Maxime Maheu

MSCA postdoc @ BU (Boston) & ENS (Paris)
Neurocomputational principles of human & animal cognition

[Maxime Maheu @maheump]

Thrilled to share we've been awarded an ERC Starting Grant! We'll work across mice and humans to ask how the brain decides which evidence to trust. Thank you @ERC_Research, the panel, and everyone who helped train me. Hiring from September 2027 — https://t.co/1pUiHIL2GA #ERCStG

[European Research Council (ERC) @ERC_Research]

📣 Good news! 📣

Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out!

Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe.

Discover who, what and where 👉 https://t.co/kFzHZU8cc9

#ERCStG #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @EUScienceInnov

[Luigi Acerbi @AcerbiLuigi]

1/ Dear all, I am hiring a PhD student and/or postdoc to join my group at the @UnivHelsinkiCS & ELLIS Institute Finland!

The topic is Amortized Probabilistic Machine Learning for Decision Making with applications in healthcare and scientific modelling.

DL September 21

See 👇

[Maxime Maheu @maheump]

Happy to be back!

Europe *is* attractive to researchers. More stable positions would let more of us go after the difficult questions rather than the next low-hanging fruit.

So many great projects didn't make it this year — I hope they all find a home!

#ChooseEurope

[European Research Council (ERC) @ERC_Research]

Why do researchers #ChooseEurope? 🇪🇺🔬

In our recent ERC Starting Grants competition, 21 researchers currently based outside Europe were selected for funding; 20 of whom are currently based in the United States.

Four researchers give their reasons 👇

[Maxime Maheu @maheump]

@sharbat_c @ERC_Research Thank you!

[Maxime Maheu @maheump]

Thrilled to share we've been awarded an ERC Starting Grant! We'll work across mice and humans to ask how the brain decides which evidence to trust. Thank you @ERC_Research, the panel, and everyone who helped train me. Hiring from September 2027 — https://t.co/1pUiHIL2GA #ERCStG

[European Research Council (ERC) @ERC_Research]

📣 Good news! 📣

Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out!

Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe.

Discover who, what and where 👉 https://t.co/kFzHZU8cc9

#ERCStG #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @EUScienceInnov

[Maxime Maheu @maheump]

@m_heilb @ERC_Research Thanks Micha! Hope all is well :)

[Kevin Miller @kevinjmiller10]

Data-driven model discovery 🔁Model-driven experiment selection.

For mechanistically-interpretable models!

New work from @GoogleDeepMind Neuroscience Lab, led by @EltetoNoemi

[Dr. Chunyu Ann Duan @AnnDuan2]

New study from our lab, in collab with @erlichlab

We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decision-making in mice.
Mice flexibly shift their value preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information!

https://t.co/MFQNJ5IRnY

[Maxime Maheu @maheump]

@FannyCazettes @ERC_Research Bravo ! 🥳

[tyler @tyboydmeredith]

Very excited to have posted a new preprint on my PhD work in the @brody_lab where we show that rats can achieve near-optimal time investment in a confidence-guided waiting task https://t.co/ogMkGIMN6w.

[Michael Hasselmo @HasselmoMichael]

Thanks to all of our presenters and participants for making the 2024 CSN Symposium a great success!

[Michael Hasselmo @HasselmoMichael]

The second half of the CSN Symposium also included talks from BU postdocs Mai-Anh Vu (@MaiAnh_T) and Maxime Maheu (@maheump) and PhD student Brad Rauscher.

[Donner Lab @donner_lab]

Can task-irrelevant sounds be used to manipulate phasic arousal?
We address this question in our new preprint out now on @biorxivpreprint https://t.co/QFCmWsmgIi
1/9

[Maxime Maheu @maheump]

A word for prospective sys-neuro postdocs: APPLY! ⬇️

I have extensively discussed with @AnnDuan2, @erlichlab, lab members & visited the labs. They've built a friendly environment (most important) where you'll clearly do groundbreaking research (bonus: at @SWC_Neuro)

[Dr. Chunyu Ann Duan @AnnDuan2]

Please RT!
@erlichlab and my lab are jointly recruiting 2 fully-funded postdocs (theorists and experimentalists) to work on multi-agent economic decision-making, towards understanding cognition in psychiatric conditions. Come work with us at the amazing @SWC_Neuro!

[Maxime Maheu @maheump]

@mauropulin Woah 👏😍 The “awake” part deserves upper case letters, not parentheses 😅

[karel svoboda @svoboda314]

Excited about our long-brewing paper exploring dynamics in multi-regional neural circuits in a delayed movement task. Driven by@esthersselva, @yiliu021, and including Jennifer Colonell, Nuo Li and @ShaulDr and others (the MAP collaboration): https://t.co/TeruxjeOvc (1/7)

[Maxime Maheu @maheump]

Check this out ⬇️ Computational ethology at its best!

[Malcolm MacIver @malcolmmaciver]

New publication with Dan Dombeck: "A robot-rodent interaction arena with adjustable spatial complexity for ethologically relevant behavioral studies" https://t.co/oIxbl5cS2K.
@DanielDombeck @ChrisAngeloni1

[David @dav1dcg]

Decision-making dynamics are predicted by arousal and uninstructed movements: https://t.co/0sHxAR4XqG

Mice have distinct performance states during auditory and visual tasks, and optimal states can be predicted by intermediate (arousal) levels of pupil and movement.

[Marion Rouault @marion_rouault]

📢I am looking for a postdoc to work on the cognitive neuroscience of self-beliefs at @InstitutCerveau 🤩🧠✨ - details here: https://t.co/ndEFImMTls informal inquiries are welcome & RT is appreciated 🙏

[Maxime Maheu @maheump]

@msokoletsky One question that I think arises when comparing 2AC and detection tasks with the d’ metric is whether to scale the 2AC d’ (but not the detection d’) by a 1/sqrt(2) factor as prescribed by Macmillan & Creelmann 2004 (see Eq. 6.16 p. 161, Eq. 7.2 p. 168 & Fig. 6.5 p. 148).

[Maxime Maheu @maheump]

@msokoletsky We have never tried it but I expect that it would be quite challenging to train a mouse to restrain from licking (in no-go trials) in response to a single, moving lick port (as also suggested by this paper: https://t.co/L3E8SCenKD).