David J. Herzfeld
dherzneuro.bsky.social
David J. Herzfeld
@dherzneuro.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at UW-Madison | herzfeldlab.neuro.wisc.edu | Views are my own
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Of potential interest to those keen on motor control and/or multi-task networks. Congrats to Elom and Eric.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Motor cortex flexibly deploys a high-dimensional repertoire of subskills
Skilled movement often requires flexibly combining multiple subskills, each requiring dedicated control strategies and underlying computations. How the motor system achieves such versatility remains u...
www.biorxiv.org
September 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Reposted by David J. Herzfeld
The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to west@neuro.duke.edu.
July 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control — a Review by Katrina P. Nguyen & Abigail L. Person

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroscience #neuroskyence
Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The cerebellum helps ensure the speed and accuracy of movements, but its precise contributions to movement control are unclear. Nguyen and Person here evaluate evidence for and against feedforward mot...
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June 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
My established scientists, two incredibly "new PI" questions:

1. How do you figure out how many people to hire/can hire? What's the math based on $ in account and when those $ expire?

2. How do you figure out your ratio of techs, grad students, and post-docs? Is it project or budget based?
June 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Reposted by David J. Herzfeld
POSTDOC JOB OPENING. My lab at @mossresearch.bsky.social has an opening for a postdoc fellow to work with @aaronlwong.bsky.social and me on an NSF-funded research program studying mechanisms of sensory plasticity that accompany adaptive motor learning. The full posting is below. Please share!
April 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Come work with us! Amanda is a fantastic advisor, and we have some really exciting studies planned!
POSTDOC JOB OPENING. My lab at @mossresearch.bsky.social has an opening for a postdoc fellow to work with @aaronlwong.bsky.social and me on an NSF-funded research program studying mechanisms of sensory plasticity that accompany adaptive motor learning. The full posting is below. Please share!
April 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Reposted by David J. Herzfeld
Are you an ambitious scientist or engineer?
Do you want to do hard engineering that will transform lives and advance science?
Come join us to build next-generation neurotechnology at Integral.
March 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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I am very proud to announce that my PhD paper finally came out in Cell! In this *very* collaborative study, we develop and release a deep-learning approach to predict neuron type identity from their electrical signature. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 1/16 🧵
March 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We are very excited to see our collaborative paper on classification of neuron types in the cerebellum (across species!) now published in Cell.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

This was a huge project, spanning multiple labs - across continents - and a huge team effort!
A deep learning strategy to identify cell types across species from high-density extracellular recordings
We constructed a deep learning classifier that solves the problem of neuron-type identification from simultaneous extracellular recordings of many neurons. The classifier was trained on a ground-truth...
www.cell.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I'm thrilled to share our new *NIH funded* paper (doi.org/10.1101/2025...) describing the circuit-level computations performed by the cerebellum during eye movements in primates. (1/6)
Neural circuit mechanisms to transform cerebellar population dynamics for motor control in monkeys
We exploit identification of neuron types during extracellular recording to demonstrate how the cerebellar cortex's well-established architecture transforms inputs into outputs. During smooth pursuit ...
doi.org
February 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Strategies to decipher neuron identity from extracellular recordings in the cerebellum of behaving non-human primates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.29.634860v1
January 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Excited to share a new preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) where we describe methods for identifying cerebellar neuron types from extracellular recordings in NHPs. With knowledge of the circuit and some new insights, we can establish neuron type for a large fraction of recorded neurons. (1/4)
Strategies to decipher neuron identity from extracellular recordings in the cerebellum of behaving non-human primates
Identification of neuron type is critical to understand computation in neural circuits through extracellular recordings in awake, behaving animal subjects. Yet, modern recording probes have limited po...
www.biorxiv.org
January 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
New preprint! A collaborative effort of multiple labs showing the ability to link extracellular recordings to underlying neuron identities (using the cerebellum as an example). Really excited to see how others can use these methods to gain a deeper understanding of how circuits link to behavior!
February 1, 2024 at 8:29 PM
My Neuroscience Dept. at Rutgers is hiring! Join a growing, diverse, and supportive community to do great science with great people!
rwjms.rutgers.edu/departments/...
#Neuroskyence
October 20, 2023 at 8:19 PM
My department (MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences) is hiring a tenure-track faculty! We're especially interested in researchers who span multiple levels of analysis. Candidates from underrepresented backgrounds strongly encouraged to apply. Apply by November 1! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25916
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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October 20, 2023 at 4:37 PM
I left Twitter (X?) a long time ago - even before Musk - as I thought the conversations were getting a bit toxic. BUT - Twitter was incredibly useful for faculty job openings/notifications! Hoping bluesky fills this void, and is a bit more pleasant than the Twitter craziness. 🤞
October 16, 2023 at 3:04 PM