We're hiring! Postdoc position to study the neural control of reaching using high-density multi-area electrophysiology. 5 years of funding, great collaborative environment. Please share with anyone who may be interested. For details, see: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pruszynski Postdoc 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...

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The comments are an interesting survey regarding how many people understand utility.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2w ago

If you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick? £50,000: 73% 50/50 chance of winning £1m: 21% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735

The Neural Control & Computation Lab is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow to investigate the neural basis of learning, flexible neural computation, and skilled movement control using large-scale electrophysiology from single-neuron populations in non-human primates 🧠🐒 www.ncclab.ca/join-the-lab

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Ok so they are definitely doing some kind dynamic pricing. This is from a different workspace our lab uses. Not sure if it’s the workspace or the filters. But either way, @joinprolific.bsky.social will basically eliminate psychological research from their platform with this nonsense.

Come work with us!

Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute@mossresearch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our Institute, part of Jefferson Moss-Magee Rehabilitation and Thomas Jefferson University, is hiring for a tenure track faculty position! Applicants should have experience conducting research focused on human translational neuroscience & neurorehabilitation. https://ow.ly/yCBA50Z2eMl

An Aha moment precedes the strategic response to a visuomotor rotation CurrentBiology

An Aha moment precedes the strategic response to a visuomotor rotation

Townsend et al. discover that strategic compensation for a sensorimotor perturbation emerges from an “Aha!” moment, producing a discrete jump to (approximately) the right solution. They demonstrate, through computational modeling, that this offers a better account of participant behavior than gradual error minimization or trial-and-error learning.

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📣 Postdoc in Human Neurophysiology & Neurorehab 📣 The Real-Time NeuroRehabilitation Lab at the U of Iowa is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Scholar! Motor control, EEG/TMS, neurorehabilitation, and real-time multimodal methods. 📅 Summer/Fall 2026 📧 sara-hussain@uiowa.edu Please share!

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

Another fun little paper from the lab!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Causes and consequences of unawareness (anosognosia) of tool-action errors after left-hemisphere stroke https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.31.715610v1

I am very excited to share this new pre-print that we just posted on bioRxiv! We tested individual components of the effort-reward trade-off in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and neurotypical controls and found some surprising results! #neuroskyence #Sensorimotor #Neurorehabilitation

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Perception of effort but not reward sensitivity is impaired in people with Parkinsons disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.26.714286v1

Check out our latest work, with some somewhat surprising findings!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Perception of effort but not reward sensitivity is impaired in people with Parkinsons disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.26.714286v1

Interested in learning how to process raw fMRI data? Join us April 21–23 for an intensive AFNI Bootcamp taught by instructors from the NIH. The course covers everything from preprocessing to data analysis. For information & to register, visit: https://persichetti-lab.github.io/afni-bootcamp-philly/

Following @joshuasweitz.bsky.social post and discussions with him and the Vox story, I have estimated R01 success rates for each NIH institute and center with enough awards for this to be meaningful. A long 🧵... 1/25

Really excited to get stared on this project! We are also looking for a postdoc to help with this project - the official job ad is coming soon, but please reach out in the meanwhile if interested! You'll get to do some behavioral testing and neuroimaging in people with stroke

Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute@mossresearch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Congratulations to Dr. Aaron L Wong and collaborators on the renewal of their NIH grant, "Factors Contributing to Unawareness of Performance Errors After Left Hemisphere Stroke"! 🎉 This study will advance our understanding of limb apraxia and error awareness after #stroke.

🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8

Here is the "effective payline" for each institute, estimated (by Claude) as the percentile where one can expect 80% probability of funding from a logistic regression fit. The effective payline has gone from a historic ~12% to 6% in 2025.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NIH FY2025 funding data finally emerges on RePORT drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/n...

Soft money faculty positions are becoming increasingly untenable, and I hope Universities are working on a backup plan

Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT NIH is seeking input for the NIH-wide Strategic Plan. Open to everyone but Registration is Required! Your chance to listen and get your 2 or more cents in. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

The UAB Heersink School of Medicine is seeking to recruit up to 16 new research-intensive faculty as part of a major strategic investment in neurosciences. Faculty will be housed in a brand new research facility at the heart of campus, which is scheduled for completion this summer.

Dr. Amanda Therrien has spent most of her career studying degenerative cerebellar ataxias, which can result from several rare diseases. In honor of #RareDiseaseDay, we're highlighting her important research and current challenges in treating cerebellar ataxias. https://ow.ly/jYZ450Yn4Sj

ON 3/7, WE RALLY & MARCH to oppose the harms caused by aggressive immigration enforcement on our STEM, healthcare, & education communities! Speakers include: @councilmemberjg.bsky.social, @aaup.org's Dr. Todd Wolfson, @pjsn.bsky.social's Miriam Oppenheimer, & more! 📍North side of City Hall 🕚 11 AM

🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper 📃🚨 Out today, Melissa Malvaez, Nick Griffin, Andrea Suarez & team discovered that dopamine can enable reward predictions to shape how we pursue reward. Surprisingly, we find that dopamine can constrain instrumental reward seeking. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8... 🧵👇🏻

Dopamine Supports Reward Prediction to Shape Reward-Pursuit Strategy

Reward predictions not only promote reward pursuit, they also shape how reward is pursed. Such predictions are supported by environmental cues that signal reward availability and probability. Such cue...

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Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

The basal ganglia output is often framed as a motor gate: corticostriatal circuits select an action, then GPi/SNr-thalamus helps release it. In humans, we find this same pathway carries cognitive variables embedded in movement signals—and even produces learning-relevant signals after feedback. 1/10

Let’s celebrate women and girls in scientific research! Often underestimated, women drive research in biomedical sciences both intellectually and at the bench. Research should be a “gender-blind” endeavor, but rarely is. Stop bigotry ! Stop unconscious bias ! Go women & girls!

✨ New 3D pose estimation method from my lab! #FMPose3D allows for monocular (i.e. single camera) 2D➡️3D 🔥 Led by Ti Wang & w/ Xiaohang Yu #FMPose3D is SOTA on human & animal 3D benchmarks, & will be integrated into @deeplabcut.bsky.social ⬇️ 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755 ➡️ xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/

Cerebellum! radiolab.org/podcast/song...

Song of the Cerebellum

Is thought just motion in the mind?

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Happy to share this Spotlight article, drawing attention to recent work by @borgkvistlab.bsky.social on the mechanisms of dopamine action in the SNr. Read our summary and then read their paper! Many cool implications! @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Dopamine’s secret agent: serotonin

Dopamine suppresses GABA release from striatal terminals in the substantia nigra pars reticulata. Molinari et al. recently demonstrated that this suppression is frequency-dependent—instituting a high-...

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