1/6 New preprint 🚀 How does the cortex learn to represent things and how they move without reconstructing sensory stimuli? We developed a circuit-centric recurrent predictive learning (RPL) model based on JEPAs.
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Led by @atenagm.bsky.social @mshalvagal.bsky.social

The Wood lab is recruiting a postdoc to study neural circuits underlying cognition in rat models of neurodevelopmental disorders. You’ll use high-density in vivo electrophysiology to probe the head-direction system and conduct advanced data analysis.
For more: www.sidb.org.uk/vacancies/

From sweets and mulled wine to quizzes and ice skating trips, many laboratories develop traditions to show appreciation to colleagues

go.nature.com/4it9ZuK

I chatted with Evan McLoughlin on The Giant's Shoulder podcast about the flaws that undermine claims of a link between autism and the microbiome cc @statsepi.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie0S...

Naoshige Uchida Named Jeff C.Tarr Professor; Launches New Simons-Funded Autism Research Collaboration 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

Interested in applying for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award? Watch the recording of our informational webinar for more details on the program: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/fellows-to-faculty-award/#:~:text=Brain%20(SCPAB).-,Informational%20Webinar,-An%20informational%20webinar #science

The brain is incredibly densely connected. Human cerebral cortex may have as many as *one trillion* connections.

Most of those cortical connections are recurrent, inside each area. What do they do?

New paper from me in Annual Reviews: 🧪 🧠📈 1/

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons.

Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social

🚨 We're hiring! NCMBM @ncmbm.bsky.social is looking for 2 new group leaders to join our vibrant research community. Ready to build your own group with strong support and a solid startup package?

Interested and attending #ISMBECCB2025? Let’s connect!

🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.

ki.se/en/about-ki/...

A fantastic opportunity to join our fantastic department! Any Qs reach out to the contacts on the advert, or forward to me at @macaskillaf.bsky.social and i will pass on

Our fantastic department @uclnpp.bsky.social is looking for up-and-coming PIs to sponsor for prestigious group leader fellowships. Come join us! Apply by 5th Jan. - [ ] www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Every few years I remind people of the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium (nprc.incf.org). It's great! You submit your neuroscience paper to a journal, and if they don't want to publish it, you can choose to reuse the reviews at a different journal. Strong recommend.

Please retweet! Open rank faculty search in the basic sciences at UCLA David School of Medicine. Multiple positions are available - the application deadline is 19th January. Please apply here:

recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10062

Horace Barlow, by all accounts, was thinking about 30 years ahead of his time. Here is a transcript of the opening keynote I gave at a symposium honoring Horace's scientific legacy: markusmeister.com/2024/12/14/h....

It's hard to overstate how awesome it is to post your course lectures to youtube. If you wish the field was better at statistics, experimental design, model fitting etc., improving access to info is essential. I wonder how many people have covid era recorded zoom lectures buried on a hard drive

Neuroscientists! A key message from the ALBA Network
Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!!
Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience!
🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4
🗓️20 January 2025

We're excited to join BlueSky! Make sure to follow us for the latest news from the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences! We'll be posting about our cutting edge research, Faculty events and opportunities!

New paper with @leonlufkin.bsky.social and @eringrant.bsky.social!

Why do we see localized receptive fields so often, even in models without sparisity regularization?

We present a theory in the minimal setting from @aingrosso.bsky.social and @sebgoldt.bsky.social