Roozbeh Kiani
@roozbehkiani.bsky.social
Neuroscientist studying how the brain makes decisions, solves problems, and navigates complex reasoning. Curious about the mysteries of the mind and always ready to connect over science, ideas, and discovery.
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Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
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Looking for a PhD program where you can study vision from different perspectives (computer vision, visual neuroscience, visual perception, image processing)? Consider applying to NYU!
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[visionlist] Doctoral studies in Visual Sciences at NYU
visionscience.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Looking for a PhD program where you can study vision from different perspectives (computer vision, visual neuroscience, visual perception, image processing)? Consider applying to NYU!
visionscience.com/pipermail/vi...
visionscience.com/pipermail/vi...
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Consider submitting your recent work on stimulus synthesis and selection to our special issue at JOV!
Submissions now accepted for a special issue of the Journal of Vision:
Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection
Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025
Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...
Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection
Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025
Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...
JOV Special Issue - Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection | JOV | ARVO Journals
jov.arvojournals.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Consider submitting your recent work on stimulus synthesis and selection to our special issue at JOV!
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My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research.
No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease.
Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.
No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease.
Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.
June 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research.
No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease.
Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.
No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease.
Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.
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Elusive Cures is my first book. I was surprised by how much was required to make it happen (beyond writing it). If you're curious, here's the who and how behind it ... 🧵
(My amazing publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social)
(My amazing publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social)
May 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Elusive Cures is my first book. I was surprised by how much was required to make it happen (beyond writing it). If you're curious, here's the who and how behind it ... 🧵
(My amazing publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social)
(My amazing publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social)
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I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
May 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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David Hocker’s paper about compositional pretraining for RNNs that efficiently produces animal-like behaviors! Modeling cognitive tasks in RNNs requires thinking about latent abilities that animals bring to an experiment. Funded by NIH/CRCNS. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Compositional pretraining improves computational efficiency and matches animal behaviour on complex tasks - Nature Machine Intelligence
Hocker et al. demonstrate a method for training recurrent neural networks, which they call ‘kindergarten curriculum learning’, involving pretraining on simple cognitive tasks to improve learning effic...
www.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
David Hocker’s paper about compositional pretraining for RNNs that efficiently produces animal-like behaviors! Modeling cognitive tasks in RNNs requires thinking about latent abilities that animals bring to an experiment. Funded by NIH/CRCNS. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Congratulations to Adrienne Fairhall, Prof. of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Adjunct Prof. of Applied Mathematics, and Adjunct Prof. of Physics, who has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🍾 🎉
April 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Congratulations to Adrienne Fairhall, Prof. of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Adjunct Prof. of Applied Mathematics, and Adjunct Prof. of Physics, who has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🍾 🎉
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30 days to the launch of Elusive Cures! I learned so much writing it, and I want to share it.
For the next 30 days, I'll post brain & mind research breakthroughs on odd days, and highlight unmet needs on even ones. #ElusiveCures30
First breakthrough: /1
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
For the next 30 days, I'll post brain & mind research breakthroughs on odd days, and highlight unmet needs on even ones. #ElusiveCures30
First breakthrough: /1
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Elusive Cures
A neuroscientist’s bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time—brain and mental illnesses
press.princeton.edu
May 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
30 days to the launch of Elusive Cures! I learned so much writing it, and I want to share it.
For the next 30 days, I'll post brain & mind research breakthroughs on odd days, and highlight unmet needs on even ones. #ElusiveCures30
First breakthrough: /1
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
For the next 30 days, I'll post brain & mind research breakthroughs on odd days, and highlight unmet needs on even ones. #ElusiveCures30
First breakthrough: /1
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
February 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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Again, recommending this soup kitchen in Gaza that is doing *so much*. Donations are even tax deductible in USA. Please consider helping
gofund.me/608947b8
gofund.me/608947b8
Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun
Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do.
My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza
gofund.me
January 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Again, recommending this soup kitchen in Gaza that is doing *so much*. Donations are even tax deductible in USA. Please consider helping
gofund.me/608947b8
gofund.me/608947b8
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Narrator: She made this up.
