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sports and neuroscience hot takes
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Earl K. Miller
about 12 hours ago
New paper! Evidence for an active handoff between hemispheres during target tracking
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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Evidence for an active handoff between hemispheres during target tracking
The brain has somewhat separate cognitive resources for the left and right sides of our visual field. Despite this lateralization, we have a smooth and unified perception of our environment. This rais...
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/09/18/JNEUROSCI.0841-25.2025
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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦
4 days ago
This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-09-19-list304.html
@andpru.bsky.social
@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social
@gribblelab.org
#neuroskyence
#psychscisky
#Sensorimotor
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what win for the 🇨🇦 ladies!
www.tsn.ca/rugby/articl...
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Canada beats New Zealand to advance to 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup Final
Canada held off a furious late rally from New Zealand to beat the Black Ferns 34-19 to advance to the final of the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup.
https://www.tsn.ca/rugby/article/canada-beats-new-zealand-to-advance-to-2025-womens-rugby-world-cup-final/
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Markus Meister
8 days ago
Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic.
markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...
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big list!
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Great news! (embargoed)
12 days ago
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Oded Rechavi
12 days ago
Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays
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resurfaced from a grant deadline -- what'd I miss?
13 days ago
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I have been waiting to see this one out for a while. Congratulations
@mchurchland.bsky.social
and team!
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14 days ago
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📣 This is a big one that we've been cooking for a while! We think it adds to the heart of motor control: 'how does motor cortex work'. Congratulations
@mkashefi.bsky.social
!
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16 days ago
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Jörn Diedrichsen
16 days ago
Amazing new paper - such a pleasure to be involved! With so much and clean neuropixel data - analysis becomes a completely different game…
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📣 This is a big one that we've been cooking for a while! We think it adds to the heart of motor control: 'how does motor cortex work'. Congratulations
@mkashefi.bsky.social
!
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16 days ago
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Jibran Khokhar
17 days ago
Excited to share our development of a novel model of TMD pain lead by
@daspainbrain.bsky.social
with
@andpru.bsky.social
!
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Brokoslaw Laschowski
18 days ago
Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.
#neuroAI
#compneuro
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Professor-Computational-Cognitive-Neuroscience-ON/595247717/
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Sam McDougle
19 days ago
📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year! Links below: Quantitative link:
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Social link:
apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link:
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Gemini seems a bit defensive today.
about 1 month ago
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Steve W. C. Chang
about 1 month ago
Very timely and insightful OpEd by Prof. Cory Miller on WSJ. It lays out an important point - Advanced AI cannot be developed in a vacuum without understanding the sophisticated machines we have in our brains.
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Opinion | The Future of AI Lies in Monkeys, Not Microchips
Neuroscience research on primates will help us learn how to build an efficient thinking machine.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-future-of-ai-lies-in-monkeys-not-microchips-c855aad6?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#comments_sector
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Ann Kennedy
about 1 month ago
I wrote a Comment on neurotheory, and now you can read it! Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Theoretical neuroscience has room to grow
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - The goal of theoretical neuroscience is to uncover principles of neural computation through careful design and interpretation of mathematical models. Here, I examine...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-025-00965-8.epdf?sharing_token=Vv_dTCdqVQid092mEumTqtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OYxbleeyUaomEFNMTDzwXyIgMDT-OpOB8cASARvDUrJBBwSctjElnMOMY9l6yVUtZDt8tnWw7JP0q1rN1gq19Kc0_TfjMbZblsugJ3JwEv-xyed4XsTP7EyDwaWvBzqW4%3D
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Andrew Iwaniuk
about 1 month ago
For anyone interested in an academic job in 🇨🇦, we will soon be advertising an Assistant Prof position in Systems Neuroscience (rodents and other animal models) at ULethbridge. There are many pros and cons of working here, so feel free to DM me to find out more
#neuroskyence
#academicsky
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Mathieu Ferron
about 1 month ago
Faculty position in aging in Montreal!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Assistant Professor in Aging - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with IRIC – Université de Montréal | 12842218
This is for an Assistant or Associate Research Professor position in Aging
https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12842218/assistant-professor-in-aging/?TrackID=80220&BatchID=898&JobAlertId=100958&cmpid=JBE_TL_20250815_jobtitle&utm_source=jbe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JBE_TL_20250815_jobdetails_job1
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Go work with Matt! Its a great project and a wonderful spot for studying the neural control of movement.
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about 1 month ago
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Matt Perich
about 1 month ago
🚨 I’m excited to say that my CIHR Project Grant was funded! My NHP lab is now full-speed-ahead, and I’m hiring experimentalists (postdoc, PhD student, and/or a tech/manager). We’ll do multi-region ephys during reaching/grasping in macaques, with behavioral and spinal perturbations.
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MBOKO!
about 2 months ago
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PI presents latest work from the lab
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about 2 months ago
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Jörn Diedrichsen
2 months ago
Congrats to
@alighavampour.bsky.social
and
@mnlmrc.bsky.social
for developing a new paradigm for hand synergy learning. If you are looking for a motor skill task that seems impossibly difficult and really needs to learning to be mastered, here it is:
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
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A paradigm to study the learning of muscle activity patterns outside of the natural repertoire | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society
The acquisition of novel muscle activity patterns is a key aspect of motor skill learning, which can be seen, for example, when beginner musicians learn new guitar or piano chords. To study this proce...
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00088.2025
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Ravi Menon, Ph.D.
about 2 months ago
The Charles G. Drake Chair in Neurosurgery Research
@westernu.ca
. Applications now open.
