Jeffrey C. Erlich
@jerlich.com
https://qoto.org/@jerlich
Behavioral and Computational Neuroscientist
Group Leader at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL
Behavioral and Computational Neuroscientist
Group Leader at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks.
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
@flatironinstitute.org
@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social
1/14
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks.
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
@flatironinstitute.org
@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social
1/14
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks.
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
@flatironinstitute.org
@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social
1/14
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks.
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
@flatironinstitute.org
@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social
1/14
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
Nothing could be healthier for Americans… and the world.
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Nothing could be healthier for Americans… and the world.
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
So excited that this textbook, edited by @dfareri.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social & @thepsychologist.bsky.social is out now! And so happy to have been invited to contribute. Here’s my chapter on the role of memory, esp. semantic memory, in temporal discounting: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
The Role of Memory in Temporal Discounting
A widely observed phenomenon in intertemporal choice is temporal discounting; people prefer to have rewards sooner rather than later, even if the delayed rewards are larger. Despite the universality o...
link.springer.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:14 PM
So excited that this textbook, edited by @dfareri.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social & @thepsychologist.bsky.social is out now! And so happy to have been invited to contribute. Here’s my chapter on the role of memory, esp. semantic memory, in temporal discounting: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
Across seven incentivized experiments and a large reanalysis, we systematically manipulated the presence and type of post-choice feedback in repeated risky decisions to test whether feedback shapes behavior through learning mechanisms or through anticipatory changes in preferences.
February 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Across seven incentivized experiments and a large reanalysis, we systematically manipulated the presence and type of post-choice feedback in repeated risky decisions to test whether feedback shapes behavior through learning mechanisms or through anticipatory changes in preferences.
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
We invite applications for postdoctoral researchers with strong expertise in in vivo electrophysiology and circuit neuroscience to join our team at the Paris Brain Institute (ICM).
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We invite applications for postdoctoral researchers with strong expertise in in vivo electrophysiology and circuit neuroscience to join our team at the Paris Brain Institute (ICM).
Good luck!
News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District.
By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come!
samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...
By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come!
samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...
February 4, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Good luck!
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
As the political climate around animal research becomes less supportive in the UK, it is our interest to argue for & protect organismal biology.
BBSRC opened a survey, which gives us a timely platform. Please fill & share link among colleagues. Deadline: 9/2
engagementhub.ukri.org/mrc-bbsrc/la...
BBSRC opened a survey, which gives us a timely platform. Please fill & share link among colleagues. Deadline: 9/2
engagementhub.ukri.org/mrc-bbsrc/la...
February 3, 2026 at 9:17 AM
As the political climate around animal research becomes less supportive in the UK, it is our interest to argue for & protect organismal biology.
BBSRC opened a survey, which gives us a timely platform. Please fill & share link among colleagues. Deadline: 9/2
engagementhub.ukri.org/mrc-bbsrc/la...
BBSRC opened a survey, which gives us a timely platform. Please fill & share link among colleagues. Deadline: 9/2
engagementhub.ukri.org/mrc-bbsrc/la...
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
With:
Oliver Gauld, Chaofei Bao, Jingjie Li, Gauthier Boeshertz, Timothy Sit, Joseph Warren, Joseph Tutt, Nikolaos Zervogiannis, Yang Pan, @clopathlab.bsky.social, @jerlich.com and @annduan.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Oliver Gauld, Chaofei Bao, Jingjie Li, Gauthier Boeshertz, Timothy Sit, Joseph Warren, Joseph Tutt, Nikolaos Zervogiannis, Yang Pan, @clopathlab.bsky.social, @jerlich.com and @annduan.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions
Flexible behaviour requires transforming abstract cognitive representations, such as value preferences, into concrete motor actions. During economic decision-making, individuals evaluate options to gu...
www.biorxiv.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
With:
Oliver Gauld, Chaofei Bao, Jingjie Li, Gauthier Boeshertz, Timothy Sit, Joseph Warren, Joseph Tutt, Nikolaos Zervogiannis, Yang Pan, @clopathlab.bsky.social, @jerlich.com and @annduan.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Oliver Gauld, Chaofei Bao, Jingjie Li, Gauthier Boeshertz, Timothy Sit, Joseph Warren, Joseph Tutt, Nikolaos Zervogiannis, Yang Pan, @clopathlab.bsky.social, @jerlich.com and @annduan.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
New work from @jerlich.com & Evgeniya Lukinova, links cortisol measures to reduced willingness to wait for larger rewards, but only when participants actually experienced the delay.
Paper ⬇️
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Blog ⬇️
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/und...
Paper ⬇️
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Blog ⬇️
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/und...
