JJ
@jjodx.eurosky.social
Engineer working on motor control/motor learning/aging in the department of Movement Sciences at KU Leuven (Belgium)🧠🧠🧠
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JJ
@jjodx.eurosky.social
· May 27
I am looking for examples of infrastructure that force the cyclists to perform a shoulder check as this is a particularly difficult bike maneuver for older adults/children. Picture from lnkd.in/ej-h-Dec. Don't hesitate to send me other examples from across Europe (with GPS coordinate, even better).
a Belgian guy (working in the US for a very long time) is awarded a Nobel Price in Physics !
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
October 6, 2026 at 10:10 AM
a Belgian guy (working in the US for a very long time) is awarded a Nobel Price in Physics !
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Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8
How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
scim.ag
October 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8
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Hello #neurosky! This is a study that took many years and that I am proud to see published: cognitive models can replace traditional neuropsych testing, and be used for both early detection and continuous monitoring of long-term memory dysfunction. journals.plos.org/digitalhealt...
Reliable detection and continuous monitoring of memory dysfunction in mild cognitive impairment and healthy aging through adaptive computational phenotyping
Author summary Memory decline is a central feature of aging and an early marker of neurodegenerative disease, yet current methods for assessing memory are poorly suited for frequent, long-term monitor...
journals.plos.org
October 5, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Hello #neurosky! This is a study that took many years and that I am proud to see published: cognitive models can replace traditional neuropsych testing, and be used for both early detection and continuous monitoring of long-term memory dysfunction. journals.plos.org/digitalhealt...
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
October 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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New preprint from the lab. A long-overdue fMRI study on bimanual movement direction encoding:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@alighavampour.bsky.social, @andpru.bsky.social, @jjodx.eurosky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@alighavampour.bsky.social, @andpru.bsky.social, @jjodx.eurosky.social
September 25, 2026 at 8:26 PM
New preprint from the lab. A long-overdue fMRI study on bimanual movement direction encoding:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@alighavampour.bsky.social, @andpru.bsky.social, @jjodx.eurosky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@alighavampour.bsky.social, @andpru.bsky.social, @jjodx.eurosky.social
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New Preprint: Competitive Olivocerebellar Input Selection Promotes Resilient Circuit Formation
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Join the ride for some developmental neuroscience, stay for some pretty pictures.
doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Join the ride for some developmental neuroscience, stay for some pretty pictures.
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Competitive Olivocerebellar Input Selection Promotes Resilient Circuit Formation
Many neural circuits undergo competitive input selection, a process in which supernumerary connections compete for innervation territory on target cells. This process can create atypical circuits when...
doi.org
June 17, 2026 at 3:38 PM
New Preprint: Competitive Olivocerebellar Input Selection Promotes Resilient Circuit Formation
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Join the ride for some developmental neuroscience, stay for some pretty pictures.
doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Join the ride for some developmental neuroscience, stay for some pretty pictures.
doi.org/10.64898/202...
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when you use AI to write code you put yourself in cognitive debt ; at some point you will have to spend the time and effort to understand the code, if you are ever to use it for anything you put your name on. May feel like a shortcut but really it’s only the beginning of your work it’s not the end
September 17, 2026 at 10:29 PM
when you use AI to write code you put yourself in cognitive debt ; at some point you will have to spend the time and effort to understand the code, if you are ever to use it for anything you put your name on. May feel like a shortcut but really it’s only the beginning of your work it’s not the end
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"authors could not answer...even basic questions about the paper...difficult to see how they could have verified the paper’s contents" medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...
Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
By Nihar B. Shah
medium.com
September 21, 2026 at 9:15 PM
"authors could not answer...even basic questions about the paper...difficult to see how they could have verified the paper’s contents" medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...
In one week, Anouck Matthijs will defend her PhD on "the cerebellum as a key neural substrate for motor reserve during healthy aging"
All welcome to attend (online)
All welcome to attend (online)
September 18, 2026 at 2:59 PM
In one week, Anouck Matthijs will defend her PhD on "the cerebellum as a key neural substrate for motor reserve during healthy aging"
All welcome to attend (online)
All welcome to attend (online)
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The AI industry claims their products will "improve efficiency" and "accelerate science" but I'm able to do less science because I have to spend more time screening applicants to my lab. LLM noise drowns out signal- last year I shortlisted unqualified apps, and surely missed some gems.
