Daniel P. Ferris

Basic Experimental Studies Involving Humans (BESH) will no longer be subject to the requirements under the NIH Clinical Trial Definition.
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On research careers in academia and industry The epilogue to a series on Cognitive Science and AI

Should you go to academia or industry for research in AI or cognitive science? It's the most common question I get asked by PhD students, and I've written up some of my thoughts on the answer, as an epilogue to my research-focused series on these fields: infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/on-researc...

Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
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Since you put it that way, how about we have a MOBI conference in Florida in the future?

✨ What better way to wrap up a conference day than sharing this view with colleagues and friends, after inspiring science and insights into mobile brain imaging?

Join the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference #MoBI2026 August 25–28, 2026 and enjoy this view during our social!

👉 lnkd.in/d-5SKVtU

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂

looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.

science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

dpferris.bsky.social's Bluesky Wrapped 2025 Check out dpferris.bsky.social's year on Bluesky!

This year on Bluesky I wrote 63 posts and 36 replies. I received 278 likes, whereas 31 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "research" and 🎉!

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The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 105 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

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Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

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/

He’s the Godfather of Modern Robotics. He Says the Field Has Lost Its Way.

Largely accurate story, but has someone saying I am wrong about humanoids needing human level dexterity. NO. I am saying humanoid companies are claiming they will get it, so humanoids can replace humans everywhere, & I am saying their current methods won't attain it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b...

Multifactorial predictors of falls in older adults: a decade of data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study - BMC Geriatrics Background Falls are a leading cause of injury and loss of independence among older adults, yet comprehensive, population-level models that integrate diverse risk factors across broad demographic grou...

Falls are a major complication of vestibular loss, and fall prevention requires understanding broader risk factors. Masters student Lou Kohler Voinov explored data from >5700 participants and found some expected risk factors plus some unexpected ones! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Hidden Brain Cells Powering Sleep, Memory, and Disease Defense Terrence Sejnowski explores how glial cells, the brain’s lesser-known support cells, may hold new clues to brain health, aging and diseases.

The Hidden Brain Cells Powering Sleep, Memory, and Disease Defense beingpatient.com/glial-cells-... by @beingpatient.bsky.social

#Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... Every working scientist knows this but it is depressing to see it laid out. @nytimes.com @standupforscience.bsky.social @scifri.bsky.social

22% fewer NIH grants

Prof. Chang Liu did an amazing job with this behemoth of a project!!!

Fascinating that #EEG is one of the top trends, while #fMRI is declining.
We've just set up a @ucl.ac.uk EEG community and attendance was way over what we expected. Interesting times.
#neuroskyence

Interested in the future of wearables and of bidirectional neural/brain–computer interfaces? 🧠📡⚡ I recently joined the Big Brains podcast 🎙️ to discuss our lab’s latest research advances and functional prototypes in this space.
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Details: 51416338 My name is Melia.I am a female, black and white Terrier mix....

😢 Another week. Over 800 days. Will she spend another thanksgiving in the shelter? Here's MELIA's bio. Please read it, repost it. Everything you need to know is there. Shelter information also. I don't work there. Her hero is out there. We will find them soon 🤞
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This will be entirely noncontroversial.

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Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...

The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Daughter playing your account?

AI is growing exponentially at a timescale of months while the economy is growing at a timescale of decades. How should we model the economy with rapidly increasing intelligence tech and slowly increasing physical tech? New AI+econ paper.

British Columbia has some beautiful hikes

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"Electrodes are held on the scalp of the patient by an arrangement of rubber and whalebone bars tied under the chin (fig. 1). A most suitable cap is one made for setting waves in hair. It is not necessary to shave the scalp, though the examination is easier if the hair is short and recently washed."

Super cool resource for robotics research

🧠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.

Técnico de Investigación área de Educación y Psicología En la Facultad de Educación y Psicología de la Universidad de Navarra, formamos a profesionales con espíritu de servicio, pensamiento crítico, compromiso ético y ganas de aportar su conocimiento a la ...

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Are you into VR and cognitive rehab? Looking for a research technician to work with me in Pamplona @unav.edu on developing a multimodal XR system for stroke rehab (VYSIUM HEALTH).

This project is financed by the Government of Navarra and FEDER.

Apply here or DM me!

Great meeting with small, one-track schedule! Highly recommend it.

The call for abstracts is now open 🎉 and the website contains the most important info: blogs.tu-berlin.de/bpn_mobi2026/

Is it really though? I think a perspective of 5 years from now will make this picture seem cute. Just a guess.