sometimes people ask me why i left academia, and the actual answer is that i got tired of watching old academics desperately fight to stay relevant, so i decided to make myself irrelevant on my own terms

may you never become enshittified

Want to be my colleague? NYU is looking to hire an Assistant Professor appointed in both Neural Science & Psychology with a focus on human cognitive neuroscience. #psychscisky#neuroskyence#neuroaiapply.interfolio.com/153500

🚨 JOB ALERT #psychscisky#neuroskyence

Cambridge Psychology is recruiting a Teaching Associate to cover my Memory cognitive neuroscience teaching while I'm seconded to another role. You can be part of my lab and I'll happily offer mentoring on writing up papers, career progression etc. Please apply! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48275/

Did you see this coming? Abstract categorization in a so-called sensorimotor midbrain area. Primate superior colliculus is causally engaged in abstract higher-order cognition www.nature.com/articles/s41...#neuroscience

Primate superior colliculus is causally engaged in abstract higher-order cognition - Nature Neuroscience

Neuronal recordings show that primate superior colliculus encodes learned abstract visual categories. The authors demonstrate that it plays a causal role in categorization behavior, independent of its...

Liraglutide activates key brain circuits to trigger weight loss in obesity 🔬🧠💊 www.news-medical.net/news/2024092...#obesity#weightloss#GLP1#brainhealth#neuroscience#pharmacology#diabetes#appetitesuppression#liraglutide#science

Liraglutide activates key brain circuits to trigger weight loss in obesity

Researchers uncover how liraglutide targets specific brain regions to suppress appetite and promote significant weight loss through GLP-1 receptor activation.

We wanted to understand the neural basis of rational inattention. So he looked at a HUGE dataset of economic choices using ~200,000 trials of our favorite gambling task from 6 subjects.

🚨My Tübingen lab has 2 new job openings🚨: Neuroimaging postdoc on real-time fMRI to uncover the role of neural noise on behaviour: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Let the Bluesky Infrastructure folks know to acquire more surge capacity. Moderation too. Because, yikes!

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One less reason to stay on Twitter... X will soon make your public posts visible to accounts you’ve blocked techcrunch.com/2024/...

X will soon make your public posts visible to accounts you've blocked | TechCrunch

X will soon change the functionality behind its block button so that if you block an account, they will still be able to see your public posts, according