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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience The Barnard Visua...

🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

it's not just Tucson.

sorry i don't understand the question. i didn't say getting more private funding is a bad thing. i was just stating what's gonna happen.

from the docs now available online, it may seem like Epstein was especially interested in consciousness.

but i don't think that's true. rather, perhaps consciousness science was especially interested in Epstein.

Forecasting the Brain: Scalable Neural Prediction with POCO - Kempner Institute Predicting future neural activity is a critical step toward achieving real-time, closed-loop neurotechnologies. To this end, we introduce POCO, a unified forecasting model trained on diverse calcium i...

🧠📈A new foundation model for #neuroscience! In the latest Deeper Learning blog, @duranrin.bsky.social and @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social describe their state-of-the-art POCO model, which accurately forecasts neural dynamics across individuals and species.

bit.ly/4afqx5A #NeuroAI #neuroscience

tenure in 4 years!! this is so ridiculous. i'll post something about this tomorrow.....

it may be difficult to contemplate the significance of this

Kennedy Makes Unfounded Claim That Keto Diet Can ‘Cure’ Schizophrenia

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#publichealth
#neuroskyence
Schizophrenia is among the most refractory and devastating of all brain diseases. It makes me furious to hear this sorry ass excuse of an HHS secretary peddle this bullshit. False hope and misdirected resources. Eejit.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

To all the non-academics who don't understand the point of academic freedom and don't care to learn about it, let me give you a factor you might care about:

Tenure is the biggest reason you get my services at a steep discount over my private sector value.

Event representation in Pavlovian conditioning: Image and action In a typical Pavlovian conditioning experiment, a relatively insignificant event, the conditioned stimulus (CS), is paired with a biologically more me…

I hear imagination in nonhuman animals is making news today! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The visual world is composed of objects, and those objects are composed of features. But do VLMs exploit this compositional structure when processing multi-object scenes? In our 🆒🆕 #ICLR2026 paper, we find they do – via emergent symbolic mechanisms for visual binding. 🧵👇

Do you know someone whose work in molecular neurobiology is changing the way we understand cognitive processes?

Help recognize their contributions to the field by nominating them for the $100,000 Peter Seeburg Prize!

🔗 vist.ly/4qg6s

#neurosky #neuroskyence

Concerns About Theorizing, Relevance, Generalizability, and Methodology Across Two Crises in Social Psychology | International Review of Social Psychology During two crises in social psychology, the first from the 1960s to the end of the 1970s, and the second starting in 2010 and still ongoing, researchers discussed the strength of theories in the…

Most researchers are unaware that the concerns about strength of theories, methodology, and lack of generalizability led to a crisis in the 60's and 70's as well. Nothing changed then, and history is a good teacher for why nothing is likely to change this time around doi.org/10.5334/irsp...

📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers!

WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...

Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525

#KnowTogether

Python for Computational Science Week Dedicate time for self-study 7-15 Feb 2026 Give yourself one focused week. Your future self will thank you.

Students, brush up your Python for #CompNeuro, #Deep Learning, #NeuroAI & Comp Tools for #ClimateScience courses!

Self-paced, 7–15 Feb, with community support on Reddit.

➡️ Take the pledge: airtable.com/appIQSZMZ0Jx...

#PythonWeek #ComputationalScience #Neuromatch

Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor Tesla’s nascent robotaxi program is off to a rough start. New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of...

New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car.

Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX.

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Great article by @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social .

Also: the leaded gas ban also coincided with the most incredible decrease in violent crime ever recorded in America.

More on that here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2...

Pharmacological enhancement of fear extinction Pharmacological agents theorized to modulate fear extinction could enhance treatments for anxiety and trauma-related disorders, but fear conditioning and treatment studies testing these agents often yield null or conflicting results. We review principles of extinction learning relevant to the design of studies that test pharmacological enhancements of extinction. We then critically review the methodologies of existing studies for three pharmacological agents [d-cycloserine (DCS), glucocorticoids (GCs), and L-DOPA] with respect to key learning principles. While each agent has promising support in rodent models, many human studies are not designed to adequately detect an agent’s effects on extinction learning. We provide specific recommendations, informed by these learning principles, for future study designs that may clarify whether, how, and under what conditions agents impact extinction.

Online Now: Pharmacological enhancement of fear extinction

Lesions Causing Aphantasia are Connected to the Fusiform Imagery Node The absence of visual mental imagery, called aphantasia, occurs congenitally in up to 3% of the general population, but the brain regions responsible for aphantasia remain uncertain. Rare cases of acq...

Happy to be part of this new paper analyzing lesion-induced aphantasia, now accepted in Cortex. One more reason to believe that the Fusiform Imagery Node is important for the conscious experience of mental imagery. Here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....

Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position The Department of Psychology at Western Washington University seeks applicants for a tenure track Assistant Professor position with expertise in applied cognitive psychology to begin September 16, 2026. This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology. The position is open with respect to area of expertise. Possible applied topics in cognitive psychology might include, but are not limited to: culture and cognition, memory, human-computer interaction, eyewitness memory, learning and education, aging, embodied cognition, social cognition, and judgment and decision-making concerning current social issues. We are seeking candidates who have experience with equitable and inclusive teaching, mentorship, and research practices and share a strong commitment to promoting the success of students from historically underrepresented groups. The candidate will have teaching experience commensurate with their career level. They will be required to teach courses at the undergraduate level in cognitive psychology and research methods and statistics. The candidate should also be prepared to teach a cognitive course in a master’s level program. Responsibilities also include establishing and maintaining an active research program that involves undergraduate and graduate students, as well as service activities as appropriate. Review of files will begin on February 18th, 2026. More information at: https://hr.wwu.edu/careers-faculty?job=502873

Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position at Western Washington University.

This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology.

Short 🧵 about this position. 1/?

Here is the link with details and for applying: hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

Nine subcortical/cerebellar atlases included in the subcortex_visualization Python package (and subcortexVisualizationR package in R). The atlases are depicted in two-dimensional vector graphic format.

The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)!

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...

Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she?

'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.'

From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

I have learned that after a successful career as sth like a CFO or CTO in pharma or finance, the next logical step for some men is to submit papers on consciousness directly to my inbox.

#philsky #philosophy #consci #cogsci #academicsky

When reading a line like "the glow of the flame briefly illuminated his face", most readers tend to build an image in their mind. 🧠
People with aphantasia, however, report that they do not. We wanted to know: Does this change how they physically read stories? (1/5)

Why emotion research is stuck—and how to move it forward Studying how organisms infer indirect threats and understand changing contexts can establish a common framework that bridges species and levels of analysis.

My perspective in @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why emotion research feels stuck and how we might move forward—by focusing on how the brain uses internal brain models to shape emotional processing across species. www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/why-...

Frontiers | Early Visual Processing of Feature Saliency Tasks: A Review of Psychophysical Experiments Visual attention has an undeniable impact on our perception. Human brain is unable to process all of the information it faces with in a scene so, the most sa...

Psychophysics to understand the visual cortex: frontiersin.org/journals/sys... - another paper by a great group from Tehran whose webpage is gone now.

Blown away. Future of super lightweight electrophysiological electronics for the brain? doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30,000: Local Officials According to two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health who spoke with TIME.

"As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll."

time.com/7357635/more...

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.

My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.