Jan Drugowitsch
@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social
Theoretical/Computational neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School | Algorithms and neural implementation of reasoning under uncertainty | Decision-making and navigation.
https://www.drugowitschlab.org/
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Jan Drugowitsch
@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social
· Sep 21
I am exited to visit @informatics.tuwien.ac.at as a Global Fellow from next week to mid-November 🇦🇹. If you're in Vienna and interested in meeting up to chat about science (or just say hi), please reach out - I’d love to connect with new colleagues and collaborators! #AcademicLife #Vienna
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Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience!
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Fellows Positions | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
CSHL Simons Fellow in NEUROSCIENCE Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is seeking to fill a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow position in the area of NEUROSCIENCE (experimental and/or computationa...
www.cshl.edu
October 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience!
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
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📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?
Two calls are open:
Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review
🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities
#KnowTogether
Two calls are open:
Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review
🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities
#KnowTogether
October 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?
Two calls are open:
Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review
🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities
#KnowTogether
Two calls are open:
Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review
🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities
#KnowTogether
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Come be our colleague at EPFL! Several open calls for positions 🧪🧠🤖
* Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1)
* Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1)
* Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
Faculty Position in Neuroscience
The School of Life Sciences at EPFL invites applications for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Neuroscience. At EPFL researchers develop and apply innovative technologies to understand br...
www.epfl.ch
September 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Come be our colleague at EPFL! Several open calls for positions 🧪🧠🤖
* Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1)
* Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1)
* Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
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University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology
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#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology
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Assistant Professor
jobs.colorado.edu
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology
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#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology
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I am exited to visit @informatics.tuwien.ac.at as a Global Fellow from next week to mid-November 🇦🇹. If you're in Vienna and interested in meeting up to chat about science (or just say hi), please reach out - I’d love to connect with new colleagues and collaborators! #AcademicLife #Vienna
September 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I am exited to visit @informatics.tuwien.ac.at as a Global Fellow from next week to mid-November 🇦🇹. If you're in Vienna and interested in meeting up to chat about science (or just say hi), please reach out - I’d love to connect with new colleagues and collaborators! #AcademicLife #Vienna
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📷PhD Position in Computational Neuroscience and AI, Moreno-Bote Lab, Barcelona.
1 fully funded PhD position is available. Deadline November 2025. See post below.
1 fully funded PhD position is available. Deadline November 2025. See post below.
September 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
📷PhD Position in Computational Neuroscience and AI, Moreno-Bote Lab, Barcelona.
1 fully funded PhD position is available. Deadline November 2025. See post below.
1 fully funded PhD position is available. Deadline November 2025. See post below.
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Underlying “Stay or Go” Choices
@naoshigeuchida.bsky.social
@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social
@malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...
@naoshigeuchida.bsky.social
@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social
@malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...
How Mice Make Foraging Decisions: Uchida Lab Reveals Neural Mechanism Underlying “Stay or Go” Choices - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
In a new study in Neuron (PDF), researchers from Naoshige Uchida’s MCB lab provide an unprecedented look at how the brain makes foraging decisions—choices between sticking with a […]
www.mcb.harvard.edu
September 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Underlying “Stay or Go” Choices
@naoshigeuchida.bsky.social
@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social
@malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...
@naoshigeuchida.bsky.social
@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social
@malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...
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Our paper on foraging is now published in Neuron! Read it here:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!
Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics
Bukwich and Campbell et al. show that mice integrate elapsed time and reward intake,
scaled by a latent patience variable, to decide when to leave virtual “patches.” Frontal
cortex ramping activity ma...
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Our paper on foraging is now published in Neuron! Read it here:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!
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How is the nervous system organized to coordinate behavior? To approach this massive question, a team led by @asbates.bsky.social, @jasper-tms.bsky.social, @mindyisminsu.bsky.social, & Helen Yang present the BANC: a Brain and Nerve Cord connectome.
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧪#Neuroskyence
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧪#Neuroskyence
August 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
How is the nervous system organized to coordinate behavior? To approach this massive question, a team led by @asbates.bsky.social, @jasper-tms.bsky.social, @mindyisminsu.bsky.social, & Helen Yang present the BANC: a Brain and Nerve Cord connectome.
