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sports and neuroscience hot takes
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Tom Kash
about 1 hour ago
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!
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Jörn Diedrichsen
about 4 hours ago
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...
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📣 Associate ➡️ Full Professor 📣
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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
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Tatiana Engel (Princeton)
YouTube video by Andrew Pruszynski
https://youtu.be/e2rqL0VA5IE
7 days ago
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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.
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"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.
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trainee numbers will fall -- the risk-reward calculus on trainees (and faculty too, frankly) is shifting dramatically
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-i-may-hire-ai-instead-graduate-student/
10 days ago
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make data people want aim for tighter niches
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Andrew Pruszynski
Paul Gribble 🇨🇦
13 days ago
The sensorimotor superlab reading list is on march break this week 😎
@andpru.bsky.social
@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social
@gribblelab.org
#neuroskyence
#psychscisky
#Sensorimotor
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Nature Communications learning from eLife...
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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
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Ryan Canfield (University of Washington)
YouTube video by Andrew Pruszynski
https://youtu.be/F23AW0k4y_M
13 days ago
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Andrew Pruszynski
Caroline Nettekoven
16 days ago
🧠 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
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Andrew Pruszynski
Paul Gribble 🇨🇦
20 days ago
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
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Andrew Pruszynski
UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
23 days ago
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.
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Andrew Pruszynski
Matthijs Dorst
27 days ago
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...
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Andrew Pruszynski
Paul Gribble 🇨🇦
27 days ago
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
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Andrew Pruszynski
Paul Gribble 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
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
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Andrew Pruszynski
Paul Gribble 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
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
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Cool study! Congratulations to
@apeyrache.bsky.social
and team.
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about 1 month ago
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Andrew Pruszynski
Chris Krupenye
about 2 months ago
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
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Apes Share Human Ability to Imagine
YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University
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Andrew Pruszynski
Jörn Diedrichsen
about 2 months ago
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...
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Infants have rich visual categories in ventrotemporal cortex at 2 months of age - Nature Neuroscience
Using infant fMRI, the authors show that, by 2 months of age, representations in high-level visual cortex encode visual categories that align with deep neural networks, and lateral object-selective re...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02187-8
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Andrew Pruszynski
Sam McDougle
about 2 months ago
Cerebellum!
radiolab.org/podcast/song...
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Song of the Cerebellum
Is thought just motion in the mind?
https://radiolab.org/podcast/song-of-the-cerebellum
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Andrew Pruszynski
Society for the Neural Control of Movement
about 2 months ago
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.
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Andrew Pruszynski
David Seminowicz
about 2 months ago
we've got an outstanding lineup this year. join us!
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reposted by
Andrew Pruszynski
Ariel Levine
about 2 months ago
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!
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We have updated this preprint. I think the deeper dive that
@mkashefi.bsky.social
has done on the 'shift' condition-independent signal is particularly interesting.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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about 2 months ago
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Andrew Pruszynski
about 2 months ago
New preprint is live! 🎉 We (
@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social
,
@basselarafat.bsky.social
, and I) studied how the brain represents syllables during speech, and which cortical representations the cerebellum most closely resemble. Feedback very welcome:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Andrew Pruszynski
Jonathan A. Michaels
about 2 months ago
While humans spontaneously dance to a beat, the evolutionary origins of this ability remain debated. Behavioral work has shown that primates can move to auditory rhythms after training. Our question was: How does this association emerge in the brain?
