JJ Aucouturier
@jjtokyo.bsky.social
CNRS senior researcher, FEMTO-ST Institute in Besançon, France.
Dynamical systems, control + cognitive neuroscience.
Dynamical systems, control + cognitive neuroscience.
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🎶🛏️ Call for contributions!
The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral).
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk
#confmussleep #musicscience
The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral).
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk
#confmussleep #musicscience
October 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🎶🛏️ Call for contributions!
The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral).
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk
#confmussleep #musicscience
The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral).
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk
#confmussleep #musicscience
I'm excited to announce the opening of up to 2 PhD positions in mechanical engineering and tactile psychophysics, in close industrial collaboration with a major cosmetics manufacturer.
More information: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/09/15/T...
Application deadline: 31st Oct. 2025
More information: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/09/15/T...
Application deadline: 31st Oct. 2025
October 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I'm excited to announce the opening of up to 2 PhD positions in mechanical engineering and tactile psychophysics, in close industrial collaboration with a major cosmetics manufacturer.
More information: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/09/15/T...
Application deadline: 31st Oct. 2025
More information: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/09/15/T...
Application deadline: 31st Oct. 2025
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Sperber wrote this 22 years ago (when I was starting my studies in CogSci) and these words still ring true www.dan.sperber.fr?p=101
Dan Sperber — Dan Sperber (2003) Why rethink interdisciplinarity? Virtual seminar Rethinking interdisciplinarity on www.interdisciplines.org
www.dan.sperber.fr
September 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Sperber wrote this 22 years ago (when I was starting my studies in CogSci) and these words still ring true www.dan.sperber.fr?p=101
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We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs
Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
Open positions
neuro.inf.unibe.ch
July 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs
Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
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Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot:
"Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
(by Balaban & me)
relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...
"Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
(by Balaban & me)
relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...
June 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot:
"Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
(by Balaban & me)
relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...
"Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
(by Balaban & me)
relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...
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A new study shows a "pivot penalty" where the likelihood of being a "hit" (top 5% of citations in that field) or getting published go down the more that a scientist shifts from their main discipline.
I have a few thoughts, some on how this was framed
(🧵)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I have a few thoughts, some on how this was framed
(🧵)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Shifting research focus comes with the risk of reduced impact
An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents shows that the further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be.
www.nature.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A new study shows a "pivot penalty" where the likelihood of being a "hit" (top 5% of citations in that field) or getting published go down the more that a scientist shifts from their main discipline.
I have a few thoughts, some on how this was framed
(🧵)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I have a few thoughts, some on how this was framed
(🧵)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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🤔 You’d like to share your research code but not sure how to…?
🔓*Very* excited to finally share this work led by @nicolasrougier.bsky.social in which we propose a practical set of guidelines for opening code.
inria.hal.science/hal-04930405...
🔓*Very* excited to finally share this work led by @nicolasrougier.bsky.social in which we propose a practical set of guidelines for opening code.
inria.hal.science/hal-04930405...
February 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🤔 You’d like to share your research code but not sure how to…?
🔓*Very* excited to finally share this work led by @nicolasrougier.bsky.social in which we propose a practical set of guidelines for opening code.
inria.hal.science/hal-04930405...
🔓*Very* excited to finally share this work led by @nicolasrougier.bsky.social in which we propose a practical set of guidelines for opening code.
inria.hal.science/hal-04930405...
Our research group is advertising an exciting new PhD position at the intersection of control engineering and neuroscience, aiming to advance our understanding of how humans control the sound of their voice.
Position start: Oct. 2025
Deadline: 16 May 2025
neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/04/22/F...
Position start: Oct. 2025
Deadline: 16 May 2025
neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/04/22/F...
PhD position (M2/école d'ingénieur.e.s)
PhD position (M2/école d'ingénieur.e.s)
posted on April 22, 2025
PhD position: Identification et commande de la boucle sensorimotrice de ...
neuro-team-femto.github.io
April 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Our research group is advertising an exciting new PhD position at the intersection of control engineering and neuroscience, aiming to advance our understanding of how humans control the sound of their voice.
Position start: Oct. 2025
Deadline: 16 May 2025
neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/04/22/F...
Position start: Oct. 2025
Deadline: 16 May 2025
neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/04/22/F...
