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 ❤️

Bach is life, and there’s no one in the world who can express that better than Chris Thile.

A thought-provoking piece in Nature Neuroscience by many neuroscience colleagues: "Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust". Lots to think about here. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Celebrating the long weekend by burning off 4 pumpkin spice lattes

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood. If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

If anyone is wondering how this ends go watch Eddington

I wish I could join Jonathan’s lab now!

Jonathan is honestly one of the best most talented junior PIs out there and joining his lab is essentially future proofing your career

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting! If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch. www.ncclab.ca

Beautiful day on the water and at the Allen Institute!

Seattle ❤️

This seemed trivial to me at first, but I'm coming around to the idea that it might be a profound application of Takens' Theorem to neuroscience

So.. more funding for science?

When your life becomes a natural experiment

A very real message I sent my class today: "I have confirmation that the philosophy department has been vanquished – we have our original lecture hall back."

Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When reviewer #2 just has ‘a few concerns’

Day on the water

Got some good news 👀

We don't need to accept traffic deaths as inevitable. They're not.

Beautiful day for a race 🏃

Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social! We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement? Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10

Why LLMs can’t represent human experience

Emergence is something we should be thinking deeply about in computational neuroscience. When we say 'computation through dynamics' what we're really talking about is different types of emergent computation (probably Type 1-2 as defined here) @seanmcarroll.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2410.15468

"Bhattacharya is the American Lysenko and must be removed as NIH Director." rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...

Percentage of treatments tested on animals that get approved for humans: 5% Percentage of treatments for humans that were tested in animals: 100% www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Living my best millennial life.

Back from the backcountry

A wonderful program that made clear how important theory is to progress in neuroscience. Funny story: I walked to the conference one day with Xiao-Jing Wang and not knowing who he was I attempted to explain RNNs to him.

No one is going to fine tune their way to AGI

Neuroscientists ask me, “What about IRB approval? Signal noise? Artifact rejection?” And I tell them: signal is just noise that believes in itself.