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧪#Neuroskyence
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧪#Neuroskyence
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Public access to the first fly connectome that spans the whole CNS - BANC!: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord)
We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord)
We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
August 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Public access to the first fly connectome that spans the whole CNS - BANC!: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord)
We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord)
We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Happy Friday! The female adult fly brain-and-nerve-cord (BANC) connectome is now LIVE!
Explore the data here: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Explore the data here: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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August 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Happy Friday! The female adult fly brain-and-nerve-cord (BANC) connectome is now LIVE!
Explore the data here: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Explore the data here: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Heterogeneous neural tuning is observed all over the brain, but what is it for?
For a potential answer, check out our new pre-print at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1..., and @zachcohen1.bsky.social's post for an overview. #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #compneurosky
For a potential answer, check out our new pre-print at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1..., and @zachcohen1.bsky.social's post for an overview. #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #compneurosky
July 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Heterogeneous neural tuning is observed all over the brain, but what is it for?
For a potential answer, check out our new pre-print at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1..., and @zachcohen1.bsky.social's post for an overview. #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #compneurosky
For a potential answer, check out our new pre-print at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1..., and @zachcohen1.bsky.social's post for an overview. #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #compneurosky
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We have an open PhD position in an exciting @dfg.de - @ageinves.bsky.social project to further develop continuous psychophysics in collaboration with Joan-Lopez Moliner.
July 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We have an open PhD position in an exciting @dfg.de - @ageinves.bsky.social project to further develop continuous psychophysics in collaboration with Joan-Lopez Moliner.
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Hi folks — What federally-hosted data sets do you use for your research? Please reply below. I'm especially curious about more obscure .gov data sets that might be research critical for you.
(And I'm interested to hear about data sets in any domain, not just life sciences!)
(And I'm interested to hear about data sets in any domain, not just life sciences!)
July 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Hi folks — What federally-hosted data sets do you use for your research? Please reply below. I'm especially curious about more obscure .gov data sets that might be research critical for you.
(And I'm interested to hear about data sets in any domain, not just life sciences!)
(And I'm interested to hear about data sets in any domain, not just life sciences!)
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Despite some ups and downs at NIH, we do have an open position for a postbac and are considering candidates.
Our work is at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, and we aim to understand how the brain's densely connected recurrent networks operate. 🧪
Our work is at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, and we aim to understand how the brain's densely connected recurrent networks operate. 🧪
May 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Despite some ups and downs at NIH, we do have an open position for a postbac and are considering candidates.
Our work is at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, and we aim to understand how the brain's densely connected recurrent networks operate. 🧪
Our work is at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, and we aim to understand how the brain's densely connected recurrent networks operate. 🧪
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There are few fully-funded PhD positions left for this year’s Theoretical Neuroscience/ Machine learning program at Gatsby! Apply by May 27 and start in September. Please distribute broadly
📢 We have an opportunity for students to join our PhD programme in Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning this September.
Application deadline is 27 May 2025.
Information & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme
Application deadline is 27 May 2025.
Information & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme
Gatsby Unit PhD programme
Opportunity to join the Gatsby Unit PhD Programme this September, apply by 27 May 2025!
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
There are few fully-funded PhD positions left for this year’s Theoretical Neuroscience/ Machine learning program at Gatsby! Apply by May 27 and start in September. Please distribute broadly
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Jan Drugowitsch (@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social) and I, with our former postdoc Johannes Bill, have written a review covering the classic work as well as more recent work:
gershmanlab.com/pubs/Gershma...
The last paragraph highlights the prospects for using motion to understand high-level cognition.
gershmanlab.com/pubs/Gershma...
The last paragraph highlights the prospects for using motion to understand high-level cognition.
April 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Jan Drugowitsch (@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social) and I, with our former postdoc Johannes Bill, have written a review covering the classic work as well as more recent work:
gershmanlab.com/pubs/Gershma...
The last paragraph highlights the prospects for using motion to understand high-level cognition.
gershmanlab.com/pubs/Gershma...
The last paragraph highlights the prospects for using motion to understand high-level cognition.
