Marc Sommer
What is the brain?
Personal account, all views my own. Reposts meant as informative and not implying endorsement.
- Reposted by Marc SommerOne day online conference on the ways behavioral and neural sciences can inform peace efforts. Organized by Duke's amazing @felipedebrigard.bsky.social Free! Tomorrow! (Fri Feb 6). To register see link below. behavioralscientist.org/program-neur...
- Knowing that there are people actively working toward a better and more peaceful world gives me hope. This Friday, you can hear from some folks who have been carefully thinking about ways in which behavioral and neural sciences can contribute to peace building. www.neuropaz.com/en
- Reposted by Marc SommerWe’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings. Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C... You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
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- Bumping this up again now that it's February. The search for the new Chair of Neurobiology at Duke is ongoing! First step in the application process is simple: submit a letter of interest and CV by Feb 28. If you feel qualified, please apply - or let others know! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
- Snowy Chapel Hill twilight
- Pro tip before Chapel Hill snow days - stock up on Sunrise Biscuits ahead of time, make a different breakfast sandwich each snowy day
- Reposted by Marc SommerCLOSING SOON: Applications for Group Leader roles at our Janelia Research Campus close Feb. 3! Have original, transformative ideas for experimental approaches in imaging, molecular engineering, protein chemistry, mass spectrometry, & beyond? Learn more: janelia.org/groupleader 🧪
- Great news for our collective sanity 😐
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- And that's only intramural 😔
- Science: U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office By Jeffrey Mervis, Monica Hersher @science.org @policyhound.bsky.social @mghersher.bsky.social bit.ly/3M8yf9B
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- Reposted by Marc SommerThis is such a cool idea! Not long term "networks" of young profs that create and cement in in-groups and out-groups, but summer schools, tailored to the acute needs of the young PI. Transient, but tailored, tidal and totally timeous, too. Terrific. Try today!
- @kordinglab.bsky.social and I ran a summer school last year to help young profs (<5 yrs) in systems/comp neuro thrive. compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i... It was great! Now we want to know if you'd be interested in participating if we did this again this year? Let us know!
- Reposted by Marc SommerHey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out. They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
- Reposted by Marc SommerThus far, engineering has outpaced theory in the science of intelligence. But Tomaso Poggio is hopeful that theories can catch up. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
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- Reposted by Marc SommerMy department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social
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- The search for a new Chair of Duke Neurobiology is kicking off! Ad below. I've lived all over the country, but I'm glad I put my roots down here. Great people, great school, great area to live. Feel free to DM with any questions.
- My department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social
- Reposted by Marc SommerCome join us. Western University invites applications from outstanding early career investigators for a full-time probationary faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of neural circuits in NHPs. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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- Happy 2026! Good reminder to question everything you think you see this coming year.
- Reposted by Marc SommerI definitely didn’t just scrape the web to get the h-index and total citation count as of 12/30/2025 for 319 living and dead nonhuman primate researchers to get a sense of publication metrics by rank on tenure-track.
- Reposted by Marc SommerNew paper from the lab: "Asynchronous firing and off states in working memory maintenance" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- New paper in Current Biology from the Hikosaka lab and @nienborglab.bsky.social at the NEI, collaborating with us. First author Xuefei Yu @xuefeiyu.bsky.social applied a host of optogenetic techniques to dissect out the functions of a pathway from frontal cortex to brainstem in behaving primates.
- I’m excited to share our new Current Biology paper! We use retrograde optogenetics in non-human primate and revealed a visuomotor convergence mechanism in the FEF-SC pathway. www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Look who's finally on Bluesky! Welcome Hendrikje (and lab). @nienborglab.bsky.social Let's get her follower count up. 🙂
- Reposted by Marc SommerIf you're (1) into nhp neurophysiology and/or biological motor control, (2) a foreign big shot and (3) interested in moving here, please reach out -- this new program looks extremely attractive (min. $8M over 8y)! www.uwo.ca/research/can...
- Seriously. This is gross.
- Reposted by Marc SommerGreat news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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- Reposted by Marc Sommer🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455 #Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
- Reposted by Marc SommerSpread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
- Where are you on this scale? I'd say I'm a 2.
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- Evidence for corollary discharge projections sent out from motor nuclei in primates! A rare find. The pathway targets cerebellar areas, likely for horizontal eye movement control. Great work @bohlen.bsky.social and Paul May and colleagues!
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