Going to my first World Cup game this summer! Super excited

Beta bursts in motor cortex systematically reorganize with practice Beta burst dynamics in the motor cortex are reshaped through sensorimotor refinement direct.mit.edu/imag/article... #neuroscience

What happens when AI starts to evolve on its own? As systems become capable of self-improvement and replication, open-ended “ecosystem” dynamics could drive behaviors like deception and manipulation, much like in biological evolution. Check this @pnas.org paper: www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

New preprint! Older adults' anticipatory motor responses scale less with object speed when they rely on peripheral vision — but scale normally when they actively track the object. A selective behavioural signature of magnocellular aging. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you are interested in aging and motor control and have a PhD, come work with me in Leuven. I am recruiting a post-doc to investigate how the brain controls movement and learns new motor skills across the lifespan. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Got tenure and promotion last week at Penn State!!

Possibly the first demonstration of a collision test? A. S. Paintal, 1959. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Thrilled about our latest paper published in eLife where we found something cool: A representation of your partner's goals and actions modulates your own "intelligent reflexes", prior to voluntary movement. Led by the phenomenal, Seth Sullivan. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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The footsteps illusion-like pausing and sticking illusion The rectangles in the upper half appear to move to the right and stop periodically; however, they are moving to the right at a constant speed in the same way as the rectangles in the lower half.

@kinarm.bsky.social Lab + eye-tracking users: We’ve developed a Python toolbox to import.kinarm files, preprocess eye-tracking data (remove blinks and gaze artifacts), manually classify gaze events, and export all trial-level data/channels to.csv for further analysis. DM me if you’d like to try it!

@kinarm.bsky.social Lab + eye-tracking users: We’ve developed a Python toolbox to import.kinarm files, preprocess eye-tracking data (remove blinks and gaze artifacts), manually classify gaze events, and export all trial-level data/channels to.csv for further analysis. DM me if you’d like to try it!

📣 Postdoc in Human Neurophysiology & Neurorehab 📣 The Real-Time NeuroRehabilitation Lab at the U of Iowa is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Scholar! Motor control, EEG/TMS, neurorehabilitation, and real-time multimodal methods. 📅 Summer/Fall 2026 📧 [email protected] Please share!

New preprint! 🧵🧪🧠 doi.org/10.64898/202... Upshot: somatosensory cortex contains both feedback *and* intended movement signals (a.k.a. corollary discharge). These two signals exist orthogonally in neural space, flexibly allowing both fast state estimation and external perturbation detection. 1/

We're hiring a postdoc in the Cognitive-Motor Learning Lab, directed by Dr. Aaron L Wong! If you want to study how people monitor their performance during skilled tool-use actions, & how this error awareness is disrupted after stroke, then this position may be a good fit. https://ow.ly/1h2a50YIaWy

Researchers reveal the neural basis of evolving new capabilities by investigating behavioral and morphological differences between deer mouse subspecies. #neuroskyence By @siddhantpusdekar.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/ar...

In most vestibular structures, sensory input is suppressed during self-generated movement. Here, postdoc Robyn Mildren shows an exception in the cerebellar nodulus/uvula, which faithfully encodes head motion in space across behavioral contexts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy:

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is going to hurt American science!!

I am currently recruiting a PhD student to work on our "Motor complexity and aging" project funded by the @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

This is a fascinating paper. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... If you ask 150 AI agents to analyze your data, would you get 150 times the same answer? ... No...

The in-press version of our (@bbaltaretu.bsky.social) review 'Cortical Mechanisms for Transsaccadic Vision: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Feature Updating' is now available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

@nature.com why is this article behind a paywall?

Humans can learn bimodal priors in complex sensorimotor behaviour #ProcB #Neuroscience #Cognition royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

AI is threatening science jobs. Which ones are most at risk? Data-analysis and modelling positions are already becoming obsolete, but hands-on experimentalists can breathe easy for now. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Not only that, IMHO AI is going to make incremental science obsolete within the next decade. Funding agencies, university administrators, and tenure committees should start changing how we evaluate scientist and their productivity.

How do we teach coding and implement proper quality controls to life science grad students in the AI era? Any thoughts or good resources out there? I am developing a Python based course and would love to hear thoughts. Many of them haven’t taken any programming courses during their undergrad.

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Parkinson's disease appears to disrupt a brain network involved in everything from movement to memory. n.pr/4kpKWtv

Paper is out by @harikalidindi.bsky.social : feedback control model of neural population activity www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Scientists are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for help drafting the grant proposals that fund their careers. Preliminary data indicate that these tools are linked with a slightly higher funding rate and might be pulling the focus of research towards safe, less-innovative ideas.

Tomorrow is the deadline! Get your poster submission for #NCMKobe26 in before the deadline of 23:59 PST February 10! ncm-society.org/subm...

Breakthrough @nature.com study showcases new non-invasive treatment for Parkinson’s Disease that targets the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) with personalized neuromodulation, for superior outcomes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last few days to get your #NCMKobe26 poster submission in! Review the guidelines, make sure you have access to the platform, and submit before the deadline at 23:59 PST February 10. ncm-society.org/subm...

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....

OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free. Writing a paper has never been easier. Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier. It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct. prism.openai.com

Our upcoming (NSF-funded) OPAM workshop will feature Dr Johnny van Doorn (of University of Amsterdam) presenting on the theory and practice of Bayesian statistics (using JASP software). Please register and join us for the workshop (on January 26th), here: www.opamconference.com/online-works...

We recently published a theoretical review about how compositional and generative mechanisms in working memory provide a flexible engine for creative perception and imagery. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps... Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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: www.reddit.com/r/sensorimot...

It's all about beta, baby! Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance www.cell.com/current-biol... #neuroscience

Have an idea for an early-stage study investigating the neural mechanisms of rehabilitation? Submit a pilot project application to the new Neuro-PRECISE Center at MUSC!

I am looking to hire a great postdoc to join our lab in sunny Eugene at the University of Oregon for fun behavioral/fMRI experiments on sensorimotor control in young and older adults. Please share/get in touch if interested! pages.uoregon.edu/mmar/

We tend to think of neurons as either excitatory or inhibitory, but some neurons chemically inhibit their downstream targets while electrically exciting their neighbors. What is gained by having an inhibitory neuron excite its neighbor? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Deadline is quickly approaching for team/panel and individual oral submissions for #NCMKobe26! The submission deadline is 23:59 PST December 1. More information - ncm-society.org/subm...

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🧠Want to start a #PhD in sensorimotor #neuroscience in Fall 2026? Our NIH- and NSF-funded lab at @iubloomington.bsky.social uses human behavior and noninvasive brain stimulation to study motor learning and perception. More info: blocklab.net/openings.html or [email protected]. Deadline is Dec. 15.