Strong endorse. Come join us!!

Apply to this fellowship! Fairly independent postdoc gig, pays well, you could work with me! More info coming soon..

We're also hiring! We are looking for at least one full-time RA/lab manager to join the newly located Shenhav Lab this summer. Please RT and pass this along to your best candidates!

In 2019 I went to Cambridge to debate Máté Lengyel on the usefulness of Marr's Three Levels of Analysis. We've finally published a pair of "CrossTalk" articles in Journal of Physiology laying out our positions. My piece: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/Y… #MarrNoMore #DownWithThe3Levels

Our paper, Crows ‘count’ the number of self-generated vocalizations, is out! With this amazing team (Katharina Brecht, @lena_veit, A_Nieder), we uncovered that crows are able to control the number of vocalizations produced. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Happy to see my thesis work out today in nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… Josh Merel Jesse Marshall lhq Yuval Tassa Ugne Klibaite Amanda Gellis Greg Wayne Matt Botvinick @BOlveczky Google DeepMind Video credit to the talented Kristian J Herrera

A revised version of our preprint on precisely replicating neural activity through a dynamic, cellular-resolution electrical stimulation sequence using temporal dithering and spatial multiplexing. New experimental validation led by AJ Phillips. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nishal is brilliant and super nice, you should work with him

1/5 Excited to finally share our new paper (led by Laura Driscoll, now a group leader at the Allen!) in Nature Neuroscience on modular computation in neural networks! We've explored how artificial recurrent networks handle multiple tasks, offering insights into flexible computation.

TigerBrain applications due next week! Postdocs from *all* fields of neuroscience encouraged to apply. More details 👇

New project: enigmaproject.ai Engineers, ML researchers, mech interp community: Reach out if you're interested in getting involved

We live with the limitations of our memory, but don’t really know where they come from. Our new paper (doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…) studies "swap errors", which we argue arise during memory manipulation – see thread for more! Tim Buschman, Matt Panichello, Jeff Johnston

Now out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Selective attention guides behavior through target enhancement and distractor suppression. Using human ECoG, we uncovered the complementary neural mechanisms enabling this gating process. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Work with Sabine Kastner, Bob Knight, Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social, Ian Fiebelkorn

Summer research opportunities in psychology and neuroscience for URM/low-income/first-gen undergrads at U. Wisconsin–Madison. Details and application portal at psych.wisc.edu/nsf-reu-site-p…

Our new paper with Christopher Langdon is just out in Dr Laurie K Mischley! We show that high-dimensional RNNs use low-dimensional circuit mechanisms for cognitive tasks and identify a latent inhibitory mechanism for context-dependent decisions in PFC data. nature.com/articles/s4159…

PhD students: Remember to apply for the Google PhD fellowship. It will make your PhD super smooth. Application opens on 10th April 2025 Deadline: 15th May 2025

Out today in nature: we show that individual neurons have diverse tuning to a decision variable computed by the entire population, revealing a unifying geometric principle for the encoding of sensory and dynamic cognitive variables. nature.com/articles/s4158…