Reposted by Marius 't HartJonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The 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-labncclab.caJoin the Lab — neural control & computation lab 04834
Reposted by Marius 't HartTiffany Timbers @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Thrilled to share that @minecr.bsky.social and my paper on Ten simple rules for teaching data science is now available from @plos.org Computational Biology! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...journals.plos.orgTen simple rules for teaching data science 16724
Reposted by Marius 't HartMichael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇 5435871430
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Raphael is presenting his poster in session 2 (P2-F-168): Practice makes precision: Motor execution improvements in a 2-D racing task are retained and generalized but depend on movement direction. 100
Reposted by Marius 't HartNeuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 21/04/2026What should Neuromatch teach next? 🤓 #Connectomics and Neural Dynamics 🤓 #ComputationalBehavioural Analysis & Modelling 🤓 Computational Approaches to #Neurodegeneration 🤓 Or something else? Take the 2 minute survey here: airtable.com/appgbLQW3nbb... #NeurmatchAcademy #OpenScience 035
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Elysa Eliopulos presents her poster (P1-F-142) today and tomorrow: "Redefining Explicit Motor Adaptation into Three Phenotypes" We find 3 ways in which people develop a strategy to counter a visuomotor rotation, _and_ that the mix of strategies depends on rotation size. 143
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026@westcoastalice.bsky.social presents her poster (P1-B-13) "Vibrotactile stimulus detection during Fitts aiming: Implications for the use of biofeedback devices during skilled, manual tasks" the coming two days. 110
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Today and tomorrow at #NCM2026 Jacob will be presenting his poster "Learning to throw against the current: internal models of object-environment dynamics" (P1-F-150). How do people learn to account for a sideways current, when launching a ball to a target? VR and 2D solution spaces... 141
Reposted by Marius 't HartJonathan Tsay @tsay.bsky.social · 19/04/2026For those attending @ncmsociety.bsky.social this week, come check out posters and talks from the Physical Intelligence Lab! #NCM #MotorLearning #CognitiveNeuroscience 194
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Elysa will be presenting this work at #NCM2026 soon, so we thought to put up a first pre-print, a bit earlier than usual. previously we noticed that explicit strategies do not develop gradually, but in discrete steps. Here we wanted to test if that depended on rotation size 231
Reposted by Marius 't HartDermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Just had a paper accepted after 4 rounds of revisions and *10* reviewers! 141475
Reposted by Marius 't HartRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 13/03/2026"Preprint servers are a time machine, they move everyone forward 12 months and speed up the exchange of ideas" ht @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social www.evocellnet.com/2021/06/a-no...evocellnet.comA not so bold proposal for the future of scientific publishingAround 15 years ago I wrote a blog post about how we could open up more of the scientific process. The particular emphasis that I had in min... 04417
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026"Frame Effects Across Space and Time" is published: doi.org/10.1167/jov.... The effect: - extends a bit over space, - not time, - mostly depends on frame edge positions - doesn't decrease with experience Looks like vision uses references to localize objects in space.doi.org Frame effects across space and time | JOV | ARVO Journals 061
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Vibe coded a Shiny app for data preprocessing. Meant as a tool for undergrads doing projects in the lab. Computer literacy is low across the board, and with tools like these (and the LLMs to build them) there's no need to understand what you're doing. 110
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 24/02/20261/8 Paper! Using previously published data from 270 participants, we look at precision of reaches and hand proprioception in rotation adaptation: doi.org/10.1186/s130...doi.orgPrecision of reaches and proprioception in motor control and adaptation - Discover NeuroscienceHow do precision of movement and proprioception influence motor control and adaptation? Several theories—such as the exploration-exploitation hypothesis—propose that variability plays a key role in mo... 163
Reposted by Marius 't HartNatalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 19/12/2025📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...docs.google.comvarious computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools 310360
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 18/12/2025New preprint out! (doi.org/10.64898/202...) We examined how EEG activity during movement preparation and error processing distinguishes learning and error processing between motor adaptation and de novo learning.doi.orgEEG Dynamics of Movement Preparation and Error Processing Distinguish Motor Adaptation From De Novo LearningPrevious research has distinguished behavioral mechanisms between motor adaptation and de novo learning. However, electroencephalography (EEG) markers dissociating them remain unclear. Here, participa... 172
Reposted by Marius 't HartbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 15/12/2025EEG Dynamics of Movement Preparation and Error Processing Distinguish Motor Adaptation From De Novo Learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 021
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Someone in my lab asked me to make a QR code, yet again. So I vibe-coded them a Shiny app, and now you could use it too: mthart.shinyapps.io/ShinyQR/ Vibe coding is fun, but I would not use it for data analysis. Source code: github.com/thartbm/Shin...mthart.shinyapps.io 040
Reposted by Marius 't HartKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com 16121
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Preprint: Frame Effects Across Time and Space (FEAST): www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... In the frame effect people perceive a large horizontal separation between two horizontally aligned flashed probes when they are flashed within a left-right moving frame.biorxiv.orgFrame Effects Across Space and TimeWhen two probes are flashed at different times within a moving frame they can be perceived as dramatically separated from each other even though they are at the same location in the display. This effe... 120
