A new paper from the lab featuring an elegant set of experiments to explore whether and how reaction times relate to sequence planning -- stellar work by @arminpanjehpour.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Also out today in PNAS: Anwesha Das shows in this thorough paper that "micro-offline gains" in sequence learning do not reflect consolidation of a motor memory - they also happen in random sequences. With @eazanon.bsky.social and Max-Philip Stenner (Magdeburg). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'm really proud of being part of this paper - an amazing success for us in the Western Sensorimotor Superlab with @andpru.bsky.social @gribblelab.org! Congrats Jon!

C.S. Lewis responding to a letter from an American schoolgirl asking him for some writing advice. (Worth reading? ✅️)

Come work with us! we are hiring a scientific software developer! www.radboudumc.nl/en/vacancies...

We will have an NHP position open at @westernu.ca this year. Posting is coming soon. If you're interested about our setup and the opportunities here, feel free to get in touch.

Variance partitioning is used to quantify the overlap of two models. Over the years, I have found that this can be a very confusing and misleading concept. So we finally we decided to write a short blog to explain why. @martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org diedrichsenlab.org/BrainDataSci...

Exited to share tomorrow new updates on trying to figure out how the neocortex and cerebellum talk to each other. Work by @carobellum.bsky.social, Ali Shabazi, and others in the lab!

Amazing new paper - such a pleasure to be involved! With so much and clean neuropixel data - analysis becomes a completely different game…

Four #WesternU faculty members were recognized by the Ontario government with Early Researcher Awards. Congratulations to Liliana Alvarez, Thomas DeFalco, Yalda Mohsenzadeh and Lyle Muller. 👏 #PurpleAndProud

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations tinyurl.com/5dku4du9 @timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social please repost 🙏

Please repost. The Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping is looking for a Preclinical MRI physicist (9.4T and 15.2T Bruker Advance Neo). You will join a team of 14 dedicated staff in Canada's National Ultra-high field MRI platform who also operate 3T and 7T human scanners in the same facility.

And Functional Fusion is our Python toolbox and Data-sharing framework that allows you to have fMRI contrast maps from ~200 subjects and ~450 different tasks for any arbitrary atlas space (surface, volume, ROI) at your finger tips in a few minutes. functional-fusion.readthedocs.io

Just in time we also released 2 important toolboxes that make it easy to collect fMRI contrast from many tasks efficiently from the same subject: The MultiTaskBattery project (multitaskbattery.readthedocs.io) allows you to pick the tasks you want and be at the scanner within 1 hr!

Are broad task batteries better than resting-state fMRI to learn something general about the human brain? If you are at #CCN2025 come by @basselarafat.bsky.social and @carobellum.bsky.social poster on Tuesday and Wednesday! @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

Impressive new paper by @nikospriovoulos.bsky.social. Clearly pushing the limits of what we can do with in-vivo imaging for the highly folded human cerebellum. Especially interesting is the careful characterization of cerebellar vasculature. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New high resolution fMRI paper describing the capabilities and challenges of 9.4T fMRI in the cerebellum. By van der Zwaag et al., (@highonfield.bsky.social, @nikospriovoulos.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1002/mrm....

Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob... If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!

Careful dissection of motor sequence learning by @andpru.bsky.social and @mkashefi.bsky.social. In my humble opinion this should be an instant classic 😏. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Congrats to @alighavampour.bsky.social and @mnlmrc.bsky.social for developing a new paradigm for hand synergy learning. If you are looking for a motor skill task that seems impossibly difficult and really needs to learning to be mastered, here it is: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

Landed at the Cerebellum GRC in Switzerland, where the science is high-level and so are the altitudes. Very ready for this week's deep dives into cerebellar function, alongside some excellent bovine branding. 🐄🧠

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-05-23-list296.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

Another outstanding recognition for our amazing postdoc @carobellum.bsky.social ! Can‘t believe that she will be leaving the lab in just over a month. She will leave a big carobellum-shaped hole.

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-04-25-list292.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @paulgribble.bsky.social #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-04-04-list289.html

On today -- a new view on the most classical of all motor cortical questions.

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @paulgribble.bsky.social #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-03-28-list288.html

Going to #Cosyne2025? Check out two posters from the lab, presented by @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social and @mkashefi.bsky.social.

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @paulgribble.bsky.social #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-03-21-list287.html

ICYMI: The Western Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is accepting applications for the 2025 cohort! This fellowship offers a competitive stipend package over two years - learn more about the program on our website: uwo.ca/research/fun...

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @paulgribble.bsky.social #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-03-14-list286.html

The hardest (and most liberating) thing is science is to change your mind when the data suggest that you were wrong. Is this why there is a „liberal bias“ in Science? Because Extremists have simple answers and find this whole procedure too tedious and unrewarding?

New post-doctoral fellowship scheme opening up in Canada! If you're interested in the neural control of movement and want to study reaching in humans and NHPs, please get in touch soon. www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

It would be amazing to welcome U.S. academics and health professionals to Canada if provincial governments hadn't been so hell-bent on imposing austerity in order to force in privatization and exploitative labour practices.

America’s university presidents and leadership need to form a united front against the administration. They’re never going to be able to resist these cuts and this bullying alone but together they’d be a powerful pillar of the growing cross-societal resistance to the derangement of this admin.

Ernest Hemingway wrote this in 1935…

Who wants to chip in with me to put this on billboards in the States?

In happier news, here a new motor learning paradigm and paper by Ali Ghavampour, @mnlmrc.bsky.social, @andpru.bsky.social, @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social, @jjodx.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

With the current news, it is hard to think about real science. If you are a scientist in the US, we are with you. As a community, we have to fight this nationalist bullshit together. We Germans have been down that particular rabbit hole thoroughly enough already, no?

It was a pleasure speaking at Western's Neuroscience Research Day yesterday! I am so grateful to the Neuroscience community here for all their support these past three years. Thanks to the students for organizing this fantastic day! #NRD2025 @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social

please retweet this ad for a tenured-research position in fMRI at ultra-high. Join us!

There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology) Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...

I also want to one point of this paper, the effect the exclusion of cerebellum in research is having on cerebellar patients. Many struggle to find diagnoses or answers from physicians because there is such limited research. A real potential area for improving health outcomes with basic research.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Hi Washington, Oregon, and California! We think it would be awesome if you became the 11th province of Canada. How about it? No medical bills, better fire fighters, no import duty - it will be awesome! Even your president admits that the border is completely arbitrary.

Congrats to @mkashefi.bsky.social for a great paper addressing a longstanding debate….

Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events? Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits! 🧵 and paper below 1/

Contrary to some people’s perception, post-review consultation is still the most important and lasting innovation that eLife has made to the peer process. If it goes well, it is like a journal club with 3 experts in the field! I’m a big fan and wish all journals had this.