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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 4h

Our department started a podcast to let people know about our research and the impact that it has on the public! Please have a listen and subscribe to the series! Also available on Apple podcast, Spotify, and Transistor, www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 2d

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)

YouTube video by Simons Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Laureline Logiaco @laurelinelogiaco.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations!

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Alice Mosberger @alicemosberger.bsky.social · 2d

How do we facilitate working across institutions and borders to improve sensorimotor research and health?
Join us for an evening of discussing the future of technology and collaboration in sensorimotor neuroscience. Made possible by the DWIH, held at NYULH!

www.dwih-newyork.org/en/event/mot...

Motor Health: Transatlantic Cooperation Strategies and Tech Transfer in Sensorimotor Neuroscience | DWIH New York

www.dwih-newyork.org

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 3d

The results challenge the texture-bias hypothesis of Geirhos et al. (2019).

This is one of those cases where a deep, careful review can add real value.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.20234

🧠🤖 #MLSky

ImageNet-trained CNNs are not biased towards texture: Revisiting feature reliance through controlled suppression

The hypothesis that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are inherently texture-biased has shaped much of the discourse on feature use in deep learning. We revisit this hypothesis by examining limitat...

arxiv.org

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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 6d

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-10-03-list306.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

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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 · 7d

Congrats @vulcnethologist.bsky.social on a great paper! This a cool technology that is the future of tracking motion within the body during behavior. @movementscience.bsky.social this might be what we need for tracking muscles and tendon during movement!

Jeff Markowitz @vulcnethologist.bsky.social · 7d

Our first preprint has been accepted for publication www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... !!
tldr: @ezeyulu00.bsky.social , @amartyapradhan.bsky.social , @dkoveal.bsky.social and I developed a method using injectable nanoparticles to turn mice into…constellations in motion. 🧵⤵️

High-resolution in vivo kinematic tracking with customized injectable fluorescent nanoparticles

Injectable fluorescent nanoparticles were used to track positions on and inside of freely moving animals at high resolution.

www.science.org

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Fanny Cazettes @fannycazettes.bsky.social · 9d

Did you know that facial expressions reveal more than meets the eye? 🤯

Our new study shows that even a mouse's face 🐭 can reflect hidden neural computations🧠. Turns out, facial expressions are more than just emotions!

We're so excited to see this paper out @natneuro.nature.com 🎉
🔗: rdcu.be/eIQzO

Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates

Nature Neuroscience - The face reveals more than just emotion. Cazettes, Reato and colleagues show that subtle facial movements reveal hidden cognitive states, reflecting the brain’s ongoing...

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 7d

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting!

If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch.

www.ncclab.ca

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 9d

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

apply.interfolio.com/174371

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 10d

New paper! 🧠💤

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Led by Pauline Dodet - @dreamteamicm.bsky.social

We show that #sleep stage mixing predicts poor prognosis in #Parkinson.

Stage mixing = intrusions of wake-like activity during sleep, and vice versa. Estimated with hypnodensities extracted from PSG.

Sleep stage mixing is associated with poor prognosis in early Parkinson’s disease - npj Parkinson's Disease

npj Parkinson's Disease - Sleep stage mixing is associated with poor prognosis in early Parkinson’s disease

www.nature.com

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Laureline Logiaco @laurelinelogiaco.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you, Sean!

Laureline Logiaco @laurelinelogiaco.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you Tahereh, you're too kind!

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teissa.bsky.social @teissa.bsky.social · 12d

Come join our exciting new computational neuroscience groups! Fantastic people, cool mountains, and exciting science!

Laureline Logiaco @laurelinelogiaco.bsky.social · 12d

Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz:
1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro...
2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri...

You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.

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Laureline Logiaco @laurelinelogiaco.bsky.social · 12d

Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz:
1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro...
2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri...

You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.

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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 12d

👁️🧠 New preprint: We demonstrate the first data-driven neural control framework for a visual cortical implant in a blind human!

TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Diagram showing three ways to control brain activity with a visual prosthesis. The goal is to match a desired pattern of brain responses. One method uses a simple one-to-one mapping, another uses an inverse neural network, and a third uses gradient optimization. Each method produces a stimulation pattern, which is tested in both computer simulations and in the brain of a blind participant with an implant. The figure shows that the neural network and gradient methods reproduce the target brain activity more accurately than the simple mapping.

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Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 15d

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Laureline Logiaco @laurelinelogiaco.bsky.social · 16d

Nice dataset and idea! It's kind of hard to account for the experience of the mice prior to the experiment - a generally hard to avoid limitation I think (nothing specific to this cool paper :-)).

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Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 20d

(edited repost) Thrilled to see our computational work on adaptive shaping of behavior (we call it outcome-based curriculum learning) in PLoS Comp Biol! @wl-tong.bsky.social, @gautamreddy.bsky.social & I formalize curricula in any RL task that can be framed as sequential simple-to-complex behavior.

Adaptive algorithms for shaping behavior

Author summary Animals are commonly trained by ‘shaping’ their behavior using a sequence of simpler tasks towards a complex behavior. Numerous schools of thought have proposed heuristics for shaping b...

journals.plos.org

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Laureline Logiaco @laurelinelogiaco.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations on getting this great work together - and on the very clear thread!

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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 22d

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🚨 New preprint! 🚨

Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩

#neuroskyence

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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 29d

Variance partitioning is used to quantify the overlap of two models. Over the years, I have found that this can be a very confusing and misleading concept. So we finally we decided to write a short blog to explain why.
@martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org
diedrichsenlab.org/BrainDataSci...

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Emilie Macé @mace-lab.bsky.social · 28d

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨

We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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mchurchland.bsky.social @mchurchland.bsky.social · Sep 8

Of potential interest to those keen on motor control and/or multi-task networks. Congrats to Elom and Eric.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Motor cortex flexibly deploys a high-dimensional repertoire of subskills

Skilled movement often requires flexibly combining multiple subskills, each requiring dedicated control strategies and underlying computations. How the motor system achieves such versatility remains u...

www.biorxiv.org

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