Context-dependent low-dimensional neural dynamics unfold in distinct subspaces, dimensionality, and dynamical strength for natural walking and reaching https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.19.695640v1

No underground oceans on Titan 😔, but probably some mushy pockets! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Interested in applying to come to Canada for a fully funded PhD or Postdoc? Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards: nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/canada-i... Reach out if you’re interested in opportunities for using large-scale electrophysiology to understand neural computation and movement.

I tested ChatGPT and Gemini on explaining this meme. ChatGPT failed pretty hard and started gaslighting me. Gemini’s response was spot on.

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 🧪

Evenings are the time when PIs rattle off dozens of philosophical emails to their collaborators and trainees and then fall asleep.

The rest of the media was totally irresponsible for not running with this headline: novaramedia.com/2025/12/15/n...

LLMs. They promote suicide and murder, undermine a century of educational practice, drive deskilling, harm the environment, and benefit foreign adversaries spreading disinformation. But the federal government wants to prohibit states from regulating them. You'd think they were guns.

Read the whole article for yourself. But, what I see here is the story of someone longing to accept himself – and deeply wanting others to see their own human dignity. Empathy requires projection.

Now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.... Get in touch if you think this tool could help in your science! We will be developing improvements and extensions over the next year.

We at COMPERE (www.compere.ca) have launched our 2026 funding round for Canadian-led motor neuroscience projects. Details here, contact me if you have questions. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What’s the best way to get funding in Canada? Easy, just don’t be in Canada but then come to Canada.

📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University! healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati... 1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies 2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher Please share widely and reach out for questions!

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

Watching both sides of the issue

1/ More than 35 years ago, 14 women lost their lives in École Polytechnique in Montreal as a result of anti-feminist violence. Today, across the country, we honour their memories, say their names, and re-commit to the collective work of changing the conditions that enabled their deaths.

🧠📢 New preprint alert Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵 #neuroskyence #compneurosky

Not a bad place to see a seminar from @anayebi.bsky.social

Great visit to @uwaterloo.ca!

We have a great group of speakers lined up for our @yorku-cian.bsky.social / CSBBCS satellite symposium on 'Cognition and Action', June 4,5 '26 in Toronto. Calls for poster abstracts coming soon. www.yorku.ca/research/cia...

Had fun visiting the Meta office in Toronto! They let me have snacks.

Reality is so weird.

short sighted at best....NHP research has been instrumental in the development of new treatments for human conditions (as well as other animals conditions/diseases as well).

First lab paper accepted for publication 🥳🤯

Good life advice.

"Are we going to support talent here in Canada and the development of our students and our researchers who are here?'" Whitaker asked…simply injecting a wave of high-profile academics at the top without supporting the foundation beneath them is "going to leave us short-changed." @caut.bsky.social

And the corollary to 'why should I read something nobody bothered to write?' – is – 'why should I write something no one will bother to read?'

0/7 Excited to 📢 that our (@mkashefi.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @andpru.bsky.social) new preprint on sequence preparation and its effect on reaction time is now up: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Please get in touch if there is anything you'd like to discuss! Brief summary 🧵👇

It was my pleasure to attend @mkashefi.bsky.social’s PhD defense last week. A wonderful scientist with a bright future 🤩

Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao. #neuroskyence bit.ly/47MXYLH

Best time of year.

“…every design choice expresses a vision of humanity.”

If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A tad late (announcements coming) but very happy to share the latest developments in my previous preprint! Previously, we show that neural representations for control of movement are largely distinct following supervised or reinforcement learning. The latter most closely matches NHP recordings.

I’m With Her ❤️

3 grants submitted 🤪. Onward!

I can't get over this one. Spending $1b on bringing 'top talent' to Canada... Canada has excellent researchers already, and they need more funding not more colleagues

Okay it is my academic dream to get into chess research at some point arxiv.org/abs/2510.23881

Brooklyn ✊

"There’s also a dedicated $925-million artificial intelligence (AI) fund, which Carney has identified as a priority." Here we go... How about funding basic research instead of speculative technology?

On this beautiful morning in Astoria, I cast my ballot for our city and our future. I hope you will too.

🚨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

Fall on campus 🍁🍂

Here is a news story from York University about our new Nature paper www.yorku.ca/news/2025/10...

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

Back home ❤️

When the metric fails, create a more complicated metric?

Pittsburgh ❤️