Cool #neuroscience PhD opportunity on the interplay between speech production and perception, with 2 great PIs Anahita Basirat in SCALAB, @univlille.bsky.social (France) and Vitória Piai @dondersinst.bsky.social (The Netherlands)
Deadline: 28 March 2025
www.risc.cnrs.fr/echos/2903527
Deadline: 28 March 2025
www.risc.cnrs.fr/echos/2903527
February 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Cool #neuroscience PhD opportunity on the interplay between speech production and perception, with 2 great PIs Anahita Basirat in SCALAB, @univlille.bsky.social (France) and Vitória Piai @dondersinst.bsky.social (The Netherlands)
Deadline: 28 March 2025
www.risc.cnrs.fr/echos/2903527
Deadline: 28 March 2025
www.risc.cnrs.fr/echos/2903527
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Made a video showcasing resolve.pub which is like "google docs" for technical (ipynb/qmd) documents. The Video walk through how you can share any notebook on github with people who never code.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBmB...
Resolve showcase
YouTube video by Michel's Science Speedrun
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Made a video showcasing resolve.pub which is like "google docs" for technical (ipynb/qmd) documents. The Video walk through how you can share any notebook on github with people who never code.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBmB...
@lnalborczyk.bsky.social is fantastic - anyone interested in voice neuroscience and cognitive modeling please keep tabs !
Exciting news! In January 2025, I'll launch my own research team as a CNRS researcher at the LPL (Aix-en-Provence)! 🎉🎉
Our research will dive into the computational and neural bases of inner speech and mental/motor imagery.
Our research will dive into the computational and neural bases of inner speech and mental/motor imagery.
January 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
@lnalborczyk.bsky.social is fantastic - anyone interested in voice neuroscience and cognitive modeling please keep tabs !
In the age of AI, "if we keep rewarding more papers published per year in academia, we’re setting ourselves up for more mediocrity, if not more complete BS".
blog.mahabali.me/educational-...
blog.mahabali.me/educational-...
January 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
In the age of AI, "if we keep rewarding more papers published per year in academia, we’re setting ourselves up for more mediocrity, if not more complete BS".
blog.mahabali.me/educational-...
blog.mahabali.me/educational-...
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“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.”
chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...
chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...
The ethical case for resisting AI
I had my moment of reality regarding generative AI in my chemistry and physics classes this past term. I’ve always had the student frustration “I can’t Google your homework problems!” as a point of…
chuckpearson.wordpress.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.”
chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...
chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...
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The outer ear is a mammalian innovation but where did it come from? In our study in Nature, Mathi Thiruppathy and colleagues find that the outer ear arose from modification of an ancestral gill program first originating in marine invertebrates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Repurposing of a gill gene regulatory program for outer ear evolution - Nature
Nature - Repurposing of a gill gene regulatory program for outer ear evolution
www.nature.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The outer ear is a mammalian innovation but where did it come from? In our study in Nature, Mathi Thiruppathy and colleagues find that the outer ear arose from modification of an ancestral gill program first originating in marine invertebrates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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“Masland & Martin (2007, R581) write that “experimental physiologists know all too well that sensory systems are only linear when the experimenter forces them to be so.” ... “forcing” linearity amounts to the selection of experimental conditions that induce more simple behavior”
The Brain Abstracted
The Brain Abstracted
January 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“Masland & Martin (2007, R581) write that “experimental physiologists know all too well that sensory systems are only linear when the experimenter forces them to be so.” ... “forcing” linearity amounts to the selection of experimental conditions that induce more simple behavior”
The Brain Abstracted
The Brain Abstracted
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I will buy these headphones
"We are at a time when hardware and algorithms are coming together to support #AI augmentation." #UWAllen prof @gshyam.bsky.social is developing headphones that enable the wearer to tune in to conversation they want to hear, cut through noise they don't. #ThisIsUW spectrum.ieee.org/noise-cancel...
