Mengsen Zhang

complex systems scientist, neuroscientist, & barstool philosopher.

Assistant Professor @MultiscaleComp @CMSE_at_MSU @michiganstateu

[Lucina Uddin @LucinaUddin]

Check out the new features in @theabcdstudy DEAP! 🧠 @OHBM @FluxSociety @SOBP @ACNPorg

[Lucina Uddin @LucinaUddin]

Don't forget to vote. I'm running for chair! 🧠 @OHBM_DIC @OHBM_Trainees @OhbmEnvironment @OhbmOpen

[NIH @NIH]

Registration is opening soon for the 2026 BRAIN Initiative Conference! Join us August 11-13, 2026, at Bethesda North Marriott to engage with the BRAIN community on the latest scientific developments and exciting research priorities for technology-driven innovation.

Learn more: https://t.co/6tnkyh9pPi

[Nancy Padilla Coreano @DrNancyPadilla]

My lab is hiring a technician at @UFNeuroscience! 🧠🐭 We use in vivo ephys, optogenetics & machine learning to study how the brain controls social behavior in mice.

Looking for rodent research & mentorship experience — please repost & share!

Apply here: https://t.co/GUPVP4Qt5g

[Christine Rabinak @BrainsBeesBikes]

Running a research lab is about leading people.

I created a free toolkit on the human side of lab leadership—covering hiring, mentoring, conflict navigation, lab culture, and performance management.

Open access: https://t.co/fr3dDnsJAi

#TeamScience #AcademicLeadership

[New papers in Network Science @networkspapers]

PLOS Comput. Biol.: Attractor dynamics of a whole-cortex network model predicts emergence and structure of fMRI co-activation patterns in the mouse brain
https://t.co/HrLzeDAEMg

[Multiscale Complex Systems Lab @MultiscaleComp]

Congratulations to our Ph.D. student @Jared_Reiling_ for successfully passing his comprehensive exam!! Great work!

[Alex Fornito @AFornito]

Interested in cortical wave dynamics?

Check out our review on the physics, physiology, and psychology of cortical waves led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang

Out now in @NeuroCellPress

https://t.co/2xxP6hYjaJ

[Lucina Uddin @LucinaUddin]

The first article in the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience special issue 10 years of @theabcdstudy is now online! 🧠 https://t.co/HNcSIX2c3l

[Brain Stimulation @brainstimj]

New in Brain Stimulation! @SteinAthena & colleagues introduce tECS - transcranial endogenous current stimulation, using personalized EEG-derived waveforms to target aperiodic brain activity. A novel approach in neuromodulation.
https://t.co/0Ro7ExXJsW

[David Brang @DavidJBrang]

Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap https://t.co/IBSe8soSNh
Github: https://t.co/ptVeBMwKvb

[Mengsen Zhang @Mengsen]

I had a really great time at neuro4pros last year! Highly recommend to junior professors in comp Neuro!

[Kording Lab 🦖 @KordingLab]

This is a poll for young professors (<5 years from start) in systems/comp neuro. We ran a summer school on thriving as a neuro prof (neuro4pros) last year https://t.co/LkzN5cQyqu - i think it was great. Would you be interested in participating?

[Neuromatch @neuromatch]

💖 We are so proud of all our graduates!

We offer courses that teach skills and techniques for #ComputationalSciences and research in #Neuroscience, #ClimateScience, and #AI and #MachineLearning.

Will you part of our 2026 Cohort?
➡️Learn more: https://t.co/2aGOKQ8EsY

[Science News @SciencNews]

How to Pick a Graduate Advisor
#PhD #Science #academia #phdlife

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

Interested in the latest advances in neuroscience (neural dynamics and internal models) and how they can be leveraged to build smarter, adaptive AI?

➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶 @NatureNeuro

https://t.co/oa0Ky1qDZN

[Science News @SciencNews]

PhD Survival Guide

[Luiz Pessoa @PessoaBrain]

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
Annual reminder that the book is open access.
How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing.
Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective?
https://t.co/yBLcagKgOR

[CLaE @leafs_s]

eLife

Computational Neuroscience: Building a mathematical model of the brain
https://t.co/iRRfwsIY1U

[Surya Ganguli @SuryaGanguli]

I am searching for postdocs interested in developing a deeper scientific understanding of any aspect of AI and using this understanding to improve AI systems. If interested please email me materials by Jan 10th 2026: a CV, 3 letters of reference, and a statement of research interests (can be short, just indicating what you would like to work on).

The positions are generously funded by grants from @schmidtsciences and @SimonsFdn. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with many labs across @StanfordHAI and also the Simons Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation (https://t.co/TfOKlQxCrE).

[Richard Gao @_rdgao]

Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year:

https://t.co/sjImtXUsvK

If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!

I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