This just in: LLMs can now count letters.

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

Thrilled to share that @minecr.bsky.social and my paper on Ten simple rules for teaching data science is now available from @plos.org Computational Biology! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Ten simple rules for teaching data science

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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. 👇

Young people 🤩

Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 3mo ago

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Raphael is presenting his poster in session 2 (P2-F-168): Practice makes precision: Motor execution improvements in a 2-D racing task are retained and generalized but depend on movement direction.

What should Neuromatch teach next? 🤓 #Connectomics and Neural Dynamics 🤓 #ComputationalBehavioural Analysis & Modelling 🤓 Computational Approaches to #Neurodegeneration 🤓 Or something else? Take the 2 minute survey here: airtable.com/appgbLQW3nbb... #NeurmatchAcademy #OpenScience

Elysa Eliopulos presents her poster (P1-F-142) today and tomorrow: "Redefining Explicit Motor Adaptation into Three Phenotypes" We find 3 ways in which people develop a strategy to counter a visuomotor rotation, _and_ that the mix of strategies depends on rotation size.

@westcoastalice.bsky.social presents her poster (P1-B-13) "Vibrotactile stimulus detection during Fitts aiming: Implications for the use of biofeedback devices during skilled, manual tasks" the coming two days.

Today and tomorrow at #NCM2026 Jacob will be presenting his poster "Learning to throw against the current: internal models of object-environment dynamics" (P1-F-150). How do people learn to account for a sideways current, when launching a ball to a target? VR and 2D solution spaces...

For those attending @ncmsociety.bsky.social this week, come check out posters and talks from the Physical Intelligence Lab! #NCM #MotorLearning #CognitiveNeuroscience

Elysa will be presenting this work at #NCM2026 soon, so we thought to put up a first pre-print, a bit earlier than usual. previously we noticed that explicit strategies do not develop gradually, but in discrete steps. Here we wanted to test if that depended on rotation size

Just had a paper accepted after 4 rounds of revisions and *10* reviewers!

"Preprint servers are a time machine, they move everyone forward 12 months and speed up the exchange of ideas" ht @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social www.evocellnet.com/2021/06/a-no...

A not so bold proposal for the future of scientific publishing

Around 15 years ago I wrote a blog post about how we could open up more of the scientific process. The particular emphasis that I had in min...

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"Frame Effects Across Space and Time" is published: doi.org/10.1167/jov.... The effect: - extends a bit over space, - not time, - mostly depends on frame edge positions - doesn't decrease with experience Looks like vision uses references to localize objects in space.

Vibe coded a Shiny app for data preprocessing. Meant as a tool for undergrads doing projects in the lab. Computer literacy is low across the board, and with tools like these (and the LLMs to build them) there's no need to understand what you're doing.

1/8 Paper! Using previously published data from 270 participants, we look at precision of reaches and hand proprioception in rotation adaptation: doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Precision of reaches and proprioception in motor control and adaptation - Discover Neuroscience

How do precision of movement and proprioception influence motor control and adaptation? Several theories—such as the exploration-exploitation hypothesis—propose that variability plays a key role in mo...

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📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools

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New preprint out! (doi.org/10.64898/202...) We examined how EEG activity during movement preparation and error processing distinguishes learning and error processing between motor adaptation and de novo learning.

EEG Dynamics of Movement Preparation and Error Processing Distinguish Motor Adaptation From De Novo Learning

Previous research has distinguished behavioral mechanisms between motor adaptation and de novo learning. However, electroencephalography (EEG) markers dissociating them remain unclear. Here, participa...

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EEG Dynamics of Movement Preparation and Error Processing Distinguish Motor Adaptation From De Novo Learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693740v1

Someone in my lab asked me to make a QR code, yet again. So I vibe-coded them a Shiny app, and now you could use it too: mthart.shinyapps.io/ShinyQR/ Vibe coding is fun, but I would not use it for data analysis. Source code: github.com/thartbm/Shin...

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I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com

Preprint: Frame Effects Across Time and Space (FEAST): www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... In the frame effect people perceive a large horizontal separation between two horizontally aligned flashed probes when they are flashed within a left-right moving frame.

Frame Effects Across Space and Time

When two probes are flashed at different times within a moving frame they can be perceived as dramatically separated from each other even though they are at the same location in the display. This effe...

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Interview with Ilja Agricola (from Marburg) about publication fraud in math. retractionwatch.com/2025/09/24/m...

Enjoying the end of summer!

The myth of optimality in human movement science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The myth of optimality in human movement science

The concept of optimality dominates contemporary human movement science, with researchers across biomechanics, motor control, and neuroscience routine…

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In this paper, Andrew King looked at tools as cues for dual adaptation. He used a VR task, where a ball had to be launched to a target with a 30 degree rotation.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Using Tools as Cues for Motor Adaptation in Virtual Reality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.02.673800v1

In this paper we use a new approach from control theory (engineering), a "disturbance observer", to see if it can be applied to visuomotor adaptation. This "DO model" is doing reasonably well.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Modeling Human Visuomotor Adaptation with a DisturbanceObserver Framework https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673530v1

In this study @deniseyph.bsky.social and I take data from 4 previous studies, and their pilots, with N=270 to look into potential relationships between precision of reaching directions and proprioception and various other measures.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last yr.

Precision of reaches and proprioception in motor control and adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.14.659693v1