Navigating a scientific career path & securing a faculty job isn't easy, but pursuing work that you're passionate about makes the journey worthwhile. ASNR Member @dr-shlee.bsky.social shares her story, tips for early-career researchers preparing for interviews, & more. www.asnr.com/files/ASNR_B...

It rarely happens these days, but I managed to clear my inbox! I keep all unanswered emails in my inbox, and immediately file them away into folders once I have responded. It pains me to have an inbox that fills 1 page on my screen. It will probably last for 5 minutes, but I will take the win!

Fun with ruminants. 🔉

This is such a great idea for reading evals!

I made this mitochondrion wood piece yesterday. #sciart #biology

New version of the neuron humming bird. It is composed of 12 independent #neuron cells manually cut out of wood. This piece will be donated to @SfNOttawa for an auction 🇨🇦. The back is bubinga wood. The humming bird is made out of walnut, padauk, maple (obviously 🍁) and cherry woods.

Just standing here, asking reviewers for fellowships to double check when an assistant professor started their lab and ask, 'well what might have happened early on in that process that could have slowed down publications?'

My laboratory at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, is looking for a postdoc to study how neuromodulatory systems impact cortical processing during foraging behavior. This fully-funded position offers a collaborative environment in a great city. More info👇 can-acn.org/postdoctoral...

Is it a bad omen if not one, but two birds hit the window during our faculty meeting?

Spotted: Uber and Lyft drivers hanging out together in a parking lot, but not accepting ride requests. They're likely working together to time-out requests so that demand looks higher than it is, driving up prices.

Yeah that was a great session from the American Spinal Cord Injury Association! If you like that session, check out the conference! :) asia-spinalinjury.org

if you weren't touched by Scott's talk about his experience using motor and sensory BCI, did you even attend IFESS at #RehabWeek2025? See what I did there?

The @theglobeandmail.com publishes their Canada travel guide as the May long weekend approaches. Last year my pal @carrietait.bsky.social wrote about us golfing in Drumheller. This year there are 10 new stories that are wild. Go see Canada, we're gorgeous. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/...

This past week has been quite eventful for the NERVES Lab!⚡️🔥 Our BME undergraduate student, Chimdi, graduated!! 👩‍🎓 PhD student, Abby, proposed her thesis and became a PhD Candidate!! 🦾 I am a #proudPI 🫶

I am ready for neon colours to make a comeback

If you have an interest in non-human primate systems neuroscience and/or imaging esp. if it relates to development or learning, call me! These are major chair positions that come with at least $4M or $8M over 8 years, depending on career stage.

If you're at #NCMPan25 this coming week check out Dan's poster on our markerless hand tracking software, ATHENA: Automatically Tracking Hands Expertly with No Annotations

Dear Canada, Pierre Poilievre is Coming for Your Reproductive Rights vajenda.substack.com/p/dear-canad...

I don’t know which academic needs to hear this but yes you should absolutely email other academics just to tell them you enjoyed their article/book/chapter. Just do it. Don’t overthink it. Hello So-and-so, just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed ‘Title’. Hope you’re well. Best, You. Done.

Check out Kinesis - KINESIS is a reinforcement learning framework for physiologically plausible musculoskeletal motor control. Using a musculoskeletal model of the lower body with 80 muscle actuators and 20 degrees of freedom, KINESIS achieves strong imitation performance on motion capture data, …

Our next #ASNR2025 speaker, @dr-shlee.bsky.social presented evidence against using high-frequency waveforms for transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation and emphasized the importance of understanding the underlying biophysics when choosing stimulation parameters and waveforms. 🧠🔄 🧠📈 👩‍🔬

Amazing dinner this evening at our #ASNR2025 Pre-Conference Workshop in partnership with the implantable Brain-Computer Interface Collaborative Community (iBCI-CC)! Thank you to everyone joining us this evening! 🧠🔄 🧠📈

We appreciate everyone who joined us for our fantastic #ASNR2025 Pre-Conference Workshop and joined in the discussion of clinical practice guidelines to prepare to translate implantable brain-computer interfaces (#iBCI) from research settings into clinical practice. 🧠🔄 🧠📈

Would you categorize the cochlear implant as a BCI? 🦋 needs polls!