December 16, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Narrator: She made this up.
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Werner Herzog muses on mysteries of the brain in "Theater of Thought." Auteur director's latest documentary runs the gamut from BCIs and how we construct reality to whether fish can dream. arstechnica.com/culture/2024...
Werner Herzog muses on mysteries of the brain in Theater of Thought
Auteur director’s latest documentary runs the gamut from BCIs and how we construct reality to whether fish can dream.
arstechnica.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Werner Herzog muses on mysteries of the brain in "Theater of Thought." Auteur director's latest documentary runs the gamut from BCIs and how we construct reality to whether fish can dream. arstechnica.com/culture/2024...
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Here's one for team Insula - effects of stimulation in humans (wow!).
December 2, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Here's one for team Insula - effects of stimulation in humans (wow!).
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New position at UCL!! Lecturer in Neuroscience in the Department of Imaging Neuroscience, home to the internationally renowned Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL). Details are here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/.... 70% research, 30% teaching on a new BSc Neuroscience course.
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 28, 2024 at 1:18 PM
New position at UCL!! Lecturer in Neuroscience in the Department of Imaging Neuroscience, home to the internationally renowned Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL). Details are here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/.... 70% research, 30% teaching on a new BSc Neuroscience course.
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Want to be part of the NeuroAI community CSHL ?
Applications are open for outstanding graduate students in Artificial Intelligence to spend the summer at CSHL as NeuroAI Interns.
Deadline: Dec 10th, 2024. Please spread the word!
www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...
@cshlaboratory.bsky.social
Applications are open for outstanding graduate students in Artificial Intelligence to spend the summer at CSHL as NeuroAI Interns.
Deadline: Dec 10th, 2024. Please spread the word!
www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...
@cshlaboratory.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Want to be part of the NeuroAI community CSHL ?
Applications are open for outstanding graduate students in Artificial Intelligence to spend the summer at CSHL as NeuroAI Interns.
Deadline: Dec 10th, 2024. Please spread the word!
www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...
@cshlaboratory.bsky.social
Applications are open for outstanding graduate students in Artificial Intelligence to spend the summer at CSHL as NeuroAI Interns.
Deadline: Dec 10th, 2024. Please spread the word!
www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...
@cshlaboratory.bsky.social
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A new hero! US Rep. Rosa DeLauro, to the NIH director in today's hearing.
"Your record .. is unparalleled in human history ... If we stop investigating infectious diseases, people will DIE! That needs to be said LOUDLY! and CLEARLY! in this environment we are in."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjbv...
"Your record .. is unparalleled in human history ... If we stop investigating infectious diseases, people will DIE! That needs to be said LOUDLY! and CLEARLY! in this environment we are in."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjbv...
November 19, 2024 at 8:19 PM
A new hero! US Rep. Rosa DeLauro, to the NIH director in today's hearing.
"Your record .. is unparalleled in human history ... If we stop investigating infectious diseases, people will DIE! That needs to be said LOUDLY! and CLEARLY! in this environment we are in."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjbv...
"Your record .. is unparalleled in human history ... If we stop investigating infectious diseases, people will DIE! That needs to be said LOUDLY! and CLEARLY! in this environment we are in."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjbv...
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November 17, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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Terrific piece summarizing a recent report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...
Report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns
Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an
www.fiercebiotech.com
November 17, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Terrific piece summarizing a recent report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...
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📣 My department at NYU is hiring a theoretical neuroscientist!
apply.interfolio.com/157767
This is *open rank* tenure / tenure-track position. Application deadline is Dec 31.
NYU is a great place to work, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/157767
This is *open rank* tenure / tenure-track position. Application deadline is Dec 31.
NYU is a great place to work, please apply!
November 15, 2024 at 9:30 PM
📣 My department at NYU is hiring a theoretical neuroscientist!
apply.interfolio.com/157767
This is *open rank* tenure / tenure-track position. Application deadline is Dec 31.
NYU is a great place to work, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/157767
This is *open rank* tenure / tenure-track position. Application deadline is Dec 31.
NYU is a great place to work, please apply!