This graph took me 3 years to make. It's perhaps the largest-ever #metaanalysis of #TMS #BrainStim data. It includes my first real scientific discovery 🧵: When you stimulate the hand with a brief electric pulse, your brain and spinal cord are momentarily less excitable: muscle output decreases 1/n

Scientists just settled a decades-old debate about the brain’s mirror neurons

Scientists just settled a decades-old debate about the brain’s mirror neurons

A new study reveals that mirror neurons don’t just care about final goals. Instead, these brain cells work together in dynamic networks to continuously track the specific physical details of observed movements in real time.

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#JNeurosci: Findings from Fooken et al. reveal how the brain integrates knowledge of sensorimotor demands with predictions about environmental events to flexibly manage competition for gaze between action and monitoring tasks. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2157-25.2026

Great post ! We need to realize that the wrong use of AI tools will never make us expert but we need to become experts to be able to judge the output of those tools.

Adam Kucharski@adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 4w ago

New post, on why people shouldn't 'never-skill' themselves with AI: kucharski.substack.com/p/dont-never...

How to Foster Challenging Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Can Philosophy Support Neuroscientists? - Kunze - 2026 - European Journal of Neuroscience - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

How to Foster Challenging Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Can Philosophy Support Neuroscientists?

Neuroscience as part of the natural sciences can engage in interdisciplinary projects with other academic disciplines, such as the humanities and the social science. In addition, within the overall d....

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Mathematicians are developing rules for AI use — other fields should follow www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mathematicians are developing rules for AI use — other fields should follow

The mathematics community is right to call for transparency, integrity and fairness to be protected when AI tools are used. Researchers in other disciplines could learn from this approach.

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Online planning of sequential actions Review by Jörn Diedrichsen (@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social), Mehrdad Kashefi (@mkashefi.bsky.social), Amin Nazerzadeh, & J. Andrew Pruszynski (@andpru.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2p9nbnbx

What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Natural behavior unfolds as a continuous stream of actions. Because these actions often occur in rapid succession, the brain must prepare multiple future actions while the current action is being executed. Our TICS piece explores how this works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are hiring for a tenure track faculty position! Our Institute, part of Jefferson Moss-Magee Rehabilitation and Thomas Jefferson University, is seeking applicants with experience conducting research in human translational neuroscience & neurorehabilitation. https://ow.ly/Y7bk50Z2Q58

Our latest paper is no longer behind a paywall! We show that visual bias in working memory toward interference can be moderated by motor control 🧠. Check it out!

Motor Control Processes Moderate Visual Working Memory Gating

Gating processes that regulate sensory input into visual working memory (WM) and the execution of planned actions share neural mechanisms, suggesting a mutual interaction. In a preregistered study (Op...

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Our 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

Going to my first World Cup game this summer! Super excited

Beta bursts in motor cortex systematically reorganize with practice Beta burst dynamics in the motor cortex are reshaped through sensorimotor refinement direct.mit.edu/imag/article... #neuroscience

Beta burst dynamics in the motor cortex are reshaped through sensorimotor refinement

Abstract. Beta-band activity (15–30 Hz) in motor cortex is closely linked to movement-related processing, yet its transient burst dynamics during long-term learning remain poorly understood. We used h...

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What happens when AI starts to evolve on its own? As systems become capable of self-improvement and replication, open-ended “ecosystem” dynamics could drive behaviors like deception and manipulation, much like in biological evolution. Check this @pnas.org paper: www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

New preprint! Older adults' anticipatory motor responses scale less with object speed when they rely on peripheral vision — but scale normally when they actively track the object. A selective behavioural signature of magnocellular aging. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you are interested in aging and motor control and have a PhD, come work with me in Leuven. I am recruiting a post-doc to investigate how the brain controls movement and learns new motor skills across the lifespan. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Postdoc position for MoCo: Motor Complexity and Aging

Post-doctoral position on motor control and aging for the FWO research project: MoCo: Motor Complexity and Aging

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Got tenure and promotion last week at Penn State!!

Possibly the first demonstration of a collision test? A. S. Paintal, 1959. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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...

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Ariel Levine@ariellevine.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Posting for Vibhu Sahni: Due to unforeseen circumstances the Burke Neurological Institute will have to terminate its research operations 5/22. There are international postdocs on visas who are looking for new homes. Please reach out to Vibhu if you can help

The footsteps illusion-like pausing and sticking illusion The rectangles in the upper half appear to move to the right and stop periodically; however, they are moving to the right at a constant speed in the same way as the rectangles in the lower half.

@kinarm.bsky.social Lab + eye-tracking users: We’ve developed a Python toolbox to import.kinarm files, preprocess eye-tracking data (remove blinks and gaze artifacts), manually classify gaze events, and export all trial-level data/channels to.csv for further analysis. DM me if you’d like to try it!

@kinarm.bsky.social Lab + eye-tracking users: We’ve developed a Python toolbox to import.kinarm files, preprocess eye-tracking data (remove blinks and gaze artifacts), manually classify gaze events, and export all trial-level data/channels to.csv for further analysis. DM me if you’d like to try it!

📣 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!

New preprint! 🧵🧪🧠 doi.org/10.64898/202... Upshot: somatosensory cortex contains both feedback *and* intended movement signals (a.k.a. corollary discharge). These two signals exist orthogonally in neural space, flexibly allowing both fast state estimation and external perturbation detection. 1/

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

Researchers reveal the neural basis of evolving new capabilities by investigating behavioral and morphological differences between deer mouse subspecies. #neuroskyence By @siddhantpusdekar.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/ar...

In most vestibular structures, sensory input is suppressed during self-generated movement. Here, postdoc Robyn Mildren shows an exception in the cerebellar nodulus/uvula, which faithfully encodes head motion in space across behavioral contexts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ground-truth encoding of self-motion in the primate cerebellar nodulus and uvula - Nature Communications

How the brain meets these competing demands–and where such a veridical “ground-truth” representation is computed–remains unknown. Here authors show that the cerebellar nodulus/uvula–a region essential...

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Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy: