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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 5h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Ron Yu @yulab19.bsky.social · 1d

Neuroscience faculty job Alert! We are hiring at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine! Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171533. Please repost.

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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats, Juan!!!

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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 · 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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Tarkesh Singh @tarkeshsingh.bsky.social · 8d

The Department of Kinesiology at Penn State is inviting applications for an open-rank faculty position in sensorimotor control and rehabilitation neuroscience. Please share this opportunity with interested colleagues in your network.

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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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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats, Sweta - excited to see what your lab does in Vancouver!

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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 7d

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · 7d

My department at Case Western Reserve is recruiting an Assistant / Associate Professor of Neurosciences - come be our colleague!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · 20d

Milton’s prose: as timeless as his verse.

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Areopagitica
A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England

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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · 21d

Beautiful work - congrats to the team!!!

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Chris J Dallmann @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social · 21d

Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Adrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social · 27d

Stoked to see this paper finally out!

It answers two big questions: where visual objects are encoded in the brain, and how head-direction cells get oriented using visual landmarks.

Super fun collaboration with @mace-lab.bsky.social and Stuart Trenholm.

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

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here, the 'ballistic tongues' paper by Yu Zeng and team
www.cell.com/current-biol...

plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh

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Biomechanics: Squeezing power drives ballistic tongues

Chameleons and lungless salamanders independently evolved very fast projectile tongues. In both cases, ballistic performance involves a long, blunt-ended skeletal rod that slides freely within a power...

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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...

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Misha Ahrens @mishaahrens.bsky.social · Sep 8

Preprint -
Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · Sep 4

If your experiment tells you that all brain areas do the same thing, but is not designed in a way that could replicate any of the key established properties that distinguish neurons in these areas, your readers’ conclusions may relate less to physiology than experimental design.

Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · Sep 8

A warning from Dr. Johnson (imitating Juvenal):
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · Sep 6

📣 This is a big one that we've been cooking for a while! We think it adds to the heart of motor control: 'how does motor cortex work'. Congratulations @mkashefi.bsky.social!

Mehrdad Kashefi @mkashefi.bsky.social · Sep 6

Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social!
We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement?
Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Compositional neural dynamics during reaching

The complex mechanics of the arm make the neural control of reaching inherently posture dependent. Because previous reaching studies confound reach direction with final posture, it remains unknown how...

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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · Sep 6

GEARS! Gears that work, at an organismal scale, in an animal. Too cool. The story of their discovery is wonderful, too.

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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · Sep 6

Still one of the best in the genre:
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Interacting Gears Synchronize Propulsive Leg Movements in a Jumping Insect

Functional gears are involved in the ballistic jumping movements of the flightless planthopper insect, Issus.

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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · Sep 5

2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs

It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀

You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature

A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.

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Brokoslaw Laschowski @drlaschowski.bsky.social · Sep 5

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.

#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

jobs.utoronto.ca

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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · Sep 4

Maps are indispensable in neuroscience. Even when constructed with relatively crude methods, they can reveal clear specialization of brain areas. Here’s a nice example from 1902 (Grunbaum & Sherrington).

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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · Sep 4

If your experiment tells you that all brain areas do the same thing, but is not designed in a way that could replicate any of the key established properties that distinguish neurons in these areas, your readers’ conclusions may relate less to physiology than experimental design.

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