Valeria Gonzalez, PhD
@vgonzalez.bsky.social
Behavioral neuroscientist with interest in decision-making and (ir)rationality.
Assistant Professor at Reed College #newPI
Former postdoc at Izquierdo Lab UCLA
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https://www.vgonzalezlab.com/home
Assistant Professor at Reed College #newPI
Former postdoc at Izquierdo Lab UCLA
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https://www.vgonzalezlab.com/home
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The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
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We are hiring, come work with us!
Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department
Deadline: December 1st
#neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky
Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department
Deadline: December 1st
#neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky
🚨We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (teaching & research contract, full-time, permanent), starting 1 April 2026! The application deadline is 1 December 2025.
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching)
Full-time, PermanentApplications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 1 April 2026. The post is open to ambitious, researc...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
We are hiring, come work with us!
Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department
Deadline: December 1st
#neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky
Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department
Deadline: December 1st
#neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky
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We’re hiring a technician!!
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We’re hiring a technician!!
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
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For those heading to #SfN25, come check out our posters on Saturday Afternoon! The lab is growing & expanding in several new directions & collabs #neuroeconomics 🧠🐭🧠 @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaiccp.bsky.social @sfn.org @socforneuroecon.bsky.social @bwfund.bsky.social @animalsocaging.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
For those heading to #SfN25, come check out our posters on Saturday Afternoon! The lab is growing & expanding in several new directions & collabs #neuroeconomics 🧠🐭🧠 @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaiccp.bsky.social @sfn.org @socforneuroecon.bsky.social @bwfund.bsky.social @animalsocaging.bsky.social
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Comparative Neuroanatomy legend Elizabeth Crosby was born 137 years ago today. She was a major contributor to the 1936 classic text The Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System of Vertebrates and recipient of the National Medal of Science.
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky 🧠
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky 🧠
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Comparative Neuroanatomy legend Elizabeth Crosby was born 137 years ago today. She was a major contributor to the 1936 classic text The Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System of Vertebrates and recipient of the National Medal of Science.
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky 🧠
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky 🧠
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JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...
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Interested in the brain, circuits, and behavior?
Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience?
The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring!
🧠 🔬 🟩◻️🟥->🍕🚫🍍
Check out our website for updates:
sites.google.com/view/forli-lab
Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience?
The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring!
🧠 🔬 🟩◻️🟥->🍕🚫🍍
Check out our website for updates:
sites.google.com/view/forli-lab
September 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Interested in the brain, circuits, and behavior?
Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience?
The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring!
🧠 🔬 🟩◻️🟥->🍕🚫🍍
Check out our website for updates:
sites.google.com/view/forli-lab
Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience?
The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring!
🧠 🔬 🟩◻️🟥->🍕🚫🍍
Check out our website for updates:
sites.google.com/view/forli-lab
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📚Been writing a book for the past 3 years about the science of pain & how to heal. I'm nervous AF but also know that the time has come for change-
ESPECIALLY with all the pain in the world right now.
Please spread the word & share with anyone who might need it 🙏🏼💥
www.amazon.com/Tell-Me-Wher...
ESPECIALLY with all the pain in the world right now.
Please spread the word & share with anyone who might need it 🙏🏼💥
www.amazon.com/Tell-Me-Wher...
Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal
Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal [Zoffness Ph.D, Dr. Rachel] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal
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October 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
📚Been writing a book for the past 3 years about the science of pain & how to heal. I'm nervous AF but also know that the time has come for change-
ESPECIALLY with all the pain in the world right now.
Please spread the word & share with anyone who might need it 🙏🏼💥
www.amazon.com/Tell-Me-Wher...
ESPECIALLY with all the pain in the world right now.
Please spread the word & share with anyone who might need it 🙏🏼💥
www.amazon.com/Tell-Me-Wher...
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An excellent comprehensive review “Revisiting the critical roles of reactive microglia in traumatic brain injury”
journals.lww.com/internationa...
journals.lww.com/internationa...
October 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
An excellent comprehensive review “Revisiting the critical roles of reactive microglia in traumatic brain injury”
journals.lww.com/internationa...
journals.lww.com/internationa...
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The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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October 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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I had so much fun organising #CISE2025 conference on Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration with Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb at beautiful Brown University then hearing about all the amazing research from our speakers…
October 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I had so much fun organising #CISE2025 conference on Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration with Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb at beautiful Brown University then hearing about all the amazing research from our speakers…
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We’re hiring!
My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease.
🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...
My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease.
🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...
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September 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
We’re hiring!
My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease.
🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...
My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease.
🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...
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Fully funded #FindAPhD! We'll be studying neurobiology of motivation in mice hunting crickets, using a combination of genetic manipulations, behaviour and in vivo ephys. Co-suprvised by the amazing @agonru.bsky.social and Gareth Arnott at QUB. #Neuroskyence Pls share
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Animal Biology in Health & Disease - Mick Craig
www.gla.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Fully funded #FindAPhD! We'll be studying neurobiology of motivation in mice hunting crickets, using a combination of genetic manipulations, behaviour and in vivo ephys. Co-suprvised by the amazing @agonru.bsky.social and Gareth Arnott at QUB. #Neuroskyence Pls share
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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At #CISE2025 Jordan Wylie is discussing curiosity about moral and immoral folks (eg Netflix) moralitylab.bc.edu/people/alumn...
