It ain’t perfect but the deep loneliness. Good one-time read. #booksky

Billy Pilgrim@billypilgrim22.bsky.social · 2w ago

#booksky 💙📚 #CurrentlyReading "Of Mice And Men" by John Steinbeck

Just finished the first chapter. Can already tell that it’s the book for me.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2y ago

So my son tells me that the TikTok generation has fallen in love with Stoner and it makes me inexplicably happy.

Happy to announce that I am searching for for a graduate student, starting Fall 2027. If you want to study the neural mechanisms of reaching and grasping, come join us in the rich environment of the Sensorimotor Superlab. For details: www.pruszynskilab.com/positions.html

Our multilayer MEG paper is out today in Nature Communications: depth-resolved laminar inference in humans 🧠#neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Multilayer MEG source modelling enables depth-resolved laminar inference in humans - Nature Communications

Researchers developed a multilayer MEG framework that estimates activity across cortical depth non-invasively. Simulations and three human datasets show when reliable laminar inference is possible, en...

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Got the chance to speak with Motoko Rich of @nytimes.com on Pope Leo’s visit to Lourdes. Our pilgrimage group drove 17hrs from the Netherlands to attend his service. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...

Pope Leo Praises Europe’s Democracy, Diverging Once Again From Trump (Gift Article)

Speaking in France, the pontiff lauded postwar efforts to unify the continent. Experts saw it as a critique of President Trump’s repeated berating of European leaders.

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Come to work with us at the Donders Institute: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... #pleaseshare

Junior Postdoc Position: Sensorimotor Neuroscience | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Postdoc 'Sensorimotor Neuroscience' at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

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📣📣📣 Preprint Alert! 📣📣📣 Do predictive processes shape brain representations during learning? We investigated the effect of Predictive Coding by training identical recurrent networks with different optimization procedures and then comparing them to human EEG under the same visual learning task.

A Brexit-supporting billionaire who fled abroad so he didn’t have to pay any tax to help the people of his country says he’s lost confidence in the UK.

Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Consciousness club 🧠 at FSE @maastrichtu.bsky.social where we discussed “the predictive brain”. Great to have an academically diverse group take part in this discussion.

Version of record of our paper "Preserved cerebellar functions despite structural degeneration in older adults" is now available @elife.bsky.social Where we show that structure and function of the cerebellum are decoupled during the aging trajectory elifesciences.org/articles/109... #sensorimotor

Preserved cerebellar functions despite structural degeneration in older adults

Cerebellar-dependent functions are mostly maintained or even enhanced across the lifespan, with cerebellar-mediated motor abilities remaining intact despite degeneration, in contrast to non-cerebellar...

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Our task-switching paper is now out at Current Biology! www.cell.com/current-biol... We find that that our brains reset to a task-neutral state between trials, providing flexibility when the upcoming task is uncertain. RNNs also learn this strategy, but only when trained to switch tasks.

Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...

How do #learning processes related to reward exploitation and exploration interact with one another in the brain? This study uses behavior, neuroimaging, pharmacology, and modeling to reveal shared learning mechanisms, connecting with individual traits and experiences 🧪#AcademicSky plos.io/4fDkj27

Published today: Unperturbed and perturbed gait variability is increased in bilateral vestibulopathy compared with age- and sex-matched healthy participants journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.... in Journal of Neurophysiology @apspublications.bsky.social #openaccess #vestibular #gait

1/6 Our paper is out today in Nature Communications! From the SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social we show that temporal expectations shape somatosensory perception - for both painful heat AND non-painful cold stimuli.

New preprint from the lab: Cerebellar function remains resilient under increased task demands in healthy adults up to 80 years but it is task-specific and independent of cerebellar structure Where we probed the complex system theory of resilience and aging. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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The Economist@economist.com · 7mo ago

Narendra Modi has been rather silent about the war in Iran. The explanation is fear of Donald Trump

The people have spoken and the company is listening. We have reached a public health milestone. "This moment proves that advocacy, data and courage can change the trajectory of disease.” www.pdplan.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The generalized Hierarchical Gaussian Filter elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... #stats #cogpsy

A recent @natneuro.nature.com paper analyzed lesion network mapping and raised concerns about the validity of the method. See below 👇 for our response. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Michael Fox@foxmdphd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A recent paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com raised concerns about the lesion network mapping method. Our team of 16 coauthors analyzed >1000 lesions and 34 symptoms and found that "The methodological foundations of lesion network mapping remain sound" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We regret to inform you that your paper cannot be considered for publication, but we encourage you to submit it to our GOLD Open Access sister journal

Paper is out by @harikalidindi.bsky.social : feedback control model of neural population activity www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Feedback control of random networks as a model of flexible motor cortical dynamics across tasks

Kalidindi and Crevecoeur develop a computational framework linking feedback-controlled networks to limb dynamics. They demonstrate that optimal control of fixed network reproduces key motor cortical d...

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Please share: I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab in Oslo! For this project, we will investigate the role of striatal interneurons during action selection, using a combination of behavior, in vivo voltage imaging, and slice ephys. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #NeuroJobs #NeuroSkyence

Tone deaf af. More AI slop.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Jim Ratcliffe has issued a bland and generic statement about economic policy which does not engage at all with what he got wrong, or why saying the UK has been colonised has been legitimately criticised. Nor does he seem to retract his language of colonisation in gesturing towards a semi-apology

Not surprised by this comment. Stinks of ignorance. Comes from a billionaire who’s depending on public money to rebuild a football stadium for a club that he owns partially (28.94%).

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 8mo ago

just billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe throwing out some serious made-up numbers on TV

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...

Evan Gordon@gordonneuro.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I’m very excited about this new work describing the specific cortical-striatal circuits that are altered in Parkinson’s Disease and that should be targeted for optimal PD treatment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in the relationship between memory and prediction, and have a track record of neuroimaging/decoding? Please apply! #NeuroJobs www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3576...

PhD Candidate: Cognitive Computational Neuroscience of Memory and Prediction

Welcome to Maastricht University! Are you fascinated by how the brain remembers and predicts information, and how it can tell apart representations of past and future? At Maastricht University, you wi...

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Wishing you all a happy new year. May this year bring you many success.

✨ My first preprint from my PhD with @tjeerdwboonstra.bsky.social is live ! We reveal reduced precision weighting of prediction errors in older adults during step initiation using Go/No-Go stepping paradigm and Hierarchical Gaussian Filter 👇 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Reduced belief updating impairs adaptive step initiation in older adults

Ageing is associated with declines in mobility and balance that threaten independence and increase the risk of falls. Although these changes are often attributed to deterioration of muscular and senso...

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this looks pretty cool from Jirsa lab "A deformable attractor manifold organizes human resting-state brain dynamics" www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...