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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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I really enjoyed reading this commentary of our recent paper about modeling left-right sweeps in grid cells: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... from Prof. Michael Hasselmo, Dr. Jennifer Robinson and Dr. Patrick LaChance.

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The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience is the most wonderful place to work. Supportive, bright colleagues doing incredible research in beautiful Queen Square. Do get in touch if you have any questions. Come join us! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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“We are deeply concerned about this causal act that toys with the accessibility of publicly funded research, coupled with a range of attacks on the public funding of science… and federal researchers. We see this as the government playing with truth, a 2025 digital equivalent of book burning”

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An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Very happy to see this out! Based on the microcircuit identified by Vollan et al., we made some interesting predictions about theta sweeps along the parasubiculum-MEC-HPC pathway, especially theta modulated head direction cells which direct the left-right sweeps in downstream grid cells.

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This could be catastrophic. Consequences for US universities (and the world) may be beyond imagination.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

As a computational neuroscientist I second this. We can supplement and maybe help accelerate animal research but we will never, ever replace it.

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(1/30) New preprint! "Symmetries and continuous attractors in disordered neural circuits" with Larry Abbott and Haim Sompolinsky bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

Wikipedia is one of the last major bastions of verified information. Which, of course, is why the oligarchs want to destroy it. You can donate to them here. donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Our lab is hiring a post doc! We are looking specifically for someone with machine learning research experience to contribute to funded simulation projects on learning and/or replay. Please share, and email me if you are interested!!

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From @jquinnlee.bsky.social and @markbrandonlab.bsky.social, evidence for consistent remapping in CA1 across animals that can be used to discriminate between models: www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... #neuroscience 🧪

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We are hiring Associate Prof / Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in the UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, so flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London

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It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly. www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

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Are you based in London? We are recruiting participants for our study. We need to test 400 people so would appreciate sharing. Thank you!

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If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

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My friend and colleague, John Aggleton, has written a a popular science book on memory. If you're looking for a nerdy Christmas present, I'd recommend this (saw some early drafts and it's really very good). All author royalties go to a brain cancer charity, so buying it does some good. #NeuroSkyence

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Building egocentric models of local space from retinal input www.cell.com/current-biol... #neuroscience

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

If you haven’t read this yet, drop everything and do it. Thought provoking, based on fantastic & insightful examples (how much info do you need to solve Rubik’s cube?) In PhD, while training rats on a Y-maze, I could not help thinking that the outcome was just 1 bit (left/right). I now have answers

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Hi all! We’ll be posting SWC news & events here on Bluesky now too. First up: our SWC Lecture 2024 ‘The computational roots of life and intelligence’ with Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Google VP & Fellow. We hope you can join us on 11 Dec! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-swc-le...

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So excited to see this preprint out - the cumulation of an ambitious project lead by the very talented @sjshipley.bsky.social Alzheimers models are a new direction for the lab and we'll be doing more in this direction. TLDR: AD > disordered HPC reactivations > less stable PCs > memory defects

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Exciting new job opportunity at the IoN, UCL, London. The post is based at the Department of Imaging Neuroscience. It is a 70-30%research to teaching split. If anyone requires more information on the teaching part then please do get in contact with me. Please repost www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Registration open for our Neuroimaging summer school in Cambridge in September 2025: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

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Disordered Hippocampal Reactivations Predict Spatial Memory Deficits in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.27.625618v1

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I signed this letter urging the international community to demand that Israel respect international humanitarian law and end the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, and that all hostages and unduly imprisoned civilians are released. You might want to sign too: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

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