What's the difference between having an answer to a puzzle versus feeling like we understand it? Lea @leaduncker.bsky.social and I chatted about about the discipline of staying with hard questions, making "breathing room" in academia, and how to tailor statistical tools for neuroscience.

Stories of WiN@storiesofwin.bsky.social · 4h ago

Our latest profile is here! Dr. Lea Duncker (@leaduncker.bsky.social) uses statistical and theoretical approaches to study the neural basis of flexible behavior. Follow the link below to learn more! #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

1/8 Breathing seems automatic. But it's a finely tuned motor behavior that has to be controlled. In this preprint, I map the circuits that match a fly's respiration to the metabolic demands of flight and mitigate the risk of dehydration. 🧵🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Toronto long weekend.

Decorating my new office 🧠. Will post when it’s ready.

Working on some new stuff 👀

What if motion tracking didn't require expensive tools? Drs. @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social and Mulla developed ATHENA, open-source AI that captures natural movement without wearable sensors. Moving research from labs to clinics to communities. Read more:

AI tool developed at York U signals breakthrough for movement research - YFile

Learn about ATHENA, a new, open-source AI system created by York University researchers that removes barriers to motion tracking, making it easier to study how people move.

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Life in the sky

I needed a big coffee today

You're watching a Crested Coua chick (Coua cristata) being fed at the Miami Zoo. The chick's outside appearance is ... unfortunate, but I want to focus on the weird 'targets' in the mouth. That's the coua's response to the problem of brood parasitism. Let's talk about it.

Peer review doesn’t have to be like a generational cycle of abuse. You can break the cycle.

Timothy O'Leary@timothyoleary.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dear peer reviewers everywhere: sometimes we feel pressure to find issues with a submission as a demonstration of diligence. But we have to recognise this is a mistake: picking random and sometimes incoherent holes in research add confusion, generates unnecessary work and encourages defensive

Lab outing rained out – no problem. Just need wonderful people + food!

The best meal: Samosa chaat and a cardamom chai. Change my mind.

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

Many of the scientific questions we're interested in tackling require studying learning over long periods of time across the brain. This is challenging – which is why we're excited to say we've been developing a system for chronic wireless recording using long Neuropixels probes in macaque monkeys.

We've finally started moving into our brand new neuroscience facility! 🥳 So excited to be getting into this beautiful space after a long construction period. Be on the lookout for our exciting science – and photos of my new office once I finish interior designing it 👀.

🚨🧠 Our paper is out! We introduce a simple computational model that generates macroscopic, long-timescale dynamics as seen in large-scale neural recordings. #neuroscience #dynamics @marius10p.bsky.social @zhong-lin.bsky.social @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Link: go.nature.com/4tRNjIu

Nature@nature.com · 3mo ago

Nature research paper: A critical initialization for biological neural networks go.nature.com/4tRNjIu

Amazing talk from @michellemonje.bsky.social on the neuroscience of cancer proliferation. Incredible opportunities for treatment.

Very honoured to be receiving a Brain Star Award! I will be giving a talk about this work next week at the Canadian Association for Neuroscience Conference in Montréal. can-acn.org/brain-star-a...

It's been wonderful being part of more and more of these collaborations bringing our markerless tracking technology (ATHENA) into the clinic! www.yorku.ca/yfile/2026/0...

New technologies, partnerships advance York U research in autism - YFile

Through his lab, Faculty of Health Associate Professor Erez Freud is using innovative technologies to study how people with autism move to help lay the groundwork for earlier support.

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Turns out a lot of people enjoy singing along with Sarah McLachlan

Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems? Man, I hope so... the system has been broken for a while, hopefully this will force a thorough rethink. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems?

Funders must take action before an increase in submission of high-quality proposals written using AI models makes it impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff.

nature.com

Not every wrong turn is harmless. Misinformation doesn’t just confuse—it can cost lives. Accurate information matters. Protect science. Learn the facts -> savescienceoregon.org/stay-alive

I’m ready.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I interviewed @chanda.blacksky.app about her new book, The Edge of Space-Time. We discussed cosmic wonder, the mythology of genius, Deep Space Nine, and thinking beyond false narratives and manufactured inevitabilities. If your brain is stuck in the churn of bad news, you'll want to check this out.

New Punch Brothers is like coming home. youtu.be/Vgc4djnLja0?...

Punch Brothers - New Bike (Official Video)

YouTube video by Punch Brothers

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Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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“But at some point following the financial crisis, would-be entrepreneurs got it into their heads that their job was to invent the future, and consumers’ job was to go along with that invented future.”

Paul Gribble 🇨🇦@gribblelab.org · 4mo ago

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want. “Normal people aren’t running around like chickens with their heads cut off, trying to automate every single part of their lives. Indeed, there are places in our lives where efficiency isn’t desirable.” www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

Come check out our posters at @ncmsociety.bsky.social next week, presented by Dan and Sujay! Happy being a part of a number of other collaborations being presented as well.

Unforunately, I've had to cancel my trip to Japan for @ncmsociety.bsky.social for family reasons, but I'm sure it will be a fantastic meeting! See everyone next year.

Watched the splashdown and recovery twice! Amazing what science and a bit of humanity can do.

Always ready for an adventure