You’ve also hit on why the tech sector is broken. Post a job on any job board and you have 500 resumes generated off of your exact job description by the end of the day. Companies still need good engineers and there are a ton of good engineers looking for jobs but they can’t connect anymore
September 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
The AI industry claims their products will "improve efficiency" and "accelerate science" but I'm able to do less science because I have to spend more time screening applicants to my lab. LLM noise drowns out signal- last year I shortlisted unqualified apps, and surely missed some gems.
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NCM pres Kathleen Cullen started her career as an electrical engineering student. Her interest in neuroscience came from a neighbour across then hall with what she jokingly calls “a rumor”: neurons use electricity to encode & transmit information. She was fascinated
drive.google.com/file/d/1-MS9...
drive.google.com/file/d/1-MS9...
Bluesky_Cullen_Rumor.mp4
drive.google.com
September 14, 2026 at 3:08 PM
NCM pres Kathleen Cullen started her career as an electrical engineering student. Her interest in neuroscience came from a neighbour across then hall with what she jokingly calls “a rumor”: neurons use electricity to encode & transmit information. She was fascinated
drive.google.com/file/d/1-MS9...
drive.google.com/file/d/1-MS9...
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New preprint!
In this study, the fantastic Apoorva Sharma demonstrates that the amount of time that passes during motor preparation can "tag" for retrieval otherwise competing motor memories.
Modeling work links these fx to putative temporal basis sets in the cerebellar cortex.
Feedback welcome!
In this study, the fantastic Apoorva Sharma demonstrates that the amount of time that passes during motor preparation can "tag" for retrieval otherwise competing motor memories.
Modeling work links these fx to putative temporal basis sets in the cerebellar cortex.
Feedback welcome!
Temporal Indexing of Motor Memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.10.750443v1
September 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
New preprint!
In this study, the fantastic Apoorva Sharma demonstrates that the amount of time that passes during motor preparation can "tag" for retrieval otherwise competing motor memories.
Modeling work links these fx to putative temporal basis sets in the cerebellar cortex.
Feedback welcome!
In this study, the fantastic Apoorva Sharma demonstrates that the amount of time that passes during motor preparation can "tag" for retrieval otherwise competing motor memories.
Modeling work links these fx to putative temporal basis sets in the cerebellar cortex.
Feedback welcome!
Version of record of our paper "Preserved cerebellar functions despite structural degeneration in older adults" is now available @elife.bsky.social
Where we show that structure and function of the cerebellum are decoupled during the aging trajectory
elifesciences.org/articles/109...
#sensorimotor
Where we show that structure and function of the cerebellum are decoupled during the aging trajectory
elifesciences.org/articles/109...
#sensorimotor
Preserved cerebellar functions despite structural degeneration in older adults
Cerebellar-dependent functions are mostly maintained or even enhanced across the lifespan, with cerebellar-mediated motor abilities remaining intact despite degeneration, in contrast to non-cerebellar...
elifesciences.org
September 8, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Version of record of our paper "Preserved cerebellar functions despite structural degeneration in older adults" is now available @elife.bsky.social
Where we show that structure and function of the cerebellum are decoupled during the aging trajectory
elifesciences.org/articles/109...
#sensorimotor
Where we show that structure and function of the cerebellum are decoupled during the aging trajectory
elifesciences.org/articles/109...
#sensorimotor
Tracking the hidden dynamics of proprioception
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#sensorimotor I ❤️the approach but could this be used in other populations where movements are quite different? Across populations, many parameters will vary and difficult to assign difference to one specific aspect.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#sensorimotor I ❤️the approach but could this be used in other populations where movements are quite different? Across populations, many parameters will vary and difficult to assign difference to one specific aspect.
www.biorxiv.org
September 7, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Tracking the hidden dynamics of proprioception
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#sensorimotor I ❤️the approach but could this be used in other populations where movements are quite different? Across populations, many parameters will vary and difficult to assign difference to one specific aspect.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#sensorimotor I ❤️the approach but could this be used in other populations where movements are quite different? Across populations, many parameters will vary and difficult to assign difference to one specific aspect.
reviewer's comment on a PhD fellowship that I don't understand:
The candidate plans to learn EEG during the project, which might lead to potential delays in data acquisition.
