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Looking for potential Community Advisory Board members for a grant on autism and pregnancy. If funded, advisory board positions would be compensated. Autistic individuals, researchers, healthcare providers, and family members with relevant lived experience or expertise, please DM!

Congratulations to Duke's Dr. Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social who has been selected by @statnews.com as one of this year's #STATWunderkinds !! The award recognizes early-career scientists and doctors shaping the future of science and medicine. Read more here: www.statnews.com/wunderkinds

New Study for autistic and non-autistic mothers — Please share! We’re recruiting autistic and non-autistic mothers of children ages 6 months to 2 years for a new study on infant directed speech. If you are interested in participating, please check it out: duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

📢 Another brain sciences job search at Duke! Seeking a tenured Full Prof. in Clinical Psych for the endowed Marcil-Monahan Family Professorship. Human neuroscience and quantitative mental health research preferred. Apply by Nov 15 for guaranteed consideration: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32753

Felipe De Brigard is a source of pride for Colombia and for the National University in Bogotá (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) where he studied philosophy.

So thrilled to see this. Congrats to Felipe de Brigard! Among the many hats he wears are core member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and DGS of its Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program for PhD students. Way to go Felipe! 🙌 @felipedebrigard.bsky.social today.duke.edu/2026/09/duke...

Come join our Duke Brain Sciences community! Neural engineers at Duke engage in diverse collaborations with clinicians, scholars in the humanities, and basic research neuroscientists. All within walking distance from each other. See tenure-track job ad from Duke Biomedical Engineering below!

Congratulations to Dr. Kevin LaBar for his appointment as Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke! We look forward to Kevin's leadership of the CCN, a center in DIBS focused on studies of the mind and its neural foundations. scholars.duke.edu/person/klabar

‼️ Exciting job opportunity - the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke is kicking into high gear. The position has the potential for lots of interactions with the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, as well. 🙂

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Computational or Theoretical Neuroscience -- Neurobiology Department, Duke School of Medicine. Excellent department & broader community! Across the street from Biomed Engr, + other collaborations galore. NC is lovely. Join us! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32697

Congrats to Felipe de Brigard, Prof. at Duke and PI of the Imagination and Modal Cognition Laboratory (IMC Lab, www.imclab.org) at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences! He is co-recipient of the 2026 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize from the American Philosophical Assn.

Two new papers on intracranial recordings during speech from DIBS faculty member Greg Cogan & colleagues! Improving speech decoding for brain-computer interfaces ~AND~ understanding the brain network fundamentals of spoken language planning and articulation. What a summer for them!

1/6 Opioids trigger a dopamine surge that can create dangerous reward associations—yet that same dopamine signal may help shape central pain perception. Can the dopamine surge and reward associations be separated? Our recent Nature study says yes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

**Four** positions in AI/ML for biology at @dukemedschool.bsky.social, including in Neurobiology. @scottsoderling.bsky.social and David Page are leading a tremendous initiative in Discovery AI. Wonderful colleagues, wonderful place.

Our new review paper lead by CNAP PhD Student Jim Zhang and @tobiasegner.bsky.social is now published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews: “Insights into the neural mechanisms supporting cognitive stability and flexibility from human intracranial EEG.” doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... 1/5

You may have read that the OMB is proposing dozens of changes to grant selection, oversight, termination, etc. 📢 Public comments accepted through July 13! Nearly 70k so far. If you are at Duke, you can contact OR&I at vpri@duke.edu for basic guidance. Be heard! www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2...

Congratulations Minel Arinel @minelarinel.bsky.social and the Naumann lab at Duke for this epic work on development of gut-brain communication!

What a fantastic visit I had. Thanks so much @martinowk.bsky.social for hosting me and excited for future collaborations!

SSNAP always ends with a final conference, open to the public--both in person and online. Here are the zoom links for this afternoon, for those who want to connect. Feel free to share widely! Jorge Morales (Northeastern): duke.zoom.us/j/99919297471 Zoe Drayson (UC Davis): duke.zoom.us/j/91565535456

Very excited about this landmark study led by Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social along with DIBS faculty network members John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social and Rich Mooney! Opto & chemogenetic exploration of birdsong circuits guided by a computational framework. 🤩 Congratulations!

Introducing the Duke Psychedelic Community of Scientists! 🍄 A space for students, postdocs & faculty to connect and explore psychedelic science together. Exciting meetings ahead, scan the QR code to join, and reach out if you or anyone you know would be interested in presenting.

Two more newly minted PhDs!! Hope for the future of science.

Letters of Intent due this coming Wed., May 13! tinyurl.com/DIBS-DreamTeams

Congratulations to our Ph.D. Fellowship awardees! DIBS has awarded 19 fellowships to PhD students across Duke who are conducting research on brain-themed topics. The new Fellowship program covers much of their training costs for up to two years. dibs.duke.edu/news/phd-fel...

📢‼️🧠 The Duke School of Medicine is searching for a new Chair of Neurology. Letter of Interest and CV due May 22. Come join us in beautiful North Carolina! medschool.duke.edu/about-us/lea...

📢‼️🧠 The Duke School of Medicine is searching for a new Chair of Neurology. Letter of Interest and CV due May 22. Come join us in beautiful North Carolina! medschool.duke.edu/about-us/lea...

Forthcoming in October, at MIT press! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205590...

Duke colleagues: is there a new development in your field of brain studies that captivates you, but you feel alone in your excitement? Do you want to grow a community at Duke to explore it? DIBS wants to help you! Announcing the new, 3-yr DIBS Dream Team awards: dibs.duke.edu/request-prop...

The Duke Institute for Brain Sciences recently awarded grants of $25,000 to six graduate students and postdoctoral fellows through its Germinator Award program. Turning visionary insights into new advances requires the courage to take a risk. dibs.duke.edu/news/germina...

The NIH is accepting comments on its Strategic Plan for FY 2027–2031. Make your voice heard! Doesn't need to take long, and doesn't need to be the most scholarly text you've ever written. Comments close May 26. For details see grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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...

Excited to announce I will be moving on from my Duke post-bacc position to be a Duke PhD! I will be starting my PhD in the Psychology & Neuroscience department this fall in Dr. Kevin LaBar's lab. #Neuroskyence #AcademicSky #GradSchool

Delighted to share that our study is now out @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce... Congrats to Dr. @federicamosti.bsky.social for the culmination of a beautiful thesis!

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres (@rmt93.bsky.social): We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual WM against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...