His lack of scientific background is one of several concerning aspects of his candidacy.
A clear “NO” on confirmation.
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His lack of scientific background is one of several concerning aspects of his candidacy.
A clear “NO” on confirmation.
Drawing of the "Aeon" project, an open-source platform to study the neural basis of ethological behaviours over naturalistic timescales.
Are you a neuroscientist with great coding skills, or a software engineer interested in the brain?
We are recruiting for a research software engineer to help us build pipelines to process weeks of neural and behavioural recordings from freely moving animals.
More details: bit.ly/rse-2026a
Interesting 👀
Topographically segregated mediodorsal-prefrontal loops exhibit distinct cue dynamics during learning and extinction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.709125v1
Am scientist, can confirm
Postdoc position in affective neuroscience and computational psychiatry at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
We are hiring! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
I’ve been thinking about you, Bita. I’m so sorry.
Check out our latest findings on the enduring effects of adolescent Prozac exposure on the brain!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This position is still open! Come join us!
Another great essay from my colleague Elizabeth Ginexi on how NIH is being restructured by the White House (Russell Vought) despite Congress rejecting such moves.
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
Big! Congrats Vinny and team! 🎉
Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test?
In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers.
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Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity
Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays
Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia
Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later
The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA
about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02...
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
two grants awarded from niaaa this entire YEAR. both NRSA. :/
NIMH is not much better. Only 2 new grants in FY26
🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper 📃🚨
Out today, Melissa Malvaez, Nick Griffin, Andrea Suarez & team discovered that dopamine can enable reward predictions to shape how we pursue reward.
Surprisingly, we find that dopamine can constrain instrumental reward seeking.
www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8...
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This is a dramatic update to the NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan template, effective for applications submitted for due dates on or after May 25, 2026.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Do you: Have a strong interest in science? A passion for journalism and writing? Our paid 3-month internship might be for you! We are looking for talented candidates from all backgrounds, especially those traditionally underrepresented in publishing. Applications close 9 March 2026.
Calling all budding science writers!
Applications for our paid London-based internship, starting in June, are now open.
Deadline: 9 March 2026
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If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.
We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.
NEW: The Trump administration has sued the University of California over alleged workplace discrimination against Jewish and Israeli employees at UCLA. The federal suit is a major escalation of Trump UC investigations after UC rejected a $1.2-billion settlement fine:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
NYU's Center for Neural Science is seeking a faculty candidate that would be jointly appointed with our Tandon School of Engineering. We are looking for post-doc applicants with neuroengineering or computational backgrounds.
apply.interfolio.com/182074
Our back-translation of value-modulated attentional capture to rats and mice is now published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, and it's open access! Yay.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
The research group “Sensory Dynamics and Behaviour” of Prof. Dr. Tobias Ackels at the Institute of Experimental Epilepsy and Cognition Research at the University Hospital Bonn invites applications for a position as: Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) The position is initially limited to three years (TV-L E13/100%), starting from April 2026 or as soon as possible.
Postdoc position in systems neuroscience!
Excited to recruit a postdoc for my lab at the University of Bonn.
🔬 In vivo physiology (Neuropixels, 2P/miniscope)
🐭 Head-fixed & freely moving behaviour
💡 Optogenetics/chemogenetics
⏳ Start: ASAP | Application deadline: 28.02.2026
More info below ⬇️
Happy birthday Ranking Roger 🖤🏁🎵
call for experimental economics conference 15-19 June 2026 for PhD students in economics
NEW Summer School in Theory-based Experimental Economics + follow-on conference @Caltech 15-19 June 2026
Please spread the word.
It’s PhD admission season in the US and elsewhere. Is anyone collecting and sharing info about what admissions letters are saying this year, especially in the neuro/psych/bio space? Last year there were some (unfortunate) changes at some Unis, eg
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/08/u....
Unfortunately I also know this to be true, both as an applicant and as panelist.
