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@bradking.bsky.social

Lifespan Motor Neuroscience Lab at the University of Utah. Studying (motor) learning & memory across the human lifespan • (f)MRI • sleep • development • aging • opinions my own

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UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience job opening in our own
@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social department. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

10.08.2025 21:06 — 👍 15    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Our team @jointbme.bsky.social is ready for @amsocbiomech.bsky.social #ASB2025 in Pittsburg next week. We're really proud of the science we and our collaborators are presenting this coming week, from posters and podiums to award finalists and a ton of professional development. See you there!

09.08.2025 19:21 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
The image is an announcement graphic for Black In Neuro Conference 2025. The top and bottom features colourful geometric patterns. Below the geometric frame is bold orange text reads “BLACK IN NEURO CONFERENCE.” Event details follow: “Wednesday, Sept 10 - Friday, Sept 12, 2025, University of the District of Columbia.” An information box states "Register Now" with an arrow directed towards the registration link "HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/BINW25". Next to this is the Black In Neuro logo.

The image is an announcement graphic for Black In Neuro Conference 2025. The top and bottom features colourful geometric patterns. Below the geometric frame is bold orange text reads “BLACK IN NEURO CONFERENCE.” Event details follow: “Wednesday, Sept 10 - Friday, Sept 12, 2025, University of the District of Columbia.” An information box states "Register Now" with an arrow directed towards the registration link "HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/BINW25". Next to this is the Black In Neuro logo.

Flyer highlighting a few of the Black In Neuro Conference speakers. The background is a soft peach with vibrant geometric patterns in mustard yellow, coral, teal, and pink at the top border. A bold orange "Black In Neuro Conference" title is centered. Under that reads "Meet Our Speakers!" with the speakers and their affiliations listed below. Andrew Justin Taylor, Ph.D., Ph.D. candidate, Universidad de Valparaiso; Lindsay Ejoh, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania; Timnit Gebru, Ph.D., Keynote Speaker, The Distributed AI Research Institute; Melissa Reitkopp, Managing Director, Reitkopp Recruiting LLC; and Korie Grayson, Ph.D., Technology Analyst, Systems Planning & Analysis Inc. The Black In Neuro logo is at the bottom.

Flyer highlighting a few of the Black In Neuro Conference speakers. The background is a soft peach with vibrant geometric patterns in mustard yellow, coral, teal, and pink at the top border. A bold orange "Black In Neuro Conference" title is centered. Under that reads "Meet Our Speakers!" with the speakers and their affiliations listed below. Andrew Justin Taylor, Ph.D., Ph.D. candidate, Universidad de Valparaiso; Lindsay Ejoh, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania; Timnit Gebru, Ph.D., Keynote Speaker, The Distributed AI Research Institute; Melissa Reitkopp, Managing Director, Reitkopp Recruiting LLC; and Korie Grayson, Ph.D., Technology Analyst, Systems Planning & Analysis Inc. The Black In Neuro logo is at the bottom.

Flyer highlighting a few of the Black In Neuro Conference speakers. The background is a soft peach with vibrant geometric patterns in mustard yellow, coral, teal, and pink at the top border. A bold orange "Black In Neuro Conference" title is centered. Under that reads "Meet Our Speakers!" with the speakers and their affiliations listed below. Dr. Olivia Matshabane, Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University; Mary Ogbuka Kenneth, Imperial College London; Sheena M. Posey Norris, MS, PMP, Keynote Speaker, NAS Engineering, and Medicine;
Anne Chisa, Root of Science Media; and Emmanuel Taiwo, Microsoft. The Black In Neuro logo is at the bottom.

Flyer highlighting a few of the Black In Neuro Conference speakers. The background is a soft peach with vibrant geometric patterns in mustard yellow, coral, teal, and pink at the top border. A bold orange "Black In Neuro Conference" title is centered. Under that reads "Meet Our Speakers!" with the speakers and their affiliations listed below. Dr. Olivia Matshabane, Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University; Mary Ogbuka Kenneth, Imperial College London; Sheena M. Posey Norris, MS, PMP, Keynote Speaker, NAS Engineering, and Medicine; Anne Chisa, Root of Science Media; and Emmanuel Taiwo, Microsoft. The Black In Neuro logo is at the bottom.

