Blog post: Just quit Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it. open.substack.com/pub/arjunraj...

Biophysical model for predicting muscle short-range stiffness during movement: www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

What an amazing Yule gift from @stefanradev.bsky.social & colleagues: a tour-de-force tutorial on diffusion models for simulator-based inference. This is one of the most comprehensive and useful review/tutorials I have ever seen -- a must read! Kudos to all the authors! arxiv.org/abs/2512.20685

Go work with Paul! I did and it was great.

1/ Why does RL struggle with social dilemmas? How can we ensure that AI learns to cooperate rather than compete? Introducing our new framework: MUPI (Embedded Universal Predictive Intelligence) which provides a theoretical basis for new cooperative solutions in RL. Preprint🧵👇 (Paper link below.)

Canadian professors by selected age ranges, 1971-2021

Still 11 days to submit your talk or a panel with a few of your favourite topic diving into any of the zillion topics that are relevant to our community! #NCMKobe26

Deadline to submit for oral presentations at #NCMKobe26 is in just under a month! We especially welcome Team/Panel proposals: 2 hour session w 4 talks + discussion. Historically, the acceptance rate is higher for panels than for individual talks. Poster submission closes in February.

Faculty at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions: Your research matters and we want to see you at #NCMKobe26! NCM offers a fellowship to support PUI faculty presenting at the meeting. Up to $1,500 in travel support. More info: ncm-society.org/dive...

What is homework for? #academicsky #psychscisky #neurosckyence gribblelab.org/9040/homewor...

Slightly different, but in my science writing class I make my students work in a Google doc so I can see the history of how the piece came together. Their grade is based on effort rather than the final product. So far, AI use is not an issue with this approach.

Maybe it is just me, but I don't really care about academics posting about the secondary things (grants / awards) on social media. But I do care about and want to see is the primary thing that matters in science, the work / papers you have done.

I don’t really want to see your homework. #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky gribblelab.org/9040/homewor...

The Department of Kinesiology at Penn State is inviting applications for an open-rank faculty position in sensorimotor control and rehabilitation neuroscience. Please share this opportunity with interested colleagues in your network. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

If you are at @acrmrehab.bsky.social I will be presenting this morning (8am) SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Ai-powered Movement Analysis and a Causal Framework for Precision Rehabilitation SS1 #ACRM2025 cdmcd.co/5npwMR

Nice paper: Infinite horizon control captures modulation of movement duration in reaching movements www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

wow, I'm proud of PhD student Jake Stephens' work with Tim Cope and me on understanding multi sensory proprioceptive integration on this work.

Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @antoinecomite.bsky.social

Great paper. A must read!

Seeing lots of reactions to this compelling paper - showing VTA dopamine is linked to cue and outcome induced behavioral reactions: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I have some thoughts…

One of my two last (ever) papers on tDCS: Does anodal tDCS over M1 really enhance motor sequence learning? A non-replication of earlier findings in a double-blind, pre-registered large-sample study in humans www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Preprint alert 🚨:Measured and modelled transitions between self-paced walking and synchronization with rhythmic auditory cues 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

First first author paper of Anouck Matthijs on the fact that aging does not affect the ability to compensate for interaction torques during movement planning. Both the timing and scaling of anticipatory EMG activity are preserved with age. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'd never heard Richard Sutton speak before. He's sharp! And I think this discussion has changed how I think about the bitter lesson. youtu.be/21EYKqUsPfg?... #AI #ML #RL

Best p-hacking demonstrations for a ppt slide: go!

Validation of the energetics of a Huxley muscle–tendon complex model using experimental data obtained from mouse soleus muscle: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

New pre-print! We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated. More in Eric's 🧵 👇

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-09-12-list303.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A very cool new finding from our lab! During a cooperative sensorimotor task, we show that involuntary visuomotor feedback responses reflect a representation of a partner. biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by the extremely talented, Seth Sullivan

I'm seeking PhD students to work with my collaborators (Welber Marinovic, Jarrad Lum, Chris Latella) & I in gorgeous Western Australia. Please email me on [email protected] asap if you are interested (there's a rather short application window). intranet.ecu.edu.au/research/hig...

Reading this one today! The integrated control of decision and movement vigor: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please repost. The School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan is seeking applications and nominations for our next Dean! Click the "leadership profile" link on the careers page below for full details. And Go Blue!

Distinct audio and visual accumulators co-activate motor preparation for multisensory detection www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨It's published! 🚨Our results support highly-simplified-model "B", if you're wondering. The Somatosensory Cortex and Body Representation: Updating the Motor System during a Visuoproprioceptive Cue Conflict www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...

Excited this one is official!

A very cool new finding from our lab! During a cooperative sensorimotor task, we show that involuntary visuomotor feedback responses reflect a representation of a partner. biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by the extremely talented, Seth Sullivan

Here is the link (last one broke): www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...

We are excited to share our new paper that dives into how ongoing decision deliberation reflects ongoing movements: (jneurosci.org/content/45/3... A tour-de-force by the incredible Jan Calalo.

Rubber arm illusion in octopus: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

New preprint with Sritej, rezashadmehr.bsky.social, and Roberta Klatzky now on biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Motor adaptation—our ability to correct errors using feedback—is attenuated in a Bayes-optimal manner when goals are uncertain. Welcome any and all feedback! tinyurl.com/y9kjcfzj

Agonist-antagonist muscular co-contraction improves rapid corrective responses linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...

Apply or nominate someone for the #NCMKobe26 Early and Distinguished Career Awards! Deadline for submissions is Sept 8. ncm-society.org/awards/

Parallel feedback processing for voluntary control: knowledge of spinal feedback in motor cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Neural space has very similar issues to the behavioural models in the 1990s (e.g., dimensionality reduction, dynamical systems theory/attractors), which are more observational than mechanistic.

Just finished a very detailed read. Fantastic paper! If you haven't read it yet, you should!

When we reach for an object, we adapt to unexpected dynamics and respond to disturbances. These two mechanisms work online, and when you perturb them at the right time, you can see interference... Full story ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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