Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using The Transmitter's interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts in leading neuroscience journals. Explore more: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/p... #neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience

#CHI2026 Student Mentoring Program is open for applications: chi2026.acm.org/authors/stud... with a brand new program: (1) CHI 101 (2) Building a Research Cohort (3) Dissertation Research Roundtable Deadline: 22 Jan! RT friends of @acm-sigchi.bsky.social @chi.acm.org

We are hiring PhD students in our Human-Computer Integration lab at the University of Chicago. You can apply via UChicago: 1. Computer Science (deadline Dec 11) 2. Data Science (Dec 16) 3. Neuroscience Institute's CNS (Dec 3) ... Join us to work on how future devices will integrate with the body!

I get a bunch of emails/comments about my single-take videos we do to showcase our lab's work, so we gathered them in one page: lab.plopes.org/videos.html (including an annotated history of how we started making these, and how they transformed over the years, to become more improv!)

First was a compelling talk by @pedrolopes.org on moving from human computer interaction to HC integration at @acmuist.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1sn... (2/8)

If we do this right, computers won’t pull us deeper into screens—they may bring us back into our bodies: more physical, embodied, and present. Thanks Paul Rand for the conversation 🙏 🎧 Full episode: news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p... Learn/apply as PhD to our lab: lab.plopes.org 10/10

Listen to the episode of @BigBrainsUC podcast: Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-iT... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0dUe... Just web player: news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p... (includes transcript) Some insights below of our discussion 👇2/

Interview at the big brains podcast, which was a lot of fun and I had the chance to talk about much of our last years of work on bidirectional neural interfaces (e.g., muscle and brain computer interfaces that not only sense, but also stimulate and impart body movements). Link 👇

Interested in the future of wearables and of bidirectional neural/brain–computer interfaces? 🧠📡⚡ I recently joined the Big Brains podcast 🎙️ to discuss our lab’s latest research advances and functional prototypes in this space. Link and key insights below 👇 1/

If you are into #VisionScience or #neuroengineering, come check out our first poster at #SfN2025 this afternoon! Emily Joyce is presenting new work on modeling the bipolar circuitry in the human fovea PSTR122.22 Nov 16 at 1:00 PM www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

Excellent talk by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social at our Data Science Institute ( @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social) at the University of Chicago! (Completely packed audience).

Excellent talk by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social at our Data Science Institute ( @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social) at the University of Chicago! (Completely packed audience).

Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428

What a fun venue! Wow!

Very cool work!

Also really nice article by UChicago with some quotes from the lead author (Kensuke Katori) on his experience while an intern in our lab and after presenting this paper too: cs.uchicago.edu/news/redirec...

Just posted - talk (w/ demo!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_7i... - slides: lab.plopes.org/slides/2025-... - video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpco... - paper: lab.plopes.org/published/20... of our paper (w/ Ken & Yudai) on using vestibular stimulation to improve hand redirection / haptic retargeting!

Nice piece that highlights what does feel like a deliberate choice by the Nobel committee www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

I’ve been meaning to write more publicly—something faster and freer than peer review. After a great chat with @pedrolopes.org at @acmuist.bsky.social about what “augmentation” means to different people, from accessibility to enhancement, I finally did it! augmentalist.org [1/2]

Our Dagstuhl Seminar with @panxueni.bsky.social, @vrneuroscience.bsky.social and @pedrolopes.org is now official! Invites will be sent next week by the admins, but stay tuned for the outcomes next July! www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/...

#CHI2026 breaking records with 6.7k paper submissions! It's a lot of papers (last year was ~5k, now we are closing in on ~7k!). I know we all can be grumpy about things in HCI but the field is definitely growing and very much engaging with new ideas! I find it really inspiring.

🚀 CHI 2026 received 6,731 completed paper submissions — a record high number! Peer review is now underway — thank you to everyone making it possible! 📖 Learn more about this year’s review process: chi2026.acm.org/2025/08/08/r... #CHI2026 #HCI

🎉 Highlights from Day 2 at #UIST2025! 🎙️ Paper sessions 🏭 Industry session 🙋‍♂️ Posters

Giving a vision talk today at #uist2025 titled "What of the I in HCI stands for Integration?" ... Hope to see you all soon at @acmuist.bsky.social (Will post slides later at lab.plopes.org)

The brain is incredibly densely connected. Human cerebral cortex may have as many as *one trillion* connections. Most of those cortical connections are recurrent, inside each area. What do they do? New paper from me in Annual Reviews: 🧪 🧠📈 1/ www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Playing at @dotolim.bsky.social tonight! If you are in Seoul come by for one turntable but multiple needles kind of footwork.

