Mark Laubach

I'm recruiting a PhD student to study how enkephalins affect cognitive processing in the rodent frontal cortex. The project uses pharmacology, multi-electrode recordings, and fiber photometry, and is funded by NIDA. Please share with trainees applying this cycle. Thanks!

DeepOF Visit the post for more.

DeepOF (Deep Open Field) processes DeepLabCut/SLEAP data using supervised and unsupervised annotation pipelines and using SHAP for interpretability.

Read about it in this month's post on OpenBehavior:
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#OpenSource #Neuroscience #DeepLearning

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

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Any thoughts on journals that publish reviews in neuroscience that don't cost 4K?

Thrilled to finally share good news on a new grant for my lab! It has been a long wait after the grant received an outstanding score back in March from the NMB study section and was approved by council in early May. Anyway... time to get on it! :-)

If you have any questions about the position, the department, or the university, please don't hesitate to reach out to me at mark.laubach@american.edu or here by DM.

We seek a computational or theoretical researcher with expertise in topics such as learning, decision making, and state-space models of cognitive processing.

The Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15:
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#FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry

So we’re doing something about it.

I’m hosting a special edition of the New PI Success Workshop w/ @glia-leadership.bsky.social—specifically for folks who are starting their labs in the middle of all this uncertainty. And others who also need support.

You deserve support. Not just pressure.

Thanks to Jensen's dissertation committee: David Kearns, Yogita Chudasama, and Fany Messanvi, and to other members of our lab who collaborated on the work: Samantha White, Kevin Chavez Lopez, and Jason Blackmer.

Congratulations to Dr. Jensen Palmer, who successfully defended her dissertation today! She will be first-author on four papers on the computational and neural basis of decision making. We'll miss her and wish her all the best in her future endeavors.

Our latest post highlights a simple, open-source #Arduino device developed by Jason Blackmer from the Laubach Lab that displays trial numbers in your video recordings. It makes finding trials a breeze!

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#OpenScience #Neuroscience #LabHacks

PhD Position: Interdisciplinary Study of Endocannabinoid Stress Buffering in Humans (282518) | University of Oslo Job title: PhD Position: Interdisciplinary Study of Endocannabinoid Stress Buffering in Humans (282518), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, July 9, 2025

My brilliant collaborator @marieeikemo.bsky.social is hiring!

Do your PhD in an excellent interdisciplinary group & be my colleague in lovely Oslo

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This week's post on OpenBehavior reviews our posts over the years on #opensource tools for neural recordings & analysis, including a motorized swivel, Pynapple, & Open Ephys. #Neuroscience #Electrophysiology #OpenScience

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The New York Knicks advance to the Eastern Conference Finals!

#NBAPlayoffs presented by Google

This summer, we're working on documenting setups and protocols for using popular tools such as SLEAP, Bonsai, & ArUco marker tracking. You can read about our plans in this week's post and stay tuned for updates over the summer! #OpenScience #Neuroscience

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Bell Jar is a desktop application for semi-automated histology analysis that includes routines for serial alignment, marker detection, and integration with the Allen reference atlas. Read about it in this week's post on OpenBehavior. #opensource #neuroscience

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Still looking to fill this position. Do any of my moots have any suggestions for someone nice & smart who can combine opto, ephys, & signal processing?

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Canada Excellence Research Chair Positions Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

Come join us at @westernuresearch.bsky.social as a Canada Excellence Research Chair! DM me with questions/interest about theme 2! Be a part of a strong and well-equipped (e.g., imaging, behaviour) neuroscience community! uwo.ca/research/cer... @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social

It's that time of the year again. #stem #finals #AI h/t Blue Laubach

STPoseNet combines YOLOv8 with innovative timing & Kalman filtering for real-time, accurate mouse pose estimation with minimal labeling. Check it out:

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This week on OpenBehavior! 📢 A review of impactful open-source devices for measuring behavior in the homecage. Learn about FED, PiDose, LIQ HD, & more!

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#OpenScience #Neuroscience

Distributed Activity in the Medial Frontal Cortex Predicts Self-Initiated Action Research indicates that significant damage to primates’ medial frontal cortex (MFC) can impede action initiation when anticipating rewards. However, the specific roles within the MFC related to self-g...

Cool new study from Pierre Pouget's lab : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Want to measure behavior in freely moving animals? We've rounded up some of the most interesting and impactful open-source devices available. Check out this week's post on OpenBehavior for details and links! #OpenSource #Neuroscience

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Exciting new results from the lab -- *visual* receptive fields in motor and cingulate cortex! Great work from Tony Lien 🧠🧪

Open-source tools are changing the way we measure behavior in neuroscience. We explore some of the most impactful projects, from fluid consumption to vaporized drug delivery, in this week's post on OpenBehavior. #OpenHardware #DIYResearch

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ArUco Markers Visit the post for more.

ArUco markers help automate animal behavior scoring. They are open-source and 3D printable. Read about them in this week's post on OpenBehavior:

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#neuroscience #openscience #behavior

In leu of NIH cuts at Columbia, many folks are asking why aren't universities using endowment funds to support the research mission of their faculty scientists?

Inspired by @jeremymberg.bsky.social bluetorials here are a few of the reasons that is not a sustainable option

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Meso-Py Visit the post for more.

Interested in the neural mechanisms of social behavior? Check out Meso-Py! This Raspberry Pi based platform allows for simultaneous calcium imaging in two mice during social interactions. #neuroscience #opensource #socialbehavior

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New ms! We’ve long hypothesized that different groups of neurons in OFC are the building blocks of a decision circuit. We now show that this circuit has a laminar architecture.
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