🎶🛏️ Call for contributions!
The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral).
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk
#confmussleep #musicscience
The two positions are funded by CNRS, with generous support from our industrial collaborator, and will be jointly supervised by Prof. Pierre-Henri Cornuault (Mechanical Engineering) and myself (neuro-team-femto.github.io). The positions are based in Besançon, France.
I'm excited to announce the opening of up to 2 PhD positions in mechanical engineering and tactile psychophysics, in close industrial collaboration with a major cosmetics manufacturer.
More information: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/09/15/T...
Application deadline: 31st Oct. 2025
Sperber wrote this 22 years ago (when I was starting my studies in CogSci) and these words still ring true www.dan.sperber.fr?p=101
We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs
Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot:
"Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
(by Balaban & me)
relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...
A new study shows a "pivot penalty" where the likelihood of being a "hit" (top 5% of citations in that field) or getting published go down the more that a scientist shifts from their main discipline.
I have a few thoughts, some on how this was framed
(🧵)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Agreed. It's unclear whether reading that second paper improved what understanding I got from reading the first, when you compensate for the number of extra words I had to go through.
An infographic providing an overview of the CODE roadmap for sharing research software and code: Open Document Execute Collaborate.
🤔 You’d like to share your research code but not sure how to…?
🔓*Very* excited to finally share this work led by @nicolasrougier.bsky.social in which we propose a practical set of guidelines for opening code.
inria.hal.science/hal-04930405...
Thanks for the kind words @fourtassi.bsky.social, means a lot coming from you !!
A world-heritage site close to the French-Swiss mountains of Jura, within easy train access from Paris, Besançon is a vibrant, mid-size regional capital city regularly ranking best-in-France for quality of life and surface green per inhabitant (www.youtube.com/embed/wCZ5kb...)
The recruited person will join the FEMTO Neuro group, a research group exploring novel control and dynamical-system approaches to human neuroscience, at the Dept. of Automation & Robotics, FEMTO-ST Institute in Besançon, France (www.youtube.com/embed/3fsEKE...).
Our research group is advertising an exciting new PhD position at the intersection of control engineering and neuroscience, aiming to advance our understanding of how humans control the sound of their voice.
Position start: Oct. 2025
Deadline: 16 May 2025
neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/04/22/F...
Cool #neuroscience PhD opportunity on the interplay between speech production and perception, with 2 great PIs Anahita Basirat in SCALAB, @univlille.bsky.social (France) and Vitória Piai @dondersinst.bsky.social (The Netherlands)
Deadline: 28 March 2025
www.risc.cnrs.fr/echos/2903527
Made a video showcasing resolve.pub which is like "google docs" for technical (ipynb/qmd) documents. The Video walk through how you can share any notebook on github with people who never code.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBmB...
@lnalborczyk.bsky.social is fantastic - anyone interested in voice neuroscience and cognitive modeling please keep tabs !
In the age of AI, "if we keep rewarding more papers published per year in academia, we’re setting ourselves up for more mediocrity, if not more complete BS".
blog.mahabali.me/educational-...
“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.”
chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...
🙋♂️
The outer ear is a mammalian innovation but where did it come from? In our study in Nature, Mathi Thiruppathy and colleagues find that the outer ear arose from modification of an ancestral gill program first originating in marine invertebrates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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“Masland & Martin (2007, R581) write that “experimental physiologists know all too well that sensory systems are only linear when the experimenter forces them to be so.” ... “forcing” linearity amounts to the selection of experimental conditions that induce more simple behavior”
The Brain Abstracted
Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025
I will buy these headphones
This is good ! I have abandonned too many papers at revision stage for this exact reason (+ never really abandonned them in my mind, whatismore - they clutter my todolist forever after)
lol, I was totally the same after being rejected from the ERC last time. Talk about a roller coaster !
In a @currentbiology.bsky.social paper earlier this year, led by @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social, we analysed Beethoven’s genome with a polygenic index related to musicality, as a way to communicate limits of genetic predictions at the individual level & the complexity of links between DNA & behaviour:
We anticipate that the position will be opened for applications from March to May 2025, with a start date in Sept. 2025.
We're super excited about this job - this is a great package in a great place, at a great time. Get in touch for more information ! neuro-team-femto.github.io/2024/04/19/f...
Both FEMTO-ST Institute and SUPMICROTECH-ENSMM are co-located in Besançon, a UNESCO world-heritage site and a vibrant, mid-size regional capital city close to the French-Swiss mountains of Jura, within easy train access from Paris and most major european travel hubs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ5...
For teaching, the recruited faculty will join the SUPMICROTECH-ENSMM computer science program (www.supmicrotech.fr), where they will develop classes in SciML, in interaction with the existing curriculum in micro-mechatronic, microrobotic and biological systems.