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Interview with Ilja Agricola (from Marburg) about publication fraud in math. retractionwatch.com/2025/09/24/m...retractionwatch.com 110
Reposted by Marius 't HartJJ @jjodx.eurosky.social · 13/09/2025The myth of optimality in human movement science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comThe myth of optimality in human movement scienceThe concept of optimality dominates contemporary human movement science, with researchers across biomechanics, motor control, and neuroscience routine… 16221
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 13/09/2025In this paper, Andrew King looked at tools as cues for dual adaptation. He used a VR task, where a ball had to be launched to a target with a 30 degree rotation. 120
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 06/09/2025In this paper we use a new approach from control theory (engineering), a "disturbance observer", to see if it can be applied to visuomotor adaptation. This "DO model" is doing reasonably well. 185
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 16/06/2025In this study @deniseyph.bsky.social and I take data from 4 previous studies, and their pilots, with N=270 to look into potential relationships between precision of reaching directions and proprioception and various other measures. 100
Reposted by Marius 't HartWonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 07/05/2025These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin. 26293172353
Reposted by Marius 't HartDaniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I guess it's time to donate to Brent Sutton's campaign ahead of the by-election 151
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Yesterday and today my #NCMpan25 poster (2-F-86) shows you our first attempts at characterizing the time course of strategy development. I'm unfortunately not there, but you can ask @deniseyph.bsky.social to explain it to you. 120
Reposted by Marius 't HartLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Because if I wanted someone to confidently make up answers to my questions I would simply ask a man 7946161183
Reposted by Marius 't HartMichael Schneider @michaelschneider.com · 30/04/2025I’ve never understood why Americans don’t want the same kinds of environments they love when they travel, at home. 711625
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Also today at #NCMPan25 is Mireille Broucke's poster 1-G-90 where she's looking at applying new advances in control-theory to motor adaptation, and we designed a new paradigm to try to probe the mechanism. @ncmsociety.bsky.social 130
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 29/04/2025@deniseyph.bsky.social is presenting her poster today & tomorrow at #NCMpan25, 1-F-75 where we use Single-Trial-Learning to look at initial implicit adaptation in a variety of situations. 020
Reposted by Marius 't HartVincent Bonin @boninlab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Hi, We have new open positions – PhD student and postdocs– experimental or computational– in our research groups at @nerflabs.bsky.social in Leuven Belgium on neural circuit basis of visual behavior/developmental disorders. I am at Cosyne Workshops and happy to discuss opportunities. 01510
Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Shanaa (not on blue sky) published the last paper from his PhD projects in Journal of Neurophysiology! In this paper, he used immersive virtual reality to examine motor memory formation and motor adaptation with more natural perturbations. 1/6 182
Reposted by Marius 't HartThe Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Spoiling our families with @thartbm.bsky.social 181
Reposted by Marius 't HartThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Scientific data and independence are at risk: We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political interference. By @neuralreckoning.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/policy/scien...thetransmitter.orgScience must step away from nationally managed infrastructureScientific data and independence are at risk. We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political… 18636
Reposted by Marius 't Hartmegan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 04/03/2025would you like a "PhD in a box" in 3 weeks? you won't get a degree of course, but you will learn SO MUCH and make lifelong science friends! join us! 0218
Reposted by Marius 't HartNeuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 24/02/2025🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨 Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses! Applications are due Sunday, March 23. Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/ #mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪 08674
Reposted by Marius 't HartGrace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I guess it's a good thing academics are used to having to do things they weren't trained in. Lots of new skills we all need to pick up now! 1202
Reposted by Marius 't HartLiz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025If you care about science & higher ed in America right now, your world has changed. We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose. Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in 201269316
Reposted by Marius 't HartKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...compneurosci.comNeuro4Pros summer schoolNeUroscience Computational LEAdership Retreat (NUCLEAR): happiness and success 713674
Reposted by Marius 't HartDirty ol'gnome @juglansnigra.bsky.social · 04/02/2025This beautiful blue heron died from Highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus, H5N1. The strain originates from the meat-industry. 122
Reposted by Marius 't HartKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Has this been officially confirmed? 251
Reposted by Marius 't HartBirol Akkuş @akkusb.eurosky.social · 04/02/2025Sorry if I have to offend some 'liberals' still whining about 'free speech' allegedly being threatened by whatever the f they think 'woke' means: this is text-book fascist censorship and anti-science policy. Time to wake the f up. 001
Reposted by Marius 't HartDave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I made a Magic Eye animated gif—so it looked like TV static (remember TV static?). I tried to post it here (as a gif and a movie), but it compressed it so much every time that it was unviewable. I decided to post it on my blog. Check it out if you are interested. divisbyzero.com/2025/01/31/m...divisbyzero.comMagic Eye Image as an Animated GIFI’ve been playing around with Magic Eye images lately. Yesterday, I had the idea of creating an animated gif that shows the identical magic eye image for each frame. At first, the image looks… 1234
