🚨📜+🧵🚨 Very excited about this work showing that people with no hand function following a spinal cord injury can control the activity of motor units from those muscles to perform 1D, 2D and 3D tasks, play video games, or navigate a virtual wheelchair By a wonderful team co-mentored w Dario Farina

Joint junior faculty position in Computational Neuroscience, between Ctr for Computational Neuroscience at @flatironinstitute.org and the CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social . Application deadline: 16 Jan 2026! www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/car... cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

New paper led by wonder postdocs Francesca Greenstreet and @jessegeerts.bsky.social and @clopathlab.bsky.social trying to understand why –in the "what for" sense– there are multiple motor learning systems –supervised and RL-based– in the brain. Check out Jesse's 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧠 New year, new preprint! Why does motor learning involve multiple brain regions? We propose that the cortico-cerebellar system learns a "map" of actions where similar movements are nearby, while basal ganglia do RL in this simplified space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Cool basal ganglia preprints today! 2 on DA/ACh 1. @paulkramer.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 2. @arifahamid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Motor learning @juangallego.bsky.social and @clopathlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Great to see this paper on sensory expectations in motor control from @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social and @andpru.bsky.social out in Nature today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience 🧪

We give examples for less striking number of neurons here. For different species, tasks, and brain areas, it's always the same observation: PCA overestimates the dimensionality -except for one very simple task- and this overestimate gets worse w the number of neurons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Go work with Juan! I can vouch that this will be a very cool project.

Super happy for having been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant to continue our basic neuroscience work on the neural basis for motor control and motor learning. What a great way to set things up here at Champalimaud! 🎉 🚨 Job Alert for postdocs research technicians, and PhD students in 🧵

I was admittedly a little sad when our SCI study didn’t initially feature in “the list” but am really happy to see it now! (On my wife’s 30th birthday too!) Many thanks!! @andpru.bsky.social, @gribblelab.org, @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social superlab.ca/posts/2025-1...

This review below by Herz and Brown, about effort, bradykinesia in Parkinson disease is really such an excellent read. If you are interested in dopamine, basal ganglia, motor control and motivation, this is really a must read 👌 doi.org/10.1093/brai...

If you want to do a PhD on any area of neuroscience --from basic science on vision, decision-making, foraging, motor control, learning.... in flies, rodents or zebrafish, computational or theoretical work, or are interested in more translational/clinical research-- apply to our great PhD program !!!

I'd definitely go see this, based on the preprint

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

My spicy take would be that neural manifolds may not be disprovable given how the brains we are aware of are built, and the challenges are: (1) whether they give us understanding beyond single neuron descriptions (2) whether they have "causal power" A recent attempt at this youtu.be/oxQyKByqDSU?...

It feels like the converastion about manifold dimensionality is back, so I thought I'd share a paper that explains nicely why measuring the "embedding dimensionality" of a manifold (e.g., counting PCs) can be very different from its actual "intrinsic dimensionality (DoFs) doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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

Life Sciences PhD studentships available in amazing Glasgow! Deadline Jan 12 General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl... My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

Garrett Stanley and I are leading the recruitment of a senior faculty position in BME at Georgia Tech and Emory, focused on Neural Engineering. Come talk to us, we're looking for a leader in research and training, in areas with neurotranslation potential. More details here: lnkd.in/eusCqCSR

Adding this to my to buying list because the @braininspired.bsky.social episode was great! (And I learned that Schrödinger used code in a different way than I thought he did when I read his book... Well the first half of the book)

Come share your passion about motor control, sensory systems, neurophysiology, neurotechnology, and more at #NCMKobe26 !!

A very nice contribution to the field, adding more evidence on how our expectations and goals shape upcoming motor commands. Congrats to the wonderful team!

A chemical extracted from carrot roots helped pave the way for flat-screen TVs, and six other discoveries that unintentionally changed the world. Perfect talking points for when you need to defend basic science, whether it’s to your grumpy uncle or your MP. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨Job alert🚨 The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics" euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909

Reminder this is happening this Wed/Thu. Free spiking neural network conference - registration required (see below).

Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience! Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community! All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...

Fascinating work. Looking forward to diving into the preprint. Congratulations Kelsey et al

Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants (1/2)

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

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A really nice 15 min talk on Scientific understanding by Henk de Regt. Really worth watching for those practicing scientists who like me haven't had the time to read his book yet www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY1v...

finalmente! and big congratulations on your exciting-but-not-yet-public-news

🚨Big news!🚨 The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research. I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Very cool project. Congratulations to the superlabers

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life – evolution – the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy – existence itself – is essentially change.

Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)! Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US. Please reach out if you have any questions!

Food for thought for theorists and experimentalists in neuroscience!

I still need to read this piece by Antonio, but I can say that he's currently visting the lab and we're having a wonderful time talking about levels of description, "representations", evolvability and many more ideas. So I'm sure it'll be worth your time ⏳

I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)? Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? [email protected]

Go work with Matt, I would if I were you!

Great old podcast episode for the times we're living: Anthony Pinn on humanism, theology, race, and lessons that humanists could and should take from religions www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018... & thank you @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for bringing so many interesting people to my attention!

📰 I really enjoyed writing this article with @thetransmitter.bsky.social! In it, I summarize parts of our recent perspective article on neural manifolds (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), with a focus on highlighting just a few cool insights into the brain we've already seen at the population level.

🚨 New preprint + thread 🧵 We've gone back to studying motoneuron control principles and their applications & here's paper #1: A proof-of-concept study showing that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can control up to 2DoF from a single intramuscular implant www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function? @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🤖🧠🧪 🧵1/9

Very happy about my former mentor Sara Solla having received the Valentin Braitenberg Award for her lifelong contributions to computational neuroscience! Sara will be giving a lecture at the upcoming @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social meeting which you shouldn't miss. bernstein-network.de/en/newsroom/...

Stylish research on style, really interesting thread

Great new review on neural manifolds by @juangallego.bsky.social and @mattperich.bsky.social. Amazing read. Lots of intuition and examples. Great synthesis of why manifold structure pops up everywhere in neuroscience, from motor control to cognitive tasks. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠🧪 1/3