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Wanna present it in our lab some time?
We show that synesthesia is sensory and automatic in nature: the pupil scales with the brightness of experienced synesthetic colors. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Now in its new dress @elife.bsky.social (convincing & valuable in round 1).
If anyone wants to pick up the method, happy to share & explain!
The post will be based in the Neuroinformatics Unit at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social, working with the Mrsic-Flogel, Branco and @behrenstimb.bsky.social labs.
Start ASAP, funded until Sept 2028 in the first instance. Salary £54-62k.
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
Peer review would be easier if we stopped treating it like combat with the authors. Results want to be free, and perfect is the enemy of good. Do the data support the conclusions? If so, that’s enough. A paper isn’t a blank slate for projecting your own ideas.
🛠️ February’s most-read Tools and Resources paper introduces idtracker.ai to rethink multi-animal tracking: buff.ly/Ho0b3xz
Learn more about publishing your tools or resources with us: buff.ly/pivLQX0
London #neuroscience people you may like this. We're hosting a series of talks at Imperial & Crick on how to get experiment and theory working together better. Each session will have a talk around this and extended networking / group discussion on the questions raised. Plus, free food!
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Triple paper drop from the inimitable @willydorrell.bsky.social :
1) A normative theory of prefrontal working memory slots.
2) A comprehensive review of normative theories of why grid cells look like grid cells.
3) A new theory of convex efficient coding.
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Great to see work published in @elife.bsky.social by SWC Senior Research Fellow @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social
Completed at @college-de-france.fr & NeuroSpin (CEA) with @standehaene.bsky.social, the study explores how we perceive shapes.
Blog: www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/languag...
Paper ⤵️
Can confirm it snowed in manhattan too.
Yes! Thanks so much for looking after me in the storm! Delicious and great fun!
Cold Spring Harbor living up to its name. Brrrr
Interested in cognitive maps? Wondering how you should best train your participants? Luckily for you, we have investigated just that! Very excited to share a preprint from my PhD in which we show how initial training curriculum affects the cognitive maps we form
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Thrilled to finally share this work! 🧠🔊
Using a new reinforcement-free task we show mice (like humans) extract abstract structure from sound (unsupervised) & dCA1 is causally required by building factorised, orthogonal subspaces of abstract rules.
Led by Dammy Onih!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
SWC is the best place to do neuroscience in the world
We will consider anyone but you will need to convince us you can lead a program that will link the world class systems neuro at SWC with human ephys work in London and more globally,
We're hiring! This is a unique opportunity to translate our understanding of neural computation - from circuit-level mechanisms to computational principles - into the human brain, through the establishment of cutting-edge human neural recording capabilities with collaborators in London and abroad.
We’re hiring a Group Leader!
Join us to lead a transformative initiative in human systems neuroscience.
Find out more and apply ⤵️
www.sainsburywellcome.org/content/curr...
Awesome new opportunity to join SWC if you are into human ephys.
If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date):
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868
An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
At eLife, we have always prioritised quality, constructive reviews.
Today, peer review is part of the paper. Reviews are published as soon as they're in, rejection doesn’t follow review, and the focus stays on strengthening the science in a way that works for authors.
@oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social
Why don’t neural networks learn all at once, but instead progress from simple to complex solutions? And what does “simple” even mean across different neural network architectures?
Sharing our new paper @iclr_conf led by Yedi Zhang with Peter Latham
arxiv.org/abs/2512.20607
Our work with @georgkeller.bsky.social on testing predictive processing (PP) models in cortex is out on biorvix now! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short thread on our findings and thoughts on where we should move on from PP below.
This is super cool!
We think cortex might function like a JEPA. It looks like prediction errors in layer 2/3 are not computed against input (as is the idea in predictive processing), but against a representation in latent space (i.e. like in a JEPA arxiv.org/abs/2301.08243 or RPL doi.org/10.1101/2025...).
Let me believe it’s magic for at least a year before you show me how it works please!
The supplementary videos for this preprint are fantastic. Some wild examples of decoding the animal's attentional focus and/or intent
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
This is totally wild. Remember the object they are attending to is presented egocentrically, but the allocentric theta sweeps follow it. The whole system is wired up to provide something like an "integrated attention reflex".
Localizing the brain systems involved in geometric shape perception.
A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain.
🔗 buff.ly/4UsILev
