🎉 Thrilled to unveil our research co-led with Mark Burrell, now live on bioRxiv! 🧠 Dive into our latest discoveries in dopamine, animal contingency learning, and TD learning models: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…. Excited to hear your thoughts! 1/n #Neuroscience #Research #bioRxiv

Super proud of this tour de force preprint by Heejae Jang. Acetylcholine demixes heterogeneous dopamine signals for learning and moving. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our online research study (Princeton University) is looking for participants to try a self-help tool for depression symptoms. Learn more: nivlab.princeton.edu/participate/mo…

Okay I know I've posted about job openings before but this time *I REALLY MEAN IT* because I have an opening in MY team! My incredible coordinator was so incredible that they got accepted into a top dentistry school and had to leave us. If you join my team you can expect:

I'm delighted to share a new preprint alongside Sebastian Musslick and Jon D. Cohen titled "Learning expectations shape cognitive control allocation." How does the expectation to learn or improve at a task affect an agent's willingness to exert mental effort? doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

.Russ Poldrack and I are hiring a full-time research coordinator to work with us on cognitive control, response inhibition, dual-tasking, dense fMRI, and modeling. Position is designed for a post-bac looking to start a Ph. D in 2-3 years. Please retweet. phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDXDXRbo

And finally, my book comes out today. Thank you to everyone who has bought the book already. It's up to you now. Please send me a pic if/when you get it, but more importantly, please review on Amazon/Goodreads etc. And if you still need to buy it... amazon.com/dp/1032729961?…

Have a PhD and interested in a career in sci comm & working with preprints? Come work with us at bioRxiv/medRxiv! schooljobs.com/careers/cshl/j…

Thanks everyone! Keep an eye out, as we will be recruiting across positions in the coming year. This and lots of other cool projects ongoing and planned.

I’m recruiting PhD students for my (soon-to-launch) lab at Boston University! If you’re interested in the intersection of computation, learning, & development, please reach out. I’ll be at #Flux2024 and #SNE2024 and am happy to meet up. cldlab.org

Come work for Payam in sunny LA ! Payam is a fantastic mentor and researcher; join him if you want to build beautiful, complex computational models that help better understand how we learn in healthy and disordered settings.

TOMORROW - Jeremiah Y. Cohen will be chairing and presenting at the "Monoamine Neuromodulators: Cell Types, Physiology, Computation, and Behavior" symposium. 📆 Sun., Oct. 6, 9:30am-12pm 📍 MCP Room S406A More on our Society for Neuroscience (SfN) activities 👉 alleninstitute.org/events/sfn2024/

Now accepting applications for the 2025 Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data & Neuroscience. Apply by December 16 to join the Fall 2025 cohort. alleninstitute.org/careers/intern… #SfN24 UW Computational Neuroscience Center

I am mobilizing + giving free weekly science communication workshops in a private community for scientists who want to join the battle vs misinformation. I wasn't planning on doing this so soon but this is urgent. We need you. Scientists, DM with your credentials for details.

A new, improved version of this paper is now published at nature.com/articles/s4158… !

I am recruiting graduate students for my lab McGill University for admission in Fall 2025! Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.

Are you a clinical psychologist interested in computational modeling? The Niv lab will be looking for a postdoc in computational psychiatry/psychotherapy and we are especially keen on people with a clinical background. Email me with CV & research statement if this is you!

Max is excellent! I wholeheartedly recommend anyone to work with him. Please apply and/or reshare :-)

Just watched the full House hearing & testimony of NIH Director Dr. Monica Bertignolli. A few takeaways: • the proposed budget, in addition to not increasing for inflation, wants to condense NIH from 27 to 15 institutes. The NIH does not think this is a good idea. 🧵1/?