The Obleser lab will be hiring soon!

New postdoc (fully funded) and
new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded).

Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct.
Watch out for official announcements!
Please be in touch.

auditorycognition.com
obleserlab.com
hoerhanse.de
lemmi.uni-luebeck.de

OPEN POSTDOC position (part of @erc.europa.eu Consolidator DYNALANG)

We build math&comp models of neural dynamics using insights from formal linguistics + ML

Seeking theory-driven researchers w/ interests in language, neural dynamics, & math/comp neuroscience.

Apply here: tinyurl.com/55exdpse

Last week, Zac Spalding (@zspald.bsky.social‬, 4th year PhD student, @dukeubme.bsky.social‬) presented Aditya Singh and colleagues’ 2025 paper on multi-regional, multi-subject neural speech decoding using from SEEG electrodes.

Interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026?

I'd be very happy to support postdoctoral researchers in co-developing a proposal in Aix-en-Provence, France, on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of inner speech.

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Postdoctoral Position in AI, Machine Learning and Auditory Neuroscience - Research Paris, France | Institut de l’Audition (Institut Pasteur)Duration: 24 months (flexible start)Supervisor: Keith Doelling (INSERM) About the position We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to focus...

🚨 Post-doc Job ALERT! Interested in using AI to better understand how the brain enjoys music? Or how auditory processing changes in Hearing Loss? Want to eat your weight in 🥖, 🧀, and 🍷? Click on this! #neurojobs, #blackinneuro, #neuroskyence, #psychjobs
research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Computational framework to predict and shape human–machine interactions in closed-loop, co-adaptive neural interfaces - Nature Machine Intelligence Madduri et al. introduce a computational framework grounded in control and game theory to model co-adaptation between users and decoders in neural interfaces. This framework enables a principled desig...

If you're interested in emerging ideas in neural interfaces, I humbly suggest my lab's latest: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Neural interfaces create dynamic interactions between the brain & devices. This means mean we need new engineering approaches beyond typical ML to "decode" a static brain

Last week, Baishen Liang (postdoctoral associate) led a discussion on a recent ieeg
speech paper from the Chang Lab by Patrick W. Hullett and colleagues on the frontal
and temporal parallel cortical speech processing pathways.

Very excited to have you here and looking forward to working with you :)

Last week, Jim Zhang (4th year PhD student,
@DukeBrain
) presented Sina Tafazoli’s paper on building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)

Great news, excited to have you as a colleague!!

We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings.

Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...

You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!

Soon hiring a lab manager! Looking for someone who is really interested in language neuroscience, who is organised, motivated, a great communicator, and who works well in a research team. Express interest by submitting this form: tinyurl.com/glysn-labman...

Reposts appreciated!

New PhD and post-doc job openings!

Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG).

Full details in the job offer below.

Congratulations to all the award winners! 🎉

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂

looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.

science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

Department Chair, Duke Neurobiology - Duke University, Durham job with Duke University - School of Medicine | 12852576 The Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) seeks a distinguished neuroscientist to serve as the next Chair of the Department of Neurobiology.

My department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social

Come by tomorrow morning to see Baishen's work on verbal working memory!

Come by this morning to see Areti's poster!

Stop by and say hello!

Come see the lab's work and say hello :)

@davidpoeppel.bsky.social receiving the well-deserved @snlmtg.bsky.social Distinguished Career Award

David has had a lasting and deep impact on the field and on his many successful trainees. David is also known for his enjoinders to engage positively with the world.

#SNL2025

@snlmtg.bsky.social

Stop by this afternoon to see some intracranial speech decoding in the hippocampus and to say hello!

Come stop by to say hello and see some science!

MARBLE: interpretable representations of neural population dynamics using geometric deep learning - Nature Methods MARBLE uses geometric deep learning to map dynamics such as neural activity into a latent representation, which can then be used to decode the neural activity or compare it across systems.

Last week, Zac Spalding (@zspald.bsky.social‬, 4th year PhD student, @dukeubme.bsky.social‬) presented Adam Gosztolai, Robert Peach, and colleagues’ 2025 paper on MARBLE, a method for finding interpretable latent representations of neural dynamics.

Exciting work by PhD student Zac Spalding @zspald.bsky.social and multiple labs across departments at Duke! A combination of human electrophysiology, modeling/decoding, and cognitive concepts to improve BCI for speech in patients. 👏 🧠📈

From Cogan Lab Journal Club with @zspald.bsky.social
these decomposition acronyms are getting out of hand!

Excellent work by @zspald.bsky.social !!
He finds that a shared neural speech production space across Micro-ECoG patients boosts decoding performance. Check it out!
@dukebrain.bsky.social @dukemedschool.bsky.social

Periodic Tables: What Makes Us Speak? For most of us, our brain oversees our effortless ability to speak. How does it do this? And how can we read the brain to restore speech in patients who have lost this ability? This month at Periodic…

Living in or around #DurhamNC and looking for something fun to do? Come share drinks and data at our Periodic Tables science cafe event! @gcogan.bsky.social will take us on a guided tour of the brain’s remarkable capacity to enable speech and language.

Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus - Nature Human Behaviour Liu et al. examine the role of sustained neural activity in the planning and production of speech sequences, revealing a key role for the middle precentral gyrus.

Last week, Nanlin Shi (Postdoctoral Associate) presented Jessie Liu and colleague’s latest work on speech encoding in the middle Precentral Gyrus (mPrCG). This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...