Forthcoming in October, at MIT press!

mitpress.mit.edu/978026205590...

Request for Proposals: DIBS Dream Teams | Duke Institute for Brain Sciences We are looking for visionary collectives of scholars who aspire to integrate ideas across disciplines to foster a new, energetic community in a field of brain studies. Co

Duke colleagues: is there a new development in your field of brain studies that captivates you, but you feel alone in your excitement? Do you want to grow a community at Duke to explore it?

DIBS wants to help you! Announcing the new, 3-yr DIBS Dream Team awards:
dibs.duke.edu/request-prop...

Germinator Awards provide critical support for promising research | Duke Institute for Brain Sciences The six recipients of 2026 Germinator Awards from the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences talk about their projects, their career pathways and what the $25,000 grant means

The Duke Institute for Brain Sciences recently awarded grants of $25,000 to six graduate students and postdoctoral fellows through its Germinator Award program. Turning visionary insights into new advances requires the courage to take a risk.
dibs.duke.edu/news/germina...

The NIH is accepting comments on its Strategic Plan for FY 2027–2031.

Make your voice heard! Doesn't need to take long, and doesn't need to be the most scholarly text you've ever written. Comments close May 26.

For details see
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Science peeps! Excited to share first of two preprints just uploaded. This one concerns a person who hears sounds when she moves her eyes! We could actually record these sounds and verify they were connected to eye movements 1/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to announce I will be moving on from my Duke post-bacc position to be a Duke PhD! I will be starting my PhD in the Psychology & Neuroscience department this fall in Dr. Kevin LaBar's lab.

#Neuroskyence #AcademicSky #GradSchool

Delighted to share that our study is now out @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce... Congrats to Dr. @federicamosti.bsky.social for the culmination of a beautiful thesis!

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres (@rmt93.bsky.social): We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual WM against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

New lab paper! 🧠

Human hippocampal & MTL theta activity is linked to eye movements, but only during memory-guided navigation. Theta is also strongest during longer, more exploratory eye movements.

plos.io/4dwJhR8

Huge congrats to Humza & team! 👏

Happy Spring Break!

New paper from the lab now out online! @changrun-huang.bsky.social asked whether people use informative pre-cues to up-regulate cognitive control in the spatial Stroop task. Surprisingly, they do not, and we rule out some possible reasons why. Enjoy!

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/research/research-conducted-at-nimh/scientific-director/office-of-fellowship-and-training/outstanding-scholars-in-neuroscience-award-program

I can highly recommend the NIH Outstanding Scholar in Neuroscience Award Program (nice backronym for OSNAP)! Need to be 2 years before/after PhD, due March 23. Great opportunity to visit and present at NIH and meet some amazing colleagues.
www.nimh.nih.gov/research/res...

Another reminder as we've crossed into the second half of February. There's still time to apply for the Neurobiology Chair position at Duke University! Just send in a letter of interest and CV by Feb 28. Love of Duke basketball is not required.

Neuroscience has a species problem If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

The biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now isn’t data or tools, thanks in large part to the BRAIN Initiative.

It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

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 (🤍 & ❔)

👀 check this out

Super excited for Jorge to join us at Duke. Welcome!!

One day online conference on the ways behavioral and neural sciences can inform peace efforts. Organized by Duke's amazing @felipedebrigard.bsky.social Free! Tomorrow! (Fri Feb 6). To register see link below.

behavioralscientist.org/program-neur...

Great opportunity!!

The 2026 DIBS Germinator Award recipients | Duke Institute for Brain Sciences DIBS is pleased to announce the 2026 cohort of Germinator Award recipients. The graduate students and postdoctoral fellows listed below were selected based on their innov

The Duke Institute for Brain Sciences restarted its Germinator seed grants for PhD students and postdocs this year, after a 4 year hiatus - and we are thrilled to announce the 6 awardees! Congratulations to all. 🧠

dibs.duke.edu/2026-dibs-ge...

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

Peace, love, and science from our lab to you.

Development of the primate projection-targeting opto methods was supported in part through a DIBS Germinator award to the incredibly talented Dr. Bohlen.

Beautiful work on a frontal cortex to brainstem pathway in the primate brain, from NEI intramural investigators with help from Martin Bohlen and others in the Sommer Lab at Duke! Optogenetics for projection targeting and causal manipulation, to study visuomotor behavior.

Tomorrow is the last day to apply for SSNAP! Please spread the word! #neuroscience #philosophy #neurophilosophy

Many congrats to the newly minted Dr. Maddie Clark!

Duke Researchers Selected to National Academy of Inventors | Duke Today

Two DIBS Network Faculty elected to National Academy of Inventors! Dr. Adam Wax: methods for imaging retinas & tracking biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Arovind Asokan: viral methods for gene therapies incl. for the brain. @dukeubme.bsky.social @dukesurgery.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/DIIBS-NAI

💪🥳

Congratulations Dr. Dodge!! For more information on his work, which focuses on the origins and prevention of aggressive and violent behaviors, here is his DIBS Faculty Network page:
dibs.duke.edu/profile/kenn...

Neuroanatomy with systems neuroscience implications, from Duke Research Scientist Dr. Martin Bohlen (@bohlen.bsky.social) and colleagues. Feedback from motor nuclei to the cerebellum in primates, well situated to provide corollary discharge for calibrating and coordinating eye movements. Beautiful!