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Vishal Rawji @vishrawji.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New preprint! We show that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can use their residual motor unit activity to achieve up to three dimensional control using non-invasive high-density surface EMG With my co-first authors Xingchen Yang and Ciara Gibbs www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/13

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Intuitive, multidimensional motor unit control after paralysing spinal cord injury using non-invasive recordings

Spinal cord injury (SCI) results in profound motor impairment for approximately 20 million people worldwide. Regaining hand use is one of their highest priorities. Interestingly, even severely affecte...

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 19/12/2025

This underestimates the problem because of the cost to science as a whole by distorting research priorities and encouraging fraud. We're well past this point. Also this is published in Nature so let's note in passing their role in sustaining this system to generate profit.

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Mostafa Safaie @atmostafa.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Congrats @juangallego.bsky.social! Amazing news! Looking forward to the science coming from the new lab!

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Armin Lak @laklab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

concise and informative review article on corticostriatal pathways in sensory process by @giladsilberberg.bsky.social et al . I find myself looking into it frequently and learn/cross check a new thing every time : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Corticostriatal pathways for bilateral sensorimotor functions

Corticostriatal pathways are essential for a multitude of motor, sensory, cognitive, and affective functions. They are mediated by cortical pyramidal …

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Mostafa Safaie @atmostafa.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Great threads on why and how using LLMs to review papers will make peer review worse.

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🚨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

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3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.

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Mostafa Safaie @atmostafa.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Excited to be at the Congress of the Italian society for neuroscience #SINS2025 in this magnificent theatre! Pisa, Teatro Verdi

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Matt Perich @mattperich.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🚨 I’m excited to say that my CIHR Project Grant was funded! My NHP lab is now full-speed-ahead, and I’m hiring experimentalists (postdoc, PhD student, and/or a tech/manager). We’ll do multi-region ephys during reaching/grasping in macaques, with behavioral and spinal perturbations.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 13/06/2025

#neuroskyence folks: as my postdoc grant is running out soon, I am looking for new opportunities in systems neuroscience! Keywords: patch clamp ephys, opto, mouse behavior, (in vivo) voltage imaging. Would love to return to the Basal Ganglia. Sharing appreciated, and happy #FluorescenceFriday !

Brightly labelled pyramidal cells in the mouse retrosplenial cortex. Blood vessels are visible of various thicknesses in darker colours.

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Mostafa Safaie @atmostafa.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Wow... I'd never seen an AI summary this bad

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Mostafa Safaie @atmostafa.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This never gets old, exciting every old...

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Chiara Masnovo @chiaramasnovophd.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Having a hard time processing this. HHMI is pausing all competitions. Very demoralizing for early career scientists like me @hhmi.org

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Mostafa Safaie @atmostafa.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Job Alert (please repost)! We are looking to hire a Research Assistant to join us in an exciting project looking into Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and how brains learn to control them.

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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Mostafa Safaie @atmostafa.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I was planning on going to SfN this year, for the first time, and I was really looking forward to it too. But over the past few weeks I decided not to go. I'm sad and happy about this at the same time 🤷

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Anne Urai @anne-urai.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I'm looking for a public dataset of young+older people doing a simple perceptual decision-making task, with sufficient trial + subject numbers. Ideally, multiple stimulus difficulty levels but no manipulations (conditions, task switching etc). This must exist - tips for where to look? 🧒👨‍🦳🧠

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Mostafa Safaie @atmostafa.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A very timely read: academic.oup.com/brain/articl... I'm sure many have similar stories, here's mine: Imperial has a contractor for travel bookings. It is often more $$ than booking online, takes much longer to go through the process and is much less flexible (location, sharing w/ colleagues).

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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities

You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

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Mostafa Safaie @atmostafa.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

🎉Amazing news🎉 Thrilled that I got a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award @wellcometrust.bsky.social It's going to be amazing! Over the next 5 years, I will look into how brains learn to control Brain-Computer Interfaces and how we can use this knowledge to further improve BCI performance 1/2

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Mostafa Safaie @atmostafa.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A very good list of you're a neuroscientist migrating from Twitter

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Mostafa Safaie @atmostafa.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is my "Hello World!" post and I can't think of a better thing to say than sharing this thread. Hello World!

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