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Six open assistant professor positions at Boston University in Brain and Cognitive Health! Priority deadline: Nov 4. #psychscisky #neuroskyence

High-dimensional hippocampus representation facilitates learning of low-dimensional abstract representation and supports generalization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.24.761577v1

A vector navigation and inference architecture can construct universal cognitive maps for abstract reasoning www.cell.com/current-biol...

The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU is recruiting postdoctoral fellows! ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...

1/ Our brains probably don’t store a new copy of “red” when we encounter something red. Yet we can reinstate distinct memories of red objects. How do we reuse what we already know when encoding memories? Excited to share new work led by @haoliu4391.bsky.social, with @marcelomattar.bsky.social 🧠🧵

Super proud of many things about this work by the amazing @kristorpjensen.bsky.social. The work is one of my favourite things ever from the lab. Also super proud of Kris for choosing to send it to @elife.bsky.social - we get to see Kris explain every figure! elifesciences.org/articles/109...

Imagine two people standing in the same spot, looking at the same Goya. They inspect exactly the same parts of the painting, but in a different order. Later, they talk about what they saw. Ignoring all other differences: are the memories they formed identical?

I’m looking for two PhD students with competitively awarded scholarships: 1) Cognitive maps for causal inference warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... 2) Brain mechanisms of working memory removal and repetitive negative thinking midlandsmhndtp.ac.uk/project/2027...

We are hiring! The Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science at NYU are seeking applicants with an outstanding record of research in human neuroscience for an open tenure-track assistant professor position. Potential applicants can apply here by 11/15: apply.interfolio.com/195772

Proud to have this paper out today at Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com ! Heroic, creative work by Zekun Sun (w/ Zhiran Xie and me).

I'm hiring a postdoc to start in summer/fall 2027! My lab uses computational social & cognitive science methods to explore how tech shapes knowledge & power: www.crockettlab.org You can submit an application here: apply.interfolio.com/195297. Review of apps starts Nov 20. Please share!

(1/2) I’m starting a NeuroAI and comp neuro lab at the University of Toronto! How do brains and AI learn from ongoing experience? How do they connect delayed outcomes to past actions, adapt to change, and retain what matters? Recruiting funded PhD students for Fall 2027. Links in the reply 👇

Paper accepted at Imaging Neuroscience! Watch this space for links to the final open-access version. Also, thank you to the commenters on the original post--we incorporated some of your suggestions, which I think made for a better paper.

How do 🐁deal with complex landscapes? Turns out they learn a lot very quickly. We think they do this by learning a set of repeated sparse paths, which form a type of compressed world model. Joint work with the Hermundstad lab, led by Tzuhsuan Ma and Alison Comrie: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A new paper from my PhD work! Attention reshapes how the cortex represents meaning. Does the same thing happen in the cerebellum?

🚨 HyperTools 1.1 is out! 🚨 This is our group's Python library for working with and visualizing high-D data. v1.0 was a ground-up rewrite; 1.1 fixes lots of bugs and adds some fun/useful new features and better data handling. pip install --upgrade hypertools Read on for a tour! 🧑‍💻

I've always felt that I learn best by playing around with things (and breaking them 😅). So I’ve put together a few interactive tools to help NeuroCog bachelor/master students grasp some basic neuroscience concepts. 🔗 www.lindedomingo.com/teaching Thanks @ortiztudela.bsky.social for the idea!

Hi all, I'm happy to announce that I have started at the University of Oregon as an assistant professor! My group will use computational methods to study learning and synaptic plasticity. I will be hiring grad students this year--please reach out if you're interested! colinbre@uoregon.edu

Our postdoctoral researcher Mengcun Gao studies how we build a picture of the world out of the patterns in our experience 🧠 How do learners pick out what matters, organize what they find, and generalize beyond what they've directly seen? She'll be presenting at #psynom26 in November!

Our reward function compression work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉 In it, we present and empirically test a computational framework that formalizes the trade-offs between goal flexibility and learning efficiency. @annecollins.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414...

The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab (ballardlab.org) at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1! tinyurl.com/yjubmvvb

The MindCORE Fellows Application is open! We seek applications from recent PhDs in neuro, psych, ling, philo, comp sci, or other cog sci discipline for our 3-yr postdoc. MindCORE is Penn's interdisciplinary effort to understand human intelligence & behavior. mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora...

