Christos Constantinidis
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience. Neural basis of cognition, cognitive development, deep brain stimulation.
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- Aurora over Swedish Forest apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap22032...
- Reposted by Christos Constantinidis👇New biosketch requirement update. “After evaluating the number and types of recent technical inquiries we received to both the SciENcv and eRA Service Desks, we recognize the difficulties these issues have had on the community’s ability to comply with the original timeline of January 25, 2026.” 👇
- "NIH will provide a warning when the Common Forms are not used but will not withdraw applications that don’t comply with the use of the Common Forms. We expect the leniency to be in place through May 2026" grants.nih.gov/faqs#/common...
- Congress toyed with the idea of explicitly prohibiting multi-year funding of NIH grants - which severely cut down the number of awards last year - but in the end, it didn't go through. Expect paylines to be only moderately better this year. www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/n...
- NIH receives a 0.9% increase in the appropriation bill the House and Senate voted that now awaits the President's signature. Below inflation - but better than the 40% decrease the President's budget requested. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisI've been on the internet since the 90s and this remains one of the very best things I've encountered here. Thanks @mastroianni.bsky.social for all your writing but especially this, you beautiful bouncing baby bog boy. "So you wanna de-bog yourself" www.experimental-history.com/p/so-you-wan...
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisIt 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:
- Repeatable, low-drift recordings in behaving non-human primates using flexible microelectrodes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- New paper from the lab: "Asynchronous firing and off states in working memory maintenance" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- The neural basis of working memory has been debated. What we like to call “The Standard Model” of working memory posits that persistent discharges generated by neurons in the prefrontal cortex constitute the neural correlate of working memory (2/10)
- A thorn in the side of this theory, however, has been that the firing of cortical neurons is quite irregular; individual neurons rarely exhibit continuous, uninterrupted firing throughout the entire delay period of working memory tasks (3/10)
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View full threadOur results provide a critical confirmation of the Standard Model of Working memory. Many thanks to my students who did these challenging experiments, and particularly the co-first authors, Rana Mozumder and Zhengyang Wang (end)
- Reposted by Christos Constantinidismade a trip to Cerebral Brewing which has perhaps the best named beer for a neuroscientist #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Christos Constantinidis🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine
- Some funding good news for a change (from AAAS policy alert) The House and Senate released a final version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Of importance to the research community, the bill prohibits the DOD from imposing a 15% cap on indirect costs to institutions of higher education.
- It looks like Congress has little appetite for continuing the DOGE capping of indirect-costs fight
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisFor you NIH folks, two interesting announcements. 1) no more LOIs. 2) No more needing permission to apply with a budget of over $500K per year. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisThoughtful review with some good recent historical perspective on the ongoing paradigm shift that is radically changing the way we think about what brain areas do. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Christos Constantinidisnew paper in TICS officially out today. great learning from and writing with Anastasia, and super cool cover art from Prof. Pinar Yoldas. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisOur new paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com How do large-scale brain networks route information about where/what to attend at fast timescales? High-frequency bursts facilitate fast communication for human spatial attention www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Bluesky running neck and neck with truth social www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
- Very sad analysis of the science funding situation in the US right now www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisNIH shake-up to grant decision-making draws concerns of political meddling | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisFor the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto. I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
- October and November NIH grant submission deadlines will be extended. Study sections scheduled between October 1 and November 14 have been cancelled and will be rescheduled. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
- I got a similar message. My study section is being rescheduled for 2 partial days in January. Only 1/3 of grants will be discussed.
- Is there a competition going on about who is going to screw science the most?
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisResearch in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao. #neuroskyence bit.ly/47MXYLH
- A very nice summary of our article medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
- Reposted by Christos Constantinidis🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
- Who did this?
- Reposted by Christos Constantinidisgenerating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisLongitudinal measures of monkey brain structure and activity through adolescence predict cognitive maturation @cconstan.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Christos Constantinidisauditory tau-rhythm with a cool waveform, oscillating at 10 Hz, recorded with intracranial electrodes. 🧠〰️🙂
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisThe 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
- Ok Mamdani won. Can we now reopen the government, please?
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisThe first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢
- A sad day for Neuroscience in the Netherlands.
- Dutch lawmakers have approved the phase-out of primate research at one of Europe’s biggest facilities. Neuroscientists are worried. By Lauren Schenkman #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
- New paper from the lab: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A brief thread (1/10)
- The prefrontal cortex, a brain area critical for executive functioning, has not reached its fully mature state yet in adolescence. Impulsivity, poor decision-making, sensation seeking are hallmarks of adolescent behavior (2/10)
- It has been well known that improvement of cognitive performance in adolescence coincides with a number of structural changes in the brain, including volume and surface of the prefrontal cortex and maturation of white matter tracts (3/10)
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View full threadMany thanks to the interdisciplinary team that made this study possible - and to my trainees Junda Zhu and Clement Garin who saw it to completion (10/10)
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisThe brain is the stupidest object in the universe. Every misunderstanding and bad idea in history came from a brain. Before brains, no one was wrong about anything.
- "Alberto Martín-Martín says that he is sympathetic to the aims of GScholarLens. But he is not sure that the tool achieves its goal [...]. Simply assigning different weights to study authors isn’t enough to capture the nuances of their contributions". www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Senior Lecturer Position in Computational Neuroscience at Vanderbilt. Please disseminate. apply.interfolio.com/173997
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisAre you looking to do independent research related to machine learning and/or data science? Want to get some teaching experience too? Apply to be a faculty fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University! Positions are for two years. apply.interfolio.com/174686
- Vanderbilt is not rejecting the Compact on higher education.
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisHere's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com @qedscience.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisPine plantations burn more severely & recover more slowly than other vegetation types. This is observed using the forest map (L) or the forest inventory (R), Spain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/10/16/p... 🧪🌎🔥🍁🌳🔥 wildfire @jappliedecology.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisStudent government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisShared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
- Study section would have wrapped up this week. No idea when it will restart after the government shutdown.
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisFaculty colleagues, please let your students know about our PhD program in Developmental and Brain Sciences at UMass Boston! Online info session coming up on 10/22 at 4.30 pm. Applications are due 12/1/25 www.umb.edu/academics/pr... #devpsych #devsky #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisPrecision Neuroscience published their high-density ECoG in Nature Biomed. Eng. The startup shows a 1,024-channel grid implanted through a cortical slit in pigs, and intraoperative neural recordings and stimulation in five humans at sub-mm resolution. #neuroskyence @precisionneuro.bsky.social
- US government shutdown
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisIn reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular: The joy. One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...
- Reposted by Christos Constantinidisis anyone working on cortical waves (traveling, rotational, etc) looking for a faculty position? we'll soon be hiring in Korea, at our center where multiple labs (ephys, optical imaging, human neuroimaging) are interested in collaborating w/ theoreticians pls DM/email for informal inquiries 🧠📈 🧠💻
- Poorly conceived, vaguely worded, abruptly imposed. There is going to be a total mess in the landscape of H1 visa holders, including foreign postdocs and professors in the US.
- Open positions in Vanderbilt BME!
- Reposted by Christos ConstantinidisFive year outcomes for Vercise deep brain stimulation (DBS) in Parkinson's disease are in, and they look very good. Specific features: independent control of each contact, rechargeable batteries, directional leads to steer current and MRI compatibility. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
- I wouldn't really call this good news, but better than the alternative of NIH not spending its appropriated budget
