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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · Sep 4

For anyone on the neuroscience job market, our ads are up. We are looking for anyone working in systems neuroscience of animals to join us in southern Alberta 🇨🇦
#academicsky #neuroskyence #neuroethology #academicjobs #Canada
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Assistant Professor (Neuroscience, Tenure Track) - Lethbridge (City), Alberta (CA) job with University of Lethbridge | 39049

Assistant Professor (tenure track) of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 8d

#JNeurosci: Kashefi et al. dissociate between the “what” and “how” components of motor sequence learning and provides evidence for the development of motoric sequence representations that guide optimal movement execution.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0299-25.2025

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Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 5d

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

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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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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 5d

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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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 6d

ok, but that misses my point -- he has not given it up

Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 6d

he mentioned it in front of all his generals on Tuesday.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 7d

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 6d

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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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 7d

ugh sorry to hear

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 7d

We will have an NHP position open at @westernu.ca this year. Posting is coming soon. If you're interested about our setup and the opportunities here, feel free to get in touch.

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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 9d

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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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 12d

New work by @vaishusukumar.bsky.social from my lab investigating the effect of hand speed on the tactile discrimination of fine forms. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Speed-dependent modulation of tactile edge orientation discrimination

Previous studies investigating edge-orientation discrimination capacity either stimulated an immobilized finger at limited speeds, or did not manipulate movement speed during active exploration. Here ...

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 13d

Incredible study by Raut et al.: by tracking a single measure (pupil size), you can model slow, large-scale dynamics in neuronal calcium, metabolism, and brain blood oxygen through a shared latent space! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 12d

So much to read!

Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 12d

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-09-26-list305.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 15d

In this 'How to' Comment, @gribblelab.org gives advice on how to think about one's academic website and how to go about building one. #AcademicWebsite
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How to design your academic website - Nature Human Behaviour

An academic website serves as both a public-facing window on the world wide web and an important internal laboratory resource. In this ‘How to’ piece, I outline how to build your academic website, including what content to include, and ways to build and launch your site.

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations, sounds like a perfect fit.

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 16d

This looks like a very interesting study! Congrats.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 16d

New paper!
Evidence for an active handoff between hemispheres during target tracking
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Evidence for an active handoff between hemispheres during target tracking

The brain has somewhat separate cognitive resources for the left and right sides of our visual field. Despite this lateralization, we have a smooth and unified perception of our environment. This rais...

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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 19d

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-09-19-list304.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 19d

what win for the 🇨🇦 ladies! www.tsn.ca/rugby/articl...

Canada beats New Zealand to advance to 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup Final

Canada held off a furious late rally from New Zealand to beat the Black Ferns 34-19 to advance to the final of the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup.

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · 23d

Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic. markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 23d

Ok I guess I was confused by the logic of 'obvious from DNNs' -> 'why would neurons [in the brain] specialize'.

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 24d

The article has a nice point but the objections section is the part that best describes how most of the work using optimality principles (that I see) actually operates. It does not 'sidestep' the issue, it knows the issue and doesn't draw the link that the author would is strawmanning up.

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 24d

Yes, and when it was noticed (in the motor system from Evarts on up) no one really knew what to do with it until pretty recently. Hence many a battle, as Konard knows very well. I would say Fetz had it closest from the classics -- from my view.

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 24d

That's a kind of a bonkers comment, wouldn't you say? Some neurons do specialize and essentially all specialize to some degree and there has a been a great deal of effort to sort that all out because, you know, brains are the thing of interest here.

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