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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm)
@gunnarblohm.bsky.social
CoSMO, Neuromatch, Neuro4Pros co-founder.
Comp neuro at Queen's U 🇨🇦 studying sensorimotor control.
Vice-Director (Queen's) of Connected Minds.
Mentor, dad, brewing, gardener, artist, antifa.
Renaissance man. Believer in humanity!
http://compneurosci.com/
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Exciting research from our new postdoc member, Amin Jalali! His GEEGA method advances brain-computer interfaces through graph-based learning of EEG representations. Accepted to ICASSP 2026, validated across three datasets with significant improvements in BCI performance!
arxiv.org/abs/2512.07820
February 8, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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📝 New paper: Towards Multi-Brain Decoding in #Autism

🤨 How do we scale #hyperscanning when multi-brain datasets are small?

💡Our team introduces a self-supervised learning on large single-brain EEG data to improve multi-brain decoding.

#SocialNeuroAI #Neurotech link.springer.com/article/10.1...
February 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Antivaxxer trigger warning: even more evidence suggesting shingles vax is extremely effective at reducing incident dementia: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
See also www.brainpizza.com/p/beyond-mag... where i summarise other recent evidence
#vaccineswork #vaccine #dementia #neuroskyence
Recombinant zoster vaccine is associated with a reduced risk of dementia - Nature Communications
The study shows that vaccination with two doses of recombinant zoster vaccine is associated with a 51% reduction in the risk of dementia in adults aged ≥65 years. Reduction in risk is comparable acros...
www.nature.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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Remember last week how Dr. Oz called AI the best solution for rural healthcare shortages?

Well, a new study finds that when patients turn to chatbots for health advice, they end up taking the wrong steps and getting the wrong diagnosis more than half the time.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:16 AM
So many papers in every single field do this... 🙄

Often especially "big" labs. But dare pointing this out and omg the backlash... 🫣😱
February 7, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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I thought you might enjoy this, dear friends.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...
February 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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🇨🇦university leaders take note.
Great insights @richardgold.bsky.social! Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation...it grows from talent, partnerships, + the right infrastructure, exactly the ecosystem 🇨🇦 research platforms like #TRIDENT are building. Proud 2 be part of the shift toward impact! universityaffairs.ca/opinion/reca...
Recalibrating Canadian universities to meet the Mark (Carney) - University Affairs
How university leadership can better support Canadian innovation and economic growth.
www.linkedin.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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Okay, I see this stuff about OpenClaw (née Clawd, then Moltbot for a bit) has escaped its bounds and is now getting glowing reviews in normal media.

DO NOT INSTALL THIS.
February 6, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Final paper of my PhD 🤗

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

There is growing interest in how cognitive control may improve value-based decision making.

However, we find that a recent paper overestimated the role of control in their task, leading to erroneous interpretations of dACC recordings.
Misspecified models create the appearance of adaptive control during value-based choice - Communications Psychology
In a new computational analysis of previous work, this study shows that a control-free mechanism better accounts for value-based decisions than an account that assumes top-down control invigorating th...
www.nature.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Iranians are experiencing a collective trauma. Thousands have been killed/injured in recent events, the economy is crippled & the threat of a wider conflict is real. This is especially difficult for those living in Iran, as many have lost (or fear losing) loved ones. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Chatbots already crippling MTurk…
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
(Heard someone call this an “existential crisis for the behavioral sciences”).

Now implications for public opinion research in contested environments… watch out.
February 2, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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Deleted Prime, Audible, ChatGPT, Instagram.

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February 2, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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February 1, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Today's dinner: Paella! 😋
February 1, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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Good advice from an ophthalmologist Dr Glaucoflecken (I know - still not sure it's a real name) on what to do if you get tear-gassed.

Looking at you, #Minnesota Warriors for Democracy & Justice!

Also #Minneapolis. Y'all know we always got you, right?

Peace & love!
January 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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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....
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
www.biorxiv.org
January 30, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Trump trying to destabilise Canada from within.
Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada
Separatists from oil-rich province try to capitalise on friction between White House and Mark Carney
www.ft.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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Wrote about that here.
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
Trump’s America Comes for Alberta | The Tyee
The country must respond to this flagrant violation of Canadian sovereignty.
thetyee.ca
January 29, 2026 at 12:24 AM