Seán Froudist-Walsh

Seems like a dream postdoc opportunity! Such a cool project, team and city

We go around the room with 5 questions.
1) What did you like about the paper?
2) What did you learn?
3) What would you like to understand better?
4) What would you like to see to improve the paper?
5) What ideas did this spark for your research?

🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience!!!

Join @seanfw.bsky.social and myself at @tcddublin.bsky.social for a PhD at the intersection of cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience (OPM-MEG) and neuro-AI.
🗓 Deadline: 5 Feb 2026

#neurojobs #neuroscience #compneuro

Come do your PhD with me and @ktsetsos.bsky.social ! It's such an exciting time for cognitive and computational neuroscience at @tcddublin.bsky.social . And in this PhD you get to do both!

A thousand times yes. You can’t publish 40 papers a year and have thought at all deeply about each one. And you can’t run a massive, impersonal lab and produce happy researchers who want to stay in science. The work and the workers suffer. Do less, better!

Great opportunity to apply for a (permanent - grade 7) lab manager role in cognitive neuroscience at Oxford. Come and build your career in the beautiful new Life and Mind Building. Deadline this Friday!

I'm not up-to-date there, sorry!

Excited to share our new study showing how subcortical inputs are routed through ventromedial (VM) thalamus to layer 1 interneurons in the medial PFC, all done by my graduate student Sanne Casello:
sannemcasello.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Functional connectivity drifts during sleep as a marker of fluctuations in the level of consciousness Abstract. During the wake–sleep cycle, consciousness waxes and wanes, and this is thought to be reflected in varying levels of integration between brain ar

We recently did just that to validate a method to measure functional inter-area interactions, and it worked like a charm (academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...). It also puts the model results appear early in the story (in our case, in fig 3 of a 11-fig paper).

⏳ Just over 2 weeks left to apply! ⏳

We are looking for talented Cognitive Neuroscientists to join our team at Trinity College Dublin for postdoc positions funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV296/r...

www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0...

Merci beaucoup Ulysse! Et bon voyage!

Can't wait!

Thanks, it was great to visit

Wanna compare dynamics across neural data, RNNs, or dynamical systems? We got a fast and furious method🏎️
The 1st preprint of my PhD 🥳 fast dynamical similarity analysis (fastDSA):
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2511.22828
💻: github.com/CMC-lab/fast...
I’ll be @cosynemeeting.bsky.social - happy to chat 😉

Haha! Hope all's well bud

Thanks Erin!!!

Thanks Mariam!!!!

Thanks Joao! Just needed a little time to reflect on Bristol, and let the move sink in. I'm definitely still super excited about our field and I want to contribute to it with academic freedom. I don't see that changing any time soon. Hope to catch you in the coming months.

My new gig is PI of the CANN group at Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford (50/50). Funded by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, we'll be recruiting postdocs, PhDs and an RA in Dublin and Oxford soon. So exciting! @oxcin.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @tcdscss.bsky.social

Toy models, just in time for Christmas!

Excited to share my first article for @thetransmitter.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

Photo of James McAllister from Ulster University giving a presentation on his work on brain-inspired reservoir computing

Lovely time today at the 2nd All-Ireland Computational Neuroscience Symposium at Queens U Belfast. It's a small but growing community on the island. imo the talks were all genuinely great and I'm really excited for the future

Round 3 back in Dublin next August apparently if anyone wants to join! ☘️🧠

A theory of multi-task computation and task selection Neural activity during the performance of a stereotyped behavioral task is often described as low-dimensional, occupying only a limited region in the space of all firing-rate patterns. This region has...

1/X Excited to present this preprint on multi-tasking, with
@david-g-clark.bsky.social and Ashok Litwin-Kumar! Timely too, as “low-D manifold” has been trending again. (If you read thru the end, we escape Flatland and return to the glorious high-D world we deserve.) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#cognitive #neuroscience friends! Take a look at the @fens.org call for abstracts below #FENS2026. It would be fantastic to see friends from around the globe in #Barcelona next year, so if you are planning to attend, please let me know!

Thanks Rui, it was fantastic having you and your team on the same corridor for a year and a bit. Looking forward to many more interactions and collaborations going forward.

Go raibh míle maith agat, a Chon — you’re the best. The Godfather of Irish Computational Neuroscience. Táim fíorbhuíoch díot

I will keep an honorary appointment to finish supervising students, and the odd guest lecture. But, seemingly suddenly, this chapter is closing. Thanks for a great experience!

Lastly, we put down a strategy to improve education for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, global majority and those with mental health problems. I am hopeful it will be a step to meaningful positive changes. I learned from many but none more than the great Caroline Higgins & Chris Bell

A big thanks also to super support from Research Director Eddie Wilson, without whom I surely wouldn't have been successful in fellowships, and Helmut Hauser, who reminded me that healthy productivity is something we are allowed to openly aim for.

Cognitive Artificial Intelligence 2024/2025 - YouTube

I'm proud our Cognitive AI module was so popular and appreciated by the students. That was possible due to super TA Ash Thrivikraman, mentoring by Cameron Hall, and amazing Professional support by Jess Sowton www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

And to my main collaborators @panastasiades.bsky.social and mentor Matt Jones. I think the Neuroscience Seminars (with @dalmaijer.bsky.social), Trainee Lunches, Journal Clubs, and joint lab meetings really contributed to a vibrant culture. I can't wait to build our collaborations going forward