At the iBCI workshop at #ASNR2025! We are enjoying a stimulating discussion of the development of clinical practice guidelines for implantable BCIs over some tender steak, hummingbird cake, and Georgia peach sweet tea 🍑🍹 Bonus: I got to catch up with colleague and speaker Adam Fry from Synchron!

This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS. 1/n Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Last weekend, the NERVES Lab went to Colorado for the Rocky Mountain American Society of Biomechanics! Our students presented 6 posters! Huge congrants to PhD student @sonny-jones.bsky.social for winning a prize for best PhD poster in his session. Also, check out the NERVES Mobile!

This will be my first #ASNR2025. I am excited to catch up with some of my favourite people, meet more clinical colleagues, and discuss the important research in neurorehab! 1 more week!

20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

Sooo everyone is super disappointed by the GRFP results, right? Anyone know how the current funding climate impacted the results?

We are just a couple of weeks away from #ASNR2025! We have an excellent panel (among many) discussing our current understanding & remaining questions around transcutaneous SCS for rehab This will be my first time in Atlanta. I hope to see you there! I'll be drinking sweet tea🍹 @asnrehab.bsky.social

12 years ago I received my iron ring. Here are my 2 favourite people who joined me for the ceremony. Also, I'm so glad eyebrows are back in style.

Another win for the NERVES Lab! Chimdi won a prize for her beautiful graphics on her poster at the Undergraduate Research Symposium 😍

Pro tip: hire a team as silly as you are. The purpose of this magnet will be disclosed soon 👀

We had Dr. @helenhuang.bsky.social visit us for the BME Seminar on Friday at UUtah. She literally filled the room, the fullest it's been. Her talk about how to achieve a symbiotic relationship between a person and a lower-limb prosthesis using automatically adapting control strategies was inspiring.

A year ago, someone very close to me, a father figure from when I was a child, died of Pancreatic cancer. It was one of the most difficult things to watch. We cannot keep gutting research. We need to find ways to better screen for these cancers that stay hidden until it's too late.

Our Department is hiring a new Chair! We are specifically looking for an external candidate to join us here in Salt Lake City! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/179...

One reason I got into science social media was a small project to highlight women whose work I admire in neural engineering & systems/comp neuro. Since X is dying, I'm migrating those posts here. To give folks their due, we'll go one post per day. Follow along to celebrate some amazing science!

If you're racing to beat the early bird deadline for RehabWeek, don't forget to register for our workshop! It's going to be very stimulating⚡ (that pun never gets old!) Kilohertz Carrier Frequencies for Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation: What’s All The Buzz About?

Something that you may not realize is that Taylor came out with 4 albums from the time I started writing this paper 🫶 I could barely catch up with the song titles, and so many were perfect 😍

If you'll be at ASNR in April, come join our session for a stimulating⚡discussion about transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation!

Are you …Ready for It? In this Era of neurotechnology, we wrote this TIMEly review of the technological and biological failure modes of implanted neural interfaces and how to overcome these challenges, Swiftly published in Bioelectronic Medicine. PS I’m so proud of these figures. rdcu.be/eduek

I just don't understand how so many people (government workers) are just complying with everything. Do that many people support all of the awful things going on? It's like they don't have humanity. Make it make sense.

If there's no calendar invite it doesn't exist.

I'm already hearing rumblings from academic leaders that tenure clock extensions may be part of how early career researchers weather this new storm. A reminder that clock extensions are not the easy solution some think them to be: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We must do better by junior faculty.

A Columbia Journalism Review study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok (the AI on Twitter/X) answered 94% of the queries incorrectly. www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Are you... Ready for it?