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marcelomattar.bsky.social
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!

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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!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

🔆 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.

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

A very cool project and an excellent PI/team!

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 112 days ago • 17 comments

🎉 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.

submitted 112 days ago • 9 comments

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

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 112 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 157 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 157 days ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 178 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 334 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 460 days ago • 1 comment