Simon W Davis

We’re hiring! Pls share widely:

In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred.

Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

Whole-brain functional connectivity predicts regional tau PET in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease Abuwarda et al. demonstrate that whole brain functional connectivity predicts regional tau tracer binding in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Their models

Hamid Abuwarda's paper showing that we can use the functional connectome to predict focal tau binding in preclinical Alzheimer's disease is out today!
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The Charles G. Drake Chair in Neurosurgery Research @westernu.ca . Applications now open.

Evidence for dlPFC contribution to #memory suppression using #TMS! Now accepted @jocn.bsky.social. Great team effort and collaboration with Gesa Hartwigsen’s lab @mpicbs.bsky.social‬. We also had an exemplary experience at the journal with editors @barense.bsky.social‬ & @bradpostle.bsky.social‬.

lovely thread describing our new paper on why temporal order affects people's causal judgments!

beyond finding the research cool, I also hope you'll appreciate our pretty plots (courtesy of ggdist / @mjskay.com)

Lundbeck Foundation Postdoc Grant – Type 2 Overview (2025 Call) Lundbeck Foundation Postdoc Grant – Type 2 Overview (2025 Call) Who: Researchers currently based outside Denmark who wish to move and conduct postdoctoral research at a Danish institution. Applicants ...

Are you an ECR in the US? Thinking about moving to Europe? If you work on computational psychiatry, neuroscience, metacognition, or brain-body interaction, I’d love to support your application for a Lundbeck Fellowship to join our group this fall.

Key details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Congratulations!!! 🎊

Dissecting human cortical similarity networks across the lifespan Liang et al. characterize the lifespan maturation of human cortical morphometric networks (0–80 years, 33,937 participants), revealing distinct trajectories between sensory and association cortices. T...

Everything Gaolang Gong touches is magic.

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when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

For early career researchers in our community - this is invaluable. Info here:
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This is really cool. They present a very comprehensive theoretical, neural, and computational model for how information transforms across the cortex.

University of Michigan Psychology is hiring and invites applications for a tenure-track open rank faculty position, leveraging the latest generative AI models and methods in studying human cognition. apply.interfolio.com/169170

Consequences will not be felt today, but 5 year, 10 years down the road, when you're diagnosed with cancer, and you need a new clinical trial to hop onto, or a new drug to let you watch your grandkids grow up, they won't exist. Why would anyone choose to side with cancer against humanity? 🧪

Ok, reinforcement learning fans: RL is great, but what do we do when there's no obvious reward from the environment? What about perfecting a golf swing or a foxtrot or a musical performance? We may have an answer. A tale of 🐦 🎶 + 🧠. 🧵1/ #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #neuroai #compneuro

Super happy to share our new preprint! 🥳
An exciting adventure with the fantastic @ivanpadezhki.bsky.social ki.bsky.social, and my first time as senior co-author together with @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

So happy this is finally out! Despite Covid delays and thanks to persistence by @arimoccia.bsky.social + the helpful reviewers

Starting to uncover how memory cues and goals interact - with implications for how we understand memory reconstruction during retrieval

Detecting dementia earlier With $4 million grant, UC Irvine researcher seeks to develop inexpensive assessment of cognitive ability

Detecting dementia earlier | With $4 million grant, UC Irvine cognitive scientist Aaron Bornstein seeks to develop inexpensive assessment of cognitive ability

@ucirvine.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Undergraduate Summer Research Programs – UCLA Brain Research Institute (BRI) The UCLA Brain Research Institute (BRI) sponsors a summer undergraduate research experience (BRISURE) pathway program for students currently participating in the Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) and other honors research programs whose goal is to increase diversity. This program solicits applications from students from universities and colleges across the nation. BRISURE is an 8-week, intensive summer research training program for exceptional students interested in pursuing research careers in Neuroscience or Physiology.

We’re always looking for ways to support our summer #neuroscience research internship experiences. Please reach out if you know of folks that would like to contribute to it in any way bri.ucla.edu/undergraduat...

Speaking only for my own experience, bad idea.

That intro paragraph in a review, LLM-able as it is, is the beginning of understanding the main import (dataset, hypothesis, findings) of the work. Identifying reasonable errors and deficits (and solutions) stem from that basic understanding.

Trump's Budget Chief Is About To Go Rogue On Massive Spending Cuts Russ Vought said to expect more massive spending cuts because Trump is "not cowing to a legislative branch’s understanding of its own authorities and powers."

i think it is bad that the president's budget director thinks congress is an advisory body and that the constitution is a set of recommendations www.huffpost.com/entry/russ-v...

At this point, I might as well --
Here's an infographic showing different ways to include age as a predictor. The top shows two extremes, just as a plain old numerical predictor (imposes linear trajectory) vs. categorical predictor (imposes nothing whatsoever). And then three solutions in between!

Sinclair Lab The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

Excited to share my new lab website!

The Learning & Behavior Change Lab will launch at Rice in July 2026. I’ll be recruiting over the next year! @ricesocsci.bsky.social

www.sinclairlab-rice.com

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Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call.

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Postdoc Fellows The CTCN funds a cohort of outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows to work at the interface between theoretical and experimental labs and help forge new collaborations. Application deadline August 1st, 20…

The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU is recruiting postdoctoral fellows. The Center offers a unique opportunity to craft a transdisciplinary research program with an unusual degree of independence.

ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...

don't be fooled that this NIH effort is only about NOFO - listen to minute 21-22 "they are working tirelessly" to "phase out" "existing" funding www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvk...

On Monday, Ann S. Bowers WBHI Director Emily Jacobs, PhD, testified for AB-432, California’s Menopause Care Equity Act. Updates are coming soon! More info about AB-432 here: bit.ly/ab-432menopa... #womenshealth #brainhealth

They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them The government is going to destroy unions if we don't fight now.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...

Each passing week reinforces the conclusion that if the labor movement is going to prove its value to federal workers it’s going to be in the streets, not in court.

YouTube video by UCI CNLM 2025 Distinguished Lecture on Brain, Learning and Memory featuring Michael Yassa

Nice general audience talk that manages to make a discussion on excitation/inhibition balance and its relationship to AD fun and insightful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjKX...