We are thrilled 🥳 to share that we’re joining forces with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social to establish a joint research unit, @cmc-unit.bsky.social integrating embodied and natural decision making across species!

We also have open PhD and postdoc positions (check below for more info) 🎉

Re-post 🔁 is appreciated!
#neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social!
If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇

How do 🐁deal with complex landscapes? Turns out they learn a lot very quickly. We think they do this by learning a set of repeated sparse paths, which form a type of compressed world model. Joint work with the Hermundstad lab, led by Tzuhsuan Ma and Alison Comrie: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Cool paper from Abhishek Chatterjee and colleagues!

Mating drive shifts flies’ activity between day and night via dopamine, independent of the circadian clock.

Sex can reshape a fly’s daily schedule!

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Highlighting a couple of lovely behavior-focused preprints from some of the newer rodent neuro labs at Janelia: mice hunting crickets in the @emilyjanedennis.bsky.social lab (tinyurl.com/5fenwwh8) and exploring structured, complex environments in the @jvoigts.bsky.social lab (tinyurl.com/4ewsvvhw)

Some exciting new work:
arxiv.org/abs/2610.12426

On X, I shared some explanation and broader thoughts:
x.com/d_g_clark/st...

Additionally, an X user made an extremely good 3Blue1Brown-style explainer video. Each step is described accurately and beautifully:
x.com/nachilos_/st...

We, the Natural Decision Making Group and the Embodied Decision Making Group, are joining forces to establish the CMC Unit, a joint research unit to uncover computational, biological, and ecological principles underlying adaptive decision-making.

You can read more about us here: cmc-unit.org

Re-post 🔁 is appreciated!
#neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us
@cmc-unit.bsky.social!
If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇

Re-post 🔁 is appreciated!
#neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social!
If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇

#COSYNE2027 deadline is just around the corner:

🧠📜 18 October 2026! 📜🧠

Check below for more on key dates and abstract submission:

www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su...

If you plan to attend #COSYNE2027 and need a letter of invitation for your visa, you can request it now; there's no need to wait for abstract acceptance or registration to open 😉

www.cosyne.org/visa-entry-i...

Call for COSYNE workshops is open! The deadline is November 1: www.cosyne.org/workshops-call

If you plan to organize one, start early!

If you’re attending #BernsteinConference, don’t miss our contributed talk today on how considering embodied constraints (motor control + homeostasis) affects decision making during foraging!

If you’re interested in how to identify behaviorally relevant dynamic modes in continuous time naturalistic tasks without any pre-defined trial structure make sure to check @maxschwabe.bsky.social’s poster today at #BernsteinConference.

We are thrilled 🥳 to share that we’re joining forces with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social to establish a joint research unit, @cmc-unit.bsky.social integrating embodied and natural decision making across species!

We also have open PhD and postdoc positions (check below for more info) 🎉

We are thrilled 🥳 to share that we’re joining forces with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social to establish a joint research unit, @cmc-unit.bsky.social integrating embodied and natural decision making across species!

We also have open PhD and postdoc positions (check below for more info) 🎉

We, the Natural Decision Making Group and the Embodied Decision Making Group, are joining forces to establish the CMC Unit, a joint research unit to uncover computational, biological, and ecological principles underlying adaptive decision-making.

You can read more about us here: cmc-unit.org