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Assistant professor at NYU.
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Congratulations, Fred! Fred has been an outstanding postdoc in my lab. He combines exceptional experimental and modeling skills and is a caring and attentive mentor. This is an excellent opportunity for prospective students and postdocs looking for a lab to join!

Huge congratulations to Q on becoming Presidential Assistant Professor at City U Hong Kong! Q is truly one of the best researchers building neural network models of human memory. So excited to see all of the amazing things his lab will do!

Reminder that deadline for applying for our Encode: AI for (neuro)Science fellowship is coming up (30th!) encode.pillar.vc/apply

🔆 Announcement time!! 🔆 In Spring 2026, I will be joining the NYU Psychology department as an Assistant Professor! My lab will study the computational cognitive science of moral judgment and how we can use that knowledge to build AI systems that are safe and aligned with human values.

A very cool project and an excellent PI/team!

Looking for an exciting fellowship in neuroAI, with competitive salary (~£100k)? Our group is hiring for a project on AI for Systems-Behavioral Neuroscience, more info here: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh... General info: encode.pillar.vc 🧪 #compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs

Recruiting phd/postdocs to mentor Undergrad Awardees!! This program brings UGs from across the 🌎 considering a career in neuro research Duties: meet students on 1st day, take them to a poster session, help them feel welcome. Apply: (very short!) form forms.gle/9hCniCA29ky5...

Excited to share a new paper with Daphna Shohamy & @nathanieldaw.bsky.social! Using fmri reactivation, we measured *when* people build preferences from memory. We found that people tend to do so before a choice, but that they also wait until choice time when options are linked to multiple memories

Excited to share our preprint "Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search" 🧠✨ We leverage iEEG to elucidate the fast neural mechanisms by which long multimodal narratives are unfurled in continuous memory-search tinyurl.com/wjkr3dvf

announcing this year's neuroeconomics summer school, this time outside paris. too many great lecturers to list, even too many great organizers (plassmann,glimcher,tymula,kable,me). & you wouldnt believe all the past students and where they are now. sign up: www.insead.edu/events/neuro...

Amazing opportunity for postdoc candidates interested in memory and computational modeling!

Super excited to be making this a permanent thing. It has been an exciting ride so far!!! Thanks so much to @plantevolution.bsky.social for sharing it with me for the last year and great news that you are staying with @elife.bsky.social, going forward.

🎉 eLife is pleased to announce Timothy Behrens (@behrenstimb.bsky.social) as our new Editor-in-Chief! A distinguished neuroscientist and long-time supporter, Tim will lead our efforts in transforming research communication for all.

New modelling of how episodic memory can arise from spatial mapping, just out in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My article "A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition" is finally out in Nature Communications 🎉 If you work on metacognition and think you know the psychometric properties of your favorite measure, you may be surprised. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Cosyne is now on Bluesky y'all! bsky.app/profile/cosy... #neuroscience #NeuroAI

Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N

@aesagtekin.bsky.social hi Erden! Would you mind adding me to the comp neuro starter pack?

How do we decide which goals to pursue? Here, we introduce the notion of *latent learning progress* to explain human goal selection and inspire advances in the development of autotelic machines. osf.io/preprints/ps... With Cédric Colas, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, and Anne Collins

Come join us! Wei Ji Ma and I are recruiting a postdoc to study human planning in chess using a massive dataset of online chess matches. The postdoc will join both of our labs, as well as an NSF-funded collaboration with Tom Griffith's lab at Princeton. Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/139253