My review on the "Confidence-accuracy dissociations in perceptual decision making" is now published. I think that this will be useful to both experts and newcomers to the field.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

With the arrival of @masudhusain.bsky.social ‘s book, my Oxbridge Christmas wish has been fulfilled 😎

Kundu lab at university of missouri is also seeking research assistants for iEEG memory data analysis $46K with benefits. MATLAB required #neurojobs #workingmemory #ieeg - apply erecruit.umsystem.edu/psp/tamext/C...

Kundu lab at Univ of Missouri is hiring a lab manager/staff scientist! Come study memory in human patients using iEEG data in a chill college town. MATLAB required. $52K-$80K neurojobs.sfn.org/job/39531/le...
#academicjobs #researchspecialist #signalprocessing #neuroscience #iEEG #neurojobs

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.

Beautiful paper by Tingting Wu and @qing-yu.bsky.social suggesting reduced top-down influence from IPS to EVC during imagery and VWM maintenance in aphantasia: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Birkbeck academic awarded 2025 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship Dr Daniel Yon, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at Birkbeck, has been announced as a recipient of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.

Really delighted to have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship by the @britishacademy.bsky.social , which I’ll be using to work on a new book about the human imagination 🧠

Neural circuits encode prior knowledge of temporal statistics - Nature Neuroscience This study shows that cerebellar circuits learn and encode prior probabilities of event timing. Cell-type-specific neural activity reflects environmental statistics and guides predictive motor behavio...

Our work on how neural circuits in the cerebellum encode prior probabilities led by Julius Koppen is out now in Nature Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big thanks to Julius Koppen & the whole team! And dedicated to all of us who found inspiration in Bayesian theories of the brain!

The Obleser lab will be hiring soon!

New postdoc (fully funded) and
new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded).

Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct.
Watch out for official announcements!
Please be in touch.

auditorycognition.com
obleserlab.com
hoerhanse.de
lemmi.uni-luebeck.de

The "2-body problem" affects many in #AcademicSky & #PsychSciSky.

Join us April 28, 2pm EDT, for an open & honest conversation with women who have navigated this reality firsthand. Jointly organized by @sparksociety.bsky.social @wicsc-trainee.bsky.social

Register: tinyurl.com/yc86by7f

Esterlab en fuego! 🔥

Another new one from the lab in J Neurosci:

www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Evidence accumulation is a core principle by which brains convert information into decisions. But what happens when the evidence the brain needs can't be directly read from an external stimulus or memory? 1/N

Not for me; cognitive neuroscience @ UW-Madison Psychology

Alex Martin talking about his science career

Alex Martin talked about his "eclectic" career spanning over 4 decades, including 31 years in the Laboratory of Cognition (NIH), with some reflections on what makes a successful scientific career: "the right place at the right time", "it's good to be first", "controversy is helpful"

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yuanyuan Weng, Jelmer P. Borst, and Elkan G. Akyürek:

Sustained alpha oscillations serve attentional prioritization in working memory, not maintenance

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Classic example of Iranian grit and intentionality:

Sharif Uni may have been bombed but that is no excuse to stop class! Math professor in his bombed office yesterday giving his scheduled lecture online for the randomized algorithm course

Protect Academic Life in Iran We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...

Academic friends,
It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region.
A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions.

Please read & sign if you agree:
sites.google.com/view/protect...

#IranWar

Darcy told me just yesterday! I’m thrilled, and so happy for you!!!

CAMP Lab | about The CAMP Lab at the University of Iowa uses computational, neuroimaging, pharmacological, and neuromodulation approaches to understand motivation, affect, and decision-making — and how these processes...

I'm SO pleased to announce that I'll be starting as an Asst Prof at @psychiowa.bsky.social this August.

The lab will focus on neural & computational mechanisms of motivation, affect, & decision-making, with the aspirational goal of translation to neuropsychiatric disorders. 🧠
yeelabneuro.com

IRiSS Predoctoral Researcher in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States The Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) is seeking Predoctoral Researchers to participate in our 2026-2027 cohort. The...

Come join us! We have two research coordinator positions open with the Stanford IRISS predoctoral program, a program designed to mentor students for graduate study:

LEVANTE: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...
BabyView: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...

(deadline 5/1)

Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit.
You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?

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.

check out the awesome clustering+visualization of abstracts from @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2026 that's linked in this post!

To text and back again, a vision-language model's tale

New post in JoCNForum by @ryanhammonds.bsky.social and colleagues: "To text and back again, a vision-language model's tale"

doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

so sorry

📢 PhD position in the @cognition-zurich.bsky.social at University of Zurich

I’ve been part of the lab for 7+ years, and it’s a genuinely collaborative and supportive place to grow as a researcher and do research on working memory and cognition 👇

I've been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for "distinguished contributions to the field of neuroscience and neuropsychology particularly in the area of neurodegenerative diseases." Thanks to my great students and collaborators! I feel a like a celebrity.

Incredibly honored to be named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
This distinction recognizes the work of my students and trainees over the years.
Congratulations to the other Vanderbilt faculty elected AAAS Fellows as well.

embargo period of 12 months

GAH! My R01 is being held up for public access non-compliance for two articles. All articles must be deposited in PubMed Central with zero embargo, but the publisher (in this case Elsevier) sets the embargo time. Has anyone encountered this issue? Open access papers are not embargoed, right? GAH