Jeffrey C. Erlich
@jerlich.com
https://qoto.org/@jerlich
Behavioral and Computational Neuroscientist
Group Leader at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL
Behavioral and Computational Neuroscientist
Group Leader at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL
Happy to contribute to this amazing work from Duan Lab!
Mice making economic decisions in an abstract offer space. 🤩
Mice making economic decisions in an abstract offer space. 🤩
New preprint from the lab!
A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use a novel task in mice, cortex-wide imaging and optogenetics, NPX recording and modelling to reveal a circuit mechanism that transforms abstract decisions to spatial actions.
A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use a novel task in mice, cortex-wide imaging and optogenetics, NPX recording and modelling to reveal a circuit mechanism that transforms abstract decisions to spatial actions.
A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions
Flexible behaviour requires transforming abstract cognitive representations, such as value preferences, into concrete motor actions. During economic decision-making, individuals evaluate options to gu...
www.biorxiv.org
December 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Happy to contribute to this amazing work from Duan Lab!
Mice making economic decisions in an abstract offer space. 🤩
Mice making economic decisions in an abstract offer space. 🤩
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
Work led by amazing postdocs Oliver Gauld and Chaofei Bao!
In collaboration with @jerlich.com, @clopathlab.bsky.social and many others!
In collaboration with @jerlich.com, @clopathlab.bsky.social and many others!
December 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Work led by amazing postdocs Oliver Gauld and Chaofei Bao!
In collaboration with @jerlich.com, @clopathlab.bsky.social and many others!
In collaboration with @jerlich.com, @clopathlab.bsky.social and many others!
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
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"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this."
The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:
The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:
Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
wapo.st
October 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it.
My full statement.
My full statement.
Senator Murray Calls for Immediate Firing of RFK Jr., Commends CDC Director Monarez’s Stand for Science and Public Health - Senator Patty Murray
Senator Murray: “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the...
www.murray.senate.gov
August 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it.
My full statement.
My full statement.
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social Why is the author information missing from the web page of a paper?
August 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social Why is the author information missing from the web page of a paper?
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This is an amazing opportunity for postdocs to share their work!
Calling all neuroscience postdocs!
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 10 July:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 10 July:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
July 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is an amazing opportunity for postdocs to share their work!
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
Calling all neuroscience postdocs!
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 10 July:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 10 July:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
June 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Calling all neuroscience postdocs!
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 10 July:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 10 July:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social I read your peice www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv.... Surely, one of Sinwar's objectives, which was successfully achieved, was turning Israel into country blinded by revenge, becoming an international pariah and also generally stoking the fires of antisemitism?
Sinwar’s March of Folly
Seldom has any action backfired so spectacularly as Hamas’s October 7 attack.
www.theatlantic.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social I read your peice www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv.... Surely, one of Sinwar's objectives, which was successfully achieved, was turning Israel into country blinded by revenge, becoming an international pariah and also generally stoking the fires of antisemitism?
Amazing talk by @franckp.bsky.social at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social today!
Delighted to highlight our new paper in
@natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons - Nature
A temporally asymmetric synaptic plasticity kernel results from bidirectional modifications of synaptic weights around the induction of a place field.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Amazing talk by @franckp.bsky.social at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social today!
Does anyone look back at the Spanish Inquisition and think “those were good times.”?
April 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Does anyone look back at the Spanish Inquisition and think “those were good times.”?
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
If someone lost a grant, here's advice for how to appeal that decision. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/five... From @thetransmitter.bsky.social <6/n>
Five things to know if your federal grant is terminated
If you want to appeal the decision, know the rules that govern terminations, as well as the specific rationale given in your notice, science policy experts say.
www.thetransmitter.org
April 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
Imagined writing of Chinese signs can be decoded using Utah Arrays. Neural activity is found to transition through states linked to handwriting phases. Neurons’ tuning stays stable within states, but gain and direction shift as the brain progresses. Modeling these states improved decoding by 69%.
Human motor cortex encodes complex handwriting through a sequence of stable neural states - Nature Human Behaviour
How does the brain encode complex movement sequences? Qi et al. reveal that the brain decomposes sequences into temporal states, each corresponding to a small movement fragment, with motor cortex neur...
www.nature.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Imagined writing of Chinese signs can be decoded using Utah Arrays. Neural activity is found to transition through states linked to handwriting phases. Neurons’ tuning stays stable within states, but gain and direction shift as the brain progresses. Modeling these states improved decoding by 69%.
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
“You can’t just be confident, you have to be confident about something.”
Research led by @jerlich.bsky.social and Xiaoyue Zhu set out to disentangle the different kinds of confidence by designing a perceptual gambling task for rodents.
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www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/dec...
Research led by @jerlich.bsky.social and Xiaoyue Zhu set out to disentangle the different kinds of confidence by designing a perceptual gambling task for rodents.
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www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/dec...
February 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
“You can’t just be confident, you have to be confident about something.”
