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Susan Coltman

@susancoltman.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph | Neuroscience & Applied Cognitive Science | Sensorimotor Control & Motor Learning | Leveraging Athletic Experience for Motor Learning Insights

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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My mom is my orange shirt. 🧡 She's proof that they didn't win. They tried to take everything: her language, her culture, her family, her land. She carried the hardship, and she carried the strength too. And I'm the orange shirt too. I'm the next generation, the proof that we're still here.
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Josh Gad on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DdzcVFFyjts/
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joshcashaback.bsky.social @joshcashaback.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Check out our latest paper, where we developed a novel theory where desirability and cognitive effort tune the control gains that govern deliberation during perceptual decsion-making. Outstanding work by the superb, Jan Calalo. journals.physiology.org/doi/epdf/10....
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joshcashaback.bsky.social @joshcashaback.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My research group is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to study control principles between human-human and human-agent pairs. Ad below. Please retweet!
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Hello TO! I'm back!
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Homeward bound! After a successful postdoc at Penn State, I'm thrilled to be heading back to Canada to join the University of Guelph faculty in neuroscience and applied cognitive sciences. Bring on the next chapter!
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joshcashaback.bsky.social @joshcashaback.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Thrilled about our latest paper published in eLife where we found something cool: A representation of your partner's goals and actions modulates your own "intelligent reflexes", prior to voluntary movement. Led by the phenomenal, Seth Sullivan. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I've officially welcomed my first thesis student as an incoming PI. July 1st is starting to feel real! To the young women finding their way into research, the process matters. Preparation, curiosity, courage. Outcomes usually find you. Grateful for voices like Cori Close! #WomenInSTEM #Neuroscience
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Harvard Brain Science Initiative @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Jelena Patrnogić shares a new flexible competency framework she developed with Xiuqi Li and David Van Vactor to help prepare early-career scientists for today’s wide range of career paths in and beyond the lab. brain.harvard.edu/hbi_news/ret...
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Rethinking How We Train Scientists for Today’s Careers
How do we prepare early-career scientists for today’s wide range of paths in and beyond the lab? Jelena Patrnogić shares a new flexible competency framework she developed with Xiuqi Li and David Van V...
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Social Science @ WesternU @westernusocsci.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
How do we keep Indigenous cultures alive? Chantelle Richmond, Director of the Indigenous Health Lab at Western University, shows how land, relationships, and community-led research create lasting impact. www.theimpactproject.ca/stories/chan... #IndigenousHealth #WesternUniversity #SocialScience
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This really resonates with me, Paul, especially what you said about growth through intellectual struggle. I remember a time in your lab when @joshcashaback.bsky.social wouldn’t give me the answer to a coding/design problem. I felt so frustrated then and just wanted someone to tell me the solution.
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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 29/01/2026
revised version of @mahdiyar45.bsky.social's paper: "A Context-Free Model of Savings in Motor Learning" #neuroskyence #psychscisky #sensorimotor www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am excited to start at #UofG this July. I look forward to contributing to research and helping to build a strong, collaborative scientific community.
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This paper expands my research methods to include transcutaneous nerve stimulation and fNIRS. We used a multi-method approach to measure hemodynamic responses during a 45-minute session, revealing a nonlinear temporal potentiation mechanism centered in the posterior parietal cortex.
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Are you thinking about doing neuroscience outreach but want to make it more exciting or hands on? Check out RetINaBox! (A collab led by the Trenholm lab) We tried to bring the experience of experimental neuroscience to a classroom setting: www.eneuro.org/content/13/1... #neuroscience 🧪
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RetINaBox: A Hands-On Learning Tool for Experimental Neuroscience
An exciting aspect of neuroscience is developing and testing hypotheses via experimentation. However, due to logistical and financial hurdles, the experiment and discovery component of neuroscience is...
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
✨ Exciting News! ✨ I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the University of Guelph's Department of Psychology in Neuroscience and Applied Cognitive Science as an Assistant Professor, starting July 1, 2026. I will be returning to Canada on Canada Day!
