Daniel P. Ferris
@dpferris.bsky.social
UF BME Professor; Neuromechanist merging humans and machines (mobile EEG, bionic prostheses, robotic exoskeletons, virtual reality)
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Chang Liu, Daniel P. Ferris, et al:
Age differences in electrocortical dynamics during uneven terrain walking
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Age differences in electrocortical dynamics during uneven terrain walking
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Prof. Chang Liu did an amazing job with this behemoth of a project!!!
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Basic Experimental Studies Involving Humans (BESH) will no longer be subject to the requirements under the NIH Clinical Trial Definition.
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NOT-OD-26-032: Basic Experimental Studies in Humans (BESH) Will No Longer Be Considered Clinical Trials by the NIH
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Basic Experimental Studies in Humans (BESH) Will No Longer Be Considered Clinical Trials by the NIH NOT-OD-26-032. NIH
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January 29, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Basic Experimental Studies Involving Humans (BESH) will no longer be subject to the requirements under the NIH Clinical Trial Definition.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Should you go to academia or industry for research in AI or cognitive science? It's the most common question I get asked by PhD students, and I've written up some of my thoughts on the answer, as an epilogue to my research-focused series on these fields: infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/on-researc...
On research careers in academia and industry
The epilogue to a series on Cognitive Science and AI
infinitefaculty.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Should you go to academia or industry for research in AI or cognitive science? It's the most common question I get asked by PhD students, and I've written up some of my thoughts on the answer, as an epilogue to my research-focused series on these fields: infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/on-researc...
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Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
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✨ What better way to wrap up a conference day than sharing this view with colleagues and friends, after inspiring science and insights into mobile brain imaging?
Join the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference #MoBI2026 August 25–28, 2026 and enjoy this view during our social!
👉 lnkd.in/d-5SKVtU
Join the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference #MoBI2026 August 25–28, 2026 and enjoy this view during our social!
👉 lnkd.in/d-5SKVtU
January 20, 2026 at 2:01 PM
✨ What better way to wrap up a conference day than sharing this view with colleagues and friends, after inspiring science and insights into mobile brain imaging?
Join the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference #MoBI2026 August 25–28, 2026 and enjoy this view during our social!
👉 lnkd.in/d-5SKVtU
Join the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference #MoBI2026 August 25–28, 2026 and enjoy this view during our social!
👉 lnkd.in/d-5SKVtU
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main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂
looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.
science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.
science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 AM
main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂
looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.
science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.
science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
This year on Bluesky I wrote 63 posts and 36 replies. I received 278 likes, whereas 31 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "research" and 🎉!
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dpferris.bsky.social's Bluesky Wrapped 2025
Check out dpferris.bsky.social's year on Bluesky!
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December 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This year on Bluesky I wrote 63 posts and 36 replies. I received 278 likes, whereas 31 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "research" and 🎉!
www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
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The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 105 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList
Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj...
Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj...
Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
December 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 105 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList
Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj...
Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj...
Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
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I am looking to hire a great postdoc to join our lab in sunny Eugene at the University of Oregon for fun behavioral/fMRI experiments on sensorimotor control in young and older adults. Please share/get in touch if interested! pages.uoregon.edu/mmar/
December 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I am looking to hire a great postdoc to join our lab in sunny Eugene at the University of Oregon for fun behavioral/fMRI experiments on sensorimotor control in young and older adults. Please share/get in touch if interested! pages.uoregon.edu/mmar/
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Largely accurate story, but has someone saying I am wrong about humanoids needing human level dexterity. NO. I am saying humanoid companies are claiming they will get it, so humanoids can replace humans everywhere, & I am saying their current methods won't attain it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b...
He’s the Godfather of Modern Robotics. He Says the Field Has Lost Its Way.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Largely accurate story, but has someone saying I am wrong about humanoids needing human level dexterity. NO. I am saying humanoid companies are claiming they will get it, so humanoids can replace humans everywhere, & I am saying their current methods won't attain it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b...
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Falls are a major complication of vestibular loss, and fall prevention requires understanding broader risk factors. Masters student Lou Kohler Voinov explored data from >5700 participants and found some expected risk factors plus some unexpected ones! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Multifactorial predictors of falls in older adults: a decade of data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study - BMC Geriatrics
Background Falls are a leading cause of injury and loss of independence among older adults, yet comprehensive, population-level models that integrate diverse risk factors across broad demographic grou...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Falls are a major complication of vestibular loss, and fall prevention requires understanding broader risk factors. Masters student Lou Kohler Voinov explored data from >5700 participants and found some expected risk factors plus some unexpected ones! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Hidden Brain Cells Powering Sleep, Memory, and Disease Defense beingpatient.com/glial-cells-... by @beingpatient.bsky.social
#Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
#Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
The Hidden Brain Cells Powering Sleep, Memory, and Disease Defense
Terrence Sejnowski explores how glial cells, the brain’s lesser-known support cells, may hold new clues to brain health, aging and diseases.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The Hidden Brain Cells Powering Sleep, Memory, and Disease Defense beingpatient.com/glial-cells-... by @beingpatient.bsky.social
#Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
#Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... Every working scientist knows this but it is depressing to see it laid out. @nytimes.com @standupforscience.bsky.social @scifri.bsky.social
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... Every working scientist knows this but it is depressing to see it laid out. @nytimes.com @standupforscience.bsky.social @scifri.bsky.social
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22% fewer NIH grants
December 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
22% fewer NIH grants
Prof. Chang Liu did an amazing job with this behemoth of a project!!!
