Jonathan A. Michaels

This is the definition of doing a rollout of a world model. I think it’s a useful concept for motor planning

Amen

Great visit to @uwaterloo.ca!

As someone who was always into intelligence and is now into chess his explanation about why he quit chess is hilarious 😂

We have a great group of speakers lined up for our @yorku-cian.bsky.social / CSBBCS satellite symposium on 'Cognition and Action', June 4,5 '26 in Toronto. Calls for poster abstracts coming soon.

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Cool project! I think quite connected to the idea of contextual inference in motor control. How we move or navigate is conditioned on the state of our body / the world / recent experience, and cannot be separated from them.

This seems awesome! Might reach out at some point.

Had fun visiting the Meta office in Toronto! They let me have snacks.

Reality is so weird.

short sighted at best....NHP research has been instrumental in the development of new treatments for human conditions (as well as other animals conditions/diseases as well).

The vendor numbers must be down

Way higher than I expected! That’s confirmed in person?

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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That's right.. scarborough only accessible by bus for now. I'm guessing 2050s.

Man I live in Toronto and I don’t even know

Where’s line 3???

We already did a serious celebration when we put the preprint up so I'm already over it 😅

First lab paper accepted for publication 🥳🤯

Classic!!

Good life advice.

Canada seeks star academics from abroad, but stable funding for higher education remains a concern | CBC News Proponents believe a current push to recruit star researchers from abroad will mean top-tier learning for Canadian students and a boost to research innovation and excellence. Yet concerns remain about...

"Are we going to support talent here in Canada and the development of our students and our researchers who are here?'" Whitaker asked…simply injecting a wave of high-profile academics at the top without supporting the foundation beneath them is "going to leave us short-changed." @caut.bsky.social

Ooo I should read that Dani Bassett paper

I don't. For me the figures are the skeleton. Once that's in place I write full paragraphs as a narrative.

I had this discussion with a conservative MP. They were concerned about research security.

I use the n dash with a space – specifically to avoid this assumption.

Did you bring Seattle with you Amy??

And the corollary to 'why should I read something nobody bothered to write?' – is – 'why should I write something no one will bother to read?'

Very cool!

Sequence preparation is not always associated with a reaction time cost The extent to which a sequence of movements is prepared before initiating the first movement is a longstanding question in motor neuroscience. The observation that reaction time (RT) increases for lon...

0/7 Excited to 📢 that our (@mkashefi.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @andpru.bsky.social) new preprint on sequence preparation and its effect on reaction time is now up: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Please get in touch if there is anything you'd like to discuss! Brief summary 🧵👇

Good advice