Frontiers | Willingness to wait covaries with endogenous variation in cortisol
Stress is a normal part of our everyday lives, alerting us to changes in our environment and working as an early warning system. However, when stress is prol...
www.frontiersin.org
January 16, 2026 at 10:52 AM
New work from @jerlich.com & Evgeniya Lukinova, links cortisol measures to reduced willingness to wait for larger rewards, but only when participants actually experienced the delay.
Paper ⬇️
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Blog ⬇️
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/und...
Paper ⬇️
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Blog ⬇️
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/und...
Happy to contribute to this amazing work from Duan Lab!
Mice making economic decisions in an abstract offer space. 🤩
Mice making economic decisions in an abstract offer space. 🤩
New preprint from the lab!
A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use a novel task in mice, cortex-wide imaging and optogenetics, NPX recording and modelling to reveal a circuit mechanism that transforms abstract decisions to spatial actions.
A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use a novel task in mice, cortex-wide imaging and optogenetics, NPX recording and modelling to reveal a circuit mechanism that transforms abstract decisions to spatial actions.
A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions
Flexible behaviour requires transforming abstract cognitive representations, such as value preferences, into concrete motor actions. During economic decision-making, individuals evaluate options to gu...
www.biorxiv.org
December 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Happy to contribute to this amazing work from Duan Lab!
Mice making economic decisions in an abstract offer space. 🤩
Mice making economic decisions in an abstract offer space. 🤩
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
Work led by amazing postdocs Oliver Gauld and Chaofei Bao!
In collaboration with @jerlich.com, @clopathlab.bsky.social and many others!
In collaboration with @jerlich.com, @clopathlab.bsky.social and many others!
December 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Work led by amazing postdocs Oliver Gauld and Chaofei Bao!
In collaboration with @jerlich.com, @clopathlab.bsky.social and many others!
In collaboration with @jerlich.com, @clopathlab.bsky.social and many others!
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
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"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this."
The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:
The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:
Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
wapo.st
October 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it.
My full statement.
My full statement.
Senator Murray Calls for Immediate Firing of RFK Jr., Commends CDC Director Monarez’s Stand for Science and Public Health - Senator Patty Murray
Senator Murray: “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the...
www.murray.senate.gov
August 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it.
My full statement.
My full statement.
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social Why is the author information missing from the web page of a paper?
August 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social Why is the author information missing from the web page of a paper?
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This is an amazing opportunity for postdocs to share their work!
Calling all neuroscience postdocs!
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 10 July:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 10 July:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
July 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is an amazing opportunity for postdocs to share their work!
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
Calling all neuroscience postdocs!
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 10 July:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 10 July:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
June 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Calling all neuroscience postdocs!
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 10 July:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 10 July:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social I read your peice www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv.... Surely, one of Sinwar's objectives, which was successfully achieved, was turning Israel into country blinded by revenge, becoming an international pariah and also generally stoking the fires of antisemitism?
Sinwar’s March of Folly
Seldom has any action backfired so spectacularly as Hamas’s October 7 attack.
www.theatlantic.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social I read your peice www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv.... Surely, one of Sinwar's objectives, which was successfully achieved, was turning Israel into country blinded by revenge, becoming an international pariah and also generally stoking the fires of antisemitism?
Amazing talk by @franckp.bsky.social at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social today!
Delighted to highlight our new paper in
@natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons - Nature
A temporally asymmetric synaptic plasticity kernel results from bidirectional modifications of synaptic weights around the induction of a place field.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Amazing talk by @franckp.bsky.social at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social today!
Does anyone look back at the Spanish Inquisition and think “those were good times.”?
April 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Does anyone look back at the Spanish Inquisition and think “those were good times.”?
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
If someone lost a grant, here's advice for how to appeal that decision. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/five... From @thetransmitter.bsky.social <6/n>
Five things to know if your federal grant is terminated
If you want to appeal the decision, know the rules that govern terminations, as well as the specific rationale given in your notice, science policy experts say.
www.thetransmitter.org
April 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Reposted by Jeffrey C. Erlich
Imagined writing of Chinese signs can be decoded using Utah Arrays. Neural activity is found to transition through states linked to handwriting phases. Neurons’ tuning stays stable within states, but gain and direction shift as the brain progresses. Modeling these states improved decoding by 69%.
Human motor cortex encodes complex handwriting through a sequence of stable neural states - Nature Human Behaviour
How does the brain encode complex movement sequences? Qi et al. reveal that the brain decomposes sequences into temporal states, each corresponding to a small movement fragment, with motor cortex neur...
www.nature.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Imagined writing of Chinese signs can be decoded using Utah Arrays. Neural activity is found to transition through states linked to handwriting phases. Neurons’ tuning stays stable within states, but gain and direction shift as the brain progresses. Modeling these states improved decoding by 69%.