Neural trajectory plot showing neural activity moving through orthogonal corollary discharge and feedback signal subspaces
New preprint! 🧵🧪🧠
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Upshot: somatosensory cortex contains both feedback *and* intended movement signals (a.k.a. corollary discharge). These two signals exist orthogonally in neural space, flexibly allowing both fast state estimation and external perturbation detection. 1/
We're hiring a postdoc in the Cognitive-Motor Learning Lab, directed by Dr. Aaron L Wong! If you want to study how people monitor their performance during skilled tool-use actions, & how this error awareness is disrupted after stroke, then this position may be a good fit.
https://ow.ly/1h2a50YIaWy
Researchers reveal the neural basis of evolving new capabilities by investigating behavioral and morphological differences between deer mouse subspecies. #neuroskyence
By @siddhantpusdekar.bsky.social
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In most vestibular structures, sensory input is suppressed during self-generated movement. Here, postdoc Robyn Mildren shows an exception in the cerebellar nodulus/uvula, which faithfully encodes head motion in space across behavioral contexts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The entire teaching and learning model has to change with AI, Bloom’s taxonomy has to change, learning objectives have to be modified. Most of the things we practiced 3-4 years ago aren’t going to work anymore
Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy:
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is going to hurt American science!!
I am currently recruiting a PhD student to work on our "Motor complexity and aging" project funded by the @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social
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This is a fascinating paper.
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If you ask 150 AI agents to analyze your data, would you get 150 times the same answer?
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No...
Figure 8: Cortical sites implicated in updating / integrating visual features across saccades.
The in-press version of our (@bbaltaretu.bsky.social) review 'Cortical Mechanisms for Transsaccadic Vision: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Feature Updating' is now available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
@nature.com why is this article behind a paywall?
Humans can learn bimodal priors in complex sensorimotor behaviour #ProcB #Neuroscience #Cognition royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)
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AI is threatening science jobs. Which ones are most at risk?
Data-analysis and modelling positions are already becoming obsolete, but hands-on experimentalists can breathe easy for now.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Not only that, IMHO AI is going to make incremental science obsolete within the next decade. Funding agencies, university administrators, and tenure committees should start changing how we evaluate scientist and their productivity.
Students will inevitably use AI for most of their research work. How do we teach them how to spot AI hallucinations or errors? Should they learn to build test cases instead of learning syntax? What is the right level of bare minimal programming knowledge that is needed?
How do we teach coding and implement proper quality controls to life science grad students in the AI era? Any thoughts or good resources out there? I am developing a Python based course and would love to hear thoughts. Many of them haven’t taken any programming courses during their undergrad.
Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Parkinson's disease appears to disrupt a brain network involved in everything from movement to memory. n.pr/4kpKWtv
Paper is out by @harikalidindi.bsky.social : feedback control model of neural population activity
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Scientists are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for help drafting the grant proposals that fund their careers.
Preliminary data indicate that these tools are linked with a slightly higher funding rate and might be pulling the focus of research towards safe, less-innovative ideas.
Tomorrow is the deadline! Get your poster submission for #NCMKobe26 in before the deadline of 23:59 PST February 10!
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Breakthrough @nature.com study showcases new non-invasive treatment for Parkinson’s Disease that targets the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) with personalized neuromodulation, for superior outcomes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Last few days to get your #NCMKobe26 poster submission in!
Review the guidelines, make sure you have access to the platform, and submit before the deadline at 23:59 PST February 10.
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While preparing your #NCMKobe26 abstract, read through the highlights from #NCMPan25! The meeting highlight article is now available for review.
Thank you to some of the scholarship winners from 2025 for putting the article together.
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Screenshot of Prism - I asked it to create a methods, participants, results, and discussion seconds. It did so within 54 seconds...
OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free.
Writing a paper has never been easier.
Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier.
It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct.
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Our upcoming (NSF-funded) OPAM workshop will feature Dr Johnny van Doorn (of University of Amsterdam) presenting on the theory and practice of Bayesian statistics (using JASP software). Please register and join us for the workshop (on January 26th), here: www.opamconference.com/online-works...
