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Susan Coltman@susancoltman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Homeward bound! After a successful postdoc at Penn State, I'm thrilled to be heading back to Canada to join the University of Guelph faculty in neuroscience and applied cognitive sciences. Bring on the next chapter!

Homeward bound! After a successful postdoc at Penn State, I'm thrilled to be heading back to Canada to join the University of Guelph faculty in neuroscience and applied cognitive sciences. Bring on the next chapter!

Thrilled about our latest paper published in eLife where we found something cool: A representation of your partner's goals and actions modulates your own "intelligent reflexes", prior to voluntary movement. Led by the phenomenal, Seth Sullivan. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

I've officially welcomed my first thesis student as an incoming PI. July 1st is starting to feel real! To the young women finding their way into research, the process matters. Preparation, curiosity, courage. Outcomes usually find you. Grateful for voices like Cori Close! #WomenInSTEM #Neuroscience

Jelena Patrnogić shares a new flexible competency framework she developed with Xiuqi Li and David Van Vactor to help prepare early-career scientists for today’s wide range of career paths in and beyond the lab. brain.harvard.edu/hbi_news/ret...

Rethinking How We Train Scientists for Today’s Careers

How do we prepare early-career scientists for today’s wide range of paths in and beyond the lab? Jelena Patrnogić shares a new flexible competency framework she developed with Xiuqi Li and David Van V...

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How do we keep Indigenous cultures alive? Chantelle Richmond, Director of the Indigenous Health Lab at Western University, shows how land, relationships, and community-led research create lasting impact. www.theimpactproject.ca/stories/chan... #IndigenousHealth #WesternUniversity #SocialScience

This really resonates with me, Paul, especially what you said about growth through intellectual struggle. I remember a time in your lab when @joshcashaback.bsky.social wouldn’t give me the answer to a coding/design problem. I felt so frustrated then and just wanted someone to tell me the solution.

Paul Gribble 🇨🇦@gribblelab.org · 6mo ago

feedback welcome (new section in my lab manual on use of AI tools) github.com/paulgribble/...

revised version of @mahdiyar45.bsky.social's paper: "A Context-Free Model of Savings in Motor Learning" #neuroskyence #psychscisky #sensorimotor www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am excited to start at #UofG this July. I look forward to contributing to research and helping to build a strong, collaborative scientific community.

University of Guelph@uofguelph.bsky.social · 6mo ago

For the third year in a row, #UofG has been ranked one of the top 150 universities in the world for life sciences, according to the 2026 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings by subject, while also rising to fifth in Canada. Learn more: uoguel.ph/3u1wt

This paper expands my research methods to include transcutaneous nerve stimulation and fNIRS. We used a multi-method approach to measure hemodynamic responses during a 45-minute session, revealing a nonlinear temporal potentiation mechanism centered in the posterior parietal cortex.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 7mo ago

fNIRS Characterization of Temporal Potentiation During Optimized Nerve Stimulation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.699125v1

Are you thinking about doing neuroscience outreach but want to make it more exciting or hands on? Check out RetINaBox! (A collab led by the Trenholm lab) We tried to bring the experience of experimental neuroscience to a classroom setting: www.eneuro.org/content/13/1... #neuroscience 🧪

RetINaBox: A Hands-On Learning Tool for Experimental Neuroscience

An exciting aspect of neuroscience is developing and testing hypotheses via experimentation. However, due to logistical and financial hurdles, the experiment and discovery component of neuroscience is...

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✨ Exciting News! ✨ I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the University of Guelph's Department of Psychology in Neuroscience and Applied Cognitive Science as an Assistant Professor, starting July 1, 2026. I will be returning to Canada on Canada Day!

Rest in peace, to a legend who taught us all to hope and to act. She showed an entire generation of girls, including me, that we could be scientists, that we could be brave enough to go into the wild and change the world through curiosity and compassion.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 10mo ago

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Join us for the October CNS-PDS seminar on Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 (9am PST / 12pm EST / 1:30pm NST). Speakers: • Richard Gao (Goethe University) • Pedro Henrique Guedes (University of Saskatchewan) Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... All are welcome.

In this 'How to' Comment, @gribblelab.org gives advice on how to think about one's academic website and how to go about building one. #AcademicWebsite www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How to design your academic website - Nature Human Behaviour

An academic website serves as both a public-facing window on the world wide web and an important internal laboratory resource. In this ‘How to’ piece, I outline how to build your academic website, including what content to include, and ways to build and launch your site.

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Preprint alert! Individual preferences in relying on vision or proprioception in reaching show distinct patterns in connectivity across sensorimotor network. Happy to have contributed to this nice piece of work by Kess, @hjblock.bsky.social and other cool people! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Network dynamics for sensory prioritization: Functional connectivity related to individual sensory weighting of vision versus proprioception during upper limb control

Precise control of the hand requires the dynamic integration of visual and proprioceptive (body position sense) sensory cues with internal models, task goals, and motor plans. Individual differences i...

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The CAN Postdoc Seminar Series is back this Thursday, Sept 11! Fresh lineup of speakers through the fall. Join us monthly & connect with postdocs across Canada. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Living Science: Love writing

Clear writing is the key to success in science.

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"Your job is not to turn in completed assignments; it's to learn how to think." cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang

The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang

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E.M., you are not alone. 💜 We are showing our support for you and all survivors with a full page in today’s Globe & Mail. #CourageCampaign #WeSupportEM You can sign on too: actionnetwork.org/forms/em-we-...

We are excited to share our new paper that dives into how ongoing decision deliberation reflects ongoing movements: (jneurosci.org/content/45/3... A tour-de-force by the incredible Jan Calalo.

Do you have some exciting results that you would like to share? Are you a #Postdoc in #Canada or #Canadian abroad? We are selecting #speakers for the (second round of the) 2025 Canadian #Neuroscience #Seminars: Postdoctoral Series. Apply by July 6th, 2025 @ 23:59PT.

From @theathletic.bsky.social: Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon fell short in her bid to become the first woman to break the four-minute mile. Kipyegon ran 4:06.92, the fastest time over the distance recorded by a woman, breaking her own world record. nyti.ms/44AXZll

From Canada with love

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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I have seen folks waste so much time by not properly planning research. Missed literature, missing controls, ignored hypotheses, etc. Lack of planning also produces bad science (e.g. analysis until significant). So I am writing an app. Looking for feedback. scientific-paper-planner-test.vercel.app

📢 SECOND CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Canadian Neuroscience Seminar Postdoctoral Series 2025! Are you a postdoc at a Canadian institution (including international researchers) or a Canadian postdoc working abroad? Excited to share your neuroscience research? Apply now!

Join us Thursday, May 1st for two talks you won’t want to miss: Ghazaleh Eskandari-Sedighi (UC Irvine) dives into microglia & resilience to Alzheimer's pathologies. Alban Elias Voppel (McGill) explores how Llama-2 might help us simulate thought disorder in schizophrenia.

Canadian Neuroscience Seminars – Postdoctoral Series (CNS-PDS)@cns-pds.bsky.social · last yr.

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