Oded Bein 🏳️‍🌈

@odedbein.bsky.social Faculty at Weill-Cornell Psychiatry, Dr. Nili Solomonov's lab.

[Oded Bein 🏳️‍🌈 @OdedBein]

Excited to share this perspective with @yael_niv about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these https://t.co/1ED3DoHcdJ

[Nature Rev Neurosci @NatRevNeurosci]

Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex — a Perspective by Oded Bein & Yael Niv
@OdedBein @yael_niv
https://t.co/HZyTG8KkPn

[Oded Bein 🏳️‍🌈 @OdedBein]

here is a view-only link: https://t.co/2ElMa07sBU

[Oded Bein 🏳️‍🌈 @OdedBein]

Excited to share this perspective with @yael_niv about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these https://t.co/1ED3DoHcdJ

[Oded Bein 🏳️‍🌈 @OdedBein]

Such interesting work by Gözem et al.! Grateful to be a part of it 🙏

[Gözem 🌼 @gozemturan]

Just in time for New Year’s Eve, our latest research is out! 🎉🧠 @YeeLeeShing1 @OdedBein @NoldenSophie

Ever wondered how your brain reacts to unexpected events? Spoiler: It’s more unexpected than you think!

https://t.co/jbQVpknAZ2

[Gözem 🌼 @gozemturan]

Just in time for New Year’s Eve, our latest research is out! 🎉🧠 @YeeLeeShing1 @OdedBein @NoldenSophie

Ever wondered how your brain reacts to unexpected events? Spoiler: It’s more unexpected than you think!

https://t.co/jbQVpknAZ2

[Oded Bein 🏳️‍🌈 @OdedBein]

Come to work with us!!

[Dr. Nili Solomonov @NiliSolomonov]

@OdedBein @GunningFaith new working URL for the position is here and we will be interviewing through January - https://t.co/n6JOp6ziTi

[Salman Qasim @QasimEtal]

🚨🚨 I'm recruiting a postdoc to come work with me at Rutgers!

If you are interested in LFP and single-neuron data in humans, please reach out. Rutgers is a wonderful environment for human neuroscience research!

Position: https://t.co/hSBYVYuGFo
Lab: https://t.co/PFfJtoP60y

[Dr. Nili Solomonov @NiliSolomonov]

Here we are again.
After the 2016 election, Jacques Barber and I conducted two studies that showed that Trump's election had large and meaningful effects on psychotherapy for patients and therapists and their relationship 1/n
https://t.co/tUfjOhGAwn

[Shlomit Beker @shlomitbeker]

Looking for a postdoc! The Beker lab is expanding. If you have:
👉🏼 PhD in neuroscience or related fields
👉🏼 Strong background in electrophysiology and signal analysis
👉🏼 Desire to study neurodevelopmental disorders
Dm or: [email protected]

[Oded Bein 🏳️‍🌈 @OdedBein]

@AnnaLeshinskaya Congrats!!! 🥳

[Oliver Vikbladh @vikbladh]

Preprint for "Consolidation of Sequential Planning" with @evanrussek and @NeilBurgess10. We demonstrate the neural representations supporting sequential planning and the effect of memory consolidation upon them: https://t.co/JnRNr0tNEj. As talk, see also: https://t.co/Ya8YDFQCAy

[Oded Bein 🏳️‍🌈 @OdedBein]

THIS.

[Israelis for Peace @israelispeaceny]

There are a million reasons for everyone to do anything in their power to prevent another Trump presidency, but as Israeli peace activists in the US, we would like to focus on these elections regarding Israel-Palestine.

This statement is not directed at Palestinian-Americans, nor is it directed at Jewish Americans who for some inexplicable reason think Trump is better for Israelis. This statement is targeted at those in the leftist community, who might have a hard time voting for Kamala right now but still absolutely need to.

To be clear, Biden should’ve conditioned military aid many months ago, in lieu of that, all of his dismay at Netanyahu has been toothless. Conditioning military aid would’ve forced Netanyahu into a deal - stopped the war, saved tens of thousands in Gaza and brought the hostages home alive.

So as people with loved ones in Israel and in Palestine, we feel the pain and the rage. As people who spent the last year begging the Biden admin to stop Netanyahu, we share the frustration. But we do not have the right to be punishing the entire planet, including the Palestinians and the Israelis, to stick it to Joe Biden.

Are Biden and Harris, regardless of their intentions, culpable in the mass killing and ethnic cleansing in Gaza? Absolutely. Will we - the citizens of the US, Israel, Palestine and planet earth - be paying a much steeper price for punishing them than they will? One million percent.

Voting is neither a prize nor a punishment, it’s picking the candidate you think can be pushed to do better, does anyone really believe that candidate is Donald Trump?

