We're hiring! FT research assistant @ UT Dallas
Join our team to work on a longitudinal neuroimaging study of midlife brain aging.
Strong opportunity for those interested in brain networks, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease risk.
App. deadline May 6.
Details: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31680
New Annual Review with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social: “Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is.” We argue that the brain's 'planning' machinery is mostly used for learning from simulated experience, and that thinking prospectively at decision time is just one special case of this process.
New paper that merits a read (Im totally unbiased...not). Simple, straightforward, impactful message. Prediction a la LLM is nice. Constituent-constrained prediction is nicer. @jiajiezou.bsky.social and Nai Ding show brain, behavioral, MEG, ECoG data.
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
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Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
Timing, movement, and reward contributions to prefrontal and striatal ramping activity
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.
“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”
www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
@michael.muthukrishna.com and I are hiring a postdoc to join our labs at NYU! We're looking for someone excited to work on one of society's newly emerging and potentially generation-shaping challenges: the multi-agent alignment problem.
🚨 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...
We’ve got an exciting new thing to share! We have causal evidence (using TMR) that memory reactivation during sleep promotes abstract understanding of underlying structure, allowing transfer learning in a new domain with zero superficial feature overlap with the learned one.
Semantic Network of OECS articles.
Reminder! The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) hosts summaries of what we know vs don't about a host of fascinating issues. All freely available.
What a terrific alternative to doomscrolling: learning about (e.g.) The Mind-Body problem, Delusion, or Free Will.
oecs.mit.edu
In total, we find behavioral & neural evidence to support the idea that top-down visual attention targets stimuli with high value & is modulated by reward prediction error, particularly in a way that allows for exploration after negative error.
Thanks and 🥳 to @zleukos.bsky.social for the hard work!
New preprint from my lab! We study how reinforcement learning & selective attention interact. To do so, we built a set of models describing different ways that value & reward prediction error can modulate top-down attention. We compare model outcomes to monkey data from a color value learning task
New paper: Jamil Zaki and I integrate theories of empathy + emotion regulation to describe how therapists have to regulate a "therapeutic emotional circuit" in each session. Lots of applications and avenues for new research. Just published in CPS! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I am delighted to announce the launch of Tuniversity, my new music learning venture with my NYU colleague Derek Fawcett. We're having an inaugural meetup in NYC in a couple weeks, and our first online songwriting class starts in May. Lots more to come. tuniversityny.com
🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences.
Steps to counter this are in motion.
If you
- have an SBE proposal under review
- serve on an SBE grant panel
You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2
Really excited about our new work on aphasia! Even in fairly profound aphasia, we can recover semantic maps through visual stimuli and use them to decode language. This is a big step! Language BCIs in aphasia might be possible!
Group photograph of faculty and participants of the fourth Cold Spring Harbor summer course on Genetics and Neurobiology of Language in 2022, taken as the sun was going down at the Banbury Campus, Lloyd Harbor.
Only a few days left to apply for our unique interdisciplinary course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Fellowships & scholarships available. Apply by April 10:
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social
Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro!
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The US/Iran war and escalating rhetoric are already disrupting civilian life and academic infrastructure across the region. We drafted a letter in defense of academic life, and to mobilize concrete support for affected students, scholars, and collaborations. Please check Sepi’s message and sign.
Our deranged leader is threatening war crimes against 90 million people tonight. I just signed this letter and encourage you to consider signing:
sites.google.com/view/protect...
Saving SBE starts before the bill is written.
SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates:
www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337
Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Pre-doc Researcher/Lab Manager! 🚨🚨
Full-time pre-doc research opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026).
Review begins April 10
Apply: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...
Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇
Our study on how listening to groovy music *does not* modulate primary motor cortex is now published in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
🎶 Doctoral Researcher in Music Research – University of Jyväskylä, Finland
🧠 Explore music cognition, live performance, & audience behaviour through interdisciplinary research & experimental methods
🎓 Eligibility: Master’s
⏳ Deadline: 30 Apr 2026
🔗 higherjobz.com/fully-funded...
#PhD #MusicResearch
I am shocked to see this language from the NSF.
“The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”
Some science cuts in Trump's proposed FY27 budget
❌ NIH: -$5B, including all of NIEHS, NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH.
❌ EPA: -4.6B
❌ NSF: -3.8B
❌ NASA Science: -3.4 Billion
❌ NOAA: -1.8B, including the entire Oceanic and Atmospheric Research budget ($605M)
❌ AHRQ: All of it. -$296M, 100%
And there's more.
Important!! Our budget is AGAIN under threat!
Interested in spending 3-12 months with us in Oxford as a senior visiting academic? The Leverhulme Trust has a scheme to help. Get in touch with an Oxford colleague soon, as the internal deadline for interest is on Apr 17. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/visiting-pro...