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Please repost: another kind of Black-Friday deal!

It’s not too late to apply for the PhD position in my lab! Please send your documents (cover letter, CV, transcripts, names of references) through the official application platform by Nov 25!

A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...

This is 🤯

All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.

#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping

A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...

Come be my colleague! The Wu Tsai Institute at Yale has two faculty searches ongoing:
- One in computational cognitive science (due Dec 1)
- One in neurodevelopment (rolling)

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New preprint! V4 responds to mid-level features that facilitate object recognition from fragments when visual information is sparse.
This study points to possible alternative stimulation sites for cortical prostheses to restore vision. @bogdandraganski.bsky.social @antoinelutti.bsky.social

Psychedelics muddy fMRI results: Q&A with Adam Bauer and Jonah Padawer-Curry The drugs disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help…

Psychedelics disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...

Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428

I nicked this book from the bedside table of my in-laws guestroom years ago and finally, recently read it in depth. It’s a bit dated now but it does trace the road taken since in consciousness and self studies. Recommend (glad I stole it)!

Stellenangebot Postdoctoral Researcher (PostDoc m/f) 100% Translational Psychiatry Lab for 2 Years bei Universitäre Psychiatrische Kliniken Basel UPK Forschung in Klinik für Erwachsene (UPKE)

Please share: Postdoc position available in a new collaborative SNSF project with @georgkeller.bsky.social at @fmiscience.bsky.social using a cross-species approach in humans and mice to investigate the cortical circuit mechanisms underlying schizophrenia. Apply at karriere.upk.ch/Postdoctoral...

Probabilistic processing: Possible, probable, or preposterous? A dialectical essay Does the brain operate probabilistically, or are probabilistic models merely useful tools for approximating brain function? This dialectical essay add…

New paper out with David Pascucci! We hash out our opposing views on the probabilistic nature of perception and cognition are probabilistic. It was a very rewarding undertaking: the challenge of disagreement coupled with the satisfaction some consensus. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thank you for reading the piece. What’s odd is it isn’t/wasn’t actually traumatic but it is a reference point in my life.

Here’s a first person account of the 1997 military coup that erupted in Freetown, Sierra Leone. I’m grateful to the Michigan Quarterly Review for publishing my essay and letting me share it with you. Now available to read in full:
llouedkhen.github.io/Blue%20Skies...

📷PhD Position in Computational Neuroscience and AI, Moreno-Bote Lab, Barcelona.

1 fully funded PhD position is available. Deadline November 2025. See post below.

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259...

I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

Our neuroscience department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience who works in "areas such as artificial intelligence, convolutional neural networks, reinforcement learning, decision making, memory, computational modeling, cognitive and neural processing".

Me too!

How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA

What in the PLUR is this story??? www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Our new preprint is out!
People made risky decisions about pain for others. They were more cautious, more generous, and systematically overestimated others' pain. In the brain, pain risk tracked with responses in the dorsal striatum, with a higher response for others' han to one's self.

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods

Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

Good! fMRIpower has been offline for a while I think, so it’s good to have a replacement.

Yes, same…

Hmm the nerd is strong in this one, thank you for the interesting read. Also did not know Zohran was Ismaili (not that it matters.)

How exciting!!!

The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

🚨 CE PhD/Postdoc Opportunity!

Prof. Charley Wu and the Human & Machine Cognition Lab are looking for PhDs & Postdoc to join their ERC project "C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture" at TU Darmstadt.

3 PhD positions: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

👀 The whole brain 7T "natural scenes dataset" now has mental imagery data!

NSD-Imagery: A Benchmark Dataset for Extending fMRI Vision Decoding Methods to Mental Imagery

Conference paper:
goo.gl/scholar/wPx1HJ

Dataset:
naturalscenesdataset.org

Dog-sled going past the Le Château Montebello.

Main public room in Le Château Montebello decorated for Christmas. The building is the world's largest "log cabin".

Le Château Montebello is situated on the banks of the Ottawa river, separating Quebec and Ontario.

Group photo the school of 2018 at the Winter school on the Neuroscience of Consciousness

CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost.
cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪

Please spread the word!

Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks.
If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply!

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (276920) | University of Bergen Job title: LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (276920), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, May 11, 2025

I just learned that there is an open postdoc position for AI in Psychology with us. The deadline is in two days, but if you are interested and willing to write a quick proposal, let me know. Potential topics: comp. modeling of VWM/perception, brain decoding.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.