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maria ruz
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Prof in Cognitive Neuroscience at Univ of Granada in Spain. Director of the Mind, Brain & Behavior Research Center https://cimcyc.ugr.es/en
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mruz.bsky.social
We are hiring a postdoc and a predoc to do research (EEG, fMRI, MVPA, RSA) on expectation and attention at the wpd.ugr.es/~humneuro/ in beautiful Granada @cimcyc.bsky.social ! People with interest + relevant experience please reach us at [email protected]
#NeuroJobs #AcademicJobs #CogNeuro #GranadaSpain
Human Neuroscience Lab – University of Granada
Our lab is located at the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center. Here we have access to several behavioral testing rooms, a 3T Siemens Magnetic Resonance Imaging facility with compatible EEG and EyeLink Eyetracker, high-density EEG recording devices, and a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation device with a robotic assistant and neuronavigator.​
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September 18, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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alexh.bsky.social
Great news! Some of us have been waiting a long time for major funders to not just shovel $ into the maws of the big publishers, and instead support the long tail of scholar-controlled journals that are run on a shoestring
ojcollective.bsky.social Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social · Sep 3
We're delighted to share news in the attached press release that the Open Journals Collective has received a major award of $711,900 from the Gates Foundation to grow support infrastructure for community-governed journals!

Want to know more about OJC? Visit www.openjournalscollective.org
Press Release Date: 3 September 2026 We’re delighted to announce that Open Journals Collective (OJC) has been awarded a $711,900 grant by the Gates Foundation. This grant will enable OJC to scale its operations in 2027 and 2028. Since launching on 29 January 2026, OJC has raised $2.6M in library investment for the first year of its programme. Funds raised will provide financial support to 278 diamond open access journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and science, engineering, technology and mathematics. The 2-year grant will accelerate OJC’s development, including building core technical features that leverage current open infrastructure. These comprise usage dashboards for libraries and authors, financial reporting tools, and a community engagement hub for journals and publishers. It will also support the legal and financial groundwork needed to share raised library funds equitably and transparently across OJC’s journals collections. Professor Caroline Edwards, OJC Executive Director, said of the award: “It’s fantastic that this grant from the Gates Foundation will strengthen OJC’s potential to offer a fairer alternative to Article Processing Charges and Transformative Agreements. Supporting OJC at this critical early stage is a strong endorsement of OJC’s community-governed approach to building open publishing infrastructure. This is the way to address inequities in the current academic publishing landscape and encourage university libraries to transition their budgets away from exploitative commercial agreements.” Open Journals Collective is a Collective Community Interest Company (CIC) based in the UK. A CIC is a special type of limited company that exists to benefit the community rather than private shareholders. OJC is currently in the process of setting up a UK-based Charity, the Open Journals Collective Foundation, which will oversee the running of the CIC from 2027 onwards. If you require a copy of this press release in an alternative format please email info@openjournalscollective.org.
September 3, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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somnirons.bsky.social
How does the brain continually adapt? Fresh in @natureportfolio.nature.com our super exciting collaboration with @mark-j-wagner.bsky.social showing that the cerebellum contextualises cortical dynamics enable multi-task learning:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Granule cells reorient cortical trajectories to separate contexts - Nature
Simultaneous imaging of premotor cortex and cerebellar granule cells in mice learning two skills in parallel shows that trajectories generalize in cortex but coherently reorient apart in granule cells...
www.nature.com
August 27, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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lndriscoll.bsky.social
Confused about all this talk of compositionality in neuroscience? Read our new perspective www.nature.com/articles/s41... with authors Reidar Riveland and Alex Pouget.
The compositionality continuum as a principle for studying the neural basis of intelligence - Nature Neuroscience
Compositionality exists on a continuum of increasing complexity rather than as a binary trait. Studying its implementation in simpler biological and artificial systems is the most tractable path towar...
www.nature.com
August 8, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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martinhebart.bsky.social
Come and join our replication initiative in visual neuroscience! Low bar for entry, ideal for anyone from a Master’s student looking for a thesis to faculty who want to get back to the bench. 🤓

re-vision-initiative.org
August 1, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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cogsenoussi.bsky.social
📢 PhD opening in comp. cog. neuro. in Toulouse: thalamo-frontal model of cognitive control. Modelling/EEG experience is welcome but not required.

Application deadline: 8 Sept. 2026
Details: sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/eDrkeXfjdW...

#CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #EEG #neuroskyence #compneurosky
July 31, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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hugospiers.bsky.social
🚨 new lab preprint!

Research from @gordonfeld.bsky.social during his DFG personal fellowship to my lab many moons ago:

Global structure of new relational knowledge
networks is represented in retrosplenial complex, and
node-distance in hippocampus

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
July 27, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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peterkok.bsky.social
The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions.

Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social
Volume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society
Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.
royalsocietypublishing.org
July 9, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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marlenecohen.bsky.social
I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality.

