The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t.
ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what they mean for applicants.
🔗 link.europa.eu/xF7kjc
JOB ALERT: PhD opening in my lab!
@cimecunitrento.bsky.social
in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant.
The project will use advanced analysis methods of MEG data to investigate how our world's naturalistic hierarchical structure facilitates predictive neural processing.
You have 10 minutes of task fMRI to map functional brain regions in an individual. Three decisions matter:
How do you localize regions?
Which tasks do you include?
How do you arrange tasks in your experiment?
Here, we tackle all three! Preprint👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.
Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels:
www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a...
Deadline: May 4th, 2026
Very happy to share our review on Reinforcement Learning vs Statistical Learning, with @ambrafer.bsky.social and @predictivebrain.bsky.social:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A nice summary:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/two-eng...
📢 PhD position in Developmental Language Modelling
(PLZ RT)
What can human language acquisition teach us about training language models? Join us as a PhD!
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-developmental-language @carorowland.bsky.social
@mpi-nl.bsky.social
@plosbiology.org is formalizing its long‑standing practice of asking authors to share research code, introducing a mandatory #code‑sharing policy and clarifying what is meant by code sharing.
Learn more and find guidance on best practice: plos.io/4reyX3v
📢 PhD position in the NeuroAI of Language
Why can LLMs predict brain activity so well? We're hiring a PhD student to find out -- AI interpretability meets neuroimaging
Deadline March 20
Please RT 🙏
👇
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-neuroai-language
📌 Curious to know more? Visit my website 👉 lnkd.in/d59v_TpH
📌 Looking for a PhD opportunity? The Spring admissions round at SISSA is now open and I’d be delighted to hear from prospective candidates (deadline: March 20, 1pm CET) 👉 lnkd.in/dvf6RuQd
I’m excited to join the vibrant SISSA community, and deeply grateful to everyone who has supported me along the way.
SISSA (Trieste, Italy)
🌟 Big news 🌟 This May I’ll join SISSA (Trieste, Italy) as an Assistant Professor in cognitive neuroscience, leading the Multimodal Communication Lab.
We will combine cognitive, computational and developmental methods to study how we communicate before and beyond words.
🧠🧪 #neuroskyence #neurojobs
After several years of work, my lab is starting to put out our first papers on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus).
Here we show evidence for a form of associative learning in Stentor:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We've posted a new fMRI study of semantic relations (has-part, is-a, made-of, etc.), a key aspect of language. We find that relations are represented in the same brain regions as are other semantic concepts, though voxels tend to be selective for only one relation or another.
doi.org/10.64898/202...
The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think.
We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science.
Read more and sign here: www.slow-science.com
1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
w/ Giulio Degano and Uta Noppeney
In this work, we use music to investigate how the brain extracts and integrates multisensory information in real-world environments.
🧠🧪 #psychscisky #neuroskyence
TL;DR 🧵👇
More broadly, our work reveals how the brain automatically extracts statistical correlations across the senses to track complex streams of information in our natural world.
Our findings highlight the important, yet largely unexplored influence of touch on auditory processing, offering a significant leap in our understanding of how the "feeling" of music enriches our auditory world.
These encoding benefits were associated with superadditive interactions in primary auditory cortex, where tactile signals sharpen and amplify auditory envelope representations. In complex polyphonic music, touch further amplified the segregation and encoding of temporally coherent auditory streams.
Vibrotactile signals improved the detection of a brief target embedded in music, establishing the functional relevance of audiotactile integration in naturalistic settings.
Using psychophysics, fMRI and time-resolved EEG decoding, we addressed how the brain encodes the temporal structure of music (beat and envelope) across audition and touch and uses this information to guide multisensory integration and segregation in simple and more complex perceptual scenes.
We often experience music not only through our ears, but also as vibrations resonating through our bodies, whether at concerts, festivals or even just via our mobile devices. How do these vibrotactile signals influence music processing? How do they aid auditory scene analysis?
🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
w/ Giulio Degano and Uta Noppeney
In this work, we use music to investigate how the brain extracts and integrates multisensory information in real-world environments.
🧠🧪 #psychscisky #neuroskyence
TL;DR 🧵👇
Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com:
1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science.
2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We’re happy to share that the website for the 24th International Multisensory Research Forum, which will take place in Genoa, Italy, from 24 to 27 June 2026, is now live:
imrf2026.sciencesconf.org
Save and share the key dates, and stay tuned for more updates. #IMRF2026
Well this is exciting!
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!
Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
High-level visual surprise is rapidly integrated during perceptual inference!
🚨 New paper 🚨 out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Summary 🧵 below 👇
GPT style cartoon of a debate between a smiling Skinner and a angry Chomsky, while in the back, a robot is reading "verbal behavior"
I’m happy to share a short opinion piece I’ve just finished, where I revisit the famous Skinner vs. Chomsky exchange on how language is learned through the lens of today’s large language models (before getting mad read the rest) 1/n
osf.io/preprints/ps...
This is a great resource for setting (or improving) a lab culture rooted in awareness, fairness, and equity:
📌 Publication: elifesciences.org/articles/108...
📌 Website: safelabs.info
Asking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!
