Finally! Still needs to go through peer review but having it out on bioRxiv Neuroscience is a very important first step. Fingers crossed 🤞SekiLabs ValeroLab tomomichi oya NCNP（国立精神・神経医療研究センター） NCM society #tenodesis #tendon_transfer #musclesynergy #electromyography

Check out our new manuscript. Our study demonstrates the remarkable ability of the #CNS to adapt #motor_control to long-term internal changes, even after significant alterations to the #musculoskeletal system.

Wally Gilbert invented DNA sequencing, which underlies all genomics and personalized medicine. The economic impact of DNA sequencing alone is thought to be > $ 1 trillion. 3/10

Robert Woodward synthesized quinine, a drug to treat malaria. He also showed how organic synthesis could be systematized, leading to many later breakthroughs in medicinal chemistry. 5/10

Marge Livingston discovered the brain’s face area, a set of neurons in primates dedicated to processing individual faces. 6/10

Steve McCarroll uncovered the molecular mechanisms underlying Huntington’s disease. The race for a cure is on! 7/10

Doug Melton’s team has developed insulin-producing beta cells, an emerging treatment of type-1 diabetes. 8/10

Xiaowei Zhuang developed microscopes that provide molecular resolution in intact cells, 100x better than previous microscopes. 9/10

Harvard-affiliated astrophysicists captured the first images of a black hole, using the virtual Event Horizon Telescope. 10/10

Really happy to see this paper out, led by Nishil Patel in collaboration with Stefano Sarao Mannelli and Andrew Saxe: we apply the statistical physics toolbox to analyse a simple model of reinforcement learning, and find some cool effects, like a speed-accuracy trade-off for generalisation 🚀

"From the perceptron to the cerebellum" by Nicolas Brunel, Vincent Hakim, Jean-Pierre Nadal arxiv.org/abs/2505.14355

1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance? Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… led by Julian Rossbroich

Thrilled to share the new paper from the lab out today in Nature Human Behaviour, led by the great Juliana Trach! "Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations" nature.com/articles/s4156…

📢 Heads-up to the neuro-ML/BCI community that we'll launch the Brain-to-Text '25 competition in ~a month, and it'll run through Dec. 31. More intracortical electrodes! More varied utterances! More... speechy? Rumor even has it there'll be cash prizes this year Stay tuned...

We're hiring a Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (CNRA)! Application link in next post. We'll start reviewing applicants after August 25th Please RT 🔁

Our paper is now out in Journal of Neuroscience!🥂 We show that motor training strengthens cortico-cerebellar connectivity in patients with cerebellar degeneration, especially in movement-related networks. Great collaboration with Neurologie Essen Uni Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social, through ThinkGlobal RUB

Our lab’s 1st paper is out on bioRxiv! What many (including us) thought were temporal prediction/error signals, turn out to be intrinsic interval-timing signals. Led heroically by my student Yicong Yicong Huang with amazing support from the whole lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We have been fortunate to have a stream of extraordinary Fellows as part of our community. They have gone on to wonderful positions .. It is time, once more, to renew. Our annual search is a chance for us to understand what the brightest young people in the community are doing!

The cerebellum isn’t just about coordinating movement. It’s implicated in nearly every domain of cognition—from language to social behavior. But how exactly does the cerebellum contribute to action and cognition? 🧵 Check out our new paper w/ Ivry Laboratories: arxiv.org/abs/2509.09818

New work from Yoshi Kajikawa and myself! 🐒 🦻 We measured sound envelope encoding in different cortical layers across the nonhuman primate auditory cortical hierarchy for the first time. Thread below.