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sports and neuroscience hot takes
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Chris Krupenye
2 days 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
youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko
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Apes Share Human Ability to Imagine
YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University
https://youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko
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Jörn Diedrichsen
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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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Sam McDougle
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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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Society for the Neural Control of Movement
3 days 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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David Seminowicz
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we've got an outstanding lineup this year. join us!
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Ariel Levine
4 days 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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5 days ago
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7 days 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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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.30.702863v1
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Jonathan A. Michaels
8 days 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?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10....
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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/
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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
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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
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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.
12 days ago
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One of Canadian science's greatest advocates. May she rest in peace.
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12 days ago
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another week another list
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great feature!
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16 days 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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16 days 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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19 days ago
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Hello researchnet, my old friend I've come to talk with you again
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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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Greg Gloor
26 days 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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https://uwo.ca/facultyrelations/careers/pdf/AD.Schulich-Science-CRC-Tier-1-Metabolomics_2025.pdf
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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
28 days ago
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new year, new list
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44!! are you f'ing kidding me
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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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about 1 month ago
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we all fail constantly at this job
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Ciarán Murphy-Royal
about 1 month 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
about 1 month ago
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Alexander Huth
about 1 month 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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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pchj.533
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My new years resolution is: simplify
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Great read as always. There is clearly accelerating tension between ever more complex computational approaches applied to brain data and actually figuring stuff out about the brain.
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In my PhD I had a sticky note on my computer monitor: "remember sunk costs". For 2026, I will put it back.
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"Do the control you’re scared of. Often, you know the go/no-go experiment you should do, but you put it off because you’re scared of the result. You know what I’m talking about."
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Ravi Menon
about 1 month ago
Unfortunately this study, while heroic in many ways, does not take into account cardiac, respiration and other vasomotor effects, all of which have spatial signatures. Nor is there an electrophysiological measure of neural activity. Be careful before throwing the baby out with the bath water.
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Very nice paper by Matt Kaufman's group: "Routing of task-relevant information in mouse PPC during continuous visuomotor control".
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Routing of task-relevant information in mouse PPC during continuous visuomotor control
Posterior Parietal Cortex (PPC) exhibits tuning to many variables, including strong representations of visual information, movement, and behavioral biases. Whether PPC communicates all these variables...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.696069v1
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I started r/sensorimotorneuro a while back because I thought Reddit would make a great platform for what we used to do on science twitter. Its been wildly unsuccessful so far but you never know:
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Sensory. Motor and all Systems Neuroscience
This is a space to discuss all things systems neuroscience (and adjacent) from cool new findings and papers to upcoming meetings and job opportunities. Keep it civil.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sensorimotorneuro/
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11 years as faculty done. Feels longer.
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get ready for the holidays!
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about 2 months ago
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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...
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Canada-Impact-Plus - Research - Western University
https://www.uwo.ca/research/canada-impact-plus.html
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Blake Richards
about 2 months ago
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
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Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits - Nature
Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the efficiency of move...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09690-9
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don't worry about general principles -- figure anything out
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Jonathan A. Michaels
about 2 months ago
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.
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I want to make lbotenic acid lesions in the brain. Is there a manual?
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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦
about 2 months ago
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
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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis
about 2 months ago
Delighted we made the superlab list
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mailchi.mp/c9edb773c735...
Paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Funders should at the very least force journals to publish the peer review documents.
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about 2 months ago
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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...
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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.
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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...
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Funding Call 2026
Funding Opportunity: Collaboration on Motor Planning, Execution, and Resilience With support from the Azrieli Foundation, the Collaboration on Motor Planning, Execution, and Resilience (COMPERE) is e...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ejqa7y0tJXbDQMXCQAb3dln2JDD8JsdE_W1VmA2cMHA/edit?usp=sharing
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