Ben Kanter

Congrats Juan!!

Congrats Flavio!!

🧠📢 New preprint alert

Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵

#neuroskyence #compneurosky

Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year:

www.gao-unit.com/join-us/

If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!

I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮

Lots of great quotes in here, thanks for sharing.

No, chatbots are not scientists I can’t believe I need to write this, but apparently, I do. Many journals and preprint sites are now overwhelmed with chatbot-generated submissions. This is bad, but at least it gets characterized …

No, chatbots are not scientists
romainbrette.fr/no-chatbots-...

Totally agree. I'm glad it's out but had similar concerns as the reviewers (for version 1).

Also a great summary here of some of the latest from @edvardmoser.bsky.social and @m-bmoser.bsky.social 's lab! Featuring: @martipof.bsky.social @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social @azvollan.bsky.social et al

New paper from the lab, "Perceiving Event Structure in Brief Actions," now out in Cognitive Psychology :)

Led by the inimitable Zekun Sun

This was my lab's first foray into event cognition

gift link: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues!
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hippocampal Drift Rate Reflects the Temporal Organization of Memories When freely recalling past events, individuals tend to successively remember stimuli that were studied close together in time—a phenomenon known as temporal clustering. Temporal clustering is thought ...

How do changes in context influence how we organize our memories in time?

Faster contextual changes are associated with faster drift in hippocampal activity and reduced temporal clustering in recalled memories.

Elegant work led by @lindsayrait.bsky.social!

www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Thanks, Adrian! I’m excited to be starting a lab at the University of Utah (theluolab.org)!

We’re recruiting at all levels.

If you’re excited about neural computation, large-scale multi-region recordings, and machine learning, let’s talk!

And yes, the mountains are as incredible as they say!

Last reminder - come say hi! QQ14
#sfn25

Hey #sfn25, come check out QQ14 tomorrow morning (Wednesday) where I'll be presenting @clykken.bsky.social 's poster showing how the rigid structure of grid cells can be recombined to create flexible place cell maps in the hippocampus! Would love to hear what you think :)

QQ14: Lykken et al. show that differential phase shifts between grid cell modules may form the basis for the orthogonalization of downstream hippocampal spatial codes during remapping. @clykken.bsky.social

Still at SfN on the last day? During the morning session on the 19th, 8:00AM - 12:00PM, come check out our posters from the Moser, Zong, and Gonzalo Cogno groups in row QQ ('Grid cells and spatially modulated cells'). Ephys, imaging, remapping, development, sweeps and more! 🧠
Detailed thread below 👇

Sosa Lab - Postdoctoral Researchers We are seeking postdocs to start in 2026!

The Sosa Lab is going to #SfN25 and actively recruiting ✨postdocs✨ with systems neuroscience experience! We study both fundamental memory processes and how memory changes during pregnancy and postpartum.

If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...

LLMs get a lot of attention but if you are interested in the original (allegedly) stochastic parrots come to my poster Tuesday where I will present new work on the natural vocal behavior or parrots and its cortical control #Sfn2025 #SfN25

If you are interested I suggest reading the excellent review by David Robbe @davidrobbe.bsky.social, in which he acknowledges the pioneering work of the philosopher Henri Bergson, who introduced the concept of 'la durée' to distinguish between experienced and measured time doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...

The changes we experience may be the source of our subjective experience of time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience The study of foraging is central to a renewed interest in naturalistic behavior in neuroscience. Applying a foraging framework grounded in behavioral …

Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience

From the amazing @lauragrima.bsky.social and colleagues - definitely looking forward to reading this!

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions The brain constantly generates predictions based on one’s knowledge of the world, as captured in memory. When these predictions are in error, our know…

How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions

Looks interesting, from Groves et al

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.

Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#blueprint 1/7

Big husky staring into the camera, looking peaceful. Nose is very boop-able.

So tough. Bowie is here for you.

3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.

🚨Job alert🚨

The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour

This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909

Very cool! Well deserved. And great timing for me to include tomorrow when presenting this paper at our institute journal club :)

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

Super cool! Congratulations

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!

We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

Congrats Shaked!! Looks great 😎

I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island.

doi.org/10.1126/sci...

With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others