Mathew Piasecki

Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.

Today, we're sharing an open letter from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, outlining changes to UKRI investment approach, and addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC. Read his letter here: www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

Reduced knee extensor torque steadiness and increased motor unit discharge rate variability in young people with patellofemoral pain: a pilot study - European Journal of Applied Physiology Purpose The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate differences in vasti muscle motor unit (MU) firing between individuals with current patellofemoral pain (PFP) and asymptomatic controls during subma...

Reduced knee extensor torque steadiness and increased motor unit discharge rate variability in young people with patellofemoral pain: a pilot study - our latest study led by the great @Michalis_Arv is published in @EJAP_official open access below

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎓 2026 Editorial Board Fellowship🎓

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN 📣

Our #EditorialBoardFellowship is a great opportunity for ECRs to be directly involved in the editorial process under the guidance of a Senior Editor!

⏰ Apply by 15th March 👇 physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

My university is offering scholarships for PhD students to visit Nantes (France) for 3 to 6 months. If you are interested in joining my lab to work on the neural control of the hand during artistic activities and translating these insights into robotic control please do not hesitate to get in touch!

🚨📜+🧵🚨 Very excited about this work showing that people with no hand function following a spinal cord injury can control the activity of motor units from those muscles to perform 1D, 2D and 3D tasks, play video games, or navigate a virtual wheelchair

By a wonderful team co-mentored w Dario Farina

Reminder that this job is open! If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch. Deadline is February 20th.

If your New Year’s resolution is to find a fantastic 3-year post doc position in a great city with a small, friendly lab group and national collaborators… you’re in luck!!!

Open for applications until Tuesday. krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

@ispgr.bsky.social @ncmsociety.bsky.social

🆕 🚩 New preprint on #bioRxiv by F. Dernoncourt .
We introduce a conceptually new framework that combines large-scale human motor unit recordings with simulation-based inference to estimate recurrent inhibition during voluntary contractions in humans.

🔗 Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity – Neural control of movement in Parkinson’s (3 years)

This fantastic three-year postdoctoral position at Cardiff University and funded by Parkinson's UK, has now re-opened for applications.

Full details and application here: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

I am looking to hire a great postdoc to join our lab in sunny Eugene at the University of Oregon for fun behavioral/fMRI experiments on sensorimotor control in young and older adults. Please share/get in touch if interested! pages.uoregon.edu/mmar/

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Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

I'm particularly proud to have one of my images selected and featured on the cover of the latest issue of @jphysiol.bsky.social

In this issue, you can also read about my latest work on gamma motoneurons! Check it out!!

physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

New 3-year PostDoc opportunity in CoMAP, funded by UKRI-BBSRC — developing innovative methods to study motor unit adaptation to ageing and its functional consequences in humans. Please pass on to any who may be interested.

@ukri.org
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

NSAID ingestion augments training‐induced muscle hypertrophy and differentially affects muscle mRNA expression, but not strength gains, in trained men Abstract figure legend Schematic outlining the impact of NSAID ingestion on resistance exercise training-induced changes in muscle morphology, function and gene networks relative to placebo ingestion...

Hopefully of interest to scientists and exercise practitioners with and interest in muscle mass and functional gains in human volunteers. doi.org/10.1113/JP28...

@jphysiol.bsky.social

**Come work with us!!**

Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

New 3-year PostDoc opportunity in CoMAP, funded by UKRI-BBSRC — developing innovative methods to study motor unit adaptation to ageing and its functional consequences in humans. Please pass on to any who may be interested.

@ukri.org
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

New paper - Sex differences in healthy brain aging are unlikely to explain higher Alzheimer’s Disease prevalence in women: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2510486122

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Muscle Biology and Genomics | King's College London

🚨Hiring a 2yr postdoc in the lab work on muscle biology, genomics & ALS. Expertise in the above advantageous, but work ethic, desire to learn/develop and being a good scientist/person more important

Good collab with @droch.bsky.social so travel to CPH involved as well

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126245-...

We had a little appearance on Channel4 last night; Michael Mosley: Secrets of the Superagers

Michael came to our lab and tried a few of our methods, including needle EMG

See 36 mins in for some pretty good spikes 😎

www.channel4.com/programmes/m...

Mathew Piasecki of uniofnottingham.bsky.social discusses motor unit adaptation to disuse: crossing the threshold from firing rate suppression to #neuromuscular junction transmission ⚙️ 🔎

📖 Read the #TopicalReview here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

Penultimate presentation from our group at @northumbriauni.bsky.social is @elisanedelec.bsky.social presenting her work on knee extensior neuromuscular function across the menstrual cycle at @ecssofficial.bsky.social in Rimini, Italy 🇮🇹

Second up from our group from @northumbriauni.bsky.social is @padraig-spillane.bsky.social presenting his work titled Contraction intensity-specific fluctuations in motor unit behaviour across the menstrual cycle at @ecssofficial.bsky.social in Rimini, Italy 🇮🇹

francoishug.bsky.social‬ et al. investigated non-homogeneous distribution of inhibitory inputs among #motor units in response to #nociceptive stimulation at moderate contraction intensity ⚙️ ✍️

📜 Read the #Research here: https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP288504

Chronic resistance and endurance training alters the way in which motor unit discharge rates are modulated across contraction intensities, suggesting alterations in net excitatory synaptic input - another fun collaboration with @jskarabot.bsky.social and colleagues.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Non‐homogeneous distribution of inhibitory inputs among motor units in response to nociceptive stimulation at moderate contraction intensity Abstract figure legend We combined experimental data and in silico models to investigate the contribution of inhibitory and neuromodulatory inputs to motor unit behaviour in response to nociceptive s....

🆕📝 New publication in @jphysiol.bsky.social “Non-homogeneous distribution of inhibitory inputs among motor units in response to nociceptive stimulation at moderate contraction intensity”
🔗 doi.org/10.1113/JP28...
@univcotedazur.bsky.social @simonavrillon.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social

Senior Editors Paul. L. Greenhaff & Harold D. Schultz examine the central role of human and clinical physiology in the era of multi-omics and inter-organ crosstalk ✍️

🔗 Read the #Editorial here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

Load and muscle‐dependent changes in triceps surae motor unit firing properties in individuals with non‐insertional Achilles tendinopathy Abstract figure legend Motor unit firing properties of the medial gastrocnemius (MG), lateral gastrocnemius (LG), and soleus (SO) muscles were assessed using high-density surface electromyography (HD....

‘Load and muscle-dependent changes in triceps surae motor unit firing properties in individuals with non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy’ Our latest study has just been published in @jphysiol.bsky.social - open access below

A subcortical switchboard for perseverative, exploratory and disengaged states - Nature Behavioural experiments in mice demonstrate that GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-expressing), glutamatergic and serotonergic neurons in the median raphe nucleus have distinct and complementary function...

The revival of an old metaphor, first coined by Henri Bergson in the 1880s - the brain is (or has) a switchboard!