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Helena
about 2 months ago
Cool neuroscience job at the Nike Sport Research Lab, working on cool products, with cool people, at a cool company, in a cool place. The amount of cool has been verified by my inside sources.
#neuroskyence
#neuroscience
#neurojobs
nike.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/nke/job/Beav...
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Senior Researcher, Neuroscience - Innovation
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH As a NIKE Sport Research Lab (NSRL) Senior Researcher, Neuroscience, you will be responsible for executing research projects (both applied and basic research) aimed at delivering ...
https://nike.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/nke/job/Beaverton-Oregon/Senior-Researcher--Neuroscience---Innovation_R-64817
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Will be reading this one with great interest.
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about 2 months ago
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Alex Usher
about 2 months ago
1/ Canadian govts appear to have decided that they can not or will not fund higher education properly. But they won't admit this, preferring to tell institutions to enshittify themselves and shut up. There are two options: one is slow starvation, the other is radical deregulation.
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Great effort by
@mkashefi.bsky.social
on this one, no shortcuts taken.
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2 months ago
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Rest in peace, boss.
@beierlab.bsky.social
-- your stoic and positive support helped me in too many ways to count over the years.
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2 months ago
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Chris Rozell
2 months ago
Please repost! We're hiring a postdoc to work with me and
@salagapan.bsky.social
on an exciting interdisciplinary project in human neuroscience and brain-body interactions underlying effortful behavior in health and mood disorders.
siplab.gatech.edu/postdoc_ad_2...
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SIPLab
https://siplab.gatech.edu/postdoc_ad_2025.html
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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦
3 months ago
This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-07-04-list301.html
@andpru.bsky.social
@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social
@gribblelab.org
#neuroskyence
#psychscisky
#Sensorimotor
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On writing CIHR grants:
universityaffairs.ca/career-advic...
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CIHR Project Grants - University Affairs
Peer reviewers’ perspectives
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/cihr-project-grants/
3 months ago
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If peer review goes AI then we may as well shut down peer review.
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3 months ago
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If there's no preprint, I am much less likely to take on reviewing your paper. In fact, I might just make it a rule for myself.
3 months ago
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Amy Orsborn
3 months ago
📆Save the date! 📆 Women in Neural Engineering (WINE) will be hosting another panel & social along-side the IEEE NER and SfN meetings. Saturday November 15th, 2025, 6:30pm Come discuss how researchers can use our voices to advocate for ourselves & our work, and meet fellow neural engineers!
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Marco A. Maximo Prado
3 months ago
Great news just announced.
@neuroak.bsky.social
is leading a new funded
@braincanada.bsky.social
platform that promises to revolutionize the study of neurodegeneration by tackling Patho-connectomics Merging MRI and lightsheet analysis in new models of disease
www.schulich.uwo.ca/about/news-e...
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Researchers launch brain imaging platform with $2.9M boost from Brain Canada - Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry - Western University
A new high-resolution imaging platform is revealing the brain in extraordinary detail – and sharing the data with scientists worldwide.
https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/about/news-events-community/news/2025/researchers-launch-brain-imaging-platform-with-2.9m-boost-from-brain-canada.html
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We were lucky to recently host Dr. Emily Oby (Queen's). She presented her exciting recent paper: Dynamical Constraints on Neural Population Activity, now out in Nature Neuroscience. A fantastic discussion on an importnant paper our lab has really enjoyed digging into.
youtu.be/zU5RbP5qk9c
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Emily Oby (Queen's University)
YouTube video by Andrew Pruszynski
https://youtu.be/zU5RbP5qk9c?si=lGIeUyBC3MxpnImy
3 months ago
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This is List 300! Going strong since January 25th, 2019!
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3 months ago
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TIL: "Because Brodmann sliced the brain somewhat obliquely, he encountered area 1 first; however, from anterior to posterior, the Brodmann designations are 3, 1, and 2, respectively." (wikipedia)
3 months ago
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Learn about the latest and greatest in tract tracing via MRI, especially as it relates to development. It was great to have Ariel Rokem (University of Washington) join our Superlab meeting!
youtu.be/HMrk2zekoa4
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Ariel Rokem (University of Washington)
YouTube video by Andrew Pruszynski
https://youtu.be/HMrk2zekoa4
3 months ago
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Absolutely gorgeous study. We were recently lucky to host Mohammad Amin Fakharian for a Superlab Journal Club -- he told us all about it! Check it our here:
youtu.be/SV4qdMvsOIU?...
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4 months ago
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We're excited share our perspective on whether you only use 10 bits/s of your brain.
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3 months ago
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We're excited share our perspective on whether you only use 10 bits/s of your brain.
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3 months ago
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Ravi Menon, Ph.D.
3 months ago
Our Siemens 7T Collaboration Scientist is moving to support the Siemens 7T Terra.X Impulse at Stanford. Siemens is rehiring for our position, located in Canada's National Ultra-High Field MRI platform
cfmm.uwo.ca
in London, Ontario 🇨🇦.
onehealthineers.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SHSJB/job/OA...
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Centre of Functional and Metabolic Mapping - Western University
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
https://cfmm.uwo.ca
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Which classical monkey reaching studies do you want replicated/investigated at mass-Neuropixel scale?
3 months ago
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Randy McIntosh
4 months ago
Great opportunity to come work with us at SFU!!! 👇
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Reading List 298 for your reading pleasure
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4 months ago
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Beautiful to see! London Knights win the Memorial Cup. What a juggernaut.
4 months ago
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