John Pearson

🚨We’re moving! 🚨 Starting this fall, my lab will be moving to the Center for Neural Science at NYU and the Center for Computational Neuroscience at the @flatironinstitute.org. 1/

I'm hiring a postdoc for our NSF IntBIO project on songbird behavior, physiology and fitness! Start date as early as April 1 or as late as Sept 2027. Emphasis on behavioral endocrinology and transcriptomics, plus field ornithology based on applicant interests: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33216.

A sophisticated anatomical study of dopamine neuron projection patterns and their coordination with striatal neuron subtypes and corticostriatal projection patterns. Beautiful work and congrats to @rajawatramani.bsky.social and team!

Faculty opening in my department at MIT! Please apply if you are on the job market, and circulate to relevant potential candidates.

Come join our vibrant community! 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. apply.interfolio.com/195772

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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

Faculty opportunity in computational neuroscience at U of Maryland, College Park-Department of Biology, welcoming applications at both Assistant & Associate Professor levels. Best consideration date: Dec 31, 2026 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

I'm very grateful to the many people who've taught me how to be a scientist and influenced my thinking, including @eerosim.bsky.social, Brice Ménard, @joanbruna.bsky.social, Stéphane Mallat, @zahra-kadkhodaie.bsky.social, @pfiquet.bsky.social, Guy Ohayon, Jamie Simon, John Zarka, Tomás Angles...

I'm delighted to announce that I'll join MIT EECS as an Assistant Professor next Fall! I will be recruiting graduate students this cycle, please apply if you're interested in the science of deep learning! Despite the ambient doomerism, now is a great time to do research.

(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 👇

📷 CMU is hiring an Asst Prof in NeuroAI! Join a collaborative, cross-department community spanning ML/AI, robotics, neuro & neurotech Neuro Institute PhD in neuro, ML, robotics, CS, cogsci, EE or related. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/189268 #NeuroAI #AcademicJobs @cmu.edu

Now open: Two new grant programs to support faculty and centers of excellence at HBCUs. Applications are due in 1 month: https://bit.ly/46VGZ9V #math #science #funding

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...

Highlighting a couple of lovely behavior-focused preprints from some of the newer rodent neuro labs at Janelia: mice hunting crickets in the @emilyjanedennis.bsky.social lab (tinyurl.com/5fenwwh8) and exploring structured, complex environments in the @jvoigts.bsky.social lab (tinyurl.com/4ewsvvhw)

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

Categorical rhythmic patterns do not predict song preference in zebra finches bioRxivpreprint

If you've ever wondered how the brain *really* keeps things in mind, come let Aaron, Nick & their colleagues in the Nagel lab tell you how the fly does it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DIBS is proud to announce the launch of 5 Dream Teams for building new research communities at Duke! One per day all week. Award details in comment. 1. Duke Brain Ultrasound Initiative. It aims to build a cross-school community for ultrasound imaging, neuromodulation, and clinical translation.

New preprint from our lab ⚡ Why do DA and BF bursting neurons carry such similar reward-prediction signals? Are they independent, driven by common input, or causally linked? We find a direct answer: DA activity rapidly and causally drives BF. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/10

I feel like it's kind of underrated funny that Sam Altman has a stack of marvelous proofs on his desk that he's not going to show anyone until we all learn to say thank you

New paper from the Neurosurgery research team at BCM! 🧵 "A population code for semantics in human hippocampus" led by Melissa Franch. We recorded hippocampus single neurons while people listened to podcasts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In our #NeurIPS2026 spotlight “Parallel-in-Time Training of Recurrent Neural Networks for Dynamical Systems (DS) Reconstruction” (preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2605.12683) we speed up training of nonlinear RNNs on time series from chaotic DS by >100x by combining DEER with generalized teacher forcing.

FRFs are primarily affiliated with one PI but are encouraged to collaborate with others inside or outside Flatiron. In the application, applicants are also welcome to express interest in more than one PI and/or in joint projects. Please let me know if you have any questions.

📣 Multiple Flatiron Research Fellow (FRF) postdoc positions are available in my @flatironinstitute.org group! We've never been better positioned to understand how high-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems (neural circuits!) compute. If this is as exciting to you as it is to me, consider applying:

I am recruiting new parakeet postbacs to join my research team! If you are (or know of) someone who recently graduated undergrad & is looking to build research experience prior to applying to grad school or a career path (and you like animal sociality and cognition) apply here! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy

Faculty position at the University of Toronto 👇 jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

If you are an undergraduate student interested in computational and systems neuroscience research, this is your chance to attend #COSYNE27 !!! Apply here for our undergrad travel grant tinyurl.com/cos27ugtravel deadline is Oct 30 (and if you are not an undergraduate, please help to spread the word!)

🚨Postdoc hiring alert! 🚨 Applications for the Flatiron Research Fellows 2027 cohort at the Center for Computational Neuroscience are now live: apply.interfolio.com/193800. Come work with us!

I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

We, the Natural Decision Making Group and the Embodied Decision Making Group, are joining forces to establish the CMC Unit, a joint research unit to uncover computational, biological, and ecological principles underlying adaptive decision-making. You can read more about us here: cmc-unit.org

Signal boost to our tenure track faculty search in "AI in Life Sciences". Broadly construed, so PLEASE apply!!

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“Ok but how would the AI get control of a biolab?” “We would just build him one”

Ever feel like it's too hard to keep track of what LLMs cannot do as well as humans? We're making your life easier over at: what-llms-can-not-do.github.io We're compiling a list of papers testing the abilities of LLMs against humans. Check it out! And you can help contribute too!

In the UK this is encapsulated in a famous quote from Max Perutz about directing the LMB in Cambridge, which produced most of the UK's biology Nobels. Paraphrasing 'Hire the best young people you can find, give them labs & resources & time, above all leave them in peace but provide A COFFEE ROOM'.

**Second** job in computational/theoretical neuro at @dukemedschool.bsky.social! Really great opportunity, great colleagues.

We're hiring in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! ☀️⛰️ Machine learning and NLP people, please apply!

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@amberdiazmusic.bsky.social (who also loves Piranesi), has declared all of these genius.

📢Have work to share with the computational and systems neuroscience community? Abstract submissions for #COSYNE2027 are now open. Deadline: 18 October 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE Submit your abstract: www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su... #Neuroscience

New paper from the Neurosurgery Research Team at BCM! “Neural geometry in the human hippocampus enables generalization across spatial position and gaze” led by @assiachericoni.bsky.social! 🧵 www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

We're hiring! PNI is recruiting an assistant professor of neuroscience working with non-human primates in any area. Review begins Oct 19: apply.interfolio.com/192521 #NeuroJobs #Neuroskyence