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Lukas Kunz
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Asst. Prof. at the University of Bonn in Germany. Research focus: neural basis of navigation and memory in humans
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Lukas Kunz @lukaskunz.bsky.social · Jan 19
Happy to share our new preprint on cognitive maps and human spatial memory! Led by @lauranett.bsky.social, together with @timaguth.bsky.social and @philippbuchel.bsky.social

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Task for easy re-use: github.com/BonnSpatialM...

Code: github.com/BonnSpatialM...
Behavioral investigation of allocentric and egocentric cognitive maps in human spatial memory
Spatial memory is a fundamental cognitive function that enables humans and other species to encode and recall the locations of items in their environments. Humans employ diverse strategies to support ...
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trose-neuro.bsky.social
Looking for a postdoc to understand dynamic vision in action in freely moving mice? Get in touch!

This is a @erc.europa.eu postdoc in a project between us and @sinzlab.bsky.social: miniature 2-photon, rich behavior tracking, and deep learning models linking natural behavior to cortical activity|RT
sinzlab.bsky.social Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 2d
🔬 Exciting PostDoc Opportunity! 🐁🧠

We - the @sinzlab.bsky.social (sinzlab.org) and @trose-neuro.bsky.social (troselab.de) Labs - are seeking an experimental postdoc to work at @unibonn.bsky.social with cutting-edge miniature 2-photon microscopy and gaze tracking in freely behaving mice.
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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thackerybrown.bsky.social
The CRaNE center is now on Bluesky, with a new collab pub to share! Please follow for news of our members' science and our conferences and workshops!

@tammyish.bsky.social @shiyiliang.bsky.social @paulinamaxim.bsky.social @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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fabian31415.bsky.social
Excited to present our recent work on how sequential coupling of sleep oscillations enables concept-neuron reactivation and supports information flow across the human hippocampal–cortical circuit. #SFN2025 Board NN12 Nov 19 8 AM–12 PM #sleep #memory #HumanSingleNeuron
Schreiner Lab x Mormann Lab
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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alanadarcher.bsky.social
How is the semantic content of a movie processed by our brains? 🧠🎬
We decode characters, events, & other features and investigate how populations and single neurons represent movie features. Check my poster @sfn.org #sfn25!
Sat. Nov 15, 6:45-8:45pm, Hall E, poster S5
Wed. Nov 19, 9-10am, poster NN5
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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mskehl.bsky.social
🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
The Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL) is key to human cognition, supporting memory, emotional processing, navigation, and semantic coding. Rare direct human MTL recordings revealed concept cells, which were ...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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shakedpa.bsky.social
I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island.

doi.org/10.1126/sci...

With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others
October 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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mpinb.mpg.de
💡 Join the 8th Bonn Brain Conference
March 23–25, 2026 | DZNE Bonn, Germany

Explore the latest in brain states, neural circuits, and behavior — with keynote talks by leading neuroscientists including Cori Bargmann and Edvard Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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mpi-nl.bsky.social
We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
October 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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andrejbicanski.bsky.social
New preprint from the lab and great work by Fei Wang. We show how subiculum trace vector cells can be modeled consistent with known effects in CA1. Traces are driven by a mismatch learning rule to keep associative memories in line with experience.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dynamic updating of cognitive maps via traces of experience in the subiculum
In the classical view of hippocampal function, the subiculum is assigned the role as the output layer. In spatial paradigms, some subiculum neurons manifest as so-called boundary vector cells (BVCs), ...
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October 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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anitadevineni.bsky.social
My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

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September 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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thomasserre.bsky.social
Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939

#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
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September 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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neuroanup.bsky.social
1/7 New preprint on the role of insular traveling waves in memory and behavior, using depth recordings from neurosurgical patients, with @chenwumd.bsky.social, Sameer Sheth, and Josh Jacobs.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Insular Traveling Waves Link Distributed Neural Dynamics to Human Memory Performance
The insula is a critical brain region that plays a foundational role in adaptive human behaviors, with diverse subregions performing distinct functional roles. However, explaining how these insular su...
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September 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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bernsteinneuro.bsky.social
In case you still need a reason to attend the #BernsteinConference, let us remind you of this year's great speaker line-up 🤩

First up is Nobel laureate @edvardmoser.bsky.social!

Be part of the bridge -- registration is open! 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
A portrait photo of Edvard Moser, next to it the following quote: "I am excited to participate at this conference, a major venue for bridging theory and experiment. Those bridges are vital to the progress of neuroscience."
July 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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aidanhorner.bsky.social
Deadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?!

#neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs
August 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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russellepstein.bsky.social
Our new paper, “A neural compass in the human brain during naturalistic human navigation” is out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! First-author @zhenganglu.bsky.social led the charge, with Josh Julian and collaborator @gkaguirre.com.

www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
August 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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imagingneuroucl.bsky.social
🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
August 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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timaguth.bsky.social
Excited to share our new paper on theta-phase locking of single neurons during human spatial memory:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

With @lukaskunz.bsky.social, Joshua Jacobs, and our colleagues from the University of Freiburg
Neuronal theta-phase locking increased during periods of elevated theta power, when aperiodic activity exhibited steeper slopes, and when clear theta oscillations were detected. Theta-phase locking was similarly strong during the successful and unsuccessful encoding and retrieval of memories. Some neurons changed their preferred theta phases between encoding and retrieval.
August 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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rhodricusack.bsky.social
Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!
July 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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jeremiahycohen.bsky.social
We have an open position for a Scientist I at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Come join our exciting research environment @alleninstitute.org. Please share!

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We are working to solve the biggest mysteries in bioscience.
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July 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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bottinilab.bsky.social
2 more days to apply! Updated info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1WGEE...
July 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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mathewkiang.com
Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.

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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
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June 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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liddelowsa.bsky.social
Calling all Neuroscience postdocs! 🧠 Share your research through SPiNES (Seminars from Postdocs in Neuroscience: Extramural Series) from the NYUGSoM Department of Neuroscience. Applications close 08/20/25. Apply today! 👉 nyumc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#Neuroscience #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity
June 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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hannahpayne.bsky.social
My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature!

When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️

The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar

bit.ly/3HvWSum
June 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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chrismbird.bsky.social
Really nice study led by Claire Lancaster and supported by other brilliant Sussex colleagues - in particular former PhD student Jess Daly. Greebles task is sensitive to subtle perceptual deficits in APOE e4 carriers in mid-life (which get worse with age and number of e4 alleles).
June 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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sofievalk.bsky.social
We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈

Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc!

Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?
Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
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June 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM