1/ After stroke, regaining mobility and balance can be challenging. A new study from @kiteuhn.bsky.social found that more reactive balance training was associated with improved balance control in people recovering from stroke. 🔗 Read more: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/7-07-20...

Tip for junior authors: A power analysis is only as good as the effect size you feed it. "Medium" is not a justification. Tell us whether your effect size comes from prior empirical work (justifying that choice) or from theory (e.g., the smallest effect you'd care to detect). #cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

ISPGR launched its first regional chapter, the Ontario Society for Posture and Gait Research (OSPGR). Read about the launch of this chapter and their successful inaugural conference in our latest blog: ispgr.org/the-inaugura...

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

yes!! prospect.org/2026/05/20/e...

PubMed is currently unusable due to lack of clarity around what constitutes a bicycle

They are absolutely going to beat up women that don't confirm to the trad wife aesthetic, all in order to... *checks notes* protect women.

The choice is not between p-values or effect sizes. They go hand in hand. The p-value is there to keep you from seeing effects where there are none. If that bar is passed, you can treat effects as non-zero, and start to reason about what they mean in practice or for a theory.

📣 Exciting news: my lab is moving to the Krembil Institute at the University of Toronto’s University Health Network in Fall 2026. We’ll be recruiting for all roles, so reach out if you’re interesting in joining us to study spinal circuits for sensorimotor control www.levine-lab.org

just write it terrible for five minutes and see where it goes. or write questions to yourself into the draft—“what the fuck goes here, i don’t know, but it’s something about blah blah this will sound smarter later” is acceptable rough draft material

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

You have no right to demand I cede control of the road to the car, because fundamentally you have no better reason for being on that road than I do.

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

When I was a child my mother bought a hostess trolley. It looked insane in our cramped little house. But she'd spent the cash and insisted we use it all the time, bumping and scratching as we went. It was, in every way, a worse experience than just carrying stuff yourself. This is a post about AI.

The AP's story on the IOC's new policy mentions that it "also restricts" athletes like two-time Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya. That word "also" is doing a lot of work. New piece on who this policy is actually about: www.readtpa.com/p/the-iocs-n...

I am currently recruiting a PhD student to work on our "Motor complexity and aging" project funded by the @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

I teach power analysis in terms of “what is a minimally meaningful effect size? Are you powered for that?” A minimally meaningful effect size can be deduced from principles (eg cost-benefit), eliminating the kind of guesswork you mentioned.

People are missing the point in replying to this. Shes not a billionaire because she gives her money away to charity and help people ten times over. But think about all the money she gives away TO help. She should have been one waaaaay before now She is quite literally the billionaire that ISNT.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

Snow is bullshit

Differences in centre of mass measurements between markerless and marker-based motion capture systems during balance and mobility assessments in individuals with chronic and sub-acute stroke https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.18.26346541v1

This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back.

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

do you all have a moment to discuss the Good News of seitan

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

I try to stay out of politics here, but... wtf are american elected officials doing? Your president is threatening war with NATO. Impeach him. "But we have a 4 point lead in the midterms." "He'll support a challenge to my seat." Impeach him. Now. Wtf. I can't even. www.bbc.com/news/article...

🎓 Fully funded PhD @ QUB Psychology Project on how the brain supports attention & balance using EEG and behavioural tasks. Great fit for MSc / final-year students into cognitive neuroscience & movement science. Deadlines: 26 Jan & 13 Feb 🔗 ow.ly/9EhP50XWGtA #PhD #Neuroscience #EEG #AcademicSky

🚨 Breaking Gardaí say investigations are underway following Grok scandal. "We have received reports and referrals of content on that platform that is under investigation... the process takes some time... it has to be assessed to make sure it's criminal... the people responsible have to be ID'd"

Please spread the word🔊My lab is looking to hire two international postdocs. If you want to do comp neuro, combine machine learning and awesome math to understand neural circuit activity, then come work with us! Bonn is such a cool place for neuroscience now, you don't want to miss out.

Here’s her prize-winning poem, if anyone’s interested - it’s a gut punch ❤️ poets.org/2020-on-lear...

Please don't use AI to abuse your elderly relatives for clicks.

They put microplastics in all of nature that bore us. In our blood. Our brains. Our wombs. Out ballsacks. "But how can we put microplastics in the soul?" they asked, and so ChatGPT was born.

As a disabled guy, I don't care that much about a few abled people faking disabilities. My concern lies with the myriad disabled people who have talked themselves into thinking they aren't disabled and hurt themselves over and over trying to stay invisible.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

In my field (rehab, kinesiology) resource constraints are often a major factor in sample size consideration, if not the primary factor. Our publications should be transparent in how we've determined our sample sizes

It has just been brought to my attention that the greatest ever video in this genre is, in fact, cat jump fail vs Sail by AWOLNATION...

My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this? m.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Somewhat related, my graphic design advice is that unless the image is a key point of your presentation, like it’s actually something you need to show people to get the point of your slide across, then don’t use one. Slides need to be functional, not overcrowded and “cute”.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.