Research led by @jerlich.bsky.social and Xiaoyue Zhu set out to disentangle the different kinds of confidence by designing a perceptual gambling task for rodents.
⬇️
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/dec...
Research led by @jerlich.bsky.social and Xiaoyue Zhu set out to disentangle the different kinds of confidence by designing a perceptual gambling task for rodents.
⬇️
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/dec...
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
Ha ha. I am indecently excited by this! I think there are so many amazing neuroscience stories that don’t get told it’s great to be able to show some of them off! I hope the kids (and adults!) that read this will be as excited as I am about the way the brain works.
It's in The Bookseller previews, which makes it official!! My non-fiction collaboration with @caswell.bsky.social - INSIDE YOUR BRAIN - is due in 3 months time!!
& it happily coincides with @waterstones.bsky.social 25% off pre-order campaign!
Treat yourself! > www.waterstones.com/book/inside-...
& it happily coincides with @waterstones.bsky.social 25% off pre-order campaign!
Treat yourself! > www.waterstones.com/book/inside-...
February 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Ha ha. I am indecently excited by this! I think there are so many amazing neuroscience stories that don’t get told it’s great to be able to show some of them off! I hope the kids (and adults!) that read this will be as excited as I am about the way the brain works.
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
Amazing opportunity for a UCL faculty position:
*We are hiring* Closing soon but still time! Associate/Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London
The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience is the most wonderful place to work. Supportive, bright colleagues doing incredible research in beautiful Queen Square. Do get in touch if you have any questions. Come join us!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
February 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Amazing opportunity for a UCL faculty position:
@bdsmovement.bsky.social is it time to BDS the USA?
February 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
@bdsmovement.bsky.social is it time to BDS the USA?
Super excited to share this new work from my collaboration with @annduan.bsky.social.
It's the most innovative project I have worked on.
We explored the strategies of mice as they raced for visually cued rewards in 'the Octagon'.
It's the most innovative project I have worked on.
We explored the strategies of mice as they raced for visually cued rewards in 'the Octagon'.
First preprint from our lab! An @jerlich.bsky.social collaboration
We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decisions in mice.
Mice flexibly shift their decision preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decisions in mice.
Mice flexibly shift their decision preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mice dynamically adapt to opponents in competitive multi-player games
Competing for resources in dynamic social environments is fundamental for survival, and requires continuous monitoring of both 'self' and 'others' to guide effective choices. Yet our understanding of ...
www.biorxiv.org
February 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Super excited to share this new work from my collaboration with @annduan.bsky.social.
It's the most innovative project I have worked on.
We explored the strategies of mice as they raced for visually cued rewards in 'the Octagon'.
It's the most innovative project I have worked on.
We explored the strategies of mice as they raced for visually cued rewards in 'the Octagon'.
With meta and google bending over, it's time for an EU social media site to step up! The US is not the world.
February 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
With meta and google bending over, it's time for an EU social media site to step up! The US is not the world.
if you are lying in bed at night and think you might smell something burning you might be uncertain of the smell but sure that you should get up to check the stove. We set out to disentangle these different kinds of confidence.
nbdt.scholasticahq.com/article/1296...
nbdt.scholasticahq.com/article/1296...
A rodent paradigm for studying perceptual decisions under asymmetric reward | Published in Neurons, Behavior, Data analysis, and Theory
By Xiaoyue Zhu, Jeffrey C. Erlich. A rodent paradigm for studying perceptual decisions under asymmetric reward
nbdt.scholasticahq.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
if you are lying in bed at night and think you might smell something burning you might be uncertain of the smell but sure that you should get up to check the stove. We set out to disentangle these different kinds of confidence.
nbdt.scholasticahq.com/article/1296...
nbdt.scholasticahq.com/article/1296...
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
WE ARE HERE!!!
MARCH 7th 12-4PM. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITOL!!!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST!
Because science is for everyone!!!!
MARCH 7th 12-4PM. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITOL!!!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST!
Because science is for everyone!!!!
When Trump won, one of the first questions I had was
'Where is the March for Science?'
I talked to many of the original organizers to see where they are — and take stock of what science activism looks like under Trump 2.0, even if it's not another march
www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/t...
'Where is the March for Science?'
I talked to many of the original organizers to see where they are — and take stock of what science activism looks like under Trump 2.0, even if it's not another march
www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/t...
Trump's first term birthed the March for Science. Where are the science activists now?
Eight years after the first March for Science, there are no plans for another march at the dawn of a second Trump administration
www.statnews.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
WE ARE HERE!!!
MARCH 7th 12-4PM. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITOL!!!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST!
Because science is for everyone!!!!
MARCH 7th 12-4PM. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITOL!!!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST!
Because science is for everyone!!!!
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
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February 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
In California
NIH FUNDING:
$5.31 B
JOBS SUPPORTED:
55,949
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$13.55 B
KEEP IT GOING
NIH FUNDING:
$5.31 B
JOBS SUPPORTED:
55,949
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$13.55 B
KEEP IT GOING