Brad Postle
Depts. of Psychology & Psychiatry, U. Wisconsin–Madison
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Director, Psychology Research Experience Program (summer program for URM/low-income/1st-gen undergrads)
- Reposted by Brad PostleSaving....for reasons
- Just out—a piece I wrote a piece for the APS Observer (@psychscience.bsky.social) in which I share recommendations and resources for running a research lab at a small, liberal arts college. I hope it helps others in the same boat! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
- Reposted by Brad PostleHuman visual cortex representations may be much higher-dimensional than earlier work suggested, but are these higher dimensions of cortical activity actually relevant to behavior? Our new paper tackles this by studying how different people experience the same movies. 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Brad PostleExtended post-doc offers to two people recently. Both had their visas denied, so now those positions remain unfilled. This is good for America somehow.
- Reposted by Brad PostleI want to start by saying thank you, truly, to my friends, family, and so many good people who have reached out to check on me during this hard moment in Minnesota. I love you all. I am okay. See thread....
- Reposted by Brad PostleI'm very excited to announce that the Psychology Department at Brooklyn College of CUNY is hiring a tenure-track line in Cognitive Neuroscience. Applications are being accepted now, and review will begin on or after February 23rd, please repost! #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence cuny.jobs/brooklyn-ny/...
- Reposted by Brad PostleThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- Reposted by Brad Postlemain goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂 looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible. science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
- It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:
- place cell coding: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... RSFC: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... neural dynamics of sleep and anesthesia: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... orientation maps in SC: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... E:I ratio and neural communication:
- pulvinar integration of signals: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... face processing: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... eye movement-related eardrum oscillations: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... aging and the core language network: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
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View full threadDynamical System Theory-based analysis of psychedelics: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... covert vs. overt attention: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
- Reposted by Brad Postlegoing through months of figure edits feels worth it when one ends up on a text book cover! thanks to @bradpostle.bsky.social and @rodbraga.bsky.social
- As a high-school student learning about science, I never even dreamed that my research would ever be on the cover of a textbook 🥹 Thank you @bradpostle.bsky.social ! And congrats to 1st author @donnisa.bsky.social ! www.amazon.com/Essentials-C...
- Reposted by Brad PostleThis kind of stuff is why I say that I worry that the tools of neuroscience are not properly vetted
- Reposted by Brad Postleshort sighted at best....NHP research has been instrumental in the development of new treatments for human conditions (as well as other animals conditions/diseases as well).
- EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org
- Reposted by Brad PostlePlease repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
- Reposted by Brad PostleCheck out our latest work led by @joeyzhou.bsky.social on alpha oscillatory networks in PLOS Biology! ➡️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Do ongoing alpha activity fluctuations influence perceptual sensitivity or criterion?
- Reposted by Brad PostleI will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
- Reposted by Brad Postle#CNS2026 Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop, Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Grand Ballroom CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu @cnsnews.bsky.social
- "Due to financial uncertainty, the Psychology Research Experience Program has suspended operations, and the PREP summer research opportunity program will not be active during the Summer of 2026. Consequently, we are not accepting applications at this time."😠
- Reposted by Brad Postle"We hope to inspire curiosity ... prompting researchers to uncover why children experience the world so distinctively and what this reveals about cognitive development." @jocn.bsky.social's November issue presents a special focus on the development of event segmentation: #NeuroSky #cognition
- Reposted by Brad PostleSpatial attention and working memory are popularly thought to be tightly coupled. Yet, distinct neural activity tracks attentional breadth and WM load. In a new paper @jocn.bsky.social, we show that pupil size independently tracks breadth and load. doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...
- Reposted by Brad PostleCDS Asst. Prof. @neurograce.bsky.social has launched a YouTube channel, “5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet,” translating climate-AI research into short video explainers, inspired by her course at CDS, “Machine Learning for Climate Change.” nyudatascience.medium.com/cds-grace-li...
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- Reposted by Brad PostleThe unfathomable richness of seeing: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
- Reposted by Brad PostleUnderstanding the flexibility of working memory: compositionality, generative processing, anchors and holistic representations doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #neuroscience
- Reposted by Brad PostleA big win for @neuromatch.bsky.social and for our students, TAs, and mentors! So proud of the hard work that went into making this happen and grateful to the NIH for their support!
- Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
- Reposted by Brad PostleI’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- New work led by Jackie Fulvio that adds to growing evidence that dynamics in parietooccipital low-beta oscillations play an important role in the encoding of priority in visual working memory. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Brad PostleCongratulations to Assistant Professor João Guassi Moreira who was awarded a 2025 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant! Stay current with his work at cdnlab.psych.wisc.edu/CDNlab/
- The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
- Reposted by Brad Postle🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!) To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website: www.sinclairlab-rice.com Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...
- Reposted by Brad PostleMissing Northwestern University professor Nina Kraus found
- Attending #ECVP next week? Please seek me out if you're potentially interested in a postdoc: Thursday – 08-28-2025 - 08:30 am Out of sight, but not out of mind: How the human brain represents images that are not directly seen Chair, Rosanne Rademaker
- 08:40 am Maria V. Servetnik 09:00 am Thomas Christophel 09:20 am Representational formats to encode context and priority in visual working memory Brad Postle | University of Wisconsin–Madison | United States 09:40 am Clayton Curtis | New York University | United States
- Reposted by Brad PostleI can't quite believe it – I got a new NSF grant! 😲🤯 I'm incredibly grateful to the program officers & reviewers for their dedication and efforts to keep science going 🌟👏🏼 So, I'll be hiring! Looking for a postdoc to study competition in memory-guided attention. See flyer for details! 🎉
- Reposted by Brad PostleThis special issue "invites submissions on research areas recently de-prioritized and/or de-funded that address or discuss how social cognition approaches can aid in the understanding of these critical societal issues." Plz consider submitting!
- Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung. bit.ly/3HkcyBf
- Reposted by Brad PostleExcited to share my first fMRI paper in @pnas.org We found that suppressing the encoding of one event can strengthen the neural representation of the next in CA1, and bias retrieval-related neural restatement away from suppressed information. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Brad Postle🧵(1/7) In late 2024, we surveyed ~6,000 MIT Press authors to understand their views on large language model (LLM) licensing and partnership practices, and to ensure our practices align with their priorities. 850+ responded. Here’s what we learned…
- Reposted by Brad PostleI gave a talk in 2009 about feature-based attention and a famous vision scientist asked how top down signals from PFC could possibly target the right sensory neurons. The best I could do was "uh, dunno". sunyoungp.bsky.social has a much more thoughtful answer journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
- Reposted by Brad PostleCome work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
- Deadline approaching for Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Travel Fellowship
- 2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship @jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
- Reposted by Brad PostleThe Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-... #FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry
- Reposted by Brad Postle📣 New preprint from the SCIMaP team! Across three studies, we show that communicating the economic impact of NIH funding cuts—especially with interactive quizzes and maps—decreases approval and motivates action to oppose the cuts, across the political spectrum. 🧵 1/8 osf.io/preprints/ps...
- 2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship @jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
- Oceania and Southeast Asia; South Asia; Africa; West Asia; and southern Western Hemisphere (excludes Canada and USA). Deadline 20 August 2025 details: www.cogneurosociety.org/jocn-travel-...
- Reposted by Brad Postle38 research teams analyzed the same fNIRS data...Really nice visualization of the variety of processing pipelines people use from Meryem Yücel, Rob Luke, et al.: "fNIRS reproducibility varies with data quality, analysis pipelines, and researcher experience" www.nature.com/articles/s42...
- Psychology Research Experience Program (PREP) Symposium 2025, done & dusted
- Reposted by Brad PostleEvidence for dlPFC contribution to #memory suppression using #TMS! Now accepted @jocn.bsky.social. Great team effort and collaboration with Gesa Hartwigsen’s lab @mpicbs.bsky.social. We also had an exemplary experience at the journal with editors @barense.bsky.social & @bradpostle.bsky.social.
- 1/3 Excited to share my first paper w/ co-first-author Davide Stramaccia in @rolandbenoit.bsky.social's lab! Causal evidence for right dlPFC involvement in #memory control: #TMS made it harder to stop intrusive memories & suppression didn't cause forgetting @jocn.bsky.social -> tinyurl.com/prfra87k
- Reposted by Brad PostleBy entirely funding more awards up front, the NIH is on track to fund just 1 in 25 applications Such a payline “would chase a lot of people out of science” former NCI director Ned Sharpless told us 🧪🔬 www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/n...
