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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · 1d

(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

Home Page - Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

The Georgetown Difference We are invested in providing a transformative experience through holistic training, accessible resources, and personalized career strategies to help you reach your aspiration...

neuroscience.georgetown.edu

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Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 6d

Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State.

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 10d

Emory Biology is hiring a neuroscientist! We have a great supportive and innovative neuroscience and neural engineering community here!

Malu Murugan @malu-murugan.bsky.social · 10d

Come be my colleague! Lots of exciting science, fantastic students and supportive colleagues. Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience. share.google/945Jko4W1MTA.... Please feel free to retweet and share widely.

Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience - Atlanta, Georgia job with [email protected] | 675335

Candidate uses experimental approaches to examine any aspect of neural function, including molecular, cellular, systems, or developmental neuroscience

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Aaron L Wong @aaronlwong.bsky.social · 10d

Interestingly, some studies of human spatial navigation do suggest that people learn worse from VR-type environments where they are stationary as compared to actual walking, e.g., www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Whether that is strictly due to being stationary per se is hard to say, though.

Mode of locomotion and other determinants of navigation ability post-stroke

Maintaining the ability to navigate through one’s environment is an important component of quality of life after cerebrovascular accidents (CVA). Yet, navigation ability is not commonly assessed in...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 14d

@aaronlwong.bsky.social @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social & @sthibault.bsky.social found that incongruence between tool & hand motions may exacerbate competition between motions of the hand & tool. Resolving this competition is challenging for people with #LimbApraxia.

👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40925673/

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Aaron L Wong @aaronlwong.bsky.social · 15d

Looking forward to it!

Aaron L Wong @aaronlwong.bsky.social · 15d

Several prior studies have examined behavior in kitchen-like environments to gain insights into cognitive and motor function, e.g., www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 17d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · Sep 8

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Aaron L Wong @aaronlwong.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm not sure if it is still the same, but the main idea was that you draw everything into a buffer, and then flip the buffer onto the screen to quickly update the display when you want it to change

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · Sep 4

Something exciting just left the gym -- meet Arnold the first generalist musculoskeletal control policy!

The human body has 600+ muscles, yet we seamlessly coordinate them for everything from whispering a syllable to felling a forrest. How? www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.18066

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Aaron L Wong @aaronlwong.bsky.social · Sep 3

Borrow code from someone and play with it. Haven't used it in a long time but I remember it being fairly straightforward unless you need to do anything very complicated

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Brian Umberger @brianumberger.bsky.social · Aug 28

Please repost!

We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

Tenure-track Faculty Position in Biomechanics (Open Rank), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA - Biomch-L

The School of Kinesiology (http://kines.umich.edu) at the University of Michigan invites applications and nominations for a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate...

biomch-l.isbweb.org

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Nicholas Gaspelin @ngaspelin.bsky.social · Jul 23

A great tutorial by Xiaojin Ma on how to use PsychoPy for programming a cognitive task.

Xiaojin Ma @xiaojinma.bsky.social · Jun 20

I recorded a step-by-step tutorial of programming experiments in PsychoPy for undergrad thesis students in my lab. Sharing it here for anyone new to programming in psychology, or those transitioning to PsychoPy from other software. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMJX...

using PsychoPy to build a cognitive psychology experiment from scratch

YouTube video by Xiaojin Ma

www.youtube.com

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joshcashaback.bsky.social @joshcashaback.bsky.social · Aug 27

Reading this one today!
The integrated control of decision and movement vigor: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The integrated control of decision and movement vigor

Decision-making and motor control are closely interdependent processes. It has been proposed that the vigor of decisions and the vigor of movements ar…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Aaron L Wong @aaronlwong.bsky.social · Aug 26

Velocity makes a lot of sense since the main signals contributing to the VOR (i.e., the canal signals and retinal slip) already operate in velocity space

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Aaron L Wong @aaronlwong.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thank you!

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Aaron L Wong @aaronlwong.bsky.social · Aug 25

Looking forward to working on this project, and grateful for the people at the NIH who are working hard to help support our trainees!

Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellow, @jonathanwood603.bsky.social, & mentors @aaronlwong.bsky.social & @amandastherrien.bsky.social on receiving a prestigious NIH/NICHD F32 award for their project, “The role of subjective values and dopamine availability in incentive-based motor learning”!

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Hunter Schone @hunterschone.bsky.social · Aug 21

Now out in @natneuro.nature.com

What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?

Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation

www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7

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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )

Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNAS

How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...

www.pnas.org

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · Aug 20

Be my neighbor! @rwjms.bsky.social Neuroscience is hiring!
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenured or Tenure-Track)

The Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), the Rutgers Child Health Institute (CHI), and the Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI) seek appli...

jobs.rutgers.edu

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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 20

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · Aug 15

This had me laughing to tears. The person sitting next to me on the flight must have thought I was nuts.

A must read for the FEP curious.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) The Exit Manual: How to Leave the Free Energy Cult and Still Get Tenure

PDF | This manual is not a plea. It is a jailbreak from a cult—the Free Energy Principle, a theoretical metastasis that began in computational... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

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Norman Lab @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social · Aug 13

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

puwebp.princeton.edu

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