Britton Sauerbrei

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting!

If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch.

www.ncclab.ca

Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

The Department of Kinesiology at Penn State is inviting applications for an open-rank faculty position in sensorimotor control and rehabilitation neuroscience. Please share this opportunity with interested colleagues in your network.

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Congrats, Sweta - excited to see what your lab does in Vancouver!

Agrawal lab logo. A fly in the UBC colors, with dots framing its body.

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

My department at Case Western Reserve is recruiting an Assistant / Associate Professor of Neurosciences - come be our colleague!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Areopagitica
A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England

Milton’s prose: as timeless as his verse.

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Beautiful work - congrats to the team!!!

Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stoked to see this paper finally out!

It answers two big questions: where visual objects are encoded in the brain, and how head-direction cells get oriented using visual landmarks.

Super fun collaboration with @mace-lab.bsky.social and Stuart Trenholm.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Biomechanics: Squeezing power drives ballistic tongues Chameleons and lungless salamanders independently evolved very fast projectile tongues. In both cases, ballistic performance involves a long, blunt-ended skeletal rod that slides freely within a power...

Here, the 'ballistic tongues' paper by Yu Zeng and team
www.cell.com/current-biol...

plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Motor cortex flexibly deploys a high-dimensional repertoire of subskills Skilled movement often requires flexibly combining multiple subskills, each requiring dedicated control strategies and underlying computations. How the motor system achieves such versatility remains u...

Of potential interest to those keen on motor control and/or multi-task networks. Congrats to Elom and Eric.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Preprint -
Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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A warning from Dr. Johnson (imitating Juvenal):
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📣 This is a big one that we've been cooking for a while! We think it adds to the heart of motor control: 'how does motor cortex work'. Congratulations @mkashefi.bsky.social!

GEARS! Gears that work, at an organismal scale, in an animal. Too cool. The story of their discovery is wonderful, too.

Interacting Gears Synchronize Propulsive Leg Movements in a Jumping Insect Functional gears are involved in the ballistic jumping movements of the flightless planthopper insect, Issus.

Still one of the best in the genre:
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.

2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs

It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀

You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.

#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Maps are indispensable in neuroscience. Even when constructed with relatively crude methods, they can reveal clear specialization of brain areas. Here’s a nice example from 1902 (Grunbaum & Sherrington).

If your experiment tells you that all brain areas do the same thing, but is not designed in a way that could replicate any of the key established properties that distinguish neurons in these areas, your readers’ conclusions may relate less to physiology than experimental design.

Wow.

Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals - BMC Ecology and Evolution Body mass plays a fundamental role in the macroevolutionary dynamics of morphological, ecological, and phylogenetic diversification. Given biomechanical principles, large body masses in terrestrial ve...

Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Sensation ≠ perception: a fascinating case study. A patient with damage to visual cortex points at a light he cannot perceive.
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

The Cullen and Charles Labs (Biomedical Engineering, JHU) are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join a multi-PI collaborative project developing a cerebellar neuroprosthesis to restore gait, tremor, and balance in cerebellar disorders. For details, see: thecullenlab.org/opportunities/

ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io

Please repost. The School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan is seeking applications and nominations for our next Dean!

Click the "leadership profile" link on the careers page below for full details. And Go Blue!

Jim Hudspeth: The beautiful, mysterious science of how you hear Have you ever wondered how your ears work? In this delightful and fascinating talk, biophysicist Jim Hudspeth demonstrates the wonderfully simple yet astonishingly powerful mechanics of hair cells, th...

Jim Hudspeth has died 💔

I am so sad. He was probably my favorite hearing researcher of all time. Absolute genius and also generous - he spent hours on the phone advising me on my career even tho we barely knew each other.

May his memory be a blessing.
www.ted.com/talks/jim_hu...