Aaron L Wong
@aaronlwong.bsky.social
Motor control neuroscientist, Jefferson Moss Rehab Research Institute. Motor planning, learning, and cognitive-motor interactions. https://www.jefferson.edu/academics/colleges-schools-institutes/skmc/departments/rehabilitation/faculty/wong.html (he/him) 🏳️🌈
Proud to have this paper out today at Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com ! Heroic, creative work by Zekun Sun (w/ Zhiran Xie and me).
Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · yesterdayMotor abstraction training generalizes to the refinement of specific movement patterns
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
The family computer, for quite some time.
The old internet@theoldinternet.bsky.social · 4w agoWhat was your first computer growing up?
Thinking about a PhD in neuroscience? Georgetown’s Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) is hosting admissions info sessions! Learn about our program, research, and application process: neuroscience.georgetown.edu/admissions A major strength is brain plasticity: cbpr.georgetown.edu
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My research group is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to study control principles between human-human and human-agent pairs. Ad below. Please retweet!
Excited that this work is finally out! It raises some interesting questions about the basal ganglia and the impact of Parkinson's disease.
Jonathan M Wood@jonathanwood603.bsky.social · 2mo agoUpdate! This paper was just published at npj parkinson's disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New preprint! 🎉 How can we measure how the nervous system knows, moment to moment, where the body is as it moves? We introduce a continuous tracking paradigm to measure the hidden dynamics of proprioception—revealing it is faster and more precise than vision during movement. tinyurl.com/yf297k53
Tracking the hidden dynamics of proprioception
Every movement unfolds with a simple question: Where is my body? The nervous system answers through proprioception - the sense of limb position (static position sense) and movement (dynamic propriocep...
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How to choose a data repository? @lakens.bsky.social wrote a great blogpost see daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...
Which Data Repository Should You Use?
The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...
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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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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
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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 · 5mo agoOur 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
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 · 7mo agoPerception 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 · 7mo agoCongratulations 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 · 8mo agoNIH 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 · 8mo agoThe 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/...
