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Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year insideclimatenews.org/news/0901202...

Happy New Year, everyone! Excited to share that our paper, “Goal uncertainty attenuates sensorimotor adaptation,” is now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology. Huge thanks to our collaborators—Sritej, Bobby, and Reza @rezashadmehr.bsky.social. Paper: tinyurl.com/yyfast5m

Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

Founded in 2021, @yale.edu's Wu Tsai Institute 🏢 is advancing human neuroscience research by connecting cutting-edge neuroimaging, computation, and behavioral science to uncover how brain networks give rise to cognition 🧠 Read More 👇 news.yale.edu/2025/12/05/w...

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 🖤🫶 @natneuro.nature.com rdcu.be/eWVmA

I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!

Preprint updated --> Key new results: we found a brain-behavior correlation between performance on an RL task (under short feedback delays) and short-delay RPE signals in the 'cognitive' cerebellum! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

From Sam McDougle's love of music has sprung a focus on how people learn and get better at motor skills – an area he sees as sometimes neglected in cognitive neuroscience. Read a new Q&A with him, a preview of his #CNS2026 YIA talk: www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-actio... @actlab.bsky.social

Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

NEW: An AI conference was bombarded with complaints about peer reviews sounding AI-generated. A startup jumped in with an outside analysis, estimating that as many 1 in 5 could have been ChatGPT-written. Chaos ensued. Now the reviews are being reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-... #ICLR2026

New paper out on @openmindjournal.bsky.social * I propose balance is a core biophysical self-regulatory function, organisationally akin to thermo-regulation. Might seem radical off the bat, but by the end of the paper I hope you'll agree it seems pretty obvious. doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...

The Journal of Neuroscience has updated its policy on supplemental material. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors#suppl

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!

people are saying that Zekun Sun's research is awesome. (people are right.) learn more about Zekun and her work here! zekun-sun.github.io

New paper from the lab, "Perceiving Event Structure in Brief Actions," now out in Cognitive Psychology :) Led by the inimitable Zekun Sun This was my lab's first foray into event cognition gift link: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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11.17 | 1-5p | PSTR226 + PSTR226.05 Taylor McClure Reaching Control: Movement Psychophysics and Neurophysiology + Selective attention in motor working memory Chat with her at #Booth3724 on Tuesday from 2-3p to learn more about her work. #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale #SfN25 @actlab.bsky.social

Excited to share our latest Sensorimotor Superlab Journal Club. Juliana Trach joins us to discuss her latest paper with @actlab.bsky.social, now published in @nathumbehav.nature.com: Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations. youtu.be/6LlDYxDV8wo

MLMC2025 is tomorrow! For those joining remotely, here is the link for the meeting: harvard.zoom.us/j/9544921964... Reminder, the conference will start promptly at 9am PST. Please visit the website for additional information, schedule, registration, etc! motor-conference.org/openconf.php

heading to @sfn.org? Check out our group's posters -->

Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

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🚨📡 Official MLMC program now posted! See you in San Diego (or hybrid if you can't make it!) Register NOW!!! ---> motor-conference.org/openconf.php

Don't forget to get your submission in for #NCMKobe26! Team/panel and individual orals close at 23:59 PDT Dec 1. Learn more - ncm-society.org/subm...#NCMKobe26!

📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers! WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/... Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525 #KnowTogether

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

🏆 #CNS2026 Young Investigator Award Winners 🏆 Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉 We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨ @cogneuronews.bsky.social

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

thrilled!! but speaking after @monicarosenb.bsky.social ??? that's too tough to follow

the best neurons

New Pre-Print: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... We’re all familiar with having to practice a new skill to get better at it, but what really happens during practice? The answer, I propose, is reinforcement learning - specifically policy-gradient reinforcement learning. Overview 🧵 below...

Proud of my little guy :)

I never met Jane Goodall, but she loomed over much of my reporting over the years. With @emilyanthes.bsky.social I wrote a piece about her scientific legacy. Gift link: nyti.ms/46PGBtd

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Online Now: Motor working memory

thanks Josh!

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Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS! @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social By me + Hanna Hillman We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...

Intrinsic interval timing, not temporal prediction, underlies ramping dynamics in visual and parietal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.673960v1

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...