AI Headphones Create Zones of Silence
Researchers turn off a noisy world to help users tune in to nearby conversations
spectrum.ieee.org
December 4, 2024 at 6:09 PM
I will buy these headphones
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In a @currentbiology.bsky.social paper earlier this year, led by @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social, we analysed Beethoven’s genome with a polygenic index related to musicality, as a way to communicate limits of genetic predictions at the individual level & the complexity of links between DNA & behaviour:
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:45 PM
In a @currentbiology.bsky.social paper earlier this year, led by @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social, we analysed Beethoven’s genome with a polygenic index related to musicality, as a way to communicate limits of genetic predictions at the individual level & the complexity of links between DNA & behaviour:
!! Job alert !! Our department is anticipating the opening of an exciting new faculty position in Scientific Machine Learning, with a possible focus on neuroscience, for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Info: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2024/04/19/f...
Deadline: May 2025. Start date: Sept 2025.
Info: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2024/04/19/f...
Deadline: May 2025. Start date: Sept 2025.
December 9, 2024 at 11:43 AM
!! Job alert !! Our department is anticipating the opening of an exciting new faculty position in Scientific Machine Learning, with a possible focus on neuroscience, for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Info: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2024/04/19/f...
Deadline: May 2025. Start date: Sept 2025.
Info: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2024/04/19/f...
Deadline: May 2025. Start date: Sept 2025.
Our collaborators at University of Fribourg (CH) are advertising a fantastic CogNeuro PhD position investigating the perception of music during sleep.
Björn Rasch and his Cognitive Biopsychology team are awesome (and fun!) scientists ! Highly recommended.
Info: www.unifr.ch/psycho/en/de...
Björn Rasch and his Cognitive Biopsychology team are awesome (and fun!) scientists ! Highly recommended.
Info: www.unifr.ch/psycho/en/de...
December 4, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Our collaborators at University of Fribourg (CH) are advertising a fantastic CogNeuro PhD position investigating the perception of music during sleep.
Björn Rasch and his Cognitive Biopsychology team are awesome (and fun!) scientists ! Highly recommended.
Info: www.unifr.ch/psycho/en/de...
Björn Rasch and his Cognitive Biopsychology team are awesome (and fun!) scientists ! Highly recommended.
Info: www.unifr.ch/psycho/en/de...
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𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀?
Brain signals not as "evoked responses" but as spatiotemporal trajectories.
Work by PhD student Joyneel Misra now editorially accepted in eLife but not peer reviewed yet.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brain signals not as "evoked responses" but as spatiotemporal trajectories.
Work by PhD student Joyneel Misra now editorially accepted in eLife but not peer reviewed yet.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 24, 2024 at 5:47 PM
𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀?
Brain signals not as "evoked responses" but as spatiotemporal trajectories.
Work by PhD student Joyneel Misra now editorially accepted in eLife but not peer reviewed yet.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brain signals not as "evoked responses" but as spatiotemporal trajectories.
Work by PhD student Joyneel Misra now editorially accepted in eLife but not peer reviewed yet.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by JJ Aucouturier
Nature
Causal evidence of a line attractor encoding an affective state
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Causal evidence of a line attractor encoding an affective state
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Causal evidence of a line attractor encoding an affective state - Nature
Single-cell optogenetic stimulation and calcium imaging experiments provide direct evidence of line-attractor dynamics, including functional network connectivity, in the mammalian hypothalamus.
www.nature.com
November 10, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Nature
Causal evidence of a line attractor encoding an affective state
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Causal evidence of a line attractor encoding an affective state
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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some cool news - I've started a regular column at The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social
First column out now on that most convenient of all the fictions in neuroscience: averaging
thetransmitter.org/neural-codin...
First column out now on that most convenient of all the fictions in neuroscience: averaging
thetransmitter.org/neural-codin...
Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience
But neurons don’t take averages. This ubiquitous practice hides from us how the brain really works.
thetransmitter.org
September 23, 2024 at 8:08 PM
some cool news - I've started a regular column at The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social
First column out now on that most convenient of all the fictions in neuroscience: averaging
thetransmitter.org/neural-codin...
First column out now on that most convenient of all the fictions in neuroscience: averaging
thetransmitter.org/neural-codin...
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This is super cool...
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Marmoset monkeys call each other by name.
Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates
Humans, dolphins, and elephants are the only known species that vocally label their conspecifics. It remains unclear whether nonhuman primates share this ability. We recorded spontaneous “phee-call” d...
www.science.org
August 30, 2024 at 2:11 PM
This is super cool...
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