Enjoying the end of summer!

The myth of optimality in human movement science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In this paper, Andrew King looked at tools as cues for dual adaptation. He used a VR task, where a ball had to be launched to a target with a 30 degree rotation.

In this paper we use a new approach from control theory (engineering), a "disturbance observer", to see if it can be applied to visuomotor adaptation. This "DO model" is doing reasonably well.

In this study @deniseyph.bsky.social and I take data from 4 previous studies, and their pilots, with N=270 to look into potential relationships between precision of reaching directions and proprioception and various other measures.

Very happy to share my first preprint on proprioception and aging. Check it out! doi.org/10.1101/2025... A big thanks to @jjodx.bsky.social

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

I guess it's time to donate to Brent Sutton's campaign ahead of the by-election

Yesterday and today my #NCMpan25 poster (2-F-86) shows you our first attempts at characterizing the time course of strategy development. I'm unfortunately not there, but you can ask @deniseyph.bsky.social to explain it to you.

Because if I wanted someone to confidently make up answers to my questions I would simply ask a man

I’ve never understood why Americans don’t want the same kinds of environments they love when they travel, at home.

Also today at #NCMPan25 is Mireille Broucke's poster 1-G-90 where she's looking at applying new advances in control-theory to motor adaptation, and we designed a new paradigm to try to probe the mechanism. @ncmsociety.bsky.social

@deniseyph.bsky.social is presenting her poster today & tomorrow at #NCMpan25, 1-F-75 where we use Single-Trial-Learning to look at initial implicit adaptation in a variety of situations.

Hi, We have new open positions – PhD student and postdocs– experimental or computational– in our research groups at @nerflabs.bsky.social in Leuven Belgium on neural circuit basis of visual behavior/developmental disorders. I am at Cosyne Workshops and happy to discuss opportunities.

Shanaa (not on blue sky) published the last paper from his PhD projects in Journal of Neurophysiology! In this paper, he used immersive virtual reality to examine motor memory formation and motor adaptation with more natural perturbations. 1/6

Spoiling our families with @thartbm.bsky.social

Scientific data and independence are at risk: We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political interference. By @neuralreckoning.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/policy/scien...

would you like a "PhD in a box" in 3 weeks? you won't get a degree of course, but you will learn SO MUCH and make lifelong science friends! join us!

🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨 Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses! Applications are due Sunday, March 23. Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/ #mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪

I guess it's a good thing academics are used to having to do things they weren't trained in. Lots of new skills we all need to pick up now!

If you care about science & higher ed in America right now, your world has changed. We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose. Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in

I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...

This beautiful blue heron died from Highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus, H5N1. The strain originates from the meat-industry.

Has this been officially confirmed?

Sorry if I have to offend some 'liberals' still whining about 'free speech' allegedly being threatened by whatever the f they think 'woke' means: this is text-book fascist censorship and anti-science policy. Time to wake the f up.

I made a Magic Eye animated gif—so it looked like TV static (remember TV static?). I tried to post it here (as a gif and a movie), but it compressed it so much every time that it was unviewable. I decided to post it on my blog. Check it out if you are interested. divisbyzero.com/2025/01/31/m...

Just realised Bluesky supports videos so here is our new visual illusion! Fix your gaze on the grey dot. How many red dots do you see within the green frames? Many people consistently see two, despite only ever being shown one! jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... w/ @renrutmailliw.bsky.social

Hope you'll forgive a quick thread as I take over as the new EiC of @elife.bsky.social

Bluesky is getting more popular among scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Vibe of the day (every day)

“O.K., but who really killed Laura Palmer?” David Lynch RIP

reminder that you can attend this great symposium on zoom! talks from heavy hitters, just a stellar lineup. grateful to be included. tomorrow & friday, Jan 16-17, pacific time. #neuroskyence #psychscisci #consciousness #neuroscience #philosophy #theory #psychology www.chapman.edu/scst/confere...

If more people take the bus, we can run more buses to make the bus better. If more people take the 'L', we can run more trains to make the 'L' better. If more people take Metra, we can run more trains and make Metra better. If more people drive, everything gets worse for everyone. Priorities.

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

I like that cute polar bears can be used to raise awareness about not one, but two pressing social issues!

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

Open the present by shaking the tree? Or is this Schrodinger's gift?

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

🫵 EastBio PhD time! 🫵 4-year PhD project on behavioural and neural mechanisms underlying visual stabilisation 🧠👁️ Please get in touch if you are interested (UK/International) Applications deadline: Jan 17th #visionscience #cogsci #psychsky #neuroskyence #EEG

Bump! go.bsky.app/VRNqFn9

New comment in Nature Human Behavior with my former bachelor student Eline Ensinck: "Make abandoned research publicly available". We argue it is time to be honest about the content of our file drawers, and the varied reasons studies remain unshared. www.nature.com/articles/s41... >