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Chang Liu, Daniel P. Ferris, et al:
Age differences in electrocortical dynamics during uneven terrain walking
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Age differences in electrocortical dynamics during uneven terrain walking
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Prof. Chang Liu did an amazing job with this behemoth of a project!!!
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Fascinating that #EEG is one of the top trends, while #fMRI is declining.
We've just set up a @ucl.ac.uk EEG community and attendance was way over what we expected. Interesting times.
#neuroskyence
We've just set up a @ucl.ac.uk EEG community and attendance was way over what we expected. Interesting times.
#neuroskyence
Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using The Transmitter's interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts in leading neuroscience journals. Explore more: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/p...
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
Putting 50 years of neuroscience on the map
Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using our interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Fascinating that #EEG is one of the top trends, while #fMRI is declining.
We've just set up a @ucl.ac.uk EEG community and attendance was way over what we expected. Interesting times.
#neuroskyence
We've just set up a @ucl.ac.uk EEG community and attendance was way over what we expected. Interesting times.
#neuroskyence
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Interested in the future of wearables and of bidirectional neural/brain–computer interfaces? 🧠📡⚡ I recently joined the Big Brains podcast 🎙️ to discuss our lab’s latest research advances and functional prototypes in this space.
Link and key insights below 👇 1/
Link and key insights below 👇 1/
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Interested in the future of wearables and of bidirectional neural/brain–computer interfaces? 🧠📡⚡ I recently joined the Big Brains podcast 🎙️ to discuss our lab’s latest research advances and functional prototypes in this space.
Link and key insights below 👇 1/
Link and key insights below 👇 1/
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😢 Another week. Over 800 days. Will she spend another thanksgiving in the shelter? Here's MELIA's bio. Please read it, repost it. Everything you need to know is there. Shelter information also. I don't work there. Her hero is out there. We will find them soon 🤞
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Details: 51416338
My name is Melia.I am a female, black and white Terrier mix....
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November 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
😢 Another week. Over 800 days. Will she spend another thanksgiving in the shelter? Here's MELIA's bio. Please read it, repost it. Everything you need to know is there. Shelter information also. I don't work there. Her hero is out there. We will find them soon 🤞
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The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information
This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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AI is growing exponentially at a timescale of months while the economy is growing at a timescale of decades. How should we model the economy with rapidly increasing intelligence tech and slowly increasing physical tech? New AI+econ paper.
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
AI is growing exponentially at a timescale of months while the economy is growing at a timescale of decades. How should we model the economy with rapidly increasing intelligence tech and slowly increasing physical tech? New AI+econ paper.
British Columbia has some beautiful hikes
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
British Columbia has some beautiful hikes
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"Electrodes are held on the scalp of the patient by an arrangement of rubber and whalebone bars tied under the chin (fig. 1). A most suitable cap is one made for setting waves in hair. It is not necessary to shave the scalp, though the examination is easier if the hair is short and recently washed."
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"Electrodes are held on the scalp of the patient by an arrangement of rubber and whalebone bars tied under the chin (fig. 1). A most suitable cap is one made for setting waves in hair. It is not necessary to shave the scalp, though the examination is easier if the hair is short and recently washed."
Super cool resource for robotics research
Very excited about our new pre-print on an open-source package that I developed with some of my GT labmates!
Epically Powerful (EP) is a modular mechatronics infrastructure and open-source software package for building and operating wearable and general robotic systems.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.05033
Epically Powerful (EP) is a modular mechatronics infrastructure and open-source software package for building and operating wearable and general robotic systems.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.05033
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Super cool resource for robotics research
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🧠Want to start a #PhD in sensorimotor #neuroscience in Fall 2026? Our NIH- and NSF-funded lab at
@iubloomington.bsky.social uses human behavior and noninvasive brain stimulation to study motor learning and perception. More info: blocklab.net/openings.html or hjblock@iu.edu. Deadline is Dec. 15.
@iubloomington.bsky.social uses human behavior and noninvasive brain stimulation to study motor learning and perception. More info: blocklab.net/openings.html or hjblock@iu.edu. Deadline is Dec. 15.
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
🧠Want to start a #PhD in sensorimotor #neuroscience in Fall 2026? Our NIH- and NSF-funded lab at
@iubloomington.bsky.social uses human behavior and noninvasive brain stimulation to study motor learning and perception. More info: blocklab.net/openings.html or hjblock@iu.edu. Deadline is Dec. 15.
@iubloomington.bsky.social uses human behavior and noninvasive brain stimulation to study motor learning and perception. More info: blocklab.net/openings.html or hjblock@iu.edu. Deadline is Dec. 15.