- Reposted by Brad Postle🚨 Just about a week left to celebrate all our fantastic female colleagues in #workingmemory by nominating them for the #WomWoM research fairy award! 🚨
- #workingmemory researchers! It's time to nominate all of our brilliant and wonderful female colleagues for the 2025 #WomWoM research fairy award! 🧚♀️🪄 Please share widely -- deadline 2nd August! bit.ly/2025womwomfa...
- Reposted by Brad PostleI'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...
- EEG Correlates of Active Removal from Working Memory Jiangang Shan and Bradley R. Postle Journal of Neuroscience 9 July 2025, 45 (28) e2414242025; doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
- belated brag-post because I've been mysteriously locked out of bsky for several weeks, but now I'm evidently back in?
- Temporal Dynamics and Representational Consequences of the Control of Processing Conflict between Visual Working Memory and Visual Perception Available Teng, Fulvio, Pietrelli, Jiang, Postle (2025) 37 (8): 1328–1348. doi.org/10.1162/jocn... super-chuffed about this sci'ly and emotion-ly
- Scientifically: This, together with doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... provides neural evidence corroborating previous behavioral evidence for our 'hijacked adaptation' model of the active removal of info from WM. Additionally, provides elegant EEG correlates of the control PE and f from Flex. Control Model.
- Emotionally: This was exasperating difficult to get through, both at a prev journal and at @jocn.bsky.social, due to bizarre resistance by reviewers to the idea that the flexible control of cognition could involve trial-by-trial adjustment of proactive control. We've vented here:
- Reposted by Brad PostleSo proud of @erinmorrow.bsky.social for writing this moving piece about the importance of science funding. She’s an inspiration and powerful force for change.
- So grateful to be one of the 500+ early-career scientists returning to their roots this month. The SNAP team behind this campaign has been such a blast to work with! @snapcoalition.bsky.social Check out my piece in the Marietta Daily Journal, as well as other national coverage: bit.ly/3HXlfB4
- Reposted by Brad PostleNew post by Jacqueline Fulvio, in response to @bradpostle.bsky.social and @wmatchin.bsky.social: "Gender bias in citation practices four year later – is it working?" doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
- Reposted by Brad PostleCuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
- Reposted by Brad Postle#Bradfest Symposium in honor of @bradpostle.bsky.social 60th Birthday.
- Hivemind: Soliciting recommendations for a cognitive psychology textbook, thx!
- Reposted by Brad PostleBecause we must build good things while we scream about the bad, I have started a "Data for Good" team @data-for-good-team.bsky.social that partners with organizations needing short-term data science help. We have three projects ongoing & will add more as our capacity grows. data-for-good-team.org
- Reposted by Brad PostleNow out at @elife.bsky.social, a short Insight article I wrote highlighting this cool paper from Qing Yu's lab! They show how working memory representations in human frontal cortex are flexible based on task goals and rules. (elifesciences.org/articles/100..., elifesciences.org/articles/106...)
- Reposted by Brad PostleCalling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you. publicusaresearchbenefits.com They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states. Please spread the word!
- Reposted by Brad PostleThanks @bradpostle.bsky.social & @wmatchin.bsky.social for organizing this, for giving me the opportunity to present on behalf of @imagingneurosci.bsky.social, and for this excellent write-up of the session 🙏🏻 Next up: #ISMRM2025 🏝 diffusion study group, where I'll make a cameo to talk about this!
- New post by @bradpostle.bsky.social and @wmatchin.bsky.social: "New Directions in Scientific Communication", regarding symposium at #CNS2025, including participants @anastasiayendiki.bsky.social, Jacqueline Fulvio, and Michael Frank www.cogneurosociety.org/symposia/?sy... doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
- Reposted by Brad PostleNew post by @bradpostle.bsky.social and @wmatchin.bsky.social: "New Directions in Scientific Communication", regarding symposium at #CNS2025, including participants @anastasiayendiki.bsky.social, Jacqueline Fulvio, and Michael Frank www.cogneurosociety.org/symposia/?sy... doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
- Reposted by Brad PostleCongratulations to Adrienne Fairhall, Prof. of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Adjunct Prof. of Applied Mathematics, and Adjunct Prof. of Physics, who has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🍾 🎉
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