But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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July 6, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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standehaene.bsky.social
The global neuronal workspace (GNW) is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism by which conscious processing arises in the human brain — and now Anthropic researchers have discovered a similar workspace inside their large language model !
www.anthropic.com/research/glo...
A global workspace in language models
Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.
www.anthropic.com
July 6, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
Learning shapes neural geometry in the primate prefrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Learning transforms prefrontal cortex activity from flexible, high-dimensional representations into compact, task-relevant and abstract codes, enabling efficient generalization of learned rules to new...
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June 26, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
Based on the guidelines we issued yesterday, please obtain prior approval for the collaborations you began years ago.
NIH: Does work outside of the U.S. require prior approval? Foreign components are defined as a significant scientific element or segment of a project outside of the United States. Significant work performed by a researcher in a foreign location qualifies as a foreign component, whether or not NIH funds are expended. All foreign components must receive NIH prior approval. Other examples include, but are not limited to: the involvement of human subjects or animals at a foreign site, extensive foreign travel by recipient project staff for the purpose of data collection, surveying, sampling, and similar activities, collaborations with investigators at a foreign site anticipated to result in co-authorship, Note, that while not all co-authorship situations represent a true collaboration, the NIH indicates that all cases of foreign co-authorship should be reported to the NIH funding Institute or Center as soon as recipients are aware of it. Review more information and details on NIH International Co-Authors and NIH: NOT OD-26-084 use of facilities or instrumentation at a foreign site; or receipt of financial support or resources from a foreign entity. All foreign components must receive NIH prior approval. If a PI is unsure if foreign activity may qualify as a foreign component, err on the side of seeking prior approval. NOTE: The NIH has not yet provided guidance for how to request the addition of more international project components to an existing awarded PF5 project. NOT OD-25-155. International activities may also require the UW’s International Activities Assessment.
June 4, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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jazzmaniatico.bsky.social
Can neural representations from different people be translated into a shared space without paired data?

In our preprint, "Platonic Representations in the Human Brain: Unsupervised Recovery of Universal Geometry", with Rishi Jha and @fuentemilla.bsky.social, we test this using fMRI 🧵👇
Marcos-Manchón, P., Jha, R., & Fuentemilla, L. (2026). Platonic Representations in the Human Brain: Unsupervised Recovery of Universal Geometry. arXiv [q-Bio.NC]. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20496
May 21, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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lewan.uk
Very pleased to share a new policy brief by CAISA: Governing AI-generated content: Labelling for transparency when AI is the norm. This was a genuine privilege to be part of the team of 9 leading European scholars caisa.dk/forskning/t... 🧵

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May 9, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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statsepi.bsky.social
Though not without their flaws, Universities they have *already* done more to drive economic development and innovation than pretty much any other human institution, and that's in addition to creating informed citizens and otherwise enriching the human experience. The evidence for this is...
May 4, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less.

“[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It
A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.
www.forbes.com
May 2, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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aidanhorner.bsky.social
I'd be interested in a decent analysis of what is driving this increase, but I suspect a decent proportion of it is driven by increased use of LLMs. If it is, please just stop. I get we are all under pressure but at some point we have to take a step back and ask what we're doing all this for
benbraun.social Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · Apr 27
Since ChatGPT came online in late 2022, grant application numbers across 12 UK and EU funding bodies have increased by *57%*.

For MSCA fellowships the number is *+142%*.

I do believe that what we’re doing is insane and that we need to stop doing it IMMEDIATELY.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems? Funders must take action before an increase in submission of high-quality proposals written using AI models makes it impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff. By Geraint Rees & James Wilsdon
April 29, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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cimcyc.bsky.social
Spend your July doing research in Granada!

The CIMCYC is calling for talented undergraduate students (non-UGR) to join our Summer Research Stays 2026.

📍 9 Placements available
💶 €1,600 scholarship
🔬 8 specialized Research Groups (see next post!)
🏡 Housing support included

Apply by May 11
April 29, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
i know several people who consistently argue that the issue of misinformation is overblown.

But this paper reveals the devastating harm to society in terms of health, mortality and economic costs linked to widespread misinformation:
caulfieldtim.bsky.social Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Apr 24
"Misinformation was estimated to contribute to nearly 2.3 million cases & 66 000 hospitalizations in 2021. Misinformation resulted in $2 billion in extra costs of hospitalization & 45 000 avertable deaths."

Misinformation about COVID vaccines cost the US $2 billion academic.oup.com/healthaffair...
Misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines cost the United States $2 billion from hospitalizations in 2021
AbstractIntroduction. Misinformation is a major public health threat as it leads to unnecessary illnesses, deaths, and costs to society. In 2021, misinform
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April 24, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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gordonneuro.bsky.social
I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics.

It turns out I was wrong.

Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
April 22, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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janellebelle.bsky.social
The brain has two neural populations with opposite effects on brain state and blood supply that account for brainwide fluctuations in blood volume. Studied by simultaneous awake functional ultrasound imaging (CBV changes) & neuropixels

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brainwide blood volume reflects opposing neural populations - Nature
Combined functional ultrasound imaging and Neuropixels recording of mouse brains identify two neuronal populations with opposing arousal-related activity and distinct haemodynamic response functi...
www.nature.com
April 17, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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lhuntneuro.bsky.social
***4-year Career Development Research Fellowship in Psychology now available at Oxford!***

Open to all areas of Psychology, including Cognitive/Behavioural Neuroscience.

PhD in last three years, or be about to submit (some exceptions apply).

Deadline: 21st May.

www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...
Career Development Research Fellowship
Career Development Research Fellowship in Psychology for full-time research offered by St John’s College to early career researchers who have recently completed or are close to completion of a doctora...
www.sjc.ox.ac.uk
April 17, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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fernandoblancopsy.com
🚨Anuncio importante:

¿Quieres investigar sobre la desinformación? En @cimcyc.bsky.social estamos montando un curso de verano para estudiantes de doctorado/postdocs y no es porque lo diga yo, pero pinta estupendo. 😬

📍 Granada
🗓️ 15-18 Septiembre 2026
ℹ️ Información: sites.google.com/view/misinfo...
Summer School
Misinformation is a topic of high relevance, generating great concern due to its multiple negative effects on our society. The discipline of Psychology advances the understanding of how and why people...
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April 9, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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cimcyc.bsky.social
📢 We are thrilled to announce the CIMCYC International Doctoral Summer School: "Psychological Approaches to Misinformation in Minds and Society," taking place in Granada from September 15–18, 2026.

💡Full program and applications: sites.google.com/view/misinfo...
April 10, 2026 at 7:21 AM