Kauê Machado Costa

My lab is looking for a new postdoc (or exceptional grad student) to tackle an interesting hypothesis on Parkinson's disease and learning. The position is funded and we are looking for someone that can start ASAP. See thread, and please follow these instructions to apply: www.kmcostalab.com/join-us

New milestone achieved: the lab has filed its first patent!!! More details later, but I wanted to share how terrific it was to work with my grad student, Jeff Horbatiuk, on this invention! We envision it will have interesting applications in behavior research, and potentially industry and medicine

There is nothing better than to see our trainees develop and thrive. Super proud of my postdoc, Dr. Biru Dudhabhate, for receiving this great award! www.uab.edu/medicine/new...

Please join us in Congratulating the 2026 ACNP Travel Award Class! 👏🤩 Click Here ➡️ tinyurl.com/5bzaz8va for more information on Travel Awards. 📝

I am super grateful and honored to have been selected for an ACNP travel award! This will have an important impact for me and my lab. Looking forward to exciting conversartions in San Diego next year! @uabneuro.bsky.social @acnporg.bsky.social

Matéria na @folha.com sobre minha nomeação para o grupo de Young American Scientists da @sciam.bsky.social 🇧🇷🇺🇲 Agradeço à Ana Bottallo pelo trabalho no artigo, e espero que outros jovens brasileiros também venham a se interessar pelo meu tópico de pesquisa. www1.folha.uol.com.br/ciencia/2026...

Story from @sciam.bsky.social on CNC faculty member Dr. Kauê Costa (@kmcostalab.com), who was included in the 2026 "Young American Scientists" selection of groundbreaking researchers that represent the future of science, technology and medicine! www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

NEW PAPER! Here, my postdoc, Biru Dudhabhate, and I review the history of one of the most famous neuroscience hypotheses, the dopamine reward prediction error, and reflect on what made it such a major advance for the field. @uabneuro.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...

This Sunday I'll be at @sidewalkfilm.bsky.social , doing a a post-screening discussion of "Ratatouille". This is part of the Science on Screen initiative (scienceonscreen.org). I am more than happy to get to talk about how rats are cool and smart 😁 sidewalkfest.com/events/ratat...

Late announcement (due to distraction), but I am happy to share that the lab, together with our great collaborator Nuria Vendrell-Llopis, was awarded an NIMH R21! We are super excited to test some new ideas about how dopamine drives learning in brain computer interfaces! 🧠🖥️ @uabneuro.bsky.social

In this month’s “Liftoff,” @shawnrhoadsphd.com talks about how he’ll implement hackathons to foster community in his lab, and @zurisullivan.bsky.social shares how weekly discussions about unfamiliar topics can encourage curiosity in a lab. bit.ly/3ZkMQl8 By @franciscorr25.bsky.social #neuroskyence

@thetransmitter.bsky.social’s “New Lab Directory” features a list of new neuroscience labs that opened in 2024-2025, and some set to launch in 2026. Check out the list to learn about the work of more than 50 new neuroscience labs. www.thetransmitter.org/community/th... #StateOfNeuroscience

Thanks UAB reporter for the very enthusiastic article 😁 www.uab.edu/reporter/res... @uabneuro.bsky.social @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

Heading to SFN - I'll be at the UAB graduate fair stand on Sunday from 12-1pm, and otherwise open to talk shop with any prospective graduate student, postdoc, or trainnee. Feel free to message me if you are interested in the lab's work 😁 #Sfn2025 #SfN25 #SFN

Happy to be featured by the @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social! Their Impact Award has been transformative for the lab and setting us on an exciting new research direction! www.parkinson.org/living-with-...

Out in @elife.bsky.social! Lora and the Roeper lab discovered a new mechanism by which surviving dopamine neurons recover their function in a model of Parkinson's - a key step for understanding this disease! @goetheuni.bsky.social @uabneuro.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/104...

Alright rat #neuroskyence community, lock in! We have an #OpenScienceWeek treat for you. You've asked for it in our DMs, comments, and SfN booth. 🥁🥁🥁 MapMyCells can now map rat data and map it onto any of our mouse or human taxonomies! More info: community.brain-map.org/t/new-featur...

I'm super happy to have the lab featured on @thetransmitter.bsky.social, my favorite place for neuroscience news! #neuroskyence @uabneuro.bsky.social

I am extremely grateful to the @pfresearchteam.bsky.social for this great opportunity!

Funding updates coming soon, and the lab is looking to recruit motivated postdocs, grad students, or postbacs with expertise in rodent behavior, stereotactic surgery, and neural data analysis. Come help us figure out the neural mechanisms of learning and cognition! See link: www.kmcostalab.com/join

This is a fantastic program. I learned quite a lot. Strongly recommend applying!

Thrilled to see this great work by Bsky-less Wenhui Zong out in @natneuro.nature.com! It was a pleasure to contribute to this! The findings are wonderfully counterintuitive and provide surprising insight on the circuit bases of abstract representations in learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wonderful stand up for science rally in Birmingham! Well attended, gorgeous weather, and great thoughts!!

Love this - it reflects many things that I had thought about and debated heatedly with others. I will print this out for future arguments. 🧐

We are super happy to present our first preprint - the effect of our Rethinking Naturalistic Behaviour Workshop - where we look more critically at the term "naturalistic behaviour" and point to its vagueness and inconsistency in its use! osf.io/preprints/os...