a big one this week

Recently, a @schulichmeddent.bsky.social colleague, Rob Gros, passed away too young. I did not know Rob well but it always struck me how hard he worked to improve things for others even when all evidence suggested improvements were not forthcoming: a positive influence & eternal optimist. RIP Rob.

New paper from the lab! "Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

M1 after a few months away ... never gets old. @arminpanjehpour.bsky.social @mkashefi.bsky.social

A great opportunity!

Posting for Vibhu Sahni: Due to unforeseen circumstances the Burke Neurological Institute will have to terminate its research operations 5/22. There are international postdocs on visas who are looking for new homes. Please reach out to Vibhu if you can help

Nice article! It doesn't bother me, nor do I expect, that we will we find compact descriptions of how the brain functions.

A Monday-morning Superlab journal club, featuring Arseny Finkelstein (Tel Aviv, Janelia) discussing his recent Nature paper: "Connectivity underlying motor cortex activity during goal-directed behaviour". youtu.be/BRgyCb6dYDs

In our new study in Neural Computation, we demonstrate how the modulation of movement duration can emerge as a natural property of task-dependent control policies within an infinite horizon framework, rather than requiring a priori specification. Full story ➡️ direct.mit.edu/neco/article...

Weekend watching? Recently, the Sensorimotor Superlab hosted Huidi Li from @earlkmiller.bsky.social's lab. She told us all about her recent preprint: Neural subspace reorganization reflects value-based decision making. youtu.be/soDPs8zdua0

super lab, super list

Home from a wonderful NCM Meeting in Kobe, Japan --highlighted by Steve Scott, my PhD supervisor, receiving the NCM Distinguished Career Award and delivering an inspiring lecture.

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-04-24-list330.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

holy moly! Welcome to Canada, @ariellevine.bsky.social!

For those going to @ncmsociety.bsky.social annual meeting next week, come check out our posters! @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org. I know that @mnlmrc.bsky.social @sivanjo.bsky.social @alighavampour.bsky.social @arminpanjehpour.bsky.social and Amin are excited show you what they've done.

On the plane making my talk and oh so pleased I will get to show on of my favourite figures in sensorimotor neuroscience at Tokyo Hand Meeting II tomorrow. (Graziano et al., 2002).

For those going to @ncmsociety.bsky.social annual meeting next week, come check out our posters! @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org. I know that @mnlmrc.bsky.social @sivanjo.bsky.social @alighavampour.bsky.social @arminpanjehpour.bsky.social and Amin are excited show you what they've done.

Don't construct a talk to show how smart you are or how much work you've done. No one else cares about that.

If you're worried your poster or talk is too simple, remove one or two more figures and you'll be alright.

a great piece, heart breaking to read at times.

A fun Q and A that @mkashefi.bsky.social and I contributed to for @natcomms.nature.com along with Friston, @annechurchland.bsky.social, and others. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wonderful work by Amin!

Had to much fun working on this project with Kelsey and the Hoekstra lab. A project born after Hopi gave a talk at Janelia may years ago

More then ever there need to accountability in discussion and the way to do that effectively is in person meetings. Whatever money savings they think they get from travel is out the window with suboptimal decision making.

Stoked to be named "Researcher of the Year" at Western's medical school. A real honour that reflects the hard work of my trainees and collaborators. www.schulich.uwo.ca/about/news-e...

Our NIAAA funded Post-DoctT32 has received its NoA (non competing renewal). Are you looking for a post-doc and interested in joining our amazing center? If so, reach out! Here is a convenient form that you can use to upload CV and a cover letter! unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

How similar are two activity patterns? We all know that low correlations don't mean that they are necessarily dissimilar – our measurements could be noisy. So how do you correct for this? Our slightly nerdy, but hopefully useful preprint takes a deep dive: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣 Associate ➡️ Full Professor 📣

In a recent Superlab journal club, Tatiana Engel (Princeton) joined to to present her labs 2025 Nature paper, "The dynamics and geometry of choice in the premotor cortex" youtu.be/e2rqL0VA5IE

As eLife editor, it has been exciting and we are in a new steady state: quality of papers remains high, variance has dropped; work during the editorial phase has gone up tremendously; review quality is excellent and has improved. Kudos to @behrenstimb.bsky.social and the leadership team.

"The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought" -- I have no evidence but think this is the real risk in science. t.co/Zo5wILcWiW

trainee numbers will fall -- the risk-reward calculus on trainees (and faculty too, frankly) is shifting dramatically www.science.org/content/arti...

make data people want aim for tighter niches

The sensorimotor superlab reading list is on march break this week 😎 @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

Nature Communications learning from eLife...

Last week, we welcomed Ryan Canfield from @neuroamyo.bsky.social's lab to hear about his latest preprint: "The spatiotemporal structure of neural activity in motor cortex during reaching" Check out his talk here: youtu.be/F23AW0k4y_M

🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-03-06-list325.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

The UAB Heersink School of Medicine is seeking to recruit up to 16 new research-intensive faculty as part of a major strategic investment in neurosciences. Faculty will be housed in a brand new research facility at the heart of campus, which is scheduled for completion this summer.

Last day to apply for a PhD position with me! Fully-funded, three year position in beautiful Oslo. Voltage imaging, ephys, all the cool stuff! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-02-27-list324.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-02-20-list323.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-02-13-list322.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

Cool study! Congratulations to @apeyrache.bsky.social and team.

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

Incredibly hard and heroic work by @rhodricusack.bsky.social, @clionaod.bsky.social and many other just out in Nature Neuroscience: Visual categorization in the ventral stream can is present in 2-month old already. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cerebellum! radiolab.org/podcast/song...

While preparing your #NCMKobe26 abstract, read through the highlights from #NCMPan25! The meeting highlight article is now available for review. Thank you to some of the scholarship winners from 2025 for putting the article together. journals.physiology....

we've got an outstanding lineup this year. join us!

Want to come do a postdoc with us? We’re interested in how sensorimotor function is carried out by the cells and circuits of the spinal cord. We have an awesome team, lots of cool techniques, and we’re open to new ideas/approaches/connections. Get in touch!