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Rest in peace, to a legend who taught us all to hope and to act. She showed an entire generation of girls, including me, that we could be scientists, that we could be brave enough to go into the wild and change the world through curiosity and compassion.
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Join us for the October CNS-PDS seminar on Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 (9am PST / 12pm EST / 1:30pm NST). Speakers: • Richard Gao (Goethe University) • Pedro Henrique Guedes (University of Saskatchewan) Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... All are welcome.
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 23/09/2025
In this 'How to' Comment, @gribblelab.org gives advice on how to think about one's academic website and how to go about building one. #AcademicWebsite www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How to design your academic website - Nature Human Behaviour
An academic website serves as both a public-facing window on the world wide web and an important internal laboratory resource. In this ‘How to’ piece, I outline how to build your academic website, including what content to include, and ways to build and launch your site.
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Art Pilacinski @fatresearchcat.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Preprint alert! Individual preferences in relying on vision or proprioception in reaching show distinct patterns in connectivity across sensorimotor network. Happy to have contributed to this nice piece of work by Kess, @hjblock.bsky.social and other cool people! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Network dynamics for sensory prioritization: Functional connectivity related to individual sensory weighting of vision versus proprioception during upper limb control
Precise control of the hand requires the dynamic integration of visual and proprioceptive (body position sense) sensory cues with internal models, task goals, and motor plans. Individual differences i...
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The CAN Postdoc Seminar Series is back this Thursday, Sept 11! Fresh lineup of speakers through the fall. Join us monthly & connect with postdocs across Canada. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 07/09/2025
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Living Science: Love writing
Clear writing is the key to success in science.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
"Your job is not to turn in completed assignments; it's to learn how to think." cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
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The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang
The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang
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Alison James @alisonjames.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
E.M., you are not alone. 💜 We are showing our support for you and all survivors with a full page in today’s Globe & Mail. #CourageCampaign #WeSupportEM You can sign on too: actionnetwork.org/forms/em-we-...
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joshcashaback.bsky.social @joshcashaback.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We are excited to share our new paper that dives into how ongoing decision deliberation reflects ongoing movements: (jneurosci.org/content/45/3... A tour-de-force by the incredible Jan Calalo.
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Canadian Neuroscience Seminars – Postdoctoral Series (CNS-PDS) @cns-pds.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Do you have some exciting results that you would like to share? Are you a #Postdoc in #Canada or #Canadian abroad? We are selecting #speakers for the (second round of the) 2025 Canadian #Neuroscience #Seminars: Postdoctoral Series. Apply by July 6th, 2025 @ 23:59PT.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/06/2025
From @theathletic.bsky.social: Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon fell short in her bid to become the first woman to break the four-minute mile. Kipyegon ran 4:06.92, the fastest time over the distance recorded by a woman, breaking her own world record. nyti.ms/44AXZll
Faith Kipyegon finishes a race, her head tilted back and eyes closed in exertion. A quote from her: "If it’s not me it will be somebody else — one day a woman will run under four.”
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bradleyrobertson.com @bradleyrobertson.com · 19/06/2025
From Canada with love
To my American friends:
As Trump shuts down your LGBT+ suicide and mental health crisis hotline during these trying times, Canada has added a US toll-free number to ours so you can get help anytime you need at no cost.
Kindness and empathy have no borders. 1-877-330-6366 
Visual of a classic telephone with a red and white striped flag with a red maple leaf (Canada's national flag)
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I have seen folks waste so much time by not properly planning research. Missed literature, missing controls, ignored hypotheses, etc. Lack of planning also produces bad science (e.g. analysis until significant). So I am writing an app. Looking for feedback. scientific-paper-planner-test.vercel.app
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Scientific Paper Planner
Scientific Paper Planner Application
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
📢 SECOND CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Canadian Neuroscience Seminar Postdoctoral Series 2025! Are you a postdoc at a Canadian institution (including international researchers) or a Canadian postdoc working abroad? Excited to share your neuroscience research? Apply now!