The BlackInNeuro Conference is almost here 📢 Featuring keynote @timnitgebru.bsky.social + amazing speakers across neuro, tech & equity.

EVERYONE is welcome to register for 8️⃣ livestreamed events! BIN members can register to attend in person in Washington DC! See you at #BINW25!
🔗 tinyurl.com/BINW25

08.08.2025 15:14 — 👍 27    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0
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Assistant, Associate or Full Professor (Tenure Track), Translational Neurosciences (Phoenix) - Phoenix, Arizona job with University of Arizona | 12842366 Assistant, Associate or Full Professor (Tenure Track), Translational Neurosciences (Phoenix) Posting Number req23491 Department COM Phx Translation...

The University of Arizona is holding an open-rank neuroscience faculty search, multiple tenure-track positions available! Positions will be in the new Department of Translational Neurosciences at the College of Medicine in Phoenix. tinyurl.com/42t8tcey

08.08.2025 00:26 — 👍 28    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 0
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Kane Pavlovich, Alex Fornito, et al:

The efficacy of resting-state fMRI denoising pipelines for motion correction and behavioural prediction

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

08.08.2025 04:50 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Lifespan changes in the human brain This cross-journal collection invites submissions that investigate human brain changes across all or multiple stages of life, from in-utero to older age.

📢 The new cross-journal Collection “Lifespan changes in the human brain” with @commsbio.nature.com, @natcomms.nature.com, @natneuro.nature.com, and Scientific Reports is now open for submissions! 📭

🌍 Learn more: www.nature.com/collections/...

#Neuroscience #Brain #Lifespan #Neuroimaging

28.07.2025 14:51 — 👍 22    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1
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Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (w/m/d) | Forschungsbereich Entwicklungspsychologie

📣 We are seeking a student research assistant currently or soon-to-be enrolled in a master's program to join us in investigating how spatial memory develops in children using video games and fMRI
@markuswb.bsky.social @lipmpib.bsky.social
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2117010/2025...

04.08.2025 18:26 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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We’re hiring! Pls share widely:

In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred.

Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

01.08.2025 18:37 — 👍 22    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 1
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Community Shows Their Love for Science at Summer Science Day 1,000 people attended the day of science demos, workshops and classes, and tours of working labs.

Summer Science Day was a hit! More than 1,000 people came together to explore health sciences through hands-on demos, workshops, lab tours, and classes. A great example of how much our community values science.

@learngenetics.bsky.social @utah.edu

uofuhealth.utah.edu/newsroom/new...

31.07.2025 17:53 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Current Opportunities | UO HR Website

Two neuroscience faculty positions @uoknightcampus.bsky.social

careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

30.07.2025 20:27 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

As promised - our new post-doc position is now available!! Join our productive inter-institutional team at UNC-Chapel Hill in an ongoing NIH-funded project collaborating with friends at Utah (reporter.nih.gov/search/nC8k4...)

Apply now (Active until filled!): unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/304...

27.07.2025 09:44 — 👍 3    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is leading the letter making the ask of OMB director Russ Vought.

This is a big deal! It means the pressure on Congrss is working. The dam is stating to break. Keep up the great work everyone!

26.07.2025 01:45 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Last publication from my dissertation out now (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....)

We increased foot arch spring stiffness in a simple, 2D computational model and examined rearfoot and non-rearfoot strike running. Increasing stiffness reduced arch energy storage/return in both, BUT... (1/2)

25.07.2025 14:26 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
MRI Tech/Faculty Specialist Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC) is the home for neuroimaging research at the University of Maryland, www.mnc.umd.edu. The center brings...

We are looking to hire a new post-bac MRI tech! Great opportunity pre grad school! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

24.07.2025 20:55 — 👍 13    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1
Dr. Jeremy Berg is presenting from a lectern in front of an audience of vision researcher scientists.

