An updated on Wellcome LEAP's $50 million FORM programme. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/03/upda...
#autism #microbiome

Acetylcholine demixes heterogeneous dopamine signals for learning and moving Nature Neuroscience - Jang et al. measured dopamine and acetylcholine release in the striatum of rats performing a decision-making task and found that the relative timing of cholinergic and...

Thrilled to share our new paper, which shows that the relative timing of cholinergic and dopamine release dynamically gates whether dopamine acts as an RPE for in vivo plasticity and reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Idea for a different way of doing project grants. Make decisions about which projects to fund based only on the questions asked, and then require successful grantees to go through a multi round post decision review process to sharpen up the methods and make sure they can answer the question.

Self-Reflection Protects Behavior from Volatile Beliefs Linked to Paranoia | Computational Psychiatry

New paper from @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social and @philcorlett.bsky.social in CPsy - Self-Reflection Protects Behavior from Volatile Beliefs Linked to Paranoia.

Link here: doi.org/10.5334/cpsy...

neuroAI comparisons of ANNs to brains do have a range of problems. Even more than I had realized. And I was worried before: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder Nature, Published online: 04 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10059-1The substantia nigra and all Parkinson’s disease deep-brain stimulation targets are selectively connected to the somato-cognitive action network rather than to effector-specific motor regions.

Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder @Nature.com

Deadline in 3 days (Thursday 5th) to apply for a PhD with me and @ktsetsos.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience / neuro-AI. Please share!

Is there a cost to apply?

🙋 Is there a cost to apply?
➡️ No! No payments are needed to apply. Application decisions come out Mid-April. You have until Early-May to enroll and pay your tuition and a small processing fee to secure your spot.

🤓 Applications for Neuromatch Academy open 16 February! neuromatch.io/courses/

Methodological flaw may upend network mapping tool The lesion network mapping method, used to identify disease-specific brain networks for clinical stimulation, produces a nearly identical network map for any given condition, according to a new study.

More than 200 published studies and at least seven ongoing clinical trials rely on potentially faulty brain network maps, according to a study published yesterday.

By @avaskham.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...

⏳ Just over 2 weeks left to apply! ⏳

We are looking for talented Cognitive Neuroscientists to join our team at Trinity College Dublin for postdoc positions funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV296/r...

www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0...

incredible resource for aspiring (and indeed existing!) computational cognitive neuroscientists

Excited to share our preprint! We show that primary visual cortex is modulated by global predictability. This effect depended on higher level brain region (area ACa), and better explained classic oddball paradigms better than “local” context effects (i.e., recent stimulus history). 1/3

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

This is a truly incredible thread

Good for you Imran! (I took over the New Mancunian from you many moons ago :) if you remember!) all power to you, good luck

"Socioeconomic status (SES) — not IQ or psychopathology — showed the strongest associations with both resting-state functional connectivity and cortical thickness in the ABCD Study." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 -
www.cpconf.org

@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop

More info to come soon!

New paper! A biomimetic model, NOT trained on neural data, eerily matched the recordings and uncovered a new neural property. You don’t see that very often.
Biomimetic model of corticostriatal micro-assemblies discovers a neural code
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience

This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

This was accepted for publication!
Thank you @schizbulletin.bsky.social

PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness at Birkbeck, University of London jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk

More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...

#cogsci #neuroskyence

Will be great to have you here in person at last! Exciting project coming up :)

Looking forward to starting work! Well done Huw

great stuff Tobias! good work

Congrats Ryszard! well deserved

This will be a great meeting… please sign up and submit your work!

Come join us at #SfN25 for the minisymposium "Cognitive Maps in the Prefrontal Cortex"!
Saturday, Nov 15, 2:00-4:30pm, Room SDCC 6CF
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We will explore how the PFC represents structured relationships across species and how this supports flexible behavior.

We're looking for a graduate research assistant for 2 years! Come work in my lab - cognitive neuroscience / computational neurology (🧠https://ndcn.ox.ac.uk/research/computational-neurology in Oxford, on motivation in Parkinson's disease. Patient-facing role. Apply now:

Serial Ketamine Infusions Fail to Outperform Placebo in New Trial A new clinical trial found that repeated ketamine infusions offered no meaningful advantage over an active placebo for depression patients.

A new inpatient trial of repeated ketamine infusions found no significant advantage over an active psychoactive control in reducing depressive symptoms. Read more: https://bit.ly/4qvn7To  #Psychiatry #Depression