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Join us Thursday, May 1st for two talks you won’t want to miss: Ghazaleh Eskandari-Sedighi (UC Irvine) dives into microglia & resilience to Alzheimer's pathologies. Alban Elias Voppel (McGill) explores how Llama-2 might help us simulate thought disorder in schizophrenia.
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
❤️ #CanadaStrong
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
It’s Election Day, Canada. Go vote Canada Strong.
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Round three of the Canadian Neuroscience Seminars – Postdoctoral Series! Join us on April 3rd for another round of exciting talks from emerging neuroscience leaders. Don’t miss it! #NeuroSeminars #PostdocScience
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Canadian Neuroscience Seminars – Postdoctoral Series (CNS-PDS) @cns-pds.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
While you await the announcement of our next speakers, we wanted to take a moment to introduce ourselves! We are proud to represent a diverse group of Canadian Neuroscience Postdocs! PS. You can stay up to date on webinars, events, and more by subscribing to our mailing list: t.co/Oa9dLowy1h
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Join us tomorrow for the second round of speakers in the 2025 Canadian Neuroscience Seminars – Postdoctoral Series! Hear cutting-edge research from talented Canadian postdocs— don’t miss it! See you there!
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Canadian Women in STEM @cdnwomenstem.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Looking for a faculty position? How about a postdoc position? Canadian Women in STEM launches an easy to use Job Board. canadianwomeninstem.org/job-board/
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Canadian Women in STEM - Job Board
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Canadian Neuroscience Seminars – Postdoctoral Series (CNS-PDS) @cns-pds.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Our first webinar of the season is THIS Thursday 📅 You do not want to miss what will undoubtedly be two fantastic presentations 🧑‍🔬 You can register for the webinar here: zoom.us/webinar/regi... You can stay up to date on webinars, events, and more by subscribing to our mailing list: t.co/Oa9dLowy1h
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Calling all academics! We’re seeking advice on communications for the CAN Postdoc Seminar Series: How can we best get our messages out? Do you prefer email, Bluesky, or other platforms: Discord? Mastodon? #neuroskyence #psychscisky @wicscanada.bsky.social @canacn.bsky.social @cns-pds.bsky.social
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 19/01/2025
Prior knowledge changes initial sensory processing in the human spinal cord Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Prior knowledge changes initial sensory processing in the human spinal cord
High-frequency signals at a neuronal population level reveal a cognitive influence on sensory processing in the human spinal cord.
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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Grateful when people make open source resources so students don’t need to buy anything. To supplement short videos I made (youtube.com/playlist?lis...), assigning some chapters from this for my Vertebrate Neurophysiology course plus some from this online book nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience...
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Neuroscience Online: An Electronic Textbook for the Neurosciences | Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy - The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
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Canadian Neuroscience Seminars – Postdoctoral Series (CNS-PDS) @cns-pds.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Reminder to subscribe to our mailing list! Stay in the loop on upcoming presentations, events, and more by joining our mailing list: forms.gle/CJEGWiQ8SvkZ...
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Canadian Neuroscience Seminars – Postdoctoral Series (CNS-PDS) @cns-pds.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
🚨 Welcome to the 2025 semester! 🚨 Stay in the loop on upcoming presentations, events, and more by joining our mailing list: forms.gle/CJEGWiQ8SvkZ...
An infographic that says: "SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MAILING LIST TO RECEIVE UPDATES" with directions to a link enclosed in the post
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Susan Coltman @susancoltman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Are you a Neuroscience Postdoc in Canada or Canadian abroad? We are currently selecting speakers for the 2025 Canadian Neuroscience Seminars: Postdoctoral Series. Applications for speakers are now open - Apply by Dec. 2nd @ 23:59 PT. Please use this form forms.gle/CVEUq58Qvnb5...
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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Multidisciplinarity is the future www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
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How to be a multidisciplinary neuroscientist
Neuroscience subfields are often siloed. Embracing an integrative approach during training can help change that.
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