Characterizing individual brain differences to advance personalized diagnosis, treatment, and sustainable healthcare

🚨 We’re recruiting a fully funded PhD student (from outside the UK) to join the lab with @tessamdekker.bsky.social 🌍👁️🧠 The PhD is part of IndiBrain.eu and will use cutting‑edge fMRI+qMRI+psychophysics to study information flow between eye and brain in ocular gene therapy. Apply by 27 Feb! t.ly/gahGB

Is the concept of “category-selectivity” holding the field back in understanding high-level visual cortex? Detailed discussion in our published perspective piece and accompanying commentaries:

Can we use robotic augmentation limbs as flexibly as our natural limbs⁉️

🧨 Our new study, just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social, tested this using the Third Thumb @daniclode.bsky.social: a wearable robotic
extra thumb you control with your toes!

www.cell.com/current-biol... ‼️‼️

Happening Tuesday and Wednesday. Links for the online videocast can be found here: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

Honouring Vincent Hayward – a pioneer of multisensory science. A special issue of @multisensoryres.bsky.social celebrates his remarkable legacy across #Engineering, #Neurophysiology, skin mechanics and #Perception.

🚨Two weeks away!🚨

Reminder that our first workshop of the year will happen in two weeks featuring @russpoldrack.org.

🧠 Better Code, Better Science

📅22 April 2026

🔗Register: forms.gle/WRUdGQEpd5is...

#OHBM #OpenScience

View of Rovereto in Italy for the CAOs 2026 workshop on Functional and Neural Perspectives. Registration is open until 20 April 2026. The event will take place from 6 to 8 May 2026.

Registration for the Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (#CAOs2026) - Functional and Neural Perspectives is open until April 20.

📍Join us in Rovereto, Italy, from 6 to 8 May.

🔗More info: event.unitn.it/cimec-caos/

@moritzwurm.bsky.social

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...

𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲𝘀
⏰ Abstract submission closes soon: imrf2026.sciencesconf.org

There are also prizes and grant opportunities for early-career researchers:
🎓 Travel Grant by The Sense - Apply by March 14
🎤 Young Talk Session by EJN
🏆 Poster Award by Brain Sciences

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

3 DAYS TILL STAND UP FOR SCIENCE TAKE BACK OUR SCIENCE RALLY NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

In just 3 days, the Take Back our Science Rally hits the streets in Washington DC and all across the country! Join a local rally, or if notning's nearby, start your own pop-up rally. Details at zurl.co/NUhkK
(1/2🧵)

#science
#standupforscience
#rally
#March7

📌 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

Congratulations!

Scientia/De Lange Conference | Rice University Conference focused on the exploration of the dynamic interactions between technology, society, and culture. More specifically, the conference will address the challenges of information technology, hea...

If you are in Houston - or want to travel - join us at Rice Thursday March 12-14 for DeLange XIV: Brains in Society: Preparing for Neuroscience’s Impact on our everyday lives. DeLange.rice.edu

Interest form - volunteering for a SAMP Lab study Welcome to the Sensory and Motor Plasticity Lab volunteer interest form, and thanks for showing an interest in our research! We are currently recruiting for a study of brain plasticity in people with...

Interested?
Please submit the interest form found at forms.gle/WQTKT3GDWMjM...,
email SAMPLab_recruitment@georgetown.edu or call 202- 687- 8329.

To learn more about this study and related projects, visit samp-lab.facultysite.georgetown.edu/research.

Compensation:
- $50 per hour for time spent inside the scanner, and $25 per hour for time outside the scanner
- If you decide to withdraw from the study early, you will be paid for the time you completed to that point
- All transportation costs for each session will be covered by the university.

Eligibility:
- Must be blind from birth or infancy, and live within 50 miles of Washington DC.

Participation:
- One 4-hour behavioral session
- Three 2-hour sessions in an fMRI scanner. fMRI is a non-invasive brain imaging technique

The long-term goal of this research is to understand how to improve sight recovery for people who lost their sight later in life.

Georgetown University Medical Center is seeking individuals who are blind from birth or infancy to participate in a behavioral and fMRI research study to explore how the brain regions responsible for visual processing are reorganized to support other functions.

Interest form - volunteering for a SAMP Lab study Welcome to the Sensory and Motor Plasticity Lab volunteer interest form, and thanks for showing an interest in our research! We are currently recruiting for a study of brain plasticity in people with...

Paid Research Opportunity for Blind Participants!

Have you ever wondered if your blindness has affected your memory, cognitive processing, or other senses?

Research plug: we're currently seeking (bilateraly, congenitally) blind adults & Deaf adults for a *paid* online research study (screen reader compatible) on how individuals experience words across perceptual modalities. Ping bergelsonlab@fas.harvard.edu if interested! Reposts welcome! #Blind #Deaf

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Deadline coming up!
If you're interested in a postdoc position in fMRI + plasticity, individual differences, and a translational twist, email me and/or apply.

Registration for the workshop closes this Sunday (no extensions)! Come join us in what will be the biggest in-person ISRW to date!
#sleeppeeps #cns2026 @cnsmtg.bsky.social

✨ New 3D pose estimation method from my lab! #FMPose3D allows for monocular (i.e. single camera) 2D➡️3D 🔥

Led by Ti Wang & w/ Xiaohang Yu #FMPose3D is SOTA on human & animal 3D benchmarks, & will be integrated into @deeplabcut.bsky.social ⬇️

📝 arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755
➡️ xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/

Breakthrough @nature.com study showcases new non-invasive treatment for Parkinson’s Disease that targets the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) with personalized neuromodulation, for superior outcomes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Infants: Insights From More Than 750 Scanning Sessions Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in awake infants has the potential to reveal how the early developing brain gives rise to cognition and behavior. However, awake infant fMRI poses signifi...

Congratulations to @lillianbehm.bsky.social, Nick Turk-Browne, and a huge team for putting together this paper (out today) on lessons from a decade of attempts to study awake infants with fMRI:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Beautiful work on visual development - with a large cohort of *awake* 2-month olds!

This was such a fun section to write! The review provides an on-ramp to further integrating DL within the developmental field. Existing DNN findings & tools, while not without caveats, open new empirical developmental questions. I'm grateful for NSF's support to my lab as we tackle some of them 👶

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.

My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.