I'll be giving a talk this Thursday, March 14 at SWC in a workshop about gambling disorders. ticketsource.co.uk/saric/the-brai…

Have you ever done a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters? Like a *really dense* grid search? It looks like this (!!). Blueish colors correspond to hyperparameters for which training converges, redish colors to hyperparameters for which training diverges.

Come work with us at SWC! Multiple postdoc positions (both theory & experiment) are available in my group, to study computational & neural principles of statistical learning in the brain (of mice, rats, humans). Apply until March 18. Please share!
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Looking for a postdoc opportunity? Join our community of dedicated researchers and staff as Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow! Our current vacancies in the M Stephenson-Jones and Athena Akrami labs: sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/cu…

Want to flexibly manipulate many cortical regions, but don't know how to build a random access optogenetics system? We present Zapit: an #opensource hardware and user-friendly software system to make this technology more widely available. Our preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

🚨First preprint from the lab!! All credit goes to Francesca Greenstreet & Hernando Martinez who co-led this project. tinyurl.com/47w98a6b

We show that movement-related striatal dopamine signals encode an action prediction error, a value free teaching signal.

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Will you be at #SfN23 ? Stop by our posters and talks! Stay tuned for more details 👀 Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

Please spread the word about a great opportunity at UC Davis for a computational and/or cognitive neuroscientist. Based at the Center for Neuroscience with space directly adjacent to Charan Ranganath and Mark Goldman! Need to apply by November 15 to guarantee review.

Do you want to do a postdoc in London at the fabulous SWC with me and Dr. Chunyu Ann Duan ?
Do you have expertise in rodent behavior, neurophysiology and/or imaging? Interested in economics? decision-making? Multiplayer games? Let's chat in DC #sfn #neuroscience #postdoc

Check out Kurt's thread on new collab preprint out today - culmination of a long series of Kurt's ideas - really exciting dataset describing dynamic value signals in the mesolimbic system. Really glad we got to help see this through! twitter.com/Kurt_Fraser/st…

If yr gonna be at #SfN23 and want to talk about p2p scientific infrastructure, not shoveling billions to cloud providers to rent our own data, escaping journals, adversarial interoperability, cooperative governance, ill b at PSTR241.22 9-10am on the 13th❤️
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Great new Technology Networks piece by Ruairi J Mackenzie on the recent study by Erlich Lab! “Lottery-Loving Rats Reveal How the Brain Handles Uncertainty” technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/n…

Nice bit of news to start the new term with! We will be looking for multiple postdocs across slice physiology, whole brain anatomy and in vivo imaging during fun behavioural tasks. Advert out soon but get in touch informally if this sounds interesting!

Now recruiting! We are looking for 2 fab post-docs and 1 research technician who would like to help solve the great mysteries of sleep, at the brilliant SWC, in the splendid city of London. Please retweet / share with people you think might be interested! ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

if you're at #SNE2023 , come hear me talk about my work with Brody Lab about how a *single* cognitive 🧠 process can give rise to both history biases & lapses in decision-making - during the symposium on information sampling & integration. thanks Laura Globig for organizing!

By my calculation, these are some of the most generous postdocs in AI out there, considering the Quebec tax break on postdocs, and the low cost of living in Montreal (40% the rent of Boston). Come study cool AI (and brain!) stuff in a beautiful city with amazing researchers.

How does the brain encode lottery values? In a study published today, the Erlich Lab at SWC and NYU Shanghai researchers revealed the role of the frontal orienting field in rats during economic decisions under risk. Read the news: sainsburywellcome.org/web/research-n…