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📢 To everyone on the job market who has a vision for neuroscience applied to biomedical applications & technological innovation:
The Duke Dept. of Biomedical Engineering announces a tenure-track faculty job search in neural engineering, broadly defined!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
ALT View of Duke Chapel looking up a quiet street surrounded by colorful autumn foliage
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Congratulations to Dr. Kevin LaBar @LaBarLab for his appointment as Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke!
We look forward to Kevin's leadership of the CCN, a center in DIBS focused on studies of the mind and its neural foundations.
scholars.duke.edu/person/kla…
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‼️ Exciting job opportunity - the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke is kicking into high gear.
The position has the potential for lots of interactions with the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, as well. 🙂
Job Alert: Our department is looking to recruit an eminent scholar for a distinguished, endowed professorship (full professor, tenured) in the domain of human neuroscience with high clinical relevance. For application information, see academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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From an undergrad and PhD student in @CoganLab at Duke!
Thread from the undergrad, @bentang0 below. Check it out. Congrats also to PhD student @zspald11 - impressive team!
bentang18.github.io/mapa-pag…
A new state-of-the-art neural foundation model.
Excited to announce Pretraining for Sample-Efficient Neural Interfaces, a simple pretraining method for intracranial brain-computer interfaces!
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Computational or Theoretical Neuroscience - Neurobiology Dept, Duke School of Medicine.
Excellent department & broader community! Across the street from Biomed Engr + other collaborations galore. NC is lovely. Join us!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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Congrats to Felipe de Brigard, Prof. at Duke and PI of the Imagination & Modal Cognition Lab at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences!
He is co-recipient of the 2026 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize from the Am Philos. Assn.
tinyurl.com/FdBAPA
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Duke Institute for Brain Sciences retweeted
New research from Duke shows brain-to-computer speech decoders can be trained using shared data across patients, with as little as five minutes of recordings from a new patient.
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Can a speech BCI learn across people?
In Nature Communications, led by @zspald11:
High-density µECoG reveals shared neural dynamics that can be aligned to improve cross-patient speech decoding, even with little data from a new participant.
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-7…
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Two new papers on brain recordings during speech from DIBS faculty member Greg Cogan & colleagues!
Improving speech decoding for brain-computer interfaces ~AND~ understanding the brain network fundamentals of spoken language planning and articulation.
What a summer for them!
Two new papers from the lab in Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Communications, spanning the neural mechanisms of speech production and new approaches to speech neurotechnology!
🧠 Speech plans → fluent motor sequences
🗣️ Speech BCIs across people
Links below 👇
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ALT Graphic announcing two new Cogan Lab papers. The Nature Human Behaviour paper asks how the brain turns a speech plan into fluent movement, illustrated as planning → articulation → monitoring. The Nature Communications paper asks whether a speech BCI can learn from other people, illustrated by neural activity from two individuals converging on a shared latent representation.
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Our new review paper lead by CNAP PhD Student @jimmyjam6290 and @EgnerLab is now published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews: “Insights into the neural mechanisms supporting cognitive stability and flexibility from human intracranial EEG.”
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Last week, Nanlin Shi (postdoctoral associate @shinl_thu) presented T. Lei et al.’s new Nature paper, “Active dissociation of intracortical spiking and high gamma activity,” on whether intracortical HGA reflects local spiking or broader population activity.
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You may have read that the OMB is proposing dozens of changes to grant selection, oversight, termination, etc.
📢 Comments accepted through July 13! Nearly 70k so far. If you are at Duke, please contact OR&I at vpri@duke.edu for basic guidance.
Be heard!
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Best wishes to Manoj! New Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Programs. Exciting times ahead for collaborative Institutes and Centers at Duke.
The current interim dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy will transition into his new role July 1: dukechronicle.com/article/du…
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Duke Institute for Brain Sciences retweeted
A big congratulations to Blake Wilson, PhD, on receiving the 2026 Merkin Prize.
His work helped shape modern cochlear implants and continues to influence how we care for patients across our field.
today.duke.edu/2026/06/blake…
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In a new paper published in Nature, Duke neurobiologists Richard Mooney, Drew Schreiner and John Pearson work with songbirds to uncover clues about how the brain learns and what can go wrong in neurological disorders
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Timely new Gordon Research Conference, organized in part by Vice-Chair and DIBS faculty member Dr. Anne West!
ALT Announcement flyer for Gordon Research Conference on Neural Genetics & Epigenetics, July 19-24 2026, New Hampshire USA. For full details, https://www.grc.org/neural-genetics-and-epigenetics-conference/2026/
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Duke Institute for Brain Sciences retweeted
Very important work - finally possible to study Alzheimer's in monkeys 👇
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Very excited about this landmark study led by Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew along with DIBS faculty network members John Pearson and Rich Mooney!
Opto & chemogenetic exploration of birdsong circuits guided by a computational framework. 🤩 Congratulations!
Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain?
Out now @Nature , we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster, but at a cost.🧵 #neuroscience
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Open link: rdcu.be/fiyrS
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Duke colleagues: Tell us your idea for creating a community to study something new about the brain, mind, or the interaction between brain studies and society. DIBS will be funding up to 4 new teams!
Letters of Intent due this coming Wed., May 13!
tinyurl.com/DIBS-DreamTeams
Duke colleagues: is there a new development in your field of brain studies that captivates you, but you feel alone in your excitement? Do you want to grow a community at Duke to explore it? Announcing the new, 3-yr DIBS Dream Team awards: dibs.duke.edu/request-propos…
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Duke Institute for Brain Sciences retweeted
📢‼️🧠 The Duke School of Medicine is searching for a new Chair of Neurology. Letter of Interest and CV due May 22. Come join us in beautiful North Carolina!
medschool.duke.edu/about-us/…
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