Josh Dudman
husband, father, neuroscientist, senior group leader at Janelia @hhmijanelia.bsky.social, beard enthusiast, unrepentant dilettante, he|him
www.dudmanlab.org
orcid.org/0000-0002-4436-1057
- Reposted by Josh DudmanNews from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come! samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...
- Reposted by Josh DudmanFull survey results show American public have high levels of confidence in scientists while revealing some partisan differences (including on how to fund science), but statements asserting lost trust should be read instead as intentional efforts to degrade trust. www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...
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- Reposted by Josh DudmanI am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
- Reposted by Josh DudmanCan humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts? Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze. Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
- Reposted by Josh Dudman🧠 New year, new preprint! Why does motor learning involve multiple brain regions? We propose that the cortico-cerebellar system learns a "map" of actions where similar movements are nearby, while basal ganglia do RL in this simplified space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Josh DudmanWhat is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Josh DudmanNYE fireworks < neurons expressing iGluSnFR3! Developed at our Janelia Research Campus, iGluSnFR3 is a fluorescent sensor designed to rapidly detect & image glutamate — our brains' main chemical messenger — allowing researchers to observe (dazzling) neural communication as it happens. 🎆
- Reposted by Josh Dudman“Basic neuroscience hasn’t produced new drugs.” 💊 Not true - zuranolone (PPD), suzetrigine (pain), gepants (migraine), and more... were born out of a long arc of studies in the lab. I wrote a Perspective on why this matters. @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
- Reposted by Josh Dudman*First preprint from our lab* !!!!! How does the brain learn to anchor its internal sense of direction to the outside world? 🧭 led by Mark Plitt @markplitt.bsky.social & Dan Turner-Evans, w/ Vivek Jayaraman: “Octopamine instructs head direction plasticity” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread ⬇️
- Reposted by Josh DudmanAdam Kampff’s passion for understanding and explaining the world was unmatched. Living by example and not ever compromising on his dreams, Adam was uncanny in making people realize they can learn and understand anything and everything. Keep his dream alive! In his own words: tinyurl.com/ye29csw3
- An awesome figure illustrating key aspects of hippocampal encoding and replay during continuous behavior ; from great work by Brian Lustig and co www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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- Reposted by Josh DudmanJoin us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.
- The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!
- Major reductions in science funding across the board - important to have detailed data. Includes big cuts in fellowships that are a critical mechanism for developing young talent in US graduate school programs. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Josh DudmanDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology. pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
- A touching piece by Tatiana Schlossberg www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
- Reposted by Josh DudmanTo study how animals understand the physical world (and the rules that govern its dynamics), @jinyao-y.bsky.social trains rats to play fetch with robots 🐀🤖🎾 To learn more, come to our poster Tuesday morning! [Board W11] Rats learn and use intuitive physics knowledge to solve fetch tasks. #SfN2025
- Reposted by Josh DudmanImportant new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans. > 74 thousand trial participants affected jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/4
- Just had a fantastic visit to GA Tech a couple weeks ago. Highly recommend.
- Garrett Stanley and I are leading the recruitment of a senior faculty position in BME at Georgia Tech and Emory, focused on Neural Engineering. Come talk to us, we're looking for a leader in research and training, in areas with neurotranslation potential. More details here: lnkd.in/eusCqCSR
- Reposted by Josh DudmanForaging as an ethological framework for neuroscience From the amazing @lauragrima.bsky.social and colleagues - definitely looking forward to reading this! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
- Reposted by Josh Dudman🚨Job alert🚨 The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics" euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
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- Reposted by Josh Dudman🌟 Apply to lead a lab at Janelia 🌟 We’re #hiring Group Leaders in our Computation & Theory research area. 🔹 5-year renewable appointment 🔹 Internal funding + generous resources 🔹 Collaboration across disciplines 📅 Apply by Nov. 4 👉 janelia.link/groupleader
- Reposted by Josh DudmanExcited to share our new #biorxivpreprint: “Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10
- Reposted by Josh Dudman🪰 A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system—a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the millions of connections between them. 🔗 hhmi.news/4o3EJnk
- Reposted by Josh DudmanWe're very proud to be releasing the complete male fly CNS connectome! It's the product of a huge team effort here at Janelia in partnership with the Cambridge Fly Connectomics group (@jefferis.bsky.social and colleagues), plus invaluable collaborators. More soon... www.janelia.org/project-team...
- Reposted by Josh DudmanA small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine
- Reposted by Josh DudmanThe neural control & computation lab is recruiting! If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch. www.ncclab.ca
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- www.bbc.com/news/article... science ftw! Amazing work described here.
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- Reposted by Josh DudmanBonnBrain 2026 is a go! March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany). Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts. Keynotes & invited speakers 👇
- Fascinating work and a lovely, clear summary in the thread.
- Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social! We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement? Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10
- Reposted by Josh Dudman📢We're #hiring Group Leaders! Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning. 🔹5-year renewable appointment 🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches 🔹Collaborate across disciplines Apply by Nov. 4👉 janelia.link/groupleader
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- Reposted by Josh DudmanI realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
- Reposted by Josh Dudman✨ We’re #hiring Theory Fellows!✨ Janelia is recruiting early-career scientists to join our collaborative research environment and use #computation & #theory to tackle bold questions in #biology. 🔗 Apply by Nov. 3 👉 janelia.link/theoryfellow... @hhmi.org
- Reposted by Josh Dudman‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method
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- Reposted by Josh DudmanMy prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
- Reposted by Josh DudmanCheck out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world! 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
- Reposted by Josh Dudmanfew outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history
- Now do the Department of Defense budget, Andrew. “Washington has thrown billions at NIH for decades with little accountability and few measurable outcomes,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement to Future Pulse. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
- Reposted by Josh DudmanVery pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!
- Wonderful story about the importance of accessibility for all - as he says we will all need it at some point. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
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- Reposted by Josh DudmanWe have an open position for a Scientist I at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Come join our exciting research environment @alleninstitute.org. Please share! alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
- Reposted by Josh DudmanSummary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Josh Dudman💻A new class of simplified ‘minimodels’ developed by Fengtong Du, Miguel Angel Núñez-Ochoa, @marius10p.bsky.social & @computingnature.bsky.social can predict the visual responses of individual neurons in the primary visual cortex, helping shed light on how we see.👀 ➡️ www.janelia.org/news/new-com...
- Reposted by Josh DudmanSuper excited to announce a follow-up to the Janelia 'mechanistic basis of foraging' conference - this time held in Birmingham, UK! Join us from the 3rd - 5th November to discuss all things foraging: uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
- So cool!
- Wow! Scientists engineered E. coli to convert plastic waste (PET) into pain medicine paracetamol (acetaminophen or Tylenol) in under 24 hours with up to 92% yield. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #medsky #pharmsky 🧪
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