UChicago CS' presence at #UIST2025, with six papers (from text visualization to brain stimulation!) and many more activities (two workshops etc)! If you are at @acmuist.bsky.social come say hi. Many of us will be there including myself, Yudai Tanaka , Ken Nakagaki's team, Sam, etc!

Stelarc being stellar!

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 #SpeakerSpotlight 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗩𝗥𝗦𝟮𝟱! ✨ We are honored to present: Michael Wiesing — University of Barcelona (UB) Nitesh Bhatia — UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) Sylvia Xueni Pan — Goldsmiths, University of London 📅 𝗩𝗥 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 — Oct 20–21, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 • Rotunde Bochum 👉 vrs.rub.de #VRresearch

Our #UIST2025 workshop "Toward Everyday Perceptual and Physiological Augmentation" packs a day of fun activities, which you can read in detail here: everyday-augmentation.github.io if that's not enough to convince you... then check out our keynote by Thad Starner ! see you at @acmuist.bsky.social

Today is the last day to help make your voice heard for protection of our wilderness, places where we need to get away from the trauma of being human. Places of solitude. Please speak up for roadless rule. It’s easy and it only takes a few minutes at this link. earthjustice.org/action/prote...

A quick update. We received a phenomenal 115 talk proposals and 89 doctoral consortium applications. This has led to some notification delays. On a personal note, having to send out rejection notices, even to people I know and respect, really sucks. Registration and attendance info is forthcoming

In case I haven't said enough thanks to the @chi.acm.org paper chairs (Vera, Alessandro, Thomas and Xiaojuan): a huge thanks, they are doing so much incredible work in the backstage of #CHI2026 on literally a record number of submissions and they are doing it beautifully! @acm-sigchi.bsky.social

Now that we're past the #CHI2026 deadline, if you've ever been interested in having a session with KidsTeam UW (www.kidsteam.ischool.uw.edu), we still have some open spots for collaborations in the fall. Get in touch with me and we can discuss requirements and parameters.

The CHI video 🎥 deadline is Sept 18th. To help, check out our lab's "How to Video" guide: docs.google.com/presentation... We'd love to feature more videos, especially 30 sec previews. Don't be shy in promoting your own work! 🍿

Hoping that the #VRresearch folks in the VR academic sky also enjoy this one!

🚨 New paper at #UIST2025! 🚨 We studied something not commonly talked about in #VR research: the side effects of VR that can persist even after you remove the VR headset. 👉 Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJt... 👉 Paper: lab.plopes.org/published/20... 👇 a more on depth-thread below 🧵1/5

Join our #UIST2025 workshop! Computing devices (e.g., smart glasses, earbuds, wristbands) are increasingly coupled with our senses, enabling dynamic mediation of perceptual and physiological processes. We will explore opportunities these systems unlock! everyday-augmentation.github.io

@acmuist.bsky.social #uist2025 program is out: programs.sigchi.org/uist/2025/pr... ... lots of interesting papers to look forward to, see you there

pca.st/episode/872c... excellent discussion on what the roles of a reviewer are/aren't. A useful reminder as we approach the #chi2026 review season for a record number of papers (yes, more than last year's 5k, details soon). Personal opinion, not as CHI26 technical paper co-chair 1/3

How to propose good reviewers for your upcoming CHI paper submission: hci.ac/proposing-reviewers. #CHI2026 #HCI @acm-sigchi.bsky.social @chi.acm.org

Our next #SpeakerSpotlight for VR Summit 2025! ✨ Featuring: Gavin Buckingham (Univ. of Exeter) Jason Friedman (Tel Aviv Univ.) Jeroen Smeets (VU Amsterdam) 📅 Summit Oct 20–21 • Rotunde Bochum Register/submit: vrs.rub.de #VRSummit #XR #VR #HCI #Neuroscience #VRresearch #VRcademicSky

Stomach–brain synchronisation is associated with poorer mental health www.cell.com/trends/neuro... insightful TINS commentary by @dalmaijer.bsky.social

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀? Dynamical processing winding through most brain regions. Looks like a must read. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Incredible work by Jan, whom I u learned so much by reading his papers and now I get to watch this too! Go check out as you finish your lovely #chi2026 full papers (submission closing sharply at September 11th AoE)

I've been an active Wikipedia editor for 9 years, and it's an incredible source of pride. The current attacks, worldwide, on our work are disheartening, but they also bring out great overviews of what we do and why it matters www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):