Off course, that's the goal of a PHD, to learn new things...
The candidate plans to learn EEG during the project, which might lead to potential delays in data acquisition.
Off course, that's the goal of a PHD, to learn new things...
September 4, 2026 at 12:10 PM
reviewer's comment on a PhD fellowship that I don't understand:
The candidate plans to learn EEG during the project, which might lead to potential delays in data acquisition.
Off course, that's the goal of a PHD, to learn new things...
The candidate plans to learn EEG during the project, which might lead to potential delays in data acquisition.
Off course, that's the goal of a PHD, to learn new things...
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This excellent website allows you to scroll down into the deep sea and get a better feeling for how profoundly deep it is. And what lives where.
neal.fun/deep-sea/
neal.fun/deep-sea/
The Deep Sea
Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.
neal.fun
August 31, 2026 at 11:24 AM
This excellent website allows you to scroll down into the deep sea and get a better feeling for how profoundly deep it is. And what lives where.
neal.fun/deep-sea/
neal.fun/deep-sea/
Tactile suppression during movement as optimal integration of somatosensory feedback across time
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#sensorimotor
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#sensorimotor
Tactile suppression during movement as optimal integration of somatosensory feedback across time
When reaching for an object, tactile sensations from a sleeve sliding over the moving arm are often ignored, yet the computational principles governing this phenomenon remain unclear. Prevailing accou...
www.biorxiv.org
August 27, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Tactile suppression during movement as optimal integration of somatosensory feedback across time
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#sensorimotor
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#sensorimotor
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i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science
August 19, 2026 at 10:46 AM
i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science
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Friends, I think Ghent University should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This letter is from academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk
You can add your name👇🏽
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can add your name👇🏽
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University
***Version française en dessous***
We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...
docs.google.com
August 26, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Friends, I think Ghent University should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This letter is from academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk
You can add your name👇🏽
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can add your name👇🏽
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@andpru.bsky.social should like how it is framed ;-)
Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today
August 25, 2026 at 7:42 AM
@andpru.bsky.social should like how it is framed ;-)
Successful reinforcement history suppresses explicit and implicit error corrections
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#sensorimotor
by @joshcashaback.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#sensorimotor
by @joshcashaback.bsky.social
Successful reinforcement history suppresses explicit and implicit error corrections
Author summary Conflicting previous work has suggested that reinforcement feedback leads to either greater or smaller movement corrections. Here we elucidate that past successful actions lead to a sup...
journals.plos.org
August 24, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Successful reinforcement history suppresses explicit and implicit error corrections
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#sensorimotor
by @joshcashaback.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#sensorimotor
by @joshcashaback.bsky.social
Cerebellar rhythms: mechanisms, functions and translational opportunities
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#sensorimotor
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#sensorimotor
August 24, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Cerebellar rhythms: mechanisms, functions and translational opportunities
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#sensorimotor
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#sensorimotor
Reward prediction errors shape sensory-error-driven single-trial motor learning
#sensorimotor
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
#sensorimotor
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Reward prediction errors shape sensory-error-driven single-trial motor learning
Abstract. Short-term motor adaptation is a form of motor learning that optimizes how sensory information about a target’s location is translated into a tar
royalsocietypublishing.org
August 24, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Reward prediction errors shape sensory-error-driven single-trial motor learning
#sensorimotor
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
#sensorimotor
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Moravec’s paradox is the discovery by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that high-level reasoning (like math or chess) requires very little computation for a computer, but low-level sensorimotor skills (like walking or recognizing a face) are extremely difficult to replicate.
August 24, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Moravec’s paradox is the discovery by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that high-level reasoning (like math or chess) requires very little computation for a computer, but low-level sensorimotor skills (like walking or recognizing a face) are extremely difficult to replicate.
Really believE this
August 23, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Really believE this