Simon Ruch
@simonruch.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at UniDistance Suisse. Interested in #memory, #sleep, & #consciousness, #singleunitrecordings
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If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, specially targeting conscious vs. unconscious processing, contact me. We are recruiting 🙏🧠 please RT
July 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, specially targeting conscious vs. unconscious processing, contact me. We are recruiting 🙏🧠 please RT
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🧠 Paper out!
We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that:
🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries
🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall
Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories!
rdcu.be/eui9l
We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that:
🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries
🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall
Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories!
rdcu.be/eui9l
Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries
Nature Communications - The neural processes involved in memory formation for realistic experiences remain poorly understood. Here, the authors found that ripple-like activity in the human...
rdcu.be
July 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
🧠 Paper out!
We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that:
🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries
🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall
Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories!
rdcu.be/eui9l
We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that:
🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries
🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall
Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories!
rdcu.be/eui9l
The entropy of the EEG signal offers real-time insights into the 🧠's current state of excitability and activity! Our recent preprint with @joelfrohlich.bsky.social shows this in a #TMS study: high pre-pulse entropy ➡️ larger TMS-probed excitability. Larger TMS-induced excitability ➡️ higher entropy
EEG entropy reflects both intrinsic and stimulation-induced corticospinal excitability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.16.654439v1
May 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The entropy of the EEG signal offers real-time insights into the 🧠's current state of excitability and activity! Our recent preprint with @joelfrohlich.bsky.social shows this in a #TMS study: high pre-pulse entropy ➡️ larger TMS-probed excitability. Larger TMS-induced excitability ➡️ higher entropy
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I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
May 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al:
Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
May 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al:
Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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This paper is pretty incredible! Simultaneous invasive recordings of cortex and thalamus *in humans* during a visual awareness task strongly suggest that HO thalamus plays a gating role in awareness.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Human high-order thalamic nuclei gate conscious perception through the thalamofrontal loop
Human high-order thalamic nuclei activity is known to closely correlate with conscious states. However, it is not clear how those thalamic nuclei and thalamocortical interactions directly contribute t...
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This paper is pretty incredible! Simultaneous invasive recordings of cortex and thalamus *in humans* during a visual awareness task strongly suggest that HO thalamus plays a gating role in awareness.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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#neurojobs Looking for a new role as Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience? @thechbh.bsky.social has great facilities, lovely people...and an open position: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW735/p...
Come and work with us at @thechbh.bsky.social, we have a position for a full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience. Please circulate and get in touch for an informal chat.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLE056/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLE056/p...
February 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#neurojobs Looking for a new role as Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience? @thechbh.bsky.social has great facilities, lovely people...and an open position: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW735/p...
Are you looking for a PhD position or a postdoc in #cognitive #neuroscience? Come join us at #Unidistance Suisse. Possible research topics: #mind-wandering, #conceptlearning, #memory, #comsciousness, #singleunits
We are looking for German-speaking PhD students and postdocs to come work with us in Brig, Switzerland at the UniDistance Suisse: jobs.zeit.de/jobs/doktora...
Please re-post and/or contact me for questions
Please re-post and/or contact me for questions
Doktorand-in oder Postdoktorand-in in der Kognitiven Neurowissenschaft - FernUni Schweiz
FernUni Schweiz bietet Stelle als Doktorand-in oder Postdoktorand-in in der Kognitiven Neurowissenschaft in Brig - jetzt bewerben!
jobs.zeit.de
February 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Are you looking for a PhD position or a postdoc in #cognitive #neuroscience? Come join us at #Unidistance Suisse. Possible research topics: #mind-wandering, #conceptlearning, #memory, #comsciousness, #singleunits
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Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall.
It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested.
More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post...
Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723
It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested.
More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post...
Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723
February 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall.
It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested.
More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post...
Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723
It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested.
More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post...
Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723
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🚨 Finally out! My new @annualreviews.bsky.social in Psychology paper:
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We unpack why psych theories of generalization keep cycling from rigid rule-based models to flexible similarity-based ones, then culminating in Bayesian hybrids. Let's break it down 👉 🧵
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We unpack why psych theories of generalization keep cycling from rigid rule-based models to flexible similarity-based ones, then culminating in Bayesian hybrids. Let's break it down 👉 🧵
February 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨 Finally out! My new @annualreviews.bsky.social in Psychology paper:
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We unpack why psych theories of generalization keep cycling from rigid rule-based models to flexible similarity-based ones, then culminating in Bayesian hybrids. Let's break it down 👉 🧵
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We unpack why psych theories of generalization keep cycling from rigid rule-based models to flexible similarity-based ones, then culminating in Bayesian hybrids. Let's break it down 👉 🧵
Reposted by Simon Ruch
Full PhD scholarship + stipend (for an Australian or international student) to join our group and study the nonlinear dynamics of sleep (or related topics in time-series analysis of complex dynamical systems).
Apply here (via Project 7): www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Apply here (via Project 7): www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
ARC Postgraduate Research Scholarship
A $40,109 per annum stipend scholarship for research students within the Faculty of Science.
www.sydney.edu.au
January 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Full PhD scholarship + stipend (for an Australian or international student) to join our group and study the nonlinear dynamics of sleep (or related topics in time-series analysis of complex dynamical systems).
Apply here (via Project 7): www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Apply here (via Project 7): www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
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Very happy to receive the 2025 Schilling Research Award, shared with @drekowphd.bsky.social!
Many thanks to the @neurowissg.bsky.social for this recognition!
More information on my lab's research on the neural mechanisms of human spatial memory: spatialmemorylab.com
Many thanks to the @neurowissg.bsky.social for this recognition!
More information on my lab's research on the neural mechanisms of human spatial memory: spatialmemorylab.com
We are excited to announce that Diane Rekow @drekowphd.bsky.social & Lukas Kunz @lukaskunz.bsky.social are the winner of the Schilling Research Award 2025. Both impressed the jury so much with their outstanding applications that the decision was made to split the prize for the first time in history
January 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Very happy to receive the 2025 Schilling Research Award, shared with @drekowphd.bsky.social!
Many thanks to the @neurowissg.bsky.social for this recognition!
More information on my lab's research on the neural mechanisms of human spatial memory: spatialmemorylab.com
Many thanks to the @neurowissg.bsky.social for this recognition!
More information on my lab's research on the neural mechanisms of human spatial memory: spatialmemorylab.com
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POSTDOC OPENING in my lab & Jessica Payne’s (Notre Dame) at intersection of sleep & memory research with overnight PSG and innovative methods to alter sleep physiology to improve sleep and waking well-being #neurojobs #psychjobs [CV&cover letter to bruce.caughran@northwestern.edu] - please repost
December 2, 2024 at 10:05 PM
POSTDOC OPENING in my lab & Jessica Payne’s (Notre Dame) at intersection of sleep & memory research with overnight PSG and innovative methods to alter sleep physiology to improve sleep and waking well-being #neurojobs #psychjobs [CV&cover letter to bruce.caughran@northwestern.edu] - please repost