Jonathan A. Michaels

Coconut oil

You should just occasionally say “no”

Dakha Brakha ❤️🇺🇦

Someone accidentally published a real case in there.

“The editor acknowledged that the editorial team is at fault for overlooking the fact that our case was real during the review process,”

So weird.

I just realized I’ve been spending hours each day in an unventilated 3D printing room..

Thanks for writing this! Would be curious to hear your thoughts on our recent paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Had a wonderful time as a keynote and debate speaker at Neuroscience Research Day at Western! Fantastic event.

Congrats!

Yes! The key is what feedback is necessary (if any) to allow that input to be intrinsically rewarding (e.g. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...)

Thrilled to finally share this work! 🧠🔊

Using a new reinforcement-free task we show mice (like humans) extract abstract structure from sound (unsupervised) & dCA1 is causally required by building factorised, orthogonal subspaces of abstract rules.

Led by Dammy Onih!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Toronto supports the people of Iran.

CIHR funding rate: 13.6%.
Early 2000s: 30%+.

Canada’s new $1.7B Impact+ program recruits talent — but without increased Tri-Council base funding, we risk further strain on an already stretched system.

We’re calling for $1B over 5 years.
Support here: tinyurl.com/33c5av46

Eglinton Crosstown is live!

Claude Code is incredible, but if you push it far you will see it very quickly gets stuck in loops and I become its therapist.

Just wait until Schmidhuber discovers this thread.

Everyone deserves an obituary, but this woman especially.

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Why are we spending hundreds of millions of dollars on bringing in new people when we can't fund the ones we have?

Congrats!!

Don’t know if these things count since it’s debatable if they share anything in common with a human mind

NASA astronaut Eileen Collins, the first female Space Shuttle pilot, poses in an official portrait wearing her bright orange launch and entry spacesuit. She smiles warmly at the camera while holding her black-and-white NASA helmet in her lap. In the softly lit background, a model of a Space Shuttle orbiter with its distinctive orange external tank and white solid rocket boosters stands prominently. The American flag appears in the upper left corner of the frame.

#OTD in 1995, astronaut Eileen Collins became the first female pilot of a NASA space shuttle.

She piloted the Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-63, a mission that included the first-ever rendezvous between a US space shuttle & the Russian space station Mir. #WomenInSTEM #AstronautEnvy 🚀

February 1st. Finally

Great collboration from @mnlmrc.bsky.social: Multivoxel fMRI and neuropixel recordings show sensorimotor prediction errors in M1 / S1 in the input, but not in the spiking of output neurons!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
With @andpru.bsky.social @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @gribblelab.org

I’m not convinced

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Huge congratulations to first author Sujaya Neupane for leading this effort, and to our collaborators at Western University – Jessica Grahn, Andrew Pruszynski, Mehrdad Kashefi, and Rhonda Kersten, for their ideas, expertise, and support.

Strikingly, this encoding persisted in the GPi even after rewards were withdrawn, suggesting that the basal ganglia could act as an interface where extrinsic rewards are transformed into 'intrinsic value', effectively unmasking latent audiomotor connections.

However, once tones were paired with reward, a profound reorganization occurred: robust encoding emerged across the motor network, particularly in PMd and globus pallidus interna (GPi).

We found that motor areas do not spontaneously respond to auditory patterns during passive listening, but care a lot about trial structure and reward.