get ready for the holidays!

If you're (1) into nhp neurophysiology and/or biological motor control, (2) a foreign big shot and (3) interested in moving here, please reach out -- this new program looks extremely attractive (min. $8M over 8y)! www.uwo.ca/research/can...

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 🧪

don't worry about general principles -- figure anything out

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.

I want to make lbotenic acid lesions in the brain. Is there a manual?

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-12-12-list315.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

Delighted we made the superlab list @andpru.bsky.social 🫶 List: mailchi.mp/c9edb773c735... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Funders should at the very least force journals to publish the peer review documents.

When's the last time you read a paper in your field and thought: well its got serious issues but it got through peer review at Scientific Reports so it must be all right...

Peer review is important and useful but we should focus our efforts on a small number of papers that matter (making big claims, using new approaches) and let the vast majority of work live on a preprint server to be judged by their utility over time to domain experts.

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...

Come to Canada

Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

What's the best paper/dataset featuring high density e-phys with identified cell types in NHPs? Any task, any area.

Come to Canada

Come to Canada

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"it is important to recognize that ‘it’s just a job’ boundaries may not guarantee a permanent academic position." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is this a threat: "You have seven (7) days from the date of this letter to officially accept or decline this invitation at the online website. Failure of a timely response will require that your invitation be reissued."

In partnership with UBC's Department of Psychiatry, we are excited to be recruiting for a CIHR Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Cognitive Resilience for Dementia Prevention and Mental Wellness in Aging. Learn more: med-fom-psychiatry-sandbox2019.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/1...

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...

I’m behind on blogging it but I’ve been doing a reading group on Rob Gray’s podcast

no one tell @earlkmiller.bsky.social 😂

Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.

You can see Harrison's and all the talks on the channel: www.youtube.com/@andpru

The latest superlab journal club: @hritz.bsky.social discussing his latest preprint investigating task switching in brains and machines. youtu.be/MdOkOjSa7JA

big week big list

I am proud to appear as the seasick scientist on left of this picture, filling in a data log (clipboards still in use in 2025) of my guess at where the hell we were out in the pacific!

Check out the new lab directory! And kudos to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for doing so many good things for the neuroscience community.

A great day in Lethbridge with @evoneuro.bsky.social and others at the CCBN. Amazing to see the Lethbridge viaduct in real life.

The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!

In our latest superlab journal club, we hosted Lucas Tian (Rockefeller) who shared some his fascinating work investigating the neural basis of symbol compositionally. youtu.be/hCuUE7XEg8o

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Wouldn't have predicted this. I have some reading to do!

Excited to share our latest Sensorimotor Superlab Journal Club. Juliana Trach joins us to discuss her latest paper with @actlab.bsky.social, now published in @nathumbehav.nature.com: Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations. youtu.be/6LlDYxDV8wo

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-11-14-list312.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

A brief rundown of our latest study by @arminpanjehpour.bsky.social.

A new paper from the lab featuring an elegant set of experiments to explore whether and how reaction times relate to sequence planning -- stellar work by @arminpanjehpour.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations @northernthrux.bsky.social and team!

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

Study permit exemption for graduate students...

Western study reveals brain’s predictive power. Researchers find neurons don’t wait for challenges to arise, they plan how to react. news.westernu.ca/2025/10/sens... #CdnPSE @westernu.ca

🚨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

Deadline to submit for oral presentations at #NCMKobe26 is in just under a month! We especially welcome Team/Panel proposals: 2 hour session w 4 talks + discussion. Historically, the acceptance rate is higher for panels than for individual talks. Poster submission closes in February.

I'm really proud of being part of this paper - an amazing success for us in the Western Sensorimotor Superlab with @andpru.bsky.social @gribblelab.org! Congrats Jon!

Stoked to see our study out in final form! Big kudos to @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social for driving this along for the past 5 years.

I don't know who needs to hear this but: there are many ways to be successful in science -- think about what you want to achieve, how you can achieve it, and aim for that.

get reading!

Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428