Gonzaga University is hiring (TT) in neuroscience for Fall 2027. Gonzaga is a great place focused on undergraduate education with strong support for research. Deadline Oct 26! employment.gonzaga.edu/jobs/assista...

Re-post 🔁 is appreciated! #neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social!
If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇

I'm recruiting PhD students this cycle! We study how the brain perceives, remembers, and predicts naturalistic experiences like movies and games, using computational tools to analyze behavioral and neural data 🧠 App deadline is 12/2/26 - see our lab pubs on our website www.dpmlab.org/pubs.html

The rich get richer in visual processing: latest study with @ivntmc.bsky.social shows that we allocate resources preferentially to stimuli that we feel confident in estimating, which makes us better at estimating them...even if the initial confidence was misplaced. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Reposting, in case you missed it! 8-) Reskeet appreciated!

Modeling decision dynamics improves ability to distinguish RL from WM - both recovery and out of sample prediction, with clinical differences revealed

Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0

I am recruiting graduate students for UCI's PhD in Cognitive Sciences - www.cogsci.uci.edu/graduate/pro... The lab's focus is on how relational structure and combinatorial reasoning is implemented in human brains and large language models--and if they are similar.

Thrilled to announce that I will be joining the University of Miami as an Assistant Professor of Psychology next year! I am recruiting a PhD student to start in Fall 2027 — please reach out if you are interested in joining the lab! For more info check out my website: dan-mirea.com

How do philosophers and scientists of mind actually work together, and where does the collaboration break down? ISPSM is launching In Conversation, a new online series that aims to bring philosophers and scientists together to work through questions like these. 📅 23 Oct 2026, 1pm BST/8am EDT

Our multilayer MEG paper is out today in Nature Communications: depth-resolved laminar inference in humans 🧠#neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In our Nature paper, we introduce the first superhuman Stratego AI, which we built using general techniques that we developed for RL & test-time compute under imperfect information. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Medial PFC interacts with the hippocampus to retrieve context-congruent memories.. but HOW?? was what started this. Simulating mPFC-HIP🧠, we designed an RNN🤖 that retrieves memories similar in context, on top of self-attention. It learns to retrieve like humans faster! arxiv.org/abs/2609.37791

Interested in higher-order cognition and PFC: how *does* the PFC build abstract task representations?! Going to @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2027? Vote for our symposium! cogneurosociety.org/symposium-voting-form/ feat. @desrocherslab.bsky.social @lapate.bsky.social @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social !

🚨 New preprint! With @mdelmarco.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social Can episodic memory become more flexible, expanding retrieval to new cues, without sacrificing concrete details? Our results suggest so, highlighting the adaptive nature of episodic memory www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our paper is out in Nature Communications! In our messy, noisy world, do you find planning difficult/less worthwhile? It's not just you. As we increased the stochasticity in a planning environment, we found that people spent less effort planning: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cogsci #planning

New lab preprint! @khoudary.bsky.social presents a tour-de-force: a new model of how uncertain expectations should help resolve uncertain sensations, supported by re-analysis of four experiments in monkeys (behavior, ephys) and humans (behavior, fMRI, EEG, intracranial) @meganakpeters.bsky.social

Looking for a postdoc in comp neuro and human brain imaging? Interested in foraging? Join our international collaboration with Jon Rubin, @jyotikab.bsky.social, & @davidrobbe.bsky.social be.bsky.social to study the neural basis of foraging behavior! cmu.wd115.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

how does memory support perceptual decisions made under uncertainty? this question has scaffolded my entire PhD, and I'm so excited to share part of it in this ✨new preprint ✨ w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social! link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀

New preprint! Are attentional lapses the result of disengagement or simply response failure? Using EEG, we tested how attention fluctuations impact visual representations in the brain. (1/5) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Columbia Psychology is hiring for a Cognitive Science/Neuroscience Assistant Professor position as part of our ongoing push to expand our Cognitive research program (including two hires last year). We'll be starting application reviews next week so get materials in asap! apply.interfolio.com/193975

Degraded neural representations foreshadow failures of sustained attention https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.21.753248v1

2 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights:

There are 2 tenure-track searches happening at UT Austin Psychology @utaustin.bsky.social! Dev/Social: apply.interfolio.com/194041 Clinical: apply.interfolio.com/194045 Please apply and be my colleague! Austin is awesome, UT is awesome, and the department is awesome⭐