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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 19d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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liannleow.bsky.social @liannleow.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm seeking PhD students to work with my collaborators (Welber Marinovic, Jarrad Lum, Chris Latella) & I in gorgeous Western Australia. Please email me on [email protected] asap if you are interested (there's a rather short application window). intranet.ecu.edu.au/research/hig...

HDR Scholarships Round (RTP and ECUHDRS)

Research scholarship opportunities for current and future HDR candidates at ECU.

intranet.ecu.edu.au

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · Aug 29

New interview with Greta Thunberg in Barcelona yesterday by Middle East Eye.

The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza

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Hannah Block @hjblock.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨It's published! 🚨Our results support highly-simplified-model "B", if you're wondering. The Somatosensory Cortex and Body Representation: Updating the Motor System during a Visuoproprioceptive Cue Conflict www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...

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Ali Mohebi @mohebial.bsky.social · Aug 11

"One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This". Until then, Mr. Netanyahu can drop bombs and snipe and starve down children: we are busy watching reality TV.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 10

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 10

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

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Gavan McNally @gavanm.bsky.social · Jul 10

Our latest on how and why people differ in good decision-making and why some people persistently make poor decisions.

Phil Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel @philjrdb.bsky.social · Jul 9

Stoked to share our new paper examining why people differ so much in avoiding harm www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Causal inference and cognitive-behavioral integration deficits drive stable variation in human punishment sensitivity - Communications Psychology

Using a gamified punishment task, this study identifies specific learning and decision-making deficits that drive robust, consequential differences in choice within an international, general populatio...

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liannleow.bsky.social @liannleow.bsky.social · Jul 3

and here the the recording! youtu.be/_2ijxKuK9I4

Jonathan Tsay: Behavioral, Neuropsychological & Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning

YouTube video by sensorimotorcontrol downunder

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liannleow.bsky.social @liannleow.bsky.social · Jul 2

On Wed 2nd July 5pm Eastern Daylight Time (Thursday 3rd Jul for those in Japan/Aus: (5am AWST, 7am AEST), we are lucky to host @tsay.bsky.social (abstract below). zoom link here, all welcome! uqz.zoom.us/j/83264396145

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liannleow.bsky.social @liannleow.bsky.social · Jun 16

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 12

PADILLA: “If this is how the administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, cooks, and day laborers throughout the country.”

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liannleow.bsky.social @liannleow.bsky.social · Jun 13

thinking of everyone affected by the current madness of what's happening... especially those in Iran and the Iranian diaspora...

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Michelle Marneweck @mmarneweck.bsky.social · Jun 10

A traffic light goes green. Maybe there’s also a honk. Does that change how your brain plans to move?🚦🔊
We show that neural representations of action goals vary depending on the sensory modality of the initiation cues, even when the movement stays the same.🧠
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Sensory modality of initiation cues modulates action goal-relevant neural representations

Abstract. The ability to produce goal-directed movement relies on the integration of diverse sensory cues which contribute to goal subtasks, such as trajectory planning and initiation. To achieve thes...

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Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · May 22

Neuronal computation in the cerebellum via a vector calculus.

Work of Mohammad Amin Fakharian, Alden Shoup, Paul Hage, and Hisham Elseweifi

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

A vector calculus for neural computation in the cerebellum

Null space theory predicts that neurons generate spikes not only to produce behavior but also to prevent the undesirable effect of other neurons on behavior. In this work, we show that this competitiv...

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thrilled to share the new paper from the lab out today in
@nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the great @jetrach.bsky.social!

"Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations - Nature Human Behaviour

Trach and McDougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations.

www.nature.com

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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · Jun 7

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Jun 3

In this article, @yuedu.bsky.social and @adrianhaith.bsky.social show that behavior can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation, respectively
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Dissociable habits of response preparation versus response initiation - Nature Human Behaviour

Du and Haith show that behaviour can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation.

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Aaron L Wong @aaronlwong.bsky.social · Apr 16

Come work with us! Amanda is a fantastic advisor, and we have some really exciting studies planned!

Amanda Therrien @amandastherrien.bsky.social · Apr 16

POSTDOC JOB OPENING. My lab at @mossresearch.bsky.social has an opening for a postdoc fellow to work with @aaronlwong.bsky.social and me on an NSF-funded research program studying mechanisms of sensory plasticity that accompany adaptive motor learning. The full posting is below. Please share!

Full job posting for a postdoc position at the Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute.

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Amanda Therrien @amandastherrien.bsky.social · Apr 16

POSTDOC JOB OPENING. My lab at @mossresearch.bsky.social has an opening for a postdoc fellow to work with @aaronlwong.bsky.social and me on an NSF-funded research program studying mechanisms of sensory plasticity that accompany adaptive motor learning. The full posting is below. Please share!

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Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊 @nataliepeluso.com · Mar 16

Looking forward to hearing plans for remote attendance for US-based international conferences ASAP. If you're on committees and not yet having that conversation, perhaps now's the time?

#neuroskyence #visionscience #affectscience

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Mar 15

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.

No one knows why he was detained.

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

www.nhpr.org

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David J. Herzfeld @dherzneuro.bsky.social · Feb 23

And - another personal plug: I am setting up my lab at UW-Madison this summer (herzfeldlab.neuro.wisc.edu). I am looking for people passionate about linking circuit computations to behavior in primates! (6/6)

Herzfeld Lab

Herzfeld Lab at UW-Madison: Herzfeld Lab

herzfeldlab.neuro.wisc.edu

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · Mar 3

ALL RESEARCHERS

❗️Speak up❗️ if you have opinions, critique or ideas on proposed changes to Australian Research Council grants.

Discuss & distill ideas, sure, but to be considered you MUST make a submission ▶️ submit.dese.gov.au/jfe/form/SV_...

It’s EASY!

Answer these questions in the form👇

Screenshot from the ARC Board’s Discussion Paper on the Policy Review of the National Competitive Grants Program (page 33) listing the questions the standard submission form asks you to address. Black text on white background with a heading “Having your say” on dark blue background at the top.

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liannleow.bsky.social @liannleow.bsky.social · Feb 9

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of hearing from x.com/TakujiHayash... speak about some beautiful work www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlXE... in our sensorimotor control downunder webinar

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Charlie Crimston @drcharlie.bsky.social · Nov 29

Feeling incredibly bloody lucky to have been successful with our #DP25. The system feels like such a lottery but it’s nice to finally get an ARC run on the board. Looking forward to getting started.

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Yael @yaelniv.bsky.social · Nov 27

Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages.

Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

Open letter of psychologists and neuroscientists for peace in the Middle East

We, psychologists and neuroscientists from around the world, call the international community to urgently put pressure towards an immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, to demand that t...

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