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Another PhD! Huge congratulations to Dr. @margestelzner.bsky.social!!!! She completed a fantastic dissertation defense yesterday. We are all really proud!

A step-by-step guide to nailing your tenure promotion package It’s an important milestone in many academic careers, yet the tenure process is surprisingly nebulous. Here’s what it takes to succeed.

Are you coming up for tenure review in the next couple of years? See the @nature.com Careers team's advice for assembling a kick-ass tenure portfolio.

Reporting by @scattercushion.bsky.social

A step-by-step guide to nailing your tenure promotion package www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The kind of stable, sustained support that can transform a career: Our #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 years, plus salary & benefits. Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you, too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4tFKifj

To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides:
gershmanlab.com/lectures.html
I'll continue to update these as I improve them.

Scientific publishing needs to change. HHMI President Erin O'Shea and Bodo Stern argue that the incentives are misaligned. Researchers should be evaluated on what they choose to share, not what journals select. Proud that HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social is leading the way. Pre-Print: bit.ly/4sDCCsu

📢🎉@hhmi-science.bsky.social HHMI competition for the next cohorts of #HannaGray Fellows and #FreemanHrabowski Scholars opening 11/3/2026. Senior postdocs and faculty within 7 years of appointment. Up to $10M over 10 yrs, + salary & benefits. Spread the word and consider applying! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

If you need a method to infer causality from neural data, even when the signal is short, check our recent paper:

Paper: joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
Code: github.com/CMC-lab/Tran...

Want a dataset to test ideas on neural basis of decision making or how areas interact as we make choices? Check out our data published today @rudebecklab.bsky.social. >16,000 single neurons from 22 anatomically confirmed areas in macaques performing a decision task. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Letter asks Congress for nearly $500 million to sustain BRAIN Initiative The boost would help counter the planned sunsetting of one of the program’s long-standing funding streams.

The requested boost would help counter the planned sunsetting of one of the program’s long-standing funding streams, which will result in a $195 million drop in funding for fiscal year 2027.

By @avaskham.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/lett...

What happens when HHMI scientists come together? Inspiring conversations, new perspectives, and a shared excitement for discovery. No matter what program they’re part of, our Investigators, Scholars, Fellows, and more join a vibrant scientific community driven by bold ideas.

Repeated Viewing of a Film Clip Changes Event Timescales in The Brain Many everyday experiences share a recurring structure: routines, familiar routes, rewatched films, and replayed songs. How do repeated encounters with such structure alter the brain’s representations ...

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience?

Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as events become familiar. Slow-timescale structure predicts memory.

Excited to share this work w/ Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

Proud to see this fantastic work by my PhD student @anastasiakrouglova.bsky.social on multifidelity SBI out in the world!

Multiple sources of β2*-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor binding are differentially affected during tobacco smoking abstinence as revealed by Independent Component Analysis of [18F]Flubatine PET images Neuropsychopharmacology - Multiple sources of β2*-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor binding are differentially affected during tobacco smoking abstinence as revealed by Independent Component...

Using independent component analysis of [18F]Flubatine PET to dissociate β2-containing nicotinic ACh receptor subtypes in the human brain, this study found that subtype-specific nicotinic receptor adaptations may inform smoking cessation therapies

Selective control of prefrontal neural timescales by parietal cortex
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience

A corticostriatal circuit updates subjective beliefs about latent task states www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

3-001, poster session 3 (Sat, Mar. 14, 13:15): @armanbehrad.bsky.social on unsupervised method to find behaviorally relevant internal states from data. We tested it w/ RNN & monkey data doing cognitive tasks & RNN trained with deep RL on a naturalistic plum tracking task.

We made a highly blue-light resistant red-fluorescent genetically encoded calcium sensor GECI) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

BluePrint™ 🗺️ below:

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on His Mission to Rebuild Public Trust in the NIH and CDC He discusses "DEI" research, campus funding freezes, ACIP, and the path forward for the nation's public health infrastructure

The @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social team asked some tough questions of NIH Director Bhattacharya. It's worth a listen: substack.com/home/post/p-...

I wanted to add some additional context on Bhattacharya's responses. Sorry, long thread.

🧵1/19

The KM Lab is hiring!
We're looking for both a new technician (makes a great post-bac like experience) and a post-doc.

Come do fun science. Come join an amazing community.

Learn more:
sites.google.com/site/krookma...

It’s out!

Crafting tales of science with Theanne Griffith A lifelong passion for writing helped the neuroscientist land a book deal and publish 15 chapter books for early readers, covering topics ranging from what the cerebellum does to how a cake bakes.

A lifelong passion for writing helped rising star @doctheagrif.bsky.social land a book deal and publish 15 chapter books for early readers, covering topics ranging from what the cerebellum does to how a cake bakes.

By @avaskham.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

Check out #StoriesOfWin interviewee, Aya Osman, in her interview with The Transmitter! Great article about an incredible scientist 🧠

Very excited to get to share culmination of this large-scale project to understand spatial gene expression in schizophrenia. Really proud of the amazing team work here working out lots of roadblocks to deploy these spatial strategies and analysis methods at scale!

🔬🧠 Releasing the 1.0 version of #Suite2p and THE PAPER w/ @marius10p.bsky.social! Now with GPU acceleration. Want to use Suite2p but don’t have 100,000 neuron recordings? We show you how to get those with a standard 2p microscope #neuroscience #imaging #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Duration between rewards controls the rate of behavioral and dopaminergic learning - Nature Neuroscience Cue–reward learning rate scales proportionally with the time between rewards. Consequently, learning over a fixed duration is independent of the number of trials. This challenges trial-based dopamine ...

Very excited to post our paper led by @daburke.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... where we uncover a simple mathematical rule underlying how brains learn that a cue predicts a reward. 1/26

The Novel Progressive Ratio with Reset Task Reveals Adaptive Effort-Delay Trade-Offs The progressive ratio (PR) schedule is a popular and well-established tool used to study decision-making and effort across species. In this task, subjects perform an instrumental response to receive a...

A nice highlight of @zeenarivera.bsky.social's PR with reset task! www.eneuro.org/content/13/2...

PhD students’ taste for risk mirrors their supervisors’ Learned risk-taking behaviours can persist for years after leaving the lab — and even after taking on a new research topic.

A researchers’ propensity for risky projects is passed down to their doctoral students — and stays with trainees after they leave the laboratory

go.nature.com/4sHq58H

Talia Lerner and Jun Ding, backdrop of mountains in Italy at the GRC site

#GRCBasalGanglia co-chairs 4 life 🫶🏼

Anthropic partners with Allen Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute to accelerate scientific discovery Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

We're partnering with @anthropic.com on the development of artificial intelligence tools for massive data analysis and exploration.

This collaboration will explore how AI systems could expedite analysis and day-to-day scientific workflows.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4rsghh9

@arifahamid.bsky.social kicking off Imbizo 2026 in Cape Town! Time for comp neuro epicness in Africa!
@simonsfoundation.org @imbizo.bsky.social @ibroorg.bsky.social