I am leading a workshop tonight for students in my department on how to apply for the NSF GRFP, but have not received answers from NSF to my questions about whether they are still funding applications in neuroscience and cognitive science, etc. If anyone has info please let me know.
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Tenure track position in Psychology at UW-Madison — CogSci or comp neurosci with an AI emphasis, broadly construed. Apply!

Bummer!

Yes that has happened to me too - so (a) is not used much in the end

“Duke University School of Medicine” logo above a line with “Discovery AI” logo

Duke is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in AI/ML for Biology—joint Discovery AI Initiative × Cell Biology Search. Building models for protein design, single-cell/spatial omics, imaging, proteomics, genomics? Apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30509
#hiring #AIforBio #CompBio

Duke Cell Biology is hiring in AI/ML! @scottsoderling.bsky.social, @rohitsingh8080.bsky.social, and others are building a very active community around ML for discovery science, and Duke is a great place to be.

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i have filters set up that sort my email into roughly three categories: a) family/lab - the only people who might need me urgently; b) dept and uni mailing list stuff; c) everything else. In theory I read a) the most often, then c), then b). In practice, what Dan said.

Good good! And working on ensuring reciprocal connections are in the anatomical diagrams in the OUP Neuroscience textbook myself!

Agree, Ben, about connections better than cytoarchitecture, but even connections aren't that meaningful as long as the time windows we use for analysis span the time needed for multiple 2 ms long synapse crossings. Typical analysis windows of 100-500 ms are mismatched to that temporal grain

The larger problem is the textbooks frame things in a "X does Y" kind of way. It's very hard to get people to envision a dynamic, reverberant, reciprocally interconnected system and what that will mean for where signals of different types can be observed...I don't have a good answer for this...

Yes exactly!

I feel so much better about peer review in the years since @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social was started. Peer reviewers are no longer able to act as de facto censors. Abuses can be more easily shrugged off

Stay strong

Detection of Spatially Localized Sounds Is Robust to Saccades and Concurrent Eye Movement-Related Eardrum Oscillations (EMREOs) Hearing is an active process, and recent studies show that even the ear is affected by cognitive states or motor actions. One example are movements of the eardrum induced by saccadic eye movements, kn...

Some nice work by Felix Bröhl and Christoph Kayser argues against the saccadic suppression possibility. Not sure if either of them are on here? www.jneurosci.org/content/43/4...

I certainly think it should be! Will start working on the 8th edition of "Neuroscience" (Oxford) soon and you are def motivating me to put it in :-)

We think the eye movement effect is adaptive - we see it in every normal participant, it's nearly the same in monkeys as humans, and it's just a very clean signal - lovely to work with!

So I think both attention and eye movements affect the ear. The study you mentioned doesn't consider how eye movements might be different in the attention task, but there is later work that does control eye movements and still finds affects of attention in the ear. V. exciting!

I don't understand how this paper has under 200 citations. The implications are critical for our understanding of cross modal integration. This should be a whole area of research, exploring the time course, load effects, etc. There's a whole series of careers lined up like tee balls here.

Screenshot of my current OAE/attention endnote reference list, haven't added to it for a while. Some (all?) of the references with my former collaborator David W Smith controlled eye fixation:

So I think both attention and eye movements affect the ear. The study you mentioned doesn't consider how eye movements might be different in the attention task, but there is later work that does control eye movements and still finds affects of attention in the ear. V. exciting!

Will respond more fully tomorrow!