Humans can learn bimodal priors in complex sensorimotor behaviour #ProcB #Neuroscience #Cognition royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)
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AI is threatening science jobs. Which ones are most at risk?
Data-analysis and modelling positions are already becoming obsolete, but hands-on experimentalists can breathe easy for now.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Not only that, IMHO AI is going to make incremental science obsolete within the next decade. Funding agencies, university administrators, and tenure committees should start changing how we evaluate scientist and their productivity.
Students will inevitably use AI for most of their research work. How do we teach them how to spot AI hallucinations or errors? Should they learn to build test cases instead of learning syntax? What is the right level of bare minimal programming knowledge that is needed?
How do we teach coding and implement proper quality controls to life science grad students in the AI era? Any thoughts or good resources out there? I am developing a Python based course and would love to hear thoughts. Many of them haven’t taken any programming courses during their undergrad.
Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Parkinson's disease appears to disrupt a brain network involved in everything from movement to memory. n.pr/4kpKWtv
Paper is out by @harikalidindi.bsky.social : feedback control model of neural population activity
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Scientists are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for help drafting the grant proposals that fund their careers.
Preliminary data indicate that these tools are linked with a slightly higher funding rate and might be pulling the focus of research towards safe, less-innovative ideas.
Tomorrow is the deadline! Get your poster submission for #NCMKobe26 in before the deadline of 23:59 PST February 10!
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Breakthrough @nature.com study showcases new non-invasive treatment for Parkinson’s Disease that targets the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) with personalized neuromodulation, for superior outcomes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Last few days to get your #NCMKobe26 poster submission in!
Review the guidelines, make sure you have access to the platform, and submit before the deadline at 23:59 PST February 10.
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While preparing your #NCMKobe26 abstract, read through the highlights from #NCMPan25! The meeting highlight article is now available for review.
Thank you to some of the scholarship winners from 2025 for putting the article together.
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OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free.
Writing a paper has never been easier.
Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier.
It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct.
prism.openai.com
Our upcoming (NSF-funded) OPAM workshop will feature Dr Johnny van Doorn (of University of Amsterdam) presenting on the theory and practice of Bayesian statistics (using JASP software). Please register and join us for the workshop (on January 26th), here: www.opamconference.com/online-works...
We recently published a theoretical review about how compositional and generative mechanisms in working memory provide a flexible engine for creative perception and imagery.
Pre-print:
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Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I started r/sensorimotorneuro a while back because I thought Reddit would make a great platform for what we used to do on science twitter. Its been wildly unsuccessful so far but you never know: www.reddit.com/r/sensorimot...
It's all about beta, baby!
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
Have an idea for an early-stage study investigating the neural mechanisms of rehabilitation? Submit a pilot project application to the new Neuro-PRECISE Center at MUSC!
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/
We tend to think of neurons as either excitatory or inhibitory, but some neurons chemically inhibit their downstream targets while electrically exciting their neighbors. What is gained by having an inhibitory neuron excite its neighbor?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Deadline is quickly approaching for team/panel and individual oral submissions for #NCMKobe26! The submission deadline is 23:59 PST December 1.
More information - ncm-society.org/subm...
Last three days to apply for the position.
🧠Want to start a #PhD in sensorimotor #neuroscience in Fall 2026? Our NIH- and NSF-funded lab at
@iubloomington.bsky.social uses human behavior and noninvasive brain stimulation to study motor learning and perception. More info: blocklab.net/openings.html or hjblock@iu.edu. Deadline is Dec. 15.
A bit over $1,000, but a collaborator uses Gazepoint and is quite happy with it www.gazept.com?srsltid=AfmB...
NCM is proud to offer meeting support awards for #NCMKobe26 again this year! The first round of applications are due Dec 1 and more information can be found on the website.
Please share with others in your community so we can support as many people as possible.
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🚨Job alert🚨
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