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Today at #COSYNE2025! Don't miss two workshops led by researchers affiliated with the #KempnerInstitute. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social @chingfang.bsky.social @satpreetsingh.bsky.social
@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social @chingfang.bsky.social @satpreetsingh.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Today at #COSYNE2025! Don't miss two workshops led by researchers affiliated with the #KempnerInstitute. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social @chingfang.bsky.social @satpreetsingh.bsky.social
@jdrugowitsch.bsky.social @chingfang.bsky.social @satpreetsingh.bsky.social
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Hi, We have new open positions – PhD student and postdocs– experimental or computational– in our research groups at @nerflabs.bsky.social in Leuven Belgium on neural circuit basis of visual behavior/developmental disorders. I am at Cosyne Workshops and happy to discuss opportunities.
March 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Hi, We have new open positions – PhD student and postdocs– experimental or computational– in our research groups at @nerflabs.bsky.social in Leuven Belgium on neural circuit basis of visual behavior/developmental disorders. I am at Cosyne Workshops and happy to discuss opportunities.
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It’s another big day for the #KempnerInstitute at @CosyneMeeting! Check out our work highlighted in poster session 3 today! #COSYNE2025
March 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It’s another big day for the #KempnerInstitute at @CosyneMeeting! Check out our work highlighted in poster session 3 today! #COSYNE2025
If you are attending the #cosyne2025 Workshops, please come join our Navigation under Uncertainty workshop! An exciting topic and a great line-up of speakers - what's more to ask for?
Details below, and at sites.google.com/view/cosyne2...
Details below, and at sites.google.com/view/cosyne2...
March 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If you are attending the #cosyne2025 Workshops, please come join our Navigation under Uncertainty workshop! An exciting topic and a great line-up of speakers - what's more to ask for?
Details below, and at sites.google.com/view/cosyne2...
Details below, and at sites.google.com/view/cosyne2...
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Job alert!
Postdoc position in auditory neuroscience.
Funded by the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller.
Work in Paris (France) at @pasteur.fr / @cnrs.fr / Institut de l'Audition.
#neuroscience #hearing #optogenetics
Postdoc position in auditory neuroscience.
Funded by the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller.
Work in Paris (France) at @pasteur.fr / @cnrs.fr / Institut de l'Audition.
#neuroscience #hearing #optogenetics
March 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Job alert!
Postdoc position in auditory neuroscience.
Funded by the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller.
Work in Paris (France) at @pasteur.fr / @cnrs.fr / Institut de l'Audition.
#neuroscience #hearing #optogenetics
Postdoc position in auditory neuroscience.
Funded by the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller.
Work in Paris (France) at @pasteur.fr / @cnrs.fr / Institut de l'Audition.
#neuroscience #hearing #optogenetics
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I am gobsmacked that this is the response Columbia leadership went with.
"Legitimate concerns"?!?! Are you kidding me?!?!
This action is illegal. It is being carried out on a transparently fake pretenses. People livelihoods are at risk! WTF are you doing?!?!
president.columbia.edu/news/respond...
"Legitimate concerns"?!?! Are you kidding me?!?!
This action is illegal. It is being carried out on a transparently fake pretenses. People livelihoods are at risk! WTF are you doing?!?!
president.columbia.edu/news/respond...
March 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I am gobsmacked that this is the response Columbia leadership went with.
"Legitimate concerns"?!?! Are you kidding me?!?!
This action is illegal. It is being carried out on a transparently fake pretenses. People livelihoods are at risk! WTF are you doing?!?!
president.columbia.edu/news/respond...
"Legitimate concerns"?!?! Are you kidding me?!?!
This action is illegal. It is being carried out on a transparently fake pretenses. People livelihoods are at risk! WTF are you doing?!?!
president.columbia.edu/news/respond...
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I just wrote a book about how the type of work @markhisted.org is doing is key to breaking through the bottlenecks holding back new treatments for brain and mental disorders (from Alzheimers to depression). Seeing his work in danger makes me ill, and angry.
We must @standupforscience.bsky.social.
We must @standupforscience.bsky.social.
Compelling pushback from @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) regarding termination of tenure-track investigators driven by DOGE.
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March 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I just wrote a book about how the type of work @markhisted.org is doing is key to breaking through the bottlenecks holding back new treatments for brain and mental disorders (from Alzheimers to depression). Seeing his work in danger makes me ill, and angry.
We must @standupforscience.bsky.social.
We must @standupforscience.bsky.social.
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WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
March 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025