A new paper on guinea fowl gait biomechanics for National Biomechanics Day! 
 How do bipedal animals adjust movement to avoid falls in slippery terrain? We found that guinea fowl slow down, take shorter steps and adjust posture to reduce fall risk in slippery terrain, just like humans. 
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I gave my grad class a sermon week 1 about how they could use AI & get 100% & never come to class, but what’s the point? Result: by week 13 only 6 of 26 students are still coming to class (but all are submitting perfect homeworks). Many thoughts, none good #academicsky #psychscisky #neuroskyence

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early Talking Heads? No, it’s Angine de Poitrine from Quebec (of course) #nowplaying #music youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

Another fun little paper from the lab!

you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

In other news I wrote a grant using LaTeX and it was a goddamn joy.

email & (institutional) calendar are insane concepts; anyone on earth can send me work by occupying my inbox even if for a moment; calendar tells all “I am free” unless I’m “booked” during that time as if I’m sitting around waiting to be assigned work #academicsky #psychskisky #neuroskyence

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

new reference letter template #academicsky #psychscisky #neuroskyence

Workflow management using Snakemake russpoldrack.substack.com/p/workflow-m... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series.

A new urgent and primary care centre on campus will provide timely, high-quality care year-round for the entire UBC community. The centre operated by Vancouver Coastal Health opens Tuesday at 6165 Agronomy Rd. Read more: news.gov.bc.ca/33538

two teaching roles in Psychology at Auckland Uni, one of which will be focused on research methods. NZ$100K+ salary these roles are unusual in that they are permanent teaching-focused faculty roles

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Update from my January 2022 article on working from VR: I'm still working from VR (even now as I write this). I spent $30 on a far more comfortable headband, but otherwise not much has changed. I still often don't know when the sun sets. www.wired.com/story/hours-working-vr-tips/

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-03-27-list327.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

How similar are two activity patterns? We all know that low correlations don't mean that they are necessarily dissimilar – our measurements could be noisy. So how do you correct for this? Our slightly nerdy, but hopefully useful preprint takes a deep dive: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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With the rumblings around CIHR wanting to move to one cycle per year not going away, in consultation with a diverse stakeholder group, we have put together a letter for CIHR leadership. Please consider signing this letter and share/RT: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @cannabrain.bsky.social

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🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

For nearly two decades resting-state fMRI has ruled supreme. And resting-state is suprisingly powerful. But we can do so much better by using broad batteries of tasks with the right design. Here a double-punch delivered by two papers from @carobellum.bsky.social and @basselarafat.bsky.social!

Check out our new preprint! We directly tested a common assumption in neuroimaging: Is resting-state the best estimate of intrinsic organization? Spoiler: Across datasets and brain systems, multi-task fMRI did better. 👇

Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution.... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Are you thinking about acquiring multi-task fMRI for your study but don’t know where to start? @bassel_arafat just published a toolbox to optimally select tasks and run them in the MRI scanner - with many commonly used tasks ready to go! Check out the preprint below 👇

You have 10 minutes of task fMRI to map functional brain regions in an individual. Three decisions matter: How do you localize regions? Which tasks do you include? How do you arrange tasks in your experiment? Here, we tackle all three! Preprint👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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The Making of iA Notebook. Follow along for a behind-the-scenes look at how our Notebook is made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnX8...

It's always surprising the extent to which you can call your phone co and simply say "I want to pay less" for internet/phone/wireless and they cobble together some sort of deal to keep you as a customer. I do this about every 12 mos or so.

Strong statement from UCU on principles for implementing AI in teaching, research and administration. This is much more reflective and comprehensive than the pervasive catch-all of 'responsible AI'. www.ucu.org.uk/media/15656/...

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-03-20-list326.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

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This is an absolutely beautiful, glorious description of the products in our lives. The things that once were simple tools that met needs, now demand relationships, have opinions, and occupy cycles of our lives. Do yourself a favor, scroll down and read this page www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui...

As eLife editor, it has been exciting and we are in a new steady state: quality of papers remains high, variance has dropped; work during the editorial phase has gone up tremendously; review quality is excellent and has improved. Kudos to @behrenstimb.bsky.social and the leadership team.

Also funny that virtually any first year at the University of Chicago could run laps around this with just the books on the core curriculum, Rockefeller would be pissed the industrialists of our age suck so bad

Oh I don’t know Marc, the Bhagavad Gita is one of the oldest and most influential scriptures about the nature of self and duty in the history of civilization and it’s why you get to run around doing the “I am become death” quote

“I have zero introspection…400 years ago it would never have occurred to anyone to be introspective”. Andreessen’s combo of neurodivergence, vast wealth, airport book executive summary knowledge and intense white guy sense of personal centrality should be studied by future historians

The sensorimotor superlab reading list is on march break this week 😎 @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

Now out in Journal of Neuroscience: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... How are motor memories and sensory information combined when you are playing the piano? Congrats to Amin and Medha! I know having a paper out may seem small and insignificant against all that happens in the world right now!

🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8

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This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-03-06-list325.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

YES Well put

Yes in the 1980s they made teeny tiny CDs too! #nowplaying #music

American journalist Danny Fenster was in Myanmar during the 2021 coup. Though at first he watched history unfold on his phone, he would soon be pulled into the other side of the glass. Read the full comic "Notes from a Burmese Prison" www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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