For those going to @ncmsociety.bsky.social annual meeting next week, come check out our posters! @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org. I know that @mnlmrc.bsky.social @sivanjo.bsky.social @alighavampour.bsky.social @arminpanjehpour.bsky.social and Amin are excited show you what they've done.

What are the real promises and looming perils of neural foundation models? 🧠 I put my thoughts on (virtual) paper for @thetransmitter.bsky.social following a very energised workshop at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social 2025. It's also my first piece for them 😊

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

These models can partly generalize across species, brain regions and tasks, suggesting that a set of machine-learnable rules govern neural population activity, writes @juangallego.bsky.social. But will we be able to understand them? #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/why-...

How do neural circuits in the brain implement normalization? 🧠 In our new paper, we show that just normalizing sensory input isn't enough. Crucially, we must also normalize the error signals! 🧵👇 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.17676

Inhibitory normalization of error signals improves learning in neural circuits

Normalization is a critical operation in neural circuits. In the brain, there is evidence that normalization is implemented via inhibitory interneurons and allows neural populations to adjust to chang...

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New paper! We introduce JEDI, Jointly Embedded Dynamics Inference for neural dynamics. arxiv.org/abs/2603.10489. JEDI flexibly infers dynamical principles (across behaviors/contexts) from neural population data through RNNs constrained at single-neuron resolution to reproduce that data.

JEDI: Jointly Embedded Inference of Neural Dynamics

Animal brains flexibly and efficiently achieve many behavioral tasks with a single neural network. A core goal in modern neuroscience is to map the mechanisms of the brain's flexibility onto the dynam...

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Excited to be at #Cosyne2026! I'll be presenting my poster tomorrow during the Thursday session: [1-106] “A biologically inspired predictive coding algorithm with multiplicative and additive feedback”. With @colin-bredenberg.bsky.social and @tyrellturing.bsky.social

New paper hot off the (pre-)press! We dig into the evolutionary origins of neural computations for behavioral control across mice, monkeys, and humans: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... As our lab's first foray into comparative analysis of neural dynamics, I’m super excited about this work! 1/18

I want to write a fun little post on what we've learned in neuroscience in the last 20 years. What are the most interesting results you can think of? Biggest trends?

New paper out in Nature Communications about how object identity information evolves across sensorimotor cortex through grasp — and I am really happy with how it turned out. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Neural Control and Computation Lab is seeking a skilled part-time software engineer in Toronto to lead the development of ATHENA (Automatically Tracking Hands Expertly with No Annotations), our open-source, Python-based toolbox for 3D markerless tracking! www.yorku.ca/health/resea...

Why motor learning involves multiple systems: an algorithmic perspective https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.19.695526v1

Great to see this paper on sensory expectations in motor control from @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social and @andpru.bsky.social out in Nature today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience 🧪

Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.

Jörn Diedrichsen@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!

The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!

Come share your passion about motor control, sensory systems, neurophysiology, neurotechnology, and more at #NCMKobe26 !!

Society for the Neural Control of Movement@ncmsociety.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NCM is proud of the Meeting support program offered again for #NCMKobe26. Learn more if you're a student, early-career scientist, or faculty who’s been underrepresented in the field. Support is available for meeting travel + participation. Details: ncm-society.org/dive...

Happy to announce that as of this summer, I've joined the CTRL-Labs group at Meta Reality Labs as a Research Scientist! I've also relocated to the bustling city of New York, where I hope I can do my best work (and enjoy running in Central Park).

Our next paper on comparing dynamical systems (with special interest to artificial and biological neural networks) is out!! Joint work with @annhuang42.bsky.social , as well as @satpreetsingh.bsky.social , @leokoz8.bsky.social , Ila Fiete, and @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social : arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25943

🚨🚨 We're hiring !! Looking for postdoc? Come work in an international, collaborative and stimulating environment on mechanisms of human upper limb motor control 👇👇👇 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/386645

Postdoc Position on Systems Neuroscience, Motor Control at UCLouvain, Belgium

Project Title: Multi-disciplinary, multi-lab investigations of the neural bases of human sensorimotor control Project Description:

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A very nice contribution to the field, adding more evidence on how our expectations and goals shape upcoming motor commands. Congrats to the wonderful team!

Jonathan A. Michaels@jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience. Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...). Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3) 🧠🤖

AI and Neuroscience | IVADO

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If you're interested in dynamical systems analysis for neuroscience, definitely check out @oliviercodol.bsky.social 's revised version of our RL paper! Very cool results in the new Fig 6, worth it regardless of if you saw our previous version or if it's all new. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Brain-like neural dynamics for behavioral control develop through reinforcement learning

During development, neural circuits are shaped continuously as we learn to control our bodies. The ultimate goal of this process is to produce neural dynamics that enable the rich repertoire of behavi...

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Olivier Codol@oliviercodol.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A tad late (announcements coming) but very happy to share the latest developments in my previous preprint! Previously, we show that neural representations for control of movement are largely distinct following supervised or reinforcement learning. The latter most closely matches NHP recordings.

A tad late (announcements coming) but very happy to share the latest developments in my previous preprint! Previously, we show that neural representations for control of movement are largely distinct following supervised or reinforcement learning. The latter most closely matches NHP recordings.

Olivier Codol@oliviercodol.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here’s our latest work at @glajoie.bsky.social and @mattperich.bsky.social ‘s labs! Excited to see this out. We used a combination of neural recordings & modelling to show that RL yields neural dynamics closer to biology, with useful continual learning properties. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Western study reveals brain’s predictive power. Researchers find neurons don’t wait for challenges to arise, they plan how to react. news.westernu.ca/2025/10/sens... #CdnPSE @westernu.ca

Study reveals brain’s predictive power

New study reveals that we rely on sensory expectations to get prepared for unexpected disturbances, helping us react faster and more accurately.

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🚨Job alert🚨 The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics" euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909

3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.

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What are the salient aspect of the LLM RL problem that could be abstracted into a benchmark? Tremendously large action space, sensitivity to numerical precision, prior policy that you must remain close to, what else?

Congrats to Jon for leading this work over the years! I’m very grateful I had the opportunity to take a small part in it, it was such great fun.

Jonathan A. Michaels@jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

I'm really proud of being part of this paper - an amazing success for us in the Western Sensorimotor Superlab with @andpru.bsky.social @gribblelab.org! Congrats Jon!

Jonathan A. Michaels@jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

Stoked to see our study out in final form! Big kudos to @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social for driving this along for the past 5 years.

Jonathan A. Michaels@jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits

Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...

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Our EMG Accessibility team made a very important visit! Thanks to Colin for the gracious hospitality and for the frank feedback on how to work toward a better product. We've got much more work to do and we have more updates to come. www.aestumanda.com/technology/2...

Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses: Meta visit to test accessibility

Meta visited my London home to test the new Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses and Neural Band — exploring accessibility, gesture, and voice control.

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