Dr. Jeremy Berg is presenting from a lectern in front of an audience of vision researcher scientists.

My friend and colleague @jeremymberg.bsky.social is giving a keynote discussion about science and science funding at the UPMC Ophthalmology Department Retreat.

24.07.2025 16:58 — 👍 39    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
Homepage of the Action, Computation, & Thinking (ACT) Lab, Yale department of psychology

Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!

Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.

Please reach out if you have any questions!

24.07.2025 13:29 — 👍 106    🔁 48    💬 3    📌 0
MotorLab

Could check out motor lab. As name implies, a bit more motor focused but still has some overlap with cog lab. Also ~$5 per download.

motorlab.ca

22.07.2025 15:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Open Rank, Tenure Track Position – Metabolic Physiology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with University of Utah | 674355 The Department of Nutrition and Integrated Physiology (NUIP) at the University of Utah seeks a Tenure Track faculty member at the rank of Assistant...

We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social

21.07.2025 19:25 — 👍 25    🔁 29    💬 0    📌 1
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An existential research crisis at the University of Utah? School leaders sound the alarms of the possibly heavy costs that would be exacted by proposed grant policies proposed by the Trump administration.

The University of Utah could be in danger of losing $100+ million annually

School leaders worry Trump administration’s court-contested grant policies could severely impact local research, jobs
www.deseret.com/utah/2025/07...

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Voices: Federal funding cuts to genetic research will be devastating for years to come Proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation “would cause immense and largely irreversible damage to the successful American scientific enterprise,” write Jerry Kaplan and Dana Carroll in an op-ed.

Proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation “would cause immense and largely irreversible damage to the successful American scientific enterprise,” write Jerry Kaplan and Dana Carroll in an op-ed.

08.07.2025 21:25 — 👍 26    🔁 21    💬 4    📌 8
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First postdoc publication online today in the Journal of Applied Physiology (@apspublishing.bsky.social)!

doi.org/10.1152/japp...

We used fascicle dynamics, ankle kinetics, and EMG to estimate soleus metabolic cost across walking speeds and footwear stiffnesses.

1/3

18.07.2025 18:56 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Neurophysiological effects of targeting sleep spindles with closed-loop auditory stimulation Abstract. Sleep spindles are neural events unique to nonrapid eye movement sleep that play key roles in memory reactivation and consolidation. However, muc

This work, published in #SLEEPAdvances, investigates the neurophysiological responses to closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep spindles
academic.oup.com/sleepadvance...

15.07.2025 13:48 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

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Why We Still Need Animal Research in a World of AI and Organoids The portrayal of uncaring scientists without any thought for the animals being used in their research is far from the truth.

While I’m a big fan of new technologies that help us study human biology…there’s still no replacement for animal research! See my article in Gen News. www.genengnews.com/topics/trans...

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Postdoc Fellows The CTCN funds a cohort of outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows to work at the interface between theoretical and experimental labs and help forge new collaborations. Application deadline August 1st, 20…

The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU is recruiting postdoctoral fellows. The Center offers a unique opportunity to craft a transdisciplinary research program with an unusual degree of independence.

ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...

12.07.2025 01:39 — 👍 13    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 2

We're hiring!
Heath Henninger and I are hiring a research engineer to support two new new grants. Responsibilities will include developing new devices for gait perturbations and supporting biomechanical data collections.
Apply here: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/185...

09.07.2025 21:53 — 👍 10    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1

Hey #sleeppeeps

If anyone is looking to hire a new entry level RA, I have 2x excellent recent grads from my lab who would be super-keen to get a research assistant job in a sleep lab.

DM me if you want them to send CVs -- both personally trained by me, experience in sleep/memory/dreaming/EEG.

09.07.2025 12:42 — 👍 5    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Summer Science Day at the U this Saturday!

My lab will have some demonstrations at booths as well as a tour of our lab. You can watch us measure yeast consuming oxygen.

09.07.2025 15:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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