Alon Baram

Very happy to see our paper out in @NeuroCellPress! We show that the brain abstracts and generalises the structure of reinforcement learning tasks. Link to the paper: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S08…

Want the freedom of a fancy fellowship, but not the year-long wait or arduous application? Come join my lab! Work on neuroscience and AI, explore your creativity, be independent or work closely with me, collaborate widely, and have a lot of fun! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

If you’re at SfN and interested in cognitive maps/PFC then this is the symposium for you! abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171/s… Saturday 2-4:30 Room SDCC 6CF Also check out our brand new review: jneurosci.org/content/45/46/… With Sebastijan Veselic, Elena Gutierrez, @sandra_tanja & @MSableMeyer

הוא היה הראשון שמדד את גיל כדוה"א - 4.55 מיליארד שנה - בדיוק מדהים שנותר עד היום. אבל תוך כדי, הוא גילה משהו לא צפוי לחלוטין ומדאיג. תוך עשורים בודדים, הרף עין ביחס לגיל כדוה"א, משהו השתנה לרעה. מאוד לרעה. בגלל בני האדם. אז הוא יצא למשימת חייו. שרשור על כל מה שטוב (ורע) במדע 🧵⬇️

Excited to share my PhD results showing a hierarchical coordinate system for sequence memory in human EC. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Below is a thread explaining this nonsense. 1/9

The leadership of the Hebrew University in a strongly-worded, unequivocal response letter to the presidents of Harvard and Stanford universities, following their weak condemnation of Hamas: "You have failed us, not only as Israelis, who are subject to the imminent threat of being subject to genocide, but also as leaders of an academic institution, who expect their colleagues to present higher moral standards, and more courage.” The letter is signed by Prof. Asher Cohen, President of the Hebrew University, Prof. Tamir Shafer, Rector of the Hebrew University and Prof. Barak Medina To read the full letters: en.huji.ac.il/news/letters-p…

Michael wrote it better than I could.

I am hiring a PhD student in cognitive computational #neuroscience! 👩🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓Come and help us discover how the human brain learns, decides and guides flexible behaviour in beautiful Würzburg 🧠🙌 Find out more & apply here: shorturl.at/twHL9 @bioDGPs_DGPA @FENSorg @SfNtweets

Study uncovers how our brains connect the past and present | Brain Sciences - UCL – University College London ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences…

Ever wondered how your brain makes sense of threads like this? So did we! @behrenstimb @haim_dub and I tried to answer this question in our new paper, now available in @NatureNeuro. rdcu.be/ddgnK 1/13

@mona_garvert @Uni_WUE Woohoooo congrats Mona!!

Excited to share that I have accepted a TT-Assistant Professor position in Neuroscience at @uni_WUE🧠! I am immensely grateful to my incredible advisors and collaborators for their support on this journey and look forward to joining the research community in Würzburg!🌟

Excited to share our preprint, with Jo Warren, @jcrwhittington, and @behrenstimb! Hippocampus famously supports memory and scene construction, but recent state-space models have also explained a wealth of hippocampal results. Maybe it does both? biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/10

This suggests that participants formed and used a map for generalization! And indeed, using fMRI adaptation we found a representation of the spatial map in the hippocampus. However, not only spatial relationships between monsters were represented in the hippocampus!

Roses are red, violets are blue, and today I am again on strike with the #UCU. Show some V-day love and support your striking colleagues in HE. #ucuRISING

Dogs on Pickets!🐶 #ucuRISING

@OxfordUCU Arya is also striking

We're not going anywhere until employers treat us fairly. #ucuRISING

@ruskin147 For us installing a dog door to the garden made a big difference - keeps the house warmer and the dog can still come in and out!

t’s a bit cold leaving the kitchen door open but it seems to make #sophiefromromania more relaxed and she can pop in and out

@haitchjayy @ruskin147 We're also loving #sophiefromromania - and we have the bonus of finding all these Romanian doppelgangers of our short-legged Arya, who came from Romania 1.5 years ago and is the best we did for ourselves

@ruskin147 I’m so invested in #sophiefromromania 🥰 This is Jamie, took her about 6 months before she’d sit in the same room as us and even longer before she’d eat or sleep in front of us, now she’s an absolute princess 👸 Rescue dogs are so so worth it 💕

Sitting quietly at our kitchen table and look who crept out… very slowly getting a bit braver #sophiefromromania instagr.am/p/CmZT-nGMe77/

If everything's a big manifold, why do neurons often code for human-interpretable factors? In arxiv.org/abs/2210.01768 we show the most efficient biological representation puts different factors in different neurons. This lets us build machines that disentangle too! 1/9

Congratulations to Gily Ginosar in the group of Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky of the Brain Sciences Department, who has been awarded the Capranica Prize for the 2021 Best Paper in Neuroethology

Join this week’s WorldWideNeuRise seminar @worldwideneuro to hear more about the functional architecture of the human entorhinal-hippocampal circuitry and discuss our preprint with me! world-wide.org/Neuro/WWNeuRis…