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Preprint alert 🚨! Excited to share our new work on metacognition in value-based decision-making. We ask whether it is possible to derive a computational measure of metacognitive ability for economic preference choices. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This is amazing: the first large, randomized trial to show that exercise improves survival after cancer The benefit from the exercise program was like adding another cancer drug - without the side-effects

Writing and thinking are deeply related. Don’t use ai to do your writing. universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/…

The Foundation for Biomedical Research Foundation for Biomedical Research joined the Be Open about Animal Research Day. You can join too! Show your support and share on #BOARD25

New paper shows causal effects of gaze-contingent stimulation on learning feature-based attention: Treuting et al. (2025) Adaptive Reinforcement Learning is causally supported by Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Striatum. Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex… 1/2

Thank you nature News for covering our paper which comes out today!

Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain? Andrew Pruszynski and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in Nature Neuroscience: nature.com/articles/s4159…

I'm thrilled to announce that our work to develop the Neuropixels-NHP 1.0 neural recording probe is now out in print in Nature Neuroscience. nature.com/articles/s4159…

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…

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Why do we go downstairs when we hear a scary noise at night? Postdoc Kati Rothenhoefer shows how novelty seeking & explore-exploit decision making in #macaques resolves curiosity about whether choices will lead to appetitive or aversive outcomes. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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As of today I am a tenured professor in the dept of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Rutgers University. First and foremost: our lab- thank you!!! I am so honored to be working alongside you everyday. Mentors, family and friends: thank you! It takes a village!!! Now…. Onwards!

My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15

New profile! Dr. Sarah Heilbronner (Sarah Heilbronner) uses cutting-edge neuroanatomical and neuroimaging techniques to decipher the wiring diagram of the primate brain. Follow the link below to learn more! storiesofwin.org/profiles/2025/… #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience

Scientist, speak now or forever hold your peace. link below, deadline monday, July 14th my comment: While new alternative methods (NAMs) have contributed useful tools for mechanistic studies and early-stage toxicology, and some efficacy in predicting efficacy in a narrow area

Are they playing for a major budget reduction in the next Fiscal Year? NIAAA is starting to concern me drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/nia… via Drug Monkey

Are mice humans? obviously not, but stopping NHP calls is not going to fix that. No in vitro system can replace in vivo. We are VERY FAR from understanding how ANY TWO (never mind three or more) body systems work together. You are not going to cure diseases without in vivo work.

Something that is prob not known to PIs outside the US: we have to cover our salaries from grants. At med schools, usually 50-99% of it. Even teaching positions only cover 9 months salary. So you need to find ~$100-200k/year JUST for your own salary. Thus needing multiple grants.