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Jonathan A. Michaels

@jonathanamichaels.bsky.social
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How do we move? I study brains and machines at York University (Assistant Professor). Full-time human. Neural Control & Computation Lab www.ncclab.ca

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thrilled to be among these wonderful scientists!
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wonderful to have Darrell Fox at our local Terry Fox run! 🏃‍♂️
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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🧪 An editorial this morning in the @theglobeandmail.com about the growing trend in Canada for professors to avoid retiring. "The grey (time) zone of academia" 🎁 link www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...
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The grey (time) zone of academia
The growing cohort of aging professors is raising intergenerational tensions on campuses
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"We are, all of us, survivors of 9/11. If you were alive on 9/12, you were a survivor of 9/11." – N.J. Burkett
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Back from the good place, preparing to take on a new semester.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When inverse kinematics go wrong
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My office continues to take shape. So happy to have this wonderful piece by Louis-Jan Pilaz up on the wall finally.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Over time I have realized that I have extremely overdrived theory of mind (often to my detriment), but it has been extremely useful in research.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Looking for a postdoc in motor control / systems neuroscience? I'm seeking candidates to develop a Connected Minds Fellowship proposal with me at York University: $70K/yr for 2 years + benefits, plus an $8.5K/yr research allowance. Deadline: Sept 27, 2026. 🧵
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The generic prospective student emails are getting out of hand. I just received virtually identical emails from the first and second author of a paper. One genuine email is worth 1000 generic ones. If you can convince me you're a real human I will very likely want to talk to you.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
These days I like to think of my models as “cartoons”. Realistic enough to capture the core patterns we’re interested in, but simple enough to be meaningfully understood.
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Laura Driscoll @lndriscoll.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Confused about all this talk of compositionality in neuroscience? Read our new perspective www.nature.com/articles/s41... with authors Reidar Riveland and Alex Pouget.
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The compositionality continuum as a principle for studying the neural basis of intelligence - Nature Neuroscience
Compositionality exists on a continuum of increasing complexity rather than as a binary trait. Studying its implementation in simpler biological and artificial systems is the most tractable path towar...
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Was about to leave for a trip and heard flight was cancelled. @aircanada.bsky.social rebooked me on a flight 3 days from now that arrives 30 minutes before my return flight 🫠.
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Yichen Luo 骆奕辰 @camellyc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
1/8 Breathing seems automatic. But it's a finely tuned motor behavior that has to be controlled. In this preprint, I map the circuits that match a fly's respiration to the metabolic demands of flight and mitigate the risk of dehydration. 🧵🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Toronto long weekend.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Decorating my new office 🧠. Will post when it’s ready.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Working on some new stuff 👀
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Connected Minds @connectedminds.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
What if motion tracking didn't require expensive tools? Drs. @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social and Mulla developed ATHENA, open-source AI that captures natural movement without wearable sensors. Moving research from labs to clinics to communities. Read more:
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AI tool developed at York U signals breakthrough for movement research - YFile
Learn about ATHENA, a new, open-source AI system created by York University researchers that removes barriers to motion tracking, making it easier to study how people move.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Life in the sky
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I needed a big coffee today
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You're watching a Crested Coua chick (Coua cristata) being fed at the Miami Zoo. The chick's outside appearance is ... unfortunate, but I want to focus on the weird 'targets' in the mouth. That's the coua's response to the problem of brood parasitism. Let's talk about it.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Peer review doesn’t have to be like a generational cycle of abuse. You can break the cycle.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Lab outing rained out – no problem. Just need wonderful people + food!
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The best meal: Samosa chaat and a cardamom chai. Change my mind.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The Neural Control & Computation Lab is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow to investigate the neural basis of learning, flexible neural computation, and skilled movement control using large-scale electrophysiology from single-neuron populations in non-human primates 🧠🐒 www.ncclab.ca/join-the-lab
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Join the Lab — neural control & computation lab
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Many of the scientific questions we're interested in tackling require studying learning over long periods of time across the brain. This is challenging – which is why we're excited to say we've been developing a system for chronic wireless recording using long Neuropixels probes in macaque monkeys.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We've finally started moving into our brand new neuroscience facility! 🥳 So excited to be getting into this beautiful space after a long construction period. Be on the lookout for our exciting science – and photos of my new office once I finish interior designing it 👀.
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Carsen Stringer @computingnature.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🚨🧠 Our paper is out! We introduce a simple computational model that generates macroscopic, long-timescale dynamics as seen in large-scale neural recordings. #neuroscience #dynamics @marius10p.bsky.social @zhong-lin.bsky.social @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Link: go.nature.com/4tRNjIu
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Amazing talk from @michellemonje.bsky.social on the neuroscience of cancer proliferation. Incredible opportunities for treatment.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Very honoured to be receiving a Brain Star Award! I will be giving a talk about this work next week at the Canadian Association for Neuroscience Conference in Montréal. can-acn.org/brain-star-a...
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Brain Star Award winner Jonathan A. Michaels – Canadian Association for Neuroscience
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
It's been wonderful being part of more and more of these collaborations bringing our markerless tracking technology (ATHENA) into the clinic! www.yorku.ca/yfile/2026/0...
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New technologies, partnerships advance York U research in autism - YFile
Through his lab, Faculty of Health Associate Professor Erez Freud is using innovative technologies to study how people with autism move to help lay the groundwork for earlier support.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Turns out a lot of people enjoy singing along with Sarah McLachlan
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems? Man, I hope so... the system has been broken for a while, hopefully this will force a thorough rethink. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems?
Funders must take action before an increase in submission of high-quality proposals written using AI models makes it impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff.
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Dr Alison Weiss @dralisonweiss.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Not every wrong turn is harmless. Misinformation doesn’t just confuse—it can cost lives. Accurate information matters. Protect science. Learn the facts -> savescienceoregon.org/stay-alive
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I’m ready.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New Punch Brothers is like coming home. youtu.be/Vgc4djnLja0?...
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Punch Brothers - New Bike (Official Video)
YouTube video by Punch Brothers
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561
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6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
“But at some point following the financial crisis, would-be entrepreneurs got it into their heads that their job was to invent the future, and consumers’ job was to go along with that invented future.”
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Come check out our posters at @ncmsociety.bsky.social next week, presented by Dan and Sujay! Happy being a part of a number of other collaborations being presented as well.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Unforunately, I've had to cancel my trip to Japan for @ncmsociety.bsky.social for family reasons, but I'm sure it will be a fantastic meeting! See everyone next year.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Watched the splashdown and recovery twice! Amazing what science and a bit of humanity can do.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Always ready for an adventure
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Lectures finished! Please enjoy this barred owl!
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This is like a human version of a large language model - writing a good book by copying other people but not understanding why it’s good.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
850 Tomahawk missiles could be $3,060,000,000... That is 3 billion sixty million US dollars. That is 1224 5 year biomedical research grants. Literally, over 6 millennia of biomedical research.
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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
With the rumblings around CIHR wanting to move to one cycle per year not going away, in consultation with a diverse stakeholder group, we have put together a letter for CIHR leadership. Please consider signing this letter and share/RT: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @cannabrain.bsky.social
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CIHR Project Grant Cycle Restructuring
Dear colleagues, Below you will find a draft letter regarding the proposed transition to a single annual CIHR Project Grant competition, and to invite you to sign on if you are in agreement with its c...
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I'm not at #COSYNE this year, but here's looking back at COSYNE 8 years ago! With special guests @juangallego.bsky.social, @mattperich.bsky.social, and @kordinglab.bsky.social
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Primate 📉
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