So while we usually encourage ourselves to exercise our political imagination for hope, it is equally important, maybe even life-saving, to apply a tiny bit of that same political imagination to how things can also get worse.

What could be worse than tens of thousands dead and the hostages languishing and dying in captivity? Morally, nothing. Nothing is worse than that. But realistically, an even higher death toll is worse. Morally there is no difference, but for those who would be saved - it will literally mean the world, and we truly believe the future death and destruction toll, in both Palestine and Israel, would be worse under Trump.

As Alon-Lee Green from Standing Together, who got arrested for protesting last night by the way, once said - Activism isn't just about condemning reality, it’s about changing reality. So even if you’re deeply disappointed in the Democratic party on this topic, you still need to ask yourself - who do you want at the negotiation table after a ceasefire and hostage deal is achieved? Is it Bernie Sanders or is it Jared Kushner? Which party do you think can be influenced more from within, pushed to do better? - the one that contains AOC or the one that contains Stephen Miller?

Not sure? Ask Netanyahu, Smotrich, Ben Gvir and their voters who they want to win the elections. The answer will be unanimous - another Trump presidency is their dream: if Trump gets elected, we can expect him to actively support the re-settling of the northern Gaza strip, the annexation of the West Bank and the escalation of war with Iran.

If Trump, backed by tens of millions of evangelicals - who believe Jews need control of the holy land so the second coming can happen, (the jews then go to hell by the way) - gets elected, then we are not even looking at a possibility of diplomatic solutions anymore. The hope for peace negotiations will be dead. If Trump gets elected we are looking at an eternal holy war, where one Godless man will join arms with another Godless man, and together they will do whatever needs to be done to stay in power forever. And by then it will be too late for us all.

As Israelis, we know first hand what it feels like to have our country destroyed by its own government, no matter how loud we protest. We know what it feels like to have not one term, but over 20 years of our Trump, of a craven narcissistic psychopath who will do anything and kill anyone to stay in power. We know democratic institutions are fragile because ours are crumbling before our eyes, so hear us when we tell you that a candidate who tells you that if they win that would be the last election, is not lying to you. This is the one time that they are truthful. Listen to them. Listen to them now and do everything you can to stop them now. It might be your last chance.

[Oded Bein 🏳️‍🌈 @OdedBein]

Interested in fMRI and psychotherapy? Come to work with us!!!

[Dr. Nili Solomonov @NiliSolomonov]

Our lab is hiring a full-time post-bac RA in NYC at
@WCMPsychiatry!
This is an awesome opportunity for someone who is interested in MRI and psychotherapies and training in clinical psych+neuroscience
https://t.co/MKRsPLTkls
Pictured: our brilliant RAs having too much fun at work

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

RETWEET this. Every day. Until Election Day.

Anyone anywhere in America who tells you Donald Trump will be better for the economy needs this tweeted at them IMMEDIATELY.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning leak, JD Vance completely endorses Project 2025. If Trump’s running mate is admitting this, it makes it near impossible Donald Trump to run from this now. Retweet so all Americans see this

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Trump is scared.
Elon is scared.
JD Vance is scared.

And I don’t know about you, but I don’t want a couple of coward billionaires calling the shots in America.

I want someone who is going to fight for a $15 minimum wage, take on income inequality, and fight for working people.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Nobody handles the hosts of Fox News quite like Pete Buttigieg. He is so damned good at this. 🙌🙏👏👊🌊🇺🇸

[Oded Bein 🏳️‍🌈 @OdedBein]

Join Nina! A brilliant scientist doing such cool research (okay, I might be a tiny bit biased here...) and a pleasure to work with!!!

[Nina Rouhani @ninarouhani]

I will be recruiting 💫two PhD students💫 for my new lab! (computational learning & memory applied to individual & interactive behavior, https://t.co/EXo6x5fI8Z).

Feel free to e-mail if interested and catch me at SfN! (poster 06 at 1 PM on Wed 10/09)

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

HOLY SMOKES!

Rep. Jasmine Crockett just demolished Republicans during today's "US House Hearing on Biden/Harris Policies".

This is viral material. This woman is going places in US politics.

[Oded Bein 🏳️‍🌈 @OdedBein]

@aliocohen miss you too!! ❤️

[Oded Bein 🏳️‍🌈 @OdedBein]

Join Ali she's the best! Ali has helped me a ton in my path. She is a brilliant scientist and a wonderful mentor and colleague!

[Ali Cohen @aliocohen]

*TWO* job searches @EmoryPsychology ‼️

Open rank Neural Mechanisms of Behavior in Small Animal Systems
https://t.co/gRll5RgWA0

Assoc/Asst Professor, Clinical Science
https://t.co/sxaUhJaBpP

And I’m recruiting a PhD student! Several opportunities to join our amazing dept ✨