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Reward-driven emergence of auditory pattern encoding in the primate motor system
The ability to anticipate rhythmic patterns is fundamental to human experience, enabling music appreciation, speech comprehension, and dancing in sync to music. How the brain learns to use acoustic information to guide motor behavior remains a key question whose neural underpinnings and evolutionary origins are debated, especially in non-human primates. To understand how brain areas involved in motor control naively respond to predictable tone patterns, we recorded large single neuron populations across primary somatosensory (S1), primary motor (M1), dorsal premotor (PMd), supplementary motor (SMA), pre-supplementary motor (preSMA) cortices, globus pallidus interna (GPi), and medial geniculate body (MGB) of a rhesus monkey. During passive listening (Experiment 1) with a reward only at the end of each trial, primarily the MGB, not motor areas, responded to the auditory tone patterns, ruling out the spontaneous entrainment of motor activity to auditory patterns. Almost all areas robustly
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.29.702435v1
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Seeing the NCM program for the year is always a treat.
ncm-society.org/program/
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Program - NCM Society
https://ncm-society.org/program/
about 2 months ago
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Very excited to share our latest Superlab Journal Club. A wonderful presentation by Jessie Liu (UCSF) on her recent paper in
@nathumbehav.nature.com
: "Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus". Beautiful work!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOcr...
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Jesse Liu (UCSF)
YouTube video by Andrew Pruszynski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOcr_PauaVU
about 2 months ago
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I am not even a football fan but this is an insane story. How can this happen? Who votes for this?
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Sources: Bill Belichick will not be a first-ballot Hall of Famer
Bill Belichick, the eight-time Super Bowl-winning coach, will not be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, sources told ESPN.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47747076/belichick-not-first-ballot-hall-famer
about 2 months ago
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Of all the talks and department seminars that I have given around the world, the one to my own department today was among the most nerve racking.
about 2 months ago
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One of Canadian science's greatest advocates. May she rest in peace.
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about 2 months ago
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another week another list
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2 months ago
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great feature!
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2 months ago
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What I think is an important study led by
@mnlmrc.bsky.social
investigating sensory planning in the human brain!
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2 months ago
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I love everything about Cow Tools -- this is peak Current Biology, one of the few journals with a personality.
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2 months ago
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Hello researchnet, my old friend I've come to talk with you again
2 months ago
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If I want to release an NHP-ephys-behavior dataset alongside a paper that documents the dataset in some detail -- is there a best venue for that combo that yields a DOI? (assume our actual paper doing science with that same data is already out)
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Andrew Pruszynski
Greg Gloor
2 months ago
Western University is looking for a Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 1 in Metabolomics. We are intent on building capacity in this system and the ideal candidate will help build infrastructure and mentor junior faculty. Please see the job ad at:
uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
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Come join us. Western University invites applications from outstanding early career investigators for a full-time probationary faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of neural circuits in NHPs.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Probationary (TenureTrack) Faculty Position-Systems Neuroscience in Higher Order Cognitive Circuits - London, Ontario (CA) job with Western University - Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry | 128...
Full-time probationary faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of neural circuits in non-human primates.
https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12851451/probationary-tenuretrack-faculty-position-systems-neuroscience-in-higher-order-cognitive-circuits
3 months ago
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new year, new list
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3 months ago
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44!! are you f'ing kidding me
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3 months ago
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Reminder that this job is open! If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch. Deadline is February 20th.
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3 months ago
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we all fail constantly at this job
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reposted by
Andrew Pruszynski
Ciarán Murphy-Royal
3 months ago
🚨 PI position in dept. of Neuroscience with lab located the
@crchum.bsky.social
Hiring at assistant/associate prof level in the fields of neural regeneration, stem cells and spinal-associated pathologies
can-acn.org/professor-re...
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Professor-researcher (assistant or associate) in Neuroscience related to neural regeneration, stem cells and spinal-associated pathologies – Université de Montréal – Canadian Association for Neuroscie...
https://can-acn.org/professor-researcher-assistant-or-associate-in-neuroscience-related-to-neural-regeneration-stem-cells-and-spinal-associated-pathologies-universite-de-montreal/
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no one wants to read your CV of failures
3 months ago
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Andrew Pruszynski
Alexander Huth
3 months ago
This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
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"Simple heuristics to run a research group"
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My new years resolution is: simplify
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