October 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
At #CISE2025 Jordan Wylie is discussing curiosity about moral and immoral folks (eg Netflix) moralitylab.bc.edu/people/alumn...
Thank you to the organizers for a great great conference!
Epic doubleheader with Bob Wilson & Jackie Gottlieb & that’s a wrap on #CISE2025 🔭 Thanks to our amazing speakers & attendees!
October 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Thank you to the organizers for a great great conference!
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Our work, out at Cell, shows that the brain’s dopamine signals teach each individual a unique learning trajectory. Collaborative experiment-theory effort, led by Sam Liebana in the lab. The first experiment my lab started just shy of 6y ago & v excited to see it out: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
June 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Our work, out at Cell, shows that the brain’s dopamine signals teach each individual a unique learning trajectory. Collaborative experiment-theory effort, led by Sam Liebana in the lab. The first experiment my lab started just shy of 6y ago & v excited to see it out: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Just 4 weeks until the abstract deadline for Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration - ciseconf.github.io/CISE_2025/
🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct
📍 Brown University
👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb
👇 Speakers
Please submit & share!
🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct
📍 Brown University
👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb
👇 Speakers
Please submit & share!
CISE 2025
ciseconf.github.io
June 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Just 4 weeks until the abstract deadline for Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration - ciseconf.github.io/CISE_2025/
🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct
📍 Brown University
👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb
👇 Speakers
Please submit & share!
🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct
📍 Brown University
👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb
👇 Speakers
Please submit & share!
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Still a few weeks to register for some hands-on training and hacking on open-source tools for analysing animal motion, whole-brain microscopy with @brainglobe.info, and big imaging data. 🧠📈
Aug 11-15 at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social in London.
"Free as in beer" and travel stipends available.
Aug 11-15 at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social in London.
"Free as in beer" and travel stipends available.
We're excited to announce the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Source Week, August 11-15 2025 in London, UK.
Bringing together researchers and developers of open-source software for training, community-building and hacking.
No cost and travel stipends available.
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
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Bringing together researchers and developers of open-source software for training, community-building and hacking.
No cost and travel stipends available.
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
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May 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Still a few weeks to register for some hands-on training and hacking on open-source tools for analysing animal motion, whole-brain microscopy with @brainglobe.info, and big imaging data. 🧠📈
Aug 11-15 at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social in London.
"Free as in beer" and travel stipends available.
Aug 11-15 at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social in London.
"Free as in beer" and travel stipends available.
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super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reasoning Goals and Representational Decisions in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Lessons From the Drift Diffusion Model
The appropriate form of the drift diffusion model depends on how one wishes to reason about their target with the model. If the goal is to parsimoniously explain the speed-accuracy tradeoff, the appr...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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#neuroskyence #neuroscience community. What's a good figure to illustrate the exuberant anatomical connectivity of the brain (not just cortex).
I use a few in talks but looking for new examples.
This one is from Modha and Singh (2010)
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
I use a few in talks but looking for new examples.
This one is from Modha and Singh (2010)
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
May 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
#neuroskyence #neuroscience community. What's a good figure to illustrate the exuberant anatomical connectivity of the brain (not just cortex).
I use a few in talks but looking for new examples.
This one is from Modha and Singh (2010)
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
I use a few in talks but looking for new examples.
This one is from Modha and Singh (2010)
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Astrocytes have long been conceived as passive support player cells in the brain. But today @science.org (via 3 reports) they got a big upgrade for their active role in neuromodulation and control of brain function
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Astrocytes have long been conceived as passive support player cells in the brain. But today @science.org (via 3 reports) they got a big upgrade for their active role in neuromodulation and control of brain function
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Interested in #microglia? 🤔
This paper presents comprehensive insights into their heterogeneity and detailed cell-state annotation across development and neurodegenerative conditions.
Check it out!
#CNS #Immunology #Science
#neuroskyence #neuroscience #compneurosky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This paper presents comprehensive insights into their heterogeneity and detailed cell-state annotation across development and neurodegenerative conditions.
Check it out!
#CNS #Immunology #Science
#neuroskyence #neuroscience #compneurosky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Microglia heterogeneity, modeling and cell-state annotation in development and neurodegeneration - Nature Neuroscience
Microglia have key roles in CNS development and neurodegeneration. Here, the authors provide an overview of microglia heterogeneity, cell-state annotation and model systems.
www.nature.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Interested in #microglia? 🤔
This paper presents comprehensive insights into their heterogeneity and detailed cell-state annotation across development and neurodegenerative conditions.
Check it out!
#CNS #Immunology #Science
#neuroskyence #neuroscience #compneurosky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This paper presents comprehensive insights into their heterogeneity and detailed cell-state annotation across development and neurodegenerative conditions.
Check it out!
#CNS #Immunology #Science
#neuroskyence #neuroscience #compneurosky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...