Jonathan Whitlock

Now hiring: capable post-doc wanting to dig into the behavioral & cortical algorithms of predictive pursuit. 4-yr position @KISNeuro in Trondheim!

Any neuroscientists left in this pro-wrestling-(formerly)-Trump cesspit: I started reading Nachum Ulanovsky’s book today and it’s fantastic! Nice 1 @NachumUlan54488 !

@MaxNigro_Neuro @GQuattrocolo Ghostly!

In 2013 @GQuattrocolo and I visited Badlands National Park. I uploaded this picture on the community website of the National Geographic and an editor liked it. This was the first thing I published that was liked by an editor and I am very proud of it.

We have new open positions – PhD student and postdocs– experimental or computational– in our research groups at @__NERF in Leuven Belgium on neural circuit basis of visual behavior/developmental disorders. I am at Cosyne Workshops and happy to discuss opportunities.

My department @AnatomyNeurobio at @UCIMedSchool is conducting another faculty search (Tenure-track Assistant or Tenured Associate) on Synaptic Mechanism research. Please circulate, and contact us if you have any questions!! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09410

Go Discovery Team BMI- let’s do this!!!

@DavidCRowland I’m sure this was a tough call; wishing you all the best!

Little news: for family reasons, I am leaving Nature. It's sad for me because I loved the job and my co-workers but it is for the best. I am proud of what I did there, especially expanding certain subfields like brain-body interactions.

A hardwired high-speed sweep mechanism by which #gridcell populations scan the environment during navigation: Now out in @Nature ! Thanks to @azvollan and @brickobrain for this heroic work! @ERC_Research @MayBrittMoser @KISNeuro @NTNU @forskningsradet nature.com/articles/s4158…

Enjoy! Our new paper on social learning of mice.

Join us at @FENSorg Forum 2026 in Barcelona. We are looking forward to your symposium proposal …

If you are interested in a PhD position working on neural networks in an excellent research environment at the heart of London, please apply!

Wrapping up the movement and motor control in health and disease Cajal Advanced Neuroscience Training course in Bordeaux! It was a privilege to teach the in vivo patch clamp technique to incredible students. Thanks to #FENS, @univbordeaux, and everyone who made these possible!

If you want to do a postdoc w me (or generally do theory at Allen/UW) apply for this!   It’s a pretty independent postdoc position for people with a quantitative background, and pays well (104K)!    Due date is Dec 16th. Here’s the link to apply. tinyurl.com/coolgoodjob

A Prefrontal Cortex Map based on Single Neuron Activity biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

@WikiZong @Antonio_lorca_ @NTNUTTO Great news, and well-deserved!!

Zong lab got an NTNU Discovery Grant for developing new 2P miniscopes! Thank the NTNU Discovery committee and Sparebank, the sponsor! The project is led by an amazing postdoc @Antonio_lorca_ and got strong support from Annelene Dahl @NTNUTTO! So encouraging for us!

@TrackingActions @TrackingPlumes @EPFL_en @UZH_en Congrats, Mack and Alex!!

Our deepest thanks to the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences for awarding @TrackingPlumes and me (@EPFL_en) the Robert Bing Prize 2024 alongside Susanne Wegener (@UZH_en ). Us for our joint work bridging machine learning and behavioral neurobiological research into sensorimotor control and learning 🦾, and her incredible translational research on the pathophysiology and treatment of stroke: samw.ch/en/News/News.h… It’s been amazing to see the impact of machine learning tools in preclinical models as well as seeing @DeepLabCut used in human clinical trials! I’m very proud of the whole team ✨ @mwmathislab @amathislab Personally, I’m so humbled and happy, as it goes full circle in my quest to ultimately help patients through the lens of foundational research 🥰🚀

Thank you @EMBO and @fionamarywatt for this wonderful meeting. It was a great honor to be elected as EMBO member together with many wonderful colleagues and celebrate science together. Goodbye beautiful Heidelberg and see you soon …

Thank you so much, @EMBO, and obviously amazing science this week! Great fun with @yaksi_emre, @e_knapska, @ZoltanMolnar64 and Rui Oliveira.

Welcome EMBO Members Emre Yaksi @yaksi_emre, Rui Oliveira, Jonathan Whitlock @JonRWhitlock, @Nick_Goldman, Ricardo Henriques @HenriquesLab, Mats Nilsson @MatsNilssonLab, @GlattSebastian, Ilona Grunwald Kadow @ikadow (not in photo) and Johan Elf @johan_elf_ ! #EMBOat60